Thread regarding Lowe's Cos. layoffs

Lowes just told Indiana employees they are finished in 2 weeks. Did not realize this had already happened around the USA. Ten years in, $6.00 per hour pay cut to stay with them.
Pretty sad.

Lowes just told Indiana employees they are finished in 2 weeks. Did not realize this had already happened around the USA. Ten years in, $6.00 per hour pay cut to stay with them.
Pretty sad.

Lowes in Utah just layed off all their box truck deluvery drivers. Sure Lowes will try to find you positions you can apply for in your store for a $5 per hour cut in pay. Lowes will switch to third party contractors July 17th. We knew this was coming, it was just a matter of time. My store manager told me once that Lowes values the position not the employee. Apparently Lowes no longer values anything except profit, not it’s employees nor it’s customers. Thanks Marvin!

I use to be proud to work for Lowe’s. It was a great company, but now the handful of employees we have are burnt out. Moral is the lowest I have ever seen it. This “restructuring” is causing a hostile work environment. Customers are even more frustrated and fed up. (Honestly I don’t blame them.) the whole point of letting employees go. Was to have more face time with customers and yet we don’t have enough sales people to meet demand. Additionally the third party Delivery team is an absolute nightmare. The assemblers are an embarrassment. And we have been running a night team of 3-4 people. That are expected to do the jobs of the laid off, plus their own usual duties. If Marvin is trying to break this company he’s doing a good job. This is the exact same tactics sears used and we all know what happened to sears

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Does anyone know when 3rd party will be taking over deliveries? My husband has worked in delivery fir 18 years. Latest rumor is in April. Curious what others have heard.

Lowe’s wants people to shop online and pick up in store. If we are going to shop online why go to Lowe’s to pick it up we can just have it delivered to our home or job site. Why have a store if your going to staff it with people that don’t know anything about the products. It’s amazing how often I find myself looking for help pulling something off a shelf just to find some store manager leading a chant about service. The fact is the meeting he is leading at the end of the isle is hampering the customer.
Let’s pull it together and start providing service.
I shop at the Rancho Santa Margarita store in southern CA.

Hired for assm. last Feb and blown out in July with all the others. Come end of May hours get cut to almost nothing. An internet article stating Lowe's stock dropped 18% and Ellison didn't know Balance Sheet 101as in COG's Cost of Goods blaming it on antiquated systems in place. WHAT? Onward toward July, more hours cut with out explanations, no discussion of FT opportunities and walked out the door. Never asked for a day off, worked every weekend, never traded schedules with anyone, but the "College Kid" takes off every major business holiday. Memorial, 4th of July, Father's day weekend as his dad grew up with the ASM. Had to laugh that we had to repair 30% or more of the grills built by the "outside contractor". Only went back in the store 3 times since that ugly day in July to get dirty looks from ASM's to find out from one of them threw me under the bus, but my friend stood up for me.....and recently left for a better job. I never made the call to OSHA to report the 22 year old punk high as a kite on a 6pack of 16oz Monster Energy Caffine driving around heavy machinery, pickers, fork lift. Additionally never told the store manager which one of the ASM's responsible for illegally stacked riding mowers 5 high to be rained on collapsing the cardboard....and that happened twice. 10 riders damaged beyond repair. Never will I step foot in there again.

I don’t know what happened to Lowe’s except Urkel Ellison came along with his vendetta against the depot and will destroy this company in his quest for vengeance it is not a good place to work good people are fired every day for the sake of money and no thought is given on employee moral (they dont care) I give it a year before the death that we see coming happens and we are all orange

it's very sad to see what happened to Lowe's he used to be a proud place to work they've been trending down for a long time now they used to believe in taking care of the associates now they can't wait to get rid of them I spent 15 years at Lowe's very sad what's going on today

RSD & RDS will combine into 1 position, DSM & DSSM will follow, PSE will be eliminated and go to IME & Legacy in Q1

Carving Marvin , all his clowns and all the clowns they have hired get walked out by board of directors in order to save the company ,,, soon !

If you work at Lowes get out if your thinking about working at Lowes don't they will destroy you there the most unprofessional company I have ever worked for they cant seem to understand that laying off good workers isn't the problem if they would look into management and how much they don't really care about customer service or the people that make them look good all they care about is pushing people around and acting like a big shot who ever trained these people need to have there head examined because they don't know what there doing and as far as Mervin goes he's driving Lowes right in to the toilet if he keeps doing what he's doing you might as well say good bye to Lowes.

9-12-19 does anyone know if Lowe’s in the southeast got rid of management yearly bonuses?

How. Can they our store 652 is so understaffed its crazy

We are told repeatedly that as a store covering half of this state, we will not close! The rule Lowe's has used for information is "Misinformation". They give us the positive story, then do a 160 to do what they are planning! We do about 35 - 40 M a year. We could do better with staff and Company backbone. Product stock has gone to, well, we're waiting for shipment. No sale when the shelf is empty.

Our CEO does not understand what he is doing. Or, his plan is to destroy. Stock has tanked. Warning signs that he does not have the Store growth in he view. Fire the Man now. Use the same package he has used on Employee's! His Employment at other stores should have warned the Company. Of course we are not part of Corporate Plan! Who hired this CEO, fire them too or cut their power to make positive/negative decisions.

Still playing games with our skills, playing competition games against fellow Employee's hurts. We understand this game shows how hungry people are. It also shows how dishonest people are. Not addressing people for stealing sales, shame on the Store Manager! Lose of our HR will only hurt us. Keeping the Favorite Employee after problems, problems with service in the store. Shame on Management! Fire Store ASM'S for their mistakes the same as any other Employee! Rewarding and second chances for creating a hostel work environment, aren't their Labor Laws?

ASM'S keep saying "They are not sales" Fire them now! We have ASM'S, Service Manager's and why? 4 of each all walk around watching employees. Only connecting with customers if they have to. Grading us on service, only to later tell us how bad our department looks! This is during "Power hour". We should call it "No Tasking Hour". New cheer, "We Sell Stuff". Can we dumb it down more?

As to wage. I'm told I'm at the top. So, why did the new College boys started at more then I make and get overtime? Lying about wage and hours, this really undermines a business. I've heard ASM say "It's none of our business to know others wage". Well, sometimes we find out by accident! Paychecks left on printers, floor, desks and in the break room.

If the plan is to sell Lowe's to foreign sources/parent company, they are cleaning the right way. Corporate is ruining America!

Lowes needed to lay off these people to compensate for the money they are LITERALLY THROWING OUT THE LUMBER door because of the "Corporate Mandate" that the door be kept open 6AM-6PM daily! (At least in MA stores). Why? There are automatic doors on either side of it! We just had the hottest July on record! Another Joe McFarland idea? The inside of the store gets so HOT and HUMID it makes it difficult to work let alone SHOP in. Can't wait to see who runs the snowblowers inside this winter! Lowes DOES NOT CARE about energy conservation or the environment what so ever!

Lowes dive into technology is also a bust! Computerized scheduling has only HURT the company. Employee morale is the LOWEST I've seen since being with the company. They claim that it is to better customer service. To assure coverage when needed. WRONG! With morale at its lowest the focus of employees is NOT customer service it is the lousy unhealthy scheduling. Often even outside of what they put down for their availability. Employee retention rates have decreased due to this scheduling leaving inexperience and unknowlegeable new hires to assist customers. Call outs have increased leaving many departments uncovered. Before they introduce NEW technology they need to fix the technology they already have! An app to help customers, (not to mention employees) find things in the store that more often than not gives the location of items as N/A. REAL HELPFUL for the customers! Other times the location is WRONG because it is not updated after a reset. How about the 3 different computer programs required to process a customers special order? Can't we just use 1 like other more "up to date" companies? Oh yeah. There IS NO Human Resources Department because employees are no longer considered to be HUMAN! Instead of simply visiting the Human Resources office to ask a question, get an immediate and accurate answer to the question you have and be back to work in 5 minutes or less....NOW you spend 20 minutes searching the FAQ list to see if the answer is there. It usually isn't so then you "submit" a request and wait or call the number for the helpline which again makes you wait cuz all our "care" people are busy assisting other employees. You can BET I do this on company time because it is company business! Excellent use of RESOURCES! Working at Lowes is like being aboard the TITANIC!

Who are these people who can read a post about an employee's experience at Lowes, and then give it a negative review? My husband was an assembler and got the axe in July. He got rehired in another department, and guess what he's doing now? He's working as an assembler because the Third Party people rarely show up. And when they do, my husband has to train them to build a wheelbarrow! He was also asked by an ADMIN to show another employee how to navigate the website to complete the process of being rehired. (Hmmm, isn't that the job or the Admin, HR or IT's job to do that?)

Does anyone know what will Happen to the RTM Clerks?

I'm still waiting for my 5 year pen set. Still waiting for a lot of things, like for management to give me shout out at the morning meeting for good customer service and selling lots of appliances.

Lowes laid me off right before I was going to get my cheap little pen and pencil set for my "5 years of service" award. I started out working as a loader, which could be pretty physically demanding.
For the last half of my stay with the company, I worked in the assembly department which at least amounted to a little bit more than just being used for a pack mule.
I was never offered full-time hours or was even trained in any of the power equipment.
After playing the required waiting game B.S. to see if Id possibly get called back...
I applied at a couple of other Lowes stores for similar positions that I had experience in but only received the " thanks but no thanks" emails shortly afterwards.
Its evident to me that they aren't planning to re-hire any of the laid off employees, unless they were considered "extra special" and who would also get promptly re-absorbed into the workplace.
First close over 50 stores then resort to third party, assembly and maintenance staff?
If the company is a sinking ship, then why take on any passengers?
Suggestion: Swim clear away and don't bother looking back.

When are RTM’s done?

I worked for Lowe's for 2 year's, as FSA was called in and said my Postion was terminated, ok fine, just put me in another department, they said we can't do that, it may look like favoritism, WTF is that? They told me to please reapply for another Postion, which I did, went thru the interview, but said could not do the d–g test, because of issue with the system. Again WTF.
I did my job well, I went beyond my job expectations, I did more than what was required. I'm going to give them a week, then grab other jobs out there.
I so sorry for me busting my a– and the people who just come in and don't do sh– are still there, and again WTF???

I have to say I am very disappointed with lowes for the way they handle there lay offs .
They call you into the office to let you know your job position has been cut with no notice .
I put alot of pride into my job I did my work and helped out all my co workers when needed .I had a great work team from asm to dept managers at my store
There were alot who took pride in there jobs and some that didn't care.
Those that cared were cut (not all )and those that didn't are still working at lowes..It must be what Marvin likes .
He tried to destroy jcpenney and home depot when he worked there and now he is doing the same to lowes.
I went back to the store a week and half later and was quite saddened by the condition of the store from the filthyness to the moral after all I put into the store to bring up its appearance.
I thought lowes was a good corporation to work for but I guess not .
I only hope the SOB that says god bless you and thanks for your hard work and dedication at the end of every pod cast gets his day for all the great employees he has hurt .
Two weeks severance just does not cut it.
I only hope Lowes corporation wakes up and gets rid of this id–t before the go belly up and let him know what it feels like to have no income with a two week severance package.
His day will come cama !

Retired little over 2 months ago with a little over 8 years with Lowe's, and then found out after I left they eliminated my former FSA position, and been told by current employees, the outside person thats doing the cleaning barely speaks english, and does a c-appy job PUN intended. I retired from Maytag in Newton, Iowa back in 03 and saw what took place then with Whirlpool buying them out, told the employees I worked with at Lowes, that you may want keep your eyes open because I see the same thing happeng with Lowes.

Marvin Ellison is on the way to transform a good company, Lowe's, into the sewer. He says into a "GREAT" company but his apparent skill as a motivational speaker...which is all he seems to be good at...is overshadowed by what may be his real inspiration for taking the Lowe's job.

Ellison was royally p-ss-d at being passed over for promotion from VP-stores or whatever at Home Depot. So now, given an opportunity at Lowe's, he ditches JCPenney, where either he really wasn't doing that well or, to be optimistic, he wasn't done yet. So he takes the Lowe's job, and what is his TRUE motivation? REVENGE on Home Depot, who didn't see fit to promote him, to what he ultimately wanted, the CEO job. He sold himself to the Board, who bought into his inspirational oratory, but already cracks are showing in Ellison's armor. When he first came to Lowe's, his message was that he was going to make it Number One. It was Number One this, and Number One that. We have not heard Number One in months. That slogan was downgraded to "make a good company into a great company." What's next? "We try harder because we're Number Two?" Can't use that, though. Already been done. Could get sued!

Revenge is a poor motive...

I heard LNS ‘s are next. We now have 2 Costa merchandisers(who split a 40 week). They are here maybe 5 hours a day - 5 days a week. Put plants away but not all and do little else. Who’s to help the customers and take care of everything when they are not there. We can’t even keep a CSA for a couple of months. They are keeping us in the dark with what changes are going on and we have to find out from our merchandisers. Lowe’s is going downhill fast. It’s a shame. I love my job but feel what’s the purpose of caring if they don’t. Why work my butt off like I’ve been doing for over 12 years

Again Corporate has put us in a problem. Tied our hands by limiting needed items to finish Corporate instructions. J-hooks on every up right. We do not have enough J-hooks. (They boxed up our extra with other rack items and shipped them out.) Now, the limits on what we can order, we get one box. Not enough! Departments staff are removing J-hooks from my Department, removing them by cutting zip ties, putting the hung product on the floor, desk or any place handy. Team work right, every step forward is two step back and a step sideways. I'm worried if I will be walked next week, I stopped a co-worker from taking my J-hooks. He's the favorite of one of our female ASM's. He said I screamed at him. I said NO!!

I have been working at Lowe's part-time for 2 years (2017-2019)

The pros of Lowe's is Good group of employees (those that are left)

The cons of Lowe's is only have about 50% of what the store should have in regards to employees. Mangers change out monthly and all the core employees are leaving.

Any advice to the management???

Fire that id–t Marvin Ellison! he wrecked Jc penneys and we HIRED HIM?? its August and our stocks are still tanking! people lost THOUSANDS of dollars due to his stupid Ideas. Why close all those stores and laid off workers at the same time scaring the public. He should of done it slow and quiet. I think he still has stock in Home Depot and he k–ling us on purpose. Now he took away my life by screwing with our working times we dont have a life anymore.

You can bet money if Home Depot gets by without paying a RTM clerk 40 hours a week Lowe's will follow suit. Start looking before you get a handshake and 2 weeks pay.

3rd part janitor ran the Zamboni into the water fountain ! Water everywhere they did not know how to turn the water off to the fountain!

Any one hear that MST team is going to overnight shift?

I'm not concerned with the anonymity regarding this topic. I think it is absolutely ridiculous, and hypocritical, how Lowes seems to be valuing everything else above their employees. I don't know who is specifically to blame for the recent decisions made my the corporate office, but I believe that whomever that person is should be "laid-off" themselves for the livelihood that they are jeopardizing within the workers that have spent time learning their jobs, and take value in their work.

I'm not a fool; I understand how the business works for the most part, (or at least comprehend it.) I understand that the world revolves around money and that, regardless of how good-natured a business believes it is, it is all about the financial gain associated with "supply-n-demand" and "money-received versus money-spent". The problem is simply that the new CEO of Lowes, this prick who continuously makes the claim... "I don't even wanna talk about that orange box across the street", is acting blatantly hypocritical at best. I say this because he is slowly retrofitting Lowes based off of a broken model that looks very similar to "that orange box across the street." If no one can remember, he came from that orange box.

I work in Delivery with Lowes. I've worked in Delivery for over a decade now at a few different companies and have in fact worked for 3 different Lowes Delivery since being hired on in 2015. By far, Lowes is...(was) the favorite for me. And for Lowes to claim it is a family business; and for the new CEO to claim that "his" workers are the backbone of his stores, it's a wonder to me how he even stands up from his bed in the mornings without a spine. I feel disgusted to even be claimed by him as one of "his" workers. He must have me confused with someone wearing an apron and nametag written with a sharpie.

Delivery is a very fickle beast, and the men and women who work in said department have to be very flexible when it comes to getting the job done. This is a flexibility that we all have in order to please the customer and do what we can to appease the bull-c-ap policies that each manager decides to enforce regardless of what it does to the employees that have to suffer from whiplash daily when said policies oppose one another in the same day. I'll find another job. I'll be just fine. All of the employees that Lowes is firing will be, and for this reason: we are stubborn fighters. Lowes used to be the type of company that had the potential to build and sculpt an employee into a strong and individualistic, worker-minded person. If you were hired on with no experience, you either failed or became a leader, (if you were worth anything); if you were hired on already leading, you were allowed the opportunity to lead even better. What has happened is all those strong, high-strung, intense workers that Lowes sculpted, now have been "asked to leave". And where does Lowes stand on the matter? They spend millions of dollars on a facelift. They initiate entities that cost less, and do less-quality work; they employ companies who don't follow their rules; they allow workers into their customers homes and then let those workers disrespect the very customers that pay the bills at 'Ole Daddy Lowes. They are so concerned with "keeping the lights on", that eventually they will not have anyone employed able to flip the switch.

I'm very passionate about my job, not the company I work for. At one point, I saw Lowes as a potential career. At one point I imagined myself being a store manager, running the show, doing everything I could to give the employees under me fair pay, fair management, and an unbiased opinion. Now, Lowes is just a paycheck that keeps me from getting kicked out of my house. Now, Lowes is just a paycheck until I'm informed a day before I get terminated. And I'm prideful. If Lowes believes they can lay me off and just offer another position make $5 - $10 less an hour, then they are more ignorant than I can give them credit for being. I used to recommend to all of my friends, family members, and acquaintances that Lowes was a great business to work for. When asked about Lowes by random people I had never met, I was very adamant that Lowes was a different kind of company that truly cared about the employees. I caught myself today when asked, and told a man that if he had any others job opportunities other than Lowes, to take any one of them over Lowes.

I'm nothing special. I'm not some God's gift to Lowes, but I am an American living within the country that allows Lowes the freedom to run their business and line the pockets of corporate guys with obscene amounts of money while they cut the jobs of people who check their bank accounts daily to make sure they have enough money to stay afloat. I am...(was) the potential employee that would want to work for Lowes and try and make it a better company. Now, I'm just another man looking through dozens of jobsites, trying to find something (anything) before Lowes forces me to do so.

My husband worked as a part-time assembler for Lowes for 3 years. He is a victim of this lay-off. The day after the lay-off, he was contacted by the store manager who begged him to reapply for another position. After going through the process of application, interview and d–g testing, my husband has been offered another position for $1 less/hour than they were paying him in July. As if that's not insulting enough, one of his "jobs" might be assembling items quickly for customers since the 3rd party Assemblers just do a lousy job and can't keep up. That's Lowes for ya!

Not good. But then what position does? No one feels safe. Home Depot let their Rtm clerk positions go about 7 years ago to ship return's back to one centralized location. Probably not a position that will stick around. The question then becomes do they keep us,and move us into another position or send us packing? Only time will tell.

What's the buzz on RTM Clerks?

We have the 3rd party PSA. A woman cleaning the floor with a kitchen broom. (She seems to be shopping more than cleaning.) Bathroom is a mess. Can't tell me we're getting what Corporate paid for. Oh, yes Floor cleaning machine is operated by a male once a week. Both speak Spanish, their driver drops them off and picks them up, all speak Spanish. A store this size needs a full time FSA. I'm waiting for another pipe to break this winter, what are they thinking?

A/C has gone down at my store, too warm to work or shop and overnight has increased. We've gone to one person per department or two departments. Thief is up. Deliveries are short, product they say we received did not arrive. But, LP's say, it's our not giving the customer service that leads to theft not our "Good Faith System". Now, we have young boys, College kids who set their own schedule. ASM's just look the other way. One female ASM gives them hugs. They hang together all shift. If we say anything it's racist, they are Mexican. Tried to sell product to a customer yesterday, it's on Lowe's.com. but not available on our selling program. Lowe's has followed the format of Wal-Mart for years, then people confused us with Home Depot because of the TV commercials. Does Lowe's not have an idea that has not failed at another company?

We have lost installers, other 3rd party because they did not meet the standards Lowe's set. Now, we are using 3rd party for? Corporate did not learn. Cost (price points) and quality? I guess they plan to run the store out of business to make room for Home Depot. Seem to be the way Companies go now, make the $ fast, cripple the business and sell out. All for the $.

What about the driver's