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| Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 3:33 am Post subject: | |
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How did this go from the number to corporate to people who are afraid to admit a bad thing when it hits them in the face. I guess as long as a few bills are paid thats all that counts. Who cares about the other debt.....Never heard any negative from you before except to discuss that of others. You were not in my shoes. You have no idea of the Bullshit I dealt with on a daily basis....multiple times per day.
People who think there is nothing more than happy happy joy joy times at this retail disstablishment must wake up on the wrong end (not side) of the bed each day. Reason I say end is because you hide your faces in disgust when you sleep sub consciously because you know deep down inside you only praise it because of your paycheck. SCENARIO Lets say your pay has been cut by over 15,000 from the previous year when the overtime was done away with at your location and you approach management about a pay increase to offset it. You are promised a pay increase at next Star Review. You get there to find out that the "max" the person could give which is the highest in the store was 2.5%.....Knowing you got a 12% overall increase two years prior during the same quarter. How would it make you feel knowing that your store manager couldn't raise your pay at all to offset what the store took from you from the previous year. How would it make you feel knowing you did more than 950,000 in sales the prior 4 years EACH year and they won't give you a raise to help you out.....Makes you pretty pissed doesn't it. Makes you want to look for another job and say the hell with them doesn't it? TO lose $15,000 in a single year is more than some associates make a year. This was a third of my pay for the year. You can't pay the bills, house payment, raise a family on that much of a loss. Hard enough to raise a family on $45k a year (pretaxed) So ask yourself this. Maybe there is some truth to what leavinglowes says and not just some bogus story about him. Maybe he actually did tell the store manager to piss off and quit. Maybe when the store manager offered leavinglowes more money to stay it was too late because leavinglowes walked into a 6 figure a year job right out of retail. Maybe leavinglowes isn't a bad guy afterall...just got crapped on by the wrong people and had a very very bad experience with the management at this one store. All of which should be fired. All of which the managers at this store continue to run a system of hire......fire.....replace.....repeat As I stated before.....You are here to replace those who were fired/quit before you and one day we will be replacing you......[/u] |
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Joined: 04 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 5:07 am Post subject: | |
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yea isnt it amazing how the topic COMPLETELY changed due to 1 person's posts?
ANYWAY...I had another job interview today (Wednesday) and got myself a new job. I'll be starting out making a little less than I was at Lowe's, but in 4 months I'll be gettin a $1.25 raise. not too bad if you ask me. the place is only about 5 miles from my house (as opposed to 25 to get to lowes), Monday-Friday 3:30pm-midnight. Granted it's second shift, but I'm an insomniac anyway so it'll work out fine for me. Now I can actually get some kind of schedule to my life again. Unlike at Blowe's...workin different hours every day, different days off every week, and just the overwhelming bullshit of 4 different managers tellin me to do 4 different things at the same time. So, set hours, weekends off, and a nice raise after 4 months (which i will then be making more than I was making at Blowes) 
I'm not saying that everyone at Lowe's should quit their job...if you are TRUELY happy there, well then shit, stay there. But if the thoughts come to mind of "hmm, I wonder what I could be making doing this BLANK job,or this BLANK job, or even that BLANK job. New jobs are out there, and we are the ones that gotta find em. i was going to write so much more, but my sleeping medicatiion is kicking in hardcore!!! goin to beld |
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Joined: 07 Apr 2005
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Location: California
| Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 9:56 am Post subject: | |||
I never doubted what happened to you, at your location. Where my distaste for you lies is how you try to paint the picture that it's that way everywhere. I could care less if you were Mother Theresa. I could care less if you were Osama Bin Laden. You're free to speak your mind, as am I. |
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| Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 10:06 am Post subject: | |||
When you carry a conversation about one topic with your friends, the conversation never manifested into a completely different topic? |
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Joined: 04 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 1:05 pm Post subject: | |
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yea it has, but when you are talking with someone usually it doesn't change that much. It's a different story when the converstaion is coming from a keyboard and computer screen
started the new job yesterday, beats the hell outta (b)lowe's. |
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Joined: 11 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 1:57 pm Post subject: | |||
I am far from either of those two you stated. I only state as I have seen. Yeah there are some good times working for the company.. However as you and I both know it isn't the good times you/company is remembered for. Its the bad/negative that is remembered the most. |
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Joined: 25 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 3:50 am Post subject: | |
| Is there a corporate email address? isnt customer care just for customers? I recently got a second job and told lowes im only available mon-fri 7-4. Im currently team lead outside garden. My hr said that before i turn in an availability sheet to talk to the store manager first to see what he can do and id prob become part time of they may not have a job for me at all. So i go to talk to the store manager and he just brushes me off and says he doesnt have time to talk it will have to wait untill monday, then i told him well im off and hes said the hr manager had called him and theres nothing he can do and it will have to wait. i wasnt about to take that bs so he goes theres no part time available. so i asked him my options and he just said theres no part time available go talk to hr. so now im pissed, isnt that the store managers job to deal with employees problems and have the open door policy, hes telling me hes not there when im right in front of him and it will have to wait, while hes just moving cardboard displays around. i went to hr and told him what happened and he goes well how much notice are you giving me, im like well im telling u now, but you guys are making it seem like im quiting when its u that is more or less laying me off, and he said well you brought this uppon urself. so i handed him an availability sheet, he wrote denied and gave it back, then i handed him a transfer sheet, and he faxed it. they were real aholes about it. so basically what im asking is what should i do if anything. | |
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| Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 5:41 pm Post subject: | |||
This kind of piss poor actions from lowes management does not surprise me. It is the time of year when they "lay people off" to "CUT PAYROLL". You volunteered yourself to be cut by approaching them. To put it short and sweet. By you quitting/transferring you only helped out the store manager's year end bonus. The fewer hours they can run the store on the bigger the payroll account gets. Which makes their bonus bigger at the end of the year. Retail sucks to work. I dealt with the political lowes BS for over 5 years. Contact your district manager. If no help contact your regional HR manager. Don't be offended to step on someone's toes. Considering they are going to let you go...you've got nothing to lose by it it sounds like. Go out fighting. Don't let them bully you out of the store by "no position available" That excuse is BULLSHIT! Ask the store manager for the Regional HR number. If they refuse to give it then go ask your store HR manager. Or call another store and ask their HR manager for the #. This is however if it isn't posted in the breakroom. which it should be by lowes corporate policy! Good luck. Don't let them mistreat you. You have rights. They have to find you a new position in the store. They can't just "fire/force you to quit". Be strong. Don't take the bs. Remember they are human just as you are. No one is insensible. Don't take the BS. It is wrong what they have already told you. Some cashiers are part time, Some loaders are part time, Some department staff are part timers. 7am-4pm isn't part time hours. That is a full 40 hour work week. Good luck. Lowes screws ppl all the time. Don't be another victim to the head count. Don't let them chop you. You have rights and transferring is one but is wrong for him to sign. Sounds like your store manager only cares about his fat bonus at the end of the year. After all he wouldn't have it if it wasn't for hard workers like yourself. Keep us posted. |
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Joined: 04 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 4:21 am Post subject: | |
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Sounds like typical (B)Lowe's BS. Come to find out (about me being let go) there were 2 "reasons" why. The first was as I said, they claimed that they did not have enough hours to put me back on the schedule, and second, the last medical leave of absence form that I filled out (and had a dr's note to go with it), the SM denied. So, technically I was out on an unapproved leave of absence, which is against policy.
Let me go into a little more detail.... I have had ankle/foot problems, and finally had the oppertunity to get them taken care of. I came in, with the dr's note saying that he wanted me out for 3 weeks...brought it to HR filled out a leave of absence, had no problems. after the 3 weeks, and a second dr, he still wanted me out for another 3 weeks cause he had to have a special order ankle brace made for me. brought that not in, filled out another leave of absence form..... approved. brace came in, but he said for me to be out for one more week so that i could get used to wearing the brace before I returned to work. came in with that note to fill out the next leave of absence for one week. Dick head SM denied it, even though I had the papers from the dr. so that week goes by, i get my release papers to come back, and thats when all the bullshit started about not enough hours and being on an unapproved leave. So, I think that he did it on purpose as an excuse to fire me. I could be wrong, but thats the way it seems to me. Another reason that I think this is because someone else that I talk to from there was on a medical leave for 2 1/2 months, and he returned back to work 2 days prior to me being released. Sounds a little fucked up if you ask me. |
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Joined: 07 Apr 2005
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Location: California
| Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 12:22 pm Post subject: | |||
I wasn't aware you had an inside scoop on what I remember or don't remember. I can vividly recall both negative and positive, not just the negative. Last edited by UvGotIssuesToo on Mon Oct 08, 2007 12:28 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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| Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 12:27 pm Post subject: | |||
Really? So there's a difference between spoken dialog and written dialog? |
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| Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 1:47 pm Post subject: | |||||
im not a mind reader nor did i ever claim to be a mind reader. Its a common fact that the bad is remembered more than the good. If you would like to read some articles about this I am sure I can find some credited studies from colleges. |
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yea big difference. I would be willing to put money on it that if you were face to face with someone you wouldn't say half the shit you say on here. Because you are sitting in the safety of your home, behind a monitor and keyboard, you say whatever you want cause you know there will be no negative repercussions that will directly affect you. For instance, I can't come through the screen and punch you in the face like i would if we were face to face. simple as that  
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| Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 4:59 pm Post subject: | |
| Friday was my last day! I reported the incident and have to call the area human resources manager back to see if im eligable for rehire, and make sure I left on good terms. I would never go back I just want to make sure theyre still a good reference. As I was talking to emplyees on my last day I heard the store manager has been written up 2 times already, Im going for number 3!!!! | |
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| Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 1:38 am Post subject: | |||
The way i see it is this. You've only got one life to live. Why live it working for someone else and letting your world revolve around their finger? You get one life. Why live it being unhappy YOU and YOU alone cane make a difference in your life. |
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Joined: 09 Jul 2007
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Location: mo
| Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 1:21 am Post subject: | |
try this number for complaints. this will get you to someone that will help. lowe's doesn't want anyone to have this number. try it and let others know if it works for you 1-800-784-9592 |
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