What are the chances layoffs will continue tomorrow?

Had a emergency meeting knew that was bad. Akira did not paint a good picture when the company did not meet it goals last quarter. Today guys were let go and we were told all thru the company all divisions.

917 race horse deaths last year…Nice branding Ricoh. https://horseracingwrongs.org/ki-led-2022/

I worked in Office Services from 2010 to 2017 until the customer went back to having temps. They asked me if I wanted to go to another site but I declined. Every once in a while I think about that side of the business and was wondering if anyone... —  read more 

Heard that Ricoh has outsourced their Service Techs to a 3rd party in many parts of the US. Most were given a choice of joining the 3rd party or leaving the company. I hope they got a nice severance package if they decided on the latter.

Wonder who took this survey! https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ricoh-usa-earns-2023-great-place-to-work-certification-301896143.html

Ohhh my! Where did learnings for,” Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) Service Solutions” come from Ricoh India? https://www.industryanalysts.com/072023_ricoh/

770 bucks? Puh-leezze! There’s no way you could propose this to a customer with a straight face. Only way these are going out the door is if they’re mandated as sales gates and bundled into fleet... —  read more 

Ricoh really showing its desperation here. Toshiba mfp market share % anyone? Any Fortune 500 CIO out there standardizing on Toshiba laptops? Really fitting nicely with the Ricoh brand: Anything for a buck. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b-KhqIrpU_s —  read more 

Well, what is everyone thinking about this? Just found out.

Personally I think annual targets are way too low given everyone has returned to the office. Should be 300% of plan by July. It’s like selling oxygen on the moon.

Rumor is Ricoh is bringing back Duplicators! 5450 loaded back on the website. Hopefully available Q3. So very messy but very reliable and low running cost! Must have been inspired by the film camera come back. New world of work not working out? Way... —  read more 

8009 laid off sounds like a salvage procedure to me.

You’d think ricoh invented the water mill and a generator. Stick to selling printers. https://newsroom.telford.gov.uk/News/Details/16774

Incoming Layoffs to T1 help desk.

Anything going on behind the scenes at Ricoh direct?

This executive shuffle will make a really big difference… said absolutely nobody. https://www.marketscreener.com/amp/quote/stock/RICOH-COMPANY-LTD-6491237/news/Ricoh-Company-Ltd-Announces-Executive-Changes-Effective-April-1-2023-42844940/

That’s rich! Ricoh associating itself with Employee Work Satisfaction is like Yosemite Sam chairing a committee on firearm safety. 2036…ambitious... —  read more 

Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun Newspaper is reporting that Ricoh’s CFO, Shun Kawaguchi apparently announced that company is set to evaluate Ricoh’s many businesses and determine with it will withdraw from or attempt to sell

Left go or layoff because of rev retail.

Seems to me like RIcoh has been dropping the ball on many things. Supply issues, billing issues and big time service issues . Little to no direction from management or senior management. It makes you wonder what the future holds.

What was the sponsorship / branding business case here? Gambling? Horse deaths? https://www.tsn.ca/modern-games-makes-history-winning-ricoh-woodbine-mile-1.1850240

We'll have major layoffs either this or the following month. All things point to that.

Scraping the bottom of the PR barrel… https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ricoh-creates-industry-first-training-to-career-program-investing-in-generation-next-and-the-future-of-print-301611639.html

I heard that by Oct 1st the only service RIcoh direct is retaining is Production print. Most will find out by the end of August. Anyone else hear this information?

Imagine Change/New World of Work= Get rid of your senior tenured talent and replace with cheap newbies. Customers love dealing with “cashiers in training.” Speaking of cheap, what’s with the sign on “bonus”. $500? $1250? These are like sales spiffs... —  read more 

It's surprising to see how little the management cares about making sure that institutional knowledge is not lost. People are walking away - some are even being laid off - who posses invaluable experience. When the leadership stops giving a damn... —  read more 

Happening again big chunk given or sold to dealer. Paid how much to buy the s**t show I mean Ikon now giving it all back. Gives you a warm fuzzy feeling working here

A Japanese company and a North American company decided to have a canoe race on the St. Lawrence River. Both teams practiced long and hard to reach their peak performance before the race. On the big day, the Japanese won by a mile. The North... —  read more 

Imagine. Change! What a great company. Better increase those shipping and handling charges ricoh… https://www.napa-net.org/news-info/daily-news/ricoh-rocked-excessive-fee-suit

I'm not going to claim that this is the case for everybody, but it certainly is for the majority of employees. Unless you know someone there is no chance to be promoted or moved around. I've been passed for promotions twice in as many years for... —  read more 

I was a Ricoh field service technician until just a couple months ago. I worked for them for 6 years. Some of the products are good especially the black and white copiers as they are more reliable and not so complicated to work on because they are a... —  read more 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1iaqy5KF9eU

Incredible what this company puts on a stick and pumps up and down. Go back to sleep until you have something to talk about. Washing machine more useful than ricoh’s printers… better built and less expensive... —  read more 

With the launch of the WMT today, I've already applied for a few new jobs. A big part of this job is the freedom to work at your own pace, and as long as your calls get done & the customers are happy, you're free to do what you will. That's why we... —  read more 

Fujitsu shedding this piece of business to focus on growth and looking ahead into the a sustainable future… ricoh? Not so much. Ricoh basically a bottom feeder shopping for hardware tech at other companies’ garage sales. And it’s SCANNERS… ricoh... —  read more 

https://www.law360.com/employment-authority/amp/articles/1485251

Xerox services received notification of new training courses on how to take Ricoh service calls. This happened with Lexmark, then they had service train on the equipment. Not sure what this spells for Ricoh, it definitely sucks for us since we are... —  read more