Just wanted to say thank you and kudos to Tracy @ The Washington Post for having the drive and courage to post the story.
There is so much unethical business practices going on with Lowes that its refreshing that someone was brought to light.
There is a "secret" hiring freeze" at Lowe's, where full time employees who try and interview for promotions or transfers are forced to interview and go through the process, with no chance of ever getting either! Managers at the store level tell us there is a hiring freeze, but Corporate has that hush hush. Meanwhile, Lowes is telling those let go such as FSA, assemblers, etc to reapply KNOWING they will never be taken back. Its so wrong on so many levels.
One man was given a transfer to go to another store 10 miles away. He showed up Monday, and was told he has to go back to his original store but with excuses of lies. The real reason is corp wont allow transfers under the secret hiring freeze (2nd one in months now) so the man returned. He is now waiting for his store manager to "find him something" and its now Weds and this store manager hasnt done anything and this poor man is in limbo like the Walking Dead.
We all are! As full time employees, all we are fed are lies, empty promises, and threats,
Lowes hires off the street with no experience paying these people more than the fully capable and experienced employees and then expect that employee to train these newbies. How wrong is that? When we went to corporate and H.R., they said its managements responsibility yet, nothing else further ever gets done. The employees wander around with no training, and the established employees are called trouble makers, and malcontents.
Its so bad at every level its impossible to articulate in a forum.
But again, thank you Washington Pot for exposing the true colors of current Lowe;s upper management, and their unethical, lying, business practices.