Are you kidding me? Did anyone else feel like Ian played cut and paste from 17 different websites to build his 24 page email on the virus. Make a decision Ian. Your email was to make up for the lack of communication on this. Companies in the area have all said work from home. As usual this company is full of spineless, indecisive leaders that are behind the eight ball. You should be ashamed of yourself for that email. We should be working from home. End of story. You live God knows where so probably don’t care about what’s happening here. I hope no one gets sick or worse on your watch because you didn’t have the balls to just make the right decision and not send a wish washy email. The lack of leadership at this place continues. Disgusting.
This will hurt the morals of the employees. The manager is the fall guy/gal for the decision that he/she makes? The virus is bigger than any individual manager. Look at the f’n map and decide from there. It is not that hard to reduce risk based on data. The CDC is giving everyone a daily “trigger” report on the virus spread. Pay attention to it and tell some people to stay home if it is a hot zone.
OP. No the issue is complicated. Yes, he can say everyone stay home, business stops because there is a virus. Problem is when business stops, people lose jobs/income and that’s what leads to financial panic that can be far worse than a virus with 3.4% mortality rate.
All work would not stop. Most jobs can be done from home outside of representatives. Who by the way are getting locked out of most places anyway. And the access for reps is getting worse by the day. Conferences are all getting cancelled. Schools are closing. Companies are saying work from home. I agree with the OP. Ian’s email was horrible and late to the game. Ian acknowledged there is an issue and that MNK is basically not doing anything about it other than saying talk to you manager. That is a weak leader if there ever was one.
It’s just called delegation. So he said local manager can make the decision and people can and probably should work from home when possible (did you even read the memo?) If your local manager is so weak and spineless they can’t make the call then they shouldn’t be in a leadership position. If you’re the manager and can’t shoulder the burden then shame on you....you lack courage. I’m not a fan of Ian or that department frankly, but in this case he made the right call. We don’t need micromanagement from inside HQ. We need people who will empower others to act. Perhaps you’re just so mindless and meek that you need to be told what to do from someone at the top.
Used to work at Mally and went back to my health care job. Came back here to see what was happening. I’m my area of the country, it is not a hot bed. No cases reported yet in my county. However, almost all physician offices are banning reps and lunches. The hospital has banned all vendors and reps. What can a pharma rep do from home that will take longer than a few days? I can imagine doing research, digging into numbers, writing some reports for your manager.....but after that what do you do?
It’s called being a pussy on Ian’s part. VPs are making calls on their own. He is a pussy. And it sounds worse with that dumb childish Harry Potter accent he has. And Ian get some pants from the 2020s. You dress like a douche too
VP’s asked him to do that and he listened to them even though he knew he would draw fire. He may be a pussy and probably is but this decision not an example. The real pussies are following the herd like all the other companies because they’re afraid to be different or stick their necks out.
Mallinckrodt is a shit company with shit leadership. Is anyone surprised at Ian's message? It's hard to believe that people willingly work at Mallinckrodt
Not if you're one of the 3.4%. And hospitals and physician offices are banning unnecessary visitors (meaning YOU, reps). It should be easy for managers to assign busy work. One month or so out of the field won't even make a difference to you or your customers.
They are going to let go 30-40% of the field as it stands. And probably the same internally. Way too many reps and too many redundancies internally. So fuck them. They managed this business poorly and how those leadership people all kept their jobs is beyond me. New name same leadership equals same result
