Tweeter mails out employee checks

If your business model is selling Plasma TV's for $6,000 that are available at Best Buy for $1,499 and Wal Mart for $999, you will have competitive challenges in this environment,

as an ex-tweeter employee and owed 52 hours of "earned" vacation time I am disgusted with the way Schultze has handled this. We were told as the company was switching over to liquidation that we needed to keep pushing forward with selling things off and working as we had been, but nobody would give a 100% straight answer on payment of vacation time owed. Their were suggestions made that nobody should be taking vacation time and we would more than likely be paid for it in the end. Well it looks like it was yet another farce on their part like pretty much everything else they ever told us.

Getting paid for the last week was a start ,but what about our vacation money? We were told not to worry about our vacations, they would all be paid to us. What about the health insurance, there is no one around to answer questions. If you call united Health they are in the dark about this whole matter, you have to call every day to see if you are covered. The bonus money from the liquidators was something the managers worked hard for and now we may not receive what was again promised to us. I wish I never heard the name Tweeter, their people drove sound Advice into the ground

Call the Masachusetts State House - accrued and un-used vacation time has to be paid out by law in Massachusetts.

As an Ex-Employee I thought Tweeter would make it through the New Year; When we shut down all of our distribution centers I knew we were closing within weeks. Thats when all the lies began to trickle down from Corporate in an obvious attempt to keep the store level employees in check. Tweeter robbed its Customer's of thier hard earned money and also did not deliver thier paid for product by intent; Tweeter was fortunate it had loyal employees otherwise there would have been no product to liqudate.

I worked for Tweeter for 5 years, and left about 4 years ago, and even then there were signs that the business was going downhill. We used to use the old clunky manual credit card machines to process sales. Can you imagine? You pat $10,000 for a top of the line home theater system and your salesman pulls out that? They thought they could compete with Best Buy, CC and Walmart in the price game and failed miserably. I tell ya, I would love to have some of the stuff those guys were smoking. At least they trained the employees well so they (hopefully) can find similar jobs. R.I.P Tweeter, you did it to yourself.