Name your favorite Pfizer Blunder in the last 15 years

Total disaster. Along with Ian pulling out the magic coin.

 

Yeah that was real detrimental you turd.

 

Yes, one of the more recent and most embarrassing examples

 

I was legacy Pfizer and retired years ago. Looking back not only over the last 15, but 41 years now, I'd have to say that overall "yes" Pfizer made some really, really bad management hires that reflected loss of mission. We were more concerned with doing the right things than doing things RIGHT! Classic: Get signatures; forget about face-to-face selling. In my opinion, the biggest blunder was in not creating OPPORTUNITY! There was so much wasted talent sitting on the sidelines who had to sit and watch incompetence play out! Shame on you assholes. You know who you are.

 

Having policies that generated activity and not sales. Allowed some real dithering idiots to rise up thru the management ranks because its all their narrow minded, idiot, ass kissing heads could understand. Pushing calls and sample to detail rations instead of getting behind their people, putting trust in them and leading them.

It went off the tracks right after the Pharmacia acquisition and coincided with the start of the big LOE hammers of Zoloft, Zithromax, Zyrtec, and later Lipitor and Aricept. The company responded by adding more bureaucracy and management layers. Most of which were and still are legally retarded

 

The best descriptor I have for the past 14 years here? Four words: business school case study.

All of us are paying the price for some of the gawd-awful decisions in leadership. Our 1998-2004 arrogance was palpable, resulting in our promotion of sycophants, boot lickers, under-the-table lovers, yes-men, and diversity hires to executive level leadership in sales and marketing. None of that is a real problem when Zytrec and Zoloft and Lipitor and Zithromax Norvasc and Viagra were years from expiry. But as we saw from about 2004 onward, many of our so-called leaders were inept when faced with even small challenges in the market. And so, they got fired by Mr P. Brandt, many of them on the same damned day!

Last question: any one have a KAM that actually earns that $180,000 salary plus bennie package? Someone ought to call the press and alert them that our company has so much fat that we've got a plethora of former managers lollie-gagging on the company payroll, doing very, very, VERY little for their huge comp. packages.

 

Carl Wilbanks.

 

Outside of the current 'real estate is Plan B' discussion, this is the most accurate post I've read on our site in a long time.

 

The KAM Division. My KAM does nothing but sit at her house, forward on emails, and drone ON and ON on conference calls while talking about absolutely NOTHING. Plus she sounds like she has a d!ck in her mouth the whole time. I dont know how they justify paying her what they must be paying her. She was a shitty rep before she was promoted

 

They make north of $170,000!! Their value is negligible. I dare someone to list a real-world best practice case study of their KAM. We all just ignore ours, which suits him just fine.

 

Un Fucking Believable. Our KAM is more worthless than a screen door on a submarine. She doesn't do shit

 

Finally he is not long for this company. What a waste of money, time and space.

 

Are you kidding me? Why is Merson still working at Pfizer? Or anywhere?

This is why I invest my nut outside of pharma.

 

Jana Krakow

 

I got caught posting on CP from a browser hijacked by HR
and IT You're next !
I work in IT and can confidently say that there are no such filter on Cafepharma.

 

Which one exactly?

 

Pfizer ONCOLOGY

 

YES - Parke-Davis being bought by Pfizer was the worst blunder everrrrr - for Parke-Davis that is.

 

Without a doubt- Reverend Merson.

 

Sadly true. Pfizer created an entire generation of leadership who had very little talent or vision, not just in R&D but across the corporation. It even happened in the corner office in NYC HQ - McKinnel and Kindler were the examples. Of the 80 billion profit we made from lipitor over one-half of that was wasted - completely wasted. And there was nothing we could do about it. We were forced to watch a lethal mixture of ignorance and arrogance in Pfizer leadership damage so many people and communities. Will we ever feel good about Pfizer? I don't think so.