Go home and have a weekend. Rejoin your life.
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Dear Anonymous74953: Did you read the previous post from Anonymous74903? Here it is below"
"Thus, HR is not a source for any team member to seek out advice and guidance to resolve personnel concerns. This has been a long-standing issue with HR departments since they morphed from Personnel departments that handled payroll and benefits to Human Resources that focus on the expendable resource of human beings."
HR handles an expendable resource, human beings, like a farm
Drink the Kool-aid
Irony
Reply to 74914...if you truly are employed at Target Mpls. then you just proved why the company has lost its way. I bet you send the same nonsensical emails to fellow team members who have to try to decipher what in your communications is of any value.
Agreed with all who complain about TGT HR. They were terrible and cannot be justified. Anyone who stayed in TGT HR was a major kiss-up/backstabber. They barely help and they mostly just get in the way.
Dear Anonymous74903: You are right. And as the new CEO, I am implementing your changes immediately. Target HQ HR is shut down, and I am outsourcing all functions to Fuji. It's a long swim from San Francisco, but a TRUE Target Team Member should be able to do that swim in less than 24 hours. If you aren't in Fuji by Monday Morning, you are fired, just like the rest of them.
Target HR does not like to get blood on their hands and deal with actual personnel issues. Instead they focus on new hires (have to keep the “talent pool” full of young MBA’s to backfill anyone who has aged out of their time at TGT). When a team members attempts to partner with HR to deal with ‘real’ human resources issues such as insubordinate team members HR instead focuses on the person raising the concern as the source of the problem. In other words, anyone raising a concern or issue has to be the one with the issue. Thus, HR is not a source for any team member to seek out advice and guidance to resolve personnel concerns. This has been a long-standing issue with HR departments since they morphed from Personnel departments that handled payroll and benefits to Human Resources that focus on the expendable resource of human beings. Look into the credentials of many in Target’s HR, it is a division made up of mostly women with failed attempts in other job sectors, oh wait in HR they call that a diverse workforce. If Target wanted to trim down departments that truly do not contribute to the bottom line then HR would be a good place to start.
Dear Anonymous74841: I would lay off everyone. By my calculations, the do-nothing HR Dept at Target, if closed, would save $20 million per year. That is a lot of "real" jobs that could be saved.
Anonymous74870: You are right. If Target HR was on-the-ball, they would have been the spokesperson to announce layoffs at Target. Not a generic mouthpiece on the Target PR side. Why wasn't a VP of Human Resources on TV saying we will strive to do our best to maintain the dignity of the Target employee. That VP was hiding already. Target HR is a do-nothing group. Should outsource it all.
I agree in regard to Target HR being the worst on the planet. Hate to say this, but I really hope they feel a lot of pain (layoffs) in their area, however I suspect they will not have many people let go. There is NO "Human" in Target HR. None.
Dear Anonymous74847: You are spot on. HR does nothing until the carnage, and then they say....OOPS wasn't me....HR at Target is an absolute joke.
There is a total disconnect on this string. Who the hell is bashing whom? Sounds like HR is pretty defensive, though. Do they have a reason to be so defensive?
Vicki Wold, did you post this?
That's funny; you are assuming because I speak out against illogical lashing out against HR that I am HR... Get nasty if that makes you feel better. Many of us are hurting for our friends who have already been given notice and are waiting for our own appointment with Charon next week... and yes, Charon probably works in HR.
If you lose your job it won't be because HR put you on list. Look up the chain of command and you'll see who did it.
I worked for a defense contractor when the Berlin Wall came down. Layoffs occurred on Tuesday mornings, and for months we knew that if we made it to lunch on Tuesday we were safe for another week. It was a rotten way to survive at work.
I love it.... HR does nothing on a daily/weekly/monthly basis... I don't even know who to reach out to if I had to (not that anything would get done)
And now they are all butt-hurt on here at the smallest of criticism.
But he isn't HR, is he? The insinuation was that HR was to blame for all of these job eliminations... why, because they hired all these people? Reflect on who you are blaming and why, that is what I meant.
Acutally, I looked at some of the rooms that were booked and they were booked by people in HR....
Anonymous74843: Maintain what dignity? The new CEO has none. What dignity has he shown to his employees?
Thank you, 74841. I heard the conferences rooms in HR are being blocked Tues - Fri next week. Do you honestly believe this is HR's doing? Settle down and get a grip on yourself. You're venting, sure, but maintain your dignity.
I would be embarrassed if I worked in Target HR right now. Because all you are doing now is carnage control. You had a chance to be out in front of this, and you turned it down.
HR directors are being let go. Some today. Shut it about HR.
This is going to be the longest weekend ever in the worst way.
Amen. No one has details (that they're going to share here, at least). We will know the outcome when it happens.
Anonymous74819: Agreed. If you haven't been notified by now of a layoff, go home and try, please try, to enjoy the weekend. It is really too bad that this is carried out the way it is. It just shows how weak Target HR is. At Target, there is NO Human in the Resources.