My version of 15 by 15

You espouse the typical sales misnomer. The salesperson does not "bring in the revenue", the products do. Whenever revenue is down the blame falls on the quality and the competitiveness of the product. When the product is sells well you somehow believe it is about you. Both facets of this company are doing poorly.

 

First of all thanks for your concern. Life is not about a new house or vacation. It's about love and caring. I don't need to come up with a good line for that. How was your day. We woke up , when to church to give thanks for everything we have. My wife made some great lobster bisque. We did math and reading with our kids. I organized my tool box with the help of the kids. That took longer with their help. Built a model car. We watched some chopped on the DVR together. Normally on better days we go outside. That did not cost to much. When the kids go to sleep my wife and I will have some fun. Sounds boring but if that's boring I love it. Tangible items come and go. The intangibles last a lifetime and are pasted down from generation to generation.

 

Thanks for the details. No one cares, but I hope your kid passes math and your model car looks good in his room or whatever for what it's worth. Try Facebook. They may care.

 

On a thread about how people don't work you whine about layoffs? Weird. What do you care? Most of you aren't working that much anyway. You think Merck doesn't already know that? Oh, yeah, "15", you want to keep getting paid indefinitely and rewarded for doing almost nothing. There's that entitlement mentality again. I look at the year-end report, revenues, returns, dividends , I don't see a company that's struggling. I DO see a bloated, over paid, under achieving sales force that's struggling. I do see a smaller general medicine portfolio that doesn't need all the sales people dedicated to it. I do see growth in speciality areas, like oncology. But chances are if you are in that division you wouldn't be on this thread because you'd actually have something to do. I do see a company with too many mouths to feed, so it still needs to trim the hedges. I'm sure that management sleeps just fine when they realize they are returning shareholder value. Work less until you work at Merck no more. Fine. You'll find something else or you won't. The sales rep is not so bad off , 401k, pension, severance, ect. If he's smart, but many aren't. You are hired to sell what you have, if you don't, can't or won't, or you don't have it anymore, you're not needed. That's how sales works. It's not a commune. It's a business.

 

That poor guy does not understand the Merck culture. I know one where they have a special needs child and was more concerned about upgrading their house rather than the needs of their child. I think that other poster was European or something. He was not born here. That's easy to tell. Who gets to church anymore? I don't know how they stay in business.

 

The only danger of being a 15, particularly if you have been with Merck for a long time, is if that 15ing is all you are. If you are not using some of your extra time to build new revenue streams or obtain education and skills for today's world, then when the ax falls (and it will), you will have nothing but a very impressive brag book of your accomplishments as a master buggy whip maker in a world of 3d printed automobiles.

 

Bingo! Winner! (Certainly not a whiner…)

 

Have you been to the Fuller Brush website? It's actually really impressive. You didn't even get that much correct, let alone anything else.

 

You read a whole lot into that guy's post that simply wasn't there. He's right; you are an idiot.

 

That's right because people order off the website. They don't use sales people anymore . I read a book a couple of years ago and it said there as ONE fuller brush salesman in the entire world. He's probably retired by now, and there's none, as will soon be with Merck. That's the point you idiot. God, you are stupid. Go apply there, after Merck cans you.

 

Oh , OK, Mr. " I am an ambiguity mind reader" you tell us, what was there?

The point is you 15ers brag about not working, which by definition means your job is useless, it doesn't matter if you're there or not, which means any " numbers" are bogus but then you try to turn around, using the same bogus numbers thinking it proves how good a sales person you are. Sorry. Dichotomy doesn't square. You are an idiot if you think it does, but you'll find out on interviews. Let's try it in reverse since you are re-medial. The " numbers" are bogus, you don't matter, which means you are SO disposable and expendable. I don't care if you are 15. But you can't come on here and brag about all the awards you've won, how good you are, how skilled you are. The numbers are bogus, your job is bogus, the " awards" are bogus, you are bogus. Be 15, cool, whatever , but you can't BS a BSer. You should have got a real major instead of " marketing." Now you are just waiting to be canned in your bogus job, so you can, hopefully, if you are lucky, land another bogus sales job. That's the definition of idiocy if you ask me. Either way, you're screwed.

 

Blah, blah, blah blah.

When I leave this sh!thole, I'll lose $150K in annual income. Of course, that's less than half of what I currently earn.

Oh the beauty of being prepared. I guess that Marketing degree isn't so bad after all. (just kidding. Never took Marketing.)

God bless the 15's.

 

Wow, how dense. What sales model is STILL using door to door sales people, which is what pharma reps basically are? If you think you will get more than 5 years in this industry cold call knocking on doctors doors, with your " fuller brush" sample case you are denser still. It's a 19th century selling model. Was outmoded about 20 years ago. You missed the window. The glory, big money days of pharma are long over never to return. You missed your window. If you are a 15, using this time for " career development" trying to improve yourself you're smart. If you are doing this behavior because you just don't want to work, you want to play more golf ( like the original 15 guy) you are lazy and stupid.

 

F off troll, you know nothing about reps or sales Now go shovel shit on the farm immigrant inbred

 

You seem to know a lot about it. Brush up. Your " career" be over.
Cut back on the booze, rum pot.

 

Nice drunk post. I buy and sell you.

 

Probably a Packers fan.

 

It is not about working harder. Its about modeling honesty and character for your children. If you want to "raise them right" as you say. Or maybe you believe in "do what I say, not what I do".

 

Want to model something for your children? Start a business and grow it. Show your horrible employer that you don't sit around like just another Merck rep, praying not to be the next to get shoved out, and clearly tell your kids that they should never grow up to be reliant on some hellhole like Merck. Also, let them know that cleaning Merck's clock for around a half-million or so (and growing every day) on your way out the door is a display of poetic justice. I can't stop smiling. I wonder how big that number will get?

FU Merck.

 

Another generation with no character. Nice legacy.