The unnecessary trackers and metrics must stop. What does Home office want? Spreadsheets or sales results? We just want some truthful answers. Is Kimmie getting desperate?
Otsuka is a fucking joke. Home office scrambling bc they have no isea how to motivate or manage a brand or salesforce. Otsuka isn’t even a Pharmaceuticals company. It’s a wine, vitamin, water company that has a “division “ of Pharmaceuticals. It’s evident through their senior leadership and lack of effectiveness in managing their prescriptions. Trackers, metrics, is what inexperienced companies do when they are losing money and have no real effective methods of managing. It’s an absolute joke. Every sales rep there should be leaving or looking.
Most reps/managers here are too damn stupid to look elsewhere. People are quitting Lundbeck left and right. There is no reason to stay at this joke of a company any longer. I have a phone screen next week with another company, and am praying I will make it through to the next round! Wise up people, and think one time for yourself!
your bullshit tracker of calls per day vh/h call attainment elearning expense reporting with every name in existence accounted for and general babysitting bullshit. Too bad the company doesn’t know how to track scripts from pharmacies.
Lundbeck rep here.....We are just a puppet to Otsuka and Takeda! We get treated worse. Imagine your worst micromanagement ever. It can't get any worse our side
You people are unbelievable. The pay here is well above average. The box checking is actually a good way to "perform" without the pressure of sales. Just make your calls and spend your money. You could be middle or low-middle in rankings and still retain your job as long as you make the district reach and frequency and budget numbers look good for the reports. Just don't come in last to often. You may be near the top once in a while as the law of averages plays out. Seriously, we get a car, generous salary, a newly increased bonus, great medical benefits, 10% 401K matching, etc. And yet you still complain???? If you honestly work 8-5 every day, rank in the top 20% every year and make less than $110,000 per year and you've been here more than 5 years, yes you may have a case. Go work for yourself or a 100% commission-pay company and you'll be BEGGING for your job back in 6 months. The soft keep getting softer and more insulate.
So true. Entitled ass boomer reps have little memory of what life was like before pharma. This job took me out of poverty. Let the whiners whine, the winners will do their own thing.
Keep telling yourself that... there’s a great big world outside where you can make a shit ton more money, and actually have the ability to do your job without all the Otsuka constraints.
I agree with you 100% There are a bunch of jobs where you can make twice the money and you can set your own rules and monitor your own metrics. Certain device sales and similar jobs within or just outside of our industry. Beyond this there are also many places to make big bucks. However, these jobs hire drivers. They look for hungry ambitious killers. Otsuka specifically and Pharma in general does not seek out nor develops hard closers. We cultivate box checkers and overly regulate to keep us tightly in our compliance lanes. We are not challengers. Challengers get fired.