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RadioShack Corp. notified about 400 workers by e-mail that they were being dismissed immediately as part of planned job cuts.

Employees at the Fort Worth headquarters got messages Tuesday morning saying: "The work force reduction notification is currently in progress. Unfortunately your position is one that has been eliminated."

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CBC story: Company officials had told employees in a series of meetings that layoff notices would be delivered electronically, spokeswoman Kay Jackson said. She said employees were invited to ask questions before Tuesday's notification on a company intranet site.

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So, RadioShack may have been just cheap and unwilling to pay the cost of postage or Registered Mail to send the same notice some other way.

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I suppose it's rather doubtful that anyone reading this thread DOESN'T know this, but - on the grounds that a newbie might not know - a previous moderator of babble was given an e mail notice of dismissal/layoff. The dismissal was divisive and controversial. Many posters, including some outstanding ones that are missed, left this board, started their own new board(s), and did not return to babble. [sincere sniff follows.]

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Originally posted by John_D:
Yeah, what kind of employer would do a thing like that? Seems pretty heartless to me.

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