Cf-Promoting with Pfizer was PD's Death!!

Guess the good old days are over, huh? PD was such a good place to be at the time. We sure had it made until Pfizer choked us.

 

I started with PD working the best 6 years of my employed life with coworkers that are still life long friends, until the Pfizer takeover when my hospital position was eliminated. It was a company that people stayed with, almost no turnover. In my mind PD was special, old school management with old school principles.

I'm still in the industry (I guess hopefully as my current company, Merck, is laying off more of us at the end of the month,) and after 18 years in industry no company can compare to what we had. I wish most everyday to have what we had. Great management, super products, patient centered, employees respected and fun! We had so much fun! It was a pleasure to get up and sell, sell, sell. Damn I miss PD.

 

yes, I too, miss PD...after Pfizer cut me in one of the layoffs, I went to Astellas and it reminds me of how PD used to be. I still stay in touch with a lot of the PD people. To the above posters, you are correct, PD really cared until Pfizer came in and took over. It just had a different feel to it. It honestly cared about it's people and we cared about the company.....something Pfizer will never understand.

 

To the above poster: When I read your post, I thought I had actually written it Pfizer is a back stabbing company who A doesnt know what B is doing (nor do they care). It's consumed by a disease called narcisism. Thank God I'm out of there.

 

You must have worked in Central Pa with Carl D. The most arrogant, egotistical manger in the company. I am still in the Biopharma industry 14 years later and still have not come across someone so arrogant and such a prick that he was back then. I am hoping for his sake he changed.

 

Yes, fun!!! Those were the days. I remember the meeting at the Queen Mary in Long Beach where each ballroom had a different kind of band, Country Western, Swing, Jazz, etc and a different buffet, BBQ, deli, sushi, Chinese etc. It was an awesome time to be a rep! Training in Morris Plains as a newby followed up with an all night party with the whole class in Manhattan in a limo. Drinks at the revolving bar on the 43rd floor of the midtown Marriott, the Palladium, the ferry ride at 4 am past the statue of Liberty and back. The Lopid relaunch meeting at the Bonaventure in LA with a $700K bar tab for 700 reps. Good times! Kicking a$$ with Lipitor. The Vegas meeting, the Tahoe meeting, the Lipitor launch in SF. All the good friends that I keep in touch with to this day. If it had not been for the terrible field sales managers in the last couple of years it would have been perfect. Great products, great coworkers, great meetings! Life has never been so awesome since.

 

Are you kidding me? Pfizer has no respect for others other than their own people? They don't even respect them. Anyone who dissolves divisions and lets people go 2 weeks before Christmas are scumbags. Plain and simple. I started with PD in 87 and lasted until 2009, now I'm with a great company (very similar to PD). Pfizer is ruthless. Whoever heard of a Masters program where they claim you get your own room at meetings and then when you go to a Masters program, you have to share a room. Somehow it's always the tail wagging the dog.

 

The PD reps were great, the PD managers not so much. Some were the worst I've seen or had.

 

The PD reps were snake oil peddlers. They were unethical in their sales practices. Pfizer came in to clean up their mess.

 

You are 1,000% correct. I worked for PD in Virginia, and Pfizer Pfucks did nothing. I was even President of the AHA in Lynchburg, VA. I loved PD and our Regional Mgr. Barbara W. She was a great person. All in all, I retired in 2010 with a big bank account and only 56 years old. I loved calling on docs..

 

Blah, blah, blah. You are noting but an old windbag.

 

Why the animosity? PD was a GREAT company and I enjoyed my employment there. Just mind your own business. Proud PD retiree

 

I agree, the PD reps were great-many of the managers were awful and got worse after Pfizer took them over