Think Newspapers are cheap?

Welcome to Circuit City, where the chain is cutting 3,400 jobs -- then offering to hire people back at a cheaper rate...

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aw.zhHEzMpZU&refer=home

 

How is this legal?

 

Why isn't it legal? No unions!

 

There will be consequences and repercussions for sure. If CC can do this. You can bet the Podunk Journal can do it too. LET'S BE WORRIED OUT THERE.

 

This blows... since I shop at Circuit City and avoid the clusterf*%# that is Best Buy and it's abominable "customer service" as much as humanely possible.

Outside of Sears, I've never been in a retail establishment that cares less about you and isn't shy about advertising it than BB. Where I live, BB and CC are across the street from each other and not only does CC have better prices on big items like XM receivers and the like, but their installation is cheaper and easier to get in for.

This proves yet another big business entity is taking the short-sighted path and refusing to do well by doing good.

 

Guess Circuit City employees who just their jobs won't be singing The Cars' "Just What I Needed" tonight.

 

Tee-hee. What makes you think we're not already doing it? ;D ;D

One of my favorite tricks: Lay off x number of people, 60 or 90 days later, hire some of them back in newly created "positions," at base-scale pay, and also without any accumulated vacation time, sick leave, etc. etc. Oh of course you also have to wait 90 days to requalify for health coverage too.

Twenty years of seniority? Tough shit, rookie.

 

Why anyone shops at these places now is beyond me. There's nothing in Circuit City, Best Buy or any other store that you can't get online 20 percent cheaper.

 

some people don't have computers at home or carry credit cards.

 

I'm neither pro- nor anti-union, but when I read something like this, I'm glad I have one. They are foolproof, especially those representing newspapers, but at least they help.

 

I have exactly ZERO credit cards. I was TERRIBLE with two of them in college. My credit rating (thanks in part to roommates, too) is horrible.

I had to pay cash for a fucking engagement ring.

 

I don't have a credit card -- for no other reason than my wife and I chose not to have one. But I have a debit card, and that works just the same. If there's money in the bank, you can buy shit.