Is it weird that the company is not investing in building up our infrastructure? There will be more reps in the field but no increase in Home Office headcount, NAMs/CAMs or MSLs? We are still contracting out our training department. No increase in marketing personal. We still don't have an official Sales Ops Director (Dan left in Jan.) or a National Sales Director. Where are the "growth" opportunities? Only 1 RSS has been promoted in a year. Seems fishy.
Wow, they are finally posting the Sales Ops Director position. Dan has been gone since the beginning of the year. I guess the external recruiter couldn't find someone willing to move to Miami and live in the HQ Toxic Environment. How will they hire for a Sales Ops Director when they haven't hired a National Sales Director? Hopefully, the new marketing person will have a clue about what is really like in the field and get us some marketing materials we can actually use? I wonder how many cases of the dosing cards are still in the marketing closet. Did we really need to have 50,000 printed? They are big and bulky - no physician is going to carry that in their coat pocket. How many times has the OC form been reprinted? The family member that owns the print shop must love Opko. Can they consolidate the spiral flip detail piece, the carry reprint and the MOA piece into one concise piece? Will they finally update the patient brochures? WTF with the new patient profiles on the Surface Pro? Do they really think this new patient profile app will work on the Surface Pro? Hopefully, it will be better than the Surface Pro detail piece. The company spends all kinds of money of useless marketing crap (if you think it is useful, ask Synthia how much marketing crap is in storage. How often to you ask for patient brochures to be sent to your house?). Instead of spending thousands of dollars on marketing crap and reprinting the OC form every quarter, put that money in the sales compensation. It would be better spent on a happy sales force than a closet in HQ.
What a cry baby you are. You want more $$$$ is your pocket but, can't sell worth a crap. The marketing material are fine. They do the job. Quit blaming others for your subpar performance, it's embarrassing! Instead of COMPLAINING on message boards, why don't you provide some real value by solving for the gaps within the company. Provide some valuable input by talking to your manager, marketing, or senior leadership; you have access to them. Oh, I forgot, you have nothing to offer except blaming others for your failures. Please quit today. We'd a be better for it.
You must be new to the company. There have been MANY Town Halls were questioned were asked and no answers were every given. EVEN when you send in your questions ahead of time for the Town Hall and POA meetings, they don't answer the difficult questions.
Please take your medication as directed by your doctor as you are delusional, oh wait, you can't afford the copay and Aetna wants your doctor to RX something you have already been on years ago and failed to work but you have to try that again and fail, well listen bud from what you are composing here I would consider your disease state isn't being controlled but Aetna won't pay for your additional office visit and you can't afford to pay it. You come to Opko and your having difficulty affording your medication, we get it, trust me. See if you can get on the free drug program, would suggest bringing in lunch to feed the MA's and beg for samples till your application gets approved, sorry to say that more than likely it won't get approved unless you make less than 350% to the FPL so it looks like your disease state will continue until you can get that new drug you were on before you came to Opko, good luck.
I bet when you were young you were accepted by your peers and felt like you were their equal. "Hey Timmy!", they would scream when you got on the bus. It was only when your gang entered puberty that your self doubts really took hold and shaped what you are today. All of your friends, the Billies, Bobbies, and Johnnies, now wanted to be called their mature name which matched their maturing manhood. Now they were Bill, Bob and John. Not wanting to be left out and although you seemed to be left behind in the "maturing" department, you know referred to yourself as "Tim". From that day forward you were teased mercilessly. You came to dread the first day of school, of camp, of anything where roll was called last name first. All through middle school, all through high school you were shunned by the same kids that, in the past, would joyfully call out your name. Thinking you needed a change, you went to a college far from home but again on that first day, the tormenting began anew. Upon graduation and entering the work world you had, by this time, developed some deep seated insecurities and sought professional help. But when the counselor broke into laughter when she called your name in the waiting room you thought, "My God, what is wrong with me?". So you quit your job and moved into your parents basement. After ten years you had aged a bit and felt more secure with yourself. You even landed a new job with Opko. It was only when you went for the drug test and the lab tech was giving you instructions did it hit you. "Would you please fill up this cup with urine Mr. Scro?"
