Every. Time. I. Goto. Lowes. (Or Home Depot)

[Hotsauce]

[cardiackat88.]

The store I worked at had a goal of employing as many "seasonsal" employees as possible.

This way they could fire them at any time, potentially work them 40+ hours a week, pay no medical or college benefits, and only pay them $8 an hour.

So there you have it.

[Herbert The Love Bug]

Ron swanson needs no help

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[jtnc]

"Hey is there a project you're working on?"

 

You: "Yeah, I'm projecting your mom on my dick, now go fug off loser. Let the real pro handle poo."

 

Is how you should address them. Also useful when being condescending to Best Buy employees. 

[The_Light_Brigade]

If there's one thing i learned while working at Lowe's, is that you are there not to provide information or friendly service but to go the fuging straw trailer every fuging 5 seconds to help some load 100 god damn bales of straw into a trailer when its 120 fuging degrees outside. 

[Panthro]

I worked part time at Lowes in college one summer. II remember them wanting me to move to a salaried position. I said I was happy to be paid for the hours that I worked...apparently they liked moving people to salaried positions then make them work 50-60 hours a week.

 

They said I could have every other weekend off but after by 4th weekend working I went and got a job at Atlantic Bread Co.

[Zaximus]

Yeah companies LOVE to use salary.   Some companies are fair with salary but others.... give me the hourly please.

[Guest Spider Monkey]

"Hey is there a project you're working on?"

You: "Yeah, I'm projecting your mom on my dick, now go fug off loser. Let the real pro handle poo."

Is how you should address them. Also useful when being condescending to Best Buy employees.

If you are wasting money on overpriced garbage at Best Buy the joke is still on you.

[Anybodyhome]

I spent 16 years with Lowe's after I retired from the Navy. When I started back in the mid-90's it was a lot of fun, they actually trained people and wanted to make you a truly knowledgeable employee at whatever specialty you worked in. On top of my usual job, I was also a district trainer, which meant that I traveled to a couple other stores and trained some of their people.

 

Then came the "Chinese overtime" class-action lawsuit and when Lowe's lost that battle, they reacted by restructuring management and hiring a ton of part-time seasonal help as mentioned above. Then came the housing bubble burst, business went in the toilet and they began staffing stores as minimally as they possibly could. Of course, the store manager was/is ultimately responsible for adequately staffing his store, but there's just one small issue with this.

 

One of the biggest year-end bonuses a Lowe's store manager can earn is a payroll bonus. If the store manager is able to staff his store at a level equating salary to sales at about 10% or less, he gets a pretty substantial bonus. And I'm talking about a big enough bonus to go buy a very nice car, down payment on a house, nice boat, whatever....

 

I was being paid a very nice hourly rate for outside sales in 2011 when the company decided to make my position salaried. Mind you, I was working an average of 50 hours a week which got me a nice chunk of overtime every week as well. With the change from hourly to salary, they were effectively going to increase my hourly rate by 2.5%, which came nowhere close to what I was making. And I had the sales to completely justify the hours I was working. I ultimately ended up retiring when I told them I'd rather go back to the sales floor in the store and stay hourly and they essentially told me there were no open positions in the building.

 

Yeah, you'll keep the $8/hour part time kid rather than have someone with 16 years of experience, very well known throughout town with a solid reputation, literally millions of dollars in sales over that 16 years, a licensed home inspector on your staff.

 

In retail, your store's sales are a direct reflection of the quality of people you hire. If you pay and benefit them poo, treat them like poo, fail to train them and their customer service skills are poo.... your sales will be poo.

[frash.exe]

You've actually had people come up to you asking if you need help at home depot?

[Anybodyhome]

I wish I could get one of those HGTV Sunday morning show hosts to walk up to me at Lowe's...

 

...new kitchen makeover? New backyard? Complete landscaping makeover?