If you are affected - Promptly seek a lawyer and document now

The part that sucks is that if you get displaced and have been here 1-2 years you basically get only a few months severance. Hiring this team and then deciding they want to transform a short time later - displacing these same folks with a few months severance pay is negligent.

GNE needs to step up and address this. Enhance the severance package across the board.

Also I love how the same leadership that got is in this situation are now self-righteously leading the transformation charge.

They ought to be among the first "transformed" out of a job.

 

Drop any thoughts of a legal challenge to this downsizing. If you think the company hired guns haven’t been consulted on every possible scenario for this becoming a legal issue, you’re mistaken. The situation sucks but it is what it is. Take control of your future as you thought you were when you came on board with Genentech. All companies have issues

 

Why should they get more???? As a Roche shareholder, I want this company ran lean as possible. The cats out the bag on what sales reps do on a daily basis. They make no difference on the bottom line whatsoever!

 

Please do everyone a favor and walk out to oncoming traffic and go to hell where you belong. Karma is a huge bitch and trust me, you will get yours. You’re a spiteful, sick person that I’m quite sure no one likes and laughs at after you’ve left the room. Now go away.

 

Keep the emotions out of it. Does your contract say “At Will Employee” or is it guaranteed like a Hockey Player?

 

Move along, Troll. You don't work here and never will.

 

That elitist attitude is the reason shareholders want your ass gone!!!!!

 

Not a troll at all. I've been here quite a long time myself. The point is........You do not have any legal recourse, because they are making cuts. This is not age, race, sexual discrimination. It's a Re-Org, plain and simple. If you choose to believe that if you get cut, you will be joining a "class action suit" then you are either naive or dumb. Focus your energy on Career Labs, what jobs are open in your geography and making sure you have the support of your manager.

 

None of your neighbors will feel sorry that you only got $60k in severance pay. Get a grip on the real world

 

The troll can't help him/herself. Who hired this freak?

 

AVB sends her condolences from Sweden. She said not to take it personal because you are like family. It’s just business. Those affected will be taken good care by Genentech, she assures you.

 

You may be a shareholder but it is clear you have no understanding of the industry in the US. As someone who has worked in the industry for over 20 years and I have also lived with MS for 18 years let me fill you in on some things. MS specialists don’t need reps for info but they do need all the patient support that drug companies provide, helping patients and their offices navigate insurance and sites of care. As for MDs that are not MS specialists they are clueless. I’ve seen many, and have been forced to travel 5 hours to see a good neurologist. This is where sales reps can thrive helping lazy physicians get educated on new products. This helps patients have better access to care so they don’t have to travel hours and hours to see a good doctor.

 

Oh, you’re one of those drug reps who think they know more than a MD who went to school for years?!!! More cuts please!!!!

 

Sorry not a drug rep, I said I worked in the industry for 20+ years. I also said I was a patient, who has sat across from specialists, neurologists, that I knew 10 times more about MS than they do. I have had my neurologist pass me off to a medical assistant (just to let you know that is a 2 year degree at a community college) to do my assessment and they knew next to nothing about MS. I have had physicians just want to switch me from one drug to another, that are in the same class, while better medications were available. When I finally saw an MS specialist they were disgusted with what the physicians I was seeing were recommending, and I was seeing board certified neurologists. More cuts does not equal more profits. I do agree that sales forces need to be sized appropriately, and that Genentech hired too many people for this product.

By the way I know 10 times the doctors that you do, and most want good reps, just not too many of them.

Finally, while not an MD, I did go to medical school. You stupid troll.

 

You dont know jack shit !

 

Agreed. What a sick person. Spends his life on here so can’t be possibly working or contributing in society. Just an as*hole trying their best to spread to spread misery from their miserable, pathetic life.

 

You folks are so entertaining to read. It’s a shame the entire lot of you aren’t cut.

 

Entitled & Idiotic

The only thing worse than an arrogant Drug Rep who thinks the world owes them...
FREAKIN’ SCUMBAG LAWYERS!

 

Face it folks, this is the new Genentech and it isn’t our big brother’s Genentech. We will be micro managed by DM’s and RSDs who will be calling to ride with you more than once a quarter, try every 3-4 weeks minimum. Big pharma has permeated all corners of this outfit and there is no turning back. Be prepared for your manager to demand loyalty to the company and your brand - which means you’ll be asking for all appropriate patients in each call - you will need to actually sell.

 

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