Get off my ASS !!!!

Discussion in 'Tri-path' started by Anonymous, Dec 13, 2005 at 3:49 PM.

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  1. Anonymous

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    Why the end of year pressure? GEEZ, if the company would have delivered on either promise, HPV or LGS, we'd have a shot, but this is ri-god damn-diculous.

    Where is the goal relief? Where are the lowered expectations for the field since we lowered expectations to the street? Where is the big bonus promised during the interview?

    If you'd like I can start sending you hourly reports. Maybe put a GPS on my car so you can see every single office I go to and exactly what time I leave in the morning and what time I get home. Continue to go through my phone logs with a fine tooth comb. You won't see any calls to recruiters.

    Yet.

    I'm busting my ass out here with little support from you or the company so cut me some slack if I'm not exploding out of the gate here. If you were to devote even a tenth of the energy you spend micromanaging and chasing insignificant details and actually get out in the field and help the reps on calls, it would be all good. Share a little of that product knowledge. Share some success stories. Give a little positive feedback or show a little leadership, you would be infinitely more successful that sitting at home most days and half days spent in the field just to show the home office you are traveling with your reps.

    Shit rolls downhill and by the time we get anything from the home office through you, it is fecal follapalooza.

    Thanks for all the bullshit during the interview. Nothing you said would happen, has.
     

  2. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    The best thing you can do for yourself, your career, you mental health, and your friends and family is leave this place. I put in over two years and it was three too many. I could write a novel on all that is wrong here, but the best Christmas gift you can give yourself is to search for recruiters and move on. The company is in trouble from the inside out. It will be a long time before a VP of Sales will come on here and for good reason, it is without a doubt a sinking ship. Do not let the alliance with Labcorp and Quest fool you into thinking things will saty afloat. Labcorp is in bed with Cytyc and Quest reps are having reservations due to HPV and LGS. Even though they are just here because they are saving over Thin Prep, their reps do not have the mojo to sell SurePath anymore and are focusing on other products in their portfolio. Next year will be worse than this one for TriPath. The inner structure and money needed to help this place is greater than the ability or the means to do so. The rep turn over is a staggering 90%, the VP of sales has left, as has a product manager who only worked for three months! here this year. Stocks are in the toilet. Don't be singing Blue Christmas next year on here. You obvioulsy can write, so you can communicate well, write a beautiful cover letter for yourself and get out. The micro has just started to track reps that only go out one day a week. Of course, you know that is what your sales support rep is for. No matter where you go from here, you will be in a better place. I am in better place and you can be too. GOOD LUCK.
     
  3. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    Micro manage, I started here about 8 months ago and found this is the least micromanaged of any company i have worked for. as for the troubles, every company has trouble. look at the posts for other companies. no matter how big or small, they all have people bitching.
     
  4. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    Amen to the person above me. This is the least that I have ever been micromanaged. I love it here.
     
  5. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

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    Amen to the person above me. This is the least that I have ever been micromanaged. I love it here.

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    I came from big pharma and that was total micro. this is cake!
    What are you doing wrong to make your manager ride you?
     
  6. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    Nothing different than anyone else on my team. I guess my biggest frustration is not having a manager who knows anything about selling this test. Ride alongs, as infrequent and brief as they are, are complete wastes of time since they don't really offer any help.

    "Why don't you try using a pen to point to the graph as opposed to your finger, that's so unprofessional"

    Any questions about studies, sensitivity, FDA approval status, or imaging just gets a dull, opaque stare.
     
  7. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    [ QUOTE ]
    Nothing different than anyone else on my team. I guess my biggest frustration is not having a manager who knows anything about selling this test. Ride alongs, as infrequent and brief as they are, are complete wastes of time since they don't really offer any help.

    "Why don't you try using a pen to point to the graph as opposed to your finger, that's so unprofessional"

    Any questions about studies, sensitivity, FDA approval status, or imaging just gets a dull, opaque stare.

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    I understand. I realized a long time ago that to learn things i needed to read the studies myself. My manager works with them so little that it would just make matters worse if i asked.
    But what I don't get is the infrequent ride alongs. Do you want your manager with you more? My last job, my manager was to be with me every other month at the very least, talk about a waste of time. i would rather have it be every few months than what i had before!
     
  8. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    My manager doesnt even expect us to use studies. She just says, "sell the best way you know how"
    Fantastic direction isn't it?
     
  9. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    Sounds like Poe...she's worthless
     
  10. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    More like poo if you ask me