Thread regarding Lowe's Cos. layoffs

How many more are they going to cut.

The departments have zero coverage, the departments have almost nobody in them anymore asm's are just tossing all the work onto the supervisors to the point that they cannot even be in the departments since they are doing the ASM's job, the departments specialist are doing the supervisors job and their own and more on top of it, 90% of the part time associates just come and hang out with their friends for 4 hours and go home not doing a single thing, given there are a few part-timers that bust their a– and work but that is a very VERY small %.

The stores have almost nobody in it, loosing our FSA and Assembly guys was a huge blow they actually would come into the departments and assist customers when we were overrun, my FSA new how to use M20 for the shower door designs and vanitys that took stress off if the specialist was not there he would actually come out and do it for the customer.

I'm just ranting but my gosh if they cut anymore from the floor and replace them with the part-time workers we have been getting this place is as good as done, I have seen so many great workers with amazing amounts of knowledge leave or get let go and its sad that this CEO wants to strip all that from our stores.

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I see what you're saying OP, but why take a shot at part timers? If it's as you say, they have zero incentive to work hard. Why should they? All of the extra value their hard work would bring goes into rich stockholders pockets.

Same goes for full time CSAs too actually, except they might get a bonus of what, $150 for the quarter? That's less than $2 per day for their hard work.

The whole system is broken but Lowe's exemplifies it better than many businesses. Upward mobility? Only if your store manager decides to post a new position that pays more instead of just filling it with whoever like they always do. Competition, profit motive, those aren't meant for plebs like us.

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I'm the pro service supervisor and I'm usually tasked with multiple tasks from our managers, I get used to open the doors from delivery's sign them out, deal with problems on the front end I get pulled to garden to open the gates and usually we have to deal with the disgruntle customers because the manager on duty does not want to come out of their office to talk to them. I have seen our plumbing specialist work, this guy takes care of angry customers/calls them and has them come in and to see him personally and fixes the issue without me or anyone even having to touch it, he comes in and cleans the hell out of his department and also takes care of electrical as well, the elect/plumbing supervisor is on medical leave so this guy stepped up and said ill take care of it until he comes back. Its the same with our flooring specialist these guys work and its sad that these are the associates that we may lose with all these stupid changes happening I know the flooring specialist is already looking elsewhere I am unsure of the plumbing specialist since I do not really talk to him on a personal level.

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I was laid-off (FSA of over 11 years dedicated skilled worker) yesterday with only two weeks pay and zero *^$@! notice. I had competent customer service skills that helped every single sales department and competent qualified power equipment skills that served the store very well; I was a CDL-A license back-up delivery driver that saved the company a conservative estimate $250,000 over the last eight years of regular driver over-time; and was competent with Code-50s, Code 3s, cart round-ups and held a key that opened many doors that saved the company many thousands of embarrassing moments… absolutely worthless in the eyes of Marvelous Marvin.

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Post ID: @kpq+10lq5EGL

Electrical and plumbing department supervisor??????

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