Thread regarding Lowe's Cos. layoffs

Don’t worry, he’s laughing all the way to the bank … 20million salary for him to share with the ones that fill his pockets

Marvin Ellison is the biggest f*** up of any c. EO in the world

Ain't this the truth him and his dei bullsh-t, they have destroyed people that have worked for them for years. They lie about bonus pay and they lie about everything else that goes with it. You can sell over a million dollars a year for them and you will never see bonus pay.

Lowe's contaminated my house with silica dust last may 14 when the countertop installers cut the quartz countertop on my patio and left the door open. Suspended particle readings in my house are 1000's over OSHA allowances. Does Lowe's care? Nope.

Claims department doesn't recognize my claim, and Stone Interiors, the countertop supplier claims that it has no contract with its installer, so I can't collect on their insurance.

I had no countertops for ten weeks, and now it's going on four months with a dangerously contaminated house. Thanks, Marvin Ellison, Ethical Leader of 2024.

Thanks a whole lot, Marv. You have no integrity whatsoever, and neither does your legal department nor does your claims department.

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TV ADS about "Lowes Pro" really annoying---all people in the ad are "of color" --even the narrator has black voice--what do we expect from a black "leader" today who espouses "diversity"---code word for "do more for blacks to make up for slavery in the south--that ended 158 yrs. ago---but now roam the streets beating up old people, robbing stores, and ki-ling cops/others in blue cities!!

Lowe's sucks, management sucks, but Marvin Ellison sucks even more! He doesn't give a rats a-s about anyone but himself. More and more task, less employees, cutting hours and people can't make it on part time hours. Customers are getting mad because we can't handle the work load with 5 or 6 associates on the whole floor to assist them. There's a special place in he-l for you Ellison. God bless you id--t!!!

They had to sell the Canadian division just to stay a float. Marvin likes to tell employees how to think, act and feel. If you go against anything he perches you will be fired. He thinks he is a GOD.

Fact!

I worked for Lowes for for over 15 years giving my all everyday Literally (Blood, Sweat and tears) and my position was eliminated as soon as Marvin Ellison took over as CEO. I was never given an option to change positions as was reported to the media for good P.R. Lowe's refused to pay for my unemployment and never offered me compensation as they stated to the media again. Lies, lies and more lies. Being a District Manager with a family and getting ready for my retirement, now I am starting over making much less. I understand why Home Depot kicked Ellison to the curb. Also talk about destroying a company while collecting millions of dollars in your own salary. I hope someone wakes up and does something about this assh&%. I hope this fool gets what's coming to him!!! Think of how much profit Lowe's would make if they fired Marvin Ellison!!! How much money does it take for big companies to stop F-c%#g over peoples lives while they smile to the media spreading lie after lie?

So so true. He cuts employees hours down so no customer and get the proper customer
Service they deserve. Let him come and work each department with any special help and he will see what is like to not have the man power to properly getting customers coming back. I won’t

I’m about to leave on April 8th.

After more than a decade as a delivery driver, we’re being farmed out. We already have issues with the XDT lowes/JB hunt partnership.

Well played Marvin. Well played.

I worked at Depot for 7 years, Lowes will be 12 (exactly). I was offered a 40% pay cut to $14/hour on the sales floor.

Nope. That’s new hire pay and even then, some of them are making more.

Your stores are a mess, there is ZERO leadership from the top down. Employees are leaving; as of April 1, we will have had 15 in a month quit.

Overworked, understaffed, managers that do nothing.

Good job, Marvin.

As a customer, I see why the employees are so upset. How about customer service? This is a store that I used to love but now, Lowes has literally stolen $30,000 from my family in a project that should have take 6–8 weeks and took over a year, was poorly installed and now they want to give me $9K of the $30K they owe us.

You want a great CEO find Mike Cogger. He is in North Tampa BEST BUY. He can fix Lowes. I have worked with him at HQ and Lowes in Lauderdale. This CEO thats at Lowes right now is over paid. He has 8 VPs under him. So what the hell does he do. The only thing he cares about is his Bonus...
Just like the rest of them boot lickers. Stop putting id–ts in power, you think because they may have a degree they know what they are doing . News Flash they don't.

GO TO HELL MARVIN ELLISON

Sounds like you have a axe to grind with Marvin not Lowe's. Anybody the looks were our stock price was and were it is will realize this. He is the one who put managers back in the department after the former CEO took them out. Removing them was a big mistake.

I agree 100%. The guy is all over the place. He talks the talk, but no damn results to what he preaches. He wants to gain market share in the Pro market? No clue. You can’t compete in the the real contractor sales industry when you want to run the Pro Dept. like Walmart.... The only market share you are gaining is from wannabe contractors, who expect the lumber to be as clean and straight as 1x interior finished Birch. Also, how can you be serious about the Pro without understanding how to do blueprints, deck takeoffs, garages, pole barns, additions, multi-family, etc. You are out of your league and your Pro Specialists are clueless, do to the lack of building product and construction training.

Amen

As a loyal customer, I used to love Lowe's because it wasn't Home Depot. The employees were knowledgeable and happy to be of service. The stores always bright and neatly organized.

Now, it's very hard to find an associate. And when I do, they have no answers or reccomendations; not can they tell me what area of the store my product can be found in. The stores are now messy with empty boxes and overflowing shelves because they have too much product. The garden centers seem to be especially unkempt. So many plants that they squished together and breeding mold and pests. Half the plants are dying because they no longer have an assigned waterer and even if they did, it would be impossible to water because of this ridiculous overcrowding.

I have now started going back to a smaller hardware retailer and a locally run garden center. So sad that one person can destroy a giant home improvement retail chain. I will never understand the greedy.

marvin out to fill his own pockets at the expense of his own people. I love the way he says God bless at the end of his pods,home depot is cheering him on

Marvin doesn't give a damn about Lowes,he only cares about how much money he and the shareholders make. I can't believe that the board would allow such a person to completely destroy Lowes. It should be considered to bring a class action lawsuit against the so called CEO of Lowes. He treats longtime employees like cattle.

Marvin has a short term plan and that's earn a lot of money for share holders. He doesn't care about the company culture or it's employees or their families. He's doing what he did at Pennys, Home Depot, and Target, and the quicker the execs stage a coup the better.

I'm a part time Lowes employee and work in rough electrical and lighting, though I'm often covering plumbing and fashion plumbing. I find many of the younger employees milk the system as much as they possibly can primarily because they're so tired of the way they're treated. Why k–l yourself working for an company that couldn't possibly care less about you?

I was injured on the job and the only concern by anyone in management was how much paperwork was going to be involved, how would it effect their safety record and how it would inconvenience them personally. "Have a Lowes safe day..." Right... They continue to increment the number of safe work days on the display in the break room. I guess my trip to the hospital didn't register as I'm still able to walk, talk and take solid food...

I took this job after entering retirement over a year ago. I didn't intend to work thirty hours or more per week nor to work eight and nine hour shifts. I've pushed back on that, only to find that I have fourteen work days in a row where I'm closing. My penance for questioning their scheduling prowess? I worked second shift in my youth and swore I'd never do it again... yet... Here I am.

They're also in the process of getting rid of our desks. I find it difficult to believe that anyone who's ever worked at a Lowes store would think this a good idea. I understand that it's become quite difficult to find a way to make us even less productive, but against all odds... they've managed...

What's next? Make even more of your product homeless in order to have us chase our tails even more often when trying to restock the incredible volume of returns? How about putting even more of our fast moving product in side stacks scattered throughout the store in order to make it nearly impossible for us to keep shelves stocked? We take multiple IRP hits because our product is everywhere but where it's supposed to be...

There's an excellent chance that, as you read this, I'm no longer a Lowes employee. The climate there is, at best, toxic... My advice? Don't apply there. If you're already employed there, visit Indeed.com and Monster.com ASAP... Run... Don't walk...

Thank you! Couldn't agree more. Marvin is a complete failure and he's destroying anything that sets Lowes apart from other retailers. In a year the entire store will be staffed by kids who don't know and don't care. The customers will go to Home depot, Ace Hardware, Sherwin Williams etc. Sad to see it happening but it appears the shareholders and board are allowing him to run Lowes off a cliff before they get rid of him. This latest schedule change has done it for me. I'm gone. Marvin was no one at Home Depot, failed at JC Penney and now we're stuck with him. Please get rid of him, I actually enjoyed working at Lowes but not any more

I disagree with the premise that Ellison doesn't have a clue, he knows exactly what he is doing; he was brought on board to spike the stock price long enough for the big VC money to have a profitable exit. Every move he's made so far is perfectly designed to create short term P/L gains at the expense of long term success. In the new retail environment there are only three ways for Lowe's to thrive and Ellison has done everything in his power to destroy those paths:

E Commerce: He has done nothing to improve Lowe's notoriously bad website, he removed the E commerce pick up desks (after investing millions in new computers and printers that are now waiting to be donated to a charity for tax write offs) and he removed computers from the sales floor so associates now have real difficulty accessing this avenue for customers.

Pro Sales: The two most crucial aspects to serving pros are knowledgeable staff and responsive delivery services; Marvin's answer? Force out long time knowledgeable employees, replace them with part time kids hired through never ending "hiring events" ( he already eliminated store HR, so these new hires are being vetted in many cases by people with little hiring experience). Eliminate in store delivery service an replace it with an unwieldy, un responsive 3rd party service who's one and only goal is to dump product on job sites as cheaply as possible with little incentive to build ztrong relations with pro accounts.

In Home services: Marvin came in with an animosity to Lowe's service model (perhaps because it was the one area where Lowe's consistently kicked Home Depot's butt); he's since did everything he can to destroy this multi billion dollar category. He eliminated the interior project category, raised margins on labor to untenable levels, pulled profitable categories like HVAC, has forced untold numbers of knowledgeable specialists from the floor and most currently combined the market sale position and the market service position (these are two vastly different positions require different skill sets). It is no secret his ultimate goal is to exit the install market entirely.

Without a leadership position in these 3 categories Lowe's will continue to bleed sales to Amazon; my prediction is Amazon will overtake Lowe's as the second largest home improvement supplier within a few years and Menards will overtake Lowe's within a decade, leaving us fighting for sc-aps in 4th place! No Marvin, there isn't a Santa Clause, you can buy back $3 billion in stock and cut payroll to the bone to give a short term spike to stock prices but you have us on the same path you went down when you nearly destroyed JC Penny. If you are a Lowe's stockholder you should be considering dumping in the near future, within a couple years Marvin will have it trading below $50

went to lowes the other day its in a sad state of affairs. need a question ans. and it was like being in walmart Lowes is going downhill fast thank god for the the momand pop stores

I've read most of the posts, and I agree with them all. I don't think Marvin understands that Lowes success starts on the sales floor with CSA's, specialists, and pros. Gutting your sales force is not the way to increase performance. Getting rid of FSA's was stupid. Now we have dirty stores and cashiers are mopping the floors. Removing desks was stupid. Occasionally I have to reassemble a box, but there's no where to do it other than in the floor. Removing computers was stupid. There are three of us in plumbing, so what am I supposed to do when a customer wants to look for a sink, or a vanity, or a biscuit colored toilet and the other computers are in use? Guess I'll just shrug my shoulders and say "Sorry, try Home Depot". Lowes will tank eventually, Carvin' Marvin will cash out, get his performance bonus, and vamoose. This is not the first time that I've heard that Marvin is in cahoots with Home Depot to drive their main competition into the ground. Thought it sounded like silly conspiracy stuff, but not too sure now. Find yourself another job if possible.

With all of you in every text I read. Customers hate the new Lowes experience. If they wanted to shop at Home Depot that's where they would go. Screw over every employee at every turn. Now our part timers that had sick time accrued have had it taken away. Many of our part timers are long term older employees that are invaluable for their product knowledge and ability to assist customers that no 18 year old punk can possible do. Looking for another job as are most of the folks in my store. Love my fellow associates and managers at my location but can't stand to watch the blood bath any more. Thanks a lot Marvin Ellison, CEO (chief executive oppressor).

Literally nothing good is coming from him. Just lots of layoffs.

Are you ready to be a drone worker at Lowe's or Home Depot? Come 9/30/19 many at Lowe's will be indentured workers. A weekend off will be 3 weeks out and 2 days off in a row will be unheard of.

I thing Marvin Ellison has a thing for indentured servants. For a coporation like Liwe's or Home Depot it's about share holders not cutomers. They take seasoned people and cut their hours or give them drone schedules to please the share holders. Cut payroll to show the companies making a profit. Even if sales are down due to lack of staff, the share holders make a profit.

We just found out today that we’re neinf terminated as a subcontractor and we weren’t given any reasons why

I agree the man is driving us into the ground. The store turnover is the highest it has ever been, and it is because of intimidation tactics that began hard and fast this January. They want the highest-paid employees to quit and are using some pretty nasty tactics to make sure it happens. These tenured employees will sell back their Lowe's stock from their 401Ks, which Marvin wants. And they will be replaced with cheap part time (no more full time!) employees with limited knowledge who are encouraged NOT to care about the customer, only the sale in front of them right now.

With all the knowledgeable employees gone the part-timers will be learning everything from scratch, giving bad customer service or maybe no customer service at all. The computer system is so convoluted they will be lucky if they learn anything at all. They will quit every six months because of the same policy of fear and mismanagement. And all this so the stock can bounce a bit more for a few months, make someone a bunch of money, and then Lowe's can take its nosedive down to be just another failed company.

the man is a clown. plain and simple.

he has no clue at the store level the causality of his actions in action. he cuts, then expects "smart" customer service. well, theres no employees TO deliver the SMART customer service model.

everything he says is a contradiction. hes a clown plain and simple.

Hey Marvin, get the hell out of our company and go f@#k up somebody else's business. 90% of the company hates your ignorant a–. You came in and screwed up a good place to work with your stupid a– idea of making the stock go up. All you care about is your HOSTILE TAKEOVER investors. You dumb F@#K, You have ruined a great company!!!

Lowe's has no respect for long time employees or their families. This new change requires day time workers to clear their schedules as they will be working overnight for1 week, next month, 2 weeks which at last minute changed to THREE WEEKS. Many work 2 or more jobs as pay does not support a family with all rising costs, another week the following month. All vacation time cancelled! No excuses and with thousands laid off, fear is the companies motivation. Indentured servants has been mentioned, good call. Our Lives have been turned upside down and health deteriorating. With this sprung on 3 weeks, in danger of losing the 2nd job. Do they care? Absolutely not! But what does one do after 15 years experience at Lowe's and without college education. Lowe's 15 to 20 years ago was the very best place to work and retire, especially for those not able to afford college. Now,worse for employees,, their family, and the company. All this for the rich to get richer and end of middle class. We are elderly, in early 60s. Can't retire for 7 years and our health and hope being destroyed more each day. What are we to do and does anyone even care about us and so very many others in this position?

The whole moral of our store has gone down.. Everyone is worried about their jobs. There's been alot of talk for more issues coming up and store changes. Garden is going to be pay by scan on plants. Meaning no more discounts. People appreciate and can't wait for the end of the season to get deals. It's going to hurt business and customers are going to be disappointed next year if this happens. Plus people are going to lose their jobs in garden now also. He's turning us into Home Depot and the choices between us won't be there no more. Lowe's better wake up quick before we're in the toilet. It's headed this way. Our FSA people have been a great loss. They now expect us to dump trash and clean and fix stuff ourselves. I agree with the other comments on them. They did alot. It's been a loss. We never have time ourselves to do that job also. We're always suffering to help customers cuz we're short handed. Plus asking people to do our surveys is a joke when people aren't happy. Upping our score percentage also s—s cuz it's harder to get our bonus now. We're all replaceable and they make you feel this way instead of wanted. This CEO is adding to the c-ap. He's gotta go!!!!!

What was the point of removing so many desks w/ their computers and phones? When customers have opened packaging, and you need room to reassemble and tape packaging together, and you have projects and papers/paperwork to complete, you NEED a smooth, flat WORKSPACE to do that on! Esp if there are multiple employees/customers needing to get something done! Now, the open, inviting desks (WORK SPACES) are tiny, hidden by GHETTO, utilitarian, metal "desks" w/ panels that are uninviting and cheap-looking. So now, there are fewer computers for those of us who get snagged by a customer outside our areas, which are very handy tools when trying to look a product up on Genesis, esp when handheld devices are all already claimed or missing. Plus, our Hardware area is separated from Tools (by Paint & Electrical) as are Rough & Fashion Plumbing (by Electrical & the front/back halves of the store). The employees spend so much time walking between the related areas, wasting time & being stopped by people looking for help in the departments between Tools/Hardware & Rough/Fashion Plumbing. Why, during the time/$ spent resetting for Craftsman, DIDN'T Lowe's rearrange Tools/Hardware to ADJACENT areas, & Rough/Fashion Plumbing to ADJACENT areas??? WHY? How many man HOURS are wasted each yr running back & forth for those employees? C'mon, Marvin, let's try to make sense, here. How many yrs, 1-2 do you think, before they decide to "give" us desks and computers & phones to make "more," "better," "more inviting (to the customers)" environments, all while patting themselves on the back for RETURNING those things they NEVER should've removed in the FIRST place?

Low morale & distrust of Marvin's ultimate goals for Lowe's at my store. I've seen pretty much all the other issues others have complained abt so far. Part-timer here, and the knowledgeable one everyone turns to in my area here, but still don't feel any of us are safe, position-wise. People at our store think he wants to eliminate Lowe's and either run back to HD bragging abt destroying their largest competition, then trying for their CEO position; &/or merge the two, after destroying Lowe's. I was told this past weekend delivery drivers have been fired (like so many other hard-working people) due to the changes regarding Appliances. Stupid, STUPID move, dropping the IN-STORE supply of appliances, because when someone discovers their fridge has been down the past 4-5 hrs, & they filled it up just 2 days earlier, NEXT DAY delivery will NOT do!! They are calculating the hrs the fridge has been down, and how FAST they can get one HOME & get the food transferred before it ROTS. They'll go somewhere ELSE for a fridge, NO DOUBT! I don't know Appliances very well, but guess how desperate those people are to get a fridge that day/night when it DOES happen?? I've seen it myself. id–tic. And our FSA, she knew the quirks of our building, e.g. why & where the fuses that trip during the holidays when so many inflatables are plugged in, & what to do abt them–she ordered supplies/parts, did many repairs herself, & yet, was barely hanging on financially, so losing her job was prob'ly DEVASTATING (already relied on help from her church for food, so her earnings could pay for other expenses). Did Marvin think abt THAT? Jerk! And the stupid hand-"painted " signs that fade w/in abt 2 weeks? Noticed the fading TWO weeks after the first signs went up, and the signs already ripping from their wood pieces. WASTE of TIME ($)! And the stupid black plastic signs in Garden, that were done away with 5 yrs ago? Obviously, "been there, done that!!" And we're hearing that in the "test" stores abt getting rid of the Pickup Desk (which took the company money to set up & I don't even think it's been a yr since that was done in our store) that they claim the customers didn't like the desk, but OTHER sources say customers are actually unhappy abt getting rid of the desk, because now it'll be BACK to waiting in long lines @ Cusomer Service to pick their orders up. Why, after Marvin did NOTHING to really save JC Penney, was he hired to take over Lowe's? I remember asking myself why that was the case from the beginning. Too bad my gut instinct that that was a stupid idea has apparently proven to be right. If your dept or job title is anything even somewhat specific or specialized, your head's prob'ly on the chopping block. We've seen FSAs, Assemblers, Drivers, Appliances, Managers, all experience chopping, w/ rumors of others possibly facing elimination. I guess they want to eliminate the company, when customers leave to shop elsewhere, for fridges, customer service, etc. Marvin is digging the grave for this company.

Marvin’s staffing cuts are affecting customer service.

I’m an appliance specialist, keep this in mind.

A few weeks ago our home decor specialist quit, he won’t be replaced except for a couple of part timers that were hired before she quit. It’s sunday and the one that was to work, called off. The other one won’t work Sunday; says she goes to church and visits her mother. I get a call to cut some blinds, in the mean time the call box is going off in appliances, customer service is paging “code 3 to appliances” two more customers line up to have blinds cut. Manager calls me “ there are customers in your department where are you?”

It seems that none of out part timers can cut blinds or help customers in appliances; neither can our managers!