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In reply to the discussion: Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly: Workers should feel disposable, not indispensable [View all]DRoseDARs
(6,810 posts)63. Nice little distortion you got there. In context: "[does] not apply to Best Buy’s store employees"
Seriously, it's right there in the 3rd paragraph, paragraphs that are 1 maybe 2 sentences long. Got everyone's dander up about the minimum wage workers, and they ARE poorly treated, but this article has NOTHING to do with them.
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Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly: Workers should feel disposable, not indispensable [View all]
Aquavit
Mar 2013
OP
Or it could be the echoes of no customers. Best Buy is in a death spiral ...
SomeGuyInEagan
Mar 2013
#79
So explain to me how a 30 second interaction with an employee generates a comission?
Earth_First
Mar 2013
#32
So these assholes finally admit it. Where do we get the pitchforks and torches again?
Initech
Mar 2013
#6
I know someone who said he was the guy everyone went to over the supervisor....
Spitfire of ATJ
Mar 2013
#66
Lol I couldn't afford to shop at his store to begin with now I wouldn't period
Arcanetrance
Mar 2013
#23
I have been doing this for decades--starting with all the states that refused to ratify ERA
niyad
Mar 2013
#113
If you treat your employees like crap how do you think they will treat your customers?
BrotherIvan
Mar 2013
#38
He's probably just another conservative Obama hater deliberately thumbing his nose in defiance
Populist_Prole
Mar 2013
#46
What an idiot. Best Buy has impressed me lately, and I'm not easily impressed
Schema Thing
Mar 2013
#60
Nice little distortion you got there. In context: "[does] not apply to Best Buy’s store employees"
DRoseDARs
Mar 2013
#63
Now I really have an excuse to stay out of Best buy. Go to Frys instead they'e privately owned and
kimbutgar
Mar 2013
#67
This is why we need to start going more towards cooperatives that are employee owned.
Cleita
Mar 2013
#68
As a Tech (and other techs I know) ..we don't buy shit from Best Buy. Their "Rocketfish" brand of
BlueJazz
Mar 2013
#80
BB sucks. Their service sucks, probably due to the fact of how they treat their employees.
we can do it
Mar 2013
#114
Attitude flows downstream in a corporation. I remember a business owner that would verbally
alfredo
Mar 2013
#117
True, and just how much motivation does one have at minimum wage and hateful management?
we can do it
Mar 2013
#118