Joined: 17 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 1:29 am Post subject: MTP program | |
Hello all. Starting MTP program this week and now answer me this. If I'm one of the "chosen" few who get accepted into the program..WHY would let let someone who rolls their eyes at customers, mutters under her breath to everyone, talks on the phone all day long to her boyfriend, is never in the dept-can never find her, doesnt do cycle counts or audits on time.... into the program with me?? I just dont get it.. are they setting her up for failure or are they trying to get her out of that store?? Why do we continue to promote horrible employees? 
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Joined: 18 Jul 2008
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Location: Region 1
| Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 12:00 pm Post subject: | |
| Lumberwoman, that seems to be the Lowe's tradition. Retail, in general, has some of the most incompetent managers I've ever seen, at least at the store level. I think they all subscribe to the Peter Principle. | |
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| Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 1:10 pm Post subject: | |
| As stated in the prior post, at Lowes, incompetence breeds incompentece. It is the Lowes way. At my location, the competent are forced out by the incompetent. Rewards and recognition are given for stupidity, not stellar performance. | |
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| Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 2:50 pm Post subject: | |
| Good Luck LumberWoman! | |
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| Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 3:48 pm Post subject: | |
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I'm going to go with favoritism rather than competence is promoted.
Good luck. No idea why you'd want to give up your life outside of Lowe's *sigh* but good luck anyway. |
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| Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 4:37 pm Post subject: | |
| Since the DM and AHRM make the final call on MTP candidates, I think passing the L1 is the major stumbling block for most folks. If you pass that, and I hear a lot don't, then the DM decides who goes. Sure he gets SM input, but its not as biased as it once was. | |
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| Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 1:41 am Post subject: | |
The real question is , Who is stupid enough to enter it?  MTP program that is.
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| Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 10:06 pm Post subject: | |||
Me I guess. I know Ill be a slave to Lowes, but it wont be forever. I figure 5 years or so then Ill revisit it. See myself stepping back down to dept manager at like 40-45 yrs old. Or moving up to sales manager at 40 until 45. |
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| Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 10:25 pm Post subject: | |
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Well if you get into mtp consider the following
1) your hours will probably not be cut 2) you would be able to transfer  If you can move up then management might know this and that means they probably would treat you better
3) might be better come pay raise time |
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Joined: 16 Nov 2008
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Location: Florida
| Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 3:55 am Post subject: MTP | |
| A lot of times Lowe's used it's classes to motivate employee's that... Well...... suck.. Or to move 'em up and get 'em out. | |