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Circuit City Kaput

"BAR" wrote in message
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JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
I still don't see your explanation as to why Circuit City is liquidating.
Do not give me links to news stories. I want YOUR explanation, business
expert.

Who are you to demand anything from me?

That's your standard answer when you can't effectively respond to a question
you knew would be asked. Don't set traps for yourself in the future. You're
lousy at avoiding them.

Circuit City Kaput

BAR wrote:
hk wrote:
BAR wrote:
hk wrote:
Eisboch wrote:

"hk" wrote in message
m...

If I am not mistaken, my iPod has a 50 or 50 gig hard drive. You'd
have to buy 30 2 gig $10 SD cards to match the capacity. That's a
lot more than I paid for my iPod.

Plus, SD cars are small. If you are always swapping them out to
get to the music on another card, well...

You know, I think I am still hung up from the old days of having a
PAL 286 computer with a whopping 40Mb hard drive. I became very
frugal with disk space, saving all my documents on floppy disk so
the hard drive had room for programs. Its a habit I still have,
even though my newest computer has a 320Gb drive plus an additional
backup drive. I keep it squeaky clean of misc. stuff that I really
don't need.

I guess I can store some stuff without worrying about running out
of space.

Eisboch

My first PC had only a floppy drive. It wasn't until I got my hands
on an S-100 bus computer that I encountered a hard drive, but I
think it was only 20megs...

Yeah right? What processor was your S-100 bus computer running?

Compupro '286, so it was running an Intel 80286. Hell this was more
than 20 years ago, fella, when you were still puking beer into your
jockey shorts after standing guard outside the portipotty at the
marine barracks.

Ever see a Compupro? Big, heavy box.

What OS did you run on this Compupro '286?

DR's CP/M-86, licensed to Compupro.

But...there was a bootleg MS OS around, too. It sorta ran an early
version of Flight Simulator. You could boot the MS OS from a floppy.

I don't remember a whole lot more. It wasn't "my" Compupro, it was an
editorial review model that I had for about six months. It was a beast.

Circuit City Kaput

JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"BAR" wrote in message
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JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
I still don't see your explanation as to why Circuit City is liquidating.
Do not give me links to news stories. I want YOUR explanation, business
expert.
Who are you to demand anything from me?

That's your standard answer when you can't effectively respond to a question
you knew would be asked. Don't set traps for yourself in the future. You're
lousy at avoiding them.

snerk

Bert's definition of "morality" begins and ends with being anti-abortion.

Circuit City Kaput

"BAR" wrote in message
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JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"BAR" wrote in message
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JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
I still don't see your explanation as to why Circuit City is
liquidating. Do not give me links to news stories. I want YOUR
explanation, business expert.
Who are you to demand anything from me?

That's your standard answer when you can't effectively respond to a
question you knew would be asked. Don't set traps for yourself in the
future. You're lousy at avoiding them.

Ask me nicely and I may respond.

I did that earlier this afternoon. You didn't respond.

Circuit City Kaput

BAR wrote:
hk wrote:
BAR wrote:
hk wrote:
BAR wrote:
Don White wrote:
"BAR" wrote in message
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JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"BAR" wrote in message
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JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"BAR" wrote in message
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John H wrote:
On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 08:40:10 -0500, "Eisboch"
wrote:

"John H" wrote in message
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I wish someone could explain the satisfaction Harry finds
in the fact that
companies are going out of business.

Is this good for liberals somehow? Circuit City had
employees who had jobs,
even if those folks did nothing. Is it in the best
interest of liberals
that the unemployed numbers grow larger?

I'm missing something somewhere.
Some companies deserve to go out of business due to the
lack of quality of their service, products or internal
culture.

In the case of Circuit City, it was on the edge anyway.
The economic crisis and retail downturn was simply the
straw that broke the camel's back.

Eisboch
Agreed. Circuit City just happened to be the company 'du
jour'. Harry, or
other liberals, continuously post articles of companies
losing money or
going out of business. And then make gleeful 'I told you so'
comments.
That's what I can't understand. What is there about
companies going out of business that brings joy to the
heart of a liberal?

Is it just simply 'anti-corporation'?
It really baffles me why you would cheer a corporation going
bankrupt and putting 30,000 people on the unemployment line.
The people who suffer the most are the 30,000 people on the
unemployment line not the executives of the company.
The vast majority of CC's employees got paid for not doing
what the public expected in that capacity, best described as
consultation-based sales. Do you think people who don't do
their job should get paid for it?
If you do what your boss expects you to do then you have earned
your pay. If my boss wants me to sit in the corner and keep my
mouth shut I can do it or quit. Your opinion of whether I am
doing my job is irrelevant.

You just said customers' opinions don't matter. What reality are
you living in? The customers voted and Circuit City is gone.

What type of business are you in?
No, I did not say customers' opinions don't matter.

My boss determines whether I get paid or terminated. If do what
my boss tells me to do I get paid and I don't do what my boss
tells me to do I get terminated.

Your opinion of my work as a co-worker, peer of my manager or
someone else in my company doesn't really matter to me as long as
I am doing what my boss tells me to do.

You as a customer can come into any business and complain as much
as you want. But, if I am doing what my boss tells me to do I
will still get paid. If my boss wants me to do something
differently he will tell me to do it differently.

Your opinion about how a business is run is just that an opinion.
When you have successfully run a national retail chain for more
than 70 years then I will listen to your thoughts on manager and
employee relations.

So...if your 'boss' told you to ship a defective product that
might cause injury or death you'd do it...to hell with the
customer eh?

That is an ethical decision.

Why would an ethical question trouble you?

We know ethical questions don't trouble you.

That's absurd. There are many ethical questions that trouble me. I
can't think of one that might trouble you. You are after all the
epitome of the "I've got mine, **** you" Republican mindset.

What is the ethical question you believe might trouble me?

All of them.

Circuit City Kaput

JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"BAR" wrote in message
...
JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"BAR" wrote in message
...
JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
I still don't see your explanation as to why Circuit City is
liquidating. Do not give me links to news stories. I want YOUR
explanation, business expert.
Who are you to demand anything from me?

That's your standard answer when you can't effectively respond to a
question you knew would be asked. Don't set traps for yourself in the
future. You're lousy at avoiding them.
Ask me nicely and I may respond.

I did that earlier this afternoon. You didn't respond.

I did respond. The message never go out of my computer, connection failure.

Bad management, was my response.

Circuit City Kaput

hk wrote:
BAR wrote:
hk wrote:
BAR wrote:
hk wrote:
BAR wrote:
Don White wrote:
"BAR" wrote in message
...
JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"BAR" wrote in message
...
JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"BAR" wrote in message
...
John H wrote:
On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 08:40:10 -0500, "Eisboch"
wrote:

"John H" wrote in message
...

I wish someone could explain the satisfaction Harry finds
in the fact that
companies are going out of business.

Is this good for liberals somehow? Circuit City had
employees who had jobs,
even if those folks did nothing. Is it in the best
interest of liberals
that the unemployed numbers grow larger?

I'm missing something somewhere.
Some companies deserve to go out of business due to the
lack of quality of their service, products or internal
culture.

In the case of Circuit City, it was on the edge anyway.
The economic crisis and retail downturn was simply the
straw that broke the camel's back.

Eisboch
Agreed. Circuit City just happened to be the company 'du
jour'. Harry, or
other liberals, continuously post articles of companies
losing money or
going out of business. And then make gleeful 'I told you
so' comments.
That's what I can't understand. What is there about
companies going out of business that brings joy to the
heart of a liberal?

Is it just simply 'anti-corporation'?
It really baffles me why you would cheer a corporation going
bankrupt and putting 30,000 people on the unemployment line.
The people who suffer the most are the 30,000 people on the
unemployment line not the executives of the company.
The vast majority of CC's employees got paid for not doing
what the public expected in that capacity, best described as
consultation-based sales. Do you think people who don't do
their job should get paid for it?
If you do what your boss expects you to do then you have
earned your pay. If my boss wants me to sit in the corner and
keep my mouth shut I can do it or quit. Your opinion of
whether I am doing my job is irrelevant.

You just said customers' opinions don't matter. What reality
are you living in? The customers voted and Circuit City is gone.

What type of business are you in?
No, I did not say customers' opinions don't matter.

My boss determines whether I get paid or terminated. If do what
my boss tells me to do I get paid and I don't do what my boss
tells me to do I get terminated.

Your opinion of my work as a co-worker, peer of my manager or
someone else in my company doesn't really matter to me as long
as I am doing what my boss tells me to do.

You as a customer can come into any business and complain as
much as you want. But, if I am doing what my boss tells me to do
I will still get paid. If my boss wants me to do something
differently he will tell me to do it differently.

Your opinion about how a business is run is just that an
opinion. When you have successfully run a national retail chain
for more than 70 years then I will listen to your thoughts on
manager and employee relations.

So...if your 'boss' told you to ship a defective product that
might cause injury or death you'd do it...to hell with the
customer eh?

That is an ethical decision.

Why would an ethical question trouble you?

We know ethical questions don't trouble you.

That's absurd. There are many ethical questions that trouble me. I
can't think of one that might trouble you. You are after all the
epitome of the "I've got mine, **** you" Republican mindset.

What is the ethical question you believe might trouble me?

All of them.

Ask a question and I will answer it.

Circuit City Kaput

"BAR" wrote in message
...
JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"BAR" wrote in message
...
JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"BAR" wrote in message
...
JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
I still don't see your explanation as to why Circuit City is
liquidating. Do not give me links to news stories. I want YOUR
explanation, business expert.
Who are you to demand anything from me?

That's your standard answer when you can't effectively respond to a
question you knew would be asked. Don't set traps for yourself in the
future. You're lousy at avoiding them.
Ask me nicely and I may respond.

I did that earlier this afternoon. You didn't respond.

I did respond. The message never go out of my computer, connection
failure.

Bad management, was my response.

But you still think the word "complain" means to speak to management. In
fact, customers complain by not walking in the door.

Circuit City Kaput

JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"BAR" wrote in message
...
JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"BAR" wrote in message
...
JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"BAR" wrote in message
...
JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
I still don't see your explanation as to why Circuit City is
liquidating. Do not give me links to news stories. I want YOUR
explanation, business expert.
Who are you to demand anything from me?

That's your standard answer when you can't effectively respond to a
question you knew would be asked. Don't set traps for yourself in the
future. You're lousy at avoiding them.
Ask me nicely and I may respond.

I did that earlier this afternoon. You didn't respond.
I did respond. The message never go out of my computer, connection
failure.

Bad management, was my response.

But you still think the word "complain" means to speak to management. In
fact, customers complain by not walking in the door.

That is a management problem.