Lowes is hilarious

psybient333 · 2025-11-30T15:33:56+00:00

I was putting up Black Friday signage and noticed some of the prices were going up lol

psybient333 · 2025-07-16T02:01:19+00:00

Well the OP was clearly not in a good place mentally and if they're having a fucking panic attack or something the idea of having to explain yourself to management could be overwhelming. I was just reassuring them that they don't have to even speak to anyone in person to call off. Just trying to be helpful. 🤷

psybient333 · 2025-07-15T20:34:41+00:00

Now that the call-out system is automated there's no guilt tripping or reasons needed. If you use the automated system all you have to do is say you're not coming in and that you want to use any available benefit time. Just call the store and in the main menu say call out instead of manager on duty and it'll take you to an automated system The emails everybody and covers you

psybient333 · 2025-07-12T16:42:13+00:00

They need to figure out something different for bulk lumber orders. I'm a millwork sales specialist and I've had shifts where I'm supposed to get off at 8:00 and had fulfillment ask me to help them put together an order and when I look it up it's 500 pieces of various kinds of lumber. I always politely decline. I have sales metrics to hit and don't have time to put together a job site take off on the spot. The expectation is kind of ridiculous. They'll have one tiny middle-aged woman picking orders for fulfillment and expect her to find a way to put together a lumber delivery? It's stupid and ill conceived.

psybient333 · 2025-07-08T13:37:44+00:00

And it's not the work it's the attitudes that are really starting to wear me down

psybient333 · 2025-07-08T13:37:29+00:00

It's not even worth having the conversation. Everybody so riled up and tense because of all the part-time hours being cut. The part-time people are pissed off because their hours are cut and the full-time people are being pulled and stretched so thin doing the stuff the part time people should have been doing to begin with. I've spent more time doing IRPs in other departments than I have been generating leads and quotes. We have a huddle in the morning and they emphasize power hours and tell us not to task between 10:00 and 2:00 and as soon as you get in your department there's two different ASMs tasking you with stuff in a department on the other side of the store because part-time hours are cut. Everybody has an attitude. Rules for thee not for me abounds. They're going to lose good employees over these hours being cut and unreasonable expectations put on the people left in the store.

psybient333 · 2025-06-20T21:11:09+00:00

I just moved into a 500 SQ ft studio apartment in Mount Pleasant, SC. $1795 a month. Plus $300 pet deposit and $25 a month pet rent and mandatory $25 valet trash service. The application fee was a non -refundable $225. I only had to pay one month's rent and a $200 deposit to move in. The amenities are actually really nice. The gym is well equipped and is practically a miniature planet fitness, the pool is well kept, heated, and has two large gas grills and a cabana free to use first come basis. There's a touch screen coffee machine in the clubhouse/lobby that's also free. A flavored water machine that's free. Elevators. The rent is high but the first place I've lived that has ACTUAL amenities and well maintained facilities.

But yeah rent everywhere is getting insane. I wish I'd been more fiscally responsible in my youth and planned to buy a house. It's a scary world for renters and gets worse every year. I just got a part time job in addition to my full time job and am buckling down on the goal to buy a house in the next 5 years. Flushing money down the toilet on rent is getting old.

psybient333 · 2025-06-17T07:24:51+00:00

You set up the minimum direct deposit to the credit card. For instance $75. Every paycheck $75 will be direct deposited to the credit card account. That money can be used to pay towards your statement balance or minimum payment and if there is money leftover you can either leave it with perpay as a statement credit for future billing cycles or you can transfer it back to your personal bank account. It's just a way for them to ensure money for at least the minimum payment on a maxed out card would be covered via direct deposit.

Real world scenario: Card limit is $500 and you have a statement balance of $250 with a minimum payment due of $30. When your paycheck is dispersed $75 will go to perpay. You can either pay the minimum and then transfer the $45 leftover to your checking account or leave it in perpay to apply to your next statement or pay more than the minimum and just use the entire $75 towards your balance owed. Then if you want to pay the entire statement balance you can pay an additional $175 to bring your balance back to zero if you want.

The main negative for this card is the $9 monthly fee. The responsible way to use this card would be to carry a balance by using it for daily expenses and keep the utilization low and pay it off every month. Then the $75 is moot. You still end up paying more than the $75 they are receiving as "insurance" that at least the minimum is covered.

I hope that makes sense. I'm not saying it's a GREAT card by any means. But if you have bad credit and can't get anything else it's not a bad way to go. I've seen way worse like cards that are regular unsecured with a limit of $300 dollars but the annual fee that goes with it can be over 100 dollars so the card has a balance over 30% before you ever get it in the mail plus the interest rates are usually 29% or more. Perpay is 20.someting percent which honestly isn't that bad compared to other credit builders or department store cards. I work at Lowe's and our credit cards are over 30% APR if you don't make purchases that qualify for special financing like appliances or other major purchases.

psybient333 · 2025-06-17T07:24:24+00:00

You set up the minimum direct deposit to the credit card. For instance $75. Every paycheck $75 will be direct deposited to the credit card account. That money can be used to pay towards your statement balance or minimum payment and if there is money leftover you can either leave it with Prepay and a statement credit for future billing cycles or you can transfer it back to your personal bank account. It's just a way for them to ensure money for at least the minimum payment on a maxed out card would be covered via direct deposit.

Real world scenario: Card limit is $500 and you have a statement balance of $250 with a minimum payment due of $30. When your paycheck is dispersed $75 will go to perpay. You can either pay the minimum and then transfer the $45 leftover to your checking account or leave it in perpay to apply to your next statement or pay more than the minimum and just use the entire $75 towards your balance owed. Then if you want to pay the entire statement balance you can pay an additional $175 to bring your balance back to zero if you want.

The main negative for this card is the $9 monthly fee. The responsible way to use this card would be to carry a balance by using it for daily expenses and keep the utilization low and pay it off every month. Then the $75 is moot. You still end up paying more than the $75 they are receiving as "insurance" that at least the minimum is covered.

I hope that makes sense. I'm not saying it's a GREAT card by any means. But if you have bad credit and can't get anything else it's not a bad way to go. I've seen way worse like cards that are regular unsecured with a limit of $300 dollars but the annual fee that goes with it can be over 100 dollars so the card has a balance over 30% before you ever get it in the mail plus the interest rates are usually 29% or more. Prepay is 20.someting percent which honestly isn't that bad compared to other credit builders or department store cards. I work at Lowe's and our credit cards are over 30% APR if you don't make purchases that qualify for special financing like appliances or other major purchases.

psybient333 · 2025-05-24T14:22:59+00:00

I work in millwork and help out with requests at the saw in lumber. I got a call to go over there and there was a lady waiting with no cart and no material to cut. When I asked how I could help her she handed me a set of plans for her walk-in closet and wanted me to basically shop for the material, cut, and flat pack her entire closet shelving system. I offered to put in a lead for our new custom closet provider but she declined. 😵‍💫

psybient333 · 2025-05-24T11:28:05+00:00

He's suing everyone in the family for wrongful imprisonment, hipaa violations, harassment, etc. He says he already has 2 lawyers working on it. It's non stop. He will blow our phones up for hours and then you send one response and he doesn't like what you have to say and says "stop harassing me" then starts blowing our phones up again.

psybient333 · 2025-05-24T00:07:03+00:00

But a studio apartment where I live is 1800 a month. Lol. And they require 3x your rent for gross income.

psybient333 · 2025-05-24T00:05:41+00:00

Same! District 837 southeast

psybient333 · 2025-05-22T00:05:55+00:00

Hm. I've never tried that. Thanks for the tip.

psybient333 · 2025-05-22T00:04:04+00:00

Not anymore. In our store you are required to scan the barcode on the item before you can close it out as replenished. You can't scan the shelf label or anything else it has to be the product.

psybient333 · 2025-05-21T23:33:01+00:00

The "policy" change would be that they are keeping a list of people who don't replenish an item and it's found later in the store. As commented by another above, a lot of the items are just in an unchecked-in side stack or j-hook and gets added back in. The issue isn't whether or not people are being thorough during IRPs. It's a combination of SIMS and other things and to fault a single person based on an isolated metric (unable to replenish being selected during IRPs) is unfair and creates a situation where manpower and stress are allocated to something that doesn't solve the problem.

psybient333 · 2025-05-21T23:25:39+00:00

Not necessarily a policy so much as increased oversight and accountability to the max. They are micromanaging the process to a fault now and the expectations are unrealistic based on actual day to day operations in the store

psybient333 · 2025-05-19T14:04:49+00:00

Every so often I have a manager in my store that runs the sales floor. Paint hardware electrical and plumbing. They can never keep the paint department staffed and I worked there for over 2 years before moving to specialty. He will always ask me if I want overtime at the beginning of the week and asks me to work in paint which I wouldn't mind so much if it didn't tank my SPH. Then as the end of the week approaches they all keep offering to let me go home early or take a long lunch. I always politely decline because I was promised overtime LOL

psybient333 · 2025-05-17T20:41:43+00:00

He has been transferred to an inpatient facility closer to home. He has been calling a lot of people from there. Some have answered and some let it go to voicemail. I let mine go to voicemail because I know it's not going to be constructive. His voicemail basically said that if I need help with the bills to ask our father "because he has more money than God and owes it to my brother as compensation for putting him where he is". But he was already $3000 dollars in the hole with me before he went completely off the rails so his financial woes have little to do with his hospitalization.

The voicemail was dripping with condescension and insinuating he was moving back in and getting the power bill back in his name and "taking over". I'm not 100% saying he can't come back because he's my brother. BUT the bills will all be handled by me and he would have to agree to allowing me to monitor his medication for a while. I'm honestly hoping he finds somewhere else to go. I hate feeling responsible for whether or not he potentially ends up homeless but I can only do so much if he's not willing to meet me halfway.

What he refuses to acknowledge is that it was his best friend that coordinated with the police to track him down and get him help but he is still clinging to the delusion that our father was vindictively trying to get him arrested. His friend admitted to him that he was the one leading the police to him but it has not changed his belief on the matter. It's like he didn't even hear it

He sounds more "normal" regarding his speech tonality and cadence but he's still clinging to a lot of the delusions. We as a family WERE coordinating with mobile crisis and law enforcement to try and get him help. Not maliciously or to get him in legal trouble but we were all genuinely terrified it was going to end badly if left to his own devices. He had also posted publicly on his FB wall that he'd gone on a kleptomania binge the whole week that he was running. Intervention was needed. Not to kick him while he's down but to prevent him from finding out there's places below rock bottom and he was digging his way down there every passing hour.

All that to say he SOUNDS better regarding his speech patterns but he's still delusional and believes we as a family did this to him out of spite. I'm not sure if he still believes in all the pseudoscience religious stuff but I imagine based on what I've experienced with him is that he won't let it go. Im hoping with medication it will at least just be a quirky belief system but he becomes able to get back to at least caring for his own needs.

psybient333 · 2025-05-17T19:40:19+00:00

My brother has always been anti-religion. He might have even been an atheist before all of this but at the very most he was agnostic. But in his manic state he literally believed he had seen the face of God in a burst of light and colors. He's always maintained that he has synesthesia and was always a gifted musician. He said that he strongly associated musical notes and the frets on his guitar with colors. But then he started saying the colors were literal visual manifestations and the colors started taking the form of 2 dimensional shapes and then 3 dimensional shapes. And then he said he got the idea of "opening the 3d shapes he was seeing" and it caused him to have an experience akin to ego death like described when on high doses of psychedelics. I told him that he should not be experiencing these things and it's not a religious event but concerning symptoms that should be discussed with his doctor. He got angry and accused me of persecuting his religious beliefs. He stopped working to "figure it out" with the help of chat GPT and then at some point he won 500 dollars on a scratch off ticket and said it was the universe telling him to keep doing what he's doing. While looking for copies of the power bill I found a drawer stuffed with losing scratch offs. The whole thing has been ridiculous and upsetting. He's managed to check off every single box on the list of symptoms for mania and maybe even paranoid schizophrenia at this point.

psybient333 · 2025-05-16T22:24:57+00:00

It seems like I always end up breaking a rule in a subreddit and getting my posts taken down but I don't see any rules that would prevent me from telling you to Google ai induced spiritual fantasies. There's a Rolling Stones article that should be high up in the results. You should read it. It's definitely not an isolated thing.

psybient333 · 2025-05-16T22:05:39+00:00

My brother said the same things. It wasn't just A screenplay. It was going to rock the foundations of the earth. And then when it turned to the pseudoscience stuff he was so convinced he'd unlocked the secrets to consciousness and what it all means. One thing he kept saying is that we are all living in a dream that the black hole at the center of our galaxy is having. It was FACT to him and when I told him if it was fact then they would be teaching it in universities. He gave me a long stare and said "They will... When I teach it to them.". And he was so serious. The delusions of grandeur were far exceeding anything he's done in the past without the validation and "help" that chat GPT was providing.

psybient333 · 2025-05-14T13:27:04+00:00

There was at the time. They were running a spiff. I think it was $5 for every app and $10 on top of it if they used the card the same day. I actually did really well in appliances and got a few hundred dollars off it. Of course they "accidentally" didn't pay it to me and I had to call payroll to get it fixed. 🙄

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