I’m posting this because I’m getting tired of the a$$ clowns at the top of my store telling me that we don’t have less staff than last year or that they’re having more trouble finding people.
No, they’re NOT. It’s a deliberate choice that’s being made by corporate and I’m tired of being lied to like I’m a mo--n.
Yeah, I know that sales are down. Having worked for Lowe’s for nearly 15 years, I didn’t notice that.
What I object to is the constant need by the “leaders” in the store/district/region to tell me something that’s comically and obviously not true. Why do they feel the need to lie? They’ve chosen to not staff the stores because they want to make more money. That’s what it means when Ellison says that they want to focus on “increased productivity.”
“Increased productivity” are their corporate buzzwords that means “we’re going to make fewer associates do more work”. But since corporate is under the impression that we’ve all got an IQ under 75, they choose to lie to us.
Well, I’m not doing more work because they choose to hire less people. I’m doing the same work I did last year when I had over a dozen customer service stars. I’m going at the same pace, taking the same breaks and covering the same departments. I’m NOT going to race around the store, desperately trying to answer every customer service bell going off. I’m not driving myself nuts to increase their productivity.
And you shouldn’t either! This place considers each and every one of us to be throw away. Remember that. And every time they ask you to cover multiple departments because there’s no associates that day, politely lie to them, like they do to us, and go right back to what you were doing. And if there are five customer request bells going off in the store, well that’s just life isn’t it.