Remembering why #Radio_Shack was an awful place to work.
I worked for a store in another RS-owned chain during one year's Christmas season. Maybe I just wasn't there long enough to observe all the things this person saw.
We had a store manager (very pregnant, so she just wanted to sit in the back all day) who stole sales, a district manager whose only concern was pushing sales up, and a hot-selling refurbished product in which most of the items sold were returned before Christmas.
It was good to be gone before the rest of the items came back (-$60 in commission for each returned item).
@mangeurdenuage @geniusmusing I can remember using a #TRS-80 with 16K of RAM, Level II BASIC, and an attached expansion interface at school. Of course, a cassette tape recorder to save our programs. There was also a printer. I wanted one like it, but couldn't afford it.
The version with 4K of RAM, Level I BASIC, and no accessories (tape recorder, expansion interface, printer) was originally $499. I think the price dropped after #Radio_Shack and #Apple had established that there was a market for home microcomputers, but I wasn't even able to buy a Commodore 64 a few years later when they were as low as $99.
@rw As a former employee of a chain that was owned by #RadioShack, it still tears me up that they mismanaged that company until Chapter VII bankruptcy was all they had left.
@stitchxd If there are any #RadioShack stores left, they are probably doing their last, final, cross-their-hearts-and-hope-to-die, going-out-of-business sales.
@alpacaherder @hobbsc I don't think they've finished liquidating. There's a #RadioShack store in #Baton_Rouge that still appears to be open (with "everything must go" banners all over the front of the store). Can you tell I have not stopped there?