It looks like consumer electronics retailer Circuit City Stores, Inc. (NYSE: CC) is extending an odd olive branch to some of the 3,400 ex-employees it sluffed off this past Spring by offering some of them their jobs back.How nice! Although almost every retailer ramps up employee counts for the holidays, one has to wonder if the invitation Circuit City is extending to these former workers is for month-long help or something more. If the retailer is offering former employees jobs again for a month-long retail period filled with stressed customers, long hours and nightmarish retail conditions, who would take up the offer?
From one perspective, it's like the retailer is pouring salt on the wounds of its former workers. From another point of view, a holiday income is not a bad thing, regardless. With the retailer's 650 U.S. stores, company officials say that several thousand temporary workers could be needed to provide sufficient staffing in stores this holiday season.
If you're a former employee who was fired by the retailer and you had an offer come in the mail, what would you do? Inquiring minds want to know.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
11-26-2007 @ 12:50PM
Jim said...
Do you need the money, if so go back if not then don't. I worked for a major telco and they cut back many employees and later on needed to recall them, so it may be a good thing.
11-26-2007 @ 1:11PM
web said...
People remember.....1st time shame on you.....2nd time shame on me!
11-26-2007 @ 9:46PM
Dan said...
No, I went back to work for them after 3 mnths for less pay, transfered to firedog for a $1.65 more, was working 16 hrs days, and said enough! Now I am working at Best Buy for more money than CC would pay me.
11-28-2007 @ 9:21PM
Donna said...
I am one of those former employees. There is no
amount of money available that would make me go back to a company, that I spent 23 years working for, that would do what they did to so many people. Now they need some of us back and
I hope no one goes back.......
12-05-2007 @ 12:50PM
christine said...
I am also an ex employee.... a spotless over 6 year run and what do i get..... a swift kick out the door, i will not go back to a company that rewards its hardworking employees by getting rid of them so that they can pay someone else less money.... Some of us remember the first round of firings too