Something that would make me reconsider how a company treats its employees: a plan has been announced for electronics retailers Circuit City to lay off over 3,000 of its current employees immediatedly, hire new workers who will make less, and then give those ex-employees a chance to be rehired at a lower wage.................after a 10 week interim period has passed.
Maybe it's cause I've never had to work for a large corporation, plus I've been blessed to work for companies where people actually for one another, but this story annoys me. First of all, whose fault is it if the company agrees to pay those type of wages? Have they eliminated "redundancies" in the front office as well?
Perhaps the upper management thinks the lower-paid employees, new hires and old alike, will give better customer service than what we've become accustomed to, but this is still a potentially frightening prospect: is this what the majority of the American workforce is going to have to face at some time in their life?
I guess there is a bit of a bright side, in that at least Circuit City is, publicly at least, willing to rehire those workers, but in overall coldness terms, this effort does rank just ahead of Radio Shack's E-MAIL LAYOFFS.
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