Please nominate the biggest ego encounter at XRX and include if it was good or bad for the company or the worker (or both)
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UB takes the cake but
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SGhTheR6G0
Dr Alissa J was another winner in Xerox, her resume looks impressive. But then you listen to her talks and anyone in the security industry would do a double take as to how clueless she was an used terms incorrectly.
Thought she came off as she knew what she was doing.
Head of HR is the worst who no one likes
Hard to believe this woman was the CEO of Xerox …she talks in circles and makes no sense …Her internal communications were a disaster. Our management use to beg people to log in for her meetings. Most people just kept on working and didn’t want to be bothered with her self aggrandizing BS. She definitely had a chip on her shoulder for the average worker and was not well liked or respected by the rank and file ..
Ursula Burns for the win.
In the interview below she talks about astronomical pay of CEO's..., and she was one of them.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/astronomical-ceo-pay-during-the-pandemic-is-abuse-ursula-burns-165216157.html
@5omq+1bq9Nj5A, That video was horrible! Amazing!
Ursula Burns, as the company sank she kept taking bows and rewarding herself more and more compensation at the expense of all front line workers.
UB Biggest Ego and Failure.
Year 1 acquired ACS for $6.1B and XRX market cap was around $15B with revenues at $22B.
Year 6 legacy XRX market cap 8.8B on revenues of $10B. I think they had the charts upside down when they rewarded her success.
Exemplary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SGhTheR6G0
Damage is still being undone, and believers remain-indicative of the culture problem at the company where pleasing upstream trumps business value and customer and employee satisfaction.
UB needs millions more to help pay for that $8M NYC Manhatten penthouse apartment she bought back when the company was bleeding cash after the ACS acquisition and laying off thousands of employees.
https://www.corcoran.com/nyc/PressMention/Display/12061
UB is pitching her memoirs, that takes some brass spheres,. Like she needs millions more for recounting of being a failure and taking credit for others work
Hard to imagine anyone worse than Ursula Burns
Audrey Pantas the one who had the great idea of cse’s carrying surface pros solely for customer perception of Xerox using new technology to service equipment. She had a round table with escalated support for discussion on providing better support. A HR rep was brought in with her so you really couldn’t tell her how you felt with fear of being let go as others who spoke up were let go in the past. She talked about how great Xerox was to her and all the opportunities blah blah blah. A few years later she was never seen again left the company or was forced out?
I simply cannot choose. The JV team is all egotistical sycophants. The head of HR thinks she can do everyone's job, and cannot even do her own. Back in the day: Ursula had an ego the size of Texas. Our last few CMOs were awful: AM Squeo and John Kennedy. The list can go on and on...
Xerox Management …The 80 / 20 rule. 80% bad 20% good
Ursula Burns giving a two hour presentation that said absolutely nothing except about how wonderful she was.
Skinhead sb
It was Chandra. Enormous ego, no talent.