Best times at Monarch-now only called King

There were 25 of us and then 50. We were treated like royalty, the CEO and his brothers, not to mention everyone higher up knew us each by name. We weren't the highest payed in the industry, but we liked where we were and what we were doing. We were growing a new company.
Then the brothers (one in particular) must have been hit in the head by a brick, cause he did a baaaad thing-but he paid.
The Bobby Longs and the Dan McCalls were hired and everything started turning sour. JP Jones is purchased and Bob Long-GONE TG treated them like dirt, not to mention, treated the originals and the new hires like dirt. Dan McCall was too busy kissing the A of the Brothers until they were out of the company. Then he turned to kissing Bobby boys butt. Parkdale purchase came before the Brother's exited-one of them actually moved his family to Michigan to run it. (Are you aware that King manufactures medications both branded and non-branded out of that facility in Michigan? Not only for themselves but for other companies.-It's called Business/Industry....)
Now-some 11 years or so later. The sales force (not including Hospital and Specialty) is only slightly larger than 2 or so years after the company started.
Did you know the original owners (and I mean owners because it was a privately held company) had previously own GIV-General Injectable Vaccines. They moved on to start another company after exiting Monarch/King. (Monarch-btw-was the name of the sales force, King was the "Company").
So, taking the Brothers' lead (even though one of them in particular made a really (gotta say it) F-ed up move, I too am going to go forward and NEVER look back. Except at the good times, playing golf in TN, eating and drinking at their Country Club, the trips, the meeting in Dallas with Wyeth when they joined forces to co-promote.....just the good times.
See ya

 

Just checking in to see if anyone has anything to say. I'm sure if anyone ever does respond, it will be a negative comment. I know this to be true because NONE OF YOU NOW WITH KING EVEN EXISTED THEN and to the few of you who still are here-don't have the NADS to agree. If any of you and I know who you are, have the NADS, step up. Or do you disagree? Step up to that if you do. Step up to something or revel in your own "Jesus complex".
Lights out.

 

do you not have anything better to do?

 

Why? Do you have a problem with it?
Since you responded, you must not have anything better to do either eh?

 

I was one of the first and missed the company and good times.
We were not paid well but were building the company. Seemed that it was going to work but it didn't. I hated Dan M from the beginning. Lying womanizer is all I saw.
Remember Joe, the brand new CEO, getting flustered talking to 100 people?
Remember being in Bristol for training then our first meeting?
Remember getting your Camry?
Remember selling Altace? The HOPE launch?
Remember having only a laminated detail piece as your only one detail piece?
Remember waiting 8 weeks for hand entered expense checks?
I do and still sold market share increase.

 

First off no one gives a "rats ass" about how things used to be. I used to live at home and my Mommy and Daddy took care of me and tucked me in at night. Get over it!! The past means nothing!! It is over with. It can never come back. Live for today. If that story was your ultimate sales life then it will only get worse for you going forward. BOOOOOO HOOOOOO
LOL!!

 

Wow. Good days. I applaud you and what you did. I'm here and stayed and like King. However I miss everyone who got canned. It was sad really. We who are here are shaky and hope to make things better but word is we are in line to be bought out. Imagine our motivation. I'm being positive but wary. Now Glumetza...NO MORE??? Oh well. busted out butts for what? Hopefully this is a good decision.

 

Hey Jackass, there's a famous quote: look upon the past with fond rememberance. That's all we're doing, so keep your fucking mouth shut-tell you what-stick Bob's dick in there-that'll shut your face up.

 

I started with Monarch in '90s. I left after they screwed over the sales force on their Altace bonus in 2000. Hell, nearly everyone I knew left after that. It was a shame. If they would have treated their sales people a little better, they might have been able to stay in business. Butch with his goddamn "Buckets!" There were some really good sales people that left. Mark Suellentrop, Chrissy Rotuno, Shelly Pearse, Mora...lovely Mora. I think Deboard went to Novartis. I don't know what happened to "The Hiltons."

 

King was great after 2004 until BM sold us under. We were family. Lots of great people. many now have jobs but it will never be the same.

 

Indeed. It was what it was....and time moves on. We were family in many ways. Friendships remain even though comany names constantly change. Take the good memories and the friendships with you and stay healthy and happy. All the best.

 

King was such a great place to work --- never know what you have until its gone...miss it

 

I remember my first 3 products. Levoxyl, Altace and Lorabid. My best days were when we had Altace and Skelaxin. Those were two products that could get you past the "gatekeepers". Fun times, especially at national meetings when there was always one or two people getting fired for poor decisions. With the female sexual dysfunction drug approved in the news this week, does anyone remember PT-141? Oh, what could have been