RadioShack Uses E-Mail to Fire 400 (!) Employees (Class act, that.)

[elehhhhna]

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/08/30/D8JQV30O1.html

RadioShack Uses E-Mail to Fire Employees
Aug 30 4:13 PM US/Eastern
FORT WORTH, Texas

RadioShack Corp. notified about 400 workers by e-mail that they were being dismissed immediately as part of planned job cuts.

Employees at the Fort Worth headquarters got messages Tuesday morning saying: "The work force reduction notification is currently in progress. Unfortunately, your position is one that has been eliminated."

Company officials had told employees in a series of meetings that layoff notices would be delivered electronically, spokeswoman Kay Jackson said. She said employees were invited to ask questions before Tuesday's notification on a company intranet site.

Derrick D'Souza, a management professor at the University of North Texas, said he had never heard of such a large number of terminated employees being notified electronically. He said it could be seen as dehumanizing to employees.

[mike_c]

1. those units have been decommissioned....

:sarcasm:

[Bluebear]

2. Classless, heartless. nt

[Deja Q]

3. Their stock went up as a result too...

By, what, 20 cents? Or was it $2.20? Either way, the company has been losing its status over the years.

I used to work there and times are totally different... I preferred it back then.

[walldude]

4. A few years ago when I was hard up for work

I applied at Radio Shack. I was turned down because I didn't have a college education. Never mind that I'm considered an electronics whiz and could tech circles around anyone from their CEO down to the guy behind the counter, but I didn't have that piece of paper so I didn't get the job. It was the last time I bought something from them...