Vic had different strategic vision with the new global President Blackborn hired in the Spring who has a background in primary care in socialize medicine countries. Thus Vic started looking months ago & has something in biotech lined up. The dog drug you referenced , Eucrisa , was not Vics call (he actually was only a VP of Sales when that product/company was overpaid for. Angela Wong made the poor decision to buy that drug! In 18 months Xeljanz went from one of the best divisions to work in and place to be with Pfizer , to the worse place to be. Primary Care is better than I&I now. New leadership, micro managed, activity base, self interest culture the last year. Perfect Cambridge Business case study on how to quickly crash/blowup a great culture and business. Doubling the size with primary care hires when it was not needed was the start of the crumbling last year and its just accelerated since.
So true about I&I being a sucky place to work. Micro management and too many Primary Care personnel polluting what used to be a great culture and place to work in Pfizer. I blamed the downward slide on Vic but perhaps it wasn't his fault. Although he did hire two RBDs with the primary care mindset. They make Ed look almost sane. Now, they roll out these asinine "Minimum District Sales Operating Standards". What a bunch of morons. First of all, telling us driving time doesn't count as "in territory time". "Just like a colleague who works in an office." Get your head out of your ass - this is a field sales job. It's not like an office job in the first place. And these morons think I should do all of my administrative tasks on my own time - not gonna happen. If it is a requirement of the job and it can be done during regular business hours - I am going to do it during regular business hours. You pay us a salary because we have to work nights and weekends sometimes due to Centris programs or conventions or we have a sales meeting. Just because you pay us a salary and it is a sales job doesn't mean the only thing we do between 8-5 is call on doctors. Calling on HCPs is only ONE of the things we do between 8-5. So much for the new corporate value - JOY. I don't know who made the call to roll out these standards or put them together - but you really missed the mark. Get out of the 90s.
They are setting themselves up for another run at an overtime lawsuit. Idiots who do office work and are jealous of the inherent freedom that an outside sales job carries. Anyone who does this job right should be able to get most everything done during work hours and still pick up the dry cleaning. No way I’m doing my expense report after hours. Or training for that matter. Or meeting prep. For many long years drive time is and was part of the job. Some days are hundreds of miles especially out west. Assignments to territory’s a hundred miles away. Rare is the office that will receive you at 8:00 without donuts and coffee. They’ll gladly take that but it won’t extend your time with the doc.i say push back, say no!
give us a break, read any board for any Pharma company, Pharma "sales" reps are like part-time workers with the few hours they put in...next you will try to convince us that politicians are honest
We are not part time workers. Let's see - I know many colleagues who worked a weekend convention, had to fly to a 3 day sales meeting out of town and have the work the next two weekends at two more conventions. We bring in the revenue and we are stuck in traffic multiple hours a day - every day. I wish my job was 8-5 with overtime for nights and weekends. I think I would take home a lot more money. Time for Pfizer sales reps to join a union.
Idiot. Let them make useless demands and impress their bosses. You do what you do. Shut your trap and everyone is happy. This is how it "works" at Pfizer. You rock that sinking boat, you get rocked right out. You can't fix it so just outsmart it. Let the incompetent socialists in charge run it into the ground. Or leave. Bitching on here only gives them more fuel to screw with you.
I&I derm division is the worst. MB in the West is an idiot who never won anything and now he thinks he’s hot shit! No vision just assign task after task. Never met such a condescending asshole in my life. He doesn’t even interact with the HCP’s well. If it hadn’t been for TW this fool would still be running around talking about Eucrisa is cheaper than Skittles at every POA.
MB is bad, and so are countless others. Vic did not leave of his own accord, he has nothing lined up. Vic was let go due to purchase of Eucrisa, prior sales leadership being let go, and ultimately awful numbers. You are right about Angela, she should be gone too, but she kept her spot for same reason TW and MB have theirs and Vic does not. White privilege.
