Impossible targets

[Rosebel]

I'm sure most of us work somewhere where you are expected to hit targets and deadlines.
If as a team targets are never hit because they are too high wouldn't it make sense to reduce the target?
They won't because they'll loose money but it's so stressful being yelled at all the time for something that seems impossible to hit.
So I suppose my AIBU is,
YABU, you need to work harder
YANBU makes sense to reduce the target

If it's actually an impossible target it's likely to be counterproductive. If people know there's no way it can be achieved are they actually even going to try?!

If it was me, I'd gather some data with how much I'd worked, and what I'd managed to achieve, and show them why their targets were unattainable.

It's demoralising to be told you're not up to scratch, even when you're working bloody hard.

You call it a team target. If there's four people on the team and you target is a hypothetical 100, does nobody hit 25, or are some people dragging the whole team down? Maybe you're working really hard, but others aren't.

They call it a team but I think they really mean department. We all work independently so it seems like it really is a case of no one hitting their targets (or very few people).
I hate the pressure of the job and can't understand why they keep putting the targets up when no-one is hitting the original targets.