The passive-aggressive nature of the "MN Nice" is the prevailing tone within Target. Everything has to be sugar coated super sweet in emails and verbal communication just to get "the natives" to do their jobs. The transplants who work there are the easiest to get along with and work with, since they understand when you say you need something by the end of the day, you mean it. They don't require an overly sensitive, sugary way of asking if you can, if it's okay, I really need, that would be great of you could, way of asking everything. Way too many meetings, meetings about the meetings, It's redundancy at it's purest form within the Bullseye. They live and die by Outlook, doing your actual work is secondary to being everyone's friend. The infamous "coffee status", with any and every person within and outside your department. Again, no actual work being done, just "building relationships". Which is needed on some levels, but Target takes it to an extreme. I was flat out told by my Manager that it's not important how good the work is you do here, it's about the relationships you build. This is truly the epitome of "it's not for everyone". Which in this case mean, if you're not from Minnesota, you will struggle here because of the MN Nice passive-aggressive culture. All the transplants bond together as a support group, because we all regularly leave the office at 5pm shaking our heads wondering what just happened in there? Am I crazy? Too many stories to share here, just sheer lunacy.
