My friends and I use to use the capitol building in Sacramento as our address... stupid Radio Shack
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No worse than when I bought a universal remote for 8 bucks and they asked if I wanted to buy an extended maint agreement for 4 dollars.It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
RIP Tony Bogey & Baron O
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Originally posted by SlowwHand
They ask for your phone number when you make a purchase. Same concept, just not for a perceived discount.
It cost them this customer years ago."I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain
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Originally posted by Wezil
Any company that requires a full address of a customer buying batteries deserves to suffer."I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration." - Hillary Clinton, 2003
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Fry's has everything radio shack has. And much more.
The only reason to go to radio shack is convenience. It's a helluva lot close than Fry's.
And isn't radio shack the one who did those TSR 80 computers? Or was that Tandy? Or were they the same thing? We actually have those computers in my 6th grade center (similar to middle school, it was our city's answer to racial integration).
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Tandy acquired Radio Shack many, many years ago. But Radio Shack did exist before Tandy got them.Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La Rochefoucauld
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For whatever reason, it has become accepted practice to fire white collar workers face-to-face (probably having to do with logistics of companies covering themselves with regard to liability and getting the employees out the door safely).
For workers at large, this is probably a relatively new phenomenon, given the universal term "pink slip."I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891
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Security also.
In IT we time the face to face exactly so we can be removing security access at the same time.
If we percieve a security risk (unhappy mean employee) it is not out of the ordinary that they would be escorted out in cuffs.
On one occasion the HR rep wanted to leave early so scheduled the term meeting earlier and didn't tell anybody. The employee was able to get back into the computer room and did damage. It cost quite a few man hours to restore everything so anyone that ignores the potential is just foolish. And that was just data, think of more serious nut cases.
So while it sometimes sounds mean, it's necessary.It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
RIP Tony Bogey & Baron O
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If you try 'escorting' me out in 'cuffs' you will be creating a 'security concern'."I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain
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Originally posted by SlowwHand
They ask for your phone number when you make a purchase. Same concept, just not for a perceived discount.Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La Rochefoucauld
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Originally posted by rah
It makes me think of the movie '5th Element' where Bruce Willis's character is fired through notification by snail mail to show just how heartless corporations had become.
The future is now.
Mr. Wong: See? I guarantee this good news. If not, I give you lunch!
Korben: (gestures "go ahead")
Mr. Wong: (enthusiastically opening and reading) You are fired! (continues smiling for a split second, then expression falls)
Korben: (getting up to leave) Well, at least I get a free lunch.
Mr. Wong: Ah, see good in bad! Good philosophy, I like!
I love that movie.
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