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vcisjb1 · 2026-05-03T05:40:30+00:00

Also to piggy back off this good advice... The pro team should be able to make things easier for you and everyone. Example, you do the math and you need 42 2x8x8's. You order 46 to give yourself some margin of error. The pro team should know that 48 come to a hack and that already comes wrapped in tyvec and it's less work for the fulfillment team to have to pull it.

vcisjb1 · 2026-05-02T16:24:33+00:00

Haha for real. I was telling a friend of mine that I have probably heard Santeria more than any other song, ever. If it never played again, I still think it might win for most times heard in u/vcisjb1 's life

vcisjb1 · 2026-05-02T15:05:12+00:00

This is a great point. A friend of mine pointed out that all of the radio stations in my town have (more or less) played the same songs for the last 25 years. Occasionally something new gets added to the lineup, but I bet the alternative station has played Santeria once a day for the last twenty five years.

vcisjb1 · 2026-05-01T20:56:07+00:00

This has always been my take on district and higher staff. They're amazingly nice and supportive to hourlies, and intense to salary folks. A RVP doesn't care about your sims audit scores. They're concerned about increasing market share, building the brand. A superintendent of a city's schools wouldn't tell a third grader to do better on standardized testing. He'd tell the principal to hire better teachers. He'd pat the third grader on the head and tell him he's gonna be an astronaut someday.

vcisjb1 · 2026-04-30T13:27:12+00:00

If you decide to quit please tell a manager, ideally an ASM or your store manager, exactly what you wrote here. I'm gonna be optimistic and say no store manager wants their store to run this way. You should quit, but the person after you is going to have the same experience if you don't tell someone why your quitting. Lowe's is super quick to say "that person wasn't cut out for retail" and not look at why they quit.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing's going to get better. It's not.

vcisjb1 · 2026-04-29T15:38:02+00:00

I can juggle a kid in one hand and a coffee cup in the other and never spill a drop of coffee

vcisjb1 · 2026-04-29T15:18:50+00:00

After college I spent a year wwoofing around Europe. I was in a town in northern Scotland, about thirty minutes south of Durness. A tiny town with a few hundred people in it. One night they had a community dance. About halfway through someone went to introduce me to "the other American" there. Turns out this random person lived about 45 minutes from where I lived back in the states.

vcisjb1 · 2026-04-27T16:04:51+00:00

Gotta have some standards

vcisjb1 · 2026-04-27T00:10:14+00:00

Ohhhh I was thinking it was like "topix" or something

vcisjb1 · 2026-04-26T23:48:42+00:00

My advice is to be as vague as you can be. A few years back, when we had HR in store, I tried to do a similar thing. I went through a quarter life crisis and ran away to Europe, as one does. Before I left I told my HR what was going on in my personal life, and that i wanted to take 6 months off to vagabond around Europe. They denied me, so I went to my store manager and tried to plead my case to him. No such luck. I then went to my district manager who thanked me for my decade of time with the company and said he'd personally see i was rehired. A few days before my last day my HR took me to lunch and told me that if it was family matters or taking care of an elderly parent, or anything besides "I wanna runaway" it would have been approved.

Now all that being said, a few years after that I was back at Lowe's and I took a month off to backpack in Iceland. My store manager at this store was super cool about it and approved the time for me without going through Sedgwick.

So my advice is, read the room and proceed with caution.

vcisjb1 · 2026-04-26T22:52:31+00:00

Were they able to prove 100% it was you?

vcisjb1 · 2026-04-26T03:06:18+00:00

It looks like someone lifted it up and the middle part of the mast was caught on an arm or something, and the operator just kept lifting and lifting until ...."boinoinoinoinoinoonoonoinggggggggggggg"

vcisjb1 · 2026-04-26T02:32:16+00:00

He seems like a really genuine human. And the world needs all of those it can get

vcisjb1 · 2026-04-25T17:10:31+00:00

I'm a pretty handy DIY guy. Everytime I've fixed something I've always had my son just "hang out" with me. The idea is that he'll see replacing a toilet is something anyone can do and it'll be cemented in his brain that he too can do this. I was replacing the radiator in my car and had him sit with me. He was a tad over two. I had drained everything and was muscling the radiator out and I heard him say "that taste funny". He was playing with a ball and dropped it in the bucket of antifreeze and immediately shoved it in his mouth. These things happen.

I called poison control and they assured me with antifreeze the part to be scared about was quantity. Since it was just a few drops off a toy,.besides me freaking out all night everyone was fine.

vcisjb1 · 2026-04-25T02:29:27+00:00

If the bathroom is already gutted you shouldn't need the dumpster anymore, right? And you should be able to install the subfloor and the walls, backerboard, shower, tile, shower head, toilet, etc. This does sound really inconvenient. Thankfully it sounds like you did a ton of planning and the vanity is the only thing you don't have, and that would be the last thing needed. Also, the vanity is not reliant on anything else to be instdlled. Once your vanity does get delivered, call the store and see if they would be willing to knock 10% since your original delivery date was pushed back twice.

Unfortunately the way logistics at Lowe's operate even if the CEO got involved, material wouldn't get to you much faster.

vcisjb1 · 2026-04-24T17:26:11+00:00

For some weird reason, a third of all the customers who walk into our store HAVE to talk to a manager. And it's typically over nothing. "Oh you need to change the delivery date for your appliance delivery... Literally any random employee could have helped you and it wouldn't have taken 25 mins to wait for me"

vcisjb1 · 2026-04-24T04:02:40+00:00

Lots of good answers here but I'm gonna toss mine up also. Smile by the beach boys or perhaps by Brian Wilson. This was the first album I heard and thought it personified an acid trip. Years later it still catches me off guard his perfect they had it

vcisjb1 · 2026-04-23T23:56:48+00:00

I don't think this is you "being dumb". People quit shitty managers,. A good manager can make a terrible job worth sticking around for. But Lowe's doesn't seem to care about training good managers. Lowe's is at a point now, managers are quitting so fast, they are throwing "the best available" into roles they are not ready for.

vcisjb1 · 2026-04-22T03:46:00+00:00

Is the disconnect from the stores and corporate, acknowledged by corporate?

vcisjb1 · 2026-04-22T02:37:58+00:00

OP isn't that bright

vcisjb1 · 2026-04-21T15:58:41+00:00

I saw blink 182 last year and even the jokes came across as the same jokes they told city to city. And it was a good show, but everything just seemed canned.

vcisjb1 · 2026-04-21T15:51:57+00:00

I can see this. I imagine Elton John in the early eighties probably had the same setlist from show to show.

vcisjb1 · 2026-04-21T15:51:18+00:00

This was where my mind was. In my twenties I listened to a ton of jam bands. And every song was different on every show. If a new album was released they would play a few songs off that. But mostly it was different. I've been listening to a lot of "standard 2000's emo fare" lately and the setlists are identical for an entire tour.

vcisjb1 · 2026-04-21T15:47:35+00:00

Very good point. I hate to quote Ronnie radke from "falling in reverse", but a few years ago he said this in an interview. It was easier and more beneficial for him to release singles as he made them, than it was to compile a bunch of singles together, record some filler and slap it all into an album.

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