New OT Post - as Roy is still slacking
From : tbone
Q: how does everyone feel about the crap that circuit city is pulling with its employees. funny how upper management doesnt feel that their salaries need to be adjusted. will anyone here continue to shop there and if so how sad. -- if at first you dont succeed youre not cut out for skydiving .
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From : roy
cayoung61**spamblock##@hotmail.com says... i worked for sears in 1996 and saw enough not to want to come back. what did you see at sears that turned you off to them i always go there first for their tool department. .
From : electrician
greg im heading south the week end of april14th. this time i have to hustle. so no 5 to 301. ill be in the area about 9-10am on sat morning if things go well around nyc. what do ya think 495 inland or suck it up and go for it on 95 and the wwb i have a sat radio so i can pick up traffic reports. tia roy .
From : bigironram
i dont know what is going on there. however in a similar store best buy appears to only have computers using windows vista. the smallest computer there has 1 gb of ram and it runs about 75% of the ram with no programs operating at all. is winblows getting more ram hungry it sure appears so. one computer i had in the past ran win 98se on 64 megs of ram. slowly perhaps but it did run. windoze snags 60 80% most of the ram almost all the time. try win2k pro on a 433 mhz laptop with 64 mgs or ram. ill never try that again. lame turtles and snails passed it at will...had to go back to win98...it was virtually unusable with win2kpro. .
From : roy
how does everyone feel about the crap that circuit city is pulling with its employees. funny how upper management doesnt feel that their salaries need to be adjusted. will anyone here continue to shop there and if so how sad. this will get budd back! this is where they need a union!!!! no ill not shop there again. wonder if they have a site so we can email them. if at first you dont succeed youre not cut out for skydiving .
From : electrician
says... how does everyone feel about the crap that circuit city is pulling with its employees. funny how upper management doesnt feel that their salaries need to be adjusted. will anyone here continue to shop there and if so how sad. i think its pathetic and just another example of how poor management is at many u.s. companies. they are the type of executive team that would move their jobs to asia except for the fact their stores are in the u.s. i for one will never shop there again. .
From : tom r
tbonenospam@nc.rr.com says... how does everyone feel about the crap that circuit city is pulling with its employees. funny how upper management doesnt feel that their salaries need to be adjusted. will anyone here continue to shop there and if so how sad. i think its pathetic and just another example of how poor management is at many u.s. companies. they are the type of executive team that would move their jobs to asia except for the fact their stores are in the u.s. i for one will never shop there again. i was blown away by these mind-boggling statistics on wal-mart! 1. at wal-mart americans spend $36000000 every hour of every day. 2. this works out to $20928 profit every minute! 3. wal-mart will sell more from january 1 to st. patricks day march 17th than target sells all year. 4. wal-mart is bigger than home depot + kroger + target + sears + costco + k-mart combined. 5. wal-mart employs 1.6 million people and is the largest private employer. 6. wal-mart is the largest company in the history of the world. 7. wal-mart now sells more food than kroger & safeway combined and keep in mind they did this in only 15 years. 8. during this same period 31 supermarket chains sought bankruptcy including winn-dixie. 9. wal-mart now sells more food than any other store in the world. 10. wal-mart has approx 3900 stores in the usa of which 1906 are supercenters; this is 1000 more than it had 5 years ago. 11. this year 7.2 billion different purchasing experiences will occur at a wal-mart store. earths population is approximately 6.5 billion. 12. 90% of americans live within 15 miles of a wal-mart. walmart although a great success story of business that has brought cheaper goods to our homes is also a symbol of americas decline. walmart does not make anything. it only sells items that are made in china. walmart is our number one employer when at one time companies like general motors bethlehem steel and westinghouse were our major employers. this shift shows that jobs have left our country for china. look what is happening to general motors and ford. americans now work for low paying walmart jobs when their parents worked for high paying union jobs at industrial manufacturing companies that are now in china. .
From : bob m
tbone wrote how does everyone feel about the crap that circuit city is pulling with its employees. funny how upper management doesnt feel that their salaries need to be adjusted. will anyone here continue to shop there and if so how sad. a few years ago i bought a defective computer printer in circuit city. when i returned it they charged me a restocking fee. now i can see this if i just didnt want the printer. but charge me a restocking fee for a defective printer that they sold me i spoke the manager on duty as well as called their customer service hot line. they wouldnt budge. i disputed the charge with my cc company and won. but because of this experience i havent set foot in a circuit city store in over 10 years. this latest ploy to get rid of their loyal employees is just another reason why i wont step foot in a circuit city ever again. bob .
From : chris thompson
on sun 01 apr 2007 123005 -0500 bob m wrote tbone wrote how does everyone feel about the crap that circuit city is pulling with its employees. funny how upper management doesnt feel that their salaries need to be adjusted. will anyone here continue to shop there and if so how sad. a few years ago i bought a defective computer printer in circuit city. when i returned it they charged me a restocking fee. now i can see this if i just didnt want the printer. but charge me a restocking fee for a defective printer that they sold me i spoke the manager on duty as well as called their customer service hot line. they wouldnt budge. i disputed the charge with my cc company and won. but because of this experience i havent set foot in a circuit city store in over 10 years. this latest ploy to get rid of their loyal employees is just another reason why i wont step foot in a circuit city ever again. bob restocking fees are bullshit anyways. they are still going to sell the product at full price. and in your case thats even bigger bs! i havent been to a circuit city store in years and wont be going back....best buy is another one that will never see my shadow darken its doors. -- chris 05 ctd 06 liberty crd .
From : stormin mormon
i dont know what is going on there. however in a similar store best buy appears to only have computers using windows vista. the smallest computer there has 1 gb of ram and it runs about 75% of the ram with no programs operating at all. is winblows getting more ram hungry it sure appears so. one computer i had in the past ran win 98se on 64 megs of ram. slowly perhaps but it did run. -- christopher a. young you cant shout down a troll. you have to starve them. .. how does everyone feel about the crap that circuit city is pulling with its employees. funny how upper management doesnt feel that their salaries need to be adjusted. will anyone here continue to shop there and if so how sad. -- if at first you dont succeed youre not cut out for skydiving .
From : stormin mormon
thanks for the head up. ive heard horror stories about home depot also. unfortunately for me hd is the nearest big box hardware store. i have a small town hardware a bit closer i should shop at the local store first i worked for sears in 1996 and saw enough not to want to come back. -- christopher a. young you cant shout down a troll. you have to starve them. .. tbone wrote how does everyone feel about the crap that circuit city is pulling with its employees. funny how upper management doesnt feel that their salaries need to be adjusted. will anyone here continue to shop there and if so how sad. a few years ago i bought a defective computer printer in circuit city. when i returned it they charged me a restocking fee. now i can see this if i just didnt want the printer. but charge me a restocking fee for a defective printer that they sold me i spoke the manager on duty as well as called their customer service hot line. they wouldnt budge. i disputed the charge with my cc company and won. but because of this experience i havent set foot in a circuit city store in over 10 years. this latest ploy to get rid of their loyal employees is just another reason why i wont step foot in a circuit city ever again. bob .
From : bigironram
how does everyone feel about the crap that circuit city is pulling with its employees. funny how upper management doesnt feel that their salaries need to be adjusted. will anyone here continue to shop there and if so how sad. i had to look it up after seeing your post. it stinks. maybe they should replace their old slogan circuit city where service is state of the art with circuit city service what service if all this keeps up there wont be anyplace left for me to shop. i dont do self service check outs. those self check outs have bothered me since they came out. i dont use them i dont care how long the line is. must be my union backgroundg it means less jobs. oddly i was in one store waiting in line for a person to check me out and the cashiers says you can use the self check out if you want i asked her if she was ready to give up her job she looks at me kinda funny and says what do you mean took me a few minutes to get it in her head that if enough people that use the self deal after a bit they wont need her. so by sending people to it she is basicly helping to lay herself off. im very much a free market kind of guy. imho trimming expenses is an intellectually vacant way to improve profits unless of course youve allowed them to get out of hand then what kind of management are you anyway employees arent just debits on a balance sheet theyre assets to the company theyre how the work we need done gets performed. it doesnt generally take much of an increase in employee pay to get a disproportionate increase in productivity. vice versa of course. an added benefit is reduced management load due to having competent employees that dont cause unnecessary problems to be solved by management once again imho its this kind of thing that made unions necessary to begin with. management has allowed accountants far too much influence. shortsightedness seems to be one of the major hallmarks of accountants. theres work and profits beyond next quarter. laziness is probably behind your cashiers attitude the more people using self checkout less work for her. and shes right lots less work and unemployment. maybe she has an excellent future in accounting .. .
From : stormin mormon
the mobile service repair guys were pressured for first time completes. so they would go to the house and replace a part. the right part if they had it on the truck but the wrong part if they didnt have the right part. of course the customer would call back cause it wasnt really fixed. but at least the tech had a first time complete. instead of going back to the company and get the right part which would have been a two trip call. -- christopher a. young you cant shout down a troll. you have to starve them. .. cayoung61**spamblock##@hotmail.com says... i worked for sears in 1996 and saw enough not to want to come back. what did you see at sears that turned you off to them i always go there first for their tool department. .
From : stormin mormon
we are pleased that you are happy with the new home depot r and will have someone review this group post and get back to you. in the meantime have you checked out our web site so many wonderful things on sale. youll be just as pleased with our web site. -- christopher a. young you cant shout down a troll. you have to starve them. .. speaking of e-mail i did e-mail home depot about their self checkout and complained. they dont have a real person to monitor their e-mail they have a computer with artificial intelligence. its very artificial; it couldnt categorize my complaint to formulate a proper response. i gave up havent been back since. .
From : craig c
on apr 2 103 pm bigironram n...@home.com wrote im very much a free market kind of guy. imho trimming expenses is an intellectually vacant way to improve profits unless of course youve allowed them to get out of hand then what kind of management are you anyway employees arent just debits on a balance sheet theyre assets to the company theyre how the work we need done gets performed. it doesnt generally take much of an increase in employee pay to get a disproportionate increase in productivity. vice versa of course. an added benefit is reduced management load due to having competent employees that dont cause unnecessary problems to be solved by management can i get an amen !! once again imho its this kind of thing that made unions necessary to begin with. management has allowed accountants far too much influence. shortsightedness seems to be one of the major hallmarks of accountants. theres work and profits beyond next quarter. dead on the money bigiron. when was it that 10 more cents on the balance sheet became more important than the quality and pride derived from producing something of value the past four ceos of the company i work for were former cfos. big big mistake. accept in rare cases ceos should always come from the operations side coos. why they know how the core business works. they realize in my experience that employees are assets and not simply expendible resources/tools. coos also seem to have a bit more loyalty to american labor as opposed to off-shoring everything to save $0.01. craig c. .
From : bigironram
how does everyone feel about the crap that circuit city is pulling with its employees. funny how upper management doesnt feel that their salaries need to be adjusted. will anyone here continue to shop there and if so how sad. this will get budd back! this is where they need a union!!!! no ill not shop there again. wonder if they have a site so we can email them. speaking of e-mail i did e-mail home depot about their self checkout and complained. they dont have a real person to monitor their e-mail they have a computer with artificial intelligence. its very artificial; it couldnt categorize my complaint to formulate a proper response. i gave up havent been back since. .
From : bigironram
iv heard good things about ranch hand. you might also look at kennesaw mountain www.kenmtn.com kennesaw mountian has a bad reputation. i hope this isnt too late. i found this scam warning this morning and i remembered them being mentioned here. see http//www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.phpt=546007 -- ken .