Best Buy layoffs/pay cuts...

Nakatomi2010

Being a former Circuit City employee, I'm curious to see how Best Buy is handling the pay cut/lay offs that they're apparently planning starting today...

matt has a problem

You could at least throw up some linkage or something. Lazy OP is lazy.

http://i.gizmodo.com/5207693/huge-massive-best-buy-lay+offs-coming-tomorrow

Besides, what is there to discuss?

"Best Buy might be laying people off and cutting pay."

"Yep."

fin

Nakatomi2010

I want to hear about them though, from the employees.... Kinda wanna know the reason why...

ZeroCow

Nakatomi2010 wrote: »

I want to hear about them though, from the employees.... Kinda wanna know the reason why...

Because the economy is shit and people aren't buying high end electronics right now, reducing Best Buys profit creating the need to layoff workers?

Nakatomi2010

I just don't know where else to go to get reactions from employees about the process and such...

Topweasel

Maybe go inside Best Buy, ask them there.

SquirrelGOD

I work at a Best Buy, and we just had the meeting this morning that was discussed in the article. It was just the same boring crap as usual. No layoffs or anything. They did mention that there is a restructuring going on, but it just means that certain leadership positions are being eliminated, and those in said positions are going to be normal full-time employees, but no pay cuts that I've heard of. Could be because we're a small store, though.

Salvation122

Topweasel wrote: »

Maybe go inside Best Buy, ask them there.

Don't actually do this. It was a joke.

KalTorak

Try more ellipses...

Nakatomi2010

*sigh* I have OCD and the elipses are part of that... It's just how I end my sentences the bulk of the time...

And I was being geuinely curious... Damn... So much hate in here...

Tox

"Pay cuts" may come in the form of hiring former CC employees to replace low performing BB managers.

"Hey, you know how you make $30k a year, but are only average rated?"

"Yeah, that's why you won't give me a raise. You keep rating me average, even though I'm maintaining my rate of sales of high end electronics in a recession."

"Yeah, about that. Funny story, actually. Murray, from the old CC store down the street? Yeah, he said he'd do your job for $25k a year. Pack your shit."

"They...they...took....they took my job?"

"Durk a jerb!"

mynameisguido

Well, I don't work for Best Buy per se, but being a vendor who works at Best Buy I've heard that they're going to be fusing together a lot of positions and departments--a lot of full-time people are going to get bumped-down to part time and some managers may have to take a pay cut.

A lot more will be known by sometime today though, since that's when the big rollout to everybody is.

Tox

Bumping full time employees to part time is pretty much what's going on right now in a lot of retail industries. They've got trained employees that are invested in the company, that the company is invested in. It makes more sense to, instead of cutting employees, just cutting hours. That way, when things pick back up, they don't have to retrain new employees. The employees they have will just get more hours.

This is a mixed blessing to the employees, though. While they get to keep their jobs, they get less income, and they can lose job benefits, like healthcare, either due to no longer qualifying as full time employees, or because they can no longer afford it.

I don't get how you force someone to take a pay cut, though. In my state, you cannot reduce someone's pay without their permission, and if you were to fire them, and the ESC were to catch wind that you'd asked them to take a pay cut, they refused, and then you fired them, they'd lose their shit on you. Unless they fired you for an extremely good reason, like gross incompetence, or doing lines of coke off the front counter or something.

matt has a problem

Most states are at-will employment states, so "Take a pay cut or you're fired" is legit.

cj iwakura

Hey, at least it's not assorted store closings yet.
(See: Kmart, Circuit City)

Sentry

Nakatomi2010 wrote: »

*sigh* I have OCD and the elipses are part of that... It's just how I end my sentences the bulk of the time...

And I was being geuinely curious... Damn... So much hate in here...

maybe because you're using debate and discourse like it was AskJeeves.

Elki

Check the rules before attempting to make any new threads.

Tycho wrote:

Now that Half-Life 2 and Metal Gear Solid 3 have joined Halo 2 and the sequel to Metroid Prime, the dark conjunction can finally begin.

We dropped by our EB yesterday to sign the WoW guides they had up there, we signed a bunch so if you were interested in one the chances of them having an extra are pretty good. Signing shit was not our only goal, however. We would also require a WoW guide of our own, because our stuff is in there. We would need Baten Kaitos, because it is an RPG with a card based battle system, which stokes the fires of passion. Chiefly though, and this might be called our "primary objective," we were there to get Metal Gear Solid 3.

By the time we had finished the second Metal Gear Solid, we had gone quite mad and had begun literally to chew upon one another. We had lost our civilization and taken on the characteristics of beasts, grazing endlessly on thick shag and producing a sort of call which was said to recall an orangutan fucking an accordion. When we regained our higher brain functions - or, at the very least, sufficient manual dexterity - we produced the following comic which we placed in our archive, like a head on a pike, as if to warn us away from this franchise should memory and good sense fail us simultaneously. With the proper course of action made so explicit, we had merely to choose between wisdom and folly. Precisely how we chose folly in this instance is not entirely clear.

They say time heals all wounds, which isn't actually true. For example, the simple passage of time can't cure aggravated damage (such as that dealt by vulgar magick) or reverse the effects of magical diseases like lycanthropy or mummy rot. However, in our case, it was able to make us forget just how long the cutscenes are in an MGS game. Though not a wound per se, strange sensations are created by them, such as the impression that your brain's mouth is actually agape and hanging open inside your skull. We were listening to a codec conversation yesterday that was so long, so God damned long, that the entire Earth was destroyed, remade, and our species achieved a level of development commensurate with what had risen before.

The cold war setting, the expression of a different era of espionage altogether is the main reason I wanted it - and in this, it strikes unerringly. The idea - the idea, now - of sneaking through natural environments, this also drew me in. The cinematography is, again, marvelous. Konami has managed to find a cache of powerful, secret chips in the system and are working them in tandem, like a rowing crew. I'll tell you true, though: I don't know if I can endure the game long enough to reveal it in any significant quantity. The controls don't feel classic at this point, they feel obstinate. The organic setting and global glow just serves to muddy things I need to be explicit, like enemy locations and environmental features. You have to want to like it pretty bad, and honestly, I thought I did.

I must be missing something. I'll pick it back up this weekend, I will come to it sweetly and with the proper deference. I will urge it to reveal its secrets.

(CW)TB out.

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