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Lowe's Home Improvement

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Better than Home Depot! - Commercial Sales Specialist Lowe's Home Improvement Employee Review

4.0
Jan 31, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Coming from Home Depot to Lowe's its a much relaing atmosphere. Lowe's shows how much they truly care for there employees and not just there stock options. Great Matrix for rotating hours certain shifts each week, not too flip flopping like Home Depot. Great training, great spiffs on products you sell as long as your certified/trained to sell them. The company looked out for me and my new family when need be. Pay is great for retail and experience will last a lifetime not only in the work field, but in your personal life.

Cons

It's retail so yes your gonna have to deal with angry customers. Strange hours, last minute changes to schedule if needed or to taylate to cover customer overflow. Only an hour for lunch and by the time you clock out and get outside your time is already trickling down. As far as I know you still can not smoke on premise. I was actually asked if I smoked during my 1st interview with them. Another associate aid the HR refused to hire someone b/c they lit up after the interview in the parking lot.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

Some amazing customers and coworkers. Tasks and systems were easy to learn. Sometimes you get lucky and have amazing ASMs and SMs. It's easy to get a good survey when you treat customers like friends, be honest about what you do and don't know, and work to learn what you don't. That goes a long way with customers. I personally truly loved my job and loved spending as much time as I could at work.

Cons

Once you are on someones S*** List they will make it possible to get rid of you. Management only follows policy when it benefits them. Some people get promoted when they have no business working in retail as a leader. The A/C in the store I worked in was always broken during the summer, which made it miserable to work. Some customers are entitled due to they way management will kiss their butts to keep from losing a sale or getting a bad review. Management will make a paper trail to write you up if you mess up or are struggling instead of helping you better yourself. Management does not care about employees' work-life balance. Management does not care if their employees are struggling with personal issues like car troubles, health issues, financial issues, etc. Management will get rid of great employees but keep people who don't pull their weight. Once I hit burnout, instead of helping me, I was punished by my managers. In turn making me hate a job I truly loved.

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