{"id":271,"date":"2006-08-31T07:10:16","date_gmt":"2006-08-31T12:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=271"},"modified":"2006-08-31T07:10:55","modified_gmt":"2006-08-31T12:10:55","slug":"radio-shacks-junk-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/08\/radio-shacks-junk-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Shack&#8217;s Junk Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, maybe electronic communication has gone too far. I posted some <a href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=253\" target=\"_blank\">Termination Tips<\/a> a week ago that apparently were not read by Radio Shack&#8217;s upper management team. Before that, I posted about <a href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=225\" target=\"_blank\">Text Message Terminations<\/a> &#8211; an employee was fired through her cell phone text messaging. Granted, it was from a body piercing shop, but the approach was still laughable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/wireStory?id=2374917&#038;CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312\" target=\"_blank\">Now Radio Shack has decided to enter this infamous club by using email to terminate employees<\/a>. This is no joke:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Employees at the Fort Worth headquarters received an e-mail Tuesday morning telling them they were being dismissed immediately.&#8221;The work force reduction notification is currently in progress,&#8221; the notice stated. &#8220;Unfortunately your position is one that has been eliminated.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What more can you add to this train wreck?<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll go with this &#8211; Voltaire once said &#8220;Common sense is not so common.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, maybe electronic communication has gone too far. I posted some Termination Tips a week ago that apparently were not read by Radio Shack&#8217;s upper management team. Before that, I posted about Text Message Terminations &#8211; an employee was fired through her cell phone text messaging. Granted, it was from a body piercing shop, but the approach was still laughable. Now Radio Shack has decided to enter this infamous club by using email to terminate employees. This is no joke: Employees at the Fort Worth headquarters received an e-mail Tuesday morning telling them they were being dismissed immediately.&#8221;The work force reduction notification is currently in progress,&#8221; the notice stated. &#8220;Unfortunately&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/08\/radio-shacks-junk-mail\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,4,11],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-4n","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2239,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions\/2239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->