RadioShack Fires 400 Employees…by E-Mail
Note: This post is authored by co-blogger: DaBigMang
RadioShack Fires 400 Employees…by E-Mail
Source: Associated Press
Wow. According the post on MSN, the email stated “The work force reduction notification is currently in progress. Unfortunately your position is one that has been eliminated.” Those are the exact words used by Radioshack to fire roughly 400 employees. This is a joke right?
Wrong. Is this what the world has come to? Are the people responsible for having to fire these approximately 400 employees in number not in possession of a spine or a ‘back bone’? You know, not many people know this but, a lot of management are trained to handle situations like this with a very non-personal stance. How do I know this?
I work for a major retailer in the United States. I have been in contact with more than my fair share of management trainees. I’ve been told on many occasions that, yes, when confronting an employee you do not want to make the situation feel any more personal that it has to. You like them apples american workforce? They want you to go as quietly and unconfrontational as possible so that they can just go on about their business. Why give them that?
Don’t get me wrong. I can see if your some lazy, good-for-nothing so-and-so that does not do his or her job and just sucks up hours for a check at the end of the week. Human sponges amaze me. But, if you are a hard working employee that ends up being a victim of downsizing (at any rate) why the hell should you just have to take it?
Me, personally, if I ever lose a job to downsizing I’ll go straight Fight Club on management. I’ll knock my own teeth out and bloody myself up so I can get paid to work from home (ghost payroll). It’s the least they could do for me. Every job I have had I have worked hard at. Often times I get the short end of the stick (like most of the American workforce).
You know what else gets me? It’s situations like this that are EASILY picked up by the media and not just bloggity-bloggers like myself. Doesn’t the company know this affects their stock? Doesn’t the company know this affects their image? Business is the one entity that does not hold true the notion of any press being good press. This isn’t hollywood and Paris Hilton isn’t involved. This is just plain old bad for Radioshack.
I wonder how spokespeople for Radioshack feel? Does Teri Hatcher feel she should stop trying to hock batteries for the company? Howie Long: do you have anything to say to your evil cohorts?
J. Cool, if you’re reading this….
“Superman can’t walk. What type of s#@t is that?”
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Post courtesy of T.B.M.
Technorati tags: Radio Shack, email, management
2 comments September 1st, 2006
