The next trend in retail management?

Phlegm · Post by **Phlegm** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 3:46 pm

Circuit City is going to fires 3,400 workers and replacing them with lower-paid substitutes.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17857697/

Spazz · Post by **Spazz** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 3:48 pm

Cool. I love reading about people losing thier jobs.

Post by **Martrae** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 4:08 pm

Cool...one more place to not shop

The Kizzy · Post by **The Kizzy** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 4:46 pm

buncha dumbasses. Reminds me of the new HR guy at my job. Really nice guy, but he can't figure out why we can't keep help and they keep leaving. He pays them $7.50 an hour to start as a cart puller and work there way up. Who the hell wants to pull carts in 100+degree weather.? And then they can drive 20 minutes south and make $12 at the next store to do the same thing.

Agrajag · Post by **Agrajag** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 1:47 am

spazz wrote:Cool. I love reading about people losing thier jobs.

Why? Is your life that bad that you wallow in other people's misery? The only reason I'd laugh at this is if you were one of those people. But, you'd have to have a job to lose it.

Burgy99 · Post by **Burgy99** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 6:11 am

I think Spazz was being sarcastic.

Spazz · Post by **Spazz** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 6:53 am

Agrajag your a dipshit. I was being sarcastic. Ill be like harriwin. You should search my posts from over the years if you want to know what I think.

dammuzis · Post by **dammuzis** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 8:32 am

yeah ill never shop there again <not like i ever did>

Harrison · Post by **Harrison** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 2:31 pm

spazz wrote:Agrajag your a dipshit. I was being sarcastic. Ill be like harriwin. You should search my posts from over the years if you want to know what I think.

Everyone here knows you don't think, stop lying.

Jay · Post by **Jay** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 2:37 pm

I never shopped there anyways. If I ever wanted a good deal, I'd go to Amazon. Only thing that would bring me into Circuit City would be good customer service which I think this move will make that type of an environment an impossibility.

Spazz · Post by **Spazz** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 3:37 pm

Harriwin with the thrird grade insults. What a shock.

Trielelvan · Post by **Trielelvan** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 4:42 pm

Not that I ever shopped there before, but at least now I have a good reason to not consider shopping there ever.

I am about to go cancel Netflix too. A friend of mine has worked for them for little over a year making around $13/hr, and, last week, they pulled the same shit. They let go 1/2 of the entire department, including him, and hired a whole gaggle of new fresh faced recruits at about $4/hr cheaper. It is assumed that as soon as they are able, they are going to let go the other half and replace them as well.
(edit-forgot pay rate)

Post by **Lueyen** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 4:42 pm

I asked Babb if store managers were just too generous in compensating their workers, and after a long pause he said: “I’ll let you draw your own conclusions.”

My conclusion is this. The people who are taking the hit here (the ones being layed off) are not the ones who are responsible for the situation. Any businesses greatest operating expense is labor, and the bean counters usually see this as the first area to cut expenses when looking at improving the bottom line.

The idea that to increase profitability the first place to look is cutting labor expenses baffles me. Unless a company is sinking and operating in the red, and has employees with nothing to do I just don't follow the logic behind moves like this. It just seems more like a rob Peter to pay Paul move to me, and one that will start a downward spiral that may end before hitting bottom, but reduces the progress of a company if it even does stay above water. Circuit City will face several new issues as a result of this move. The first will be training new people, something that either via time and resources or inexperienced based mistakes will cost money. The second is employee moral will suffer, which will likely have a direct impact on the customer.

I've seen this sort of trend happen more frequently in recent years, usually connected with companies that follow the micro-management trend. What pisses me off about this sort of thing is that it's the upper level management who makes these sort of decisions, and it's likely the same people whose leadership resulted in the situation calling for action to be created in the first place. While it may not have the same impact on the bottom line as dropping 3500 positions, a few more should be dropped, like the CEO and financial managers.

Jay · Post by **Jay** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 4:49 pm

I can understand Netflix doing this considering that most experiences with Netflix result in not having to interact with customer support. Circuit City however is committing business suicide. They are in a market that is slowly getting dominated by online shopping and the last line of defense to save them is to provide quality in store service, the likes of which Amazon and other online companies simply can't provide due to lack of interpersonal contact. That's really about the only thing that will save them from online companies undercutting them due to lack of payroll costs.

Agrajag · Post by **Agrajag** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 12:13 am

spazz wrote:Agrajag your a dipshit. I was being sarcastic. Ill be like harriwin. You should search my posts from over the years if you want to know what I think.

Hrm... I detected no sarcasm or reason in any previous posts for you, of all people, to be sarcastic about people losing their jobs. Maybe sober yourself up and re-read your post. I'd be willing to bet my paycheck against yours (basically mine against nothing) that you wouldn't find what you wrote very sarcastic. If I were to search your posts from over the years I would need a jibberish to english dictionary just to comprehend any of the garbage you spewed. And as for being a dipshit, I consider the source of that comment and :lol:

Spazz · Post by **Spazz** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 12:11 pm

Seems like everyone else new i was being sarcastic. Just admit your a dipshit dude. When people lose they jobs it bothers me dude. Ive talked about it in multiple auto threads. You sure told me homie.

Harrison · Post by **Harrison** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 3:18 pm

SPEAK FUCKING ENGRISH

Spazz · Post by **Spazz** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 4:05 pm

I dare say sir that most everybody but you was aware of my jest. Admit your foolishness sir and be on your way. In the past I have spoken of my disdain for companies who fire workers , outsourcing and other matters having to do with unemployment. Sir I do not feel insulted by you in the slightest.

Hows that harriwin.

Trielelvan · Post by **Trielelvan** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 6:34 pm

oh my dear lord.... :rofl:

Except for the punctuation errors, that was good.

Jay · Post by **Jay** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 6:38 pm

spazz wrote:I dare say sir that most everybody but you was aware of my jest. Admit your foolishness sir and be on your way. In the past I have spoken of my disdain for companies who fire workers , outsourcing and other matters having to do with unemployment. Sir I do not feel insulted by you in the slightest.

Hows that harriwin.

This is comedic gold omg lol.

Harrison · Post by **Harrison** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 7:01 pm

So throwing some sirs in somehow makes you seem more coherent... :ugh:

Spazz · Post by **Spazz** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 7:07 pm

My apologies that you do not find me amusing Harriwin.

Harrison · Post by **Harrison** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 7:09 pm

My patience for addicts is limited...

Spazz · Post by **Spazz** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 7:14 pm

I'd bet money your on way more drugs than I am. I smoke weed but I wouldn't exactly call that an addiction. I guess its ok to take it every day if its got an RX on it though .

Harrison · Post by **Harrison** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 7:44 pm

No, and that's why I don't take my prescription of vicodin or percocet.

I've seen what it does to people and I only take it when the pain is unbearable. Now, thank fucking God, this doesn't happen anymore. I finally feel "normal" almost. (for about a week now)