u/GlassFlyTrap — reddlx

MST Garden Lead

Immediately after my post complaining about my job I get a new offer. When I applied at Lowe's I applied for this position and was instead given pt cashier instead. Felt like a bit of an insult but I've managed to work my way into a specialty position within a year and a half. Today I was helping in oslg because the store is a wreck and the ladies needed some help. The garden lead told me that shed be leaving the store in fall most likely and the position would re-open. This is pretty much what I've wanted from the beginning but I'm scared of getting a pay cut. Any and all opinions are welcome.

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u/GlassFlyTrap — 2 days ago

▲ 367 r/Lowes

The problem that will never get fixed

Lowe's is understaffed and it's an issue of nobody's hiring and nobody wants to work. My store is a train wreck I can't look away from and somehow I became a first responder. I started two years ago as a pt cashier, moved to pt paint, then moved to ft flooring sales specialist. I've worked at Ace hardware for some years prior. I know how to use most the machines, I have product knowledge in most departments, and my worst flaw of all is that I'm willing to help. This horrific combination has led me to covering 4 departments, being the only ss on staff, while being stuck at a register. I can't meet my sales goals because I'm too busy doing everybody else's job. Working on a couple thousand dollar transaction with a customer? Better hand it off to someone else because you're the only one trained in the paint department. Talking up a customer into a lead? That sucks because someone at the levelor machine has been waiting for you for the past 5 minutes. I'm not the only one in this position either. My coworkers see this shit and refuse to cross train because of it. I can't even blame them. My supervisor is grilling my ass about my sales. I've complained at town hall meetings (Their response was that specialty is hard lmao), to my sasm, to all my supervisors, to anyone who will listen to me. I've been promised for months that something's going to change and nothing ever does. Nothing's going to change and I know this because the problem is coverage. There are never enough people per department and nobody cross trained on the easiest machines in the building and corporate won't shell out to pay for labor. Instead they want a store full of Supermen to cover all the departments. It's ridiculous. This store pisses me off.

u/GlassFlyTrap — 3 days ago

▲ 32 r/Lowes

How do I get rid of the Lowe's???

Does anybody know how to delete the Lowe's to have a blank background?? Side note, can anyone delete Lowe's the store also?

u/GlassFlyTrap — 12 days ago

▲ 43 r/Lowes

No store manager and only two assistant store managers

Our store manager has been out on leave for months. Nobody can or will comment on why or how though I've heard plenty of theories. He left sometime before the big store walk so my leading two theories are that he either got walked out or used all his vacation time before they could get him. I never paid too much attention to him or his work but I think he ran the store well. Anyway, we've had no sm for months. No replacements just regular walks from other sms pointing and barking orders. It's been stressful to say the least.

Yesterday both AP and some district higher ups came into the store and looked around. They took out merchandising asm upstairs and fired him. I watched them walk him out of the building. A few minutes later they fired some other oslg csa, walked out by AP. Anyway today is mother's Day weekend so it's slammed, our opening oslg csa catches wind that our asm is gone and walks out on the spot. We have at least 5 other call outs for the day last time I checked. The store's morale has plummeted, nobody is happy and everyone is overworked and stressed out. I'm already hearing chatter about job searches. They never gave us a fill in sm so I doubt they have plans for our asm replacement. The situation here is already bad, I just can't believe how willingly worse the higher ups are willing to make it. The store is being run by department supervisors.

Has anybody else seen things like this happen in other stores or their own? I don't understand what the bigger picture is. We're a smaller low traffic store and I know theft if awful. I'm not sure if they're just trying to purge management, the whole store, or if they really just want to burn out everyone willing to pick up the slack.

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u/GlassFlyTrap — 12 days ago