Bad Move Lowes!!!!

[Diggin It]

Why they (or any store) have 7/8" ID flat washers, but no 7/8" bolts or nuts?

 

[buckeyefarmer]

No 5/16” concrete anchors.

 

[ultrarunner]

Cashiers checks online or phone call, wire online or phone call. Generally $20 fee waived, generally free overnight shipping or a couple dollars.

USAA daily mobile deposit limit is $100,000/day



I have Wells Fargo business accounts and well they are terrible. Want me to come in the building for every little thing. Really need to find a more business friendly bank that isn’t stuck in yr 2000.

10,000 daily limit and a stupid low monthly cap, have to go to location for cashiers check or wire. Ugh, makes me mad just thinking I’m still with these people.


No coins here... or cash for that matter, pretty rare I have either, doesn’t make financial sense to ever use cash, almost always cheaper on plastic. If I do need cash for labor or something, USAA will reimburse any and all ATM charges up to some amount per month.

I tried and failed to get into USAA... there was a window where it was open to enlisted veterans and family around 2000... dad was WWII vet... when I tried it was too late... they said the program might come back and from that inquire 20 years ago I still get email ads...

USAA simply does not want my business...

I would be happy with less cash but when you give a 3-day notice to pay or quit and the tenant shows up with $2000 in twenty dollar bills it is not like I can say NO when it means the Sheriff will evict... cash, large amounts do happen when managing rentals at times... if a tenant bounces a check we no longer accept personal checks... but cash is cash.

 

[ultrarunner]

#1 they shouldn't be testing for a legal substance. If something happens on the job, the employee has already signed up for a drug test as part of their employee contract. There are tests to help determine if the employee was using at the time of the accident. This has been the case at many (all that I can think of actually) labor jobs I've worked since the 90s. Home Depot needs to get off their high horse with this, much like Chic-fil-A is beginning to do, if they want to continue to increase profits. Don't get me wrong, I'm not promoting the use of anything.

#2 I believe this is a cop out answer on the part of the store. If they pay better, employees come, smoking mary jane or not. Simple as that. I don't buy the "whoa is me, can't find employees" corporate line in this case. For skilled workers it's a different case.

I don't know not having worked in HR... I do no people being sent home with Alcohol on their breath after lunch... which is a total 180 from when I worked in Germany one year... ALL BMW employees at Munich assembly plant receive FREE Beer with the noon day meal... and there is no written limit... one beer is never a problem and some have two.

Pot is still illegal under Federal Law... but California often ignores or like now has something like 60 active lawsuits against the Trump Administration... last I heard.

 

[Diggin It]

I tried and failed to get into USAA... there was a window where it was open to enlisted veterans and family around 2000... dad was WWII vet... when I tried it was too late... they said the program might come back and from that inquire 20 years ago I still get email ads...

USAA simply does not want my business...

Try again. They've opened it up to pretty much anybody who has even passed by a base. If I can get in, anybody should be able to.

 

[ultrarunner]

^^^ I might... Dad has passed now but it would be Mom and Me...

A lot of my friends are retired Navy... all have nothing but praise for USAA all retired as officers...

As to Lowes... maybe I have been just lucky or the Lowes I go to in Olympia WA is exceptional... the difference was more than noticeable...

I was up for two weeks between tenants... working on the house everyday... taking Mom to dinner every night and then stopping by Lowes with my list... the store manager would see us coming in and greet us as did the associates... in two weeks we were like family... or so it seemed...

Then there was the time on a different trip where they opened the store for me after closing... or the Appliance Department guaranteeing a refrigerator I had bought Saturday afternoon would be delivered by 9 am SUNDAY morning as I had a 12 hour drive to the Bay Area...

 

[Jim Nelson]

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Just like I said, they have to do a physical bin check. Which is exactly what I said above. There is less labor involved in inventory management when individual skus are maintained AT THE POINT OF SALE as opposed to bulk sales.

At our local hardware store you put your fasteners in a bag and write the number and price of items but not size or SKU. This is the honor system in a small town, as far as inventory ,the vendor sends a sales person on a regular schedule to inventory and replace what's needed. The guy that owns this store owns another in the next city North of us and wasn't even fazed when H.D. and Lowes came to town, if anything his business gained because people know that he has the odd items for our area such as well system parts. He also has the same employees from years ago and they all know what they are doing. When needed, he never has trouble finding help, because of his reputation he has a waiting list of people wanting to work for him.

 

[Tractor Seabee]

#1 they shouldn't be testing for a legal substance. If something happens on the job, the employee has already signed up for a drug test as part of their employee contract. There are tests to help determine if the employee was using at the time of the accident. This has been the case at many (all that I can think of actually) labor jobs I've worked since the 90s. Home Depot needs to get off their high horse with this, much like Chic-fil-A is beginning to do, if they want to continue to increase profits. Don't get me wrong, I'm not promoting the use of anything.

#2 I believe this is a cop out answer on the part of the store. If they pay better, employees come, smoking mary jane or not. Simple as that. I don't buy the "whoa is me, can't find employees" corporate line in this case. For skilled workers it's a different case.

Talk to insurance companies that provide workers comp and liability insurance and you will may sing a different tune. What we are now calling a legal substance is still a federal crime. Another legal substance, alcohol, has triggered drug tests as pre-employment screen out for as long as I can remember, on construction jobs.

Some unions have supported testing to the point they are now doing the testing and providing pre-screened workers. Overhead cost saving for the contractor covered by union dues and no lost time they pay for. I have seen employment contracts by non-union companies that require the applicant to bring a clean drug screen to the first interview. Strict compliance with safety codes requires it by fiat.

As a foreman/general foreman/superintendent I was part of the liability chain on job injury lawsuits to the point I upped my liability insurance to $10K.

Terminated many foremen because their crew accident rate was above normal or obvious lack of action on drug abuse. Sent many a guy home and/or dispatch office for alcohol problems prior to the implementation of testing. Union always backed me up when they complained.

Federal contracts requiring on site labor; all require a drug testing program as part of your submitted Safety Plan, for approval by the Contracting Officer. I am now seeing signs at construction sites that state "we are a drug free project".

Stand by tobacco may be next. That issue is warming up. It is a big lost time issue with employers and fellow workers who do not smoke. Spitting of chew all over the place has become a sanitation issue also

Ron

 

[ultrarunner]

The number one reason my contractor friends don't hire is Driving Record... they never move to the next step without a clean record...

 

[FarmerPhilip]

Seabee, yours points are why I put the caveat regarding skilled workers (which construction and tradesmen are). I'm talking unskilled workers, cashiers, stockers, etc.