Soulless Radio Shack fires 400 employees by email
Radio Shack sent emails to 400 workers notifying them that their jobs had been eliminated. “The work force reduction notification is currently in progress,” read an e-mail delivered Tuesday morning. “Unfortunately, your position is one that has been eliminated.”
Firing staff by email takes the image of the soulless corporation to a whole new level. I’ll never buy anything from Radio Shack again. The crappy electronics that they sell can be had just about anywhere these days. The sentiment seems to be universal. This is a total public relations mess created out of shear stupidity.
Derrick D’Souza, a management professor at the University of North Texas, told AP that he had never heard of such a large number of employees being informed of their termination electronically. He said employees could see it as dehumanizing. “If I put myself in their shoes, I’d say, ‘Didn’t they have a few minutes to tell me?’” D’Souza said.
Steven Muslin writes in CNET’s workplace blog, “Perhaps it’s just a normal progression of the medium: We search for jobs online, apply for them via e-mail, use company intranets to change our benefits packages, and even use the Internet to work from home. Is there really any reason to see your boss anymore? Certainly not to get fired. Not anymore. Not if you work for Radio Shack.”
I liked this quote from the Drudge reports comments, “These people are gutless. Being laid off or fired or whatever is not easy, and it shouldn’t be easy for the people doing it, they should have to face the people they are firing.” That pretty much sums it up.
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