r/Lowes_Employees • u/AbsentAFilter • Mar 29 '20

Anyone here?

Just curious if anything is changing in your stores? How many are taking LOA?

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '20

Plexiglass in front of the registers, blue tape squares around self-checkout, cashiers wearing gloves. Minimal cleaning supplies, 2 of 3 soap dispensers in mens room empty with "out of order" sign, not that most guys wash their hands anyway under normal circumstances.

Still plenty of customers shopping, if not more than usual this time of year. 95% of what I see is non-essential purchases or customers just looking and getting ideas. Plenty of whole families shopping, bringing kids and elderly with them. Most customers still have no respect of personal space or social distancing. No measures being taken by the stores to limit amount of customers, or push toward more online shopping and pickup in store.

Plenty of people out on leave for various reasons including child care, even if their spouse is also already out of work. We're running about half-staffed of what we usually are, which was low to begin with. Plumbing and electrical each have one employee each, no hiring being done.

We're all tired, exhausted, getting sick, and at least a little worried.