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<p>[QUOTE="anonymous, post: 6545190"]This was a great job at one time. When someone in the sales force retired or was promoted to headquarters, they were given their company car. It was a taxable benefit. </p><p><br /></p><p>Everyone in the sales force was given a lunch stipends for their personal meal. This was to match the subsidized cafeteria in NJ. Bringing lunch into a doctor’s office was begun by Pfizer in 1980 and the rest of the industry followed their lead.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you were making a call more than 75 miles from home, you received an overnight stipends. You kept what you didn’t spend. You had to account only to the IRS. Many reps stayed in budget motels, had a cheap dinner and kept most of the stipends.</p><p><br /></p><p>Industry average daily calls were about 8 or 7. This was because doctors gave you 10-15 minutes of their time. Also, most doctors spent the morning in the hospital and the afternoon in the office. If you were smart, you knew where the doctors lounge was located in the hospitals and picked up some of your calls in the hospital,</p><p><br /></p><p>No counterparts until the mid 1980s. No formularies, except Medicaid. Just competitors. If your sales went up, it was because of you. No BS matrix or KPIs.</p><p><br /></p><p>Those were the days.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="anonymous, post: 6545190"]This was a great job at one time. When someone in the sales force retired or was promoted to headquarters, they were given their company car. It was a taxable benefit. Everyone in the sales force was given a lunch stipends for their personal meal. This was to match the subsidized cafeteria in NJ. Bringing lunch into a doctor’s office was begun by Pfizer in 1980 and the rest of the industry followed their lead. If you were making a call more than 75 miles from home, you received an overnight stipends. You kept what you didn’t spend. You had to account only to the IRS. Many reps stayed in budget motels, had a cheap dinner and kept most of the stipends. Industry average daily calls were about 8 or 7. This was because doctors gave you 10-15 minutes of their time. Also, most doctors spent the morning in the hospital and the afternoon in the office. If you were smart, you knew where the doctors lounge was located in the hospitals and picked up some of your calls in the hospital, No counterparts until the mid 1980s. No formularies, except Medicaid. Just competitors. If your sales went up, it was because of you. No BS matrix or KPIs. Those were the days.[/QUOTE]
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This is not the same job as it was 5/10 years ago!
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This is not the same job as it was 5/10 years ago!
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