Minolta Should Value its
Employees
This is in response to the "Minolta!
Minolta!" letter to the editor by Marina Leichis of
Minolta. I understand it is up to the McGill Daily to
select which letters to publish, and a response to a
letter to the editor may be uncommon, however I still
think it is important to voice concerns about issues
relating to McGill student life. I welcome your
response.
There is a reason that a big company like
Minolta can continue to be successful and have goals to
“maintain the highest quality” around, and that is by
being disrespectful towards its employees, and firing
them en masse when there is any intention by employees
to voice concerns about management abuse. The former
employees of Minolta have said nothing about the
standards of service, only about the disrespect of
Minolta towards its employees.
It is unfortunate that
Marina Leichis (Minolta HR) cannot see beyond the
bottom-line and services offered by Minolta, and instead
sees a difficulty with employees asking for respect
because to do so would compromise profits.
The HR
department of an international company like Minolta can
point to different reasons to explain the mass layoffs
of its entire staff, "current economic climate" and the
like, but it doesn't stand up to reason. Minolta fired a
staff with experience and a commitment to service and
absorbed the costs of training new staff because it
would have been too costly to resolve the repeated
complaints from employees.
Doug Bastien
Former
employee, Minolta (Montreal) Inc.
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