Lowe’s associates is your Lowe’s life better or worse with Marvin in charge?
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Better. I was part of the LP cut and am now in a corporate job with a non-profit, making about 10K more a year, only 40 hours a week and EVERY weekend off.
Thanks for the help Carvin' Marvin.
Much much better!!
Of course I left after 10 years and now work for a competitor where I can take Lowe’s business away. Kinda feels win winny.
Start searching for another job soon, it is only going to get worse...
Marvin is not the problem, he's the symptom. If you're waiting for a traditional corporation to significantly increase worker pay and benefits you'll be waiting for the rest of your life.
Much worse. Niblock was bad...this new guy is just plain evil.
This is the same thing Marvin did at JC Penney. You dreaded going to work because any day could be your last. He took his millions and moved on to Lowe's. He will do the same at Lowe's.
Much worse, I come into work every morning with a nauseous pit in the bottom of my stomach wondering if today will be the day I get laid off.
Sadly, much worse. In the three years I've been with Lowe's, it's gone from being a job I actually enjoyed coming to when my shift started, to being unpleasant drudgery.
Morale, by whatever metric you wish to use, has plummeted. The camaraderie which formerly existed between employees has morphed into protective suspicion and paranoia.
Chronic understaffing has led to customers who gripe, justifiably, about waiting forever to be taken care of on the floor, which results in "customer-facing" interactions that are awkward at best. OT is not allowed on the floor, although other non-sales positions (delivery drivers, unloaders, etc...) pile up 55 or 60 hours per week.
The elimination of the assembler positions has left us having to tell customers buying a grill or a lawn tractor that they can't have it assembled for at least a week, which more often than not, k–ls the sale.
On two of the last five work days, I've been alone in my department (ISLG) for the entire nine hour shift. If I have to go back to the stockroom to retrieve something from the racks, it may take 15 minutes or longer just to clear access for the order picker through the clutter. In the meantime, the customer, waiting alone in the department, gives up and leaves k–ling the sale.
Store-level management have retreated into a bunker mentality, shying away from eye contact with CSAs, and feigning ignorance of any upcoming changes - yet congregating in their cubbyhole offices to discuss their own frustrations.
We're buried in incoming freight, and have run out of shelf-space to store it.
How's my Lowe's Life? Depressing and overwhelming.
Worse... No help on the sales floor . Management won't tell you what's going on or too scared to say. Much Much WORSE