Stop telling people to quit

What many don't realize that say "you can quit" is, we all don't live in metro areas.

Where I am, most everyone I know drives 20 - 45 minutes average to work. This is not just lowe's people, everyone I know and even my customers. We joke that if we all just coordinated, we could change jobs and not have to drive so far.

My biggest account drives 50 minutes one way to work. This is after his 3 previous employers were bought out or went under. Even then, he's making less than he did 10 years ago.

I am making as much as I did 30 years ago. My company was bought out just to acquire rights and put out of business.

If you live in a high density area, you have more options. Options not all have.

I'm lucky in that I'm retiring this year. After what I've lost in the 10's of thousands in the last week due to a poor stock market, I may have to work a few months longer, but if Lowes does anything stupid more than they are, I can at least leave. Mortgage paid, no debt. I'm just feeding my retirement as much as I can.

On my store, most elderly employees are working because they were self employed and failed to invest in a 401K or paid into social security and now have little to draw from. Before you play a tiny fiddle, remember these people didnt have the Internet or training like we do today to teach them the value of investing in themselves. Most of you scholars only know because your parents or family member were in the same boat.

So, be kind. Not everyone CAN quit because they hate Lowe's. In many cases, Lowe's is the largest employer in the area.

Originally posted by @xws+148WZHCQ.

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@1cph+149NEHh7
Pot, meet kettle.

Quit complaining then.

@hke+1

Fair enough...

@gpe+149NEHh7
Your bulk apperception must be low. I was referring to all the posters saying they'd jump at the chance to work at Lowe's. You'd go from one sh–ty situation to a different, potentially less sh–ty situation. But it's still crock.

TL;DR: grass isn't greener on the other side. That's literally all I was trying to get across.

@res+1

A bit misleading to compare taking a job at Lowe's to having to jump out of a burning building. So what your logic is and what you're saying is that like a person who is forced to jump out of a burning building because that's the only one of two choices they have (the other is to be burned alive), that someone taking a job at Lowe's was forced to work at Lowe's...absolutely no other choices.
Faulty logic. Please don't show your "genius" to our customers - we want to stay in business.

Remember that it is trivial for corporate to AstroTurf these sites posing as whoever they want. Keep that in mind when you see comments saying the person would jump at the chance to have these c-appy jobs.

And even if that were true... People jump out of burning buildings too, regardless of how far the drop is.

Then stop whining and complaining.

Bye Felicia

I think lowes corporate is telling people to quit. They don’t like us airing their dirty laundry in a public forum. It’s been made very clear that we don’t matter only the dollar does. I saw the video of small hands joe talking about how Lowe’s is hiring 8,000 more leaders for the stores. It’s very clear that Lowe’s wants leadership even though it is sorely lacking at the top.

Then quit complaining. You’ve obviously evaluated the risk/benefit ratio and decided the benefit that you receive from continuing to work in your store outweighs the risk of contracting the virus.

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