Circuit City Sucks
Circuit City, where I worked for 4 years up until last October, just cut 3400 jobs nationwide. In the store that I used to work at (with about 60 employees total) 11 were cut. They decided to cut everybody that was 51 cents over the wage cap for each specific position. A lot of these people were left over from when they originally fired people in 2003 when they switched from commission to hourly.
A friend of mine who had been there for 7 years was laid off. He received 4 weeks pay as severance. The sad thing about his situation is that he was a PC tech but he switched to customer service in order to help the store. Well, customer service has a much lower cap than a PC tech does. They did not give him the opportunity to switch back.
Many of the people laid off were career workers. At the store I used to work at, out of the 11 people laid off, 9 of them are over 40. I’m sure they will be able to find another job, but not paying as well (which wasn’t that well in the first place), and of course they lost all of their benefits.
I’m sure a lot of you don’t really want to hear about these individuals, and I can’t blame you. But, you should know that this will definitely affect your experience at Circuit City. Not only will they be short staffed, but the best and most knowledgeable, veteran associates will no longer be there. Everybody that the young guys went to when they had a question are gone. So, you can either expect a lot of made up answers (if you can find somebody to help you), or a lot of associates simply saying they don’t know.
Even after having worked there for four years, I have to go to somebody that I know for help, I get too frustrated with the normal associates. At my local store, the people to whom I can now rely on are mostly gone. Rock.
Read about it: Forbes.com
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