It's been widely reported that Lowe's was/is going to hire more employees at the store level. This is not the case at my store. We have many part -time employees working full time hours as the store isn't hiring anyone. They aren't even posting these jobs.
The PSI and PSE people sit around hardly working while the sales staff on the floor gets called on the carpet about getting them leads. We were told one lead a week or we would be written up. Same thing for the Lowe's credit cards, one new credit app a week or be written up. Cashiers have the same thing with the product protection plans and I thought it was my job to help customers "Love Where They Live."
Our new credit coordinator is a pimply-faced 19 year old kid that was given the job over a woman old enough to be his mother. She worked in all areas of the front end since the store opened. The "service managers" are the most inexperienced managers that the store has, all of our older, experienced managers were passed over when deciding on the service managers. One former DM has already left for Home Depot, another went to work for D--k's Sporting Goods, and several more have resumes out looking to leave.
A lot of the new hires spend more time in the break room than they do on the sales floor and no one (management) seems to care. Others leave early whenever they want and again management doesn't seem to care. Rules and policies are only enforced for certain employees but not all. If you're young and pretty you don't have to work hard.
Finally, our store manager is store manage (a woman) is constantly on her personal cell phone with her friends or children that can't behave. At least we don't have her two boys that constantly fight calling mom on the store phone to settle an argument.