Hmm, I followed the Circuit City layoffs a while back, but it seems that they didn't trade untrained staff for other untrained staff with the intention of makin

Hmm, I followed the Circuit City layoffs a while back, but it seems that they didn't trade untrained staff for other untrained staff with the intention of making them better employees than who they replaced, but they traded already trained staff for cheaper untrained staff---and then kept them untrained. If I remember, they did this in response to their impending doom, but it was not the original cause. It was their attempt at a short term problem, but it was not enough to counter the declining trend of retail appliance sales, so this decision ultimately wouldn't have affected them. (But anyway, not really important for this discussion.)