the "Headline That Caught My Attention or the WTF" thread

[wader]

How about drug reps who ply doctors with lunches, dinner, trips etc, etc just so the write scripts for their products!

Gee, conflict of interest?

Some doctors are complete whores for these companies!!!!

that goes on everywhere.......................

In my former life as a Purchasing Director for Estee Lauder I awarded roughly $200 million in business annually for packaging. Not for particular componet but for all new launch materials needed to send new products to market. It didn't all go to one supplier - but - dozens & dozens.


to potentially throw the business their way I was offered:

• Concert Tickets
• Lunch (by the score - all dressed in satin & waiting by the door)
• I was once offered a Family Vacation to East Germany (after the wall fell) by a German supplier to spend Christmas in a 12th Century Castle
• Sports Tickets
• House for a week on Fire Island (pretty much each summer)
• Access to Condiminiums on Mount Snow during skiing season several times
• Fishing Charters
• Was once even offered a substantial discount on a Benz.
• Golf Outtings (I don't golf)
• etc. etc.

And on & on. It was never overtly offered as a bribe but............................

It's pretty much what salesman do. It's a common practice when there's REAL money involved.

I took some of the lunches until I stopped eating lunch as they were sanctioned by upper management. We were forbidden to accept anything over $30 & required to report it. Which pretty much none did.

I only handled new launch materials & Travel Retail for Lauder Treatment products.

 

[Avenger]

So, they just completely doxxed this guy, including his SSN?

Doesn't look like procedure is being followed here.

Something seems off.

 

[CELLFISH]

that goes on everywhere.......................

In my former life as a Purchasing Director for Estee Lauder I awarded roughly $200 million in business annually for packaging. Not for particular componet but for all new launch materials needed to send new products to market. It didn't all go to one supplier - but - dozens & dozens.


to potentially throw the business their way I was offered:

• Concert Tickets
• Lunch (by the score - all dressed in satin & waiting by the door)
• I was once offered a Family Vacation to East Germany (after the wall fell) by a German supplier to spend Christmas in a 12th Century Castle
• Sports Tickets
• House for a week on Fire Island (pretty much each summer)
• Access to Condiminiums on Mount Snow during skiing season several times
• Fishing Charters
• Was once even offered a substainel discount on a Benz.
• Golf Outtings (I don't golf)
• etc. etc.

And on & on. It was never overtly offered as a bribe but............................

It's pretty much what salesman do. It's a common practice when there's REAL money involved.

I took some of the lunches until I stopped eating lunch as they were sanctioned by upper management. We were forbidden to accept anything over $30 & required to report it. Which pretty much none did.

I only handled new launch materials & Travel Retail for Lauder Treatment products.

PROSTITUTES TOO… ???

 

[wader]

PROSTITUTES TOO… ???

no

But I'm sure I inquired.............................

 

[Rick67]

Pay? He had a house by Cherry Grove for a week every summer.