Got the dreaded meeting invite titled "Field service update" supposedly mandatory call...6 of us regular employees with our Manager's boss...area director...like cattle lined up at the slaughter house....with HR representative via conference call explaining layoff process....that was one week ago....manager has not even bothered to talk to any of us regarding layoff...and today he mandates us all 24 team members to punch out 90 minutes before 5 .... oddly weird....
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It’s not an unspoken policy that former Ricoh employees are not eligible for rehire. It is a written policy that was emailed to mangers a few years ago and I happened to see the email. They wanted to recruit “new” talent. Thing is new talent is not interested in working for them.
Yes. Flush the system. Rough translation from Japanese marketing blurb, “Many people wear tshirts. One day ricoh technology will print on those tshirts. tshirts will be the new paper. A new way to communicate, art, political views, humor. A plain T-shirt is a sad T-shirt.”
I have been let go after 21 years. Been told there has been an unspoken no “rehire” policy. Ricoh Japan wants to flush the system.
How much longer before either more layoffs or hours cut? No where near the call loads before COVID hit.
Anything happening in Ricoh Canada?
So here we are with most teams back to full capacity and no where near enough calls to go around. How does anyone think this is sustainable long term? I don’t see how there’s not going to be more layoffs.
This pandemic has exposed just how bad of a shape Ricoh was in. Glad I’m getting out. I feel sorrow for anyone left.
I have also gotten notice of being let go. Been with them a little over a year. 1 months notice, 3 weeks severance, so they are at least doing right there. I do feel that the area manager on the conference call with HR was very stiff and cold. Sounded like he was reading from a script. Have heard him talk a dozen other times and met him once in person and he was always upbeat and portrayed that concerned grandfatherly type guy. Shame. Strange too that there is actually a "gag order" on you talking to any of your co-workers about being let go until "they can properly notify" the team. But you never are let known when that happens. Not that it matters, since I talked to one of my coworkers and shared the news within minutes of learning about it. I was unaware of the policy.I feel that my doing this is a natural human response. I understand that there is going to be the bitter soon to be ex-employee scenario, but in general if you treat people with compassion, there is nothing to fear. It is what it is. I was expecting it during a pandemic.