We all know how bad it is...it's been trending badly for a long time now. So now it is time to put to rest this idea that you really can do more with less. That concept can only work under very limited conditions. Can five very efficient people outperform six or maybe seven giving half effort? Yes but they cannot exceed the work of a dozen. So you can only streamline so much before the value of results deteriorates. And at best your peak results cannot be sustained over the long term. This is where we find ourselves now. The absolute minimum staffing that has been pushed to the brink of collapse can no longer produce satisfactory results. And yet we continue to cut. the fallacy has shown itself so the end cannot be far away. It takes a lot more to be great , not less.
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My store is hiring people ages 18-25, anyone off the street, but that has been the Lowes hiring model for quite sometime, just getting worse, bring them in as young as you can to pay them less. And I think everyone here knows just how dependable 18 yr olds can be.
@10YHSoT5-ceh - I was going to make the same observation. These folks who are now in Moorseville have a worse grasp on the basic economics of man hours versus productivity than did Nibron and Damlock.
stores are now being punished if they edit the "customer centric schedule" .....if no one gets scheduled in a department to open or close its now the responsibility of other departments to do their activities or face write ups via corporate. if an employee is "out" ......the schedule just wont fill someone else in.
the weaponization just keeps intensifying. corporate is now literally writing every stores schedule....the sole goal is to strangle away hours. doesnt matter if the manager knows the schedule is messed up and will harm the store....you are no longer allowed to touch it without being punished yourself!!
We all know it's 100%, grade A b—s—. So do they.
The Pros they hire have no experience, no drive, no care in the world. Hired making more than their opposite, tenured counterparts.
It's all broken, and collapsing.
mo–ns watch stocks daily. It's going to collapse, and dramatically.
The law of diminishing returns.
We passed that point long ago.