Am I the only one who has a problem with these? I think it puts us reps in a very uncomfortable position and our intentions can be widely misconstrued by our practitioners.
Hello, I'm Ben Dover, a dm with a etoh infused brain. Nobody cares! Exspecally your costomers if I was you and I ain't I'd sit at home all day every and make it all up! Just watch the gas card as we watch you. Make it a gravy train day!
Funny-sadly this was the topic at our family dinner last night. There is an older creepy physician in my territory that has taken a "liking" to me despite my always professional behavior with him. He is a big Soliqua target for me so I have to go in there once a week. My manager (also a female) is insisting that I use his "interest" to take him out to dinner for one of these evening 1 on 1 webexes. There is no way that this Dr will see this as anything other than a demonstration of mutual interest. I do not like the position this puts me in and told her that. Her response was "(insert RBL's name here) is really focused on doing a targeted number of these evening events and since our Soliqua performance is so low they are really looking at us and discussing performance management measures". My husband and I have discussed it and if she continues to pressure me to do this I will resign on the spot. My brother, a corporate attorney, suggested last night at dinner that I go ahead and do the dinner with this guy and have a friend sit at a nearby table and record the evening on their phone. If there is inappropriate behavior on the part of the Dr, he said I should "sue the shit" out of the company. He said these are the kind of cases labor and class action attorneys live for!
One on one dinners with physicians is a long-standing marketing practice in the medical industry, although perhaps more prevalent in the medical device world than in pharma. It works fabulously well to build relationships and you have the time you need to communicate the benefits of the product. That said no salesperson of either gender should ever have to do one of these if they feel the overture would be misinterpreted. Unless the physician is such an important thought-leader, like a major university researcher, the company is better off without that physician as a customer. If the physician is such a "must have" customer, then the RBL should be doing the meeting anyway.
Are we really so desperate now that we are prostituting our reps? When will this pay for play bullshit end in pharma?
My manager says if a customer makes you uncomfortable, do not call on them. Period. Sadly, these types of people in Sanofi management are now as scarce as hens teeth. Were left with mostly asskissers who wouldnt hesitate to throw their reps under a bus for a free candy bar.
I have gone the extra mile five or six times for the business with doctors, I find them very needy, immature and not very good frankly. The lady docs always tell me that they "love me" after the first or second night. My favorite ones are the fat over 50 ones, I can controll them. They funny part is my partner loves it and he sometimes watches via the wifi camera system in our bedroom. I say go for it, you will learn something. My sales are great thanks to going the extra mile in Chicago.
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