You’ve Got Questions? We’ve Got Pink Slips

My wife and I were strolling along the street the other day window shopping and we passed a Radio Shack. She wondered aloud “When will Radio Shack go out of business?”

I replied, “They are working on it.”

Radio Shack fired 400 people today. By Email. Burn.

From the AP here:

FORT WORTH, Texas – RadioShack Corp. notified about 400 workers by e-mail that they were being dismissed immediately as part of planned job cuts.

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.”

Derrick D’Souza, a management professor at the University of North Texas, said he had never heard of such a large number of terminated employees being notified electronically. He said it could be seen as dehumanizing to employees.

I remember when Tandy used to own Radio Shack. It was cool. You could go in and buy rawhide and a CB radio at the same time.