such of waste of time. Especially the sale specialist. We maybe have one or 2 of them in a department that actually helps. gets carts, answer code 50 and 3, answers call button. The rest just stand around in their department or at the millwork desk... — read more 

Our department supervisors are freaking useless. Why do we have them here? They just get in the damn way. All ours does in tools and hardware is count ins and outs and reiterates what's supposed to be done. 90 percent of the staff in our area have... — read more 

Marvin needs to resign, the sooner the better. Joe McFarland actually took a moment at the end of the Lowedown yesterday to thank Marvin floyd his leadership during this crisis. Joe obviously isn't paying attention. Marvin has allowed the moral... — read more 

I keep hearing rumors of getting 2 extra weeks of vacation, I have not been told this personally. Is the truth in this?

I've worked every day throughout this event, and now I'm off for last 2 weeks of April. Even with store doing record sales, short staffed. I magically reappear on schedule the week of May 2 with almost 40 hrs again. Wtf?

I recently heard somebody working at Walmart or something similar say on TV that essential basically just means exhausted and expendable and boy, did it hit home. That's exactly how I've been feeling for the past month or so. Especially the... — read more 

With walmart and Kroger now mandatory masks for employees, why isn't Lowes?

The Lowe's store that was closed for social distancing violations - which, let's face it, is probably what every Lowe's store in the country is doing - reopened just days later. So tell me, what was the point of even closing it? Does anybody believe... — read more 

Seems like I remember Marvin hiring Seemantini Godbole after the huge Computer failure on Black Friday , and making the comment that it would not happen again!. This is like the second major crash since then. Where do we go from here?

My Lowes store has refused several employees Extended Paid leave offered by Marvin, One person is 74 years old! because they did not qualify?

Trump opening business's backup May the 1st. Are we ready for this? Covid19 has caused significant job loss and economic issues. Over 20 million jobs lost this far. But virus is still climbing in unreal numbers. Lowes will be the first to restore... — read more 

Our store did 350 grand on saturday today uo to 270 and counting. Every department is wore out. Our DS in Hardware and Tools wants us to task put up a pallet of hillman and do downstock worksheets in the middle of the day plus help customers. We cant... — read more 

Anyone else blessed to participate in the Cash Only episode on 18 April 2020? So glad my managers had no idea about the paper invoice alternative for taking plastic money payments.

Everyone of my store has stopped sanitizing. Especially the loaders. We are too burned out, and disgusted to care. The loaders stopped doing the carts because they said they can’t keep up and if the customers don’t care about us as why should we care... — read more 

I feel like absolute death. A light fever shortness of breath. I cant afford to miss work, I have no sick time. So now I got to go to work because I don't feel I should have to jump through hoops to get emergency leave. I guess it's what he wanted so... — read more 

Keep an eye out for undercover news reporters in your stores, they even tried to track down Marvin Ellison during all this without any luck.

If anyone should be layed off, it should be that position

Kudos to the store management teams for consistently putting on a brave face and convincing the sheep to come in every day. Its gotta be a tough job to compromise your integrity and decency to uphold beliefs you dont quite support. All the while... — read more 

Has any one received communication on the class action for Danford v. Lowe’s Companies, Inc.? It states an arbitration was signed and you will need to fill out another document to proceed. I received an email and a letter from them. This case... — read more 

What happened to those 30k we were supposed to add? Has anybody actually been hired? At my store, there were zero new hires, and believe me when I tell you that we desperately need more people. So what's going on with that? Was it just said and... — read more 

Lowe's CEO Marvin Ellison's base pay rose 68% in 2019, but total compensation fell 19% to $11.6 million, poor guy. But hey, we’re getting a very limited time extra 2 bucks an hour to risk our lives!!!

Is anyone else being harassed by coworkers for wearing PPE? I’m only one of a handful people in our store that wears a mask and gloves. I get taunted daily by associates and managers for being a “lefty hysteric”, whatever that means. When I get... — read more 

Does anyone know if COBRA is available if you take early retirement or who to contact to find out?

Resignation effective immediately? Sure, she resigned. She was the last C level leftover. She had a target on her back since day one. Of course she sold her soul to stay on, so no great loss. I hope you land hard Jen.

If I could afford it, I wouldn't show up for work today or ever after. But I sadly don't have that luxury right now. But as soon as this is done, I'll start looking for a new job. Lowe's proved it's willing to risk all of our lives for a quick buck... — read more 

Once the 4 weeks paid time off ( with a doctors letter stating needing to self quarantine) is used up has anyone been approved for FMLA?

I've seen that several states have implemented a ban on sale of non-essential items - which I think is a great idea. We have way too many shoppers who are just shopping for fun and not out of necessity. Now, I know for a fact Walmart had to tape off... — read more 

My store has many employees out which means there is a lot of overtime available; buts it’s only special people, department supervisors, head cashiers, and those special associates that never seem to do much.

I'm scared of having been infected and infecting my family. Considering how many people I serve daily and how few safety measures we have, I'd be shocked if that doesn't happen. So now I'm considering not having contact with my family except for the... — read more 

Do you think Marvin will make more cuts to store staffing once the covid 19 stuff is done? Look at home the stores are now, half the staff and sales are up. For someone who is all about the money this would be very tempting.

Why do they work 11 hr days instead of 9? Who makes a SM and ASM's Schedule? Just curious.

https://www.kxan.com/news/coronavirus/hardware-retailer-lowes-confirms-employee-at-austin-store-died-from-covid-19/ Not the kind of post I want to make but we all need to be taking this even more seriously than we already have been. Our very... — read more 

After this Nationwide day of rest we should all be Re-Energized and ready to put the stores back together and make record sales this week. Stop the whining about putting your lives at risk, all your looking for is a extended paid vacation, it's not... — read more 

We know or think we know what the pandemic...is doing or going to do. I'm a Lowe's long timer,lots in the stock.Seen it all...changes centric schedule, manipulation by people leadership.Thing is we're the front lines,and I want to thank all of you on... — read more 

Does anyone know what the new pay grades are and how they are based on what positions?

So our regional VP, district manager, and a whole crew of other corporate folks were in to visit today. They walked around the store, didn’t help a single customer, and made a work list several pages long. We are already at half capacity and now... — read more 

Have you all see that there has been over 1M lay-off / furlough’s in retail ??? Would you rather Lowe’s just cut us all loose ? Fired everyone ? Furloughed everyone ? That is the only choice in retail right now, companies that have closed and... — read more 

How many more emails are we going to get promising us PPE? If I remember correctly, the last one said they were going to be “overnighting “masks and gloves and other things. Well, where did they go? That was last week! It’s now Friday, and we haven’t... — read more 

on indeed.com it seems as if every department is looking for people to lead them. even though layoff.com keeps deleting posts saying what a disaster their know-nothing new store manager is - the fact is that long time lowes employees are getting out... — read more