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People with NCR ties respond to relocation plans

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Updated 7:19 PM Wednesday, June 3, 2009

As the National Cash Register Co. draws the curtain on more than a century of connection to Dayton, past and present employees are reacting with a combination of anger, nostalgia and grief. Here is a sampling of e-mails sent to the Dayton Daily News from people with NCR connections.

Blame Bill Nuti and the board

It is disappointing NCR is leaving and as a long term employee and a second generation employee; it really hurts. But the fault is not with Ohio or local officials.

It is with (Bill) Nuti and the board. When the board did not force him to move to Dayton within the first year as his employment contract stated that is when Nuti knew what he was going to do. He used the excuse that is wife had a severe blood disorder.

Well that is not true either. Then after all the key NCR guys left with the Teradata spin off that really knew how to run the company and keep it in Dayton Nuti became Chairman of his own board which really should not be allowed by the SEC.

Had guys like Mike Koehler, Bruce Langos, Pete Bocian still beeen with NCR this announcement would have never happened.

Nuti claims he is moving to Georgia because of better talent and skill sets. And it is hard to recruit talent in Dayton.

So he is essentially saying the 125 year old company that survived the great depression, contributed and survived the war, helped save Dayton during the great flood, survived a hostile take over from AT&T with 5 years of losses and then emerge again as NCR, reinvent itself and become one of the most profitable companies in the US from 2003 to 2007 had poor talent.

Name another company who had the talent that could do what NCR has done.

But with the talent of Koehler, Langos, Bocian, and others gone Nuti lost the core NCR domain knowledge of how to run NCR.

Keep in mind when you have someone run a company that has no emotional tie to its heritage or community, then corporate responsibility to the community is not important to them. It all begins with the board who let him ruin the company.

-- Not signed

Rather be part of old NCR

I grew up in Kettering in the forties and fifties. I had a lot of neighbors and friends working at NCR as well as on my paper route in Southern Hills.

I worked for NCR in the early 60’s in R & D after college at OSU. We had a good group of techies in our section and were all proud of our work including military contract work.

That all started to change in the late sixties when NCR started outsourcing work away from their Dayton facilities and laying off well qualified technical staff. Sadly, I left the company and took a computer sales job with IBM in their Dayton office. It has been painful to witness the slow death of NCR in the Dayton area.

People’s lives have been impacted in a negative way.

I learned at a relatively young age that you no longer grow up and work as a loyal employee for a hometown legend. Now they say we are in the midst of a global economy.

I’d rather be a part of the old NCR where pride and company loyalty were worth something moreso than the bottom line.

-- John Zeisler, Columbus, Ohio

In 1984 NCR 'celebrated the future,' now what?

I worked for many years in NCR, England as a manager and a Director. I visited Dayton frequently, and also many other plants and offices throughout the USA and Europe. I met many outstanding managers and made many friends throughout this time, and treasure the eleven years I spent with a superb organization.

I am truly shocked at NCR’s decision to move away from the city which helped the corporation develop, grow, and recover from more than one near-disaster over a history which extends way back to 1884.

In 1984, NCR celebrated its centenary with the proud slogan — “Celebrating the Future.” This year is NCR’s 125th Anniversary. What is the slogan now?

-- David S Collins, Harpenden, England

Leaving Dayton 'just plain wrong'

I worked for NCR from 1982 to 1993. There is definitely some sentiment there because that was my first job out of college. I worked at headquarters building for about two years while I was there. I was laid off during the whole AT&T mess. I will say that NCR was very generous with that lay off, but even back then it was a poor decision.

So to hear they are pulling out of Dayton is just plain wrong. I am saddened and angry and I don’t even work for them any more.

-- Nancy Prater, Huber Heights

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