Whistleblowers: Drug company offered 'bribes' to doctors to boost sales

Re:Whistleblowers: Drug company offered 'bribes' to doctors ... by neilv on Thursday May 02, 2019 @06:42AM (#19806453)

Salespeople have long wined and dined customers, been charismatic, etc.

I've never heard (in the US) of a practice of salespeople having sex with customers. I'd expect to hear a lot of lawsuits, were that a practice in the US.

It'd be sad if people who are just doing normal sales work (e.g., talking with the customer, understanding and communicating how product could work for them, negotiating deals) were insulted or had their reputations harmed by a suggestion that they were doing something else.

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Re:Whistleblowers: Drug company offered 'bribes' to doctors ... by fit2rule on Thursday May 02, 2019 @07:40AM (#19806794)

So its clear, she openly admitted to the fact of her sexual engagement, and was kind of proud of it.

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Re:Whistleblowers: Drug company offered 'bribes' to doctors ... by neilv on Thursday May 02, 2019 @08:10AM (#19806968)

I was speaking of the suggestion that it's a normal, accepted practice. If people thought it was, then they might unfairly assume or suspect of it of many salespeople who do not do that.

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Re:Whistleblowers: Drug company offered 'bribes' to doctors ... by DoctorOetker on Thursday May 02, 2019 @12:00PM (#19809316)

you write "unfairly", but you probably mean "incorrectly"

there is nothing unfair about people assuming or suspecting things, we do not regulate each other's thought processes.

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Re:Whistleblowers: Drug company offered 'bribes' to doctors ... by neilv on Thursday May 02, 2019 @01:34PM (#19810341)

I see your point, and I could agree to "incorrectly", but would you agree that assumptions and suspicions tend to affect behavior, which would be when the "unfair" comes in?

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