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Old 03-29-2007, 05:18 PM
 
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Welcome to America! This kind of thing should be entirely ILLEGAL... Circuit City deserves any bad fate coming their way for being this nasty to devoted workers.

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=6691

The 3,400 employees affected by the job cuts represent 8% of Circuit City's total work force. Employees will be given four weeks’ worth of severance pay and will have the option of reapplying for their positions at a lower pay grade after a 10-week hiatus.
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Old 03-30-2007, 08:17 PM
 
Location: Midwest
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Best Buy and Circuit City suck anyway, either as places to shop or work.
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Old 04-01-2007, 06:35 AM
 
Location: Huntersville/Charlotte, NC and Washington, DC
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i work at circuit city and my fellow employees didn't find out about their layoff until wednesday when our manager knew about it for months. he needs to be fired too.
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Old 03-17-2009, 11:05 AM
 
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i work at circuit city and my fellow employees didn't find out about their layoff until wednesday when our manager knew about it for months. he needs to be fired too.

Hi, my group members and I need help with our class project on making marketing plans at the High School of Fashion Industries in NYC, and we chose Circuit City as our company to re-vamp. We had to create a questionnaire to ask to former employees and we were wondering if you and other employees can help us! Your time and help is greatly appreciated! Please respond.

- Fashion Students in need.
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Old 03-17-2009, 11:35 AM
 
Location: SE Michigan
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they are in Chapter 11 anyway. Won't be long until they are in Chapter 17 I'm sure. Especially with this move.
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Old 03-17-2009, 05:08 PM
 
Location: San Antonio, TX - Displaced Michigander
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they are in Chapter 11 anyway. Won't be long until they are in Chapter 17 I'm sure. Especially with this move.
I think all of their stores are closed now.
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Old 03-17-2009, 05:35 PM
 
Location: Whoville....
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i work at circuit city and my fellow employees didn't find out about their layoff until wednesday when our manager knew about it for months. he needs to be fired too.
Your manager probably wasn't allowed to tell you. I watched 4 rounds of terminations before my turn came and no one was given advanced warning. I got more than most and I only got a week's notice.

Companies don't permit managers to tell employees. They're afraid of retaliation and sabatoge and I don't blame them. Some employees react very badly when let go.

I had 18 years with the company and one week was all I got.
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Old 03-17-2009, 06:20 PM
 
Location: Grand Rapids Metro
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Hi, my group members and I need help with our class project on making marketing plans at the High School of Fashion Industries in NYC, and we chose Circuit City as our company to re-vamp. We had to create a questionnaire to ask to former employees and we were wondering if you and other employees can help us! Your time and help is greatly appreciated! Please respond.

- Fashion Students in need.
Here's an idea: don't hire slimy salespeople and incent them to pressure everyone to buy an extended warranty. Oh, and don't advertise a product on sale that you don't even really have on the floor for sale. It didn't work for Highland Appliance. It didn't work for Olly Fretter. It's no wonder it didn't work for Circuit City.

If there's anything you can learn at High School of Fashion Industries in NY, is that unethical business practices never pay.
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Old 03-17-2009, 09:50 PM
 
Location: At the end of the road, where the trail begins.
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It didn't work for Olly Fretter.
A blast from my childhood past...... "It's Always Better, To Shop At Fretter"

Can't believe that little jingle was stuck away in my mind when I read your post. Haven't they been out of business for over a decade or more?
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Old 03-18-2009, 06:50 AM
 
Location: Grand Rapids Metro
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A blast from my childhood past...... "It's Always Better, To Shop At Fretter"

Can't believe that little jingle was stuck away in my mind when I read your post. Haven't they been out of business for over a decade or more?
Yeah, I think so. Those places were horrible, but they were always right near each other (at least when I was a kid in Lansing).
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