Xerox to lay off 285 employees at call centers in Coos County (via OregonLive.com)
Xerox Corp. notified 285 employees at two calls centers in Coos County today that they will lose their jobs in July and those facilities will close permanently. “Due to a change in our customers’ business strategy and conditions we (will) be closing those facilities,” said to Bill McKee, a Xerox spokesman…
It appeared to me ACS struggled with quality candidates to fill open positions. In a county with such high unemployment they seemed to beg for employees. That makes no sense, until you experience the inbred populous of Coos County & then it makes perfect sense.
From page 17-15 of The JOB Messiahs:
“In 1999 a company now called ACS (Associated Computer Services) established a branch in Coos Bay. The Port of Coos Bay built them a building for about 1.2 million, and they also financed ACS’s office equipment to the tune of half a million. Financing actually came from Oregon’s Economic Development Department. ACS undertook to pay rent on the building and on the equipment based on a 25-year and 10-year amortization schedule, respectively. Obviously the port went into business with a private company again, and once again the port would share no profits but the port (and/or the state) would carry the downside risk of a nonperforming tenant.
The World greeted the Grand Opening of ACS as “…a great way to kick off the campaign to try to woo light-manufacturing and high-tech companies . . . Those who have followed the port’s progress should be impressed.” . . .
And from page 17-16:
“The Port had been leasing the land for ACS from the Airport District for $35,700 a year, and subleased it to ACS for $16,200. Though subsidies are nothing new at the port, one wonders why ACS needed to be subsidized at all, since it doesn’t exactly offer the “good-payin’ family-wage-jobs” that the development boosters clamor for. No doubt ACS’s owners have done well, though, having sold their company to Xerox, for $7.4 billion.”
Anybody have any idea how much money this company received in tax breaks, etc. to locate here?? This makes no sense, they just got here, so there must be something going on that brought them here in the first place, anyone know?
Ugh, that’s a hit we don’t need. Very sad for the people working there.