I have noticed during my time here that HQ has a really high tolerance for poor performers. We definitely have a few in my area that just skate by and hardly put in any effort. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if they all survive Tuesday. Management protects them so much. Is this toxic cultural trait common on a lot of teams?
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The 'leader' on my team doesn't lead anything and pretty much does exclusively 'negative work.' Literally he only contributes any work 1-2 times a month. They're small, and genuinely seem like they were written by a toddler, and when they're accepted, they often end up costing the rest of us time later to fix everything he messes up.
My first month I found it easy to be ~10x more productive than him and generally started doing all of his work. After watching him skate by totally unchecked for a few months, and feeling him actually be hostile towards me, I ramped way, way down so I'm only being 1.5x or so more productive than him. Why do more than I have to?
All that is to say, Target's pattern of retaining completely incompetent people doesn't just overpay people who are negatively impacting the company, it also sets the bar low and disincentivizes the competent people around them to excel.
This layoff won't be performance-based, but it probably should be.
sometimes the ones that have a high performer review are because they kiss a**es, not actually because they work. Instead of choosing talented people, they just choose 'their people'. That is another reason why Target is where it is... have people with no talent making important decisions….favoritism at its finest.
@OP they have us take these leadership evaluations and then completely disregard them and promote these people with awful scores.
Can confirm. Or even if they perform well at their job, they are toxic and bully others. Some have been reported and nothing happen. I’ve know a few. Thankfully the majority has retired.
Theres a lot of favoritism, and su-king up is encouraged and rewarded by leaders. Working harder and finding success puts a target (ha!) on your back.