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.

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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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