Alot of companies are in hot water over this. We are working 40 hour weeks. What about all the dinner speaker programs, convention hours etc. Just saying Watson,
MYOPIC MANAGEMENT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What do regional managers really do? For that matter besides approving expense reports, what do managers do? Long answer.....nothing. HR can do hiring and firing. Trainer can help get reps up and going. After that what is there? How many of you have really been influenced or helped by your pharma manager? Its funny. Most of them weren't good sales reps in the first place. This industry is driven by numbers that can't be compared from state to state. There are way to many factors that go into a ranking. Most of which reps can't control. Volume? Territory Size? Economic factors? Insurance? Access? All are different in every territory. So how can you be stack ranked and then given a promotion based on how your territory did versus others. Its a dead model and needs revised. Reps make a difference but as individuals. No need for a manager to eat breakfast talk about numbers he or she has no clue about make 3 calls. Offer no substance in the call. Critique your call, which honestly we do ourselves. Then break for lunch make another call and head home at 2. But yet ask us to get 8 sigs and work 7-5. How many times have you really gotten 16 sigs, not calls while your manager was with you. Don't preach about calls counting becuase we all know you can make 10 calls a week to your top peeps and get as many scripts as if you made 40 and 30 were to waste of time hand your computer off BS sig calls. So I repeat what do our managers and regional managers really do? They aren't making business deals and they aren't marketing. They dont goal set. They approve expenses. Good
From - What do regional managers really do? For that matter besides approving expense reports, what do managers do? Long answer.....nothing. HR can do hiring and firing. Trainer can help get reps up and going. After that what is there? How many of you have really been influenced or helped by your pharma manager? Its funny. Most of them weren't good sales reps in the first place. This industry is driven by numbers that can't be compared from state to state. There are way to many factors that go into a ranking. Most of which reps can't control. Volume? Territory Size? Economic factors? Insurance? Access? All are different in every territory. So how can you be stack ranked and then given a promotion based on how your territory did versus others. Its a dead model and needs revised. Reps make a difference but as individuals. No need for a manager to eat breakfast talk about numbers he or she has no clue about make 3 calls. Offer no substance in the call. Critique your call, which honestly we do ourselves. Then break for lunch make another call and head home at 2. But yet ask us to get 8 sigs and work 7-5. How many times have you really gotten 16 sigs, not calls while your manager was with you. Don't preach about calls counting becuase we all know you can make 10 calls a week to your top peeps and get as many scripts as if you made 40 and 30 were to waste of time hand your computer off BS sig calls. So I repeat what do our managers and regional managers really do? They aren't making business deals and they aren't marketing. They dont goal set. They approve expenses. Good
Hey dummy, then you want an hourly wage, right? Time & a half for anything over 8 hrs? What if you got your wish and the company decided to pay you for only the time you really worked and not for the down time while you drive from office to office (that's not "work", right? Fair, yes). After all you are using a free co.car, co. paid gas, co. auto insurance etc. So let's say you stop in 8 offices a day and spend 20 minutes "working" each office. That's 160 minutes or 2.6 hours of daily "work." Say you make $70k in base. That's roughly $33 per hour (40 hr. wk.). At 2.6 hours that's $85.80 daily. Bottom line is that this is the life you chose. The dinner programs & conventions are a part of that life. Just suck it up and get to work, Momma's boy. Your Daddy should be ashamed that he raised a pussy. Just sayin' wimp.
You must be or 25 or 26 y.o. who thinks the world owes you everything. Overtime for leaving samples at the receptionists window and reading SI while some nurse signs a device? Oh, and then dinner programs at fine dining establishments and conventions in resort areas where, again, you enjoy great food & wine? Overtime? Grow up pussy !!!
Delivery people are lucky to be paid $9.00 an hour. So if you are making more than $18k per year, you may be overpaid. If you are, then better not complain about that lack of overtime pay, because they may be working on paying you what the market bears, not what has been paid historically. You know that Gryphon character! Just sayin'.
