Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Best wishes, farewell, good luck...

Best wishes, farewell, good luck... to my co-workers that were let go today...

I won't say too much just that it was a gloomy day at work today. Hope this becomes an opportunity for better things to come.

3 comments:

Amy T Schubert said...

No! so sad ... how many?

Kirby said...

In Tempe it was about 30 people mostly TAS people. 2 in our area. No collections were affected.. but in all they let go 600 corporate employees, they eliminated 400 open positions, and are closing a distribution center in Little Rock, that employs about 500...

Kirby said...

The official press release says: "...Target (NYSE:TGT) today announced a workforce reduction at our headquarters locations which affects 9 percent of our headquarters population. This includes the elimination of approximately 600 employees and 400 open positions, primarily in the Twin Cities area. The majority of these changes are effective today. In addition, the company announced it will close its Little Rock, Ark. distribution center, which currently employs 500 people, later this year.

The company has recently undertaken other actions to manage expense and capital investment and minimize the number of affected employees. These actions include suspending salary increases for senior management, suspending share repurchase activity, tightening credit card underwriting and credit granting, implementing initiatives to improve store productivity, reducing planned new store openings, and cutting outside contractor support, travel, entertainment and other headquarters operating expenses. ...."