I tried to schedule sick days because I was having surgery. They turned it down. I told them I was giving them a two month notice and if not approved then I will just call out anyway. I thought that companies are required to let people have medical procedures done, etc. So I am over 50 and they turned me down. Then there were some under 50 who asked for last minute days off for no reason and they were given the days off without question. The supposed customer centric schedule allows them to pick and choose who they want to screw over. In our store, it is anyone over 50 who never gets more than one day off at a time, get scheduled for 7 days straight before a vacation that is scheduled, close almost all the time, always close on holidays, etc. It is the younger ones (despite being written up for offending customers and employees, being under performers and calling out all the time) who get two days off consecutively, have no problem getting their schedules changed so they can go to a concert or party, etc. It is blatant. No, it is not discrimination based on performance, wage, etc. It is merely discrimination based on age. Why did they keep the new scheduling c-ap in Florida? Because there are a lot of older employees. Florida has a lot of low paying jobs so when companies laid off people, etc., some of these older employees took Lowe's jobs because it paid better at the time. Lowe's is trying to run out the older people but they fail to recognize that they can't get younger people. Younger people can get paid well at Aldi, Fresh Market, etc. There are more businesses but they tend to also want to just hire young. So, if an older employee needs to work, then your ploy is not going to run them out of the company but it may make all of the employees get sick from never having down time. What costs more money 1) having employees work on old matrix scheduling where you get two days off consecutively most of the time and a weekend off a month or 2) people calling out all the time because they are exhausted and need time off? The old matrix system wasn't great but at least it allowed people to know when they can make doctor appointments or have time to schedule family outings, etc. Also, if it is so important we are working on weekends, why are you giving people off one day on Saturday or Sunday. Pets in our store were given several Saturdays or Sundays off in a row. If you can give a Saturday or Sunday off then you sure can give a weekend off a month. It is all about Lowes power play, being abusive, trying to destroy people's lives and run out all older employees and full time employees in a right to work state where you can get away with it. I find it interesting also how many store managers, ASM's, etc., that have been run out of the company recently in the stores around this area and replaced with people in their 20's . One day you will have destroyed so many people that you can't find any body who wants to work at Lowes. People will be disgusted about how they were treated and they will just go to Home Depot to shop. You already angered the Vets by cutting their discounts in half. You will anger people when now they cannot buy appliances and take them with them. You removed everything that made us different from Home Depot. If we are a clone, we have no chance of succeeding because Home depot will continue to win. You should have focused on making us more unique rather than more similar. There are so many things that are wrong and have gotten way off track since Marvin came here. Not great before but horrendous now. You destroyed any company loyalty there was. You destroyed any pride we had in working for Lowes. We are beat down and exhausted. We can't sell and service the customer to our best abilities when we have not had more than a day off at a time for two months. Only being given one weekend a month and all other days off are only one day at a time is absolute cruelty, sweat shop mentality and I thought sweat shops were outlawed years ago. I don't think the company will be able to pull itself out of this downward spiral.
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go to dr. file complaint about something subjective, i.e. - cant be proven.
then you get an intermittent claim filed with sedgwick.
if the system is broken or / and unethical, are your actions this way unethical?
fight fire with fire.
we all have to do what we have to do. id rather honesty and openness, but lowes doesnt. they are liars, deceivers, manipulators.
i saw the other post where custoemrs are stealing? i dont condone that, but fully understand it.
isnt lowes stealing from employees in many ways? they steal through lies. they take away weekends, and other values through force. if someone wronged then has an opportunity to get free mulch, why wouldnt he? lowes gives em no reason not to.
A novel is required because there is so much wrong with Lowes now. It is one weekend off every 8 weeks and lots of 6 day straight stints plus only one day off at a time so we (young and old) are burnt out and exhausted thus mistakes happen and we are being forced to just not care anymore like others mentioned above. Some bozo always tries to knock down anyone who brings up age or abusive environments and tries to put the blame on the individual rather than Lowes. Obviously that person is living in la la land in corporate or never worked at Lowes or not in Florida. Face the facts ZO3Baoe-1ijg, you will also one day be 50 and you will not be happy when you are treated poorly because of your age not your performance but in your case, you probably sit around looking at your phone all day or your nose is stuck up Marvin's rear. These issues of age discrimination are not just in one store so you cannot blame performance, wage, etc.
In the new HR screen click the box my health and well being, click personal leave and or FMLA.
It's called Corporate Slavery .
It will be the downfall of Lowe's .
So glad I was able to retire and leave it all behind .
20+ years ago , Lowe's was a wonderful company .
Not anymore .
Oh here we go with the age discrimination rant lmao....... here’s a thought maybe you just aren’t any good?
It's always been this way. Favoritism galore by management.
Jeez this is a novel