Posted on 08/30/2006 7:37:51 PM PDT by Hawkeye's Girl
FORT WORTH, TEXAS - When the ax fell for about 400 workers at RadioShack Corp. this week, the bad news was delivered by e-mail.
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My son works for Best Buy in their National Service Center and he got his 60 day notice a week and a half ago. At least they cared enough to deliver his in person.
Um, that's pretty much par for the course for Tandy/RadioShack.
I'm surprised that they didn't annouce the firings by collecting and setting the employees' things out by the curb.
"All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer." – Actual quote from IBM maintenance manual
Saw an item a week or two ago where it was text-messaged.
Question: if my cellphone was demonstratably OFF that whole time, when's my real termination date?
I've always disliked Radio Shack's "interrogation" every time I tried to pay for something in their store.
"You've got questions...we've got answers."
Back in 2001 the company I worked for slipped the poor bastards a copy of ''Who Moved My Cheese."
Heard about a company who had a human resources guy named Bud, who seemed to be the axe man. The common joke was that when he was coming they'd say "This Bud's for You".
What a crappy way to be let go.
But, here we are - reading a negative article about Radio Shack that may require them to improve their PR and treat their employees better if they want the best & brightest.
God bless our free press and capitalist society.
You've got questions - we have even more questions...
Given the way they treated their customers, I am not surprised either.
They had something going with Sprint in 2000, where you could sign up in the store to switch your long distance to Sprint. Some guy pestered me like crazy, I refused, and somehow he got my address, forged my signature, and switched me over. (He even made up a SSN for me.) I filed a complaint with the PUCO and went to that Radio Shack store. The manager refused to believe me. Cincinnati Bell sent me the form, which I showed to the manager, who ripped it up in front of me.
When I moved to the other side of town, they refused to accept my credit card because I wrote "Please See ID" in the signature line. The clerk refused to look at my DL. I called the manager the next, who assured me he had talked to the employee in question and it would not happen again. He invited me to come back to that store that night.
No manager, but the same employee was there and we went through the same routine.
A call to another office revealed that the guy claiming to be the manager was not the manager.
Not surprisingly, both stores have since closed.
Radio Shack can rot in Hell as far as I am concerned. I feel no remorse for these people who were fired this way. If they worked more than one day at Radio Shack, they are probably defective and too dumb to even work at Wal Mart.
The employee version: "You've got questions, we've got pink slips."
The customer version: "You've got questions, we only want your zip code."
Around these parts its, "We've got questions...You've got answers".
Radio Shack ought to be at the forefront of any "build your own computer" interests. I emailed them as such, and they seemed disinterested. (Of course it's all about ME.)
There hasn't been anybody in an RC store for years that knows the difference between a capacitor and a diode.
Not surprised either. They got the same kind of treatment the entire lot of RS employees have treated their customers all these years.
Yeah, heard that one. Another one is "You've got questions, so do we!"
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