Good Ol' Tandy Days

[Richard Kreiss]

I did my time in the army

Richard
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On May 9, 2012, at 6:47 PM, <smittyusn1 at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> I had (1968) the all expenses paid,  deluxe package tour of SE Asia (Hong 
> Kong included), free air travel (combat pay), free meals (yuk), free 
> lodging, etc., etc..  I have often wondered many times,  how many people on 
> the filePro list have served in the Military besides Charlie Day and myself?
> 
> Wayne Smith
> Port Orange, Florida
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: John Sica
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 4:51 PM
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Re: Good Ol' Tandy Days
> 
> Wow, this is like re-living my career at Tandy.  But you have to admit
> Bill, that Hong Kong trip was one of the most amazing trips ever.
> 
> John
> 
> On 5/9/2012 1:01 PM, Bill Campbell wrote:
>> On Wed, May 09, 2012, Linda Hapner wrote:
>> 
>>> Reading Ken's post about the old Tandy Model I and Radio Shack, I thought
>>> you might get a kick out of some computer magazines I found in my 
>>> archives.
>>> I've scanned a few into a pdf - click here to view:
>> The first picture from February 1983 reminds me of how Radio
>> Shack managed to totally screw their store managers.
>> 
>> I was managing the Radio Shack Computer Center in Congressional
>> Plaza, Rockville Maryland at the time.  I had emptied the store
>> during December, even selling every machine in our classroom.
>> Naturally I ordered replacement machines for the classroom and
>> inventory in January, Model IIs, Model 16s, hard drives, etc.
>> which were immediately obsolete with the announcement of the
>> Model 12s, Model 6000s, and new, higher capacity, hard drives.
>> 
>> The immediate effect on the store managers was a huge inventory
>> loss, decimating the store's P&L thus my paycheck.  To add insult
>> to injury, Radio Shack shipped copiers to the computer centers
>> that we didn't order and couldn't sell, further increasing the
>> inventory and limiting our ability to order new systems that we
>> could sell.  In effect, they transferred the inventory losses to
>> the stores from the warehouses which severely reduced their
>> payroll as store managers were paid a percentage of the store's
>> profit.
>> 
>> My "promotion" from manager of an X-department in D.C.  to RSCC
>> manager cut my pay about 70% because of the higher overhead and
>> these booked inventory losses.  I was 'demoted' to another
>> X-department in D.C. about a month later where (a) I recovered
>> most of the lost income, (b) won a trip to Hong Kong, and (b)
>> resigned the day I returned from the trip to take a job as V.P.
>> of a customer's software company in Seattle.  Unlike most
>> store managers who were escorted out immediately after they quit,
>> my District Manager, Alan Bush, asked me to stay another 30 days
>> to close several large sales I had pending, and the divisional
>> V.P. called me to try to get me to reconsider.
>> 
>> Bill
> 
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