Favorite Alza memory

Alza was great..what ever happened to joe woodrow? i dont know the other names from this post but that guy was classic...a dream boss they say

 

He is a district manager for Ortho McNeil in New Jersey.

 

My commision checks!

 

Getting laid at national meetings.

 

My favorite Alza memory was banging Brooke Breckenridge at every meeting!!

 

I really hate to post after those knuckleheads, but I will.

For those who attended the Manager's Meeting in Summitt, NJ shortly after Sept 11th and participated in the Pumpkin carving: I will never forget the entire group (of Alzans) spontaneously breaking into "God Bless America" when Michigan Mike Miller held up his American Flag Pumpkin. The OMP people in the room looked at us like we had three heads.

 

Met my husband...in Dallas, TX he was the hottest guy there. Their were quite the hook ups- Chantelle Roach BI< BI< swinger! Kimberly from Michigan and some guy (he was fired) taking thier underwear off in that sports bar at the hotel. Someone jumped into the sludge river thing during our game night outside at the hotel.

the fact that people would take thier doctors to strip clubs...hooters...you name it! That National Speaker for us who used to LOVE being w/ the blonde reps....seriously sexually harrassing them all! He was from Harvard!

Remember the Alzans movie that Dave played for us before we were sold out to the shittiest organization known to mankind...omp

I loved Dave! I miss the passion, conviction, and motivation I had working for such a great company...I thought I would be great but these memories are some of the best in my professional and personal life ....Thank you ALZA!

 

Kicking Pharmacia's ass: I remember the Detrol rep bought one of my Uros a palm pilot when they were all the rage. Oh, he rubbed it in my face. With his birthday coming up, I bought him my own version of a "palm pilot"... a glorious PENIS PUMP! I had it gift wrapped and everything. He howled when he got it. It was like taking candy from a baby from there on out!

 

I enjoyed watching Dave P. and Bob G. doing karaoke. That was funny.

 

Better yet - - - going down on each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

 

Making money.

 

yup. my favorite ALZA memory was when a company actually motivated me instead of bringing me down.

OH YEAH and the bonus checks!

 

Bill Slayback is a rep for Reliant in L.A. selling Omacor. He wrote and performed a song about fish oil!

 

alza memory, ok i'll give you several.

i was an origianl alza rep in the mid-1970's. i'd been in pharma 5 years then and answered the alza call. we sold ocusert and the progestasert & had big dreams and even bigger territories. mine was all of mich except metro-detroit and the u.p.

that all lasted a couple of years and was ended while head mgt. was still assuring us we had nothing but support from the board and a.z. (he was ceo then ... actually attended our nat. meetings ... which, i assure you, were not @ the hotel del in s.d.). this is of course was many years before e-mail, cell phones, j&J, cafephara, etc. then one week we all started getting our termination notices by usm. we learned alza would con't as a reasearch operation only providing delivery system to big pharma and thus have no need of a field force. if memory serves we got a couple months salary and health insurance. i remember their '76 cutlass sat at the end of my drive for 4 months before a carrier came to get it. it was covered in 12" of snow and the bat was dead. he chained it to his car hauler, pulled it out to the road and dragged it onto his trailer and that's the last contact i ever had w/alza 'til i saw this post.

we were all from pharma companies most of you haven't heard of. merrill-national, marion, ortho, usv. eaton, bw, and skf. i remember smoking was absolutly the norm during meetings. the audience smoked, the speaker smoked, rep & doc often smoked during details. company cars had a.m. only radios w/crank windows and no cruise control.

i'm still a pharma rep to this day.

 

What company do you work for today? Boy,did you miss out. I started with Alza in 1997,the second new hire wave. At that time there were about 75 reps. Alza was then acquired by J&J in 2001 with about 450 reps. All were rolled over into OMP. In my four solid years,I made a ton of money. The company had the best bonus program in the country and low turnover. I averaged about $30,000 a year as a Urology specialist. It's to bad you missed the ride. You will never hear anyone talk badly about those days. Thanks for being a pioneer with Alza. Remember the Titans!

 

As someone who came on in 1994, I always felt a little odd calling myself an original alzan. John Satter, along with a few others, told the story about the true original reps. Zaffaroni addressed our training class. If my memory is accurate, Ciba-Geigy bought out Alza and ran it as a discovery unit until Alza eventually bought back it's independence. Anyway, great to hear from a True original alzan.

 

the orig. (mid-70's) alza rep again, call me alza/one

yes, c-g did buy a big hunck of alza in the mid-70's just as the orig field force was being disbanded. they bgt. about 1/2 the alza shares as i recall and sometime in eighties alza bgt its equity back.

don't think i'll i.d. my present pharma employer, don't like the idea of providing identifiers over the www.

alza was a good ride, even for we who were there in the 70's. however, can you believe total income in pharma then, inc. bonus .. for a top producer ... was only about 25-27k. real $ in pharma sales didn't come 'til rx's could be measured on a 'by rep/by doc' basis + the mandated doc/sig for samples in the early 80's. typical pharma initial training classes lasted only 2 weeks in the 70's and early 80's and many firms didn't send you to h.o. training 'til you'd survived 3-6 months in the field. idea then was 'don't spend the training dept's budget on someone 'til they'd proved to be worthy'.

 

I agree.

 

I miss da money.

 

AMEN!!!!