Re: Circuit City Layoffs

On Mar 30, 4:31?pm, "FerretBill" <Wink...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Circuit City seems around here, both stores within 10 minutes of home, to
have vastly inferior customer service to Best Buy, which is far from the
best anyway. I am sure firing to hire lower paid people will fix this
problem.

Same here, their stores around my town date back to the late 1970's or
so, and although they have tried to update a little with the times,
the Best Buy is certainly a more pleasant place to shop. Circuit City
seems smaller, darker, and more limited in what they carry. Even
Circuit City's sales flyers in my Sunday paper seem less pleasant to
flip through than the ones from Best Buy.

Instead of firing all those long time workers, and generating the
negative publicity it seems to have brought upon them the last couple
of days, maybe Circuit City should address these other issues first...
hire a new ad company, brighten up and expand the stores and product
lines, or (hold on to your wigs, free marketers!) ask the real big
wigs pulling down million dollar plus paychecks who sit in their
offices making the decisions that are dragging the company down to
take pay cuts until things pick up. They have employed these people
and expect and demand their loyalty and good performance, and once
they have worked up to making a decent salary, they tell them "***
off, your fired...." That's ludicrous, the loyalty sword should cut
both ways...union or no union (and I'm not particularly pro-union),
it's just common decency.

Since they admit that they are replacing these workers with cheaper
new hires, it would be interesting to calculate how much they are
actually going ot save...for instance, say a longtermer is making
$40,000 a year and a replacement is going to make $30,000 a year, they
save $10,000 per fired employee per year. Suppose the big shots all
reduced their salaries by a million or two, and then across the board
all the peons had their salaries reduced by maybe five thousand or
so...how many jobs could that save while the big shots who have fucked
the company up figure out how to fix it? But that would never happen,
it would just make too much sense...

Garry

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