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Massive Losses in Bloody Job Massacre at Circuit City Corporate

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Tony Bullard
11/07/08

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Damn...I just bought a two year protection plan on my Zune there.

Don't make fun of me. I got the Zune for free using the two year plan I had on my Creative Zen.

Oh well, 50 bucks for an 80 gig mp3 player aint bad at all.
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Gann
11/07/08

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My company literally just laid off approximately 10% of our staff (with our layoff a couple months ago, that totals about 30%). I'm glad I made the cut this time. And the last time.
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rolfo87
11/07/08

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so are they having crazy close out sales or are they moving their merch to other stores?
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
11/07/08

@rolfo87: They're selling the crap at the closing stores for even higher prices now.
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
11/07/08

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Let me put it this way, if this is true, if this is how CC treats its employees while the upper management that ran the fucking company into the ground still get their paychecks...

Then I simply won't ever set foot in their stores again. It's that simple. This is now 600 people in their corporate offices, plus a few thousand from the 155 stores they're closing, all losing their jobs in November/December. The two worst months to be job hunting.
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
11/07/08

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You know guys, most of the people who work at corporate are probably not responsible for the problems that the company is having. So saying they work for the Bush administration or whatever is really just lame.

These people have been handed a great big "fuck you" (if this severance bit is true) from a company that they worked hard to keep afloat during the absolute worst time to be looking for a new job.

Having been laid off, and having seen thousands of hard working people laid off due to corporate accounting fraud (all so a few members of upper management could keep their bonuses) I can tell you it isn't fun at all. At least my employer had the decency to offer severance, and an additional bonus based on years of service.
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frigg
11/07/08

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Being surprised by this is like being surprised when the mimosa brunch on the Titanic is cancelled after it had a little iceberg problem the day before.
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Aminojaku
11/07/08

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"No memo, no severance (not even the crappy one)" .. Uh.. o_O... Fed Labor Law requires 2 weeks notice or severance equal to 2 weeks pay. So I call "liar" on your so called tipsters.
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midwestkel
11/07/08

@Aminojaku: Not in Colorado, its no warning state, you can come into work and they can fire you on the spot.
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
11/07/08

@Aminojaku: Well considering that the S.S. Circuit City has been slowly sinking over the last few weeks this cannot come as a surprise to any CC employee...
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EBone
11/07/08

@Aminojaku: There's ways around that. Most employers in the last ten years have gone to having new employees sign a statement saying that either party can terminate employment with no prior notice.
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
11/07/08

@midwestkel: Being fired and laid off are two different things..
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tim d
11/07/08

@Aminojaku: Vermont (where I live) is an "At Will" state. Meaning that you are employed "at the will" of your employer. No warnings, no severance, no unemployment unless you can prove you were wrongly terminated. I think that many states are the same. I have never heard of a federal statute that would prohibit this behavior.
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Aminojaku
11/07/08

@tim d: It's called the WARN Act. I was wrong about 2 weeks.. it's actually 60 days. There are exceptions that allow for less than 60 days, but it still requires swome notice. As for the person that said there is a difference between being fired and layed off, correct. And this mass firing fits the definition under WARN if they are as described, 600+ from the corporate location.
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EBone
11/07/08

@Aminojaku: And if the employees signed At Will agreements when they started, they have no recourse.
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