Hello I am currently working for the Home Depot and looking for another job. Lowes is construcing across the street and I was concedering going over there. My question is have you worked for the Home Depot and then left to work for Lowes and was it a good experience? Was the pay better? Was the working inviroment cleaner safer and better? Please let me know anything you can. Cheers:beer:
HOME DEPOT AND LOWES
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UsandThem
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Why would it be safer? They are both warehouses. As far as being cleaner - a new store is always cleaner.
I wouldn't think they would pay more either (I guess maybe if you are in a specialty department).
What is it that you don't like about Home Depot?
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Lowes pays less than Home Depot for Specialty people
I'm not really that keen on the competency of the management team at the store where I work. sometimes I think it's like a government job..(You are mentally retarded. You don't know your own department. You are not a people person. Most of the things you decide to do are stupid...We can't really fire you so congratulations you are now a manager, now get the hell out of my hair and go bother someone else.) I have a cousin who is an Assistant Manager at Lowes, the pay is not that great but the bonuses are kickass.
i've worked for both (college jobs) and prefer lowe's, mainly because they didn't lay me off with absolutely no warning (just called me in and said go home, don't come back).
guess which one has gotten all of my home-remodeling money???
either way, the both suck because they have retarded commercials...once again, it's the choice of a lesser of two weevils (sorry, saw it last night)
guess which one has gotten all of my home-remodeling money???
either way, the both suck because they have retarded commercials...once again, it's the choice of a lesser of two weevils (sorry, saw it last night)
I am looking for the specialist position. By safer I mean that there are some things that HD ....well they over look ...not real dangerous stuff but stuff they train us to look for that can potintially become dangerous....and it seems that they would reather take their chances sometimes then to break down and do what is right to begin with. Why do I want to leave the Home Depot well because I am looking for a better oppertunity.:beer:
No clue.
As a customer I can't see the differences between them. Their stores have the exaxct same layout. The only difference is the colour they use.
As a customer I can't see the differences between them. Their stores have the exaxct same layout. The only difference is the colour they use.
when i was working at home depot as a cashier a lot of my coworkers and managers left to work at lowes for better pay when they came to california. i was thinking about doing the same just to spite upper management.
otherwise its the lesser of two evils as was mentioned before.
otherwise its the lesser of two evils as was mentioned before.
that might have happened in the past, but quite doubtful since lowes is so huge now. i don't see them having the kind of growth they have had in the past 25 years in the next 25 years.
I think lowes caters more twoards interior decorating, while HD carrys a larger selection of building materials. At least that is the way it is in my area.
-Brian
HD=manly men hardware store
Lowes=women's hardware store
I like oversimplified (and usually wrong) comparisons.
Lowes=women's hardware store
I like oversimplified (and usually wrong) comparisons.
I used to work at lowes in ca. A lot of the people there came from home depot.
As far as safety goes, lowes lp guys always used to brag that no one had ever died at lowes. They would then tell stories of customers that died from accidents at HD. Also some of the former HD guys said HD was not very strict about fork lift licenses and spotters.
I liked lowes while I was there.
As far as safety goes, lowes lp guys always used to brag that no one had ever died at lowes. They would then tell stories of customers that died from accidents at HD. Also some of the former HD guys said HD was not very strict about fork lift licenses and spotters.
I liked lowes while I was there.
" Also some of the former HD guys said HD was not very strict about fork lift licenses and spotters. "
I have seen things happen because of this when I worked at HD. I watched a women pretty much maul a truck trying to load a pallet into the back of the truck. She had only had her license a week. The fact remains they made her drive the forklift to load the truck.
When I worked at HD, I had many co-workers leave to work at Lowes because Lowes paid better.
I have seen things happen because of this when I worked at HD. I watched a women pretty much maul a truck trying to load a pallet into the back of the truck. She had only had her license a week. The fact remains they made her drive the forklift to load the truck.
When I worked at HD, I had many co-workers leave to work at Lowes because Lowes paid better.
Definitely leave Home Depot and go to the newly-contstructed Lowes if you can. Lowes has a reputation for hiring just about anyone (even moreso than Home Depot) and anyone that knows anything gets pay raises and promotions.
I work at Home Depot and a lot of the employees I used to know here got hired at Lowes with a $.50 to $2 pay raise.
But, IMO, a newly-starting store is the best opportunityfor quickly increasing your responsibilities. It is also frustrating because you will be full of customers all pissed off because the employees have very little experience.
I work at Home Depot and a lot of the employees I used to know here got hired at Lowes with a $.50 to $2 pay raise.
But, IMO, a newly-starting store is the best opportunityfor quickly increasing your responsibilities. It is also frustrating because you will be full of customers all pissed off because the employees have very little experience.
BTW, don't forget to go back to your HRM at Home Depot and tell them that Lowes offered you $x/hour. Home Depot will sometimes offer a little more than Lowes did because it is still cheaper for them to keep an experienced employee rather than hire a new one.
Don't let Home Depot try to pull their 'loyalty' crap on you either. Money is money and we live in a capitalist system. If Lowes pays more, then there's no moral obligation for you to stay at Home Depot.
Don't let Home Depot try to pull their 'loyalty' crap on you either. Money is money and we live in a capitalist system. If Lowes pays more, then there's no moral obligation for you to stay at Home Depot.
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Lifer
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Some of the people they put on forklifts really scare me.
I have about 3 years experience driving a forklift in a distribution center and a cargo breakbulk setting and I have never seen anything like I do in my brief employment there. The only people that are licensed are those that work full-time during the day. Not that there is anything wrong with someone that works for that small change full-time, but there are alot of first jobbers or they are coming from fast food settings. From watching Oprah to driving a forklift with pedestrians nearby is teh scary.
try to get some help from the plumbing department at HD at my last project (redo the whole bathroom)
and got all kinds of silly answer that one with common sense know right the way are wrong.
Other than than that got no clues who are better.
and got all kinds of silly answer that one with common sense know right the way are wrong.
Other than than that got no clues who are better.
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