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showcrop · Dec 8, 2017

My son has been an assistant store manager of the Lowe's in Salem NH for the last four years. He has been very much appreciated by the various store managers that have come and gone since he has been there, and has a lot of good friends amongst the employees. There was one person that has not liked him for the last two years: the district manager. The guy has been out for my son ever since my son said something to him in a meeting that he took as being disrespectful. He has attempted to fire him two or three times, but each time the store GM has told the district manager that he could not run the store without my son. My son has been looking now and then for a new job and has had offers, but they have included a lot of travel. Well, Wednesday he was finally told that he was fired and that it was because he is the reason for poor moral at the store. I am certain that he will soon get a much better job now that he is forced to apply himself to the search. He has been getting many posts on Facebook from former coworkers, at the store telling him that he was one of the most positive parts of their jobs there. Thanks, Lowe's!

rrlund · Dec 8, 2017

Exact same thing happened to my younger son at TSC. The district manager never got along with him at all. The automatic front doors of the store were painfully slow at the time. You had to walk up to them and stop while they opened. My son asked an old guy if he needed help getting a cart full of dog food and what not to his car and was pushing it out for him. He was talking to the old guy and bumped the door and the glass shattered.
He went right to the store manager and told him what happened. He offered to pay for the door. The manager told him to forget about it,it was an accident,they had insurance.
A week later the district manager came in and fired him for it.

grandpa Love · Dec 8, 2017

Most folks I know that leave
management at big box stores are
much happier. And way less
stressed! We stopped installing
decks for Lowe's this past year
because the district manager
didn't like us. Easy for us to
move on and stop the drama. hope
your son finds a new job soon.

johnlobb · Dec 8, 2017

We had a manager like that when I worked at Builders Square in the early 80's. He fired my neighbor, who had not worked for a coupla years, and was on the service desk and loving his job. But, he was a totally honest guy, so the manager came up with this cockeyed idea about how to do things and asked Mel what he thought. Mel told him, and the idiot set Mel up by having his mother come in and try to get Mel to suggest someone to install her door that was not on the company approved list. He resisted at first, but she kept asking, so he suggested a buddy of his. The manager fired him a coupla days later. That outfit was best known by their initials.

tim s · Dec 8, 2017

Things like this make me like working for myself...

Bob · Dec 8, 2017

I personally know three upstanding (and OUTSTANDING) young men who have been arbitrarily fired as managers from chain autoparts stores, the likes of O-Reallys and ZoneAuto.

And the IDIOTS are kept on staff 'caus they work cheap, apparently.

JD Seller · Dec 8, 2017

That happens a lot when the "manager" above the good person is afraid they will show THEM up down the road.

I ran into those type all the time at JD corporate offices. It was kind of hard to do much with me as I sold the majority of the store's equipment.

tomturkey · Dec 8, 2017

Well its always good to remind the younger generation of a couple of old timer replies to those kind of happenings. " I was looking for a job when I found this one" and " Get my check never got one I couldn't spend". gobble

IowaJohn · Dec 8, 2017

My daughter was on the other side. She manages a shop area in a chain sporting goods store. The girl managing the shop area beside her was not very well liked thru out the store. My daughter totally dispised her. She stole commissions and merch, finally upper management had enough and escorted her out the door. They moved my daughter into that area, it's a bigger area, more commissions and according to my daughter store moral is up. My daughter is still trying to get old merch moved out for new stuff it's been a headache for her.

LAA · Dec 9, 2017

Good luck to your Son in his job search, I hope he channeled Johnny Paycheck when they told him the news.

steve19438 · Dec 9, 2017

hopefully he will get a "union" job.

Bruce from Can. · Dec 9, 2017

My boss would like to fire me too but, then she
would just have me laying around the house all day.

Hope your boy gets a new position real soon.
Sometimes these kind of things are just the
opportunity you need to move into a much better
job.

Traditional Farmer · Dec 9, 2017

Working for a large or even small company is a 'team sport' as my boss at the concrete company used to say right or wrong I'm the boss and things will be done my way and I have reasons
for doing things I'm not going to explain to everyone.Lower ranking people always think they know how to do things better than the boss but management sets the agenda and the workers
are paid to do their best to carry out the management's decision not go off track with their own ideas.On my farm I pay the bills so I make the decisions and I'd expect any employees to
help me implement those decisions and its no different at a large company the management sets the agenda if you don't want to make that agenda work you won't be there long.If a person doesn't like it they need to start their own company,that's what I did BTW when I quit my public job at age 48 and went back to full time farming after 25 years working for a company.So I've seen it from both sides.

Determined · Dec 9, 2017

Greener pastures can be found on the other side of the fence yet very few cows are willing to endure the pain of the barbs to get there.

Your son will probably look back a few years from now be thankful he was given the motivation/need to check things out elsewhere.

More than once I have said;

-You can not put a price on aggravation.

-If I was perfect I sure as hell would not be working for you.

-When your attitude exceeds your aptitude your out of here.

Gary Mitchell · Dec 9, 2017

Isn't Lowes a spin-off of the "Great Chinese 5 & Dime?" gm

The Dukester · Dec 9, 2017

Retired for 18 years, but I remember being asked to join the "Management Team" by the two companies I worked the longest for. I never did
get in management though.......Being an experienced maintenance mechanic I felt I could deal with the problems and challenges the machines
and machinists gave me much better than the problems and challenges the management people and their phylosophies would be giving me.
Maybe I missed being wealthy, but I still feel I was a good contributor to society all my working life and provider for my family. Looking back, if
there is anything I would like to have done other than what I did, it is to have had my own enterprise instead of working for someone else all my
life.

dr sportster · Dec 9, 2017

Being held responsible for moral ? I would have said I'm not going home I'm going straight to a lawyers office. You would have to prove that in court.

Cheesehead Fred · Dec 9, 2017

Mention to your son the "Peter Principal"
Everyone in management is promoted until they are in a position that exceeds their capabilities. And there they reside until they are fired or retire (his district manager) If he is in the way of your son's
ability to move up the ranks, quitting, or transferring to another division are the only ways out other than being let go. And some of these dinosaurs actively get rid of the best people coming up because they
are afraid of being replaced.
Move on to a better opportunity, using references from the people that could see and understand what a great job you were doing. God Speed! and never look back!

Frankmn · Dec 9, 2017

The Peter Principal was directed towards bureaucrats, not general management people. Mostly govt officials as they can hide when there is no need for profit.

dr sportster · Dec 10, 2017

It stated " a manager will rise to their level of incompetence" . You need to reread the book.

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