Thread regarding Target Corp. layoffs

@Anonymous76956 - where in this post does it say the OP is angry about not going to see celebrities at some meeting? Anyone with half a brain can read that the point of that statement is that target excludes NE team members.

Your intelligence level is amazing! Target should be proud of having someone with your IQ on the team...

Really, you're angry because you can't go to a FNM to see celebrities? Is that what you're worried about Celebrities? That should be the last thing you are complaining about. If you really want to and feel the need to see celebrities become exempt then. And no, there isn't enough room for all NE's to attend. Those pictures you see are very misleading; however, with Canada no longer attending these meetings (if we even have them anymore) there would be room but not fall all NE's.

Also, NE's rule the roost. In my department they can work from home whenver they want. Up until March 1st they were getting all the overtime they wanted. I am sure half of them made more than I did on my salary and I worked just as many hours. If you don't let them have what they want they nail you on the Leadership Upwards Feedback.

So be smart and use your NE status as an advantage instead of thinking of all the ways it is not. From your post you are the one that is coming across as "entitled".

And just for the record I do not feel entitled to anything as an exempt. I worked hard to get where I am. I was NE once too. I treat every NE team member the way I would want to be treated so to put all of us Exempts in the same category as "piece of shit" is ignorant.

why oh why can't i LIKE this post 1000 times?! Spot on! I've been wanting to say this for ages, and now someone has!

@75701: We (the "rest of downtown") do laugh at the Red/Khaki Masses during the National Meeting and we're laughing now. This little labor correction seems to be long overdue. It would be really, really nice if it brings the overall attitude down a notch or two. Humility wears much better than arrogance. Regards, Fellow (non-Target) Downtown Worker

This new CEO will be more than happy to affect thousands of hard working individuals with these massive layoffs. Meanwhile he continues to collect on his big bonuses and enjoys his ridiculous salary. Look at what he did with his previous positions and the thousands he affected. Many were so quick to embrace him. Coming into work wondering if today is your last day is wrong. What do think of him now?

Anonymous75696 - True!! Little does the red and khaki mass know that the rest of downtown is secretly laughing at them as they strut around thinking they own the world as they go to and from that lame koolaid pep rally.

Anonymous75690 - um OK then. The problem is your precious Exempts don't make that work up. How many have witnessed the Es "work from home" yet take 2 hours to respond to a simple IM? Don't worry they will have a NE to throw under the bus when their boss tries to hold them (Es) accountable.

Any true employee would rather have an afternoon off then go to the FNM

Don't NE get paid for every minute/hour they work? If so, what's the problem? If you pick up the slack for exempt employees, are you not paid for the hours you worked? Just because Exempt employees work 2 hours today, it doesn't mean they don't have to work 14 hours tomorrow to make up? If they don't get their work done, then someone should tell their boss that.

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@ 75572 - now you can't read. the correction says that comment was for Anonymous75584.

75588...show me where I called anyone a name. Looks like YOU can't read.

Anonymous75595 - I think you smell yourself.hense your title - "outsider"

And what was the purpose of this topic anyhow? How does this provide any kind of value for those about to get let go. I smell troll.

sorry! I was laughing so hard i didn't know what i was doing. This comment is actually meant for Anonymous75584:

@Anonymous75572 - Dying laughing right now! I think you are the one that needs to get over themselves. Name calling is so childish! That attitude will not get you anywhere when you get your walking papers next week! No sympathy for you AT all. Bye!

@Anonymous75572 - Dying laughing right now! I think you are the one that needs to get over themselves.

Name calling is so childish! That attitude will not get you anywhere when you get your walking papers next week! No sympathy for you AT all. Bye!

@Anonymous75581, get over yourself you arrogant self entitled stereotyping brat

@Anonymous75572 - Please show me where in my post i said ALL Exempts are are like this? Talk about shit attitude. No wonder your company is going down the drain. I hope the door hits YOUR ass really hard on the way out.

The the rest to of the responders - you know the ones that actually know how to read - praying for you all! There is a life outside of Target. You will thrive and come out of this stronger than you thought possible.

PREACH!! This is all so true for Merch and TSS, although I did work with some good people in both. A big reason I left was not being able to move up because I was NE - therefore somehow deficient to be E. I was never given a legit reason why there are even NE positions at HQ, and not for lack of trying. The same positions at other companies are salaried.

To label all EX team members that was is immature and inaccurate. I am EX and have equal respect for NE and contractors. Where I come from, we are one big team responsible for our job duties and being professional. The OP doesnt have any of these qualities obviously and will go nowhere in their professional career with that horse shit attitude.

Not all BAs and buyers are as described in this post, but I can vouch that the majority are. Not all NEs feel this way (most likely because they've conformed to the happy hours and after hour hangouts with their BAs and have basically become best friends with their manager), but the majority of NE specialists can relate to this post. You really don't move on to an exempt role unless you've either done your 4 yrs due in a NE position or your best buddies with your mgr. Buyers and PMs aren't equipped to develop specialists. They don't give a shit. 90% of them are forced to do it and could give shit.

I agree 100% with this!! BA assholes and bitch Buyers and Sr. Buyers. Some of the divisionals are assholes too, including a certain one who looks like she used her high salary on botox and plastic surgery. She had huge issues with her team making decisions without her approval. I hope shes out next week!!

Agree with all of this. Being NE at target is like being a leper. No perks and constantly treated as less than. My personal fav is watching the ex team members constantly abuse working from home and working less than 40 hours a week. I personally hope that a lot of these people are hit in layoffs next week. They are a drain on the company and do no work... Bc they have the NEs to pick up the slack, who can't say a word about it. Keep in mind also, fellow NEs.. Like everything else in the company, even your severance if you're laid off next week won't be the same as those entitled, piece of shit exempts.