Useless busywork

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How many hours per week do you spend on admin

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anonymous

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Any business analyst looking in to Gsk would would see the huge amount of busywork required of the sales teams to be unneeded. Having to populate endless number of redundant trackers would boggle their minds. I spend probably close to a day filling out mind numbing, productivity sapping trackers so the sales leader can inspect. There are four winning formula tools, weekly recaps for leader, daily call notes, coaching to win reports, pre-call plans, ride a long planning for manager, half day worth of web meetings per week, sales performance analysis through weekly inspections, vbit analysis, quarterly sales plans and account plans. No wonder this company’s sales are suffering. Sales management’s need for hyper inspection is lunacy. If I was an analyst I would get rid of all but maybe two. Add to all the trackers basic job requirements like expense reports, mileage reporting, matrix meetings, planning for customer meetings and the like. Maybe the teams could be in the field more actually selling something? Now that’s a thought. Hmmmmm. Every week these requirements add up. I bet I spend a a day and half every week trying to keep up with all these things. Elliott needs to influence a clean out of the organization’s sales leadership from top to bottom and start over. Get rid of all the busy work. Another thing...how about setting realistic stretch sales goals that perhaps 10% of teams could actually achieve. No wonder so many people jumping ship. Unfortunately long hauler here wish I could leave. This place really and truly sucks.
 






The funny thing about the busy work is how we all have to lie about how impressed we are with all of it as if it’s some groundbreaking new tech. It’s like pretending a Pre K kids drawing is the best art piece in the world, except we do this as working adults with redundant projects.
 






anonymous said:
Any business analyst looking in to Gsk would would see the huge amount of busywork required of the sales teams to be unneeded. Having to populate endless number of redundant trackers would boggle their minds. I spend probably close to a day filling out mind numbing, productivity sapping trackers so the sales leader can inspect. There are four winning formula tools, weekly recaps for leader, daily call notes, coaching to win reports, pre-call plans, ride a long planning for manager, half day worth of web meetings per week, sales performance analysis through weekly inspections, vbit analysis, quarterly sales plans and account plans. No wonder this company’s sales are suffering. Sales management’s need for hyper inspection is lunacy. If I was an analyst I would get rid of all but maybe two. Add to all the trackers basic job requirements like expense reports, mileage reporting, matrix meetings, planning for customer meetings and the like. Maybe the teams could be in the field more actually selling something? Now that’s a thought. Hmmmmm. Every week these requirements add up. I bet I spend a a day and half every week trying to keep up with all these things. Elliott needs to influence a clean out of the organization’s sales leadership from top to bottom and start over. Get rid of all the busy work. Another thing...how about setting realistic stretch sales goals that perhaps 10% of teams could actually achieve. No wonder so many people jumping ship. Unfortunately long hauler here wish I could leave. This place really and truly sucks.
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Couldn’t agree more. I don’t even fill out the stupid trackers. There’s a report for every silly thing one can possibly think of. There’s a conference call to talk about the conference call. So stupid. GSK is the best company at complicating something that is simple. Then there’s the FLL’s that come up with more stupid busy work each day. Send me this. Send me that. Fill out this. I’ve created a new this and that. Absurd. Ride alongs are so dreadful I think about calling in sick every time before each one. Sorry you are stuck here. I am getting the hell out. Not to mention I’ve never worked with some of the most horrible co workers in my damn life. Terrible people running around pretending to be decent human beings.
 






Agreed. I’ve been with the company one year and it’s the worst decision I’ve ever made..hoping I can get out soon.
I’ve never had a job that encourages extra work that reduces output
 












to the OP... one of the most accurate and truthful posts in CP history. I am in Oncology and I can tell you that is the bulk of the work. The reason, IMO, is because the drugs are just okay and the pipeline is really failing badly. To be honest at this point there are a few positions that could be eliminated and nothing would change. Docs don’t want to hear about Zejula and only academic centers have any need for blenrep. The care team model has failed. They keep saying that it will be extended to other divisions, pray that it isn’t. I can say this with absolute certainty that come June a large chunk of the gene team will be gone. The busy work is to justify the FLL position and nothing else. What a joke
 






Eyebrow raising, questionable-value busywork started in New England shortly after the Advair launch. Anybody remember the “touches” tracking spreadsheet? Thats right, twenty f___ing years. Here’s the culture: butt kissing dweebs seeking advancement or higher rankings take on “regional projects”. These projects commonly come up with new ways to track new metrics - you know, as part of “professional development”. Kudos and raises and promotions are given, and the insane culture is embedded ever deeper as the latest tracker is added onto the list without displacing older ones. Voilá.
The amazing thing is that it has only grown worse and now apparently infects all areas of the company. It’s a virus for which there is only one antidote, and that is to leave and find a job elsewhere. This place is nuts
 






anonymous said:
Eyebrow raising, questionable-value busywork started in New England shortly after the Advair launch. Anybody remember the “touches” tracking spreadsheet? Thats right, twenty f___ing years. Here’s the culture: butt kissing dweebs seeking advancement or higher rankings take on “regional projects”. These projects commonly come up with new ways to track new metrics - you know, as part of “professional development”. Kudos and raises and promotions are given, and the insane culture is embedded ever deeper as the latest tracker is added onto the list without displacing older ones. Voilá.
The amazing thing is that it has only grown worse and now apparently infects all areas of the company. It’s a virus for which there is only one antidote, and that is to leave and find a job elsewhere. This place is nuts
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Exactly. There are so many stupid trackers I don’t even know what to do with them and don’t bother. Stupid account plans for all kinds of metrics. My silly FLL wonders why I never fill them out. Then there’s my co worker who is dumb enough to ask me to fill it out. Yeh right. I’ll get right on it. Along with all the other stupid trackers we have. She’s actually wised up and stopped asking me to fill it out. I think my FLL realizes nobody is filling out the sill account plans too.
 
























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