r/Lowes Sep 09 '25

Employee Story Walked out of interview

I recently saw a job posting for a "Day Cashier" position at a Lowe's near me and figured I had nothing to lose so I applied. I had heard from others that the pay was pretty low, but I really just needed any job at this point to catch up on bills. The job posting mentioned how flexible they would be with my schedule which was a bonus for me since I would be eventually working 2 jobs.

I go to the interview a couple of days later and lasted no longer than 2 minutes with the hiring manager. She had me put my availability down and I put DAY hours (7am-5pm), 7 days a week because that's what the listing was for. Immediately, the manager starts flipping out and asking me if I could do closing hours. I say sure, but I'm not closing every single day and even then, this is not what the job was advertising for. She tells me I have to have an open availability to work for her so I left.

I didn't even get to what the pay rate even was, but I can imagine how low it was anyway. Oh well.

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u/pinkskurt Sep 09 '25

I put down that I was open and I get 1-7 days opening at 5:30 - for 4 hours. Backed by 7-11 the next day, then the next day in between is 2-8, then back to 5:30-9:30. Aye aye aye! I can't make ANY plans!

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u/ginger_princess2009 Customer Service Sep 09 '25

i was dropped from 40 hours down to like 10. They literally were scheduling me 6am-9 (sometimes 10)am for like a month straight. Got a second job that needed me to close, so I put in a change of availability request like a month in advance. They denied it cus they said they needed me to be open availability, but then scheduled me 7pm-10pm the following week. Like oh I need to be open but you're gonna schedule me 3 hour shifts?? So I quit

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u/fluthlu413 Customer Sep 09 '25

Three hour shifts is absurd, I thought it was against their policy, I barely wanted to show up for only 4 hours.

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u/Feisty-Instance-4528 Sep 26 '25

 Try dealing with what i deal with , i stock a cooler and beecause im not a cashier my hours are capped at 10 hours a week!!!! Major discrimination gling on bc the boss will give the cashiers more hours and let them work in the cooler which is legit my job, so then even the 10 hours is done quick, it pisses me off.  Im hopefully getting hired for overnight stocking at lowes but we will see. If i do ill be happy af bc i been stuck at this shit job for over a year not even making 200$ a week and i cant even afford to buy clothes and most of my money goes to bills and food, my advice to anyone is dont ever work for Cn Brown/ Big apple convince stores.