Don’t want to badmouth anyone, but at my store it has been a mess, think that took an hour to do now take 2 hours, and the newbies even don’t want to learn anything. Is that the general opinion, or was my location just unlucky to get bad workers.
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This place is turning into more and more people blaming everyone else without taking time to look into anything. SM blaming ASM, ASM blaming Dept. Supervisors, DS blaming department personnel, which coincidentally are the people doing 90 percent of the work. No one wants to fix, just blame someone so they can get by another day with poor leadership. Watch the weekly show and you decide! Ridiculous
Our seasonal employee in my department closed yesterday, he worked 2 to 11. On sundays we power down stock as much as we can so we can run a skeleton crew through the week. I worked 11 to 8, basically until the store closed. Once the new kid went to dinner, I started dropping freight in all the aisles; the only thing he needed to do was put it out and clean up. When the new kid came back I explained what needed to be done and how to do it.
I left at 8.
Come in today and the SM comes up to me and wants to know why the down stocking wasn’t done last night. I tell him I left at 8 after telling the new kids what needed done and how to do it.
Why is it my fault things weren’t done?
Wait, your department has employees? What’s that like??? I’m alone 98% of the time.
Yesterday, a new PT hire was standing outside the lumber door of 1192 smoking at the entrance, yelling at people and carrying on and not a damn thing was said or done.
But even out FT'ers are absolutely terrible all due to Lowe's creating a hostile and unethical workplace. How many of you are hired as one thing, but never do your job? The CSA Pro hired in 1192 never works his job. Hes constantly forced to work lumber. 6 months later, he KNOWS NOTHING about Pro, and here comes the season. Same in every other dept of the store. Its a mess.
Seasonal part timers, by and large, aren't there for a career. They aren't "hardware people", or "construction people" (those folks HAVE full time jobs). Seasonal part-timers are there for a paycheck. They know the jobs will end. By nature, they will tend to "skate by" doing as little as possible, as they don't have a real interest in the business.
There are, of course, exceptions. But that's basically the reality of it.
Wait are you actually scheduled alongside a new employee?? I was always scheduled by myself, I’d be scheduled to leave with a 1/2 gap for the next employee. If I was scheduled to close the neighboring departments were given lunch as I clocked in, and anyone in my department was scheduled to go home. I couldn’t feel the love so I quit.
Sounds unadaptable and lacks competence to mentor new trainees to me. Probably overpaid too.