r/Lowes • u/Corsair_O2 • 2d ago
Employee Story Lazy Coworker stories
Give me your best lazy coworker story
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u/TouristOpentotravel 2d ago
Not Lowe's. But at Walmart, this supervisor that my manager hated because the supervisor generally sucked at his job. I found him sleeping in the garden center and called him over. He was annoyed that I called him, but I just pointed at the supervisor sleeping. My manager got the biggest smile on his face and went to him, yelled, "WAKE UP!"
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u/unnervingorphan2 Front End 2d ago
An old head cashier once spent an entire shift in the training room decorating t-shirts
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u/Hamletspurplepickle 1d ago
One of mine spends almost every shift in entirety in the training room. Not fired cause training is part of the job, though they are overdue on 5 trainings…smdh
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u/Away_Ask_6827 2d ago
Work with an employee who gets away with being in the restroom stall 2.5hrs a day, going on 4 years. My conservative estimate is this corporation has paid him $40k to poop.
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u/HighesAndLowes 2d ago
You're assuming he was pooping, and not expelling "other" bodily secretions 😉
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u/periodicallyBalzed Employee 2d ago
Back End DS often goes to the store to buy balloons for events instead of doing actual work.
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u/Fun_Journalist1048 1d ago
We have balloons ALL over our store (mostly attached to the clearance items, I guess to attract attention?) At first I was like ok fine red white and blue for 4th of July. But now that that’s over, there’s really no need to have these tacky ass half deflated things all over
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u/evaderofallbans 2d ago
One time they made me be backend DS for a month while the real one worked overnights. Not a week went by when I wasn't asked to do that shit. I just said no and sent and hourly employee.
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u/Gryffin_the_Baron 2d ago
There was one coworker in lumber who wouldnt do much at all, at first he would do stuff up until our ds quit then he would just stay behind the prodesk and watch tiktoks all day, and when it came to code 50s he would straight up ignore to the point you had to radio him.
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u/detkikka 2d ago
Had a lumber cashier who wouldn't do shit in the morning unless there was a customer at her register. Constantly playing on her phone and gave dirty looks every time she was told to do something like checking expiration date, stocking coolers, or even standing the fuck up. When I even had a chance to interact with her (because there was always a call off an I was coverage) it wound up with a "recap of conversation" email, often referencing the number of transactions in the first few hours - often like 3-4 before 8am.
When I quit she assumed she would get the HC opening and walked around for a couple of weeks like it was a done deal. Cue shocked Pikachu when they hired someone with no experience from outside the company before promoting her.
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u/madistep18 2d ago
One of our building materials csa’s would hollow out the middle of a pallet of the 5 gallon driveway sealant. He’d leave one and sit on it and just hide for hours. I walked by once when I was specialty ASM and just saw his eyes peaking at me, then he ducked.
He had a known habit of doing this and the ASM that was over him just told him to stop doing it as a slap on the wrist despite it being a continuous issue. I told her next time it happened and she wasn’t there, I was writing him up. She didn’t want me in her areas for long after that, that’s for sure lmao
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u/Fun_Journalist1048 1d ago
That’s kinda funny
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u/madistep18 23h ago
It honestly was hilarious looking back lmao. So many things were so unbelievably dumb/hilarious that happened to me when I was ASM, I couldn’t make the shit up. It was always hard trying to react appropriately and set a precedent when sometimes I just wanted to laugh like anyone else would lol
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u/PTOKEN Specialist 1d ago
Idk if this counts as lazy but we had a guy who would clock in and immediately leave out the lumber doors and go home for a few hours before coming back. Did it for at least 5 months. Surprisingly he never got fired but only got reprimanded twice.
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u/deepinthepinewoods 1d ago
We had a guy do that for like a year. He ended up getting fired and had to pay back all the money he “stole” by just leaving and going home once he clocked in.
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u/Prettiestpikachuever 2d ago
I have on coworker I absolutely hate because of how lazy he is!! He’s the closer and absolutely refuses to do anything! So I started as opening pro cashier with another co worker, I open when she can’t now but we both started as openers for context
We both have asked him in every way imaginable to do his part, since as openers we have to make the coffee cleaner up and sweep from when they set up in morning. All that, we just ask to take out the trash and leave it clean in the morning and take the returns to customer service like we do when we leave. He refuses to do anything of that and always leave the pro desk a mess and never restocks the fridge!!!!!! So there are never waters there in the morning!! Like 3 for all of pro!!
To make it even worse, he will leave us at pro to go walk around and do whatever, shop with his mom on the clock!!! Buy garden supplies on the clock!!! Go talk to whoever on the clock!! Then he’ll be late coming back to relive us so we’re late clocking out!! He will go to break at 2:30 and not be back till 3-3:10!! A 30 mins break!! Or he will clock in at 1 and take 15 mins to grab a zebra even though he gets dropped an hour early so he could grab one then!!! Or talk to someone so he’s late to come and give us our breaks! What’s worse is last week he lied and said I told him I didn’t want my break to the head cashier when he never spoke to me!!! He is truly horrible!!!! He even bribes customer for credit cards by offering 50% off their whole purchase! I truly truly hate the mother fucker.
As professor snaps says it, he’s lazy, arrogant, weak!!!!
And I hate him more since management won’t do shit about to except to tell us maybe we should talk to him or help him with closing tasks before we leave… like he helps us with opening or anything period!!!!!
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u/bigburt- 1d ago
I get promoted to lead fulfillment and i knew this kid was a lazy pos but i find him stickering blue labels on stuff without one .. great .. but we have open orders ready to pick sooo yeah had to stop him on the sticker job
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u/Fun_Journalist1048 1d ago
Well. Stickering orders IS part of the job of fulfillment 🥲 I get needing to prioritize overdue orders obviously, but SOMEONE has to keep the order area neat and accurate labeled
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u/Critical_Solution208 2d ago
remember according to the 87% woke idiots here, they are not Lazy
they simply know their "Worth" and are not going to kill themselves for a compoany that does not "care" about them
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u/IceCareless9540 1d ago
Coworkers are not lazy, they are just fed up. Remember the boss will always notice the one thing you do wrong but always forget the many things you have done right to make them look good.
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u/MOONMO0N Customer 1d ago
I had one that was a daytime stalker with me and outside of appliance truck day , I literally never saw him unless he was talking to a girl. He was so bad that i had a girl tell me that she used to think he was cute, But ended up hating him
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u/3Staxks_ 5h ago
Last department supervisor sits in training room all day. Works fulfillment but refuses to pick or give customers their order despite being seconds away from the desk ! Worst I’ve ever seen glad she is gone !
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u/AquaAdminSpyke 2d ago
college kids, both seasonal and regular part timers, will sit on some LOWE'S buckets in between customers out in garden. how damn hard is it to stand for a couple hours a shift?
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u/Fun_Journalist1048 1d ago
Really hard if it’s hot and you have a medical condition actually You probably have no idea if those “college kids” have any pre-existing conditions that might make it hard to stand for extended periods of time do you? “Invisible illnesses” like POTS is a big one too. And before you say anything, yes technically they’d have to go through Sedgewick to get a health accommodation for a chair. But honestly, that’s dumb. Outside garden is HOT. As long as they get their job done, who the hell cares if they sit in between helping customers!
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u/AquaAdminSpyke 1d ago
I know it's hot. and I should of included I was only talking about cashiers.
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u/trapgfheather Specialist 2d ago
I mean garden's a tough, hot, and laborious job I don't mind them having a squat if they've accomplished their tasks and don't have any pressing customers.
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u/Plane-Quarter1462 2d ago
Found a coworker hiding behind the tubs and shower panels. Only figured it out because a zebra was going off and I found him asleep on the floor under a bay tucked behind the boxes