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Post by joeatkodak on Sept 13, 2012 22:12:08 GMT -5
I've been out of Kodak for nearly two weeks, and it feels GREAT!
No more:
Worrying about the next layoff, plant shutdown, or being put up for sale.
Seeing friends with 20 years putting their stuff in boxes and being walked out.
Watching sales people defect to the competition along with their customer lists. Yes, it's in their contract that they can't do it, but EK is no longer enforcing it. They are afraid of getting sued if they layoff a salesman they previously prevented from leaving for a competitor.
Hearing about yet ANOTHER customer returning their press (don't ask). You don't read about THAT in PrintWeek or WhatTheyThink, do you?
Having to plead with vendors to ship needed parts so we can build equipment.
Having to raid Engineering test systems so we can send a part to a customer - as we didn't have THAT part in stock.
Enduring yet ANOTHER organizational change.
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Post by joeatkodak on Sept 13, 2012 22:19:16 GMT -5
I've been out of Kodak for nearly two weeks, and it feels GREAT! No more: Worrying about the next layoff, plant shutdown, or being put up for sale. Seeing friends with 20 years putting their stuff in boxes and being walked out. Watching sales people defect to the competition along with their customer lists. Yes, it's in their contract that they can't do it, but EK is no longer enforcing it. They are afraid of getting sued if they layoff a salesman they previously prevented from leaving for a competitor. Hearing about yet ANOTHER customer returning their press (don't ask). You don't read about THAT in PrintWeek or WhatTheyThink, do you? Having to plead with vendors to ship needed parts so we can build equipment. Having to raid Engineering test systems so we can send a part to a customer - as we didn't have THAT part in stock. Enduring yet ANOTHER organizational change. You told me you were still long 60k just the other day??? I guess we caught you in a lie!!!!! Nice Huh? I'm still long 60K shares. I simply left Kodak. I've not sold the stock.
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Post by TheBondKid on Sept 13, 2012 22:35:49 GMT -5
you posted two days ago how the rumors of a deal or positive auction were dead.
Makes sense now! You dont go to work!
Atleast we know you are a bit disgruntled, which helps us to better understand you.
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Post by joeatkodak on Sept 13, 2012 23:32:54 GMT -5
you posted two days ago how the rumors of a deal or positive auction were dead. Makes sense now! You dont go to work! Atleast we know you are a bit disgruntled, which helps us to better understand you. I work somewhere else now...lol.... please try to keep up.
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Post by Admin on Sept 14, 2012 5:40:17 GMT -5
Come on Joe, stop acting like the machines don't work.
I saw videos of them working and blazing fast.
We all have.
SBG
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Post by joeatkodak on Sept 14, 2012 8:48:57 GMT -5
Come on Joe, stop acting like the machines don't work. I saw videos of them working and blazing fast. We all have. SBG I didn't say they didn't work. Now, I don't want to get into a pissing contest, so understand I'm only passing this information on for those interesting in learning a bit more about this industry and products. Regardless of the printer vendor, Oce, Kodak, HP, etc. They ALL have the ability to go blazing fast, and look good on YouTube. They all have the ability to print VERY nice looking images. They ALL have the ability to print on various types of stock (paper). They all have the ability to print different file formats (PDF, AFP, PPML, etc.) The all have the ability to print ecomonically with regard to ink usage and end-of-day waste. They all have varying degrees of reliability, but for the most part are good enough for commercial production work. Now, understand that NO ONE can do ALL of those the very best at the same time. However, problems can arise if a customer is sold a system they were lead to believe excelled at a particular parameter, and ended up failing for that customer. As a "made up" example, suppose a customer wanted to print on a particular stock, with a particular ink loading. True, the image will print, but the press might not be able to go at full speed due to the limitations of the dryer to suck that much water out of the ink at XYZ ft/min. So in order for the dryer to be able to dry properly, the customer can only go at maybe 75% of the speed. And in HIS case, he needed the rated speed (bear in mind, many don't). So the customer says, "Unless I can print the types of images *MY* customers need, in the timeframe *I* need, take the machine back. Back in the Scitex days, we would plant a couple of engineers on-site for weeks on end, if not months, to get the system right. So, in this case, it is not about a "bad" machine, but rather a machine just not performing to the expectations of the customer. Especially if the salesman - needing to meet his quota - "oversold" the system knowing full-well the requirements of the customer. Again, this is just a SAMPLE example.
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