After surviving multiple reductions in force, buyouts, etc. I left Xerox after 27 years. It was a very hard decision that kept me up for several nights, (it was like leaving my childhood home), but I chose to leave in anticipation that layoffs would continue to be announced. I'm not at all bitter about my time at Xerox. In fact I have come to fully understand that the skills I acquired at Xerox made me very very competitive in the job market. My feedback to all of you longtime X'ers is 1) trust in yourself, 2) despite Xerox' decline, know that you have been well trained and have marketable skills, 3) if you survive this latest round of cuts, go on a couple interviews for new jobs anyway while you still have one. You never know what you will discover. It also helps get the rust out. 4) Find a job listing you have interest in and update your resume and coverage letter for it RIGHT NOW while you still have a job. Think about all that you have experienced while at Xerox. 5) Have gratitude for the experiences you have gained and don't look behind with regret once you leave. Keep your head up. I wish all X'ers the best
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I worked at Xerox for 47 years. It started out as a beautiful corporation to be a part of. What happened after defies belief. They care nothing for their employees. They cut benefit to next to nothing. Raises were stingy to nonexistent and yes you are correct, they worked their accounting and tax staff to death. Almost every weekend and into the wee hours of the morning. I found the Xerox employees the most generous and helpful. More recently, when you get up in the executive the most ruthless. They ra--d a most reputable company.
I left Xerox in 2022 after having the prime ledge of working with many amazing people for more than 12 years (most with GIS companies). The current leadership took a great company and ruined it. For those considering leaving I”l tell you there are still great opportunities out there.
Would u go back?
"Xerox" used to be a term for a printed copy of a document. in the future, Xerox will be slang for garage sale!
Ok then nothing personal. I will put my “ego away”, once you put your “Harvard MBA away”. All the people here would be a lot more receptive to what you say, if you didn’t talk down to them.
Once i realize that xerox that xerox isn’t stupid …it’s just business…eh? More like Tin plated dictators drunk on their own power, with delusions of grandeur. To me…. That hits the nail right on the head. But i digress apparently.
No. Again - you misunderstand disagreement for a personal attack. Put the ego aside.
I’m with you. This whole thing sucks. I’m not on their side, I’m just being a realist. I think, at least. If you can’t get over your own pride to realize we all got sold a bill of goods you’re going to stumble into the same trap again.
This is nothing personal. This is just business. They don’t care about employees. You. Or me. Or anyone else. They care about the bottom line, and that’s all we are - you. Me. Or anyone else. Don’t dwell on “well I wouldn’t say cmon man” and then double down on like, “actually they can’t repair it.” That’s exactly what I was saying. They don’t want to. They want to get as much value as they can from you until you aren’t worth it and then wash their hands. That’s not nice.
You’re right to be angry. You should be angry. I just hope you can find the little nugget I want to explain that you shouldn’t be mad at other people here, and while xerox is a particularly egregious example, it’s not unique and you’re misplacing your anger.
Of course I didn’t know xerox would take these certain paths from ‘day one’ but if you aren’t in tune with how corporate america works, you’re going to lose the plot a lot more than is good for you. There’s not an entire class of really stupid executives that just happened to make a bunch of bad decisions but somehow get rich. No, those “bad decisions” made perfect sense when you realize that’s what they’re incentivized and paid to do. They’re only “bad decisions” to you because they knew they could f^%k you and me and get away with it because it made the next few quarters look good.
First of all i would never use C’mon man….ever. After our fearless leader used it every day for over a year.
Your credibility is in question right off the bat.
You truly believe that you had the foresight to see all this happening and yet you still defend xerox, like we all should have known.
What that tells me is that you have something to prove to people, or you are in on the take somewhere.
For what xerox has done to its employees and customers is beyond repair in any way.
The last thing that i would do is down play their actions and make it sound like you knew it was coming from day one.
Xerox deserves everything it gets. Maybe more. And then some….
I think Fuji will buy us for peanuts. And the Xerox name will not survive. That will be cost of trying to mess with them last time.
Lol, yeah you’re right. It’s not “corporate America” and I’m just damage control from xerox corporate. We just fear “exposure(?)” so much from people saying “they’re not doing a good job” that they hire us to work nights and weekends to make sure we control the narrative on some backwater forum. This is the real truth: Xerox is somehow totally and uniquely incompetently run, yet somehow employs a disinformation operation. If only you could somehow just pull back the curtain this could all be fixed. If somehow we only trusted you we could see it. How naive of us! Thankfully you’re here to say “open your eyes.”
Cmon, man. I get it - it’s a lot less comforting to accept a managed collapse and that you never had a chance, but that’s the long and short of it. They aren’t rejecting your ideas of “we just need to do ” because they’re brutally incompetent and misunderstood your genius - it was just never the plan to fix and grow. It’s not easy to accept the game was rigged from the start. It’s alienating to think you’re expendable and that your 40 or more hours a week - a massive part of your life - was just a number to accounting. Unfortunately that’s the reality. Theres no conspiracy at work because, unfortunately, none of us are actually that important to conspire against. This is all just value extraction pure and simple. Once you start working from that perspective everything that the corporation does makes a lot more sense.
Xerox is like Edsel.
Look it up if you don’t understand.
I Love how the know it all’s come on here and tell everyone that has an honest opinion, that we are all fools for expressing it. Everyday this happens.
They know everything. They know whats best for you. They have all the answers. They know the future. They are all doing better than you. They never have problems. Does that sound familiar?
Sounds to me like damage control, compliments of xerox. And the sad part is….a lot of you are buying into it. Not sure what it takes to convince you.
Anyone who has an IQ at all, knows xerox is a bunch of scoundrels, using people to get there golden parachutes, they use people and toss them away like cigarettes. Discard the people who helped to build this company. Then ruin its name, reputation and future by extremely bad management.
Someone coming on saying. “ thats how corporate America works ..” or “ xerox is a publicly traded company”, means nothing when you people all have been used and abused by this company in one form or another. It happens every day here.
And if we say anything at all negative about xerox. Well.. we are all disgruntled ex employees that are exaggerating or making it up. Of course thats much easier to discredit everything negative said.
Nice try. But Many of Us know Better and you can’t simply wish the problems away. There is arrogance here that is being fueled by oversimplification.
People need to ask questions and stop being lemmings. Question everything. The one thing they fear is exposure.
Put the Harvard MBA away and realize people are not cattle waiting to be branded by xerox or likes of corporate America. Get over yourselves.
Lol the company is not done and will not be in the near future. Love reading the dramatic responses, especially from the jaded ex lovers that continue to cry everyday that Xerox hurt their feelings. This is corporate business not a nonprofit. Get it through your thick skulls that it’s just a job inside of a publicly traded company. Stop coming on here crying everyday to your mama that big bad Xerox didn’t need you. You’re right, they don’t care and you guys shouldn’t either. Move on and go pretend your new gig is better; which obviously it’s not since you continue to just use this message board as a pathetic diary. Cheers!
Coming soon, X branded blue blocker sunglasses to cr-p level tv networks. Or ginsu knives
Reminds me of the movie “Airplane!”
The famous line by the commentator
“ I Say ………Let’em Crash!!!! “
Classic line that states my feelings exactly.
Company is done. Totally. Finished.
Xerox does not care about anything at all. Its like a dr-g addict. Always wanting more and letting their health deteriorate.
The world will eat up xerox alive long before it even knows what happened.
There is no reason at all to be involved with this company in any way for any reason. Period.
Like a restaurant in a location that failed and reopening another one but doing exactly the same thing that caused the restaurant to fail in the first place. There is nothing but poor leadership, and gross mismanagement left there. At some point it’s not worth your time trying to help them anymore.
Cut your losses. Seriously.
Yes, except that the name will survive.
Fundamental misunderstanding by so many people on here. The company doesn’t work for you - no company does. Xerox is working exactly as it wants to - to your own detriment. They don’t want to do “the right thing” by your judgement. They’re happy for you to bray and cry so long as you fit into their slow extraction of value. Companies work for shareholders, not employees. They’re not your family. They don’t care about you.
It’s collapsing, but collapse is a business.
Xerox = Old Yeller
Unfortunately no. This drunken accordion solo just keeps going. There must be some Mayan Calendar / end of days algorithm for Xerox’s inexorable demise? Please!
The name will always survive but most likely a renewed partnership with Fuji will come to light. We are their biggest customer in the world and makes too much sense.
Much to their chagrin, the jaded ex-lovers will continue to suffer and keep crying on here for another 12 months. 🥳
No
2018 was the company's last year. What's existed since then is an ATM for the executives and investors!!!!
Somehow this company just keeps limping along