Target To Demote 8,000 Full-time Employees to Part-time

admin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:18:54 +0000

Looks like some of the outplaced Circuit City executives got jobs at Target. They are trying to pull the same shady business: toss the experienced employees, hire goobers.

By scheduling the full-time employees for less than 32 hours a week, Target no longer needs to provide full-time benefits for these 8000 experienced workers.

Apparently the email went on to say that HR will receive another email within 3-4 months directing stores to reduce current specialist hours to below 32 hours a week. Reason being the company wants to get all the current specs in the company OFF the full time benefits plans to reduce cost. (i.e. health insurance, etc)

Once that happens the extra team members that have been trained are supposed to be scheduled along with the current specs to fulfill the needs of the departments. So basically current specialists will become part time and will “share” the department with other trained TMs.

Even though the email said it was just to get them off the full time benefits…. My personal opinion is that this sounds like a plan to get replacement team members in place, then piss off all the current specs (making much higher wages) enough to quit…. thus a bunch of current specs will be replaced all around the company with part time entry level pay.

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Employee Fired From PetSmart for Bringing His Dog to Work

admin — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:45:06 +0000

A former PetSmart employee reports he was fired for theft of services after he brought his dog to work on an special overnight shift. He worked the shift as a favor to his store manager in preparation for a visit by representatives of Martha Stewart whose company was considering a product line for Petsmart. He left his dog in the pet day care facilities so that he could check in on his dog from time to time. No other employee was working this special shift, so he was caring for his own pet. Is this theft? [via]

At 5 p.m. on Dec. 15, Favetta was asked to work a special overnight shift that night to prepare the store for a viewing by representatives for Martha Stewart’s company, which was considering adding its product lines to PetSmart. Favetta said yes.
“I brought my dog with me because I knew if I didn’t, he would have been home alone all day and all night until I returned home at 6 a.m. the next day,” Favetta said.
He did the shift, and Gizmo, a 3-year-old Belgian Malinois, spent the night in the empty store’s doggie day care facility. Favetta said he’d check in on Gizmo every 15 minutes or so, and then go back to work.’

Two weeks later, Favetta was asked to meet with his store and district managers, who requested a written account of his overnight shift. He complied. They reviewed it and fired him for “theft of service.”

“I was shocked,” Favetta said. “It makes me sick that because I brought my dog to work with me when the store was closed to do the company a favor, I was called a thief and terminated.”

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Target To Demote 8,000 Full-time Employees to Part-time

Employee Fired From PetSmart for Bringing His Dog to Work