Thread regarding Xerox Corp. layoffs

Which 58 series are you speaking of? There have been two.

If you refer to Xerox as Mother Xerox then you’ve never really worked for Xerox.

If this post has your big boy panties in a wad, you’ve never worked for Xerox!

58xx series. Total junk. Laughable. Seriously.

You never worked for Xerox if you don't remember the piles of gourmet cookies and free coffee at ordinary business meetings....

How many have heard “sorry, you beyond midpoint” ?

When you remember that Employee Satisfaction was the first priority. When you actually felt valued and not just an expense line item.
That and you went through the joy of changing a Center Belt Module on a 5046. The copier that was designed to break.

Ahhhh yeah the good ole days where it seems money just grew on trees and was burned at will. And THIS my dear friends is part of the reason we are in the mess. Not only zero vision but zero financial accountability. Inefficiency recklessness abounded. Sounds like it was some really fun times that COMPLETELY DESTROYED a company

You haven't worked for Xerox if you never had breakfast at Leesburg.

@4tti
OMG
that is soooooooo true
And some I know of, right in the office

You never worked at xerox if you do not know what MATCH 3 Pricing was

Real Xeroids were there to win the Malcolm Baldridge award!

@3gdq+16DQRUrA We used to all chuckle in the supply chain when one of us said FU2. Super childish I know.

If you haven’t experienced 20 years of consecutive layoffs , yearly reviews which
were useless, target metrics which made no sense and musical chairs managers who were worthless.

For the big iron folks, you never worked for Xerox If you never put dry rice in the blower motor of a 9500 / 9700.

You havent worked there if you and your co workers havent all boned each other..over.. and over.. and over

You've never worked there if you haven't had to explain to a customer why the DC12 serial numbers had a product code of "FU2". Whoever did that was genius.

DC220: an over priced piece of junk. Diving board document feeder. Finisher issues. That said it was probably that last true game changing product x game up with. Appropriate it’s associated with being “you never worked for x if”... 20 years with meh innovation reason x is in this mess.

You've never worked at Xerox until you've given 15 years of hard work thinking you would retire from there only to be sold to HCL and screwed over to the max!!!

You’ve never worked at xerox unless your coworker was laid off and you had to do his/her job with no extra pay.

You never worked at Xerox if you don't remember the Doument Centre 220. You never worked at Xerox if you don't remember when Leesburg being the only thing out there

Clown - are you sitting in the dark op listening to sad songs

Place of employment that was means to an end...next

Couldn't carry any of silicon valleys jock. To that poster saying coulda shoulda msft aapl or goog pffft thanks for the belly laugh. Xerox was before them sure, but cruise control for decades as young tech took the passing lane.

Fake tech, clunky equipment, mismanagement, solid coworkers

Your next employer won't give a rats that you came from 'XBS', little prestige and means nothing to your future millennial boss

I've got a match whose got the kerosene

Can we quit arguing over the deck chair arrangement? We're all in the same boat now, and it's sinking rapidly.

The captain is the one to blame. Not the engine room team, the cooks, the baggage handlers, or the sales dept that sold the tickets.

The captain.

What we should all be doing is finding a seat on a lifeboat or hailing a passing ship and getting off this dead boat.

To XBS, Leesburg is a place where promising zeroids were given hyped up sales training and fed rubber chicken. "Prom Night" consisted of binge drinking and using SPIN to contract crabs for the local talent. Good times!

Prom night at Leesburg, enough said. Fun times and lots of memories!

@1rer+16DQRUrA. Parent's basement?

OK, Boomer.

Whenever a friend or family asks me I recommend the new Canon IRA DX series... Just a far superior box.

Geezunstacks. (No idea how to spell a fake word)
Was that first hire orientation or a learning through quality course?
I can’t remember but I do remember the classes being goofy but fun
Train the trainer classes - they were also fun
Trips to Leesburg for sure
Lean six sigma - not so old but who even references that anymore? It was such a huge deal a few years ago (and still has huge value outside of Xerox)
The fish philosophy - that went overboard (pun intended)

Canon does make a much better printer.

Here at at Xerox we use canon

or channeled 1.21 gigawatts via lightning bolt into flux capacitor b/c customer ran out of plutonium... let me know if you'd like specific instructions on where you can stick garnish from your precious black olive c—tail.

PRI SAM TEST.FRM, 10, D

Replaced a scan return spring or brush motor on a 914.

Or cleaned up an exploded toner bag on a 2400 dupe. Or changed out the compressor hoses , or used an L shaped hole saw to drill up through the frame so you could even reach them ! Or got knocked across the room because you accidently touched a 240 volt illumination lamp ! The list goes on !! Ahh the memories. I think I have been here too long !

You've got it wrong because you're laying the blame on Sales Reps, Service Reps, and Firstline managers when the real blame for all that went wrong is at the Leadership level. All of the customer-facing people always did their best to work around flawed policies that were driven by paper-pushers, but the reality is they were only trying to mitigate what was a lack of leadership at the highest levels.

They knew for years that we needed to move past paper and toner, but every great innovative idea that didn't involve putting marks on paper was kicked to curb. That my friend was the entire problem. We had gutless, leadership with no imagination for the future. "Electronic Mail? Why would anyone want that and what would the post office do?" Instead of developing a new business model for the future, the lazy leadership at the top, decided to play it safe and stay in the paper and toner world, even though the writing was on the wall that we needed to grow our business beyond the old boundaries.

Don't blame the local districts or even the regional operations, they took their orders from those above.

In my 30 plus years, the most time I ever spent at Leesburg was two weeks, and only every played pool at the Black Olive, but I was certainly a Zeroid. I was a Service Rep, a trainer, had every field support title, worked with sales and was a first-line manager. It was always about two things, the Customers and the people I worked with. I loved the job, hated the BS that inferred with satisfying the customer.

Xerox could have been Apple, Microsoft, or Google, but we needed to be run by a smart, brave geek, who was driven with imagination and desire to make the impossible, possible, but don't blame the people who turned the screwdrivers and closed the sales deals. They were good soldiers! They followed their orders, while working around the BS to do the right thing.

People love to rag on XBS here, but before Icahn took over and Xerox bent us over, many of us loved the dealerships we worked for. Xerox was the worst thing to happen to our core.

There's a heck of a lot more to Xerox than the whiny people at XBS. But if you are in XBS, you really don't know what Xerox is, or was I should say.

If you mean a culture where no one ever questioned management, everyone got their MBA at UR and thought the same well That worked great didn’t it. And that feeling of family? Feeling or acting like a family as a corporation never ends . All buddy buddy leads to is no one wanting to call their buddy out on the carpet for doing a sh– job when they deserve it. Buddies working for buddies means people are never held accountable for fear of hard feelings. What a crock. Xerox culture was the worse thing for xerox.

Xerox as a culture ended many many years ago. Not sure what you call it now?