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<p>[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 4123227"]I wish I could paint you a rosy picture of working for Patterson as a rookie rep...but it just is not possible. My experience there was lousy. It was the worst sales job that I have ever had...and Ive been in sales since the late 90s and have done quite well. Accepting that position based on the lies that the branch manager told me in our interviews, was my biggest career mistake to date. This is why I am here posting, and others apparently are doing the same because their posts here echo mine in nearly every way. If I can help some people like you, make a more informed decision based on true info that unfortunately I did not have during my interview process...then I feel better that I can help others.</p><p><br /></p><p>Its not just about "busting your butt". You will have to work 8-5 every day...but then add in a night or two a week doing events for Cerec, and other presentations with manufacturers reps or alone... also factor in dental society meetings (snooze) that you will be assigned to and forced to work... as a rookie rep, you are controlled by the branch manager and you have no say in these assignments...you do them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Youd better be darned sure that you want to work for that branch manager because you will be at his/her beck and call and under their thumb for at least the first 3 years....you will need to kiss a-- repeatedly... the 2 branch managers that were at the branch that I worked in during my time, were both clueless arrogant douches, who sat in their little office all day giving orders without having a real feel for what was happening in the field... youd better love that person or it will add to your misery.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only good thing that I got out of that patterson experience was that training in Minn. was sort of fun because we had a really really great group of other reps and I met some cool people and we had fun as a group....the "training" was rudimentary bunk but the people in our group were great. The CEO came in and told us that most of us would not be there in a couple of years and if we were, hed take us all on a trip anywhere in the world... but to that date, no group had ever won his offer...the churn is so high...and they know it at corporate. You are a number to them, and in your branch. The backbiting and internal issues at my branch were significant and made it very unpleasant to work at... one huge disfunctional "family" ...if you can call it that...and if your branch is anything like mine with the idiots running it...you will hate this job... so be sure that you get to meet everyone before you take that job and are comfortable with them. good luck.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 4123227"]I wish I could paint you a rosy picture of working for Patterson as a rookie rep...but it just is not possible. My experience there was lousy. It was the worst sales job that I have ever had...and Ive been in sales since the late 90s and have done quite well. Accepting that position based on the lies that the branch manager told me in our interviews, was my biggest career mistake to date. This is why I am here posting, and others apparently are doing the same because their posts here echo mine in nearly every way. If I can help some people like you, make a more informed decision based on true info that unfortunately I did not have during my interview process...then I feel better that I can help others. Its not just about "busting your butt". You will have to work 8-5 every day...but then add in a night or two a week doing events for Cerec, and other presentations with manufacturers reps or alone... also factor in dental society meetings (snooze) that you will be assigned to and forced to work... as a rookie rep, you are controlled by the branch manager and you have no say in these assignments...you do them. Youd better be darned sure that you want to work for that branch manager because you will be at his/her beck and call and under their thumb for at least the first 3 years....you will need to kiss a-- repeatedly... the 2 branch managers that were at the branch that I worked in during my time, were both clueless arrogant douches, who sat in their little office all day giving orders without having a real feel for what was happening in the field... youd better love that person or it will add to your misery. The only good thing that I got out of that patterson experience was that training in Minn. was sort of fun because we had a really really great group of other reps and I met some cool people and we had fun as a group....the "training" was rudimentary bunk but the people in our group were great. The CEO came in and told us that most of us would not be there in a couple of years and if we were, hed take us all on a trip anywhere in the world... but to that date, no group had ever won his offer...the churn is so high...and they know it at corporate. You are a number to them, and in your branch. The backbiting and internal issues at my branch were significant and made it very unpleasant to work at... one huge disfunctional "family" ...if you can call it that...and if your branch is anything like mine with the idiots running it...you will hate this job... so be sure that you get to meet everyone before you take that job and are comfortable with them. good luck.[/QUOTE]
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