Comments on: So You Think You Have It Bad? The Circuit City Story

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 12 May 2009 00:43:58 +0000

I agree the liquidation process was awful and noone really understood our pain except for well the ones going through it! We had a horrible and I mean horrible liquidator! We had a customer attack one of our customer service employees over a $10 used game because we couldnt return it! Even after ever thing that happened to me losing my job, pay, benefits, Circuit City came out of the grave to screw me over one last time. I recieved a bill from the doctor saying I owe them $200 dollars because in 2007 I hurt my knee @ work and Ccity had 3 years to file a claim, so they waited to tie up all there loose ends so that workers compensation wouldnt have to pay for it. I tried for 3 weeks before everyone @ corp was gone to get some answers, no one EVER called back, and $200 may not sound like alot but when ur unemployed and have other important bills to pay then it really is alot of money! I really feel like Ive been done dirty, and left hanging with alot of feelings of anger, confusion, and sadness! Dont get me wrong I loved the people I worked with my 3 and a half yrs there, we were a team, and I loved my job but I cant help to be angry with the higher ups who were responsible for all of this!

By: Laurie Phillips

Laurie Phillips — Fri, 08 May 2009 14:14:15 +0000

I hope someone leaves CC and sets up a competitor to Best Buy. In that or any other business they can apply the lessons they learned from CC’s inhumane treatment of the same people that let them stay in business for so many years. It’s very sad. Remember it’s not your fault and you will eventually take something positive away from all this.

By: Laurie Phillips

Laurie Phillips — Fri, 08 May 2009 14:11:40 +0000

This is one of the ugliest liquidations I’ve heard of. Yet they’re paying big dollars for remaining executives to do an orderly shutdown. And this is orderly? Are there any answers from management out there?

By: Laurie Phillips

Laurie Phillips — Fri, 08 May 2009 14:09:56 +0000

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By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 07 May 2009 23:26:59 +0000

Oh heck yes. I worked in what management called the “profit center” of the store, the TV/Home Theater dept. We received $25 for every comcast customer we signed up. Over the course of the incentive, I had over $1400 due. No go. Canceled payments. Insult to injury, they decided to pay it out after the stores closed for good. I received an e-mail to log on the corporate reward site as the funds had been released. Bad news was since I was officially termed (fired) on the 8th of March, my password and login (that I used at the register for EVERY SALE) was “unable to validate” Duh. I had been removed from the employee system. So, in essence, we will pay you what you earned, but fat chance getting to it. I understand that companies go under, I understand that money can be lost, but to wait until 3 days after I was released, THEN e-mail me that I can go to the site to tell then where to send it, only to be unable to access it, was a very cruel joke.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 07 May 2009 19:33:41 +0000

I was part of the employees greatly let down. My store was part of the first cuts in November. I lost my supervisory position, my pay, and upon being taken in at another location my pay was further cut below my original starting pay from 3 yrs ago, my hours were cut from 38 to 12 I lost my health insurance and all my PTO. Upon a month of arguing I gained my 118 hours of PTO back just to be locked from using it due to being classified as “seasonal” so much for the prior three years. Come January it all happened again. Everyone scrambled to apply their PTO before it was gone. 90% of customers always made comments about spending forever in unemployment lines now, and that we should have got out while there were still jobs. I was told at least twice a day sucks to be you, living pay check to pay check and now you don’t have one. Grind more salt in the wounds. At least 1/4 my old store mates are still looking for jobs. Many others went to work for the competition at surprise surprise new lower starting rates. For the most part the liquidators made their payments and most employees were paid for hours worked but at least 50% of PTO was not paid out and there were tiny bonuses for store management (Seems the average was about $1.5k-$3k depending on volume of the store)

By: I Was Able to

I Was Able to — Wed, 06 May 2009 03:13:17 +0000

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