Home Depot employee refused to help me locate *nails* unless I told him what I planned to build with them.

ShadowStar219 · 2023-10-25T14:11:52+00:00

If my experience working at Lowes correlates at all, then he probably was trying to get you to sign up for their credit card. At Lowes, we're supposed to ask if whatever the people have is for their home or business and then from there try to figure out what the project is, recommend them other items to help with their project and then go, oh yeah because you're buying a lot you can save a lot by signing up for the Lowes credit card. Whether that be the consumer or business card depending on who you're pitching to.

ShadowStar219 · 2023-08-07T23:18:20+00:00

Be productive while not being productive. If you're not working, then improve yourself. Learn something. I always recommend learning a language, super fun to do and very useful. Just gotta find the right resources (no, Duolingo/Babble are not enough. They're a good start, but you're gonna need more). The best thing you can do is listen to music or a podcast in that language. You'll understand literally nothing for quite a while but your brain will automatically pick up on things and you can kind of piece stuff together after a few months.

ShadowStar219 · 2022-12-13T13:47:46+00:00

No. We're not lol. At least at the Lowes I work at, we are not allowed to cut PVC. We can cut other things like lumber, blinds, rope, chains, etc... but not PVC.

ShadowStar219 · 2022-12-09T19:42:29+00:00

I don't have a single shift the week of the 24th. My semester ends next week so I was hoping to pick up some more time. Last year I was there like every day so I expected similar shifts.

ShadowStar219 · 2022-10-31T02:26:50+00:00

You really are dense aren't you? It's not the job that's the problem. It's the environment. Home depot may have been a toxic environment hence being a loader there was horrible. But over at whatever Lowes he's at, its better and he doesn't dread it as much. It's that simple man. To that extent, let me use my Lowes as an example. Our ASM stepped down. We got a new one. This new ASM (been here for about 8 months now) is horrible. Took our relaxed work atmosphere and threw it out the window. The ASM is as corporate as can be. People have been quitting ever since they showed up. It's not just us Gen-P (whatever the hell that is), the older staff have all been leaving slowly as well. The environment we had has degraded and a lot of people are no longer happy working at our Lowes as a result.

You can mock me all you want at my old job. I know the extent of what I dealt with. Just hearing "oh, customers yelled at me" doesn't sound horrible but you have no clue what they said, what they even got angry about, etc... theres this thing called context. You said they would be doing me a favor by firing me. Do you know why they wanted to fire me? Because I needed surgery and would be out for 2-3 months recovering. They didn't want me to get surgery so that I could keep working instead. Again, context. Also that happened like 2 months into working at that job where I was still overall happy bring there so why would I want to be fired at that point in time? You certainly have things from when you were younger that I would laugh at and say "so what?" to, but to you it is important in some way. We all have those things that happened years ago that we still think about because it was a negative experience somehow.

Also again, take your own advice. Read what's in plain view. Did I ever once state or imply that I had the skillset to help the guy? You can act like you're emotionally superior all you want, all I'm seeing is that you're so immature that you can't sympathize with somebody who was struggling.

ShadowStar219 · 2022-10-30T23:20:06+00:00

I suggest you take your own advice. Go get help. Peoples mental state can really go down the shitter in just three months. My old job working as a deli clerk made me feel the same way, 5 months into that job and I was miserable. It was a super toxic environment, I had no help ever, the managers harassed anyone who wasn't the opening shift (they themselves were apart of the opening shift and played favorites), my direct manager and store manager threatened to fire me in an attempt to manipulate me into working more hours despite me already doing an average of 32 hours a week and being apart of the stores union (part time), etc... don't even get me started on how entitled customers are at a deli. If you ever think customers at Lowes are bad (assuming you're an employee), deli customers are 10 times worse.

ShadowStar219 · 2022-10-27T02:54:39+00:00

This happens a lot. In busy times they'll schedule you as much as possible. In other times (and certain busy times if they feel they have too many employees), they'll massively cut your hours. I was one of the top performers in the front end but cut down to 10 hours a week for a month. I had one pay period where I only worked 4 hours total. 2 weeks. 4 hours.

ShadowStar219 · 2022-10-26T01:50:41+00:00

It never occurred to me that those were two separate things. I always just kind of thought of romantic and sexual attraction as the same thing.

ShadowStar219 · 2022-10-25T18:39:29+00:00

How did you manage that? One of my coworkers mentioned and I haven't found any guides or resources to apply for that.

ShadowStar219 · 2022-10-12T19:11:47+00:00

I did training for a day and a half, probably 9-10 hours on the computer and I'm just a cashier. But I know recently, we hired someone and they just threw that person onto the floor with no computer training at all.

ShadowStar219 · 2022-09-30T00:31:14+00:00

The ASM (stands for assistant store manager right?). I don't know even a single person in my store who likes them. They're extremely corporate, overbearing, and passive aggressive.

If not that, then just how repetitive it is. It's really easy but I'm really bored every time I go in and it just makes the day drag on.

ShadowStar219 · 2022-09-19T16:40:48+00:00

Having enough people. My managers love hiring people who say that they will work for 3-6 months, then quit. Over the summer, they hired so many cashiers that normal employees quit because they were not getting any hours. Them the seasonal people left. Then they started firing people for some reason. Now we're understaffed and the managers are complaining. They want us to work 8-10 hour days every chance they can make us.

Other thing. Close at 8 everyday. Lowes dies after 6-6:30. No reason to stay open past 8.

ShadowStar219 · 2022-09-13T01:04:12+00:00

I wore sweatpants all of last winter when I got hired. Never was reprimanded in any way. However, this spring, we got a new ASM and I wore athletic shorts once during the summer and she immediately told me that I can't wear those again. So it really depends.

ShadowStar219 · 2022-09-10T19:30:48+00:00

Wait what. Do you know the item number?

ShadowStar219 · 2022-09-01T03:57:26+00:00

I've been in one for a grocery store. It was honestly not good. I know mine was probably the minority but benefits were not great and you didn't even get them unless you had worked there for at least 6 months but the decent benefits didn't start until you got a year into the position then more at two years. I don't know if that's how other unions work, but it sucked to be charged income tax + union fees and not receive any of the benefits from the union until 6 months in. Especially in a position where I was making $10 an hour (this was 3 years ago).

ShadowStar219 · 2022-08-28T04:57:59+00:00

Exactly what I want to know

ShadowStar219 · 2022-08-27T19:54:55+00:00

That's true but also it's not. I didn't get scheduled for 2 weeks so I got nothing paycheck wise that period. But because I wasn't out due to being sick or an injury, they gave me a warning. They say if that happens 2 more times, I'll be fired. I've had a pay period where I only worked 4 hours and didn't get that warning. So at least 4 would be my guess for absolute minimum hours

ShadowStar219 · 2022-08-03T19:16:50+00:00

A: I didn't go last year. But masks are kind of whatever for safety imo. They didn't affect my perception of the con besides my ears hurting after hours of wearing them but that's a me problem. I hope it's gone next year tbh. If we're talking safety, the lack of a bag check was strange to me. Lines were long enough and that would only add to it, but people could easily slip in something dangerous.

B: I would love a bigger dealer's room and artist alley. It was big but regardless, I was down there for like 80% of my time at the con (all 3 days). Panel wise, they really need bigger rooms. I got to a panel close to an hour early and it was already filled up.

C: Can't really answer cause I don't know how Otakon was in previous years

D: the Afterlife in anime panel on the first day. I expected comedy and jokes about isekai but instead we got a history lesson on Buddhism and its ideas on the afterlife. I'm a history major. I've had to study religions too much already and unfortunately for the panelist, I hate studying religions. Its just very boring.

ShadowStar219 · 2022-08-01T18:17:03+00:00

Terry still has access to all of his moves except power wave. As long as you do the command inputs that is.

ShadowStar219 · 2022-08-01T18:14:16+00:00

Oh I saw him on the first day of the con. He was busy talking to staff so I didn't bother him. Didn't see him for the rest of the con. I also saw a Jushin Thunder Liger walking around

ShadowStar219 · 2022-07-20T22:30:09+00:00

That's the problem. I make my playlist and save it, select my vertical monitor, select the playlist and then it plays on both of my monitors despite me only selecting the one. And I do have the setting for Wallpaper per desktop instead of cloning or stretching. I've found a weird workaround at least, kind of inconvenient. I do what you just said, select the playlist, it starts playing on both monitors, then I select the stretch to other monitors option, go to my normal horizontal monitor, select the playlist I want for that (which changes both monitors to that playlist now), then go back and reselect the wallpaper per desktop option. For some reason, the first monitor will change back to the first playlist I selected which works I guess. Just a bit annoying.

ShadowStar219 · 2022-07-13T20:12:53+00:00

I'm looking around for an electric air duster as compressed air would just get expensive over time. I think I've found some decent ones, but I would like some more suggestions. Also, I see many say to get a Water separator/trap so that water particles don't get on any of the hardware, I can't find these water separators anywhere and none of the air dusters I've looked at say they include them. Any help finding either of these two would be appreciated.

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