Predictions

You don’t think the company knows what we do every day? Value? Yeah, feed the office cows, and dump samples. Then drive around to make the mileage metric, and then home, gym, golf, shopping, etc. C’mon man, get real. It’s a paycheck and benes.

 

Bingo!

 

Never heard of the mileage metric

 

If your're not showing enough mileage on your car it's usually an indication of someone not leaving the house. Call it what you want. Not part of a bonus but just another way to check on you ( if they want to). Probably will only come up if your numbers suck and they think your not working.

 

I would love to see the mileage for the PASs and VASs! Talk about bringing value...........

 

In theory, their positions could bring phenomenal ROI. I just question whether they can truly be effective at effectuating their goals. It also appears, within my own knowledge, many were promoted to those positions due to favoritism, and not for good reasons.
Let's see if they actually bring in the doses without the reps doing their work for them.

 

I predict Ian Read will be chased out and replaced by another leftist/socialist European. Then the new dictator will purge the good leaders and promote all of his friends to those great positions. Also create new titles to hook up his external comrades to give them jobs here.

I hope I'm wrong, but somehow the Marxists are so predictable.

Let me know if I get it right, or more accurately, LEFT.

 

Nuts? What do you think now? If you are a squirrel I hope you have some nuts saved up.

 

My buddy who is a PAS hardly interacts with customers face to face. It annoys me how easy they have it considering they were promoted. That said they will be the first cut because I still have not heard a good explanation for what they actually do. I am just upset I missed the retirement number by 3 years! Congrats to those who can bow out gracefully.

 

Middle management is who will take the hit- it was basically spelled out in the HR email today. Looks they are offering an AMAZING package to those relatively near retirement to do so early. Not sure why everyone you'd say Cluster 1-- who currently has Cologuard, Eucrisa, Embeda, Lyrica, Flector, Chantix, Toviaz and Xtandi. A single DM is responsible for 8 brands-- and various specialists for each. There is also an RM, VP and up the ladder in place. Meanwhile... I&I. They have 1 product. Why are we paying 2 people in a given geography to do the same thing - two DM's, two RM's, two VP's. It is a complete waste of resources, not to mention, Eucrisa is an incredible drug. But when you have teams silo'd and a model not set up for them to work in conjunction with each other, you really limit your ability to grow a brand across all specialities. No doubt I&I reps are specific to Derm's Peds and Allergists... but there is no magic to calling on any specialty. The rationale to have a DM RM etc doing what a C1 DM RM is already doing is so redundant and a waste of money...

Meanwhile the poor xtandi, toviaz, lyrica, and soon to be chantix bag reps in C1 have to feel like they are on an island. They need to merge C1 and I&I. and make a new branch that encompasses C1 (xtandi etc rep)- with C3 rep who only has Lyrica/Cologuard/Chantix

 

I don’t know who your a PAS friend is but I’ve driven 40k miles in 10 months conducting in services/ district presentations/ education plans with regional managers and the list goes on with all of the Big 4 retailers. My dad died with pneumonia....yes I’m passionate about it! I’ve been with this company 30 years in over 10 different roles, US Army officer, served my country, had friends die. Personally saw over 4K killed in one day (the other team). Driven hundreds of thousands of miles in 30 years and I will get up tomorrow morning and do it again. Yes, the money and benefits are great but money and material possessions will never trump my Pfizer Family, would do anything for them anytime of the day or night-even after my tenure is over here. You are welcome, by the way, for the freedom you have that my friends sacrificed their lives for.

 

Management should take the biggest hit, esp middle management. Referencing what you have written here, being responsible for so many products and specialties, the newsflash is that Lyrica is going off, Flector is going off, Embeda is going off, and the rest of the products don't add up to much in terms of revenue. It will be a business decision. There is no pipeline in primary care. Some offices out there have had 2 cluster 1 reps, 2 cluster 2 reps, a cluster 3 rep, vaccines rep. overkill, much? Meanwhile, the DM's go around to the same offices over and over again, offering nothing, seeing the same customers. The span of control could be doubled, tripled. And the DM's have an RM, who has a RBD, who has...on and on.

 

No way. The package isn't that great. Maybe some upper management will take it but I do not foresee many reps taking it.

 

Let’s not forget our new CEO was a bean counter... A former CFO. My prediction is he will cut big based on having more of a financial background and not a sales background. Bottom line is always top of mind.

 

Why wouldn’t a rep take the Verp if offered? Guaranteed full retirement and not have the uncertainty of the next few years. You would be a fool not to take it. We have never offered this package in the 20 years I’ve been with Pfizer.

Why wouldn’t a rep take the volunteer separation if not vested? This is a great economy right now. 180 degrees different than the 09 bloodbath.
So many smaller companies hiring right now and looking for people who don’t have to have their hands held.

You look at those emails from Sr. Leadership.
A lot of open spaces and the “so and so decided to retire”. They took the package...hello!

 

There seems to be some confusion on whether this package is offered to managers only or also to include reps. Does anyone have concrete intelligence here or just opinions?

 

Time to warm up the network. Found one in Princeton Nov9th on eventbrite. Even got approval to expense it! Least they can do before phone calls and competing with my team.