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One less position to apply for.
If you were thinking about switching to another pharma company, you need to kick yourself in the backside. The business model has been outdated for 5 years. But come 2017, those few full timers that are left will look back on 2014 as the glory days.
Doesn't everyone see what's coming? Ramping up of e-detailing, e-marketing, apps for samples (after watching e-details), combined new and tightened restrictions on rep access is all I read about. Its like some of our customers have been waiting for this day for decades! I came over from a big competitor after their last bloodletting. Health plans could not WAIT to bust our stones over our biggest drug's lost patent. We had gouged them so badly ("premium product, premium price!") for 15 years that they couldn't wait for payback. And thats exactly how it was told to me, again and again.
We are like the dinosaurs watching that asteroid hurtle down from space….you can run, but you can't hide! We full timers are 2 years from being completely obsolete, max.
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The barn door's been open now for long time regarding layoffs, now the herd mentality as finally taken hold and making cuts is now seen as a good thing (since all the other guys are doing it)
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Remember VCRs? Everyone had one or two and then within a few years you couldn't find one for sale in a department store. The same thing happened with 8 track tape players and cassettes in cars.If you were thinking about switching to another pharma company, you need to kick yourself in the backside. The business model has been outdated for 5 years. But come 2017, those few full timers that are left will look back on 2014 as the glory days.
Doesn't everyone see what's coming? Ramping up of e-detailing, e-marketing, apps for samples (after watching e-details), combined new and tightened restrictions on rep access is all I read about. Its like some of our customers have been waiting for this day for decades! I came over from a big competitor after their last bloodletting. Health plans could not WAIT to bust our stones over our biggest drug's lost patent. We had gouged them so badly ("premium product, premium price!") for 15 years that they couldn't wait for payback. And thats exactly how it was told to me, again and again.
We are like the dinosaurs watching that asteroid hurtle down from space….you can run, but you can't hide! We full timers are 2 years from being completely obsolete, max.
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Pfizers sales force in UK is mostly contract. That is also going to be the norm. Especially for product launches. Established products will be sample send via web or by sample reps that do not talk product and make about 30k a year. Plenty of college grads jump on this opportunity.
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Pfizers sales force in UK is mostly contract. That is also going to be the norm. Especially for product launches. Established products will be sample send via web or by sample reps that do not talk product and make about 30k a year. Plenty of college grads jump on this opportunity.
Why did they go to college? To jump at 30K opportunities?
Sounds like a trade school would have been better.
I can't imagine any college grad working for 30K. Ever.
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Don't even try to go to Merck, the place is a complete cesspool, Bad Management constant layoffs, employees treated like crap.
It is a waste of paper to send your resume there! just look what is going on in their board!
It is a waste of paper to send your resume there! just look what is going on in their board!
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Yes trade school would have been better, at least they would have a chance at find idling a job.Why did they go to college? To jump at 30K opportunities?
Sounds like a trade school would have been better.
I can't imagine any college grad working for 30K. Ever.
If you go to a nice restaurant ask you server where they went to college. Also, ask the enterprise rental car agent where they went.
This economy stinks, if you don't have a specific degree, ( teaching, law, medical etc.), you will have a tough time finding a solid job.
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Here is the Obama recovery: 40%+ of college graduates within the last 5 years are either still unemployed or working in menial jobs that do not require a 4 year degree. Many of them are in debt from college loans they can't pay and are still living at home. Now AZ will add another large group of much older college grads to the ranks of people looking for any job at any pay level. Welcome to the new norm. Sucks huh?Yes trade school would have been better, at least they would have a chance at find idling a job.
If you go to a nice restaurant ask you server where they went to college. Also, ask the enterprise rental car agent where they went.
This economy stinks, if you don't have a specific degree, ( teaching, law, medical etc.), you will have a tough time finding a solid job.
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That is business. The government does not control business and the value they place on potential employees and their college degrees.
My son's Accounting degree got him a $60,000 a year job.
My son's Accounting degree got him a $60,000 a year job.
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Why did they go to college? To jump at 30K opportunities?
Sounds like a trade school would have been better.
I can't imagine any college grad working for 30K. Ever.
Sheesh, have you been living under a rock during the last decade? $30K is better than 0; millions of college grads are either underemployed in service jobs or still living at home with mom and dad and mowing lawns for pocket money. A high school degree in the 70s was better than a college degree is today. You need to get out more, or at least check out the financial news once in a while.