I am making every effort to leave as soon as possible. It has become so bad to work here that I can no longer even imagine what else can happen to make things worse. I don't think it can be worse.
The only thing that could possibly be worse are the layoffs, but when I think about it a little better, it would be short-term stress which would end up being better for me in the long term.
There wont be layoffs. There’s no one left to layoff.
I work with a woman whose husband and daughter came to pick her up at the end of her shift. They came into the store when they saw what chaos it was, and watched her struggling trying to do 50 things at once and being screamed at by customers, the two of them jumped in to help her. So there’s this man with no vest on going up and down a ladder bringing product down to a 10-year-old little girl who’s putting it on the shelf, while the mother is in tears at the sight of it, realizing that’s how bad things have gotten. But what made it worse was one of the ASMs walked by, stopped, looked at what was going on, and just kept walking.
its over, get out asap. go get extended ui bens. in ny? 800 per week
it will keep getting worse in the stores, while the totally useless area and corporate people play around on their laptops and drive around in their company cars or fly around on their all-expense-paid junkets for photo-ops in the stores handing out ‘’awards” so they can post them on their social media accounts. The store here in my town is a high volume location($60mil+) but is a hot mess that eats employees and managers left and right. The turnover rate is through the roof and the ‘problem’ employees that nobody likes are the ones that are allowed to remain. I’m so glad that I got out when I did.
Lowes is hiring store managers with no hardware experience. We received one from fashion! She makes things pretty all day and has no idea what she is doing. Its the scariest thing I have seen at lowes in 10 years.
Lowes is hiring store managers with no hardware experience. We received one from fashion! She makes things pretty all day and has no idea what she is doing. Its the scariest thing I have seen at lowes in 10 years.
I also believe it will get much worse before we totally bottom out. For any stores that is not on a XDT (express "cross-dock" delivery terminal) system yet you are still in for another major horror of a system/process to adapt to. My store has already been told that it will be among a group that has already been slated to Beta test yet another software package that is supposed to be a replacement for Genesis and Sterling (but will no doubt be yet another software wrapper that still utilizes both original programs in the background). Have never seen this company roll out a piece of software that properly works in real-world (i.e. store level) conditions at its onset. And lets not forget Lowe's will be rolling out a tool rental department soon (my store has already started construction). So looking forward to whatever software package and process Lowe's pulls out of their backside to support that one. “Damn the Torpedoes! Full Speed Ahead”
Oh it will get a lot worse ,just wait until there is next to no one left that knows what their talking about including the managers. Just wait you all will be up against those huge comps from last year during the lock downs. good luck matching those numbers.
As bad as it is, it’s going to get worse. Everyone in the store is going to be micromanaged to the hilt and asked to do more than they have in the past.