Thread regarding Lowe's Cos. layoffs

Thoughts on the new "service" managers

In my store we now have 5 people whose job it is to walk the store and tell associates "go help that customer." The "service managers" just do that, nothing more. Oh and they let us out the door at night.

When we had department managers they would help with customers and with freight, down stocking and reports. Now we have it all to do and have to deal with these clowns who just walk around and tell you to help customers, like we don't know to do that.

If Lowes wants to save money, they can fire these 5 and we wouldn't miss them.

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100% agreed with the last post

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Post ID: @4tjv+ObHAVq2

Quit being a little whiny a because now you have to do a little more work. The service/support managers are having to do the exact job (actually more) the ASM's did before the restructure. And I say actually more because they had the department managers to do the dirty work for them (cycle counts, overrides etc..). The service/support managers do not have that luxury......they are stuck having to train mostly new (seasonal) associates and/or part timers who don't give a st about their job to do the cycle counts, packdown programs, markdown reports etc.... I can go on and on with this list. They think the service/support managers have all this time to train these people in their assigned departments but when they try to spend that time with the associates they are then scolded for not walking the entire store to direct everyone else. All you see and/or hear is that they are over your area when, in fact, they are over the entire store. They have to make sure all departments and all customers are being taken care of the way they are supposed to be. And while they are having to do that they are in charge of all customer complaints, running back and forth for overrides because coverage s---s, trying to make sure code 3's and code 50's are being done, making sure trucks are being unloaded in a timely manner, counting the safe, doing pickups, doing loans, power equipment training.....the list goes on and on. So before you say people aren't doing anything why don't you try walking in their shoes for a day or actually watch and pay attention to things they constantly have to deal with on a daily basis. You will be pulling your damn hair out. Most of the ASM's have all of this free time now because service/support managers are doing their job. Just my two cents so there ya go.

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Post ID: @4ccr+ObHAVq2

I agree with the OP.

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Post ID: @1ojg+ObHAVq2

I've seen three of ours walk though a "code 3" situation in the garden center and not one got on a register. They all went to the parking lot to look at the plant displays and started to neaten it up before walking back into the store through the main entrance.

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Post ID: @1xsy+ObHAVq2

not mine all they do is tell you what to do. The poeple they hired this season where all usless.

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Post ID: @1aat+ObHAVq2

They're worthless!

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Post ID: @1bjy+ObHAVq2

Send those asms to my store; they're needed!

And I am smarter than a 5th grader; graduated from the 8th grade I did.

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Post ID: @1pba+ObHAVq2

I have 2 ASMs that do more work then all of the service and support managers combined. One of the 1 ASMs is always working on freight and the other is always setting up or working on displays. Heck he does more work than the worthless PSAs we have in my store. The other AMS won't help on the sale floor no matter what. Call buttons blowing up and that one ASM just ignores them. A customer can be screaming at an associate right next to that one ASM and they will say "what was that all about..."

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Post ID: @xwq+ObHAVq2

Whenever you pass 5th grade grammar then get back to me

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Post ID: @jjj+ObHAVq2

How much money Lowe's pay you to say that ,the thing is Lowe's wants to make more money without brain,guess what....empliyees gonna boycott the stores even the inventory,also now all the departments running along.....CSA's don't wanna do supervisors stuffs cuz they don't get pay the right money every body knows it

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Post ID: @kmm+ObHAVq2

My service managers are with us helping customers, help zone and even go out to get carts above having to deal with all the damn customer issues. Your service managers s---

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