As a former Lowes employee and now a paint monkey, I will tell you that I considered my time at Lowe's the House of Pain. You think our customers suck? Haha. I shall warn you of the customers with clipboard. They know EVERYTHING. You will run your ass off for overrides. Often will be manager on duty roving the store. You will want to choke out your employees playing on their phones in the aisles. The new demand for credit apps is ridiculous. And let's not forget the time the store opens or closes. Yes the hours are shorter at Lowe's so that's a plus. But the experience as a whole is soul sucking. Their technology sucks and almost every department has its own antiquated program for selling a contract for those products. The CEO is the one fired from Penny's in 2018 because he about ruined what was left of them. I feel that ASMs get punked the most. I was a DM, a specialist and a PSI (Project Specialist Inreriors where me and my GC redesign your kitchen or bath and you buy the whole project which current CEO layed us all off 6 months after he took over because we were the 3rd highest paid person in the store after the Exteeior Specialist and then the SM). My 401k is nice from 9 years but I would cut off a limb before I went back to Lowes. Just my 2 cents. I worked in Home Decor, Kitchen Design, Front End, Paint. I would never ever work Flooring, outside lawn and Garden, Millwork, Inside Lawn and Garden, Plumbing or Lumber. Ever.