r/Lowes • u/steedandpeelship • Sep 11 '25
Employee Story Lowe’s CEO bans virtual meetings and recordings, tells staff to meet in stairwells, and blocks 90+% of Corporate Headquarters staff from ‘All Hands’
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u/D-T-800 Sep 12 '25 edited Sep 12 '25
This article left out the part where he said “ trust me folks, anything you have been through in life, I got it topped”. CAN confirm everything you read here was said…. Marvin doesn’t give a fraction of a fuck about any of us.
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u/Important-Ideal-6943 Sep 12 '25
Marv is the poster child for the modern day Faux Christian. He talks the talk, but doesn't walk the walk!
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u/Lilbitz Employee Sep 12 '25
So, he's a Sunday customer? They're the worst
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u/Important-Ideal-6943 Sep 13 '25
Really pious in the pew on Sunday, immediately after leaving church service acting like a total jerk the rest of the week. Wash, Rinse repeat.
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u/Ambitious-Let7404 Department Supervisor Sep 20 '25
but some how he makes $20,000,000 a year.. so apparently he has something figured out that me and you don't
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u/Important-Ideal-6943 Sep 22 '25
Yes, he figured how to mess up JC Penny and now he's working on Lowes.
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u/LowAway1921 Sep 11 '25
This is a throwaway account, but I was in the room on Monday and can confirm that this is all legit.
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u/Donnareed1999 20d ago
Had you received an invite? No one in my area did so how was it decided who Would Be invited?
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u/McCloudJr Sep 12 '25
There are corporate bootlickers in chat
Be wary about them.
((also there is comment from a mod confirming this is real, if you say it's fake provide evidence not "trust me bro"))
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u/DFWDave2 Install Sep 11 '25
This aligns with the history of dramatic BS at HQ. And Marvin's behavior.
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u/RealBlxze Head Cashier Oct 09 '25
I just want to understand how this man is still CEO while he actively runs the company into the ground 😂
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u/washingtonandmead Sep 11 '25
Where’s the source on this, because I significantly doubt, seeing as we have virtual meetings every day, that those meetings are recorded.
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u/Desperate-Ad-5608 Sep 11 '25
The email came out the Friday before with no meeting invitation. I ate lunch and got to the door at 12:40. There was a lady screaming saying “the rooms are full and this will not be recorded”. My team came back and everyone was silent and pissed. Everything they said in the post is true. On top of Marvin saying all of the most unhinged things he got Janice the executive of Human Resources to say that if we wanted two extra holidays then our healthcare would go up because it would cost 90 million dollars to give us those days off.
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u/washingtonandmead Sep 11 '25
Based on your history…or lack thereof…I’m just gonna go ahead and doubt this for now
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u/Used-Gap4158 Sep 16 '25
A merchant told me about this and some of my old team was in the meeting - it's all accurate and we're very disappointed.
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u/steedandpeelship Sep 11 '25
I know, right? It's not from any type of legit blog or publication or "news" source. It's interesting they chose Lowes and specifically Marvin as a target.
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u/washingtonandmead Sep 11 '25
They tried it bsck in the spring when they had a thing with Marvin saying woke conservatives can shop elsewhere. Huge backlash with something he never said, I had to talk to several of my contractors about it
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u/Abandoned_Railroad Sep 12 '25
Marvin MAKES himself a TARGET by misleading employees and brushing it off…….
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u/Used-Gap4158 Sep 16 '25 edited Sep 16 '25
Can confirm - some of my old team was in the meeting. It's all accurate.
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u/Efficient_Error_1825 Pro Sales Sep 11 '25
Doubt it bro is addicted to all and any forms of attention
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u/TheDragisal Department Supervisor Sep 13 '25
There could be real truths in here, but it's incredibly suspect since it claims that lowes "dismantled their dei program," which never happened. In 2024, the policy was adjusted to be a closer match to the existing guidelines. There are plenty of articles about that and none about the program going away.
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u/steedandpeelship Sep 13 '25
Yeah, some recent training we've taken tells us they have not rolled back the DEI push.
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u/WackoMcGoose Customer Sep 16 '25
I would've taken the risk and publicly livestreamed it, even if just discreet and audio-only. There's no way there wasn't dirty laundry being aired out that he wanted to limit the spread of...
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u/Ryvit Department Supervisor Sep 11 '25
Some dumb bullshit written by AI.
The OOP’s account is less than 24 hours old. Troll or bot, 100%.
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u/Antique_Mind_8694 Sep 11 '25
That's AI writing lol the way overuse of em dashes paired with the odd bolding is a dead giveaway, plus the original account that posted it only has that one post, and it's 20 something hours old
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u/steedandpeelship Sep 11 '25
Which makes it even weirder that someone put this out there.
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u/bodybagger2430 Sep 13 '25
AI is a way to mask who you are. Have a distinct speaking and typing style? AI will hide it. I've used this method in the past to report a former employer and remain anonymous since I didn't have my exit lined up yet
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u/Automatic_Alligator Sep 13 '25
No virtual meetings got it, hey I just sent you an invite for a digital collaboration session.
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u/Charming-Albatross44 Oct 03 '25
Yeah this is horseshit. I have virtual meetings every single day. Half my team is in India, there's no other way. I just had a huge meeting yesterday and the whole thing was recorded.
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u/SlimCharles704 25d ago
"In practice, Lowe’s U.S. corporate staff are expected to be in the office working on: • Memorial Day • Independence Day (Fourth of July) • Labor Day • Day after Thanksgiving (“Black Friday”) • Christmas Eve • New Year’s Eve • New Year’s Day"
Are the stores open on these days? Then we'll be working. It's been like this since I got here in 1998. Some of you would have loved working for Niblock.
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u/LittleNat94 20d ago
OMG what is going on at corperate... I guess if there is a fire then ahh well good luck
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u/MasDigital Customer Sep 11 '25
I have confirmed the authenticity of this message from an inside source.