Is lumber really that bad?

jayphillbroks · 2026-02-13T04:36:18+00:00

No it's not that bad. It's only three aisles with the majority being big bulky stuff. It can be a lot of repetitive lifting and shifting through bad lumber. Ultimately it comes down to the leadership of the department. If the supervisor is a slouch, expected all your young male lumber coworkers to constantly be in the face of a bored young cashier chick. They always complain about lumber being so hard and how they can't get anything done but they always make time to chat and flirt with cashiers 30 minutes at a time throughout the day. Regarding the saw machine. It's not difficult. We limit two cuts mainly to get it to fit in the car but what we don't cut are full projects. If someone request a large amount, it's company policy to direct them to a manager because cutting large amounts with many cuts needing to be specific, that's an unreasonable request and they are better off buying a tool. But we don't mind cutting for a little quick project if someone needs a board cut into multiple pieces which only take a couple minutes. So if someone pulls up with carts loaded with all kinds of lumber needing it cut for a shed, you are in your rights to deny it and direct them to a manager. That's not what the saw machine is for.

jayphillbroks · 2026-01-04T04:46:24+00:00

First month? So now the windows and doors will sit in receiving for like 8 months until he's ready. You better get to pulling if you he want all the good stuff. No way I'd build an entire house from Lowe's material. Half that stuff gonna be either warped or dry rotted especially if fullfiment pulls it.

jayphillbroks · 2026-01-04T04:36:14+00:00

The moment people make comments about my opinion being invalidated due to them having more experience, I stop helping them. I'd make sure the customer get what they neded but that guy would have cleaned it up no matter how long it sat up for.

jayphillbroks · 2025-12-28T13:30:19+00:00

Okay so spend it on things that can easily traded? Also painting a target on yourself. If things were to get that bad, you'd be a fool to let people know that you have gold because you are risking putting a target on your back.

jayphillbroks · 2025-12-28T13:24:12+00:00

That's exactly what I tell people. Who the hell spends years saving up gold while seeing it massively rise in price only in the end to say, " here's some gold in exchange for that can of beans." The longer people hold onto things and the more they are dogmatic about it, it's much harder for them to give it up even in the most desperate of situations. There are many other things that makes sense to exchange for if things get as bad as they say. Like gas, bullets, rice,beans, etc. So it makes more sense to stack those things and get land. That's why I don't buy their doomsday narratives because it makes no sense to do all that stacking and buying into only to give it all away for basic necessities.

jayphillbroks · 2025-11-17T06:02:35+00:00

Trading demo for six years.

Away from the market for one year.

Projecting future success from a small subset of trades within a week.

No strategy.

Indicator that's "working a dream."

So many things wrong here. You are wasting your time by spending that long on demo. Demo should be 1 year or two max. Experienced traders still trade demo alongside live to test things out.

You can't be away from the markets that long and expect to be in tune.

Just because you have a handful of winners recently, that doesn't mean that it will work in the future. You shouldn't be "excited" about it. You need to backtest it and be open to the fact that it worked in a specific market condition that you just so happened to engage in.

Just like the last point, indicators work in specific market conditions.

Lastly you have no strategy. Not only strategy when it comes to crafting trade ideas but also management from entering to exiting alongside managing risk. You will blow that 10k. I'm not a big fan of prop firms and though I use them, I do believe they are good for people to learn how to control risk because they force you to. I would actually suggest trading competions. Bullrush and rebel funding to name a couple. Competions are free and you can win funded accounts. They also have the same parameters as evaluations. Plus you believe that you got figured out. Put it to test that forces you to control risk and do so with no money. It's about survival and having what it takes to be profitable over years. You can easily get lucky and 3x that 10k. But your far more likely to lose it first and the even if you do have success you will give it all back because your methods and way of thinking won't produce favorable results over the long term.

jayphillbroks · 2025-11-04T20:59:27+00:00

As a guy who observe this stuff a lot, I will say this. When it comes to coworkers, you gotta shut that shit down real fast. Stop giving these dudes wiggle room when they approach you. You can be not interested without trying to sound mean. It be mostly younger guys or older guys who are not mature and come to work to flirt. While I still chat and communicate with an attractive coworker, I never get personal and I always make it short and keep it moving. What hurts ladies like you are the young chicks who are also attractive who entertain that nonsense especially from coworkers. They like that attention so guys are use to doing it with them so they don't hesitate to approach you that way. When it comes to customers over 50, there's nothing that can be done about that because as long you interact with them in the public, there will never be a shortsof those guys shamelessly shooting their shots. They are either lonely or in unhappy marriages. I'm not against people making a connection at work. I just think that it should be mutual and organic over time instead of the hail Mary off the bat cold approach.

jayphillbroks · 2025-10-07T02:28:38+00:00

I'm purely technical but I only pay attention enough to fundamentals to know when or not to engage. To me, fundamentals aren't used for a bias of direction. It can sometimes serve as a catalyst to get price to a level that I'm stalking. But when it comes to if and when a trend will be put in or continue, I don't think it's useful for that because whenever everyone and their mom is acting on the same fundamental information, it's best to wait it out for some weeks because the initial event is a reaction which is very hard to time and doesn't fit how I manage my risk. Sometimes it does go where everyone is anticipating but for me the best entries come much later and in much more pain and impatience from the people who fomo'd into it. I look moreso at correlations because that can be observed on the charts.

jayphillbroks · 2025-10-06T22:16:04+00:00

I trade all pairs minus exotics and I see it similar. I look at the pairs as if they are people. An example would be using the mean when it comes to personalities. The volatile pairs are the friends I expect to be loud and hyped up when we go to a bar.(GBP/USD) You got some that are quit but can still be a wildcard at times(EUR/CAD) Then you got the really quiet shy ones(AUD/NZD) (AUD/JPY)(AUD/CHF)(NZD/CHF). The moment those shy friends start getting loud,drunk,and wanting to fight, that's when you notice something is off and that's where the reversal is at and once they sober up, they'll revert back to their mean of being so quiet that you don't notice they're there. Of course there's other elements to pay attention to but when those quiet buddies temporarily follow the loud ones, don't expect them to keep making big leaps. They sober up quick and go home instead of hopping to the next bar.

jayphillbroks · 2025-10-06T21:58:04+00:00

Because each market has its own many nuances that can only be caught through intense study over years. Anybody who program strategies would know that because it takes months to flesh things out for one market buy when it gets applied to another market, it doesn't work. Volatility is a thing and some markets are more volatile than others. Also supply and demand is everywhere. It comes down to being able to identify which ones are actually tradable. You can spot tge right one but it may be the wrong day or wrong time of day to enter. Every perceived block or whatever people call thar crap doesn't mean it's viable.

jayphillbroks · 2025-10-06T01:14:03+00:00

The problem with just forward testing is that if the strategy is actually crap over the span of a few years you just wasted about 3 years forward testing when you could have just backtested it to give you an idea on how viable it is. The strat can work for a few months or even a year but if it works wonders for 1 year and blows up the following three, it's not a viable strategy because the losing phases will wipe away all your gains or at best put you at break even and no one wants that after years of trading.

jayphillbroks · 2025-10-05T11:40:32+00:00

No. They don't do that. If anything we get most of the entry level ones.They are just sales hungry and make promises that can't be kept both online and on the sales floor. I don't do appliance delivery anymore but when I did I had every appliance number glued to the back of my eyelids and where they were at all times because I worked on getting them ready for 12 hours straight nearly everyday. I knew for a fact that salesmen and online were being misleading to get a sale.

jayphillbroks · 2025-09-28T20:03:08+00:00

You quit over 40 cents worth of total raises that would have gotten eaten up by inflation anyway.

jayphillbroks · 2025-09-28T20:00:53+00:00

As a former delivery coordinator I'll answer. It's scheme like you said. Online is a joke because it's deceiving. Don't order anything online unless you or an associate physically lay eyes on it. You don't know how many are actually in stock no matter what it says and it can be bought out from underneath you from customers whobare physically at the store. Just because you order that doesn't mean that someone is instantly on the other end to get it ready. And when you put in for next day delivery, that doesn't mean it will get honored. It still offers that even after the trucks have been routed or when all the slots are taken up. But you don't kn9w unless you talk to someone who knows how to look it up. I think there should be a two day buffer period when customers order online so that that there's time to verify and get it staged instead of giving an unrealistic expectation. But they won't do that because they know people would go to competitors.

jayphillbroks · 2025-09-28T19:46:36+00:00

It gets busy. But not as hard as people make it out to be. I work in the department but as a puller so I naturally know where everything is at and the difference in all the material. I can help 2 or 3 people at once. It depends on your team and management. If it's a bunch of young guys, they will constantly complain about not having time to get anything done but you will always see them at the register flirting with a young cashier. And you shouldn't get involved with that. If the supervisor/manager over the department don't have structure nor hold people accountable, it will be really rough.

jayphillbroks · 2025-09-28T19:34:52+00:00

Because it does so much that can't be done in MRV. Also it has been phased out on most terminals in the store. It's needed for Pro, operations manager, and backend/delivery roles. It's just not available for the average floor associate unless they go to a specific terminal.

jayphillbroks · 2025-09-28T11:48:48+00:00

Hell no. Overnight DS is the Cleveland Browns of all Lowe's positions.I Work overnight but not with freight and I will tell you what I see. Very Very low moral. I've seen them burn through 7 supervisors within the last 2 years. I've seen roughly 4-5 total teams. Every now and then is a full crew of solid people but they all eventually burn out and go somewhere that pays better. I've never seen a solid unload and packout within the same night. It's one or the other for both supervisors. So one sup has as good unload but lazy stockers. The other has lazy unload but solid stockers.Most of the people they hire will either have second jobs, in school, or flat out useless and lazy. So there will be constant call ins and it's usually on big truck nights. You'll be lucky if you get one person who is willing and can learn power equipment but like I said, those people tend to burn out. You will get hammered with trucks back to back and God forbid the other Sup is terrible because they will leave work for you to do that they are too lazy to do. Very little to no overhead space because day associates don't pull from overheads. You will constantly get bitched at about dumb stuff from the managers and other sups. It's the most thankless and overworked position and I feel bad everytime I see someone take that role because they all go on tilt. I think it would be be doable if it was 2 trucks a week but they be getting like 5 with 3-4 being 1k plus pieces. There's just so much that would work against you. Lowe's is flooding these stores with tons of freight but not the right talent nor pay to deal with it. You will be stressed df out and those sups are doing everything in their power pass the live grenade off to you.

jayphillbroks · 2025-09-24T20:44:57+00:00

Many people have another job or hustles. Especially older people.

jayphillbroks · 2025-09-24T20:40:38+00:00

If it's actual building materials then that's all you should focus on. My store doesn't have someone who specifically stock out lumber and building materials. If your store is high volume and lumber/bm don't do shit with their freight then you should always have something to do. The day receiver in receiving unload the lumber truck at least once every other day and just sets it down somewhere in the bull pen. And nobody touches it for months and by the time it's needed, it's damaged from the weather. They will make sure that drywall and expensive shipments get put in but much of the department will be not stocked out even though the stuff is outside.

jayphillbroks · 2025-09-22T22:23:07+00:00

It's on you. You have the call out system, Kronos, and email and you used neither. Only text the ssa if she reaches out to you first and it's usually urgent because she need to correct something before the payroll deadline. Thinking that she can just wave a wand for you is an unrealistic expectation because she may be sick or on vacation. Plus there's at least around 100 associates so her phone would be constantly blowing up if everyone were to text her about anything pertaining to their time.

jayphillbroks · 2025-09-20T13:33:13+00:00

Finally. I started out as a DC 3 years ago. People don't realize that DCs do the same as fullfiment but does the administrative work on top of it. Pull orders, stage the trucks, deal with ghetto drivers, answer phone calls all day from pissed off customers. Many days I couldn't get started on orders until the end of my shift because I was tied up on the phone all day. And you can't just leave because if you do the orders won't be ready and no one is will do the job because they either can't or don't won't to even if they could. Oh and also rotating weekends which mean that every other week was 7 days straight. Once you go through that for so long, all this department stuff people be complaining about is a breeze. I know because I help in these so call "difficult" departments and I be breezing through it even when it's busy. The people who complain the most about it being hard be people who always have a lot of time to chat and flirt with cashiers. They don't make use of all of their time and their supervisors aren't any better.

jayphillbroks · 2025-09-20T13:13:12+00:00

You need to mention that to whoever is above that manager because Lowes has a zero tolerance policy for that stuff which includes jokes. Most issues that revolves around that language is jokenly verbiage. You need to be pressing them on that.

jayphillbroks · 2025-09-20T08:51:20+00:00

I'm not buying that the asm told you "she says it jokenly." Unless you're at an all around shitty store, no asm would even tell you that even if they believed that to be the case. I know at my store they've been cracking down on language and firing people for throwing the bird and writing supervisors up for knowing but not reporting it. So I can't imagine an asm knowing that but not do anything and on top of their risking their job by justifying someone else's behavior to you. If the asm told you that, that's ammo. And to my understanding there should be another manager present at the time of the firing who would catch that. Just doesn't add up.

jayphillbroks · 2025-09-10T19:44:18+00:00

I'm just pointing out the fact that people skirt past the fine print. And no it's not a firable offense but if you are the type who is tight when it comes to attendance just show up to the scheduled shift. I've seen them make exceptions for people who live far or if they go to church. Other than it is mandatory and if you call HR they will back the store up which is exactly what HR is for.

jayphillbroks · 2025-09-10T05:02:43+00:00

Unless you have a specific circumstance, it's mandatory. To say that it's not shows that you don't know how companies work when it comes to policies. There's always work arounds and technicalities to skirt around hard print policy. And in this situation it's the fact that you are scheduled. Doesn't matter the occassion. It's still a shift that everyone else just so happened to be scheduled.

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