We get it. You lost your job. It's a shame and we hate it for you.
Littering the board with whiny posts, calling for boycotts, encouraging unions, and all other petty posts only makes you look foolish and makes me proud to no longer have you as a coworker.
Grow up. Lowes, nor the world owes you anything. Your self-entitlement will get you nowhere.
We are all just saying that there were better ways to cut cost and bring money back to the bottom line. More tactical ways than just cutting payroll, which is their easiest option.
Adhere to Lowe's return policy - stop returning SOS product that the customer ordered incorrectly, stop returning things after 90 days, stop returning seasonal mowers and snowblowers that the customer used the entire season and no longer needs, stop returning merchandise that was stolen from the store, and stop returning stuff that isn't Lowe's product.
Stop being a storage facility for customers. We have product sitting in receiving 3 years passed its original pick up date.
Charge for appliance deliveries - we already lose money by selling the appliance under cost. It costs truck maintenance, wages, and time. All these expenditures for a product that we lost money on when we sold it.
Lowe's screws itself everyday by being spineless. If they stood up to the customer every once in awhile, good employees would not be on the chopping block.
Lowe's is not looking to screw anyone. These are tough decisions that have to be made or else they will cease to exist.. when your online growth continues to grow faster than your ability to support it and financially not performing to HD thelse things happen to make adjustments other strategy and org.
I deeply feel for the stores and those who lost their job, but I don't know believe Lowe's "screwed" anyone. Lowe's has to compete to exist..anyone in those decision makers shoes would make the same call, twice on Sunday. Walmart is going through the same layoffs for the same reason. Welcome to the world of the Internet of things, it's only going to grow.
"silly cry babies"
The poster of this is a pathetic individual. You claim the people posting on this think the "world owes them something". Are you such a simpleton that you actually believe this? Are you in fact that ignorant to believe in what you are saying? The affected employees that frequent these discussions are only looking for answers. A lot of them have spent, 5, 10, or 15+ years with this company. They have built lives based on what they have earned and deserve thru Lowe's. They are not on here having a "pity party". They are searching for answers, they are providing an empathetic ear to those who need, and they are supporting each other. You are the ignorance that is everything wrong this country. The Lowe's hierarchy made these changes for one reason, with hopes to raise the stock price. The H.D. is nearly double that of Lowe's. If you believe these changes are for anything else then you don't know anything about life. It's pretty simple, you are not affected, so get off these sites yourself. You tell everyone else to "pound the pavement" like you understand what everyone is going thru. Someone who uses that term sounds like a privileged p.o.s that doesn't understand very much at all to say the least. Also, if you still have a job thru this restructure, maybe you should get back to work in your store. It's full-time lazy b--ches like you that caused all this in the first place. Now others are paying the price for your complacency.
Good luck to all affected employees. You all deserve so much more.
ALot of us already have other job offers. Doesn't mean that Lowe's didn't screw people over. You're worthless as a human being.
Silly crybabies.
You should be out pounding pavement and looking for jobs!
Instead, you frequent this message board feeling sorry for yourselves waiting on what you feel the world owes you.
"Enough Already"
While you say "their self-entitlement will get them nowhere" you must understand that your lack of empathy and arrogance will get you killed. Good luck.
The original poster of this is a b--ch. You are obviously not affected or you would be saying what everyone else is. While it's true the world doesn't owe anyone anything, Lowe's does owe it's affected staff way more than it gave them. Furthermore, people are going on here to vent and talk to each other in their time of need. If you're going on here just to antagonize these people, then that makes you undeniably pathetic. Oh and obviously you aren't aware what "self-entitlement" means. Because you believing that you have any place or authority to tell people how to cope or work thru there problems, is self-entitlement "genius". We will see how high your horse is on that day that you get horsefucked by the company that you gave so much of your life to. In the mean time, let these people vent to each other and work thru this sh-- in their own way. You're an a--hole.
Too bad the executives at Lowe's do not realize that it is the quality of employees at the store level that make the company great, not the suits in the office. Big stores fail because of such poor leadership, just look at Home Quarters, Builders Square, Central Hardware, Sears Hardware, Kmart, just to mention a few of the companies that have already gone out of business or are headed quickly down that path. If the corporate idiots want to have all part time employees who could care less about anything but collecting a paycheck, then be prepared for the end of Lowe's. Wal-Mart may get away with that mentality, but they don't have Home Depot, Menards, Meeks, and other direct competitors that will fill the service void created at the Lowe's store. Customers have choices and will spend their hard earned money where they get the service they expect.
The layoffs won't be only 2800. They will eventually be in the 10K+ area.. See when the Department Managers who don't get the service managers positions can't find anything or take a pay cut they will leave eventually. This was Lowe's way of making this look small. Even if they don't leave they will be making far less. This is how they will hide it more. I know if I am not one I will stay my rate for one year then go part time and move on..
My husband lost his job Tuesday. 9 years. He isn't pouting but is sure scratching his head. Just got a raise less than a month ago. Never written up. Almost 400 hours of unused sick time. Was well liked by his peers and customers. Judging from the reaction in our community and the 100's of texts and phone calls we have received, others were just as shocked as his was. He walked out that day sad and confused. I am not. 9 years of missed family activities. Countless family dinners and events missed due to his job. ASM's and DM's at Lowe's are underpaid and overworked. No more middle of the night phone calls to go check the store because the alarm company called. No more overnights to help do resets. No more of me asking "you seriously close all month?" After seeing this particular post by Enough already, it shows what kind of arrogant, half brained, people they didn't let go. I can tell you he would've left anyway. He sees his coworkers worried about their jobs. They watched him and another manager walk out that day and many are in fear. 13 DM's and only 5 get spots. Several have to leave due to the new policy of family members not working in the same store, 6 or 8 of those. He wouldn't have stayed and maybe they knew that. He has a heart and he values and ethics and morals.This will hit more media attention as it should. More than 2400 jobs are a stake. Many more.
I am happy he's home. He can start his own business with his business sense. Funny, when he took that job 9 years ago as a regular store employee it was to get a "no brainer" job while we built a house. Just something to do. He was loved by his then store manager and peers and decided to stay. Promoted within 3 months to department manager and then shortly after ASM. He has many years experience as a contractor and in construction.
As he starts up his own business and has more work than he needs lined up, the question of why did I stay so long is bouncing around our home. He will make 3 x the money and not have to deal with corporate BS.
Our hearts go out to all that lost their jobs that will impact them financially. As I typed this my husband just got another text from a former coworker thanking him for being the kind of leader he needed to push him to be a better person and employee. That, makes it worth it. Not the company, but they people that care and the people he impacted and who also impacted him. On to better things.
Enough already - Karma s---s. You should find some wood to knock on.
I see the corporate whores at Lowe's have asked people to get on here and make up sh-- for all the a-- pounding Lowe's is getting on here.
Lowe's is a hump of a company, and if you can't see how they are everything that's wrong with this country, then you're too f---ing stupid to be allowed in public by yourself and will be a great aSSet to Lowe's.
Cheers! People need to Twitter with Trump1 Such ignorance swirling here
Totally agree with this post.
It's a terrible world when someone gets terminated because a company as big as Lowe's want to downsize to line the pockets of those at the top!!
I work at Lowe's and believe me this will hurt the customers and make conditions worse for the employees that try to bust their butts working for this company.
This is really bad for the people who lost their jobs on account of the companies decision for downsizing.
This will hurt Lowe's , and the customers who already know we are understaffed .
Sincerely
An Employee who cares
Please re-write your rebuttal with actual sentences and with grammar that doesn't make you sound like a kindergartener.
I imagine you tried to get a job at Lowes but the assessment test was too difficult for you.
You are a loser how heartless to speak that way to a person who just lost their job I don't even work for Lowe's but I was looking around about what happened to it some please and I just can't believe that a coworker would talk so cruelly Lowes did him a favor after all we all know lowes is the Pepsi of home-improvement and Coca-Cola Home Depot that is will always be number one your stores a ghost towns and have no inventory for real contractors so if those 2800 people were smart they would dump the load stock tomorrow morning and see if Home Depot is hiring where they could probably get a good career
Neither.
I work hard and dont feel entitled. It's called common sense
Was it your mother or father who dropped you on your head as baby?