Best Buy Geek Squad Agents ‘Going Sleeper’ After Mass Layoffs

An anonymous reader shares a report: Best Buy is conducting mass layoffs of Geek Squad employees this week, according to former employees who lost their jobs. Workers told 404 Media they were told by the company to stay at home Tuesday and to wait for a call from their bosses about whether they had been let go. Best Buy did not respond to a request for comment, so we don’t know how many people lost their jobs. But a laid-off worker we talked to said “it’s definitely company wide and bigger than the cuts last summer.” […] The r/GeekSquad subreddit, an unofficial community for Geek Squad workers, is full of posts about the layoffs, with many users posting photos of their Geek Squad badges and noting that they are agents “going sleeper,” a Sleeper Cell reference meaning they’ve been laid off. Read more of this story at Slashdot.