Joined: 30 Jul 2005
Posts: 2
| Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 6:48 pm Post subject: Finally got off the salesfloor | |
 As if it's any big deal, I finally got off the salesfloor and into Installed sales. I just traded one headache for another. I wasn't promoted and I wasn't asked. I BEGGED to go into Installs siimply because I'm suffering from 2 years of Hardware burnout and a friendship with another employee has gone sour and she makes my life hell on the salesfloor and HR will do nothing.
I came across this forum last night and read almost every post. I can't believe how paralell your stories are to mine and those of my co-workers. WHAT is wrong with LOWE'S?? When I started I was part-time in ToolWorld, after having switched managers and we got the most conceited, arrogant, stuck up guy I've ever met become our 'new' store manager, it was a YEAR before I got fulltime. By the way, our SM's MOM works at the GO, so he gets away with murder. But what really pissed me off was our new 'manager' only gave full-time to those who "deserved" it. A year of sweat, toil and sacrifice and not 1 single call off and I didn't deserve fulltime. I explained my DESPERATE financial situation to him telling him personal things to get him to realize how important it is and how great of a full-timer I'd be--still nothing. Finally the jackass sees me on a register for a code 3 and whispers to me, "You earned it." meaning, I FINALLY "earned" my "right" to be full-time. A few months after that I applied for Team Leader in Hardware but because our upper management is sexist and cheavenistic they gave it to the only other applican't--a 19 year old guy with a history of repetative call-offs, goofing off, coming into work with hang-overs, and other stupid illicit behavior. HE got Team Leader and I didn't. Slap in the face #2 courtesy of Lowe's. Finally, after the worthless do-nothing called off one too many times, he got fired. Guess who FINALLY got Team Leader? Me. Why? Because I was the ONLY applicant. I was still thankful to get it however as it was a pay raise and a corporate schedule, which I learned also blows the big one because they change at the drop of a hat and if you plans, screw them. When I got Team Leader it was a struggle learning how to operate such a huge department with such little help and such a lousy department manager, I was friends with this department manager and since then we'd fought and ended our friendship and she's stepped down to Tool World Team Leader. SUCH DRAMA! Anyway, I got the Hardware Dept. down to a science. I worked circles around the DM, I was finally able to gain the ZM's respect and admiration, I even got the store manager's attention, he suggested I apply for any future DM's. I told him "maybe sometime down the road", but I can barely handle the 40 hours per week I have, let alone "living" there for 50+. They ABUSE their DM's, I would never do that to myself or my family. But anyway, I keep getting side tracked here. In the 2 years I've been with Lowe's, my demeanor and attitude has changed, I can longer tolerate working for the public AT ALL. I've grown to resent people and their UNREAL expectations of us employees. I want out of Lowe's and I've wanted out for a long time, I can no longer work a company that DOES NOT care about it's employees at all. Lowe's HR is a downright joke, their Senior management is overpaid and underworked, the egotism is out of control--I've never witnessed people who truly think they are Holier than Thou. I know retail sucks everywhere, but Lowe's takes it to a whole new level, a level that can be damaging to a person's ability to function physically and mentally, I've seen people's health deteriorate since I started working there and it's just not right, and does anyone care? No. I have plans of moving to a much larger city down south and getting a job more related to my college degree and never stepping foot in retail OR Lowe's ever again. Until then I have to suck it up and withstand the physical and mental torture that Lowe's and it's INSANE customers inflicts daily. I'm hoping I can come here and vent every now and then, it's nice to see that I and my other co workers are not alone in the Lowe's Asylum! 
Well I guess that's it for now, I promise future postings won't be near as long! Thanks for listening! |
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Joined: 26 Jul 2005
Posts: 25
Location: MI
| Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 3:41 pm Post subject: | |
hmm, this isn't something I should read considering Im trying to get into lowes lol..well I wish ya luck regardless of which way your path is going..and i know all retail is and can be a pain..but I am hopeing that lowes is better.. 
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Joined: 06 Jul 2003
Posts: 7090
Location: Central CA
| Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 3:54 pm Post subject: | |||
Try working at Sears (or SHLD as it's now known) or at least reading the Sears message boards. You haven't seen crappy conditions until your company gets taken over by a hedge fund, combined with a low rent discount chain and becomes a "holding company". Many of those folks would kill for a job at Lowe's. 
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Joined: 26 Jul 2005
Posts: 25
Location: MI
| Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 9:16 pm Post subject: | |
| lol yep, ya know I would love to work for lowes and I really hope I get the job, its my kind of atmoshphere really..and yes I heard about sears, to me its not a good company..and I choose those company's who are growing fast ya know and that can back up what they claim as far as growth in their company, so far it looks good to me!! we shall see though.. | |
Joined: 12 Aug 2005
Posts: 4
| Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 1:22 am Post subject: I must be lucky | |
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I too, have just discovered this site and have read many posts. From what I've read, I must be lucky and work at a good store. I've gotten to know our store manager and he is really great and helps a lot. Operations manger is a bit high strung and sassy but once you get use to her she's okay. Sales manager I don't know yet, he use to work there and left for another store and came back. He has family in the GO from what i've been told. Our Zone managers are pretty great. One has a sharp tongue and I've seen him put some people in their place (customers included) but he's good overall. All department managers work their 48 hours and Zone and above work 48 plus. I work the customer service desk at my store and I've gotten to know most of the employees pretty well, seeing as part of a c/s job is to fix some of the mistakes everyone else makes. Sure there are people I couldn't care for, but most of them are CSA's or cashiers. My management is fine. The only one that irks me is the HRM. She, personally, is really great. But she is the only one who works HR and it seems like she is ALWAYS on vacation. How is it she gets so many vacation days???
Overall, I like my store, the employees get along good, theres not really any major problems, and all the bad seeds seem to get laid-off. I actually enjoy working at my store. Sure I put up with a lot of unnessary stupid stuff but that would go at any job. |
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Joined: 19 May 2005
Posts: 25
| Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 1:35 am Post subject: | |
| WELL I WORKED FOR LOWES FOR 2 YEARS AND RECENTLY LEFT TO GET OUT OF RETAIL, THE ONLY WAY I WOULD WORK RETAIL IS PART TIME OR IF I HAD NO OTHER CHOICE. I THINK LOWES IS A GREAT COMPANY AND YOU CAN MAKE REALLY GOOD MONEY,BUT YOU HAVE TO REALLY ENJOY RETAIL AND WORKING FOR A LARGE ORGANIZATION | |