Employees are no longer treated as humans but like robots. We are overworked and severely underpaid. They expect us to do everything while paying us the bare minimum - and they'd avoid that as well if they only could. I am at the point where I wouldn't recommend working here to my worst enemy.
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If you choose to stay you are paid just right, or you’re overpaid. Stop complaining or move on.
I thought I would be at X til retirement and I probably could have made that happen because I was happy…until I wasn’t.
For 20+ years I was respected as a hard worker and for being knowledgeable about various pieces of the business in general (8 roles in 21 yrs). See, for as much as xerox might have used me, I used them right back. I never thought Xerox would take care of me. It was up to me. I built my skills and increased my pay by moving every 2-4 years into a completely different area of the company.
In my early years at X I was a young mother. If I had to leave to go to a doctors apptmt or if I wanted to go to field day at school my managers didn’t hesitate. They knew I would get my work done in off hours if I had to and I did. I never took advantage of that situation. I always felt well paid and had flexibility.
In 2018 it became clear I wasn’t able to move anymore and I was getting bored. I could have kept phoning it in but it just wasn’t in me. So at 47 i did a scary thing and I got another job and I haven’t looked back except for…the people. My friends. They are the best people around.
The problem with a lot of long term Xerox Ees, esp on Monroe county, is that they rely on xerox to ‘take care of them’. Xerox is not your friend. It is not a family. It is an entity that does not have any interest in you and when you are no longer of use to them they will discard you. But each person gets to this realization on their own time.
What I guess I’m saying is - when it’s time to leave you’ll know it. And it’s possible if you have built skills and not sat at your desk with your head in the clouds.
Good luck to all.
Xerox will suck the life out of you, sooner or later. This industry blows.
You cant fix stupid ideas especially when they don’t even acknowledge that you are concerned. Time is now. What in God’s name are you waiting for?
Do this for yourself, no one else. Get out of this house of mirrors. This house of cards will collapse on you and you will be in worse shape than if you left on your own terms. Don’t be a domino , the people that want you to stay are making money off your slave labor.
They laugh while you deal with an ulcer. No thanks ..not for me.
Don’t wait around for the gold watch. Not gonna happen. Not even close.
Just look at the clock on the wall during the exit interview, if they even bother to do that. 🕟
Xerox has plenty of issues. There’s more than enough reason to look elsewhere if you’re unhappy.
Most of all, though, no matter where you are: Don’t love a company. A company will never love you back. If you get smacked by a bus tomorrow, I promise you your boss will find a replacement. I’m always troubled at the high levels of passion here - never forget that every two weeks, you and the company are even - no one owes anyone anything when you get paid.
Some jobs are better than others but you’re never more than a resource. Jobs aren’t an identity. Don’t take a job for love, save that for people in your life.
I'm the one that posted the first reply at the bottom.
I left at 53. After 27 years of service. Yes, there was a lot of institutional Xerox junk in my head. I lost 2 weeks of vacation by moving to a new job. But every single other part of it is light years better as I mentioned in the other post. And I probably have a 97% better chance of not being laid off because the new company is profitable and not in a dying industry.
So if you want to stay at Xerox, I understand and hope you'll have a lot more years of employment.
I left at 44. I was a production color analyst in Vancouver. Every year a colleague got let go or so. I ended having a panic attack. I thought I was the horse saddle maker doomed with nontransferable skills. Then one of the youngest vp at salesforce who I used to work with invited me over to visit, and made me understand that my skills were, in fact, transferable. I reached out to friends on LinkedIn and I got out to a far better job in a fintec startup. I think a lot of folks have to realized that dealing with people and being endowed with critical thinking are universal skills. Have faith. Try. Visentin is doing the best he can, like anyone else. Don't make him the boogeyman. The boogeyman in my case was between my two ears... how quaint, eh?
Wah….wah…wahhhhhhhh…..
I love it here so sounds like you got a sh*tty position whatever department you work in.
Life is hard when your skills are non-transferable.
I think a lot of people who stay here are in their late 40’s-50’s. Easy to say if you don’t like it leave. But I think many have been so institutionalized, demoralized that making a jump is easier said than done. Also hard to just walk away from a company you’ve poured a good chunk of your life into… hoping irrationally that somehow it’ll get better.
Genuinely I can’t see why I would leave. Good salary, bonus and left alone so I’m loving it
Completely agree with you, but there's a simple solution to all of that.
Leave.
I got another job doing the same thing, for 30% more salary, working from home, with better (and cheaper!) benefits with 401k matching up to 10%, deposited quarterly.