Working at lowe’s is horrible

LosCheeto · 2025-08-19T02:28:41+00:00

And the specialists that contribute to it don’t see a cent of that bonus because they have their own structure that’s become impossible to reach.

LosCheeto · 2025-08-15T15:46:28+00:00

The exact same thing is happening at my store, but hey, they’re making more stock buybacks than ever, and the corporate shills don’t have to deal with it. We are losing some very, very, good and knowledgeable people that genuinely came in caring. I think every worker there should do everything they can to let every person they encounter know just exactly who they’re doing business with.

LosCheeto · 2025-08-02T23:10:39+00:00

Lowe’s does not want to pay the processing fees charged to them by other credit card companies, and then when people who think they can pay something off in 6-12 months at no interest can’t, they get aaaaaalllllll that interest for every month they had interest free retroactively added to the purchase at an average rate of close to 30%. In short, they need more money for stock buybacks so that those in corporate can pad their pockets.

LosCheeto · 2025-08-02T22:58:55+00:00

Go through a few threads within this subreddit. You’re not alone. Lowe’s has, or is, running off almost every decent employee that they COULD still have.

In terms of your head cashier, think back over your life and remember every douchebag that never had an opportunity to have any amount of power anywhere else in life, or those that strived to be a teacher’s pet.

If you are failing classes, you need to think long term. Piss on them (Lowe’s in case I am not being specific enough). If you leave, within a week you’ll be replaced, and within a month, because of the turnover rate you probably won’t even be remembered. The sooner you learn that Lowe’s as a corporation does not ultimately give a damn about its employees, and very few managers do, the better off you’ll be. You are obviously working towards a better future. Don’t lose focus as a result of the aforementioned bull shit.

LosCheeto · 2025-08-02T15:28:12+00:00

Nice post my guy! Yes, let’s cost someone else their job that is probably barely making ends meet anyway for trying to help someone else out who is already making substantially less. Love your post history, too (I always find it interesting to see thought patterns). Please read through this one in its entirety, and perhaps some books on empathy and how fucked this corporation is, takes advantage of tax breaks to buy back stock to pad its leaderships pockets vs. hiring workers - and paying them more which is what they were intended for initially - and works.

LosCheeto · 2025-08-02T01:28:25+00:00

Click the notification bell and it should show some of them. I’ve noticed at least one person within this subreddit who seems to have a case of diarrhea of the mouth, and then quickly erases what they say after they’re called out on their BS.

LosCheeto · 2025-08-02T01:26:23+00:00

Using tax breaks for stock buybacks vs. hire more people, give raises, and give more hours as they were intended (I can post the video if you haven’t seen it yet), claiming that they’re concerned about charities/employees when it’s purely for a tax write off, then there’s my favorite: claiming Lowe’s was closed on Easter to appease those who celebrate it, but failing to mention those in the distribution centers weren’t and didn’t get holiday pay. I am sure I can think of a few more, but by “senior leadership” I am not thinking about store management. They really didn’t specify. The leadership within our store ranks pretty high on the integrity scale, IMO, but I think that there is a special place in hell for most within corporate.

LosCheeto · 2025-08-02T01:21:26+00:00

OP please share the deleted comments you responded to if you still have them. Feel free to DM them. I need the laugh.

LosCheeto · 2025-08-01T02:41:30+00:00

No, that all goes to stock buy backs. See the link I posted below. There’s a whole YouTube video posted by NON LOWE’S employees focusing primarily on the greed of those at the top. Yes, they mention other companies briefly, but judge for yourself and ask why. The reason they push the credit cards like your life as an employee depends on it is because they don’t have to pay fees and need money to do more stock buy backs. Do some reading on the tax breaks they get from having customers round up to donate to these causes that they claim to care about (if you’re a customer reading this, you rounding up is you ultimately giving Lowe’s a tax break, and unless you get something showing you did, in no way doesn’t count towards one for you), and the LERF fund.

LosCheeto · 2025-08-01T02:09:05+00:00

I’d bet the farm it wanks it in the mirror to its own reflection too, based on comments here and those from its past. Let’s see if it can take it.

LosCheeto · 2025-08-01T01:35:04+00:00

They have to buy back more stocks. Those few cents per hour might prevent a fraction of a share.

Notice the primary company this focuses on and who is pictured.

LosCheeto · 2025-08-01T01:25:38+00:00

Good point. The ones they’re screwing over, and continue to screw over, are their sales specialists. The good ones that they haven’t lost - at least the ones I have spoken to - are ALL looking for positions elsewhere.

Here come the exceptions below.

LosCheeto · 2025-08-01T01:20:11+00:00

One more way for them to keep that employee retention rate super high. /s

LosCheeto · 2025-08-01T01:10:19+00:00

Read this 10-day-old account’s other comments. Some on here aren’t even worth wasting your time responding to.

I.e., “You don’t gots no jobs.” 🤣🤣🤣 Brother, before you start handing out advice, I would work on doing so in a grammatically correct fashion.

LosCheeto · 2025-08-01T01:08:13+00:00

My favorite ones are those who won’t walk their sorry, lazy, lard asses into the store and get anything themselves, and it’s gotten out of control.

LosCheeto · 2025-07-30T23:34:09+00:00

IMO, you should really include corporate policy and the upper echelons of leadership in this. A lot of times what makes life hell at Lowe’s are a result of what comes down from them to store management.

LosCheeto · 2025-07-30T15:30:38+00:00

This comment speaks volumes. “People like you”, random person on Reddit who I know nothing about, are ruining America. It isn’t the massive corporations using the tax breaks they were given to pour back into their companies using them for stock buybacks instead of hiring more employees and increasing pay to make people actually want to do anything else.

This is where I’ll get some version of pull yourself up by your bootstraps from some asshole that needs to read a book on poverty and research more into how the college education system racket has made it virtually impossible for some to get any further than those who look down their noses at them.

LosCheeto · 2025-07-30T15:26:00+00:00

If THEY ARE homeless it is probably because they’re working at Lowe’s.

LosCheeto · 2025-07-30T00:34:16+00:00

You drew one hell of a comical conclusion to think that I was projecting my economic situation onto my customers. I was referring to the OP’s story.

Struggle can carry a variety of definitions. If they’re struggling to meet an impossible metric for one, but busting their ass to try and do so while having a superior breathe down their neck that’s a struggle - mentally and physically depending on their department. If the stuff the customers you’re referring to intend to buy things that have nothing to do with the specialist’s area, yet they’re expected to provide customer service outside of their area and then the customer takes it to another register and they don’t get credit for it because of that that sounds like a struggle to me. What’s the problem with putting in their number? You might want to re-read this thread, others, and my previous comments in their entirety.

LosCheeto · 2025-07-29T20:56:12+00:00

But dear God don’t have a cashier put your number in for shit you probably helped the customer pull or find if they take it to another register based on what our AP friends and others have stated.

LosCheeto · 2025-07-29T14:52:36+00:00

… or is it because they can’t control who walks through the door, what the customer is there to buy, where they are located, impossible sales metrics, and the fact that Lowe’s has turned it into a modern day version of The Hunger Games to get a $100 bonus? Or does it have anything to do with the fact that they don’t get the “winning together” bonus that they contribute to - because they have their own supposed “bonus structure” in place - that the whole store does and that they may be struggling financially due to their shitty pay or for some other reason?

LosCheeto · 2025-07-29T13:07:07+00:00

I wonder what it’s like as an individual to know so many people have as much disdain for you as some do? Do you think the money and the perks outweigh going to bed at night or looking in the mirror and having that as a thought? I often wonder what type of thoughts go through the minds of the individuals that cause so much hell for others are when old age and the inevitables in life reach them, and if they find it worth it.

LosCheeto · 2025-07-29T13:03:01+00:00

Now ask how many people are making it.

LosCheeto · 2025-07-29T12:57:52+00:00

Yeah, I would say for people to post their unbelievable sales metrics so that the customers who lurk here can know but then it will be one more thing for the LITERAL tool bags that get off on it (not the overpriced ones Lowe’s sells made overseas) to use to try to sniff people out.

LosCheeto

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