Posted on 08/04/2019 4:54:16 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Lowe’s Cos. told thousands of store workers this week their jobs were being eliminated as the company outsourced tasks such as assembling barbecue grills and janitorial services.
The home-improvement chain notified maintenance staff and assemblers that put together grills, wheelbarrows and other products that they were being laid off, according to the company and employees. Those roles will be taken over by third-party companies
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That is a foolish concept that illustrates your total ignorance of business
For retail chains like Lowe’s, most employees are liabilities, not assets — for all the reasons you describe.
Home Depot tries to hire knowledgeable people. Whenever I go to Lowe’s, the employees run the other way.
Store Motto :”Don’t make eye contact.”
Let’s hear it for the minimum wage!
I have never had a problem with the help at Home Depot, if I am looking for something usually the employee will stay with me until I have the part I am looking for and any questions answered.
I am retired military. I have never had a problem getting a discount at Lowes. Never had one problem.
Yes....... Even when I acknowledge knowing where he told me the product is, he leads.
The initial contact is the obstacle; once you’ve engaged I find them generally helpful. Often I have to walk around for a while to find someone; I usually resort to going to areas with staffed desks.
A post of reason.
Home Depot underwrites the LGBTQ agenda.
The one here doesn’t have self checkout (unless they have added it fairly recently). I usually go to Home Depot for that reason. The only aggravation there is that the self checkout wants a work order. I type in a random string of numbers and it completes the transaction.
They need to bone up on their PVC parts. There are lots of holes in their inventory.
If I can’t find everything I need in one place I’ll go across the street to Home Depot. It’s getting a lot easier to order on line for PVC too.
Remember there is a new company that is hiring. Those items are not going to jump together.
https://corporate.homedepot.com/newsroom/best-place-to-work-LGBT-equality
“Do you really think Lowes will have illegals working in their stores?”
My guess is that Lowe’s will move to limit their liability by putting eVerify requirements on their subcontractors. Facilitating the hiring of illegals represents a huge potential problem for Lowe’s. They don’t want negative publicity. They don’t want to be the focus of a federal probe.
All of business is about limiting liability. It’s about anticipating potential problems and planning around them. Also, Lowe’s management bends over backwards to support the military and doing patriotic things. They are the opposite of “woke.” I don’t think they will knowingly allow their subs to employee illegal employees. The potential blowback is too great and potentially too damaging.
In my experience, the people running Lowe’s know what they are doing.
Absolute nonsense. You've clearly never owned a company or had employees before. You also spew the empty tripe of the Left.
"Always looking for ways to eliminate them"? Utterly moronic.
Employees are the engines that create revenues in the system an owner built. The path to success and growth is MORE employees. Yes, as one seeks to be more efficient, sometimes some employees can and should be released (not all employees are stellar, by the way... ever heard of the 80-20 Rule?). Further, while FTE's do bring more associated costs (especially insurance), that does not mean that contractors, PTEs, and per diem employees are a better choice. Up front training costs are always a very significant issue. The new guy can't do the job as well, as fast, or as efficiently as the gal who has been here for ten years. Spiking costs by insuring that training is a CONSTANT need, and rookie mistakes are now ubiquitous, is suicidal.
"the best way for a company to shoot up its stock price is to shed American workers"... Where do idiots come up with this garbage? You know nothing about stock markets either, clearly.
There are a dozen better ways to make a stock price jump. In point of fact, massive layoffs are a clear signal of weakness to the market, and is more likely to make a stock price fall, through investors selling. Cutting a small amount of staff also won't make a stock price "shoot up". Never has and never will. Jumps come from announcements of innovations, large offerings to the public (IPOs, stock splits, etc), or huge contracts being signed... or (often manipulated) large buying jags... but no stock jump has ever come from large or small layoffs.
"The shareholders may benefit and sing the praises of the economy, but the average Joe is left with nothing."
This is the whining of the Marxist, or of someone who was laid off once. Most displaced long term FTEs are left with decent severance packages, and are often given the time to search for their next position before being let go. The first time I was part of a downsizing, when I was a kid, I found a scholarship for laid off employees. My severance package of 12 weeks of pay in a lump sum, plus a semester of school paid for, carried me for almost an entire year. It is not the responsibility of the owner of the position to do anything for the employee who enjoyed the benefits of that position for however many years they chose to stay. If you failed to build savings and other backstops during your time there, that's your fault, not the owner's. You brought nothing at the day of your hiring that you didn't take with you on the day you were let go. Your time in between was well-compensated, as proven by the fact that you stayed.
“We stopped shopping there when they made it harder for military to get a discount. We don’t have a right to a discount, but Home Depot gives one generously.”
Wha?
Just the opposite in my experience. Both stores required prior Vet status registration around the same time IIRC. DD214 or ID card. I used my VA card to register with Lowes. Home Depot wouldn’t take my VA card. At Lowes I just tell them my phone number and I get the discount.
Lowes is very Vet friendly and the founder is pro-Trump. Home Depot is a big Leftist supporter.
“Lowe’s stores are cleaner and brighter than Home Depot.
However, Home Depot has helpful staff, and Lowe’s has nothing.”
Where I live your first comment is true.
As for staff locally both HD and Lowes have similar amounts of friendly staff.
In the last year I have purchased 4) washers, 4) dryers, 2) dishwashers, a mid-range and two refrigerators all from Lowes.
Lowes has a 30 day return — no questions asked — and HD has NO returns (unless delivered damaged and then it takes time to have it approved by a manager).
I have had a DW and a refrigerator (5 years ago) both damaged in shipment and Lowes IMMEDIATELY took them back and recorded.
Ordered a washer dryer pair from HD, had it installed and the dryer quit after two minutes (ended up a bad over temp sensor). This pair were ordered as they were the only large stackable machines that would fit in the confined space (Electrolux has the ability to actually touch the rear wall, most other brands require 3” to 5” of space thus requiring the Elecrolux which was NOT available from Lowes)
It took took one month to get a repairman to look at it, two months to get it fixed and another month to get the repairman BACK to replace the six screws he left off when repairing it. At Lowes a new dryer would have been on order the same day it was delivered.
I choose Lowes.
If Lowes does it, it should be easy enough to find out.
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