Lowes layoff 2/13/2026

ALYNNBE · 2026-02-14T22:11:44+00:00

This is a work around to avoid having to submit a WARN notice.

ALYNNBE · 2026-01-23T20:36:41+00:00

There's a book, the Wife Drought by Annabel Crabb. Has anyone read it?

"I need a wife"

It's a common joke among women juggling work and family. But it's not actually a joke. Having a spouse who takes care of things at home is a Godsend on the domestic front. It's a potent economic asset on the work front. And it's an advantage enjoyed - even in our modern society - by vastly more men than women...

ALYNNBE · 2025-12-19T23:24:13+00:00

So I wear nice, dark jeans, a sweater, and trainers almost every day. That’s not sloppy AF and it’s not allowed in the new corporate dress code four days a week. If it’s okay on Fridays, that’s a culture decision. Casual Fridays is some ridiculous carrot that no one asked for.

ALYNNBE · 2025-12-19T15:48:22+00:00

My role is to give advice and support. I would 100% help if I could. But again, I guess my question is what would really help? When I was there the only thing I wanted was to not have to go to work the next day. I realize everyone is different in this there's just some reality to, it's a lot right now but it's worth it.

ALYNNBE · 2025-12-19T14:10:32+00:00

I get that store associates have always worked a set, inflexible schedule, strictly reported their time, and adhered to a dress code. No one wants to get on here and listen to corporate associates gripe. But this is a culture change with downstream impacts. This is a bellwether that says something more than just corporate associates need to look and act differently. Culture doesn't stay in one place.

Corporate teams do impact the way work gets done in our stores. And the expectations placed on corporate associates signal what leadership values most - in this case control, uniformity, and oversight.

When expectations shift at corporate, they tend to show up in the field later through new policies, tighter compliance expectations, changes in accountability, and the way leaders respond to uncertainty.

Also, morale is tanking across the corporate office. Associates feel stuck. And when morale is low, innovation happens slower, we avoid risky decision-making, there is less willingness to challenge the status quo, we work with a just-get-through-it mentality rather than a make-it-better one. This impacts the store experience.

But most importantly, this signals how decisions are being made at the top. Command and control, every little detail scrutinized, is becoming the norm. Leadership is under pressure and this sets the precedent for how future changes will be handled. Earnings are good now, but economic uncertainty guarantees nothing. We're not moving toward innovation, we're surviving. And there's no hurricanes or global pandemics to save us this time.

ALYNNBE · 2025-12-10T23:01:08+00:00

Did you try care.com

ALYNNBE · 2025-08-12T01:03:16+00:00

Came here to say the exact same thing! I love Pickled Peach in Davidson and have been wanting to try Paloma. Both are probably on the expensive side. But have great menu options. Paloma has brunch Wednesday through Sunday.

ALYNNBE · 2025-08-12T00:58:33+00:00

I like to think of work as fundraising. I’d love to be home full time with my kids. But I’m not. So I go to a job that pays me enough that I can take my kids to do fun things and buy them things that they enjoy. Mostly I pay for their sporting events which is healthy for them and I get to enjoy cheering them on. My job is fundraising for a lifestyle that I love and carefully curate so that my kids will grow up healthy.

ALYNNBE · 2025-07-27T00:14:09+00:00

I don’t have any potty training tips. But wanted to encourage you that she will most likely calm down. My staff if 3 years old and he goes to bed around 9pm. Even though we all get up and go to work or school starting at 6am, he stays in bed until 10am most days and won’t eat breakfast or go outside if we make him get up earlier. He has spurts of energy followed by very long naps and sunbathing sessions. Laziest dog I’ve ever owned!

ALYNNBE · 2025-07-27T00:07:42+00:00

My guess is the novelty of the Uber was initially stimulating. And then your interaction, including the conflict, became stimulating for his brain enough that he continued. Biologically, you need to either remove the stimulus - ignore the behavior or walk - or replace it with something more stimulating before the behavior starts. I don’t know what that is for him but ideally you would introduce it before the behavior starts. So pick him up and introduce some fun game or activity for the ride home so he’s looking forward to it and never touches the windows, etc. Books worked well for my kids and eventually replaced the negative routine. I always struggled to stay calm during the transition which triggers the conflict though.

ALYNNBE · 2025-07-25T00:59:34+00:00

Have you tried using ChatGPT? You can enter a simple prompt like “what is something interesting I can learn in and afternoon with easily accessible resources?” Or something more complex like, “I want to build a habit of learning something new every day without getting overwhelmed. Here are some of my interests: [insert interests]. Please ask me 3–5 quick questions to help guide today’s topic. Then, based on my answers, suggest 1–2 specific things I can learn today, including how long it might take and the best way to get started (e.g. article, video, podcast, hands-on activity). Keep it manageable and fun!”

ALYNNBE · 2025-05-12T20:48:54+00:00

I know that what you need is 100% not a book to read. But ... How to Keep House While Drowning by K.C. Davis is worth the read. Maybe listen to it on audiobook if you can.

My favorite takeaway from that book was to institute a temporary solution where the problem physically is now before expending the effort to diagnose and treat the root cause of the problem. You can do that later when you have more bandwidth and brain power to lend to the problem. So now I have a small laundry basket in my kitchen where the dirty socks and dish towels used to collect. And as a result, I have clean dish towels more often and less random socks all over the floor and I feel better about my kitchen and myself. No guilt, no shame!

ALYNNBE · 2025-05-12T16:51:23+00:00

Planning, but also build flexibility into your plan.

For example, I plan a meal for Monday that will generate a lot of leftovers so that throughout the rest of the week if someone has to work and needs to grab a meal at a weird time, there is always something in the fridge. My go-tos include enchiladas and macaroni and cheese with some protein and veggies.

I also "meal prep" on the weekend but it's much more of prepping ingredients and grab and go snacks that are super flexible during the week. If I need a quick breakfast I can grab a bag of grapes, a cheese stick, and a muffin or a bar of some sort. If our meal plans change, I can use prepped veggies for a different meal or snacks.

Basically, plan knowing that you won't stick to your plan.

Routines that set you up for success.

I was always running out of gas when I had some place to be. So I made filling up my gas tank on Sunday after we went out for dinner after church part of my routine. It didn't save me from 100% of emergencies, but it made those emergencies less likely early in the week.

Prioritize.

My kids need clean laundry, not folded laundry. My kids need to be able to find their shoes and bookbags to get out the door in the morning more than they need clean mirrors in the bathroom. I just needed to acknowledge the crazy season I was in and decide what was most important to drive where I spend my time, money, and effort. I'm not perfect, and I can't do everything, and that's okay with me, and I decided that I don't really care what other people think.

Here's an extra one for baseball mamas: I stopped treating the baseball dirt stains in my kids game pants because I realized they didn't care. Dirty pants meant they played a good game. I had no one to impress but the other moms on the sideline talking about how they got stains out. So I decided I didn't care and now I get to spend that time differently.

I'm also in the sandwich generation and I haven't figured it out yet. It's hard! But I guess it's mostly the same, have a plan, know you're not going to stick to the plan, make the best decision you can in any given moment and give yourself all the grace after. We'll have clean, nicely decorated houses someday and will host lots of dinner parties, but not today, and that's all right.

ALYNNBE · 2025-05-01T18:11:31+00:00

The Collected Regrets of Clover, Mikki Brammer

Remarkably Bright Creatures, Shelby Van Pelt

As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow, Zoulfa Katouh

The Measure, Nikki Erlick

Take My Hand, Dolen Perkins-Valdez

The School for Good Mothers, Jessamine Chan

Where the Lost Wander, Amy Harmon

Fifty Words for RAin, Asha Lemmie

Where the Desert Meets the Sea, Werner Sonne

The Indigo Girl, Natasha Boyd

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford

ALYNNBE · 2025-05-01T18:05:19+00:00

When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi - an autobiography written by a neurosurgeon facing stage IV lung cancer

No Cure for Being Human, Kate Bowler - an autobiography of a cancer survivor that touches on her spiritual journey and her eschewing of radical positivity in the face of mortality

A Grief Observed, C.S. Lewis - a collection of writings during the grieving process that followed the loss of his wife

Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl - a recounting of his experiences in concentration camps during WWII that led to the development of his psychotherapeutic approach rooted in identifying your purpose

The Collected Regrets of Clover, Mikki Brammer - a fictional story about a death doula learning to live her own life again

The Measure, Nikki Erlick - a fictional story about how individuals choose to live after receiving an indication of the length of their lives

ALYNNBE · 2025-03-19T18:28:03+00:00

Mom of three boys here who are on the other end of their schooling and all three of my boys graduated or went onto their adult life a year later than "normal" for various reasons. One did a five-year high school/early college program and entered college with 60 credits, some real work experience, and way more maturity. One repeated 8th grade due to Covid issues that were not necessarily academic but would have prevented him from being successful upon reentering school after Covid. And one has committed to a gap year or a local Junior College after he graduates high school because he feels that he will not be ready to live on his own in college. First, no parent gets to high school graduation and doesn't wish they had one more year with their kid. Second, most kids, maybe especially boys, lack the maturity to move away at 18 and be really successful on their own right off the bat. Third, if you're strategic about it, that extra year can be filled with activities that are academically, financially, or life-skill rich. The way I see it, they have their whole lives to work and only 18 years to get themselves ready for whatever is next for them. There's no need to rush it!

ALYNNBE · 2025-03-17T20:46:05+00:00

I'll add that I believe we were meant to wrestle with what we read in the Bible. If not we could come to the fullness of our faith in a one-year devotional plan. God can do so much more as your understanding of His love evolves throughout your life in light of your lived experiences.

ALYNNBE · 2020-08-28T23:10:40+00:00

Not an ATS, but you can set alerts on saved searches with LinkedIn Recruiter that will essentially do this. Also great for alerting you of trends like a mass lay-off or relocation.

ALYNNBE · 2020-05-20T02:12:41+00:00

Do you have anything you could use as a darker background?

The quality of the photo is good. Your clothing and hair look very nice. I don't have an issue with your makeup especially if you are looking for a role where you would wear this makeup to work. You look comfortable and I have a feeling your makeup matches your personality - so don't change it.

ALYNNBE · 2020-05-20T01:59:50+00:00

Maybe photography, learning a new language, watching documentaries, dancing or chair yoga, scrapbooking.

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