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.
"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."
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.
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.
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.)
Not surprised either. They got the same kind of treatment the entire lot of RS employees have treated their customers all these years.
I worked for a man for several years who fired people by telegram. He was a really nice guy. I believe he was too soft to fire anyone face to face. He would take a trip to another office and send a telegram. Got to be a joke around the office when he took a trip.
Radio Shack is like a time warp - set foot in there and you get stuff that's been useless for decades!
But it does have some good stuff, I admit!
Marvelous.
I don't know why they are even still in business. From what I've seen all they sell is over priced junk, and have a terrible inventory.
Darn, if only I hadn't refused to give my phone number when buying batteries. Must have thrown their whole corporate organization out of whack.
-PJ
To be a mgr at a radio shack you have to be one of the biggest tools on the planet. Or so I'm told.
Radio Shack: a store full of crappy electronics, but always there when you need a cable or adaptor and don't mind bending over.