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This Has Ruined Target’s Image

Can I just start by saying, what a complete sh-t show these last few days have been? They made us employees wait for days, ruin our mental health, and provide no information at all at how this would unfold.

Then hearing of this absolutely disgusting way of telling affected people by inviting them to a webinar, they disabled the chat, and the meeting audio not working? Wtf!

The icing on the cake is my manager just chatted our whole team and asked if we were safe from the layoffs…like, hello? Our management doesn’t even know if their teams are affected?

Whoever is in charge of this better be fired for their complete incompetence. What a damn embarrassment for the company. The new ceo, the board, and the executive team should be ASHAMED!


By the look of it, we’ve lost a lot of competent people

Why shed all that knowledge and let go of those who knew every nook and cranny of their area? Just to replace them with cheaper offshore labor that can’t possibly bring the same level of involvement or deep understanding of the organization and its specific issues. It looks like a plain stupid move from where I stand.


Corporate layoffs accelerating nationally

The corporate bloodbath picks up speed with Amazon's announcement today to layoff 14,000 corporate employees (following their announcement to replace 600,000 warehouse workers with AI driven robots over the next 24 months) and following mass layoff announcements other major technology/retail brands; Target, Meta, Accenture, Rivian, Paycon, etc.

I would suggest everyone update their resumes but if, like mine, your skillset is corporate related, it hardly seems like there is a point.

Good chance Canon could get involved again during slow time in January / February. Anyone know if the numbers have improved? My small division is doing okay, but not reflective of company-wide hardware sales.


More layoffs

Looks like they are targeting sales channels now for late trimming after squeezing what they could. They eliminated customer service teams which effectively made customers lose their mind, the new guy Shah doesn’t care about his people or the customer and looks at them as a number. Lots of support lost and they are now not even letting customers cancel to fluff numbers. If you have to fake numbers and fire people to


Chegg slashes 45% of workforce, blames ‘new realities of AI’

Chegg said on Monday it would lay off about 45% of its workforce, or 388 employees, as the “new realities” of artificial intelligence and diminished traffic from internet search have led to plummeting revenue.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/27/chegg-slashes-45percent-of-workforce-blames-new-realities-of-ai.html


This is not over

Yes, we can catch our breath for now, but this is only the beginning. If you think you’re safe, think again. All signs point to layoffs becoming the new normal. I wish it weren’t like this, but ignoring it won’t help anyone.


The one good thing is that it’s been done quickly

Everything else has been a mess, from the announcement and the buildup, to the awful communication from leadership right up to the last minute. I dread whatever comes next. I really feel for those affected today, especially anyone in a tougher spot than the rest. Wishing them all the luck.


Message from corporate neighbor in Mpls

Just wanted to chime in as one of your corporate neighbors in Minneapolis. This is awful and we are thinking of all of you.

Curious if the comp package of your ceo and executive team will change—this is their mismanagement.

Hang in there, our team is disgusted enough to avoid lunch break target runs for awhile. I don’t think that I will ever spend as freely there again- thought they were good employers and corporate citizens.


Unpopular Opinion

I was hoping for a different outcome than most of us here and must say.. I am completely disappointed to have received a safe email. I honestly wish I could take the spot of one of you who has invested way more into this. Anywho.. my prayers are with you all. I hope that your next road traveled is far greater and more fulfilling than Target ever could’ve been.


A message for our team

Team,

Today is a difficult day for all of us at Target. Earlier this morning, I shared with team members whose roles are being eliminated that today is their last day of work.

For the group receiving this email, you and your role remain at the company.

These are incredibly hard decisions and today carries enormous weight for everyone – especially our colleagues who are leaving. We’re committed to supporting all departing team members as they make this transition, including severance packages, benefits, career services and well-being resources.

These changes aren’t easy. And we know they’re necessary to reduce complexity, remove barriers and create the clarity and speed we need to grow and better serve our guests. To get there, we’ll need to continue the change – working in different ways, with renewed focus and effectiveness to deliver for our guests as we move into Q4.

In the next day, you’ll hear from your leader to learn what these changes mean for your team specifically and how to move through the next few weeks. We’ll all need to balance adjusting to what’s new, while keeping absolute focus on the business-critical work.

We will continue to stay anchored in our culture and move forward with purpose – keeping the guest at the center of what we do. I’m confident that, together, we will build a Target that’s positioned to win and grow well into the future.

With gratitude,
Melissa


What is next

This is the easy cut, the next phase will be in tech. Target plans to outsource all of tech, engineering, and security, what does not get moved to India will be outsourced to a contract here in the US. So this is just the start, pretty much everyone in IT in MN will eventually loos their jobs.


UPS deepens job cutting as part of turnaround plan, shares surge

  • UPS on Tuesday beat Wall Street estimates in its third-quarter earnings report.
  • The company said it’s cut around 48,000 jobs this year as part of its plan to turn around the business.
  • Shares of the company soared following the release.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/28/ups-earnings-q3-2025.html


Could this have been done better?

I have been praying for myself and everyone else. Even if I survive this layoff I know others will not and it saddens me. What a horrible way to do a layoff, we find out Thursday and have to go all the way to Tuesday to find out, it has been a miserable few days for all of us. I would say it is CRUEL in fact. I love Target and I wish they had handled this with more care.