Reply #10: Some bean counter figured out the cost of providing a salary & benefits [View All]

[Urban Prairie]

for 1700 FT managers would be more than off-set by eliminating them and adding PT employees with absolutely none.

I would be very surprised if they actually will "permanently" hire even half of what they are claiming will be 8000-10,000 new PT employees, and if they do, likely more than half will get shed anyway after the "dust" settles, and most of those who remain will work only on weekends, with most perhaps at best averaging 12 hours total per week.


Lowes might even put many on an on-call basis, meaning that they might get just 6 hours one week, and 18 (filling in on a weekday for sicktime) the next. PT workers are just soo flexible like that.

Likely they will also arrange the schedules of the PTers, so that they will most often get just one 10-15 minute break and no lunch.

But they will still have to pay unemployment compensation for 1700 ex-managers.

Lowe's: just another example of corporations who deserve no loyalty, nor should they elicit any pride in being their employee.