i lurk on the other forum, not to start a flame war here, but another perspective from Dan Savoie who works at Pentax
Re: Speaking of Canada: Pentax SLR Talk Forum: Digital Photography Review
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Pentax SLR Talk
Subject Re: Speaking of Canada
Posted by
Dan Savoie [CLICK FOR PROFILE]
Date/Time 7:52:35 PM, Monday, May 05, 2008 (GMT)
Hey Jeffkrol,
Yes, I read that post on Saturday. It's the funniest thing I've read in a long time...
I can assure you that No one was layed off, nothing was sold by the pound, warehouse stock was not sold for a song, No staff got free pickings ( I WISH), Henry's & Visteck did not pick up anything other than their usual stocking purchases/shipments...
Pentax Canada Inc. was number 1 for profit among all Pentax Distributors last year.
All of the posters statements are false. There is nothing to worry about.
The poster himself says that he got a ( 80-200mm ) lens from his source for next to nothing even though his source could have sold the lens for $2000.00 he sold it to him for $400.00 becuase he didn't care about making money because he got the lens for free.
He says his source got 2 (80-200mm) lenses free. If this was true, then why didn't his source just give him one of the lens if he didn't care about money?
He also says that his source was Higher Management and was Layed and received a severence package for 1 1/2 years of his monthly salary. Then on the last page he says that his source was not layed off and that he just decided to leave the company.
Which one is it?
Not a single higher management has been layed off recently and Pentax Canada Inc., does not even have 25 higher management employees ( so that there tells you the credibility of this poster and his makebeleive source).
The post himself is also from the Philippines ( check the two pictures he posted to the forum). They both say while driving home, and the locatoin is the Philippines, yet his best was Higher Management for Pentax Canada Inc. Not that this is impossible, but very strange.. He never tells you that he is from the Philippines but instead the way he writes he tries to make it sound as though he lives in Mississauga.
There is no truth to this and there is no source.
If nothing else it makes for very good hummour...
I've been with Pentax Canada Inc. for over 5 years, trust me if there was even a little truth to any of this, I would not be posting....
Hope this helps,
Info_Man --> Dan
jeffkrol wrote:
> and sorry for the loss BTW..
> But is it true that Pentax Canada is iin the process of shutting down?
> Quote from another forum.......
> The Hoya people went to the Canada office and started laying off
> people left and right. (Just last week, 25 people were laid off).
> Half of their warehouse stock were sold off for a song he says. They
> still have stocks left but he says it will all soon be gone. He said
> the lenses were sold BY THE POUND, to Henry's and some other store, I
> forgot the name, owned by one Ron Silverstein. Anyway, he says the
> lease for the warehouse won't be renewed, and it seems that the end
> of Pentax Canada is near. He also said that Pentax is at a loss
> worldwide, and that Hoya even called Pentax Canada employees as
> "ineffective.".......................................
>
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> 'The exposure meter is calibrated to some clearly defined standards
> and the user needs to adjust his working method and his subject
> matter to these values. It does not help to suppose all kinds of
> assumptions that do not exist.'
> Erwin Puts
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