I have some of the same roots as Clint. I started as a technician with
Olympus Corporate Headquarters in Woodbury NY in 1977. A few years into it,
I was "promoted" into middle management as NY Service Supervisor and grew to
.....er..........dislike it. (Try to keep a Japanese chain of command
happy..oh I forgot....keep the parallel American chain of command happy at
the same time ........now the other one's unhappy...oh
nevermind.......private repair shop here I come.)
Then it was approx 8 years of subcontracting for Olympus. My contract was
not renewed in '95 (best thing that could have happened. Why do an IS-3 for
$18 when you can get $120 for a retail repair? ) and it's been smooth
sailing ever since.
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John Hermanson www.zuiko.com
mail: omtech@xxxxxxxxx
Camtech, Olympus Sales & Service since 1977
21 South Lane, Huntington NY 11743-4714
631-424-2121 Turnaround 4-5 weeks
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----- Original Message -----
From: <clintonr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 1:19 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] I held an E 1 today!
> Let's just say that as a former employee and Service Manager from
> Olympus America, Inc.'s predecessor, Olympus Camera Corporation, I have
> intimate experience with their management techniques. The products they
> are and were entrusted to sell here in America are second to none --
> pity they have never risen to the same level. But then, in their
> parlance, anyone such as I who would deign to criticize Olympus/U.S.'s
> "upper management", however justifiably, would simply be dismissed with
> an offhand comment of, "just another disgruntled former employee -- pay
> him no heed". At least that's what I was told to say....
>
> bdcolen wrote:
> >
> > Just out of curiosity -
> > 1. In what companies that you have personal knowledge of do senior
> > managers account for 450f the workforce - or anything like it?
> >
> > 2. What is it you have against Olympus as a company?
> >
> > I'm serious when I say I'm just curious - Is it that the company dropped
> > the OM line, on which it had lost money for years?
> >
> > B. D.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> > clintonr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 3:38 PM
> > To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [OM] I held an E 1 today!
> >
> > Let's see -- 45%.... Yep, that accounts for senior executives.
> >
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