Often it isn’t even any kind of kickback; it’s that they’re prescribing whatever was being sold by the last nice guy who paid them a visit and dropped off a ton of notebooks. I could have danced on the roof when SiL announced she had realized that many pharma companies use smoke-and-mirrors sales techniques. She was totally indignant about it, too.
I LOL’d about the poster and I’m reasonably sure that Coyote ain’t psychic. I’m also totally sure no long-haired white cats were involved in the making of your coworker’s misbehaving ovary. Best wishes for her recovery and for a boring delivery!
I had a very bizarre dream involving a SyFy TV show about an alien invasion of Earth. The aliens looked like us and were hostile, but were so petty evil that they were comical. They were easy to detect, because some standard American English phrases would make the aliens do weird stuff, and if you flipped them off while simultaneously saying f*** you to them they’d spontaneously explode. Dan Blocker, Hoss from Bonanza, was also involved in the show even though he was dead. No, I didn’t do any recreational pharmaceuticals last night.
I s’pose I ought to get my ass into the shower and start my daily reconstruction. Extra work is involved for my interview this afternoon.
Hey! That’s my clients you’re talking about. Actually, they’re not allowed to drop off all of that stuff anymore here in the US. Just (ahem) free lunches and drug samples.
Well, I’m awake and we’ve got three lunches for aforementioned clients today. Fortunately one of them happens to be in a town that is right next door to TVLand so it will be a quick trip to TVMan’s house!
ETA: Good luck, VBob!
And organize “seminars”, don’t forget about the seminars! They tend to be quite well-catered, too, they know people are more likely to get hazy vision and be blinded by bling when they’ve had a bit too many finger foods.
If any of you remember the pics I posted of our neighbours and the flying conservatory, you may be interested to hear that I’ve just had a call from the council’s building inspector. They have been investigating the company and the structure but haven’t had much luck with it because the owner of the property hasn’t replied to any letters. That, I have found, is typical of Asians in this country - if they pay some taxes, they think they can get away with anything and just ignoring these problems will make them go away.
The buildings man is coming to our place on Monday to look at the structure, which today has new breezeblock sides to make it look even more exciting.
I was supposed to have an appt. with the vascular surgeon today, but apparently he had emergency surgery today so that was re-scheduled for next Wed. I’m still off today, though, because I came home sick yesterday and am still feeling a bit queasy. I don’t know if I ate too much sugar-free stuff (the sweetener sometimes affects me …) or I may have eaten some fruit that was beyond it’s prime. I am feeling some better, just not up to par. Nothing like being away from home, at work, when you’re feeling sick! :eek:
And it’s hump day, yay for that! Congrats BooFae on the office pool win - I thought I remembered you saying that you had Spain. And Rigs got her birthday greetings from me on Facebook, but I’ll send her some birthday hugs here.
Yeah, there are still some of those, but not as many as there used to be. Also, there just aren’t as many of my clients as there used to be. One client recently told me in this last round of layoffs that his regional division went from 1800 to 1200 people overnight.
Of course, there are certain Big Pharma companies that don’t play by the rules and still do whatever they want whenever they want. For awhile I had a client in that category. Their budget was astronomical. Something like up to $100 per person was ok for lunch!
Appendages all crossed, bobbio. You know the power of the MMP!!
wile, if you had that much power, you’d be Og, right? So no feeling guilty!
How bout just plain Annie?
Mr. Anachi’s repair work on the backwash preventer apparently passed approval from the water department dude. He informed that he had tried to break the glued joints “with all my might.” :rolleyes:
I’m TAH-RED today. I don’t know why. Well, I think I do, actually. I left work extremely pissed yesterday and today came in to read another email that pissed me off even more.
I’m beyond burned out. I’m sick of being stuck with the huge rush projects. I basically have today and tomorrow to turn some of this stuff out, and it’s not going to happen. This frustrates me because I know I’ll catch shit for it when my supervisor returns from vacation next week.
Well, there’s no putting it off. Time to start shoveling the manure pile.
Actually, they’re not allowed to drop off all of that stuff anymore here in the US. Just (ahem) free lunches and drug samples.
