Is That The Smell of a Union Brewing??

Circuit City to cut more than 3,500 jobs

By MAE ANDERSON and ELLEN SIMON, AP Business Writers Wed Mar 28, 7:30 PM ET

NEW YORK - A new plan for layoffs at Circuit City is openly targeting better-paid workers, risking a public backlash by implying that its wages are as subject to discounts as its flat-screen TVs
The electronics retailer, facing larger competitors and falling sales, said Wednesday that it would lay off about 3,400 store workers — immediately — and replace them with lower-paid new hires as soon as possible.
The laid-off workers, about 8 percent of the company's total work force, would get a severance package and a chance to reapply for their former jobs, at lower pay, after a 10-week delay, the company said.

And I actually enjoyed shopping there…

Years ago I worked for Holiday gas in the upper peninsula of Michigan. It was a 24-hour convenience store similar to 7/11 and I was a young married guy looking for work. I was given the welcome aboard speech and told about all the potential growth possibilities with this fine group. I was promptly put on nights and began my climb to the top of corporate America. Plus all the nudie mags I could read at night to boot.

The longer you worked of course the sooner you would be looking at $1.50/hr and limited bennies. I assumed I would make day shift very soon and the hot dog machine was mine. I worked hard to achieve this ambition, and they said not going to college would hurt me. The 30th day approached and I was looking at a nice singlewide mobile home on 5 acres, with a snowmobile thrown in. All of this for only $9,000 dollars, life was good. On the 28th day I was fired for stealing $20.00 from the register. Well they told me my receipts did not match and I was $20 off so they could assume I had stolen it.

Ok, so maybe this is the same deal on the fools at Circuit City. How the hell do you clowns sleep at night?

See you at Best Buy.