Comments on: Circuit City Is Toast http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/2009/01/16/circuit-city-is-toast/ Entertainment and Tech Digest Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:18:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Dave http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/2009/01/16/circuit-city-is-toast/comment-page-1/#comment-29278 Dave Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:19:59 +0000 http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/?p=4677#comment-29278 I worked at Circuit City in Cincinnati, Ohio for over a year until this past August. I too am unsurprised by their collapse, and neither are any of my ex-coworkers. That company is basically a textbook example of mismanagement at the corporate level. They made plenty of brilliant moves like laying off all their experienced employees and hiring new workers for less money, just so they could give themselves a pay raise.<br><br>I can identify with your complaints over CC employees being overly-pushy with service contracts. When I worked there I was constantly arguing with my managers that as a customer, I wouldn't want people forcing this stuff on me, or hounding me the minute I walked in the door, so chances are most of the people who came into our store wouldn't like that either. I realize that the managers were just doing their job by pushing the corporate policy, but it didn't take a genius to see that this strategy wasn't going to help anything.<br><br>Circuit City's demise has been expected for awhile. I feel badly for the people I know who are now out of work, but the company as a whole got what it deserved. Although I wish this didn't mean that Best Buy is now my only local source for electronics around here. I worked at Circuit City in Cincinnati, Ohio for over a year until this past August. I too am unsurprised by their collapse, and neither are any of my ex-coworkers. That company is basically a textbook example of mismanagement at the corporate level. They made plenty of brilliant moves like laying off all their experienced employees and hiring new workers for less money, just so they could give themselves a pay raise.

I can identify with your complaints over CC employees being overly-pushy with service contracts. When I worked there I was constantly arguing with my managers that as a customer, I wouldn’t want people forcing this stuff on me, or hounding me the minute I walked in the door, so chances are most of the people who came into our store wouldn’t like that either. I realize that the managers were just doing their job by pushing the corporate policy, but it didn’t take a genius to see that this strategy wasn’t going to help anything.

Circuit City’s demise has been expected for awhile. I feel badly for the people I know who are now out of work, but the company as a whole got what it deserved. Although I wish this didn’t mean that Best Buy is now my only local source for electronics around here.

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