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What to do with old awards?

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Hall of Famer here. Was "rightsized" from Pfizer several years ago.

I have all these plaques and awards that are totally meaningless to me but would rather not
dump them in a landfill.

Has anyone done something productive with them?

I know I'm opening the door for sarcastic comments but would appreciate some feedback.

Thanks
 










Hang them on your office wall and take pics for your brag book. Pretty common sense stuff.

sell them to a newly laid off rep so they can alter them for their brag book aand get a new job.
 








Knew a rep who won many awards, and every one at that time got you an additional gemstone for your ring. He Never wore it and, thinking the stones were valuable, took it to a jeweler to make a ring for his wife. The jeweler told him the stones were virtually worthless and the setting would cost more than they were worth.
They went into the trash on his disappointed return home.
 








Anonymous said:
Hall of Famer here. Was "rightsized" from Pfizer several years ago.

I have all these plaques and awards that are totally meaningless to me but would rather not
dump them in a landfill.

Has anyone done something productive with them?

I know I'm opening the door for sarcastic comments but would appreciate some feedback.

Thanks
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Do NOT burn them!
The smoke is deadly.
 




Anonymous said:
Hall of Famer here. Was "rightsized" from Pfizer several years ago.

I have all these plaques and awards that are totally meaningless to me but would rather not
dump them in a landfill.

Has anyone done something productive with them?
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To truly destroy them you must take them to Mordor and throw them into the fires of Mount Doom!
 




Worked with a guy who was in hall of fame.
Every POA they gave him 1/2 hour to explain how to achieve sustained sales success.
He's gone now. Let go.
So much for anything of value lasting here.
 




Anonymous said:
Worked with a guy who was in hall of fame.
Every POA they gave him 1/2 hour to explain how to achieve sustained sales success.
He's gone now. Let go.
So much for anything of value lasting here.
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ex rep here, in the late 90s/early 2000s.
pfe was a GREAT company back then. rewards actually meant something. it was entrepreneurial. sold my ass off and had fun.
guess I left at the right time, because I see it is now a total dump, with dumpy reps. and worse managers. no heart with all the "rightsize" attitudes. FU PFIZER!
 




Anonymous said:
ex rep here, in the late 90s/early 2000s.
pfe was a GREAT company back then. rewards actually meant something. it was entrepreneurial. sold my ass off and had fun.
guess I left at the right time, because I see it is now a total dump, with dumpy reps. and worse managers. no heart with all the "rightsize" attitudes. FU PFIZER!
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Still with Pfizer but will be very glad to retire in a year or two. Corporate leadership in NYC makes it so damn hard to do my job - endless rules, an obsession with metrics and way too much management. Control every breath those employees take!!!!
 




Anonymous said:
Hall of Famer here. Was "rightsized" from Pfizer several years ago.

I have all these plaques and awards that are totally meaningless to me but would rather not
dump them in a landfill.

Has anyone done something productive with them?

I know I'm opening the door for sarcastic comments but would appreciate some feedback.

Thanks
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I know one ex-Pfizer 3 time COE winner that walked into an interview with some of his award plaques clanking around in a box. The hiring manager called me because she knew that I worked in the same town (but different division).

I left Pfizer years ago, but I was still embarrassed.
 








Anonymous said:
I know one ex-Pfizer 3 time COE winner that walked into an interview with some of his award plaques clanking around in a box. The hiring manager called me because she knew that I worked in the same town (but different division).

I left Pfizer years ago, but I was still embarrassed.
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Once the pride and joy of not only the pharmaceutical industry, but all corporations.

Ranked number 1 in all corporate training at one point...and it showed. There were so many great sales people at Pfizer. Strong presentation skills, well organized, big nuts to ask for the business, and very aggressive.

The reps today are LOL, for the most part. My guess is that over 80 percent of the great reps, are no longer with Pfizer. They have moved on. They were disrespected.

Today, its just a joke. They blew it, big time, with the providers and the employees.
 




Anonymous said:
Once the pride and joy of not only the pharmaceutical industry, but all corporations.

Ranked number 1 in all corporate training at one point...and it showed. There were so many great sales people at Pfizer. Strong presentation skills, well organized, big nuts to ask for the business, and very aggressive.

The reps today are LOL, for the most part. My guess is that over 80 percent of the great reps, are no longer with Pfizer. They have moved on. They were disrespected.

Today, its just a joke. They blew it, big time, with the providers and the employees.
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You're leaving out the unfortunate fact that we had GREAT products two decades ago.

So, its easy to be a "great salesperson" when Norvasc or Lipitor or Viagra or Zithromax are in your bag, when your dinner and lunch budgets dwarf all but a few companies, and when you have 5 to 6 counterparts in your TACU or LAT or cluster "selling" the same excellent drug. Let's not forget that we had many KOLs in our back pocket, too!

Now that we don't have great products, you see us for who we really are and were. Pretenders.

Lets not partake in revisionist history of the greatness of Pfizer past, OK? We were fortunate that we invested so much in R&D 3 decades ago, far before it was fashionable. And then in the mid 1990s, once companies saw that we were good at cranking out Zithromax and Norvasc, they came to us for help with Aricept, Zyrtec, Lipitor, and the COX-2s. Without Warner Lambert/PD, Eisai, and Pharmacia's help, we are a three trick pony from 2001 on: Viagra and Vfend and maybe Zithromax.
By now, GSK or Novartis would've eaten us up, whole.

"Great reps". HAH! Great at dinner programs, wining and dining, fake speaker programs, sampling, using up our budgets, sticking to a call cycle, and at doing busy work and taking credit for everyone else's work in our cluster.
 












Anonymous said:
You're leaving out the unfortunate fact that we had GREAT products two decades ago.

So, its easy to be a "great salesperson" when Norvasc or Lipitor or Viagra or Zithromax are in your bag, when your dinner and lunch budgets dwarf all but a few companies, and when you have 5 to 6 counterparts in your TACU or LAT or cluster "selling" the same excellent drug. Let's not forget that we had many KOLs in our back pocket, too!

Now that we don't have great products, you see us for who we really are and were. Pretenders.

Lets not partake in revisionist history of the greatness of Pfizer past, OK? We were fortunate that we invested so much in R&D 3 decades ago, far before it was fashionable. And then in the mid 1990s, once companies saw that we were good at cranking out Zithromax and Norvasc, they came to us for help with Aricept, Zyrtec, Lipitor, and the COX-2s. Without Warner Lambert/PD, Eisai, and Pharmacia's help, we are a three trick pony from 2001 on: Viagra and Vfend and maybe Zithromax.
By now, GSK or Novartis would've eaten us up, whole.

"Great reps". HAH! Great at dinner programs, wining and dining, fake speaker programs, sampling, using up our budgets, sticking to a call cycle, and at doing busy work and taking credit for everyone else's work in our cluster.
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15 years in the field, various industries and 5 with PFE.

And the PFE reps were easily the best because of the work ethic and assertive/aggressive sales mentality. Trust me on this. Most people couldn't even make it past the PFE training.

Then again, I was in the Northeast, and we are generally considered the best in the country.
 












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