billddrummer

Circuit City: Simply Appalling

I mistakenly reported this post. I'll inform SA as well. My apologies. It was a good one.


On May 05 11:36 PM Beentheredun nit2 wrote:

> The downward spiral started when Froman was passed over in favor
> of Schoonover for CEO. I was a Store Director for 16 years and watched
> as store directors and managers resigned, and nobody cared. Entire
> District Manager teams resigned en masse. The entire Dm team in Oregon
> resigned on the same day, and nobody cared. The smartest people in
> the company were allowed to resign and once again nobody cared. At
> my exit interview I was asked why I was resigning and I said to the
> HR manager, the people who built this company are resigning everyday,
> we fired 3800 of the best sales associates on earth, and within a
> couple of years CC will terminate those who stay today and continue
> to lose talent at the stores and DeepRun and NOBODY WILL CARE! The
> final straw for me was the "brillant" plan to drive business by putting
> our flyers and ads in the surrounding businesses in our shopping
> center. HELLO! CC had not done a zip code analysis in over 10 years
> in a town that was growing at the rate of 8000 people a month. Huge
> new subdivisions with affluent people were not getting our ads while
> the area's that were getting them was declining in per capita income.
> and nobody in Richmond cared. My HR manager said, hey thanks for
> the comments and we'll see ya around ok. Yeah, ok. There's no one
> left in Richmond that could find the book "good to great" let alone
> read it and understand the retail culture. Oh well CC see ya around,
> ok.