Circuit City fires 3400 employee's.

[Ronstang]

Originally posted by: BlancoNino

Originally posted by: Leros

Originally posted by: richardycc
tweeter is closing ~33% of their stores, retail electronic is dead. It's all internet's fault!

I just hope internet prices don't go up.

Why would they? Internet stores can sell stuff cheap because they cram all of their merchandise into a warehouse and ship it out to an entire country or continent. Basically you could have the same sales as a national chain but with way less workers.

Or better yet have drop shipping agreements with your main suppliers who keep boxes with your logo so the product never touches the hand of the internet store.

 

[compuwiz1]

So, looks like another behemoth of a company wants to expect top drawer performance, but doesn't want to pay for it. I'm telling you, guys and gals of America, this attitude will be the downfall of our country.

Workers need to persevere, and not let these companies walk on you! There are people who DO get paid working for these big Corps. Its the execs. If people would take a stand, and stop selling out for low wages, they will come begging with a bigger paycheck.

I hate the WalMarts, Sam's Clubs, Circuit City's, etc. Don't any of you understand what society pays for low prices?

That's been my principle for a long time. I do not shop at under-cutter stores. I know what it does to the ordinary worker, trying to support a family.

I shop in places like this! Great attitudes, and I can see their employees have a chance.

 

[wetcat007]

This reminds me of a Dilbert comic. "I fired all the sale people to save the company millions, why did our revenue drop to $0?" Hearing things like this is very ironic, when you walk into a store ready to buy something, and there's no one available to help you after 20 minutes, stores lose sales like that. If there is one thing that retail stores could improve on it's not wasting people's time, some retail stores are really good at wasting people's time so people buy online, newegg is doing quite well with the fact that I can checkout in 20 seconds for a cheaper price and have stuff at my door a few days later. Imagine that I also don't have someone spend another 20 minutes with someone insisting I get a warranty, magazine subscription(don't know about circuit city but best buy does this), credit card, $40 usb cable, and internet service.

 

[MazerRackham]

So when does the fire sale start? I need some new speakers!

 

[Dumac]

Meh. I use sites like Newegg for all my great electronic needs; honestly, why wouldn't I?

More on-topic, business are made for profit. Someone, somewhere in the chain of circut city command decided this move would bring them more $$$. If it will work (doubt it) is a different matter.

 

[Cobalt]

3 people lost their jobs today at my store. They were also the 3 that shouldn't even been thought of being let go (lead services sales, lead ent. sales and lead csa).

 

[BoomerD]

AFAIC, this is yet another reason not to set foot into a Circuit Jerkit...I went to the local one last year (first time in over 5 years) and service was terrible. I waited about 10 minutes for one of their "sales staff" to wait on me...(yeah, they knew I was there..."someone will be right with you") finally, I walked out...The idiot manager asked as I walked by; "Did you find what you were looking for? Is there anything I can help you with?"...I told him what had happened, and that I'd just go home and buy from NewEgg and wait the 3 days...it'd be faster.
It wouldn't bother me in the slightest if they folded...piss-poor customer service...seems like it's been that way for 10 years or so...

 

[Conky]

Welcome to corporate America!

If you lost your job at CC then get a job at Walmart and when you ask for a raise and get fired then move to India, use your ability to speak English, and be the supervisor of the call center for the next US corporation looking to reduce costs. Being a supervisor you should be able to afford a nice studio apartment, a bicycle, and maybe a goat... you will be the envy of all your subordinates.

 

[foghorn67]

Originally posted by: Conky
Welcome to corporate America!

If you lost your job at CC then get a job at Walmart and when you ask for a raise and get fired then move to India, use your ability to speak English, and be the supervisor of the call center for the next US corporation looking to reduce costs. Being a supervisor you should be able to afford a nice studio apartment, a bicycle, and maybe a goat... you will be the envy of all your subordinates.

Or how about not depending on working retail for a CAREER.

 

[Conky]

Originally posted by: foghorn67

Originally posted by: Conky
Welcome to corporate America!

If you lost your job at CC then get a job at Walmart and when you ask for a raise and get fired then move to India, use your ability to speak English, and be the supervisor of the call center for the next US corporation looking to reduce costs. Being a supervisor you should be able to afford a nice studio apartment, a bicycle, and maybe a goat... you will be the envy of all your subordinates.

Or how about not depending on working retail for a CAREER.

I agree, I am simply sympathizing with the OP. Any career in retail sales is bound to be filled with numerous pitfalls. And the retirement plan isn't exactly the stuff of dreams either, lol.

 

[kranky]

I don't ever remember a company coming right out and saying they were going to fire people for making too much and immediately replace them with people who would be paid less. That is a shocker to me.

 

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: BoomerD
AFAIC, this is yet another reason not to set foot into a Circuit Jerkit...I went to the local one last year (first time in over 5 years) and service was terrible. I waited about 10 minutes for one of their "sales staff" to wait on me...(yeah, they knew I was there..."someone will be right with you") finally, I walked out...The idiot manager asked as I walked by; "Did you find what you were looking for? Is there anything I can help you with?"...I told him what had happened, and that I'd just go home and buy from NewEgg and wait the 3 days...it'd be faster.
It wouldn't bother me in the slightest if they folded...piss-poor customer service...seems like it's been that way for 10 years or so...

Well, that's really the biggest issue at Circuit City. You go in there and are just looking at things and meanwhile about 5 employees come up asking, "Do you need anything today?" Nope, not yet... just looking. When you finally spot something that catches your eye... you look around for one of them gleaming young sales(wo)men to free the item from its plastic prison... yet they're nowhere to be found. It happens every time I go to Circuit City that I should call it the CC Paradox :Q.

 

[thepd7]

Originally posted by: cubby1223

Originally posted by: Cuda1447
Always out to make a profit and not give a damn about their employees OR their customers.

Why should they give a damn about their customers? The customers don't give a damn about Circuit City. It's the customers who will use the Circuit City store and staff to research the products, then purchase the product from a website for a $5 savings. It's the customers who go out of their way to abuse Circuit City's price-matching policy. Going even further, it's the customers who when they have a defective product purchased from the internet, will purchase the same product from Circuit City, switch items, and make Circuit City give them the refund. It happens.

Bottom line is good service and caring for customers costs money - money that customers will not pay in this new millennium.

You are so right and it is so wrong.
There was a time when people would pay more for customer service, great attitudes, and that good feeling of knowing they won't sell you something you don't need. Sadly, that day is gone. If someone can save $50 on a $1000 TV they will buy wherever is cheapest not whoever they liked the most. Very, very sad to see this happening since it hurts hard-working small business owners.

 

[lupi]

Originally posted by: foghorn67

Originally posted by: Conky
Welcome to corporate America!

If you lost your job at CC then get a job at Walmart and when you ask for a raise and get fired then move to India, use your ability to speak English, and be the supervisor of the call center for the next US corporation looking to reduce costs. Being a supervisor you should be able to afford a nice studio apartment, a bicycle, and maybe a goat... you will be the envy of all your subordinates.

Or how about not depending on working retail for a CAREER.

Good advice, no one should subject themselves to such a job.

Just have fun next time you walk into a store and find nothing on the shelves cause no one around to empty the truck or stock the shelves and no one at the register to send you on your way.

 

[Beev]

There's an article in todays USA Today. Apparently they fired those employees to bring in new employees they could pay less.

 

[Wheezer]

Originally posted by: Imdmn04
If your friends worked at Circuit City for more than 3 and half years, then they don't have much of a career to begin with.

Nice to see your an a$$hole who like to pass judgment on people you don't even know.

There are some people who actually enjoy that type of work, and yes probably like working at CC.

Who the hell do you think you are to judge someone on their career choice?

At least they have a job and not leeching the system of tax dollars so they can sell their food stamps for crack.

 

[tboo]

Circuit City needs to eliminate the mail in rebate like Best Buy & Office Max did.

 

[Jeeebus]

In other news, I woke up with an erection this morning.

Seriously, this isn't exactly an uncommon practice when a company is struggling and wants to streamline costs. Dozens of Fortune 500 companies did the same thing last year, and the year before, etc. You can't use this as why Circuit City is evil when it's hardly a novel idea.

 

[Red Dawn]

Working at CC has now officially become a McJob

 

[SuperSix]

Originally posted by: BoomerD
AFAIC, this is yet another reason not to set foot into a Circuit Jerkit...I went to the local one last year (first time in over 5 years) and service was terrible. I waited about 10 minutes for one of their "sales staff" to wait on me...(yeah, they knew I was there..."someone will be right with you") finally, I walked out...The idiot manager asked as I walked by; "Did you find what you were looking for? Is there anything I can help you with?"...I told him what had happened, and that I'd just go home and buy from NewEgg and wait the 3 days...it'd be faster.
It wouldn't bother me in the slightest if they folded...piss-poor customer service...seems like it's been that way for 10 years or so...

That is my most recent experience to a t.

I was shopping for a PSP for CVhristmas last year. Employes fscking around, jaw-jacking, and I'm standing there.

 

[shilala]

I won't walk in a CC because I hate the business model. It's almost as bad as Sears.
It really isn't at all surprising that they're going down the tubes.
It is a shame that they aren't smart enough to listen to people and adjust the way they do business to suit the desires of the people, but that happens.
Another business will fill their shoes and do it another way.
Things are strange nowadays with all the "global economy" brilliance. For some reason we don't want to take care of ourselves.
We drive foreign vehicles around, listen to our chinese made ipods, watch our japanese tv's and then wonder why 3400 jobs just went down the tubes.
We simply can't have our cake and eat it, too.

 

[MrBond]

Originally posted by: SuperSix

That is my most recent experience to a t.

I was shopping for a PSP for CVhristmas last year. Employes fscking around, jaw-jacking, and I'm standing there.

Mine too. Every time I've been in there since they went off commission, it's like pulling teeth to get them to help me. I wanted to sign up for a Verizon cell phone a few years ago and I must have waited 15 minutes to get someone to help me (it would have been faster to just drive down the street and go to the Verizon store, but CC was cheaper).

Their check-out system blows too. I don't understand why they need to be unique and have little kiosks all over the store. Having 15 checkout stations and only 3 people working them isn't unique to Circuit City - what is unique is having to wander around the whole store until you find one of the three open kiosks.

 

[geecee]

Originally posted by: foghorn67
Or how about not depending on working retail for a CAREER.

How about getting a clue? Not everyone was born with your *ahem* endearing qualities.

Anyway, at the rate we're going, there will only be management and service industry jobs in this country in the near future. Why pay the higher wage rate here when you can pay someone somewhere else a fraction of the cost to boost your profitability? The only things that will be done here are the ones that absolutely need to be realtime (service).

What I wonder is if one day, we will truly be talking about a global economy and not a few hundred local economies. Wages will normalize across the world and perhaps local currencies will go the way of the dodo (a la the Euro). These things could happen. Or NOT!

 

[pontifex]

all things aside, do the CEOs and Execs need to make their outrageous salaries? to talk about cutting costs when you're paying $1 million (random number, but probably not far off. they usually make outrageous salaries) a year to each exec seems a bit hypocritical doesn't it?

do the execs really deserve to make that much?

i dunno, to me it seems ridiculous that companies have to fire their workers so the execs can continue to make those super high salaries and get their new porsches every year.

 

[Amused]

The sense of entitlement in this country is simply amazing.