As a person who has worked multiple retail jobs and recently left after years of service to the company, Target for the last several years was a hellscape worse than the only job I've outright abandoned in my teens. After leaving it has only become more abundantly clear just how much the corp and its internal culture has jumped the tracks in regards to effectively managing this company. I work for a company now that is technically much smaller than Target, but somehow they manage to properly staff their stores, give me a constant 40+ hours a week, and far better benefits and pay while also maintaining healthy growth. Not to mention there is little to no turn over besides people transferring locations and being promoted. Honestly In my years buried in Modernization, I forgot how a job could be and honestly should be and accepted the current state of Target as normal for a while.
Looking back now though it looks real bad. You cant sit here and act like people are jumping ship and getting frustrated due to "refusing to change", many long term employees were and continue to jump ship at all my surrounding stores. Leaving a store you have worked for in some cases longer than a decade is not rejecting change, its embracing a radical departure from their normal day to day life, because that seems like the only reasonable option in the absence of reasonable and competent responses from management and corporate. Change can be positive, Modernization as it is, is not that. Its a sloppy half assessed poorly conceived attempt to maximize profits likely in some money grab attempt by corp or in a effort to survive.
