Being transparent, he has indicated transformation will occur September week one. Also indictated he does not see how this can't impact team members, meaning layoffs. He can't say that this is going to be the last of it either. Non technical folks have a month to get your affairs together and put post layoff plan in place. Even if you don't get laid off, the planning is not wasted, always good to assess your situation.
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Anonymous130800 - It doesn't look like he/she's whining from my end. Pretty straight talk. Who know's what the future holds, god willing it includes tech tools that work at Target.
130778, there you go whining and having coffee instead of helping a guest find something or stocking an empty shelf. When stores are only local distribution centers, you can find other work. That is where it is heading my friend.
Ok, enough of this.... Cut's are coming. Clearly the TGT TTS team is not optimized for our Retail business and there is a long history of missed deliverables and public failures. But, perspective here folks.... TTS is a support organization for a Retail Company that sells product to consumers. TTS is not even close to being the "most important part of the company." I'm typing this from my phone in a Target Starbucks where the wifi is down and POS is down.
Well TTS doesn't represent half the company in terms of employees, we only represent the most important part of the company so it feels like we carry 50% of the load.
I find it surprising that they'll do major layoffs so close to Fall Natl Meeting. How do they expect us to be all rah rah and give our leaders a standing O if they just gave half the company the axe?
75% of engineering mgrs to be let go or converted to delivery mgrs
I have to say that if nothing else comes out of all this TTS transformation except team members learning new Agile/scrum skills...it will be worth it. Target as a retailer will unfortunately fail in the next 5 - 7 yesrs.
He said he is flattening the organization under each VP, so either a KMG or manager is gone. Maybe some will become engineering managers...but I am betting he is finding out right now which KMG/managers know their technical crap and which don't. Those that dont, good luck sticking around.
September round is not for KMG. I think they were not part of the survey. Also, in Target.com they are converting all delivery managers to Engineering Managers to avoid layoffs...
Those percentages seem high. BA/BC 35%, PM 40%, MGR/KMG 50%, Testing/PA 50%
Yipes, I hope you're wrong - seems high.
Guesses for cuts. BA/BC 60%
PM. 75%
Mgr/kmg. 50%
Test/process analyst. 75%
Nothing was called out about technical team member reductions, only non technical team member roles being called out. Not saying there won't be impacts to technical TMs but for sure non tech TMs.
Transformation: Something as common as Black Friday or Back to School. Just another one of those rinse and repeat cycles to see if we can do better while still pocketing a hefty salary along the way.
Well said. It's going to be a difficult situation, but I appreciate the transparency. However, I think your assumption that you're "safe" if your technical is a lie.
I guess people could be laid off in August and those left advised of future role in new org before transformation actually starts up in September.
Well, based on previous "transformations" the timing sometimes got moved up unexpectedly it seemed so curious if it will last that long. Maybe to boost morale, there will be Bullseve Plush Optimus Prime dogs given out to all who are buying into being "Transformers"