{"id":585,"date":"2006-09-01T20:28:13","date_gmt":"2006-09-02T00:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=585"},"modified":"2006-09-01T20:28:13","modified_gmt":"2006-09-02T00:28:13","slug":"radioshack-lays-off-400-the-droid-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=585","title":{"rendered":"RadioShack lays off 400, the ‘droid way."},"content":{"rendered":"

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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<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/span>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.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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.\u00a0 Guess HR was too busy to bother?<\/p>\n

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? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Well, this move isn’t surprising.\u00a0 RadioShack has experienced<\/a> a great many gaffes<\/a> and bad decisions<\/a> over the past year, so this is nothing new.\u00a0 Given the way they treat their employees, don’t expect this chain to last long, as it rapidly loses relevance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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