When I was new to Bangalore, I stayed in a building filled with medical reps. I got to know this line of work up close and have since developed a fascination for it. I may one day write a story where the MC is a medical rep.
Not just medicine; there was one working for a surgical instrument company and one who displayed OTC products roadside.
There was this one chap, a lazy fellow, a B.Pharm. graduate. Wanting to go into production or research. Anyways, he tried and tried without success and finally decided to become a medical rep.
And bingo, got a job the next day.
At Himalaya.
I was jobless those days and took him on my Suzuki Max to the interview. Mygo, the place was like a foreign country.
Well, this was a different company. A truck arrived and delivered a truck full of samples for him. The next day, another truck arrived and delivered a truck full of goodies to be given to doctors. Every room, including mine, had one or two cartons of these things. It was so much.
Now about his salary. It was 25k. Those days, 10 was the highest. Not just that, he got another 25k expense.
But there was a catch.
He had to give all the samples plus half his expense account to his manager, and he then could sit at home all month making just those face-showing calls to doctors.
Its later learned that the manager shipped a lot of medicine and all the samples to Delhi, where the person sold it at a discounted price online. I seriously doubt that, for all we know it just dumped free on people under some govt. scheme.
This cycle worked smoothly till my good neighbour put a spanner in the works. He stopped giving the money to his manager. And was soon jobless.
He tried 10k, 9k, 6k jobs and then gave up and went back to his village.
Himalaya was always a useless firm - Liv-52 not withstanding. Give them a problem and lo they pull out a drug from their chaddi. They came up with mentat for mental patients, 200 drugs for women - ur guess is as good as mine. Skin, they are pundits. Oral, dont even ask.
Anyways, happy shopping.
#scam #himalayawellness #useless #meaningless #wasteofmoney
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