re: Which industry has the hottest and ugliest sales reps?

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Pharma has gone downhill over the years

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Exactly. It’s not what it was back in the 90s. shite tons of regulations and the companies really don’t give a single shite about you unless you’re in corporate management. It’s now mostly a revolving door.

Hard to pick a hottest since most industries look for attractive females to push product.

Ugliest is pretty easy, utility trailer dealerships, you’re not gonna find Cindy Crawford hustling Big Tex

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The Stryker guys that make $800,000 per year are great looking men


This is a fact. I know 3 Stryker reps and they’re all handsome bastards.

Synthes guys are nicer and less douchy though.

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I worked for Stryker for four year selling craniomaxillofacial implants (primarily used in trauma cases) and it was definitely a bro culture with many former athletes. Great company to work for but you better produce or you will get blown out the door swiftly. We competed directly with Synthes and they had a similar culture.

I covered Vegas as part of my territory and our largest account in the country was UMC in LV, the busiest Level 1 trauma center in the country at that time (late 90's/early 2000's). We were allowed to do our own accounting of our product and presented to the director of sterile processing a list of things implants to reorder and she would place the order, no questions asked. When I first took over the account to do an audit my predecessor had overstocked the account to the tune of $400K, which was criminal. She made a healthy commission on those sales and promptly left the company. The Synthes trauma rep had done the same, the drawers holding his implants were so full of overstock that you could barely open them.

Some shady cats in that business- Danek (Medtronic) reps in Phoenix were caught stashing product in ceiling tiles at hospitals (they were caught and banned from the hospitals) and some J&J Endo reps did jail time for overstocking hospitals and also selling expired product down in Mexico. I'm sure there are stories like that all over the country and as a result device rep restrictions have been tightened.

Funny, a Google search on the J&J reps selling expired product brought up this link. This girl took over my position when I left Stryker and I knew her very well. She had told me all about her whistleblowing activities but I hadn't realized outcome. She had a history of making accusations against companies when she left them (sexual harrassment, whistleblowing). She's been blackballed from the medical-device industry but looks like she was paid $3.5 million for bringing her accusations against J&J to light.

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Wall Street Journal article

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The Nola office is staffed with hot new grad sorority sluts with useless degrees from nearby universities. 
An Ole Miss gal came to our plant one time to discuss open positions. She was so fine I could not focus at all when she started talking with that accent. 

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I deal with them a lot and it's almost the exception to have an unattractive woman or a guy. 95% of them are 20s-early 30s 8s and above

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May just be my antidotal experiences

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