Never been fired in my life, jerk off. Just commenting that as a true sales professional, take being let go during a necessary downsizing with dignity. Your reputation follows you. Whining and whinging gets you no where. Radie and his cronies are no better or worse than other self serving Pharma managers. He gets paid $2.5 million and if he can get away with it, good luck to him. Its called Capitalism. Grow up and grow a set. You come off as pathetic.
Let's recap - your suggestion was to wait out your days working away for your employer until the day comes when you're asked to get on a last minute 8am teleconference to be notified that you no longer have a job. And since no one has been formally employed by Egalet for more than 1 year, there will be no severance.
This dude's suggestion was to trust your judgement and proactively be looking for other opportunities that benefit yourself professionally and financially instead of riding the apathy bus until it finally results in the company deciding and controling who, what, when, where and how the outcome of your employment situation will take place.
Which one sounds more capitalist to you? Probably the one where the person takes their marketable skills to another company who will pay fair market value for what they believe that skill set and experience is worth.
3rd pharma job? 1) Contract rep jobs are not real pharma jobs buddy. 2) Pharma, even big pharma, takes care of their top producers. They FIND places to put them. Pharma knows that in general 80% of their business is driven by 20% of the sales team. Fired/let go/contract ended. Same shit my friend.
It's easier to find another job while you still have one. If you wait until you're let go any HR recruiter will tell you it brings on a whole separate set of questions that (why are you unemployed? Were you reaaaallly let go as part of a downsizing or were you actually fired and trying to spin it? Why were you part of the group that was let go? Why did they keep someone else instead of you?) For legal liability reasons they can't ask most of these questions. So recruiters assume the worst and sort your resume into the "NOPE" pile. Instead of having to explain for all of those things when pitching you as a candidate to a hiring manager - they can just as easily find a qualified candidate that is employed somewhere else and eliminate the need to explain away the unemployment.
Just go look for another job. Don't "take the severance check and go quietly." You will regret it.