Unemployment benifits

[Anonymous]

Hey what did you do with all your bonuses over the years? Did you go out and spend most or all of them?

Or did you save some of the money and put it away for a "rainy day?" Like when you got kicked out by novartis.

How are you going to handle going from a compensation of say 70K benefits to unemployment of 300-400 a week?

What happened when they took your company car away? Did you have an extra car or did you have to go out and buy or lease a car? Did you find it hard to swing that extra expenditure given that your income was going to decrease by over 90%?

Even more so, what did you do with all the extra time that you were supposed to be working, when you were working 10-2 tu-thurs? Did you use the tuition reimburse to get an MBA, or better yourself professionally, in any other way; or did you go to the gym. play golf, pickup your kids, etc. The had/have it made with the bogus job that you have, but as in illegal drugs, the money, etc is too good to be true is is short lived. The company owes you nothing but a paycheck, if you do/did not better yourself, and choose/chose to waste the time that this fantasy gig has given you; SHAME ON YOU!

 

[Anonymous]

Even more so, what did you do with all the extra time that you were supposed to be working, when you were working 10-2 tu-thurs? Did you use the tuition reimburse to get an MBA, or better yourself professionally, in any other way; or did you go to the gym. play golf, pickup your kids, etc. The had/have it made with the bogus job that you have, but as in illegal drugs, the money, etc is too good to be true is is short lived. The company owes you nothing but a paycheck, if you do/did not better yourself, and choose/chose to waste the time that this fantasy gig has given you; SHAME ON YOU!

Most of us didn't save a nickel and boy did it hurt bad when we lost our jobs and then had to go get a car. We were fat and happy, now we're getting it up the ying-yang!

Just call us the pharmaphuckups from novartis. Yep that be us!

 

[Anonymous]

For the world of me I can not understand why any of you can't think past pharma sales. If you even worked, you should be able to negotiate. I was able to present a business plan to a major medical institution that brought my a new salary of >$150,000. Just demonstrate that you can make money for them, use whatever skill you have developed, and go for it. Of course, if you were a lazy slob, you probably never worked at developing yourself outside of the paltry job. Then you deserve to beg for the scraps that you are tossed.

 

[Anonymous]

OP here, you are also doomed because pharma sales makes you very lazy. I mean think about it, you get up when you want, you start working when you want, you return home when you want, even your computer time is in doe while sitting in your boxers while watching TV. You work 10-2, Tu-Th, and really the most time consuming part of your nondriving/non waiting part of your job revolves around the ordering and delivery of food. With these FACTS, working in an office where you are pinned into an office from 9-5 is a very difficult adjustment, especially at the minimum pay.

Im not trying to be negative, just real. Dont listen to the people who try to tell you that "there are tos of jobs", etc, its just not true; practically every major drug company has either layed of or is planning to layoff thousands of reps, EACH. If you work in PODS, look at your POD partners and know that in the long run, only one of you (max), will survive long term.

As indicated in a previous post, those that have survived layoffs, just know that your pay will eventually be slashed by 70-80% as the experience that you have gained means absolutely nothing in the real world, and your pay is absolutely obnoxious in the real world. So you need to SAVE 100% of your bonus, and probably at least 60% of your salary. This will give a nice financial cushion, and get you used to living on lower wages.

JUST KEEPING IT REAL!

What a great thread, VERY REAL STUFF here.

Now you give great advice about having how you should save 100% of bonus and most of your salary. Now let's get REALLY REAL.... we all know NOBODY did that cuz you are "sales reps" who were hired for your cheerleading type personalities as opposed to your financial acumen. You fokkers are spending the money before you even get it, admit it!

You boys and girls sucked and sucked and sucked from bigmomma novartis titty for a long time...and now that titty went dry...and you are SCREWED!