Thread regarding Ricoh layoffs

Outsourcing is damaging american workers

Email and send a copy to your congressman, Senator and the President. The second is a model that family members and friends can send to their representatives. Go to these representative’s twitter accounts and keep making comments about Ricoh holding federal contracts ( https://www.ricoh-usa.com/en/industries/federal-government ) when is outsourcing American jobs and abusing H1B or L1 visas. Federal law allows the government to stop contract with companies that outsource American workers. We need to make our voice heard.

Your Address

Date

To (name of Congressman, Senator or President)

Re: Displacement of United States workers, outsourcing of United States’ jobs and abuse of H-1B Visas

Attention honorable (name),

I am a Ricoh Americas Corporation employee on the IT division, this month I have experienced, along of the rest of my dept. of over 30 people this year, (over 40 people last year and a year before), with the displacement of United States workers becoming a victim of jobs outsourcing. It is very important to me that you protect the United States’ citizens.

Please do not vote for, support or fail to vote against any bill that increases the number of H1B or L1 visas. Please move to lower the number of such visas and to force all employers to abide by the recruitment requirements set forth in the immigration laws for certain employers regardless of the education or advanced skill of the foreigner. This is of grave importance to the future of our country, and it is very significant to me and my vote.

(name of Congressman Senator or President), please also do all you can do to discourage or tax any American company that outsources its work to foreign countries. This is done simply to lower the company’s costs by denying jobs to American educated and American trained United States legal workers. This is repugnant and should be treated as much by the government.

Ricoh Americas hold contracts on federal, state and local government levels. As is advertised on their website “We (Ricoh Americas) have been working with federal offices, departments and military branches for decades, including civilian and DoD agencies.” Check the link: https://www.ricoh-usa.com/en/industries/federal-government . These contracts are being paid with US work taxpayer’s money. Ricoh Americas should be held accountable for this kind of business model. Workers overseas do not contribute to the US, American workers do.

Thank you for taking the time to read and consider my views on the above-referenced topic.

Sincerely,

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Post ID: @OP+YvnZWdf

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How would "insecurity" lead to an executive decision to close a whole department??

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Post ID: @1msn+YvnZWdf

Nope, these aren't kids out of college. It's a call center shop based out of Mexico. And they are not competent. MANAGEMENT THEMSELVES has said that they didn't want to let us go. Most of us have had stellar reviews, some for over 15 years. Many have been promoted several levels. These people come in, close and escalate tickets as they like, don't listen during training. Immediate supervisors TOLD the VP's this, the VP's went "la la la, can't hear you" and outsourced it anyway. Some are coming onshore, but some are just going to work out of Mexico for $5-10/hour less than we do. How does that make us unqualified? You're using the typical right-wing talking point about "If Jose can do your job, you s--- at it." That's not what this is about. It's about MONEY. If it were about us s---ing and deserving to be fired, why keep people on for decades and then pull this?

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Post ID: @1mxw+YvnZWdf

Don't count on Trump or his dysfunctional administration to do anything about this. He's only in it to create chaos. He's not going to save our jobs or anyone else's.

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Post ID: @1ngd+YvnZWdf

MAGA...Ricoh has been drowning for a decade. With all their crooked top level corporate officers(term doesn't fit) down to the local regional management teams , are mis guided & clueless.

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Post ID: @1mnd+YvnZWdf

H1Bs are kids fresh out of college, and the costs onboarding and training college kids who don't know their heads from their asses isn't cheap . They have three years to prove themselves or they're kicked out of the country. If they can do your job, either they're very qualified or you're very unqualified. Either way it shows your lack of self esteem and insecurity in your abilities.

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Post ID: @1lwc+YvnZWdf

The divisions still have to follow their country's employment laws. Still doesn't excuse Ricoh Americas unseating qualified American workers to replace them with H1B's. The US division isn't exempt from US law.

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Post ID: @fsi+YvnZWdf

You geniuses realize that Ricoh is a Japanese company, right? Unless you're in Japan, you're an offshore employee.

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Post ID: @uvp+YvnZWdf

They always send out emails about how happy they are to announce the changes, as if no lives were ruined in the process. And they clearly don't care about productivity, because they employ incompetent third-party offshore companies who get nothing done, but still get to keep the jobs over those of us who were commended regularly for our productivity. Some will say that if your job is replaceable by someone from overseas,then it means you aren't skilled or didn't do a good job. Nothing could be further from the truth in this case. The higher ups DO NOT CARE. It's as if they are trying to bring the company under.

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Post ID: @tta+YvnZWdf

Ricoh sees profit quintupling in fiscal 2018 (While burning out its remaining staff).

https://asia.nikkei.com/Editor-s-Picks/Japan-Update/Ricoh-sees-profit-quintupling-in-fiscal-2018

Tons of layoffs, sending the work overseas.

Lots of H1-B Visa employed at corporate office. (Not becuase of lack of talent available in the US, its cheaper labor). Trump - Help close this unethical practice!

Burning out the remaining staff "overworked and over-stressed".

All while CEO Joji Tokunaga travels the country preaching "Our Strength is Our People" with a snakes tougue.

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