West Coast PC Rep Exodus

Just heard lots of good AZ reps have left or leaving from the LA region. Is that true? Why? Where they going? Insights, Please.

 

"good AZ reps". LOL. That is a contradiction in terms. Bunch of whiny, vastly over paid sample jockeys, nothing else.

 

Thanks for describing your own personality. But I think you misunderstood the OP's message. The non-whiny, useful, productive reps that actually went out and worked for a living, and yes few of them have left AZ recently. Not sure where they went. Most left from Burbank District and couple from LA district.

 

Thanks for a sensible answer and great comeback to the previous knucklehead.

 

I heard one rep went to Amgen, and couple of strong reps from the Burbank team went outside of pharma industry in management roles. Well, good for them. This is a dying industry, if you can get a chance, get out,

 

Yeah - But who is hiring and paying the kind of salaries and benefits we get at Pharma? I recently applied at a leading Med Device comapny and they told me they do NOT consider Pharma reps for med device positions. They consider pharma folks "soft at selling". That is a tough fact to swallow.....

 

Who the fuck cares if you all left the LA teams. You can't see any Docs anyway so we can just use UPS to deliver and get sigs for samples.

 

It has been this way for forty years. The device gig makes real estate agents look like Saints.

The money is no longer there with the rest of the industry. In pharma you can grind all day and not see a doctor and still receive a payroll check. In device, it is see the doctor-sell the doctor or starve.

I could take the ulcers, insomnia, runs and future divorce for 300,000 annually, but for 120 k it's just not worth it. Personally, I never got the whole D-1 athlete device rep, bad ass story. They reminded me of the typical used car salesman.

 

Are you saying swag is out?

 

Great post! I agree, it's just not worth it for $120,00 per year. I make $110,000 base plus bonus at AZ and I can sleep at night. I am like you, I work, I grind, I see some Doctors and some I don't, but I still get a paycheck twice a month!

 

You my friend are totally misinformed or disillusioned. We access and see physicians no less than anywhere else. If you are a part of LA region, that is a shame. It must be your personality that can't let you into the offices. Yes, we have lost some good folks recently, and that is a demoralizing fact.

 

All the clowns that left that area were a bunch of fuck ups, whiners and buttfuckers. Good riddance losers!

 

I love to hear about top talent in the rep world. What exactly is top talent today?

 

My definition would be: Reps that don't kiss ass of higher ups to get ahead, able to garner the liking and respect from their key customers and peers based on their professionalism, are able to engage customers in thought provoking clinical discussions and and are effective in closing the call and gaining the commitments for use of the promoted products - they are the true heroes among the Pack. And these are the individuals that get ahead ON THEIR OWN without kissing asses. they get contacted by recruiters and hired by other professionals companies.

 

LOL

 

Maybe at Fantasy Island. What company are you workin' for?

 

I'm in San Francisco and we are leaving too.

 

Well then Good Luck to you. Have a nice life!

 

Nope my friend - It reality does happen. I know some of the people that left AZ recently from LA region and most of them were not ass kissers. Probably that's why they chose to leave this place.

 

Who left from the LA Region? could someone provide some insights/initials please... Just curious.