Was a Manager, now laid off...
Personally I have been with Lowes for 7 years. For the most part, depending on which store I had worked for Lowes wasn't that bad to work for and I enjoyed coming in for the day. Lowes recently, in January of this year laid off 3,000 assistant store managers and put 9,000 department managers in a transitional period, 6 key carriers per store have lost their keys so customers aren't being taken care of in a timely manner, each department who lost a DM is now 1 person short in their department and having to pick up the slack themselves, the remainder of us who are transitional are being treated like we don't know anything and are now being delegated to by 10 managers instead of just our store manager and our Zone(ASM). Honestly the place has turned into a low moral joke of a business at store level and this is company wide. If you want to grow within a company, Lowes just removed themselves from that list of companies you can easily grow within. I'm hoping to move onto a new career as soon as possible!
Just saying: Have you not noticed there are a lot of companies like Lowes which are doing the same thing. The Baby boomers are retiring and some of the positions are being replaced by: machinery, computers, and more advancement. Now I would look for positions that I have some of the core experience and foundation. Then be willing to learn the new with the old and watch what happens, expand your talents or retire. There's forward movement in both your decision.
That is so hard, Travis! Thank you for sharing your experience with us.
I worked there myself for 7 yrs and seen it happen too!! Too many chiefs and not enough Indians... customers are leaving cause their tired of not having anyone waiting on them and the ones that get help, workers know nothing about the department cause they got switch around!!! I save the best for last I get fired for stopping a shop lifter!!!! And they let her go and fired me!!! Where is the justice!! Very very sad!!!