Best Buy Co., Compensate All Employees Affected By Your Willful Labor Cuts

Hello everyone! First off, I'd just like to thank you all once again for your immense support and willingness to share our efforts to your friends and family. Without your help, we could have never reached a number as immense as nearly 4,000 individual signatures.

Best Buy announced that a $500 one-time "Gratitude" bonus will be sent to all full-time employees, both retail and corporate, with $200 for all part-timers. These bonuses will be distributed early next month. In their words, this is part of a "thank you" to everyone who helped keep the company afloat in light of the events of the last year.

Let us be clear: this is by no means a solution to the problem we've brought forward. $500 does little to eclipse the past six weeks of slashed wages. I wish these checks were sufficient, but, unfortunately, many will go towards debt built up by missed bills, or to savings accounts upended by emergency need.

Our fight will continue until we see proper compensation.

We just surpassed 1,000 signatures with no signs of slowing! I can hardly believe how quickly things are progressing, and I am so proud of what the work we've done has resulted in.

With this enormous milestone reached, and still no word received from our corporate leaders, we're posing a challenge to them:

Best Buy Co., if you do not communicate a definitive recourse to us by Sunday, February 21st, just over a week from today, we will move to further amplify our demands by speaking to all of the members of the press who have reached out to this campaign thus far.

In addition, we would like to stress that your plan MUST be inclusive of any employee affected by these widespread labor cuts-- especially among the several thousand former employees who saw their positions eliminated just this past Wednesday.

Thank you again, to everyone who has signed or shared this campaign. We'll be in touch for further updates.

Barely over a day in and we're already at nearly 300 signatures! That's incredible. To everyone who shared, signed, or commented: Thank you so much. We can't begin to make change like this happen without the support of people like you, current employee or not.

I'll continue to monitor this campaign and fill you guys in on any developments. So far, it's been radio silence from the company. But we won't get too hasty yet. In the meantime, continue to amplify this petition when and where you can! Facebook, Reddit, Discord, whatever feels right! The more people that know, the better.