When I get home on office days, I have to take aspirin and lay down before eating dinner because I have so much tension from all of the sensory overload I have to deal with. Some days, I am out cold until 11:00 - 11:30PM. By then, I don’t feel up to eating a full meal. This is not healthy at all. I haven’t been to a doctor in a long time, but my blood pressure cannot be good. Working for this company is a health hazard. It’s brutal going through the motions every office day, having to drag myself into that hellh0le, enduring constant small talk yapping, temper tantrums, people bouncing off the walls from the 13 cups of coffee they must consume daily, just to stare at a screen and do the same tasks day in and day out. It’s all performative BS. There is no value to office days. I am not putting out hundreds of dollars for noise-cancelling headphones. I doubt they would be effective because the office is a complete zoo. Canon should just close all their offices and lease out the space to those hourly workspace companies for business travelers like Regus.
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I think they are afraid people take advantage of the At Home time and aren't getting their work done. It's funny because the same people who I know did very little when we worked full time from home...well guess what? They do very little in the office too!
That's more of a problem with supervision or management. I am thankful for the 2 days we still have at home but with the crazy economy and horrible traffic I spend so much time on the road going to and from work and get home tired and miserable. I am sure they are ways for them to track what we do all day. If they aren't already doing that. Anyway, just by 2 cents.
@1jg Sr. managers are worse. Enough power to fire people not enough power to actually matter. Theyre the worst of both worlds. All ego and no brains to justify their jobs.
@ag that would be directors right?
Agreed on all this. It’s gotten to the point that anytime I even hear or read the word “collaboration” my eye twitches and I grind my teeth… We all know it’s about surveillance and real estate value. Meanwhile, the in-office days are beyond pointless for those of us who can do our jobs entirely on a laptop and/or customer engagement, and are filled with VASTLY more constant distractions than a quiet office at home. My department even holds its weekly meetings (also pointless) on Thursdays… remote… Meanwhile, $5 per gallon+ gas (worse on the west coast) in 2026 is making our already minuscule wages even worse.
These in office days are trash.. You sit back and look at the environment you are in and it's stomach turning.. At any given time the noise level is ridiculous even if you have earbuds in.. You have people sitting on each other's ottomans for "meetings and training" isn't that what the so-called huddle rooms are for? People are on conference calls with volume up to the highest level... There is nothing good about this place anymore.. Hasn't been for a long time and people are paying the price with burnout and sensory overload... The best time people enjoyed was the building being closed for infestations... Close it completely and resume WFH... Do us all a favor..
I make sure to schedule most, if not all, my vacation and personal days on office days. I get the most value by doing that. Not only do I not have to put up with the office drama, but I get to save money on gas, bridge toll, and packing my lunch.
The desks are ridiculously small. I only have the bare friggin’ minimum and a single monitor, yet it’s still a tight squeeze. The ottoman drawer things take up so much space and I can’t even shift my chair side-to-side.
My life is miserable from 10:30 PM Sunday nights to 5:00 PM Wednesdays. I usually reward myself with an after dinner co-ktail on Wednesday nights and stay up a little later knowing I can sleep in an hour later on Thursday mornings.
@tf You have perfectly described the layout and mentality of a sweatshop very well. And it su-ks canal water.
I have ro say our desks went from ok to horrible with low walls you can hear everything everyone says it's hard to concentrate. Stop cramming so many people into one big room and give them cr-p furniture a d the chairs yikes.
@pb Very kind words. Memo to Canon USA, take note of the toxic climate you have created.
DO NOT ALLOW THE CORPORATE BEAST TO RUN OR RUIN YOUR LIFE!!
OK take a deep breath, relax, this is not the cure for cancer!!
At this place, Nobody's life is in your hands but yours.
You matter and what you do matters. I don't want to see you make a mistake here.
Many people are going through the same thing at other businesses.
Real life example my brother had enough of his corporate job making six figures he left and went off to work at another place making half the salary and it was good for about 3 months until he realized it was the same BS he was just getting paid less to deal with it.
Try to control your reaction because it is the only true thing we have control over.
Dont let this or any other job affect your health, your well being or your relationships with your friends and family.
Weigh it all out and at the end of the day if you determine its not worth it, move on, consider all this before you make a decision and find out like my brother did.
"The devil you know maybe better then the devil you don't!"
YOU are what matters here. Try to destress and most importantly, STAY WELL and make the best decision for you.
@eh And sounds like unethical business practices and undermining your co-workers to make yourself look good is the accepted norm. They are casualties of the new culture at this company.
@cp and how much money does Canon lose from turnover? Don’t tell anyone a company doesn’t incur costs because they did. They just hide them.
@OP I think they offer a free blood pressure machine if you’re old enough that’s one of the many many wonderful perks of working for this company
Not to mention the résumé building experience of working 2 to 3 jobs when someone else in your department quits and they refuse to hire more because…
@cp The current grad will be of lesser quality, and they are ok with this!
Quality does not matter here. Quantity and cost control are much more important. Get the sale, book it and play accounting gimmicks to boost revenue immediately, get all the billing done even if you have to use bogus estimation meter reads, etc.., cut back on petty expenses and offer the bare minimum to the employees. Quality and accuracy are Incomprehensible concepts to the company leaders.
@c4 Everyone is replaceable. Canon will hire a recent college grad that can do your job for less than half your current salary. Corporations have been doing this for decades, nothing new here.
The truth is they don’t care. This company went from being loyal and caring to apathetic overnight.
The focus on numbers and lack of care for their employees has cost this company. No one wants to work hard. As they continue to push jobs out of America and blame tariffs, remember one thing. Canon recovered 90% of the tariffs paid to the US government and you heard nothing about it. Why? They want to use the tariff to make you feel as if they are failing. This means they have an excuse to provide no raises.
This company is disgusting for how they treat their employees. Every publication always praises our neighbors to the north and south but literally still blames the tariffs as a challenge.
I hate working here. I am currently looking for a new job and let me say this. When I leave, I will feel terrible because I will leave my department even more strapped for more resources. They won’t be able to replace me because you can’t replace 20 years of experience.
It has reduced the quality of life for those on the frontline except the C-suiters. And they derive pleasure inflicting pain. They are sociopaths. Same goes to those middle managers who pucker up to these ghouls.