Thread regarding Xerox Corp. layoffs

@b3 my friend, looks lime you are a former Lexmark colleague....Let me open your eyes: you understood nothing 😊 Lexmark leaders you are so proud of are the ones who ki-led the company and are now just protecting themeselves to extend their salary a bit more as they wouldn't get their compensation elsewhere. Forget stories about Lexmark willing to leave Apex. Apex didn't want to pay more money for Lexmark losses and that's why Company was sold for few millions - it was a huge debt. Xerox was silly to purchase it. What you should hope for now is to survive few months. If you have seen the recent 'joint venture' (which many id--ts where celebreting)...it is just a planned bankrupcy. It will be a matter of months for you to realize....

@eg Nah, HP is actually hyper-competent on the physical product itself and a clean driver to work with the physical product.

They su-k at field service and managed services, but thought ahead and acquired the product portfolio for growing markets (thermal/label) and didn’t discard wide format/engineering, so that can still push them ahead on an RFP that derives from a product need not a body to service it (which they aren’t terrible at, they just aren’t good at it). XRX is objectively great at putting the body there, but struggles to get parts and provide the value-added technologies that would have grown revenue (IoT security as a service, et al), thereby reducing the value proposition of being able to put a semi-competent tech at a device when it breaks.

@e0 I think you're thinking of HP printers

The Lexmark peepull and cullchure are starting to grow on me!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JXFGy10b7Js

No one has ever looked at a Lexmark product as best in breed or even good. It’s bottom tier, bought at Staples garbage. This is our savior? lol

@bw And even funnier.. you ask Google:

"Grammar" is a common noun and is not capitalized unless it appears at the beginning of a sentence or as part of a title. It is a general term for the rules of language and does not require capitalization like proper nouns (names, places).

Correct: We are studying English grammar.

@bt Tbis crack me up.. "Grammar not gramer." Oh wait your issue is that it was capitalized?

But isn't the post as follows:
"The grammar police officer is preparing for the next career as an High School English teacher."

@b5 It's not just products.. it seems in processes and procedures in some areas Lexmark has already learned and achieved things that Xerox should have learned. Now with that said I have seen Xerox ahead of Lexmark in some areas but in the processes and procedures I see.. Lexmark was ahead of the curve.

@aq Grammar not gramer.

Lexmark will make the same stupid mistakes as Xerox. I am
Not a fan of either product.
To say Lexmark is better or worse than Xerox is the pot calling the kettle black.

This whole industry blows completely.

Now we are told that Lexmark is gonna save the day. Ummmm not so much …

@OP spot on. Notice how all the new leaders are Lexmark, NOT Xerox leaders, Xerox leaders will be reporting to Lexmark leaders. There is hope based on limiting the number of Xerox. Leaders who got us to this dumpster fire ch 11 edge of the cliff. Go Lexmark!

@ar Staff are not a "commodity" until they end up on a spreadsheet which lists the employee, the salary of the employee and comparison to another employer with similar position with salary and etc.. and only one will remain after next round.

@aq The grammar police officer is preparing for the next career as an High School English teacher.

Please stop calling each other legacy employees. We're not products. People who simply somehow have worked here for a long time aren't a commodity, they've just slipped by the firings.

@an ok type-o police
Only people with nothing real to contribute, feel compelled to point out type-o and gramer mistakes.

Legacy Xerox Employees like to turn you in / setup red tape as much as possible.. almost purposely trying to add on multiple layers so that absolutely nothing gets done…. Things went out the door when the company they purchased to be the true backbone going into the future (Global) started transforming into XBS and the entire Global Business Solutions playbook that worked beyond dreams for soooo long was just thoughtlessly tossed it the trash …

It is procedures not proceadures.

I am on lots of these FT and integration calls and don't see any gatekeeping going on with fellow "legacy Xerox" people. What are you on about.

What department do you work in, high school?

Those whom create the holes in the sinking ship are always smarter than those whom are plugging the holes.

@OP your last sentence sums it all up - whatever name is above the door, whoever is part of the SLT, the company is a SINKING SHIP.