Archived Target to lay off more HQ team members...

[FlowChick]

A lot of companies here in Minneapolis are reaching out to people who got laid off. I'm sure they're fine.

 

[Redzee]

I personally am enjoying the irony of the Business Performance Optimization Center of Excellence receiving cuts because they possessed redundant positions.

Ditto. Can't stop giggling about "of Excellence "

 

[asidius]

I'm just glad these layoffs are not hitting stores...yet.

 

[konk]

Angie be drinking that kool-aid!

 

[daninnj]

What the he'll is Mnps? You mean Mpls??

Mumps

 

[FlowChick]

Mumps

Ishh

 

[Redzee]

The person in charge of package design that put the clear label on the up and up dish soap that doesn't scan.

Not only doesn't scan but nearly illegible and the spout leaks. Bad designer! Bad! No biscuit for you.

 

[Redzee]

Oops backtracking.

 

[Hardlinesmaster]

Ishh

They mean the city of Minneapolis, spot HQ.

 

[FlowChick]

They mean the city of Minneapolis, spot HQ.

I'm just saying. Don't hate on my hometown. Not my cities fault target sucks, lol

 

[Hardlinesmaster]

I'm just saying. Don't hate on my hometown. Not my cities fault target sucks, lol

I am sorry to offend you.

 

[FlowChick]

I am sorry to offend you.

Lol yea right.

 

[Hardlinesmaster]

A scary thought from the press release:
Target is likely to lay off more employees following the $1.9B sale of its pharmacy and retail clinic business to CVS Health later this year.

 

[Redzee]

Well at least Minneapolis isn't illegible or leak.
Don't post don't post damn

 

[oath2order]

Ew minneapolis the city where bad news comes from

Nothing I have heard in the past 3 years is good out of that city.

"Your hours are cut."
"Your hours are cut."
"Your hours are cut."
"Your hours are now in the negatives."
"We don't know how that works. But you can't work off the clock to figure it out and you have no hours to figure it out."
"Also you have eight salesplanners this week to set."

 

[Sickofspot]

Ew minneapolis the city where bad news comes from

Nothing I have heard in the past 3 years is good out of that city.

"Your hours are cut."
"Your hours are cut."
"Your hours are cut."
"Your hours are now in the negatives."
"We don't know how that works. But you can't work off the clock to figure it out and you have no hours to figure it out."
"Also you have eight salesplanners this week to set."

Agreed! Target never makes sense when they "plan" things. Lol.
And yes, I heard a rumor from some Target peeps that RxBP's will be laid off soon...

 

[Signkitty]

"Hey can you set this real quick"
"Then clean out the trailer"
"That shouldn't take long so after can you put up all those signs"
"If you have any time left can you see whats wrong with C15 and my support it"

Yeah um let me get my Time-Turner....

 

[Hardlinesmaster]

From thelayoff.com site:
thebreakroom.org
we in the stores would love to know what's up with corp... thebreakroom.org is our message board not affiliated with Target in anyway and is anonymous. any news to share? i'm just a member but come register and share information... we would love any AMAs or stuff like that
Anonymous109259
It is not me...

 

[DoWork]

Did the mydevice team(s) get fired? These things are fucking garbage. Going on nine hours with only 6 pda's. A corporation with a market cap of 53+ billion that can't get simple gear to work so their employees to do their jobs.

If they didn't get fired, they should be.

 

[jenna]

I'm just glad these layoffs are not hitting stores...yet.

Stores have been cut to the bone the past few years. Positions have been eliminated, and team members are lost through attrition, "performance management," fewer hours, et al. Corp has already trimmed the fat at the store level. Not a layoff by definition, but certainly a cutback in the number of positions within the stores.

 

[SFSFun]

Did the mydevice team(s) get fired? These things are fucking garbage. Going on nine hours with only 6 pda's. A corporation with a market cap of 53+ billion that can't get simple gear to work so their employees to do their jobs.

If they didn't get fired, they should be.

I somehow doubt that the team that has been working on the MyDevices intentionally chose such terrible products to build apps on from scratch.

It was more likely a scenario of: "Hey, Target is going to be using iPods and Honeywell scanners to replace the PDAs. Now go make some apps for these!"

And the outage the other day was effecting multiple services, not just the iPods.

 

[DoWork]

I somehow doubt that the team that has been working on the MyDevices intentionally chose such terrible products to build apps on from scratch.

It was more likely a scenario of: "Hey, Target is going to be using iPods and Honeywell scanners to replace the PDAs. Now go make some apps for these!"

And the outage the other day was effecting multiple services, not just the iPods.

Thats the case in most jobs. You are given tools to do your job, and in most cases, it's not top tier stuff. I find it funny that all interactive technology at target is awful. It's not just hardware, nor is it a single team. It's a company wide problem as far as tech goes.

I don't have a problem with the hardware. The iPods last me a shift. The scanner has a problem, but it's only an inconvenience. All problems I've seen at my store are on the software side.