Thread regarding Lowe's Cos. layoffs

@1a7 you’re spot on. I had some ASMs and even SMs that were just fantastic people. I was a troubled youth and some of them spent a lot of time counseling me. I turned my life around and within 3 years I was a top, top performer and became a Department Manager.

Lowe’s was great even mid 2010s, although the cracks were showing. It’s just another heartless retailer, but I’ll always have a soft spot for it.

Try being a vendor for this lame azz company.........12 years as a vendor rep and EVERY SINGLE year gets worse and worse. The district people simply su-k and have ZERO respect for the efforts of the vendor community. I can't even get Store Managers, District Managers to even email me back when I try to schedule a training. Who doesn't want free training? You get what you pay for............and look at how horrible the compensation packages are......'Here is a $.37 cents an hour raise'. Lowe's constantly just dumps on their employees, the pay is garbage and there is ZERO incentive to produce. A patch?? Sell $2 Million and you get a stupid patch and then you are expected to sell $3 Million the next year and if you don't they threaten you with getting fired. Why does corporate expect growth year over year and they do not do anything for the employees? $100 Gift card? No way.

@Marvin looks like a Fish
I agree most of what you’ve said. But Lowe’s was really great to work out in the late 2000 and early 2010s. They paid a lot compared to other retailers, and management had a lot more say. So if you got a good manager, your life was easy.

I also do think you’re being a little too hard on senior management. Most of them don’t actually have the ability to change anything or do anything differently, and if they go against the tide, they’re fired. And most of them have families. I was never senior management at Lowe’s, but the majority of the ones I knew weren’t bad people.

I was going to write my own topic on Lowes but I'll comment on this instead.

Lowes was never a good place to work at. They've been understaffed for decades from what I saw. They want employees that actually take the company seriously just to keep their stores open. That's likely the reason for the endless nonsense like AP4ME/Lowes U/Hank's weird jokes. Lowes attracts drama as a company so it shouldn't surprise anyone here by now.

Management has always been overpaid clowns at Lowes. At my old store they fired a manager for being drunk and another couple of managers for marking merchandise down way below what LP would tolerate (that's just a small example of cr-p from my store). When you get salaried management in an environment like Lowes you don't get someone who will tolerate being harassed about credit and LTRs and surveys and whatever else Morrisville throws out without said manager being a flake or a toadie. For the record a majority of my coworkers here weren't much better; after all, management often times comes from that labor pool so you don't usually get good candidates for either DS positions or ASM and SM positions.

Lowes doesn't really think through on a lot of decisions it makes. Take a good look at their IT or how they merchandise product in the store. Given how backwards Lowes IT and logistics are it's a miracle they can sell and deliver anything on their website at all! It boils down to Lowes corporate and management having cooked brains. I wouldn't trust a lot of Lowes corporate to be able to count to potato let alone figure out how to merchandise a home improvement store right. But, given that our customer base is just as cooked in the head maybe that's what they want. (In my time working at Lowes I've seen a lot of electricians that I wouldn't trust to flip a light switch and plumbers that I wouldn't trust to flush a toilet, LOL.)

The whole gas station/spy camera cafeteria set up in the break room is to obviously watch you. It was never intended to be a healthier alternative to the previous junk food they had in the vending machines. Of course they want to catch people in the act of stealing stuff, it gives them an excuse to either fire someone or to micromanage employees further. Again, that feeds back on Lowes' corporate culture.

Morale stinks at Lowes, I won't argue with you there. It was never good but now the whole company reeks of desperation now. I never took Lowes seriously as a company so it's no real loss to me but anyone who honestly thought that Lowes EVER was a good company to work for, either you had a legitimately good store or good luck or you might want to raise your standards quite a bit.

I feel for you, worked for Lowe's a little over 21 years before retiring in January last year.
With all the changes at and by corporate, it seemed like I worked for 5 different companies with the same name, each a pale shadow of the one before.