Well, as if RadioShack hasn’t worked hard enough by now to put forth the idea that they hire inhuman, unintelligent sales droids, they’ve taken the dehumanizing up a notch: they’ve just laid off 400 employees, by e-mail.

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.”

Generally, relationship break-ups by e-mail are often seen as tacky and rude. One would think that maybe as a company, it would be equally seen as uncouth to give someone the pink slip via a cookie-cutter mass e-mail.  Guess HR was too busy to bother?

Another interesting question: what if such an axed exmployee came to work the next day, feigning ignorance and claiming that, oops, the -email must’ve ended up caught by the spam filter? 🙂

Well, this move isn’t surprising.  RadioShack has experienced a great many gaffes and bad decisions over the past year, so this is nothing new.  Given the way they treat their employees, don’t expect this chain to last long, as it rapidly loses relevance.