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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Wow, I did not know that there were apps that showed you inventory and location - and I normally consider myself tech savvy. I’ll download the Home Depot app for my next trip and try it out.
I have noticed the same two things about Lowe’s stores making it a more pleasant store to go to, but Home Depot is a lot closer so I go there more often than to Lowe’s when I am going to need help with a purchase.
I don’t use an app, but if you just select a store as “your store” on their website you can see if something is available.
They could raise their starting pay or get rid of the drug testing and solve their hiring problem.
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You are half right. Try raising the pay.
I’m an employer and I don’t hire dopers. They are too prone to stealing to support their habit. Plus they suck at working.
Too true. Menards is a great store. I live 5 minutes from one.
Just give them the local area code plus 555-1212 (old directory assistance number). I started doing that thirty years ago at Radio Shack, and at least some of their sales clerks knew what it was. Today's retail workers have no clue; they just want ten digits, and I'll bet the automated kiosk will accept any numbers you input.
Lowes isn't the only company that tries to harvest data every which way. It's good to have a countermeasure or two up your sleeve.
Oh the subcontractors will be legal companies but the workers-I bet not so much.
It would be interesting to find out how Workers Compensation rules categorize “grill assemblers”. The inherent hazard W/C believes grill assembly involves can really hike up the cost of labor.
They will hire a vendor who will supply them with workers. They will pay the vendor's bill and that is the end of it. Payroll taxes are the vendor's problem, not theirs.
Also, hiring an outside vendor adds another party to any liability issues, like say assembling a gas grill that explodes.
Also means that you don't have to worry about WC or any other form of insurance on the temp worker. Everything is the vendor's problem unless you give the worker faulty equipment or product. Then it becomes your problem again and a major one.
I always give my ex wife’s phone number.
You don't need to tell them anything. They already know what they're going to do. They're laying off the people who assemble machines, equipment and stuff together to sell in their stores and outsourcing it to companies who specialize in that type of fulfillment at a lower wage than $13 an hour. It's a business decision, not a social one.
Companies are always looking for ways to lower their cost of doing business. This type of outsourcing is not uncommon.
“James Lewis! Get away from that wheelbarrow!
You knows you doesn’t know nothin’ about machinery!”
If the third party companies are the morons who put together a Roadmaster bike I bought from Wal-Mart in 2004, I wouldn’t trust them to put together a bolt and screw. The front forks was backwards. I had to fix it.
They have me in the computer as retired military thus don’t even ask for the ID card any longer. They simply ask for the phone number and put that in, it calls up my info, he clicks the military button and I have my 10%. No worries. No problems. I would strongly suggest the next time you have a problem, you ask for the store manager and then put him on the spot with what the heck is going on and threaten to call Corporate HQ to find out what they have to say about the issues and his response to it. Try that.
I think Menard’s do not want to move away from the Midwest, however, Menard’s DO have a new model railroad division. I saw it in Model Railroader.
Brings back the wonderful 2008-20016 memories of watching one berate the America and it's flag...
I don't know where you've had your Home Depot experiences, but in W PA, I frequent several locations and have always found the employees to be friendly, helpful and courteous.
Not all of them are perfect, but maybe it's your glass, evil eye:)
Back in 1994, I was in a Home Depot when two employees were driving forklifts, they decided to race them and almost hit my nephew and one of those morons knocked over a load of lumber. When the moron almost hit my nephew, I decided to leave and later that night, I heard the lumber falling killed a shopper...
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