Town Hall

[anonymous]

Don’t blame it on LJ. The division was unnecessary and the brain child of the late great JR. if LJ was the problem she would be gone but she is not and moving into a new role. So go put your head back up your ass and stop the fake news

JR did more in his extremely short time here to set us back financially a few years. In all my years in pharma, he likely the biggest POS I’ve seen.

 

[anonymous]

Don’t blame it on LJ. The division was unnecessary and the brain child of the late great JR. if LJ was the problem she would be gone but she is not and moving into a new role. So go put your head back up your ass and stop the fake news

Calm down Laura, your lady-like temper is showing through

 

[anonymous]

JR did more in his extremely short time here to set us back financially a few years. In all my years in pharma, he likely the biggest POS I’ve seen.

Perhaps but he is raking it in as CEO at Urovant which was just sold to Dainippon Sumitomo. So the rich get richer

 

[anonymous]

Perhaps but he is raking it in as CEO at Urovant which was just sold to Dainippon Sumitomo. So the rich get richer

And they sh!t the bed today.

Urovant's vibegron flunks irritable bowel syndrome phase 2

 

[anonymous]

And they sh!t the bed today.

Urovant's vibegron flunks irritable bowel syndrome phase 2

How ironic! Shit the be with a drug for IBS! Love it.

 

[anonymous]

JR did more in his extremely short time here to set us back financially a few years. In all my years in pharma, he likely the biggest POS I’ve seen.

AGREED!!

 

[anonymous]

Don’t blame it on LJ. The division was unnecessary and the brain child of the late great JR. if LJ was the problem she would be gone but she is not and moving into a new role. So go put your head back up your ass and stop the fake news

Correction, AK and MS created the hospital division. JR came aboard and added the FRM crew. Waste. Good decision to merge the hospital team back into TBMs. Can’t have 50 sit around waiting for pre-Covid-like access. Not gonna happen for awhile.

 

[anonymous]

What am I missing? Where are they hiring contract reps at?

Only hiring 4 contract reps. 1 in Tulsa. 1 in Minot and 2 in Detroit. If that goes well, 4 to 7 more will be added at the end of 1st quarter.

 

[anonymous]

Correction, AK and MS created the hospital division. JR came aboard and added the FRM crew. Waste. Good decision to merge the hospital team back into TBMs. Can’t have 50 sit around waiting for pre-Covid-like access. Not gonna happen for awhile.

The Hospital Team weren't doing anything before COVID!!! Kind of like the KAM's. KAM's do nothing to create sales. NOTHING!! They even know it. All activity based and all pie in the sky. Their time will come, just like the FRM's time came. You can only pull the wool over people's eyes for so long. KAM's living on borrowed time. All of us in the field know it and they do too.

 

[anonymous]

It seems very clear that these negative comments are being generated by short-sighted individuals, that don’t understand the evolution of our industry. Keeping the lights on??? Really, the medication that you cherish is in the midst of a slow death; without any hospital initiation. Good luck to a vast number of individuals that have ZERO experience/skill in working within a hospital... “The lights might be on, but you don’t even recognize that several bulbs are burned-out, and you’re not smart enough to understand how put in new ones”!

 

[anonymous]

It seems very clear that these negative comments are being generated by short-sighted individuals, that don’t understand the evolution of our industry. Keeping the lights on??? Really, the medication that you cherish is in the midst of a slow death; without any hospital initiation. Good luck to a vast number of individuals that have ZERO experience/skill in working within a hospital... “The lights might be on, but you don’t even recognize that several bulbs are burned-out, and you’re not smart enough to understand how put in new ones”!

well said. How many Alkermes TBMs does it take to screw in a hospital light bulb? Best of luck working those VAs. And, AD in the hospital setting? It takes time to develop that use and I haven’t met a V TBM willing to take the time it takes in a hospital setting...bigger fish to catch.

 

[anonymous]

There's a lot of rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic in the last couple of weeks. Who will be the last rats to jump off the sinking ship?

 

[anonymous]

There's a lot of rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic in the last couple of weeks. Who will be the last rats to jump off the sinking ship?[/QUO


It really does not matter what posters think or say. The real barometer of confidence in ALKS is Wall Street and based on stock price they ain't too excited. Maybe Papa Pops needs to get on Mad Money and pump it up!

 

[anonymous]

There's a lot of rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic in the last couple of weeks. Who will be the last rats to jump off the sinking ship?

Investors and Wall Street spoke long ago.

 

[anonymous]

The Hospital Team weren't doing anything before COVID!!! Kind of like the KAM's. KAM's do nothing to create sales. NOTHING!! They even know it. All activity based and all pie in the sky. Their time will come, just like the FRM's time came. You can only pull the wool over people's eyes for so long. KAM's living on borrowed time. All of us in the field know it and they do too.

The Hospital team was a joke. They were a reflection of leadership. Mostly a boys club that likely had a yearly bar bill in 2019 higher than the entire sales force LnL budget. Drunks and do nothing clowns. How long will they last in their new roles? Not long, I hope.

 

[anonymous]

well said. How many Alkermes TBMs does it take to screw in a hospital light bulb? Best of luck working those VAs. And, AD in the hospital setting? It takes time to develop that use and I haven’t met a V TBM willing to take the time it takes in a hospital setting...bigger fish to catch.

Anybody in TBM has worked hospitals, likely including VA’s In previous roles and in this role. It’s 2020. They’re customers. We sell to customers. The idea that selling to customers that work in a hospital requires an entirely different skill set from selling to ones that don’t is ridiculous.

 

[anonymous]

Anybody in TBM has worked hospitals, likely including VA’s In previous roles and in this role. It’s 2020. They’re customers. We sell to customers. The idea that selling to customers that work in a hospital requires an entirely different skill set from selling to ones that don’t is ridiculous.

It’s clear you don’t have a complete grasp on this, and likely over use you HIFT crutch. In a hospital / IDN setting your selling to the institution, navigating the P&T process and then executing pull through. Your approach on selling just the customer is fractional at best.

 

[anonymous]

It’s clear you don’t have a complete grasp on this, and likely over use you HIFT crutch. In a hospital / IDN setting your selling to the institution, navigating the P&T process and then executing pull through. Your approach on selling just the customer is fractional at best.

I get that you don’t know who I am, but your above assumption is why HBM’s were useless. A large portion of my business comes from hospitals. I’ve been and am very successfully. It’s how I know, at least on my territory, the HBM was zero help. I introduced my HBM to all of their contacts at the couple of hospitals they “called” on in my territory, accomplishing nothing except pigging back on my calls occasionally. The other successful TBM’s I talked to about it it was they same.

We successfully called on hospitals before the HBM’s were created, we called on them while they existed, and we’ll keep calling on hospitals now that they’re gone.