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03-29-2007, 06:18 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
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Circuit City firing experienced employees - replacing with cheap ones.
Welcome to America! This kind of thing should be entirely ILLEGAL... Circuit City deserves any bad fate coming their way for being this nasty to devoted workers.
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=6691
The 3,400 employees affected by the job cuts represent 8% of Circuit City's total work force. Employees will be given four weeks’ worth of severance pay and will have the option of reapplying for their positions at a lower pay grade after a 10-week hiatus. |
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03-30-2007, 09:17 PM
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Middle American
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Midwest
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Best Buy and Circuit City suck anyway, either as places to shop or work.
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04-01-2007, 07:35 AM
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Diary of a Mad Black Man
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"Looking for something to do for New Years Eve."
(set 2 days ago)
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: SW Alexandria City, VA; Ft. Knox, KY in 2010
4,435 posts, read 3,423,226 times
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i work at circuit city and my fellow employees didn't find out about their layoff until wednesday when our manager knew about it for months. he needs to be fired too.
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03-17-2009, 12:05 PM
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Junior Member
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Reputation: 10
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Help for a Marketing Class Project
Quote:
Originally Posted by Alanboy395
i work at circuit city and my fellow employees didn't find out about their layoff until wednesday when our manager knew about it for months. he needs to be fired too.
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Hi, my group members and I need help with our class project on making marketing plans at the High School of Fashion Industries in NYC, and we chose Circuit City as our company to re-vamp. We had to create a questionnaire to ask to former employees and we were wondering if you and other employees can help us! Your time and help is greatly appreciated! Please respond.
- Fashion Students in need. |
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03-17-2009, 12:35 PM
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If its too loud, you're too old
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: SE Michigan
744 posts, read 341,370 times
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they are in Chapter 11 anyway. Won't be long until they are in Chapter 17 I'm sure. Especially with this move.
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03-17-2009, 06:08 PM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Greenville SC
1,262 posts, read 992,173 times
Reputation: 246
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Crustedfilth
they are in Chapter 11 anyway. Won't be long until they are in Chapter 17 I'm sure. Especially with this move.
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I think all of their stores are closed now. |
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03-17-2009, 06:35 PM
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Stranger than fiction
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: In the state of denial
5,280 posts, read 1,937,820 times
Reputation: 1929
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Alanboy395
i work at circuit city and my fellow employees didn't find out about their layoff until wednesday when our manager knew about it for months. he needs to be fired too.
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Your manager probably wasn't allowed to tell you. I watched 4 rounds of terminations before my turn came and no one was given advanced warning. I got more than most and I only got a week's notice.
Companies don't permit managers to tell employees. They're afraid of retaliation and sabatoge and I don't blame them. Some employees react very badly when let go.
I had 18 years with the company and one week was all I got. |
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03-17-2009, 07:20 PM
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Moderator
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Grand Rapids Metro
4,587 posts, read 3,357,911 times
Reputation: 947
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Quote:
Originally Posted by fihsmktg123
Hi, my group members and I need help with our class project on making marketing plans at the High School of Fashion Industries in NYC, and we chose Circuit City as our company to re-vamp. We had to create a questionnaire to ask to former employees and we were wondering if you and other employees can help us! Your time and help is greatly appreciated! Please respond.
- Fashion Students in need.
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Here's an idea: don't hire slimy salespeople and incent them to pressure everyone to buy an extended warranty. Oh, and don't advertise a product on sale that you don't even really have on the floor for sale. It didn't work for Highland Appliance. It didn't work for Olly Fretter. It's no wonder it didn't work for Circuit City.
If there's anything you can learn at High School of Fashion Industries in NY, is that unethical business practices never pay. |
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03-17-2009, 10:50 PM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Former Yooper, now s.w. MI
386 posts, read 370,058 times
Reputation: 122
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Quote:
Originally Posted by magellan
It didn't work for Olly Fretter.
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A blast from my childhood past...... "It's Always Better, To Shop At Fretter"
Can't believe that little jingle was stuck away in my mind when I read your post. Haven't they been out of business for over a decade or more?  |
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03-18-2009, 07:50 AM
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Moderator
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Grand Rapids Metro
4,587 posts, read 3,357,911 times
Reputation: 947
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jeeg
A blast from my childhood past...... "It's Always Better, To Shop At Fretter"
Can't believe that little jingle was stuck away in my mind when I read your post. Haven't they been out of business for over a decade or more? |
Yeah, I think so.  Those places were horrible, but they were always right near each other (at least when I was a kid in Lansing). |
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