Thread regarding Lowe's Cos. layoffs

Be a bad employee. They won't fire you. They will threaten you. They will write you up. But it is rare that they ever fire anyone. I had so many worthless employees under me when I worked there and the SM wouldn't do anything about them. It was all part of their strategy to force me out. They use bad employees to get lifetimers out of the system. So go ahead. Be a bad employee. If you can stomach it. More power to you. That dept manager or full time employee who is taking up your slack needs to leave. Its a dead end job for ALL who are involved any way you slice it. You are doing everyone a favor.

“Higher productivity” means making less people do more work

This is what they count on. Don't play the game, clock in, do your time clock out. Don't enable corporate by running yourself into the ground trying to make their mess work. You're not getting paid enough as it is. A union could easily get into lowes if they focused on what people have been saying on here for years about poor scheduling, pay, climate control, job elimination, changing job descriptions/responsibilities ETC. The activist investors would not have come in if lowes was unionized.

And this is why a company wide callout on Labor day would hit them where it hurts.

But, but …..I got a gold star award patch to put on my red vest!!! YippEE!!!

They’re constantly cutting hours. How do you think they made last quarters numbers?

There’s a mention in one of the stories about Lowe’s last quarter results. It states: “Ellison, who is leading the company’s turnaround, said Lowe’s will continue to focus on driving higher profits through higher productivity.” For those of you who don’t speak corporate BS, that means that they’re going to be keeping hours down for everyone and not hiring to replace people. “Higher productivity” means making less people do more work and that means the company keeps more money for the almighty investor who are the only people Ellison actually gives a d*mn about. The rest of us? They’ll try to keep us placated because they don’t really want a full scale revolt or god forbid a union, but they don’t really care about any of us. That’s why they do podcasts and throw crumbs at us like “back end appreciation events” but the truth is, we don’t really matter to them, not really. The fact that any of us hate their scheduling system is irrelevant to them. I guarantee you that no one at corporate headquarters pays ten seconds attention to anything we think, say or write. Our lives are not something they’ll ever truly care about.

The only thing companies like Lowe’s will ever care about is when we all band together and start doing things collectively. Why do you think they spend so much time focusing on unions? Our blather here on the internet is fine for venting our anger and frustrations, that’s good for them, but working together? That’s bad.

I’m not advocating for a union. I was in one once and honestly, they can be absurd. The antiquated rules are ridiculous. It’s all based on seniority and they can end up as corrupt and useless as the company leadership. But as long as we’re all just individuals writing on a website, arguing amongst ourselves, they’re happy as a clam. It means we’re not doing anything larger, and that’s what they want.

Funny when these clowns want you to work OT when things get busy and people are quitting left and right... Yea, no thanks...I remember you guys were cutting everyone's hours 3 weeks ago. FU Marvin!!

That is why I left in May after 9 years. Really got tired of that new customer concentric schedule.

I’m so glad I’m out of Lowe’s. I left for a job that pays me more than Lowe’s, I have my weekends off, my supervisor tells me I’m awesome, and the work is easier as I’m not covering 3 to 5 departments and getting yelled at by customers and management alike.