I made a catastrophic mistake when I joined Target seven years ago. I made the mistake of putting SUBSTANCE over STYLE. This is the inherent problem with Target, and why it's so broken - and tragically, why it will cost so many good people their jobs. At Target, it doesn't matter what you do - it only matters how you manage yourself upwards and outwards in a never-ending cycle of self-promotion. Meaningful results don't count for nearly as much as how well you've built your so-called "personal brand" in the company. For the first four years, all the so-called "feedback" I received from my so-called "leader" had nothing to do with my actual work product - but the way I was sharing "my story" and "engaging with others" and all the other meaningless drivel about how I was selling myself. It was exhausting, especially when I was covering the tracks of my so-called leader who would spend entire days at a time in various networking coffees leaving me to hold the team together. It was this very kind of brown-nosing and office favoritism that put Tony Fisher - an individual with LITERALLY ZERO INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE - put in charge of Target's first international business expansion!!!! And look how it turned out. The cronyism, preponderance of office pets and need to vigilantly manage upward drove HQ straight into the ground. Target's Board of Directors should be held accountable for this mess of an corporate organization, as should the remaining officers who were here when it got so out of control. Jodee Kozlak, John Mulligan, and all the rest, you know who you are. This is a shameful, horrible, awful environment and I hope everyone who is ousted today ends up a million times happier than they ever were when they wore a red badge.
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Glad to be out of there myself! I totally agree with what you said about the "feedback". All of my reviews with half a dozen different leaders in my 5 years there were total bull sessions, completely to my actual job and work I performed.
3npc: classy
Get a ball lickin in the Dojo
2ukm: if you do not have the ability or desire to deliver what is require run along. The government may be hiring.
My professors are all men and I'm pretty sure about half of them are looking for poontang. Please advise, @FIT1u2U-2ewi.
This is life people. Want to get good grades in school? Work hard in class then work harder to figure out what the professor is looking for and give it to him. If you truly believe something is wrong, do something about it. If you don't get what you want/need move on to something else where you can. Blaming others does about as good as it did when you were in grade school.
@FIT1u2U-1zll The OP made the mistake of putting substance over style; you're making the mistake of putting style over substance. I know it's tough without bullet points.
The truth is that Target refuses to recognize its employees hard work ethics. When the employee is evaluated for their performance it will usually have something negative in the evaluation and then follow it up with a 0 to 10 cent raise. That is how Target values its employees. When you have worked for them at least five years faithfully, they find a reason to lay you off for poor work performance so that they don't have to increase your pay. This allow Target to bring new employees at less pay to replace those employees that were going to cost them a little more money to keep employed. By laying off employees for poor work performance keeps Target from having to pay unemployment benefits. I know this from my own experience. A former Target employee and glad I am!!!!!!!
I though Target was all about style. OP really does get it.
You mean style over substance, correct? The rest of your rant while epic is REALLY light on "substance." Sorry, you seem to feel adding quotes and caps somehow brings more emphasis to your comments when in fact they actually show that you're a pretty weak communicator. Best of luck to you, Target is better off without ignorant people.
Let me get you a waaaaahhmbulance
come on. the best designer in PDD, Store Planning Interiors and InStore Marketing got sacked and he was the best at self promotion.
It just does not matter, it is numbers.