Comments on: Working At Lowe’s Rant

By: Theresa

Theresa — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:59:20 +0000

You know, I think it’s the whole big box retail store thing. Employees are way overworked and way under paid. I lasted a year and a half as a night cashier in Walmart a few years back. If it wasn’t for enjoying the customers so much, I would’ve jumped ship much, much sooner. The shoved a lot of woohoo propaganda at the employees, but the actual culture of the place is, like you said, Gestapo. It was horrid!
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By: Stephanie Harkins

Stephanie Harkins — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:09:11 +0000

Came across your blog while surfing Blog Explosion! Very entertaining entries – and your horror story about Lowe’s pretty much sounds like every story I’ve heard about people working at our local ACE Hardware – maybe it’s a hardware store thing! I don’t know…but I do know I’m glad you don’t work there anymore!

By: Lin

Lin — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:17:34 +0000

I hate Lowe’s and do not shop there. I went there a few years back and complained because I could not get a Christmas gift card that didn’t say Feliz Navidad. I’m not Hispanic, nor was this particular Lowe’s in a Hispanic neighborhood and yet EVERYTHING was in Spanish and English. I’m Lithuanian and I felt that if they were going to be so partial to only one ethnicity, why not Lithuanians?? It was so ridiculous and said so. I think they pointed me to the exit on that particular visit.
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By: ann

ann — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:30:14 +0000

I honestly wish that they would use secret shoppers at our store because our cashiers at night are horrible. All young girls who want a paycheck but don’t want to work.
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By: Buggys

Buggys — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:33:54 +0000

I need to get a job but I just know that at 51 retail and me are not friends. Unless I’m on the customer side of it.
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By: Stormee

Stormee — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:57:57 +0000

Great story, at 58 I know I can’t go back to work. I do alterations and custom sewing at home and it works for me. Having kids my grandkids age for supervisors was a hard one for me.
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By: FishHawk

FishHawk — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:58:53 +0000

My wife felt the same way when she tried working for Wal-Mart a few years ago. She thought she was getting a great job when they hired her to be a floor supervisor (or something like that), but the truth was that she was being hired to do the job of four people at half the salary for one. If I remember right, she didn’t last five months.
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By: Anna

Anna — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:36:16 +0000

Jude, your 5 months at Lowe’s sounds an awful lot like my 6 months at Dunkin’ Donuts! The cameras, rules, regulations, power-hungry little people…yup, sounds just like my experience! :)
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