Thread regarding Lowe's Cos. layoffs

Central scheduling offices simply don’t work

Central scheduling offices simply don’t work. And we all know what the area “in-home services” managers do — absolutely nothing and a total waste of payroll. There’s too many moving parts and the people that staff these offices usually have no clue when it comes to understanding installation services and are farther from the customer. Lowe’s has gone back and forth for years on different positions in the stores and I too predict that this will eventually be put back in the stores in some capacity. Remember— They can’t blame the stores if there’s a problem as it is set up right now, and we know when it comes to Lowe’s it’s ALWAYS the store’s fault — never corporate’s or the area guys and girls.

We all seem to understand this except those at the top who should the first ones to understand it?

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So if a store sells a dishwasher install to go into a kitchen that has no dishwasher in it today, that's somehow not the stores fault? We do sh–t like that every day.

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Post ID: @wciq+1a0ruhnX

Indy markets went to Central Production Office in like 2016. Total cluster. The PSE person assigned had 5 to 7 other PSEs to cover as well as me. When the PSE support person was not on calls with PSE customers, he was in the standard queue for any call that came in for any reason. Result was a lack of time to conclude any issue before days end. If the PSE person was off for a day the calls went to voicemail and no one would call back until the next day. It was a stupid idea poorly executed. Was so bad that my nickname for it of “The Counterproduction Office” stuck because it had a strong element of truth.

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Post ID: @5hgi+1a0ruhnX

The only way to get installed sales back in the stores is to let centralized fail! I don’t share my knowledge. I will not teach my eventual replacement how to do my job.When strong appear weak

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Post ID: @2qix+1a0ruhnX

I just tell him I’m part time and there’s no one in the department that knows anything and I’ll have to call back tomorrow or the next day

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Post ID: @2kit+1a0ruhnX

Our Government at the Federal level works the same way. Central Planning. Its a disaster.

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Post ID: @1hlv+1a0ruhnX

I find it hard to believe that having customers call a central location, then having the person at the central location call me to ask what to do, then having the person from the central location call the customer back with the answer is not a huge cost savings.
Oh wait, I just read what I wrote. Yep. Call centers are dumb.

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