Heard some layoffs in marketing happened today with more to come….
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A former Dayton Hudson and Target employee here......the employees make Target the great retailer it is. We all knew that things would happen behind the scenes when the boycott was mentioned. The boycott and Tariffs are not a good mix. It will be interesting to see what will happen towards the end of this fiscal year (June 2024 - June 2025). I am sending prayers to those who have been and will be (quietly) laid off in the future. When it's said and done, for ANY business, no matter how great an employee we are, we are all just lines on a budget which can be erased at any time.
Myself and a peer were laid off on 4/9. Our roles were eliminated and we were given 60 days to find a job within Target. We are in Marketing.
Did any layoffs actually occur or is this all a fake post with complaining?
The times I’ve been in the office, most don’t come in until 9a or 10a. Then leave sometime after lunch. What struck me most about the required days to come in, it was just chat time. No work was getting done.
Are we sure? I asked around and heard nothing..
"Nobody at Target is working 40 hours outside the executive team. Most are probably working 25 hours per week tops, hence the outsourcing of jobs."
Do you work at TGT? How would you know this? Or is it just speculation or hearsay? Merch/Design/Engineering work 40 - 60+ hours a week; don't know about other teams. Former TM who worked at Corp; left long ago due to not having a good work/life balance. I'd see TMs working late into the evenings, and into the weekends to meet deadlines. It's a fashion-industry so it's a fast paced. And compensation does not meet market standards. Personal experience here, and working hard and overtime doesn't always guarantee you will be noticed when it comes to being rewarded. If you work overtime, you are not "balancing your time well" or not "prioritizing". What they don't realize is the number of times someone from Exec will demand changes to things that were almost out the door; necessitating "re-work" or starting from scratch entirely. Speak what you know.
Good grief some of these comments. We work at a fast fashion retailer selling Cambodian, Vietnamese, and Chinese goods. Most of the employees here outside our HQ bubble make $17.50/hour maximum, 15 hours a week.
Most prestigious company ever? For real? Is White Castle your most lauded fine cuisine ever? Is Briggs and Stratton your idea of the apex of engineering?
Ok you’re just a troll. The vast majority of TM’s don’t have equity which is the only incentive to go above and beyond.
"Target is falling behind its competition because the employees don’t have the grit and desire to work the hours necessary to keep Target competitive"
You don't get paid for working more than 40 hours a week and there's no reward for going above and beyond. How does Brian's a$$hole taste?
What teams within marketing?
Very mature to keep calling me a brownoser. I’m going to guess it’s coming from WASPs who are inherently racist. That’s fine, but those attitudes are why corporations are moving their teams overseas. Everyone here wants a “flexible WLB” with people not showing up for more than half a days work, only coming into the office once a week despite the massive collaborative benefits, and quite frankly the talent is lacking relative to India. Nobody takes ownership and Target is falling behind its competition because the employees don’t have the grit and desire to work the hours necessary to keep Target competitive.
Signed,
Not a brown noser
Brown Noser, that is so d-mb. Target is its employees. It is not naturally occurring and does not exist outside of people.
Dear brown-noser,
You are part of the problem. Please leave.
Thanks.
I don't mean to be some corporate brownoser or anything, but Target has to look out for itself before its employees. If Target laying off individuals in Minnesota and replacing them in India is the best strategic move they can make, so be it. We should have the utmost pride in the fact that we got to work their for however many years we did.
On the bright side, while it's never good news that people are getting laid off, it's important to know that everyone's impact will be felt years after they've been shown the door. <3
On another note, do layoffs also mean severance packages?
Silent but deadly layoffs in true minnesota nice fashion
How many?