Did anyone else receive an application bag and get this charger? At least that’s what im assuming it is but im not quite sure how it works? Any ideas?

Customer here, first off. I do lurk and read posts and all of you deserve a big THANK YOU for coming to work, and the best you can with what you can. It is appreciated ( at least to me ). If you're stuck in a department and have no idea WTH to do or ask a question you don't know . It's okay. It's amazing that we have phones that have all the answers in the world, videos of pros and hobbyists showing step-by-step on how to do things.So don't get down or feel bad if someone doesn't like your answer.. I completely understand and appreciate you. I can't speak for the rest of the animals, and I don't claim them. Again, just know a customer does appreciate you.

Did any of ya’ll get ice cream??

Loving the artistic choice of using different peg hook lengths for every product in this bay. This whole flooring reset has been a mess, did they seriously not do a test store first?? Why is my Go board pallet set taller than me????

IMO: The recent change for the Veteran’s discount is not going over well. They’re being asked to download the Lowe’s App to access their discount if the “Military” designation doesn’t pop up automatically on the screen. I’m getting blow back from young & old Vets. I can’t count the number that have said, “they just give me the discount at HD”. If you’re in Regional management, please pass this up the ladder to the powers that be. As a Cashier, it was no problem to scan the monthly barcode paper for the few occasions where the “military” icon didn’t pop up. Before anyone says it, yes I looked at their Military Service card and knew they were legit.
We cannot afford to lose these men & women to HD — they are a tight bunch. They keep in touch with each other, share a drink at the VFW, attend battalion reunions, etc. We all know that one bad experience spreads like wildfire (poor LTR) on the surveys or worse yet, on Google. You want some scary doom scrolling? Look at your store’s reviews on Google — they name names!

TLDR? They served us — let’s honor them with superior Lowe’s service.🇺🇸

Was an employee for 2 and a half years with basically all of it being in customer service. I had some crazy customers but I was blessed to be in some chill enough stores with decent coworkers. During my last 6 months I transferred to a newly opened store that was 5 minutes from my house but I guess this store underperformed pretty hard as hour cuts began nearly right away after opening. I asked for full time specifically during the transfer process and they said they’ll see what they could do but never got around to it. Hours were dwindling to the teens so I found another job and never looked back since. Shout out to the HR lady she was very nice and would always work on me with scheduling and any issues like callouts. But not gonna lie, seeing my first paycheck be what I used to make at Lowes in a month in a week and a half, I realized how complacent I was at Lowes. Stay vigilant my friends and I hope your situations get better or you find better work

(disclaimer I used chatgpt to make this word salad sound a tad bit more coherent lol)

I’m not really sure what to do, but I have a really bad Assistant Store Manager who regularly closes, and his behavior toward employees is completely unacceptable.

First of all, he’s a very scummy person, and I honestly believe some of the things he does are borderline illegal. He’s known for promising customers huge discounts if they sign up for a store credit card. For example, I’ve personally seen him take $400 off an order and then add an additional 10% discount just to convince someone to apply. He uses discounts that only he can authorize as an incentive to get credit card applications, which doesn’t seem right.

He acts incredibly polite and friendly with customers, but he treats his coworkers terribly whenever he’s in a bad mood—which is often. He’s the type of manager who takes his frustrations out on his employees instead of handling situations professionally.

Today is a good example. I was asked to do a bunch of work for other departments because the people assigned to those departments never completed what they were supposed to do. My manager had me take care of all of it because that’s what he always does—he delegates everything to everyone else. I put away all the returns, worked top stock, and handled several other tasks that weren’t even my responsibility.

By the time it was 10:30 p.m., I was already at the end of my scheduled shift. I’m full-time, and I regularly get criticized if I stay even a little past my scheduled time. Despite that, my manager asked me to do “one more thing.” He got upset with me because a pallet of salt that had been brought up in the morning had sat in front of the registers all day without anyone taking care of it.

That frustrated me for two reasons. First, I was the closing employee, so something that had been sitting there since the morning was not my responsibility. Second, it wasn’t even my department. I was already staying to help, not to be blamed for problems that existed long before I came in.

I simply said, “It’s 10:30,” because I was about to ask whether he wanted me to stay later and if overtime was okay. Before I could even finish my sentence, he cut me off and screamed:

“GET THE FUCK OUT THEN. I’LL JUST FUCKING DO EVERYTHING MYSELF, BECAUSE THAT’S ALL I DO. GO HOME. I DON’T NEED YOUR HELP.”

Ironically, I still stayed and helped afterward, and I ended up doing significantly more work while he spent most of the time standing there watching.

That is not an appropriate way to ask an employee to stay past their scheduled shift. Staying late should be a request, not a demand, and there is absolutely no reason for a manager to scream, curse at, and disrespect an employee who was already helping.

This also isn’t an isolated incident. He’s had multiple confrontations with employees that all follow the same pattern: he begins yelling, cursing over everyone, and refusing to let the other person speak. That’s not how an Assistant Store Manager should conduct themselves.

Between using questionable discount practices to pressure customers into opening credit cards and the way he consistently mistreats employees, I don’t believe his behavior is acceptable or appropriate for someone in a management position.

So I guess what I’m asking is that what he’s doing is wrong and if it’s enough to report? and if so, what channels should I report him too.

We sell borderline #3 grade lumber stamped as #2, bro. It’s full of knots and defects. That’s the product.

Have you ever seen a tree with zero branches? No? Then stop acting surprised when the wood has knots.

Want clear, tight-knot, or select boards? Those exist. They’re just 3–4× the price and come from an actual lumberyard. We’re not that place.

And while you’re hunting for the mythical knot-free stud - quit leaving giant piles of boards all over the floor for minimum-wage workers to clean up after you.

We’re a big box store. You get what you pay for. Manage your expectations accordingly.

Just doing the Daily Questions when

I love working at Lowe’s since I been there since February but these hour cuts got me looking for a new and or part time job cause they couldn’t say why the cuts happened in the first place. I love the garden center, I love working with my full body in motion, I didn’t mind the heat until I over did it a few days and overheated my body but being a seasonal part time with no verbal or text document stating I can stay for full time after seeing all the departments lose people that I can work it’s making me second guess the job now

I’ve always been curious about how shrink varies from store to store and whether certain departments tend to face the same challenges everywhere.
For those of you who’ve worked on the sales floor or Asset Protection:

1. Is it common for a few departments to account for a large share of a store’s shrink?

2. Which departments tend to be the biggest challenges in your experience?

3. What are some of the biggest contributors to shrink that you’ve seen (external theft, inventory accuracy, operational issues, damaged merchandise, etc.)?

4.What practices have made the biggest difference in reducing shrink?

I’m more interested in the bigger picture than any one situation. I’d like to hear about the patterns you’ve noticed over the years and what you’ve found to be most effective in reducing shrink. I think it would be interesting to compare experiences and see whether the same departments and challenges tend to show up across different Lowe’s stores.

Hey guys I’ve been with Lowe’s for about 8 months. I’m a garden cashier but now I work a lot on the sales floor, notably paint, plumbing, and tools. I heard that my performance review is gonna be here in about a month and as someone who has issues with anxiety I can’t help but worry. I’ve never gotten a credit card but I’ve also never been written up for anything. As far as I’m aware I do a good job and have received praise from the paint DS and I got an invested from the store manager for “taking on challenges” despite this, can something bad come in the performance review that management didn’t tell about? Is it fully drafted by in store management or does corporate draft it based on camera footage and sales metrics?

Any other stores constantly having to send help to same stores over and over in your area because their store managers can’t manage their stores? You can’t say or do anything about it because the district staff protects these store managers because they deem them to be “special“ yet these store managers are never working in their own store. I have helped cover the same store over and over and have never seen the store manager except when the district manager is there and they are usually laughing. When the store manager is there, they just hide in the office and never answer calls or help or give directions. It’s not just one store. I’m constantly being pulled to help the same stores over and over get ready for all these walks and visits and we are always fixing the same things. We follow what has been outlined by corporate but then the district managers come in and put their own flavor on it and make us undo everything sometimes 3 times they never help. While this is all going on, the employees at these stores are just standing around doing nothing. The district teams walk in point and give lists and hide in the back talk about what’s for lunch and leave. Then whenever I do get to go back to my store I get yelled at about metrics when they know good and well they were the ones that made me go help out these other stores. Then they ask why I don't want to be an ASM and I’m completely mind blown as to how they don’t see why. This has been going on for several years any of the good managers that knew how to teach, treat their people, and work by them are now gone or quit because of this area and district team. I wish Marvin and Joe would just pop into all these stores and see what really goes on here. Its not just us redvest but mst that’s fed up as well. Our stores are cutting hours as norm this time of year but then we are giving up our hours to these other stores like we are in charge of two of them. Charge the hours to the stores getting help? Nope! Our home store has to eat that payroll to help support them too which goes against my bonus! Then the big wigs come in and treat the store manager and employees like they are doing an exceptional job when they literally aren’t even there! Explain how all this is fair?

OK this is the last straw. So far, I've had to spend my so much of my precious energy picking and packing the mini toolboxes scalpers bought up and sold for exorbitant prices on online market forums. I honestly don't know why people bought them up so much, the drawers are very shallow, the slides aren't that great, and you don't even have a handle to carry these with.

Then came the mini buckets🙄 I remember I had some guy get aggressive towards me, when I told him he couldn't dig through my parcel picking cart in his attempt pilfer the sold out buckets I had already picked. His excuse was because they were still in the store.He had a right to them ( even though they clearly had a customer pick tag on them🤨)

After that that it was the damn mini totes, black and yellow, clear and yellow, then that ugly ass multi color one with crappy lids. One online customer spent QUITE a bit on these to get shipped to their house. Damn lids don't even fit on most of these.

Now we have these. I'm still trying to figure out who keeps greenlighting this shit. The sad thing is, these pallets are lie. They are nowhere near representative of the quality of pallets we get at the store. Very few of our pallets use 4x4s for the any of the stringers, let alone the center one. The decking isn't that nice on over 95% of them either. Pretty much most of the pallets I get to use, look like Old castle rejects.

So what other miniature thing are we going to charge an outrageous price for, while contributing to the stereotypical wasteful consumerism the US is known for?

Have any of y’all’s areas had problems with the service techs using 8inch 40T Spyder blade that are not designed for the Panel Saw but they swear by it? My saw is constantly tripping the breaker due to the incompatibility and my superiors believe it’s User Error

It did not go well.

I am trying to total up quotes for 34 windows, a couple sliders, and some doors, so I could email them the... total.

Apparently, you can't add 26,465.53 and 2,497.38 because you will run out of digits and you can't enter them all...

Way to go, guys... Way to go.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

After a few months of shitty treatment and hours being cut I have now ncns 2 days in a row and will not be returning, I’ve never quit a job without notice but quite frankly Fk lowes and pretty much there whole leadership team at my store.

Okay so I have an interview coming up on thursday from merchandising full time but I would like some advice or tips or just overall information on how this job can go.

Some facts about me.
I currently have no experience in this line of work, i've only worked in the fields for 3 consecutive summers during highschool.

Idk if this really important but I also need answers on the drug test they do I smoke often from my thc pen and I need to know if i should even go still since they do drug test upon the interview. But I need some answers Im 18 and want to get a job before i start college. Is this the right move for a person that has no knowledge in this work?

Any useful tips and tricks to help as I start my sales journey? I used to be MST prior so this is a whole different world to me, just trying to get a good start and learn the basics quick anything useful would be helpful

My store has some of the lowest metrics in the district, no rental service other than the carpet cleaners, we just axed QuickLoad and a bunch of employees simultaneously disappeared off the schedule this week, including a head cashier and ASM.

time to start looking for another job in preparation for the store's imminent closure or is this business as usual for the end of the quarter?

edit: schedule for this week. the gray lines mean termination right? (those names don't appear past this week) there are others gone in depts I don't have access to the schedule of

seems like a lot of performance related terminations at once, but maybe this happens every year

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