OK, what the heck is going on in the headquarters? Can someone explain to me why we have full size colorful posters of animals with copies on the elevators? I feel like I'm in a children's hospital. What's the scoop and why?

Is this another cost-cutting move by the bean counters at corporate? Can’t wait to see what cost-cutting moves they make with the health insurance open-enrollment next month.

that's what they came up with?

Yeah, we’re sc--wed.

The numbers for August have been released and if you thought July was bad, think again. I guess when sales people are continuously lied to and the company makes it almost impossible for those people to make a honest living, you get these results. ... — read more 

Just curious for those that were laid off in July 2024 how your job search went or is still ongoing? I still see some people on LinkedIn who never updated their position which makes me believe many are still out of work. On one hand, I feel for your... — read more 

Yeah, it's weird here. Yeah, the morale isn't great and the Coporate big-wigs make life more difficult on their employees than they have to. But get out and enjoy the weekend, everyone. Happy Labor Day! But to the on-highs who decided that the still... — read more 

Is this good for the company?

I recently lost a Canon production machine where CSA (now Canon USA) was the incumbent. My customer decided to price me out to a local Canon dealership and as you can imagine I lost the deal because I was I undercut. I informed my direct... — read more 

One common theme about Canon is clear: it doesn’t matter which building you work in, the problems are the same. Canon doesn’t suffer from a lack of talent.. it suffers from a lack of leadership. Employees show up, work hard, and carry the company... — read more 

Over the past few weeks, I’ve noticed a stark increase in the amount of time being taken off. I don’t think this is part of the normal summer vacation cycle. I’m getting the impression that people are flamed out and have stopped giving full effort... — read more 

Not that there is any direct correlation, but the last time Canon Global pulled this cr-p was the end of Q2, 2024. 8 days before the mass layoffs in Canon USA. "On August 22, Canon announced the completion of a significant share repurchase:... — read more 

Over the weekend, I visited my therapist who diagnosed me with the novel disease called Canonitis, otherwise known in the medical field as “The Sammy Blues”. Canonitis is characterized by severe depression, frustration, anger, confusion and anxiety... — read more 

Sometime in 2020 with pandemic closures, the company installed monitoring applications on laptops that randomly captures screenshots and reported meta information. Then came tracking the badge swipes at doors to ensure that all employees ordered to... — read more 

Looks like S Giuliano is no longer gainfully employed by the emperor. Mr G was always fair and after working alongside him side for years - I can say truly, he was one of the best managers and leaders. Sad day.

The latest “quiet” work thing has fully arrived, joining quiet quitting, quiet firing, quiet vacationing, and probably dozens of quieter things not yet realized. We’ve now got quiet cracking — a persistent funk in which employee sat slowly erodes... — read more 

There truly are no more real bonafide leaders at CUSA anymore. Not one. Nobody is excited by anyone in charge right now. Nobody wants to go the extra mile anymore. Everyone just kind of stopped caring. You are no longer promoted for talent and hard... — read more 

As someone who must use Excel and Power BI all day, everyday, this switch to Google is the final straw for me. First, Google Sheets is inferior to Excel. Second, I’ve spent hundreds of hours building Power BI reports, and now what? Poof, bye bye... — read more 

There are no charismatic leaders left the people can relate to and want to go the extra mile for. I can barely understand the communication from some of our “leaders” who have been placed into power over the last year or two. Much less be able to... — read more 

If Canon ever advertised on TV or radio like a real company, what song should they use in their advertising?

"Sales of the Canon brand were down 10 percent in July and there was no significant profit mainly due to the tariffs. While we anticipated this negative impact, it does not make the result acceptable" The problem with this statement is that it... — read more 

Not sure how each location looks but for South NJ (Burlington) it's a total ghost town and that's just the parking lot... Doesn't even matter what day of the week it is. Inside is no better, you see the same people who just look more and more... — read more 

Since we’re all here, let’s chat! I only ask that you keep it positive for this thread please… What’s something positive or good that happened for you at work this week?

This site is ridiculous because all I’ve seen are a bunch of people with no actual evidence stating that they “know” layoffs are coming, or they “feel” layoffs are coming but unless you have some facts or overheard someone important (I doubt we have... — read more 

TRUST - CREDIBILITY – OPEN AND HONEST COMMUNICATION - RESPECT Every relationship is built on trust, and without it, nothing can be built. A little over a year ago, that trust was broken by the way leadership handled the exit of so many members of... — read more 

How worried should we be?

To everyone at HQ—look at the grass in the courtyard. From far away, it looks green, but up close it’s full of weeds. That’s exactly what’s happening with our leadership. Just because someone has a fancy title—VP, SD, specially EVP—doesn’t mean... — read more 

I know this topic has been addressed before and if you are going to reply with "this isn't true" save it... I can't understand why HR in the South Jersey location (Burlington) isn't avail until 9am ... I thought the hours were 830-500? I get that... — read more 

Anybody stupid enough to continue the endless reply alls to the Vanguard profit sharing email should be terminated. Canon is not employing the best and brightest! Geezus, just don’t reply to the email, stop picking at it like a scab.

Why are the regional sales and service leaders being summoned to the zone HQ today for meetings in the middle of the month? Are they meeting to discuss why we are losing large and smaller accounts in most of our markets or to hammer out another... — read more 

Not sure how it is in other locations or not (depends on the favoritism I'm sure) I was under the impression that if you work from home on an in office day, that you must come in on the Thursday and it's almost like a one-time deal.. (Appt, etc) How... — read more 

Over one year of mini layoffs disguised as terminations, the company has reduced its employee population by 8.8%.

What is everyone’s thoughts based on what we saw and heard?

Tuesday, July 9th, 2024, the day of the death spiral, nothing good has happened since.

Just because the calls didn't come thru today, doesn't mean it's not in the works.. Its still early in the month.. Maybe it's gonna be after the big 4hr meeting next week.. Everyone knows something is on the horizon because of the numbers looking... — read more 

Welcome to MBA-Wannabe 101. Here is your assigned reading for this week. The below article describes Canon to a T. https://ronmci.medium.com/ten-reasons-why-large-corporations-cant-or-won-t-care-for-people-00f2e15de109

Anyone else not get their paychecks today as expected? My whole team is commenting, no deposit and not available in HR self-service. Guess I'm eating ramen all weekend...

It's not bad enough that the work load has changed with work getting outsourced out of the country, the morale is awful, micro-managing is at an all - time high, people are just depressed and miserable, let's add to that the fact that the Commerce... — read more