Yep. Anytime the email says "We know this time of transition can be uncertain and stressful... please remain focused and committed to our objectives."
Yep, will not want to take the hit on next yrs budget, will want to show reduced costs starting by Jan 1
They just promoted a shit load of favorites into high positions. This guarantees that massive layoffs are coming. I just hope they continue to wipe out the DBM positions. Most of them are useless. Many are undeserving asskissers, and are extremely counterproductive to selling (generating revenue).
DBMs are the backbone of PFE. We need to reduce sales force and put the savings into marketing and r/d. These sales jokers can't close a screen door.
Why is there a DBM for every 8-10 reps? Going around to the same offices over and over and over again. What do they do? Pharma needs to get with the times--they have changed!
Yep, you nailed it. They just cut and paste the same email when the cuts are coming. Take it from me, a survivor from three companies before being sentenced to Pfizer prison. If this is it for me, goodbye Pharma. Job security is non- existent.
Job security is a fallacy. It came into existence in the early 20th century as part of the progressive/communist movements. Retirement is the same. It’s simply an idea which was made up by people that only exists as long as people believe in it because it’s the equivalent of a Ponzi scheme which only works as long as there are new suckers to invest in it. Otherwise, 10,000 years of human existence argue against these utopian notions. The fact that you’ve given up on the fantasy of job security is a great achievement. If you can believe that it doesn’t exist anywhere and indeed never existed, you will have freed your mind from the chains of bad ideas and brainwashing. You are so close to a great accomplishment. Good luck on your journey.
When did our jobs become a sad thing? It used to be fun with a fun manager and now it is a doldrum existence of layoff after layoff
It started 20yrs-25 yrs.ago. Pharma was too arrogant, too greedy and too stupid to heed the signs. They laughed at PBM’s, managed care, restricted formularies, etc. Pharma thought spreading their money around, bribing doctors, federal,and state politicians, hospitals, etc. would allow them to continue business as usual. The politicians still protect their cash flow, but that is about to end. Trump can’t be bought. They were wrong at every turn, but, again, too arrogant to admit it. It was full steam ahead, damn the torpedoes. Armies of reps flooded offices, hospitals,with their obnoxious canned bullshit “ messaging” concocted by inept marketing morons. Every company had the same sales model and pushed it on drs.ad nauseum. Every company was/ is a clone of another. Pharma was and still is one mega company, just operating as many. Pfizer, Merck, Novartis, etc. all nothing more than different division under the Pharma umbrella selling different drugs with the same M.O. Pfizer buys two lunches a week, Merck says three, Novartis says four. Two reps per office, becomes 4,6,8. Metrics start at 6 calls a day on upward, “Frequency and reach”, See the high-prescribers, KOL’s, target lists, call routes, yadda, yadda, yadda. Sound familiar? Leadership? Haha! From bright, dynamic, competent, visionary leaders, we’ve gone to ass- kissing, clueless, incompetent, narcissistic, dull, drones, droning the same old and worn cliches, platitudes, motivational bullshit from 50:yrs ago. They’re literally interchangeable among companies. All they would need to,do,is change the product name in their motivational speeches at the dreaded National meetings that are a colossal waste of money and time. Wake up folks, the sky IS falling on Pharma.
Please delete your comment about the national meetings. Don’t you realize that about 700 of us per division plan for these meetings all year long? That’s ALL we do. Don’t take our jobs away, you jerk! And whatever you do... do NOT tell Pfizer they could accomplish the same thing via webex in 1/3 the time and 1/100th of the cost. Shush.
Heck, cut out in-person meetings and go virtual and Pfizer could save hundreds of millions per year. Most of middle management would cease to exist.
^^^^is very jealous of the moral debauchery and would love to cheat on their spouse.This places you in an excellent position to be promoted Cheating is a part of collaboration and that is a serious core value.
