Thread regarding Lowe's Cos. layoffs

Are you allowed to request specific dates off if you know of prior engagements?

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And slavery was a choice because they could always have committed s–c-de-by-slavemaster amirite?

You clearly haven't worked a dead end job barely sc-aping by coming home exhausted without even the energy to do things you used to enjoy. If you did you wouldn't be parroting such a tired f— the working class argument.

Always love reading these posts. If things are so bad then leave !!!! The company is having zero problem hiring people. I actually saw a report my manager had from his DM and the company is way ahead in hiring. If u all feel you are such amazing employees it should be super easy for u to go get a better job. So instead of wasting time complaining on here go fill out some applications !!

Former 15 yr mgmt employee here..
I spent the last 3 trying to find a different job with another company. It took a massive layoff to get me out of Lowe's. You could see the cr*p coming down the pike in '16 & '17. Corporate made my job more difficult and added more responsibility without a bump in pay. If you can get out without a significant drop in pay, do it. Lowe's is a Titanic headed straight for the iceberg.
I was fortunate to find a M-F position and get my weekends back, something I didn't have for 15 yrs and with a big bump in pay.
Leave now or the decision will be made for you.
I know not everyone has the freedom or opportunity to leave but if you can, do it.

We are losing good employees hand over fist for many more reasons than a dumb scheduling system. We also have TERRIBLE corporate direction!
At Pro, my last 10 deliveries for contractors / businesses were screwed up through no fault of mine. I had bunks pulled and staged, properly scheduled and set correctly in the system. One delivery was to NYC, and XPO simply said, "I dont feel like going into the city today."

So while our delivery service is completely broken, we have corporate district managers focused on signs, break room remodels, and other minutia. All while the fundamental operations to serve customers are all broken.

Sales are down because we are short staffed, and tasked on dumb sh*t and is corporate addressing this? NO! All they do is say too bad! Do both, no excuses, then threaten us with write ups!

Corporate NEVER comes and asks us anything. Then, when they say come to us with any issues and we do, they label us as trouble makers or complainers even when the issue is 100% factual and valid.

The automated corporate scheduling we have now is as inhuman as the rest of their philosophy. The business culture and mission statement of our new corporate leaders is bulls***, and all lies. They have proven they dont care about employees, or even customers. Only meaningless statistics and minutia. Clean stores matter more than customer service.

We had a hiring event. It was abysmal! No one came. Good employees are leaving, and no new employees are coming. 8 out of 10 fail the d–g test.

Anyone who does show up is not going to be a good worker.

Lowe's is done people. The sooner you realize and leave, the better you will be.

The answer is that they don’t care at corporate. We had blocks to fill out one year to say why we work at Lowe’s. They drew a tree on the break room wall and we all put pictures of family and pets and churches and vacations. All the reasons we worked in the Lowe’s family. Today that’s all gone. Now we work so we can get it over with and get paid enough to pay the bills.
F u Marvin. You’ve ruined a great place to work with your STUPID F ING EDICTS AND IDEAS. THE SHAREHOLDERS THINK YOU AEE A M ORON!! YOU USED IO YOUR GRACE WITH THE WE DIDN’T KNOW OUR VENDORS RAISED PRICES CAUSE I FIRED ALL THE BUYERS AT LOWES SEBACLE. HOLY Sh–, where’s the Tylenol?

The schedule is a toy and a tool for management to play at their whim. I have reported for a shift and been told that I have been rescheduled for a closing shift or an overnight and i have had to go home and come back. Plus our store manager will determine by performance if managers can use their vacation time. Most of us lost a week last year.

Scheduling is exactly the reason I quit at the first of the year. It’s not like the pay is great and if they can’t offer you something in the form of a perk, something as simple as scheduling for a tolerable work life balance and it’s time to MoveOn… So I did. 6+ years of experience in four different departments… Bye-bye.

My issue is that management and I agreed on a set shift window among other new rules, and while they've now further capped allowed absences and shortened Kronos' grace period, they can schedule me to open or close or clopen without total disregard for the promises they made me. I have no recourse at all.

I can't quit, I'd lose my health insurance. I can't get a better position, I've applied to about twelve of them without a single interview or even acknowledgment of my application.

I endured computer scheduling during my time at a tech support call center. It was the worst. You didn't know what your schedule would be from week-to-week, so you couldn't make any plans for anything. Fortunately, it didn't last long and was abandoned in favor of fixed schedules, but with a +/- 1 hour variance in arrival/departure times every week which was far more tolerable.