I work here and I always pray that Customers do not want a tour of the campus - Whether it's the abandoned building 105 that the Customer has to drive past to make the right turn (please don't look at the abandoned 129 139 147), then the abandoned 205 and defunct 300, then the eerily disshelved parking stadium that is a great candidate for a filming location for a Halloween movie on the right as you travel to 209. I'm sorry but any Customer we bring to GHCCI is going to be depressed by the time we get them there. Plus the maintenance and upkeep of Gil Hatch Center is going down the tubes as fast as you can say annual Holiday time frame IRIF. If it weren't me being in the six figures for what I do there (Xerox California Transfer / marketing) I would be gone gone gone, but I suspect that would be the case for anyone else here. Fujifilm: XRX is worth 500 million on a good day we miss you but please, please don't pay a penny above 500 million we know Stevie already called...
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I agree but the Free-flowing guys are worse they never have access to a working printer so they use what they call shim code to present a totally fake demo to real customers. Then they punt the cr-p they just sold to support who has to deal with the mess after install. No team at x and completely corrupt....
Fake printing is putting vetted color managed and preinspected prints in the output path post marking and keeping the infeed drawers and iot jailbroken so you can still see the gui look like it is working. They also have a dfe simulator that looks 100 percent like the real thing.
They have been doing it for years at the demo center if a customer is tech savvy and starts to take a deeper look, in particular where are they getting the click and accounting data for the print, they will scurry that person off the demo room floor for coffee asap.... Clean house at the demo center no ethics there and all sc-m bags who will stab you in the back at a moments notice.
What is fake printing?
It's hilarious watching the peeps in 209 scurry to steal parts off the production line minutes before the demo with no clue if the machine will actually print so they fake print to REAL Customers omg what a dumpster fire No innovation just selling a pile of junk that triggers immediate support after install... Sell some more of that bad toner I heard the new toner plant is majorly understaffed and is mostly broke as well...
The money is why all of us “tenured” people stay LOL
Who else will pay me this much money and make me “president” of a business? When i take a cab from ROC to the Hatch Center i try not to look at the cr-ppy old campus or think too much about the past.
Ol’ Gil Hatch must be turning over in his grave.
You don’t mess with the Japanese ever, and they never forget being slighted. Ichan & his soldiers should have thought of the consequences of their actions before they pushed refusing Fuji’s offer in 2018. At this point Ichans goons have totally Xerox into the ground. What’s left other than debt, why would anyone want it?
Wake up boomer
Did you say that 205 is empty now? It was full of ppl from Xerox Square in late 2018
I'm pretty sure you can fit everyone in the east side of 111 now and then they can concrete wall the west side off like they did to 212 / 218 and previous to that 129 / 139. These icahn goons Carl left behind are still here, & love their concrete walls but remember JV said landscaping is too much $ lmao. By the way I figured it out using my black belt skills because I am on site - When they re-paint the crumbling curbs on campus that ugly red color, or if you see a drain inspection by the curb (big white truck), that means they are selling yet another building to make the December Divvy. Can't make this stuff up but it's how you get the info at Xerox today look to the contractors that come on site - trust me you will never ever hear it from mgmt. 1st...
Throw some paint on it and flip it. No budget for paint!?! Hmmm… Rip the copper wire out of the walls and get what ever you can for the land. Feed it to the dividend!
it wasnt a ghost town when it was buikt 20 years ago, but yeah not looking great now
Locating Ghcc in the middle of a modern day industrial ghost town, d-mb idea. This company likes to hide warts behind curtains to show their 'best', but somehow they missed this one!
Sevenhead is the master
The people saying support the company while you're still getting a paycheck are the same mothers who go on the news after their son shawt someone saying how he's such a good boy. Look, if Xerox wasn't dirt, than we wouldn't have people talking about how dirty we are.
So you are a marketing dork who transferred from CA working in Webster who is a bit slow. I’ll have your name by Monday. Support the company while taking a paycheck.
Agree with OP. I've visited the Webster campus many times for training, meetings, etc. Each time I felt like I was stepping back into the 1960s, or middle Detroit, or NYC in the late 70s. The buildings are a disgrace and definitely not something I would want to show customers. You can "modernize" the Gil Hatch center all you want, but when customers have to drive by all the other trash heaps just to get to it there's no point. Why in the world would you put your customer demo center a stones throw from a toner plant that looks like it was a prop in the "Escape from New York" movie?
It's really just another example of how the entire company is run. Throw money into disintegrating assets to paper over the true picture and hope no one notices, or the ones that are responsible can retire before anyone does.
No one can hear you op. Ears are full of sand. Lift with your legs and enjoy your c-level parking spot.
Totally agree with the fact that the op should go go go.
It’s a shame where we’re at in our industry but then you have a supposedly six figure employee cheering our demise.
Go infect the competition.
Wonderful characterization of the the company you are supposedly marketing, maybe you should go, go, go.
From the penthouse to the outhouse!
“Why pay 500 today when you can buy for 10 cents on the dollar tomorrow.”
- Sun Tzu