circuit city people!

[Randy Savage 5,000+ posts]

Have fun at that shithole of a company.

They run that company like shit...

 

[crunktimes.com 5,000+ posts]

Wow I don't get how that shit is even legal. I can see if they are moving a plant say to somewhere else (still sucks but physically the jobs are moving) but how can you fire someone because they are making too much and hire someone else cheaper.

This is why I believe brick and mortar stores will see the end days at some point, corporate ****s keep doing things like this and people will just keep spending online.. what will happen, will we have no more malls? Just Super Walmart after Super Walmart and grocery stores.

Sorry about your job loss guys, just goes to show you you need to look our for self first.. Are they giving you guys any type of severence?

 

[Towncar 10+ year member]

Have fun at that shithole of a company.
They run that company like shit...

I used to work at tweeter, so im sure it couldnt possibly be any worse.. I mean look where tweeter is headed after all now... Im glad i left last year.

 

[gl0ck 10+ year member]

Have fun at that shithole of a company.
They run that company like shit...

Agreed.

Tony you see anything happen at scherillville, im at merillville and i believe things are fine. To the internal forum i go...//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/uhoh.gif.c07307dd22ee7e63e22fc8e9c614d1fd.gif

 

[iceteebone 5,000+ posts]

i don't even know where there is a cicuit city here anymore

 

[bikinpunk 10+ year member]

I dont know about CC but the Tweeters here is going out of business. They are having a everything has to go sale. Started last week.

That happened at Ovation when I lived in Louisville. Stupid guy wouldn't take anything less than $100 off for an alpine dvd deck. Like he was really going to get $1400 for it when BB was selling it for $1200.

Anyway...does this effect all tweeter stores? The ones here have CHEAP prices on tv's, but I think that's just because they are last year models. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/confused.gif.e820e0216602db4765798ac39d28caa9.gif

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

Wow I don't get how that shit is even legal. I can see if they are moving a plant say to somewhere else (still sucks but physically the jobs are moving) but how can you fire someone because they are making too much and hire someone else cheaper.

Why would the be illegal? Making wall street happy is far more important than making any particular employee happy. If they don't meet earnings estimates, then the higher-ups lose their job.

If I had to fire 10,000 people to keep the business afloat and meet earnings expectations, I would. That is the job of managers, to increase shareholder wealth. It is not to hire people or take care of customers or anything of that sort. Just increase shareholder value. Why would invest in a company whose managers did not look out for my needs?

 

[saj21187 10+ year member]

Why would the be illegal? Making wall street happy is far more important than making any particular employee happy. If they don't meet earnings estimates, then the higher-ups lose their job.
If I had to fire 10,000 people to keep the business afloat and meet earnings expectations, I would. That is the job of managers, to increase shareholder wealth. It is not to hire people or take care of customers or anything of that sort. Just increase shareholder value. Why would invest in a company whose managers did not look out for my needs?

They didnt lay off these people because of their personal performance numbers though is what pisses me off. They were given no warning to do better or anything. My store manager called the us from chicago at 6pm last night and by 8 am this morning they were gone. They layed off people because they made to much money, because they continue to give people raises every three months and dont stop when tthey hit their cap. This is just to make their pockets fatter, fire a bunch of people, payroll goes down, profits will stay close to the same, and it APPEARS the company is doing great. The company did nothing better. It will return to the way it is now a few years down the road. All im saying is there are much better ways numbers could have gotten better than firing a bunch of people. Its just a bandaid fix, nothing permanent.

 

[Tonyguy 10+ year member]

well, i was right and i am safe. But four pople from my store weren't so lucky and got canned. I told my manager that as soon as I hit my cap that my performance will hit a cap too.

 

[atoz350 10+ year member]

They did the same thing to me 2 weeks before Christmas last year. I was an Assistant S&I and was due to make my Christmas bonus. They fired me because they didn't want to pay me.

 

[jmanpc 5,000+ posts]

I put in an app to CC today for an installer position this summer... hmmm....

 

[j3bus2k3 5,000+ posts]

5 from my store got laid off...2 guys from my department that did well over $8k daily in sales...

so they hired 2 kids that all day just blared the home theatre systems with emo crap...I got tired of customers complaining so I walked in, took out the cd and snapped it in half...

When the trainee was asked where our Tivo units where...he turned pale white, and replied..."Whats Tivo"

boils down to 2 2-word phrases...

first..."profit margins"

second..."corporate america"

 

[saj21187 10+ year member]

^ i like "greedy bastards" the best...They fired one of our best car audio installers, best television salesman, csa lead, warehouse lead, ops lead(guy does everything, the managers have so much work to make up for this loss), senior entertainment salesman...basically our store is screwed...I also expect my S&I manager to be gone as well as possibly our ops manager. I heard they were eliminating those positions, and my S&I manager makes the most money out of all the managers including the store manager.

 

[j3bus2k3 5,000+ posts]

From what I heard from my managers, theres a new team being implmented into the stores. CSA's and PS wont have to do any "chores" anymore like clean, tags and random shit like that. They'll only sell. This new team will tag everything, clean everything, straighten (FACT) everyting, etc...

 

[Towncar 10+ year member]

I was just hired today.. The manager told me this store had one of the largest layoffs. 16 employees were fired...