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Circuit City fires employees. - 3/30/2007 2:42:29 PM   
popeye1250


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Status: offline 		On Lou Dobbs last night they said that Circuit City the electronics store is firing longtime employees then after 10 weeks they will hire them back at lower rates of pay.
Can you believe this shit?
I will no longer do any business with Circuit City and I'll find them online and let them know it too!
What a bunch of no-good bastards!
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RE: Circuit City fires employees. - 3/30/2007 2:45:40 PM   
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Status: offline 		Whooopeee!!! Sale at Circuit City!!!

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RE: Circuit City fires employees. - 3/30/2007 2:47:27 PM   
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On Lou Dobbs last night they said that Circuit City the electronics store is firing longtime employees then after 10 weeks they will hire them back at lower rates of pay.
Can you believe this shit?
I will no longer do any business with Circuit City and I'll find them online and let them know it too!
What a bunch of no-good bastards!


Best Buy is just as bad. They just recently got busted for false advertising.

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RE: Circuit City fires employees. - 3/30/2007 3:01:21 PM   
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Status: offline 		I went into Yahoo news under "Circuit City" and an article said that they plan to fire "3,400 overpaid workers."
According to them $17.73 per hour is "overpaid."
One of the "overpaid" guys makes $11.57 per hour!
What a piece of shit company!
I hope they go bankrupt!

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RE: Circuit City fires employees. - 3/30/2007 3:19:24 PM   
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According to them $17.73 per hour is "overpaid

I agree that is overpaid- they dont do any thing but stand around all day- same at Best Buy  oh I forgot when they arent busy talking to each other they might be answering a question for a customer

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RE: Circuit City fires employees. - 3/30/2007 3:27:34 PM   
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According to them $17.73 per hour is "overpaid

I agree that is overpaid- they dont do any thing but stand around all day- same at Best Buy  oh I forgot when they arent busy talking to each other they might be answering a question for a customer


swtn, maybe you're overpaid!
Maybe your pay should be cut by 50%.

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RE: Circuit City fires employees. - 3/30/2007 3:30:08 PM   
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Status: offline 		I wouldn't mind making $17.73/hr. Maybe then I wouldn't have to take on a part time job just to make ends meet and have a little left over. 

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RE: Circuit City fires employees. - 3/30/2007 3:41:52 PM   
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ORIGINAL: popeye1250

I went into Yahoo news under "Circuit City" and an article said that they plan to fire "3,400 overpaid workers."
According to them $17.73 per hour is "overpaid."
One of the "overpaid" guys makes $11.57 per hour!
What a piece of shit company!
I hope they go bankrupt!


LOL, I thought you might say 11.00 dollars, firing to pay them 8.00 or something.

I've been in circuit cities before, and 17.73 an hour. Wow, that is alot for a job equal to taco bell drive up window. They really do just stand around and bug you. I could see it if they were techy nerd know it alls, but everytime I've had a "real" question about something they don't know. I actually can't wait for an automated no human store, I can't remember ever getting any "helpful" advice from an store employee. Just people trying to "help" me buy something, I don't want.

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RE: Circuit City fires employees. - 3/30/2007 7:20:07 PM   
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According to them $17.73 per hour is "overpaid

I agree that is overpaid- they dont do any thing but stand around all day- same at Best Buy  oh I forgot when they arent busy talking to each other they might be answering a question for a customer


I agree.

I went into Circuit City to check out a laptop. Five employees were standing near by bullshitting with each other. Do you think that anyone of them came over to see if I needed any help or if I had any questions? NO.

They should go back to commission sales or incentives. They were useful then.

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RE: Circuit City fires employees. - 3/30/2007 7:24:28 PM   
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ORIGINAL: swtnsparkling

quote:

According to them $17.73 per hour is "overpaid

I agree that is overpaid- they dont do any thing but stand around all day- same at Best Buy  oh I forgot when they arent busy talking to each other they might be answering a question for a customer


I spend many of my days standing around all day.  I make a lot more than that.  I disagree that this is overpaid.

What ends up happening is these large corporations fire all their people, then nobody has money to afford to shop at their store.  So they declare bankruptcy and the government bails them out.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

Any human resources person for a large company that pays their CEOs a seven or eight figure income, claiming the employees whose work provides them with money are overpaid, should be taken out and shot.

Sinergy

edited to add "are overpaid."

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RE: Circuit City fires employees. - 3/30/2007 8:38:42 PM   
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RE: Circuit City fires employees. - 3/30/2007 8:44:46 PM   
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Status: offline 		As I understand this, they are letting go of those SALES PERSONNEL who have [through being Good at being Sales Persons] risen to making higher wages... and will be hiring in their place persons who will work for lesser pay.

Were I a business owner of any business dependent in any sizeable manner upon sales... well, this would be just moronic in context.

Can we say "DUH"?

Those kiddies standing around chatting and ignoring you... prolly will stay

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RE: Circuit City fires employees. - 3/30/2007 8:52:52 PM   
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RE: Circuit City fires employees. - 3/30/2007 9:06:36 PM   
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As I understand this, they are letting go of those SALES PERSONNEL who have [through being Good at being Sales Persons] risen to making higher wages... and will be hiring in their place persons who will work for lesser pay.

Were I a business owner of any business dependent in any sizeable manner upon sales... well, this would be just moronic in context.

Can we say "DUH"?

Those kiddies standing around chatting and ignoring you... prolly will stay


In a sense it is a big "DUH"

In a more machiavellian sense, it makes perfect sense. 

Let us take a hypothetical.  We have Corporation X who has 5 million dollars to budget for salary.

Their CEOs make 2 million each (2 of them) and their sales staff of 500 people get to split the other million.

If they have, by dint of hard work and success, started making more than $20,000 a year, the only solution available to the 2 CEOs is to get rid of some of them, or pay them less money.

But if you have 50 stores, it is not really possible to sell anything with less than 10 people per store, since those stupid labor laws (that liberals put in place) insist on things like an 8 hour day, breaks, benefits, etc.  So the only solution is to convince your (non-unionized) employees to do the same work for less money.

Clear as mud?

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RE: Circuit City fires employees. - 3/30/2007 9:14:25 PM   
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Status: offline 		This is a sad but common business practice that effects all of us.  There is no job security anymore.
We recently had our City Government to do the same thing.  A new Mayor came in, and fired all the employees that had been there twenty years or more. The sad part is that the new ones being hired don't know where main street is.

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RE: Circuit City fires employees. - 3/30/2007 9:21:36 PM   
Sinergy


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This is a sad but common business practice that effects all of us.  There is no job security anymore.
We recently had our City Government to do the same thing.  A new Mayor came in, and fired all the employees that had been there twenty years or more. The sad part is that the new ones being hired don't know where main street is.

Regards, MissSCD


Thank you, MissSCD.

Back in the 1930s, the shipping companies signed a contract with the union I am a member of.

Our by-laws insist on a 100% vote by the rank and file for any and every change, contract, etc., to come down the pike.  So far, nobody has been able to convince our union that we should amend that so a few can make decisions for the rank and file. 

Democracy in action.

The funny part is that the shipping companies want us to change it.  I feel bad for them, but they did sign the first contract in 1938 which preserves our Democratic approach to contract negotiations.

Sinergy

p.s. If any of you Monkeyboy Apologists want to clarify how Monkeyboy has brought this sort of Democracy to Iraq, I am more than interested in hearing what you have to say.



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RE: Circuit City fires employees. - 3/31/2007 2:53:11 AM   
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Status: offline 		I am already vastly underpaid. But I Love my job
I think people should get paid for the work they do- how hard they work
standing around takes no talent and no energy. Why get almost 20 bucks an hour when people out there are working there ass's off.
Christ even some one working at McDonalds is working harder than anyone at Circut city

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RE: Circuit City fires employees. - 3/31/2007 2:58:27 AM   
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I may be wrong but I have seen you talk about your job. Sure you may stand around all day some days- but those days you don't- are you not working Hard? or are you just standing and pointing. "hey that goes over there"

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RE: Circuit City fires employees. - 3/31/2007 3:49:56 AM   
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Why would it effect you? personally I'd say good for them if they get paid plenty without needing to do a shitload of work, means somewhere, somehow, they caught a break, I would be happy for them if it continued. Hell, lifes hard enough without hard work.

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RE: Circuit City fires employees. - 3/31/2007 10:36:02 AM   
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Status: offline 		Delphi just did basically the same thing here. They offered their employees a pay cut and when it was rejected they fired them all and hired new ones. They also filed bqnkruptcy...not sure what type....and asked the court to make their union contracts null and void so that they no longer have to be responsible for retirement pensions and benefits. The pay cut was from an average of $28 dollars an hour to $14. These were both production workers and skilled trades people. They knew that with the current economy they would have a lot of people lining up happily to work for $14 an hour.

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