Suing to Silence? RadioShack turns its legal guns on a middle-class web site operator.

Ft Worth Weekly ^ | 1/28/04 | Dan Malone

[mylife]

http://www.radioshacksucks.com/

[azhenfud]

I suppose a website named "BradleyDJonesIsAnIdiot.com" would be "protected speech" likewise?

[Naspino]

I suppose a website named "BradleyDJonesIsAnIdiot.com" would be "protected speech" likewise?

Why wouldn't it?

[NYFriend]

Re: the lawsuit- I don't get it? Aren't managers exempted from the time+1/2 overtime requirements? Are the salaried? If so they wouldn't get paid for extra hours unless it brought them under the minimum wage, right? What's the deal?

[mylife]

The class action complaint contends that RadioShack wrongly characterizes salespersons as managers in order to avoid having to pay them overtime

[mylife]

I'm the manager can I help you?

[Fixit]

"You've got questions, we've got answers. They're usually not the right answers, but it's still a catchy slogan, don't you think?"

[DFW_Repub]

Radio Shack has always paid low wages, that is a holdover from their days when Mr. Charles Tandy ran the show.

One note, in the 1960's my grandmother's maid's sister was Mr. Tandy's maid. She told us how he would be drunk everyday before 11am.

Sure do miss the old subway.

[mylife]

"You've got questions, we've got answers." They're usually not the right answers, but it's still a catchy slogan,

LOL

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"Radio Shack; You've got questions, we've got batteries."

[mylife]

"You want batterys?...Hold on, I'll have to get the manager"

[cruiserman]

"I want people to realize that I am a 44-year-old family man. I have a wife and two kids and was a RadioShack dealer for 17 years. ... I'm not some punk kid trying to run a protest site.''

As if that makes any difference at all.

[Professional Engineer]

You've got questions, we've got cell phones.

[steveo]

Well it's true... Radio Shack does suck.

[AnAmericanMother]

Or, as my husband always says,

"You've got questions, we've got dumb looks."

He used to buy all his homebrew components at RS. Now it's easier just to mail order them, because if you go into one of the stores and ask for, say, a 100 pF capacitor, they look at you like you have two heads.

They don't even know the Resistor Color Code any more. Shoot, even I know that. My husband did an entire EE lab that way - professor sent him round to check everyone else's answers . . . serves him right!

[Gritty]

Why, when I look at this, do I see the future of the "Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act" being applied to the internet and sites such as Free Republic for "illegal political actions" within 60 days of the national election?

[mylife]

BBROYGBVGW BVGW

[AnAmericanMother]

And don't forget silver and gold . . . . :-D

(we won't talk about the mnemonic device used to remember that, will we, Violet? ;-) )

[Professional Engineer]

He used to buy all his homebrew components at RS. Now it's easier just to mail order them, because if you go into one of the stores and ask for, say, a 100 pF capacitor, they look at you like you have two heads.

RS has dumped nearly everything of use to Hams and other hobbyists. It was a nice windfall when they were doing it. I got several CB antennas for $0.97. I figure they'll make decent 10m antennas.

Fortunately, we have a couple of surplus places locally to buy some stuff. Mail order otherwise.