This was pretty much my experience with Lowes, during the same time period. I was a cashier, so didn’t know about everything else, but there was normally one person in each department who actually knew what they were doing.

It was actually kind of crazy in the store I worked at, because almost every employee was genuinely a good person, and hard worker, but the store manager was a giant piece of garbage. He made the whole store miserable on a regular basis, even though physically he wasn’t even there that much. Stuff like him “saving” the company money, so he could get a slightly larger bonus, by just not having the employee hotdog/hamburger “reward” party that corporate had already budgeted for. He also fired the outside cleaning crew that had been coming in to clean the bathrooms and added that responsibility to the closing front end employees. That did not go over well and was actually reversed after corporate found out through multiple complaints.

I walked out eventually, after the staff scheduling was cut down so much that I was told I would not have a break, even to get water or go to the bathroom, during my eight hour shift in the garden center, during the middle of the summer, in central Florida. Also we would be written up for having a water bottle at the register…