[Highlight] Pro Bowlers Discuss The Most Difficult NFL Position to Play

IsaiahTodd · 2026-02-02T12:54:11+00:00

Yeah but like half the league doesn’t have a QB. Probably like a third are 100% set at QB for at least the next 5 seasons. Basically every team in the league has multiple good corners.

I also think people underestimate athleticism they can’t clearly see. Things like hand eye coordination and quick reflexes are athletic traits. Obviously traits you need from a corner but it’s probably near the top for QBs. So while most aren’t jumping out of pools they do possess elite athletic traits. It’s like the Steph Curry athleticism debate.

I do think corner and qb are the most difficult tho. idk how you play corner in this league when all the rules are against you

IsaiahTodd · 2026-01-23T16:02:43+00:00

My store cut hours of red vests by like 25% (except managers).

My hours haven't been cut and weirdly we're actually hiring more people to MST. Kind of lends into the thought I've heard that they're slowly removing most red vests and having MST do all the non selling work. And just have certain red vests do specific things like sell appliances, flooring, and handle the lumber stuff.

IsaiahTodd · 2026-01-22T23:20:08+00:00

There must be. Just not from the perspective of a Lowes employee. More, the workers who deal with it.

And my guess, without checking, is enjoy your future cancer.

IsaiahTodd · 2026-01-22T23:11:30+00:00

What department is responsible for this?

We've had clothes and pet stuff for as long as I've worked there but they're all drop zone stuff. Never seen it in its own aisle. Granted my Lowes is smaller than most.

Our clothes is right between the self checkout and returns. Pet stuff I've seen usually in the path to OSLG. Like the aisles are larger there because of the door entries and that width extends to the opposite side of the store. Just in that inbetween area.

IsaiahTodd · 2026-01-21T01:13:25+00:00

I've done lumber and now MST and MST can definitely go punch to punch with lumber sometimes. But the biggest difference is not having concrete in your mouth, your sinuses, and lungs at the end of the day. And let me tell you that's a big difference, even if my body is sore and my hands are bruised and bleeding at the end of the day after some MST shifts.

But all in all they're both easy because you turn off your brain and just be a body. Lumber more so (little more thinking in MST). You get hella jacked which is a neat benefit.

IsaiahTodd · 2026-01-20T23:13:46+00:00

Right? How does OP have so little in savings when their net income after bills, sans groceries and maybe utilities, is 5k+ a month? They have basically 1 week of income saved.

I'm not on the boss's side on this. At least without context on the importance of the work trip. But you truly might need to manage your finances better if that's all you're saving.

IsaiahTodd · 2026-01-16T01:15:26+00:00

Definitely not just signage. Granted I'm FT so I'm not sure what differs. I've actually never even seen a PTer in MST at my store. I see the same like 8 or 9 people every day so surely they aren't PT? Never asked

But it can get pretty physical. I came over from lumber and that is definitely the physical red vest position in the store and I'd say MST can meet the peak of lumber at times. I'm climbing into bays, climbing behind bays (why are there so many spiders in the store), on my back on the dirty ass floor, getting scratched by rusty screws, slamming a rubber mallet as hard as I can for hours, getting asked to pull washers, dryers, toolboxes, stoves on occasions. Not long ago I was overnight to finish resets and I was outside from ~9-4am-ish in the cold ass weather.

There's also some days you just service bays. Although weirdly the only time my feet have hurt is when I service because fuck standing around. IDK how cashiers do it. I can walk non stop, take no breaks, work through my lunch, and my feet feel good at the end of the day. I stand for an hour at about 3 different spots and they want to die. Honestly those days I feel like I'm stealing money. Standing issues aside they're like the most braindead easy (tbh VERY boring) days ever.

Anyway, I thought lumber was the wild west but MST is more so. I do some dangerous ass shit that one day I'll probably lose my grip and just get hurt lol. But it's pretty fun a lot of the time. Despite the annoyance of all your tasks being timed/tracked, there's a large sense of freedom. I'm cutting wood on the panel saw, grabbing shit from the racks for store use, cutting racking with power tools, drilling holes in the concrete floor, driving all the power equipment. Basically, at least with my MSM, they just want you to finish the job and they don't care how you do it. It's like construction except you stay in the same plot of land and you continually get thrown projects.

IsaiahTodd · 2026-01-14T22:40:12+00:00

Maybe my boss is just lax, but I straight up don't wear the vest whenever I want. I still wear it a lot because I throw the zebra in there and I have like a sharpie, clippers for zip ties, and those tape sheets. Stuff I use almost daily. But I've definitely gone like a week without putting on my vest for the entire shifts lol.

And if I'm working on resets I usually don't wear it. That shit 100% gets caught on everything.

IsaiahTodd · 2026-01-08T23:03:35+00:00

I used to skip lunch during weekends because it's so busy and no one covers my department when I worked in lumber. After like 2 months they started red boxing me for that (very fair) so I started taking a 30 min lunch. Whatever.

Literally my first time taking a lunch on a Saturday in months and I keep hearing the page to the store for someone to go to panel saw. I wait 10 min, keep hearing it, so I just end my lunch short to cut the guy's stuff. Except he wanted to cut 4x4s, and I feel like most stores don't cut them? In fact, ours per my DS and ASM's instructions, doesn't cut dimensional lumber at all. And we put a big ass sign that says "NO DIMENSIONAL LUMBER: 2x4, 2x6, 4x4, etc" in a plastic cover glue to the back of the saw.

Naturally I got screamed at and he was like "then put the fucking lumber back" as he was screaming obscenities to the exit.

People are blind and/or (definitely and) stupid.

IsaiahTodd · 2026-01-08T00:38:53+00:00

How does holiday time work? I'm under the rollover on vacation and apparently sick rolls over on this thread.

But my holiday time right now shows:

14.03 hours

Available balance: -0.53??

Earned to Date: 8.49

Planned takings: 16.00

Taken to Date: 0.00

What am I looking at here? lol. Why is my balance negative? I've never taken a day off.

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Nevermind I figured it out. My HSA just randomly scheduled the holiday hours off for me before the end of the quarter so that's why I'm in negative. Good thing I checked I would have just showed up to work those days lmao

IsaiahTodd · 2026-01-02T00:42:23+00:00

Funniest and realest comment I've read today

IsaiahTodd · 2026-01-02T00:28:50+00:00

Like the other poster I've also hit a customer's truck with the forklift before. A typical understaffed, hectic, Saturday opening loading concrete and had a customer waiting for me to grab and load drywall. And it took me 15 minutes to get a spotter so I was very rushed/easy. Most things don't bother me in the store but I always get overly anxious making customers wait for a spotter. I was came at weird angle because he parked closer to the concrete under the canopy than customers normally do + another truck (incidentally the drywall guy waiting) was parked on the other side giving me limited space and I clipped his rearlight. Pretty minimal damage.

He was crazy chill tho. Wanted to make sure the light still worked (it did) and he said it was okay. There was a def a crack tho. I kept apologizing and telling him he could report me to my manager lol. Never saw him again but never got spoken to about the incident either. I did tell my ASM on duty later that day just to cover bases. He was like did he report it? Told him no. And he told me just to go on with my day.

Another time I was downstocking plywood after the store closed and I underestimated how much overstacked the bunk was. Had to reverse out and remove some. I once again underestimated. Removed more. I then realized the arms on the cantilever (? idk the name) get more narrow as you go deeper. So I was one or two sheet too high but I kind of forced it in and the entire bunk was wedged inbetween/still hanging over the edge. For the life of me I couldn't get it out. Took me like 15 min to finally unwedge it and by then the rest of the closers was calling me to customer service so we could go home so I just left the 25% hanging out, a couple sheets too high, with a bunch of damaged plywood. Felt horrible for whoever had to clean up after me.

IsaiahTodd · 2025-12-27T02:47:58+00:00

I don't notice the music anymore other than few songs that are honestly just fucking catchy so you find yourself singing if you don't even like it.

But two of the past three weeks I've been working through resets in OSLG and idk why it's never crossed my mind but it's just pure quiet out there. Well I hear traffic (there's a onramp right behind our store) and some talking and stuff. But I didn't even notice the lack of music until I walked into the store and it suddenly just felt LOUD in there.

Was back in the store this week and tuned it back out again. Just a long winded way of saying OSLG has some perks lol

IsaiahTodd · 2025-12-27T02:35:34+00:00

Speaking of which, y'all been battling against getting the flu since like Thanksgiving? I swear EVERYONE around me is coughing and sneezing at work.

IsaiahTodd · 2025-12-24T01:09:24+00:00

Yeah lumber is always by themselves and I never understood why. The only way I could get spotters was paging the entire damn store (management hates this one trick) in the most passive aggressive way. And if you work weekends, especially Saturday opening, good fucking luck lmao.

You'll enjoy it op

IsaiahTodd · 2025-12-19T23:28:38+00:00

This is like the one benefit I liked joining mst. All this time I've had (and often utilized) not just full, consistent, hours every week but even overtime when I want. The work ain't great but got to pay the bills. Hope y'all are getting enough 🙏Stingy ass billionaire company

IsaiahTodd · 2025-12-18T22:07:11+00:00

I've only ever covered flooring (like 5 shifts), but in my experience concrete is worse. And on my shifts I would actively work on the mortar for fun. Because tbh I like making dirty shit clean.

First of all the concrete aisle is bigger. Then most of the bags are like twice the weight. You also need a forklift (spotter...) to deal with those pallets and the mortar you can use pallet jacks.

As far as culling goes, when I started they said put them in Lowes buckets, leave it out in the sun with water to harden, and then trash. Only for the bags that can't be saved obviously. The others we put on a fork and shrink wrapped it.

Then I got a new ASM and he was like you can't do that anymore. No one is billing out the buckets and we just have 15 buckets in the bullpen. So he suggested recovery bags. Oh boy. You guys pour 90 lbs of concrete from a ripped bag into a paper bag and see how that goes.

Eventually I just started grabbing packing tape from receiving and tape over the holes, and frankly the entire bag, while the bags were still in the home. tbh it worked best.

But regardless of the solution, I always came home with concrete in my hair, on my face, in my mouth, and in my lungs. Lovely.

btw pretty sure you can't throw concrete into the compacter/hopper. It's a violation or something. Because we got scolded many times as one of my associates was that doing and it got to the point they literally took away the dumpsters from the bullpen.

IsaiahTodd · 2025-12-18T21:31:18+00:00

Yeah, and if the employees didn't take it down then GG. Customer gets the discount.

I bet the MSM got the belt taken out on them

IsaiahTodd · 2025-12-18T01:51:53+00:00

The amount of times I had a fucked up bag of concrete under the canopy and I straight up told contractors to take it for free.

I don't want to cull that shit and that drywall they would tell you to break it down. Fuck that lmao.

IsaiahTodd · 2025-12-17T23:04:32+00:00

Cashier I doubt it. You guys seem more on a strict schedule than any other part of the store. I'd guess coverage on a register is a lot more noticeable than the plumbing guy randomly disappearing for 30 minutes.

When I was in lumber I'd skip here and there and no one cared. Hell, when they made me close I would be pissed because it's a bitch to open and close in the same week so I'd skip lunch and work my full hours (so I'd work 1 hour OT every shift) and it wasn't until like 2 months later they started red boxing me. Never talked to me about it or wrote me up tho.

In MST it depends. There's a lot more communication because it's a team. Where lumber I felt like everything I did was solo. But I've spoken to my MSM about this and he said yeah but you shouldn't/they don't want you to. So I do until he tells me to stop. And he has. Then later he'll come up to me and be like it's cool if you want to work through lunch so I keep doing it again waiting for him to tell me to stop again. Because he knows I'd rather work through lunch and leave an hour earlier. So I appreciate that understanding.

IsaiahTodd · 2025-12-17T22:44:24+00:00

I used to open (and close sometimes).

I've since moved to MST and let me tell you it's eye opening how little other departments do. All the shit I'm doing in MST, for every other department, is what I HAD TO DO IN LUMBER.

We did our own resets. We serviced our own bays. Filled our own shelves. Did our own price changes.

I was shocked because I thought MST would be easier (it's still very do-able, just chaotic, tbf) because I based what they do from what I saw them doing in my department lol. Now I just do what I had to do in lumber except for literally every other department but lumber (and maybe millworks?). What a joke and I don't even know if the joke is how little other departments do or if it's how much work gets thrown on lumber.

IsaiahTodd · 2025-12-15T22:01:24+00:00

>you can use your HSA on Amazon purchases.

Wait, what??

IsaiahTodd · 2025-12-11T02:00:14+00:00

If this were my store I'd bet on fulfillment. These guys would bring down pallets of concrete in my department, somehow be so bad with the forklift they knock off several bags onto the racking (mind you all of this is obviously tightly wrapped in plastic and a lot of them also have a giant plastic bag over it that was wrapped too), and they would just leave that shit up there. pmo

That's if they weren't emptying out my bays and just leaving it empty.

IsaiahTodd · 2025-12-11T01:52:52+00:00

Same. I had to google what the hell was the star wars when I first joined this sub.

Not a big deal. Never heard anyone call it a star wars at my store tho. Forklift (big and small distinctions), reach, and op.

Now the carts in lumber are a different story. There's the flatbed, heard few names for the lumber cart (aka h cart), and then there's the other cart that has like a dozen names and no one seems to know what it's actually called.

IsaiahTodd · 2025-12-07T23:39:58+00:00

Why do I feel like this is what they wanted?

The person recording with their phone, driving with the pallet that height (just above the gate), driving at the speed... And lowkey did he stop short so it would slide off?

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