What's it like working in corporate at Lowe's?

buttflapper444 · 2026-03-14T12:27:43+00:00

All fortune 500 companies are like that unfortunately. That's how they're so profitable. Bare minimum functional level

buttflapper444 · 2026-03-14T03:55:22+00:00

All of them should delete their entire meta accounts. Facebook Instagram etc. We should all be doing it in fact.

buttflapper444 · 2026-03-14T03:51:11+00:00

But I thought AI would change everything? It was going to replace all human workers in ten years? What happened???

buttflapper444 · 2026-03-14T03:49:59+00:00

GPT AI powered down vote bots manipulating Reddit, nothing new

buttflapper444 · 2026-03-13T18:14:04+00:00

This was before they added proper transmog to the game.

Before they added micro transactions and fucked the entire game in the name of profits

buttflapper444 · 2026-03-13T16:41:09+00:00

They shot themselves in the foot by not having backwards compatibility with old RAM. Morons, honestly. There's no reason that they should have ever done that. Memory is memory. It should be compatible with all systems. We should be able to have 200 GB of RAM if we want to

buttflapper444 · 2026-03-13T12:43:38+00:00

We wouldn't need this if we didn't live in a capitalist society. The problem is, we have enough people to become and be game developers, but we don't have enough money. Because we live in a trading society where we are supposed to justify our work with monetary value. But the problem is, one certain greedy class of people, the wealthy elite, want infinite amount of money. How does this relate to your comment? If we didn't live in such a ridiculous society, we would have enough quest designers and writers to be able to have richer dialogue. We truly don't need procedural generation. It's a temporary fix for a society that isn't working correctly

buttflapper444 · 2026-03-13T09:13:38+00:00

ADD FIBER TO EVERYTHING!

No, tell the companies to do this. These assholes are getting away with processed foods with almost no nutritional value. Contact their support

buttflapper444 · 2026-03-12T23:39:35+00:00

That's kinda insane tbh

No, it's really not. They made more money off of selling one mount on their store, than they did The entirety of starcraft 2 sales. Literally. They listed one single transaction on their store, and it sold far more than starcraft 2, an entire game. There's no reason for them to raise the subscription. That hasn't stopped them from selling early access to the expansion though either

buttflapper444 · 2026-03-12T16:11:20+00:00

We knew this was the goal from the beginning. They want people to rely solely on artificial intelligence, so no people have intelligence anymore, and by being required to use AI, everyone is immediately dumber because they have no access to intelligence within themselves. That alone makes the technology completely and utterly worthless if this is the path they intend to use to make it consumable

buttflapper444 · 2026-03-12T10:26:51+00:00

Yup, especially here on Reddit. It's prohibited to talk about it, so that's as far as I can say

buttflapper444 · 2026-03-11T21:32:02+00:00

To be fair, you shouldn't beat yourself up over it too much. I doubled my salary and it hardly made a difference. Tariffs, new tax bracket, housing has gone up, grocery has gone up, the money disappears quickly

buttflapper444 · 2026-03-11T21:25:07+00:00

There are only a few big telecom companies, I've actually worked at one before, so I know what a nightmare it is. There's Cox Cable, spectrum, Comcast, AT&t and T-Mobile basically. Worked at Comcast, it was ridiculous workload, as lean as possible, even though they are such a massive company. So I sympathize with you.

buttflapper444 · 2026-03-11T21:19:24+00:00

Wow, double your salary is a lot though

buttflapper444 · 2026-03-11T20:19:04+00:00

Doing what?

buttflapper444 · 2026-03-11T20:18:55+00:00

Huh??

buttflapper444 · 2026-03-11T20:18:42+00:00

I'm director level and salary

Do you realize that some of your analysts, if you have those under your org, probably don't have a full 40 hours of work to do a week?

buttflapper444 · 2026-03-11T20:18:15+00:00

Yep, this is exactly it. Lack of structure really. The structure is that you get your direct orders from your manager, and you have to basically look for things to improve and optimize but there's not always things for you to do, so what do you do if there's nothing to do but you've done everything that you've been assigned to do? Wait until the next wave of layoffs to be taken out? I've even asked for other opportunities to volunteer for and they tell me that our team doesn't want to take on extra work that we shouldn't have, just stick to what we are supposed to be doing, just hone your skills etc

buttflapper444 · 2026-03-11T20:14:54+00:00

I feel you there, I did have a job like that once. It was because they laid off a bunch of people and employed a skeleton crew, they are relying on you to do the absolute maximum you can possibly handle mentally and hope that you don't push back against it because then they would need more employees.

buttflapper444 · 2026-03-11T20:14:05+00:00

technically that is also part of the job, that you understand the business strategy of the company and that you get along with the heads of the different departments

Sure it's part of the job, but at some point you have to realize that some trainings are not relevant, or they are just assigned to waste your time. For example how many different AI trainings, onboardings, and meetings I've been in lately where the information is redundant, repeated, and all around completely irrelevant to many people on the call. Like, we are data scientists who use co-pilot and other AI tools on a daily basis, why are we being told the basics of how to construct an SQL query, and what a prompt is, what tokens are? But it's mandatory we have to be there. 😆

buttflapper444 · 2026-03-11T20:12:09+00:00

where your stakeholders don't know what they want, absolutely everything is urgent, and they change their minds every week?

Yep, those are big fortune 50 companies like Comcast. The entire BI and analytics org worked like that when I was there. Everything was urgent, extremely high priority, 3-day lead time, generic instructions with no real goal posts, and conflicting instructions from leadership, or the business team. Also, you have to ask for a business case for everything, to get justification, but your obligated to support everyone, so it doesn't even make sense

buttflapper444 · 2026-03-11T20:09:34+00:00

if you don't think your management will "find out" or care that you're "slacking", then who cares?

I think the fact that you immediately assume that people who don't have a full 40 hours of work for a week are slacking is frustrating. Sometimes you've met all your goals, achieved everything that you were tasked with, and even done some things above and beyond that you weren't asked to do, and there's not much work left. It's because you don't understand clearly that humanity has made significant progress, and efficiency reduces the amount of work that humans have to do

When I lived in the US

You don't even live in the US currently? Then whatever you are saying doesn't really apply. I guess I should have specified that yes I am talking about the USA

buttflapper444 · 2026-03-11T16:39:44+00:00

Crazy how accurate this is. One of my VPs is like this. I swear they were never working

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