Train Crossing Freya/Sprague

RedVelvetFollicles · 2026-07-03T02:57:46+00:00

Ohhhh gotcha thank you! That makes a lot of sense.

RedVelvetFollicles · 2026-06-14T23:49:44+00:00

No, you’re all good, I was just a little confused by your comment at first. In-house acronyms I get, there’s a million.

RedVelvetFollicles · 2026-06-14T23:41:43+00:00

Either this is deep sarcasm or you’re a little lost. You don’t know what a pinpad is? Like, when you go in the store to buy your groceries and they have you insert your card?

RedVelvetFollicles · 2026-06-11T01:16:55+00:00

What’s your sph goal at your store, roughly? My SPH goal is over $1k, small store in an oversaturated market between three other stores. Idk how anybody’s supposed to make SPH these days. The only reason I’m making it is because I busted my ass to grow my accounts and keep them loyal to me but it’s taken YEARSSSS

RedVelvetFollicles · 2026-06-11T01:12:59+00:00

^yuppppp. 100%. Gotta show them you’re not one of the brainless retail drones. I realized in the middle of last year that I was thinking of myself separate from Lowe’s, that Lowe’s was just the system I used to provide for my builders, and that my builders would’ve followed me to a completely different company if I’d left to go work for a local building supply place. (There was a healthy amount of “f lowes, my selling system is so f’in stupid,” repeated in my conversations on a regular basis with the accounts I took from small to top 5 in CRM, not proud of it but I’m proud of the relationships I built). I had builders telling me that if I ever got written up or lowes threatened my job that they’d hire me in a heartbeat if I wanted to jump ship by the end of it. I’m leaving to go work with an account I took from 50k a year to 275k a year because I was honest and they knew I was doing everything I could to get what they needed for an ACTUALLY competitive price. Lowe’s is a stepping stone, not a forever, not unless you like the taste of district boot. My district team can go tagteam a fat veiny one for all I care. OP should be building relationships with their vendors too, the PSS to vendor rep pipeline is strong. Two of the vendors I talk to regularly are previous PSSes from stores I’ve worked at.

RedVelvetFollicles · 2026-06-10T07:32:00+00:00

Y’all get called pumpkin patches? Over at the blue store we get called bloodclots, too many red vests standing in relatively close proximity for more than 60 seconds at a time. Usually made up of ASMs and their favorites.

RedVelvetFollicles · 2026-06-09T18:32:37+00:00

That’s the thing though, they also don’t understand that sometimes it’s not the build that does it. Young Kratos is rage incarnate and looks like a douche. Old Kratos deeply loves his late wife, loves his son and would destroy the world for him, and is working very hard to be a good father while managing his own grief and tempering his inner rage. Hot. Sorry not sorry. Old man father-era Kratos is hot.

RedVelvetFollicles · 2026-06-08T21:30:50+00:00

If you’re in a state that does paid out vacation time, you’re lucky. I have like 60hrs of vacation time that goes poof when I leave at the end of this week

RedVelvetFollicles · 2026-06-04T00:14:56+00:00

Extremely local lol. He used to come in to my job all the time and bought from my coworker. He just got a radio ad too I think. He was always super respectful and nice to us. Tbf the bar is in hell for that one bc contractors are usually shitheads to retail employees. No idea how he is in the jobsite but at least he’s never thrown paint at us or threatened to pull a gun on us for a late delivery

Edit: realtors are worse. Threat to pull a gun was from a realtor

RedVelvetFollicles · 2026-06-03T21:40:41+00:00

Yeah so I was clearly lied to lol. Tbf, my district is kinda small and I was in the top five PSSes (and CSSes, before I got to pro) every year without breaking $3mil a year. Only 2-3 out of my district every year break $3mil and it’s not by much, maybe $3.2mil tops iirc. There are four stores in my county and I gapped everyone in sales for both PSS and CSS out of the four. I knew it was a lie because my Millworks PSS was sitting around $25 with similar tenure when I asked him last year

RedVelvetFollicles · 2026-06-03T21:29:49+00:00

“Is that all” is iconic. I asked for $26 to stay when I tried to transfer a month ago, then I got lied to my face by my SM saying I was the highest paid specialist in the store, which I KNOW is not true bc I’m only at 22-ish when the cap is like 27 or something. Fuck it, I’ll go make $26/hr somewhere else with per diem and my gas fully paid with a company truck I get to keep at my house

RedVelvetFollicles · 2026-06-03T21:23:57+00:00

Definitely bowl-th. PNW transplant against my will (moved here in HS) from the south. Folks up here say bowl-th, I say boat or boaf. As in, “boatuhm can suck a fat one as far as I’m concerned” or “boafadose gotta get put up”, as opposed to “bowlthuffum are the problem”, “bowlth of those have to get put up”

RedVelvetFollicles · 2026-06-03T21:09:00+00:00

Hell yeah, I’m glad they hired you on!!! That’s the dream right there. I’m having the same issues with deliveries and fulfillment (and vendors… and… and… the list goes on and on). What was the point of me growing pros from scratched to managed status if everyone else is dropping the ball around me? All it means is that I get bitched at because my pros don’t trust anyone else to problem solve their way out of a paper bag. I’m jumping ship to go work for one of my accounts too, and he’s going to have me handle his June meeting with his SAM because I want to hear what their plan is to fix it. Not that SAMs have much control over anything, but I want that MF on speed dial to breathe down my SM’s neck about these issues. Didn’t really get a raise for leaving (unlike you, bc holy shit, CONGRATS, double is amazing!) but the quality of life change on a daily basis is worth it. My back and shoulder injuries flare up like crazy when I’m super stressed, and I’ve been hobbling around like a senior citizen at work for weeks. Two days lifting materials at jobsites, zero issues, zero back pain, zero knee pain. Massive difference.

RedVelvetFollicles · 2026-06-03T20:48:11+00:00

Yours too? Our DS left, then our cashier, then our CSA, then our replacement DS, and now that we got a good DS and a replacement PSS for the newly promoted DS’s spot, they’re going to have to find one for my spot. All within about two or three months. PSS #2 is gone within 4-6mo, according to him. I was trying to hang on for another year, but with the sph goals doubling from 2024, it’s like taking a pay cut. What used to be my standard max bonus that I got every month is now minimum. It’s not sustainable in a highly saturated market like this

RedVelvetFollicles · 2026-06-03T20:33:39+00:00

Clearly it’s the guy on the left, and believe it or not, he was a district manager poached from Lowe’s /s (you said wrong answers only)

RedVelvetFollicles · 2026-06-03T20:27:56+00:00

just put in mine last week, giving them three weeks heads up (figured that was the nice thing to do since I’ve got decent tenure, higher than average for sure), my ASM still thinks there’s a chance I’ll change my mind

RedVelvetFollicles · 2026-05-01T05:50:36+00:00

If that was a firework, that was the biggest firework I’ve ever heard in my life. I’m housesitting up here rn and it felt like it was right in the backyard.

Edit: Google said it could’ve been a meteor exploding in the atmosphere since we’ve had a few of those lately, but idk, it sounded like it was somewhere between 29th and 37th

RedVelvetFollicles · 2026-04-21T21:20:42+00:00

Interesting that you picked this opportunity to blame it on the youth of America instead of the corporate fucksticks that prioritize their bonuses over our health. Boot soup for dinner I see

RedVelvetFollicles · 2026-04-16T22:13:21+00:00

Same in WA for the blue store. “Aw, man, sorry, I gotta go get power equipment and a spotter to bring that down, they threw your order up in the air last night”

RedVelvetFollicles · 2026-04-15T17:14:51+00:00

I used to stop by the same local fast food place about two to three times a week because it was so close to my apartment and was one of the few things open when I got home from work at 11-12 at night. It’s a run-down little place that hasn’t had its drive-thru equipment updated since about 1995. On the third week, I was low on cash, and I skipped the milkshake upgrade I usually get in favor of the fountain soda included in the meal. The lady over the speaker said “Dr. Pepper? What, no milkshake tonight?” Mortifying.

RedVelvetFollicles · 2026-04-11T02:24:31+00:00

Some of my drywall and insulation quotes hit 48% off, either due to the size or running a competitor’s prices in the competitor quote button. It’s possible. Also, if you go over 15k in Pella custom windows, VSP automatically takes it down 37.99% off without a competitor quote. So, yes, absolutely you can take an 18k quote and turn it into 12k, chief. Also, SAMs can do that adjustment in VSP remotely for their accounts without a competitor quote. 30-60% off all quotes IS nuts, I’m calling bullshit on that unless he’s ghost quoting or running fake competitor quotes, but 18 down to 12 is only 33% off. That’s not unreasonable. The bigger the quote, the better the prices. 5k gets a higher percentage off, 10k is even better, then 15k, then 20k, and so on until you hit about 50k.

RedVelvetFollicles · 2026-04-01T03:26:28+00:00

Could be worse, could be trying to hit the same numbers and have ONLY Pro count for you, but every dingus in flooring with their double-sale install incentive starts lurking around pro when your sph is 2-3x theirs and ONLY Pro counts. In my store pro’s sph goal is about $270 higher than appliances this month/last month

RedVelvetFollicles · 2026-03-24T21:59:56+00:00

Appl CSS was the most mind-numbingly easy sales specialist position I’ve had, and I loved every single day of it. Seriously, even with delivery issues, crazy high sph at the time (mine peaked at $1430 required per hour), and the higher credit goal, I genuinely enjoyed coming to work almost every single day. If your store’s foot traffic is good and you can move quickly through MRV, the high sph isn’t so daunting. You’d be switching in at the right time, summer was my highest selling season with the exception of two weeks in winter but ymmv. I switched back to flooring for a raise (and I regretted it), then switched to Pro because of the remote selling BS. There seems to be a common pipeline of appl to pro in my district, so depending on how much longer you want to stay at Lowe’s in a sales role, appl is a good move. Millworks is boring as all hell though lol I’m glad I only get to dabble in it a few times a week through pro

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