IS is next

Discussion in 'Pfizer' started by Anonymous, Sep 9, 2014 at 10:01 PM.

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  1. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    The IS rep in my territory had the nerve to call me today after not speaking to her in a year... Had the guts to say that she is sorry to hear about the cuts. She said she thought it was going to be her and she is "blessed" that it is not.
    I have no words to say how angry I was.
    You are next- mark my words.
     

  2. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    OMG...what nerve and what a horrible person she was to call you! IS may be next, but every one of those reps won't have as tough of a time most of the PC reps will have finding a job as hospital selling experience is valued in the marketplace now. It is 10x harder trying to influence in that space compared to dropping samples and other companies understand this.
     
  3. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    What nerve to express her regrets that the jobs of her fellow colleagues are at risk. Get over yourself d'bag. Take your anger out someplace else...or then again...just get over yourself and stop hating on IS.
     
  4. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    Thanks for the encouragement. Now I see that all these reps have no respect.
     
  5. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    Yes, yes, your skill set is SOOOOO in demand... Your pole-dancing skills maybe...

    "Influence in that space..." don't choke on your DM's scaling when you say that... F-ing tool...
     
  6. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    "scaling" = "schlong"

    Goddamn autocorrect BS...
     
  7. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    Worthless division
     
  8. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    I hate the fact that I go to my cardiology offices and they bitch how both IS and BMS IS are always trying to get into the offices because they are shut out of the hospitals. They provide nothing of value and piss off the doctors and staff.
     
  9. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    Don't hate just because you are being trumped! :0
     
  10. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    My details and sales aids are of value. Home office even says so.
     
  11. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    How bout stay in your lane douchebag.
     
  12. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    "Please sign here"..."please don't forget about product X"..."thats ok, I just need a sig to leave the samples"..."yes but with this co-pay card for pts with this insurance we are the same price"

    pretty much all you need to know and all that is really said as a Primary Care rep...

    you just simply don't get it...selling primary care drugs in the hospital is not the same as being a hospital rep selling specialty drugs (antibiotics, antifungals, vaccines, etc).
    Have heard it too many times from some of these promoted PC managers that they worked the hospitals...just dumb. Try selling that to another company when you tell them you worked in the hospital selling celebrex, detrol, viagra, lipitor, etc....
     
  13. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    Are the IS reps supposed work outside of their institutions? I've had access blocked several times because they're calling on, and sampling, my clinics. Access is bad enough without them.
     
  14. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    There day is coming
     
  15. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    Are you that clueless that you don't communicate with someone in your territory? Don't you speak with your is rep?
     
  16. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    I dint understand what they do if they are supposedly such experts in the hospital but do not have enough relationships to ask their customers to introduce them to the cardiologists??? The fact that they have to go to the offices show no additional skill set than what we have.
    If all that experience with all the Hospitalists, surgeons, nurses, case mamagers, ICU... No one can introduce u to a cardiologist?? Since IS is going to be powered by Eliquis shows that they don't need the supposed skill set they claim to have.
    December 2014
     
  17. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    IS cant sample anything because they have no samples. Every fool in mgmt. in this company is just trying to keep enough head count to justify the layers of mgmt. Less reps. less need for mgmt. Every fool in the company knows how hospitals have been closing access more every year. We only need 3-4 reps selling this drug. 1 Pfizer PC rep, 1 BMS PC rep, and 1 hospital rep. who understands the process of patient/protocol flow and has committee contacts in the hospital space. 2 week rotation at the most for the PC reps (cuz doctors don't want to see you every week). We never would have bothered a doctor every week back in the day. It is self destructive. But these morons think nothing of have 7,8,9 reps calling on the sample physicians. Its about all the layers of upper mgmt. job preservation people. What do we really need most of them for anyway. Most have never sold a drug.
     
  18. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    " your " cardiology offices? You own them? Work there? Wow what a warped sense of entitlement.. The office staff has no clue what a IS rep is or BMS or pfizer specialty.. We are all just another rep in their eyes could care less.. Get over yourself .. As long as the clueless managemnet holds IS reps to the same call metrics as specialty than IS will continue to go to the offices.
     
  19. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    You are so right about call frequency. When I first started in Pharma I had a 4 or 6 week route and was responsible for pretty much the whole line. Called on every specialty(and hospitals) and detailed the product that was specific to them. The evolving of specialty reps, reach and frequency, pods, hiring cheerleaders as reps,paying off doctors, etc, ruined the industry. It's a shame, because it was such a great career and has now turned to sh*t. Can you really blame the revolt against us by physicians, insurance companies, government and the general public? We are our own worst enemy. The shame of it is that Pharma does so much in regards to treating and preventing diseases which has lead to prolonged life expectancies. The unfortunate side effect to that is things like Alzheimers and dementia which is pretty fu**ed up (if you happen to be unlucky enough to know someone who had/has it, you know what I mean). Pharma is probably the only shot we have to a cure or prevention (I have absolutely no faith in the government / NIH finding anything). Hopefully there will be enough companies around doing research to cure it. Sorry for the rant but anyone around long enough knows it's true.
     
  20. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    This reply is spot on! Been in industry 21 years and have seen it kill its self by all of these moronic VPs who needed to have the biggest sales force. Did not matter who they hired. I need 10 pods calling on one doctor now!