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Radio Shack E-Fires 400 Workers
KingSkippus writes "You've got mail! ...and no job! The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is reporting that RadioShack has notified 400 workers by e-mail that they are being laid off. The e-mails state, 'The work force reduction notification is currently in progress. Unfortunately your position is one that has been eliminated.' Nothing says thank you for your years of service to our company quite like an e-boot out the door."
0wned!
Listen p*ssy. I'm sure your the same homo that posted earlier about alf's boner and you just want to remain anonymous fo
Radio Shack actually hired these guys from Sony's Advanced Systems Sodium-Chloride Electronics Division (SASSED). The sassed employee's were fired for explosive behavior, assault, and battery. Even though the workers were feeling blue, Ray Sirr, a manager on the project, said that other employee's were safe, and the fired employee's were pre-picked, and put in a queue, cataloging it all. I just hope that all of you, PC in all, realize what was going with, by quickly scanning what i have written.
Have you read my journal today?
My only question is if they outsourced the e-mail pink slip processing to an Indian firm. That would have given Radio Shack double plus style points. I would not be too shocked if someone goes e-postal over this.
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
"you-can't-fire-me-I-equit"
I'd reply with, "Ha Ha, joke's on you. I've been working from home for the past 8 months, and have been selling the store's LED flashlights on eBay."
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
They should be e-happy they got e-fired because Radio-Shack e-sucks. Besides, they can always be e-hired again at BestBuy or some other know nothing e-electronics store. At least I e-think so...
Well it all depends. How many employees left their red Swingline staplers in their stores before they were locked out?
I'll be honest, we're throwing science against the wall to see what sticks. -Cave Johnson
Being fired through a form letter, or email must be soul destroying.
Now those employees can sue Radio Shack, because they can claim that every time they hear a "new email sound", they break down into tears. They won't be able to find a job working with computers.
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
So is this better or worse than me asking that girl out to prom over irc back in high school?
One of the guys who received that mail should have followed it up with a mail to everyone@radioshack :
"Pls ignore the previous mail.It was a prank mail by someone."
Wincopy
They got Radio Shafted.
Wansu, th' chinese sailor
...the TRS-80 Model I support team. I mean, after I splurged on the 16K RAM expansion and everything!
The Army reading list
Only Radio Shack's old employees in Korea will actually know they've been laid off.
Or even better,remove the 'To' field of the original mail and send to everyone @ RS.
Wincopy
(I'm unplugging my computer. There, now my job's safe.)
Radio Shack is now Radio Sack
Wincopy
They won't be able to find a job working with computers.
...Although, yeah, I do kinda feel sorry for them when they get laid off like that.
These are Radio Shack people. They don't know anything about computers anyway.
sign of the future -> actually "Back to the Future Part 2"
Mr. Kim: You got a message.
Korben Dallas: Yeah.
Mr. Kim: You're not gonna open it? It might be important.
Korben Dallas: Yeah, like the last two I got were important. The first one was from my wife, telling me she was leaving. The second was from my lawyer, telling me he was leaving... with my wife.
Mr. Kim: Aigh, that is bad luck. But grandfather say 'It never rain everyday'. This is good news, guaranteed. Hey, I bet your lunch.
Korben Dallas: Okay, you're on.
Mr. Kim: Come on. [opens message, in a excited voice] 'You are fired'. Oh, I'm sorry.
Korben Dallas: At least I won lunch.
Mr. Kim: Good philosophy, see good in bad, I like.
Do you need any batteries today?
Nah, security wouldn't let you in the door.
Then your boss will send you a text message:
You've been fired. Go home.
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
Nothing says "no chance of appeal" like coming in late the day you get fired...
SpamAssassin could actually save your job. Alternatively, with sufficient supples of bandwidth and Mountain Dew, one of these employees ought to just do a cut & paste job on the e-pink slip (like so)... then spam the whole Radio Shack domain with it. Why not fire everyone, and score some kind of FuckedCompany record? ;-)
News Flash: Godzilla hates infrastructure.
In the early 80's I was a CPU designer at a large mainframe company that was going through waves of RIF's. All layoff's always happened on Friday, and the sysadmins were always given a list of userid's to disable before hand. So, it became a regular Friday morning ritual for everyone to get a cup of joe, joke about whether their login would work, and see if they could get on the system. An officemate typed his password incorrectly one Friday and nearly crapped. Most victims had their desk half cleaned out before their manager found them.
Heck, at least these people got an e-mail.
...a guy from an African nation in the very next message promised to give me a new job if I help him with an international transaction.
Table-ized A.I.
My worst ever: I was trying to buy an adapter so I could plug an old IBM Model M keyboard (with the old AT / 5-pin DIN style connector) into a newer computer (Mini-DIN 6-pin / PS/2). The employee, who I could swear was a robot, kept completely disregarding everything I said; just the look on their face made it obvious they were filtering out all the things they didn't understand, which basically meant they were hearing, "I need a thingy that makes a thingus be able to attach to a thingeroo it's not supposed to attach to.", I guess...and then they would say, "Yeah, we have that." *points at drawers where they keep all the capacitors, resistors, etc.* After the third attempt to explain what I needed to them, they got all exasperated, walked over the the drawers, and pulled out the drawer containing...alligator clips. GAH! I came within an inch of an aneurysm, I swear...
Unpleasantries.
I once worked for a company that fired many employees without notice on a Monday. The only problem was that they fired one of the system administrators, but forgot he was always one of the first people in the office. He was still able to log on to the system, and as various other fired employees were showing up, he diligently re-activated thier passwords and passkeys. When the "Management" bastards showed up, they had some serious splaining to do...
This kind of thing and the people that perpetrate it deserve all the ridicule that they get...
They might be nameless masses, but we know one thing for sure: each individual one of them has his very own, totally unique e-mail address.
Somehow this feels like the best idea in this whole thread. It would probably put an end to the practice pretty quickly with a well placed public backfire.
sorry for the pun...
> On xx/xx/xxxx xx:xx The Employee <slave@thecompany> wrote:
>> On xx/xx/xxxx xx:xx The Management <lickmyboots@thecompany> wrote:
>> Knock, knock!
>>
> Who's there?
Not you anymore! Hahahahahaaaaa!
Alternatively you could send it to all managers and watch productivity shoot through the roof.
Can you hear me now? Good. You're fired! Can you hear me now? Good. You're fired!
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. --Mark Twain
How long until doctors just text-message the family: "The surgery seemed to be going well, but he didn't pull through. Sorry." Then the hospital can add a $2 charge for the text-message (yes that's ridiculously high for a text-message, but have you seen what they charge for an aspirin?)
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. --Mark Twain
"I was later fired as well"
Let me guess... they gave you a list of accounts to disable, and your name was on it?
Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.
So, did you retire to your own tropical island, or do you have a penthouse apartment overlooking Central Park?
(or both?)
Exam 4/C again. Maybe I'll do better this time.
I always wanted to break up with a girl via electronic greeting card:
"moyix has sent you an e-card! Click here to read it!"
*click*
"Yeah, I'm breaking up with you. Enjoy this cute picture of a kitten, though."
Before you know it, people are going to start e-dumping each other.
"The Man has requested a read receipt, would you like to send that now?"
At my college job, we had to turn in some forms to get a schedule for the fall semester. I started at the beginning of summer semester. I turned in my forms and never got a schedule. I kept asking about it. I knew there might be some problems because I wasn't work-study and thus not free for the university. About a week before the fall semester started I ran into a coworker at a party. He says, "nice working with you," then walks away. As we were both trashed I couldn't tell if that was past tense or not. Two days later I received an email from a bot informing me that I had been removed from the employee listserve. The manager never even contacted me. A couple weeks later I went in for my last pay check and she acted as though it was perfectly normal to let a script fire someone. So Radio Shack employees should be grateful that a human fired them, even if it was through email.
My DM usually just kills off your character and tears up the character sheet in front of you.
Heh... I can just see it now.
"Son, I called you here to tell you that, after a long and mature discussion with your mom, we decided that we no longer need you and your sister. With the economic downturn and all, we have to trim the unneeded fat and cut down on the unnecessary expenses. I'm sure that you'll understand the little work that you occasionally do around the house is hardly justifying the expenses of feeding and clothing two children. Maybe we could keep one, but not two.
"So instead of you two, we're outsourcing your job to a chinese kid. As I'm sure you've heard, not only they work cheaper down there, but unlike you American kids, they take school seriously and have skills that you and your sister will likely never have. While you two only ever used school as an excuse to run amok and learn nothing, the chinese kid we found has straight A grades and runs his own gold farming business in his spare time. Whatever gold farming means. That's the kind of initiative and entrepreneurial spirit that, sad to say, is also lacking in America's youth these days. And it's certainly not the kind of spirit that you and your sister ever showed.
"So to cut a long story short, I'm affraid you'll have to pack your things and be out of the house until 5 PM. You will receive your allowance for the next 6 weeks, and I wish you the best of luck in finding yourself another family in that time.
"And, oh, mom and I decided to give ourselves a generous bonus for taking this cost-saving measure, and take a trip to a casin... err... morale-boosting seminar in Las Vegas."
A polar bear is a cartesian bear after a coordinate transform.
I just gave them the last fake phone number a girl gave to me.
"You've got questions, we've got blank stares."
Stupidity is like nuclear power, it can be used for good or evil. And you don't want to get any on you.