Where are all of the reps going?


Prediction. Maybe even factual.

Between Oct and years end, 15 or more reps will leave Aptalis. Anyone care to wager? Management? Corporate? Training? This company has gone downhill and Aptalis will soon realize that all of the mistakes and careless decisions they have made is going to bite them in the ass. I have never, in my days as a rep, seen such poor decision-making from a company trying to reach the billion dollar status.

TPG. If you want to make any money on Aptalis, I suggest you take Aptalis public ASAP. The company is being driven into the ground by a management team that can no longer control or maintain their decision-making skills or motivate their sales force.

Ironwood stirred the pot and now everyone in the company knows what a decent salary should be for a specialty Pharma rep, what potential bonus potential opportunities exist with other companies, and what it's like to market and sell a new product. Not a relaunched product with a different name, but an actual new product.


So true. These last couple of months have been chaotic. All of these changes and the race to become a billion dollar company. During all of this chaos, there have been some idiotic moves by management that have probably affected the value of our RSUs. First Zenpep and now Rectiv. Are we playing with Monopoly money here people? The RSUs will be worth very little by the time we go public because all of the profits are being sucked out of the company.
 

So true. These last couple of months have been chaotic. All of these changes and the race to become a billion dollar company. During all of this chaos, there have been some idiotic moves by management that have probably affected the value of our RSUs. First Zenpep and now Rectiv. Are we playing with Monopoly money here people? The RSUs will be worth very little by the time we go public because all of the profits are being sucked out of the company.

RSU's should be the least of your worries, this place is f**ked up from every angle, the technical side, marketing, inventory, everything....I've never seen anything like this. Bunch of people running around trying to make things work and nobody talks to each other....days of training ahead for yet another enzyme???? WTH. It's freaking idiotic
 
Rectiv is an orphan drug. Goals set so every single person in America with a CAF gets a script or 2. Unatainable, the numbers don't add up, fuzzy math maybe. Zenpep goals for some people are negative others blown thru the roof, goals given last week of the quarter. Obvious they can select who goes on a trip by popularity based on upper mngt. Aptalis is not credible with its reps. Just a interim paycheck.
 
It's about time some action is threatened. Just because we Sell products that go in the ass does not mean that we have to take it in the ass. My Zenpep and Rectiv goals are bs And I have no intention on selling Rectiv at all.
 
What is the deal with this Rectiv BS. Why is it that not one rep in the company is over 100% to goal for weighted attainment in Q4? Do you, Aptalis, really believe that the Rectiv goals are fair? Not paying us the bonuses we deserve because you feel that we need to sell a useless product to physicians that are now our targets because they accidentally used it one time. Have you taken the time to look at our weighted attainments from Q1 and Q2 and compared them to our overall weighted attainments from Q3 and Q4? Funny how they have significantly dropped since Rectiv appeared into our portfolio. Whoever sets these goals is a complete idiot.

This is the last straw. Instead of selling our products put into use before Pangaea, I am going to apply to as many positions as humanly possible so I can avoid this waste of a meeting we are having in Orlando.
 
CRAPTALIS AT ITS FINEST. And I was yelling. 3k views on this link, so far. More than my bonus for this quarter. Rectiv is a wasted sale and our targets are a bigger waste. I can't wait until our Orlando meeting to see what mgt has to say about our current situation. Instead of Viokace and Ultresa workshops, maybe we need to have a dunk booth to let out some of our frustrations. The company is turning into a circus show anyways, so why not roll with the theme.
BTW. I had negative two Rectiv Committments this week. I talked my physicians out of writing the product because the compounded one is cheaper and it comes with numbing cream.

Happy Sales
 
Management mid to upper doesn't care about reps. They care about the bottom line so the company gets sold off, they get a big chunk in their bank account and the reps get laid off with enough crumbs to scrape by for a short period of time. Be thankful you have a job for now, this one will go away soon. Rectiv sucks...........so go sell the shit, whatever.....
 
Our "leadership" finally got one thing right, Mickeys crib for our meeting. We should leave our cast of failures there. Pinnochio, Dumbo, Goofy, Mickey, Minnie, and of course Stupid the Weasel - we've got all of them! I cant wait to be inspired.
 
Our "leadership" finally got one thing right, Mickeys crib for our meeting. We should leave our cast of failures there. Pinnochio, Dumbo, Goofy, Mickey, Minnie, and of course Stupid the Weasel - we've got all of them! I cant wait to be inspired.

That's a good one. Should we even attempt to match each Disney character with an Aptalis employee or dept.
What about the underlying issue; our decaying products. Zenpep is an average PE, even with 2 others on the market. Rectiv...do we need to even go there. And Canasa which will be exposed by generics in no time. Once Canasa leaves, Aptalis will be a million dollar company instead of a billion dollar company. Good luck with their goal on becoming a top GI Specialty Company. Hard to do that when no one recognizes the name. Was the name changed to cover up our CF catastrophe when Ultrase left the market, or, was there another reason behind the name change?
 
You digress...who is the "Stupid Weasel"? The rest are not hard to figure out.

Youre the stupid weasel. If you want to play mix and match, there's an app for that. This is about serious issues. Talk about digressing. The main point of the thread is asking where all of the reps are going and not what Disney characters Mgt look like.
 
Youre the stupid weasel. If you want to play mix and match, there's an app for that. This is about serious issues. Talk about digressing. The main point of the thread is asking where all of the reps are going and not what Disney characters Mgt look like.

Children, children. Even though this storm is miserable, we don;t have to work. Yeah. West Coast, you should also take some weather-related time off.
 
Here we are at the start of another week and everything still the same. The calm before the storm for some, but not most of us on the East Coast. Unrealistic goals and a dead pipeline is all I see in the future. Here we are in the 6th week of our 2013 campaign and our individual quarter goals are still unpublished. Are we ever going to get those? I know Aptalis is behind the times, but the goals are important to some of us who like to know what direction we need to take our business.
Has anyone heard anything about how we are going to market multiple PE's? Zenpep vs. Ultresa vs. Viokace
 


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