On Aug 10, 8:48*am, George wrote:
N8N wrote:
On Aug 9, 11:15 pm, DerbyDad03 wrote:
I didn't need anything as big or as costly as the shed kits at the
borgs so I drew up some plans for an 8 x 6 x 6 lean-to style shed to
store a few items in my backyard

I hooked up the trailer, headed off to HD and $250 later I had all the
2x4's, plywood and T1-11 that I needed for the shed. Just as I pulled
in the driveway I go "D*mn... forgot the stuff my wife needs for her
project."

So I drop the trailer and head back to HD. This time I go in a
different door and notice a big hand-written sign that says "Open Box
Shed Kits On Sale. Inquire At Customer Service."

"What the heck. I'll see what they got." I end up meeting the nicest
HD manager ever. She walked me over to 4 open box kits, one of which
was an 8 x 8 x 8 Regent II, the one I would have bought if I wanted to
spend the bucks.

http://www.handyhome.com/regent.htm

Regularly $499, she marked it down 50% to $249 - the same amount I
paid for the wood for my little lean-to! We went back inside, she rang
me put, put a Sold sign on the kit and told me to see her when I came
back with my trailer.

I go home, get the trailer, return all my wood and go looking for
Shannon. When I find her, she says "Let me get a fork-truck. Where are
you parked?" So now I've got a manager driving the fork truck and
helping me load the kit in my trailer - a kit I'm sure they didn't
make much money, if any, on. I look the kit over real quick and notice
that there are no instructions. Shannon goes back inside, looks them
up on the web and prints out the 36 page manual saying "If there's
anything else missing, find me during the days or tell any other
manager that Shannon said to give you what you need.

I've bad mouthed the borgs in the past, but this time I gotta Shannon
her props!

I guess she's not interested in transferring to DC-land? *there's a
couple HDs around here that need people like her.

nate

That person is just a point off the curve and will quickly get burned
out while looking for *a real job. A relative got thrown under the bus
when a company she worked for closed. She is a bright conscientious
person. She took a "manager" position at home cheepo. She got paid a
whopping $10/hour because the "manager" position is on the high end. For
that she needed to deal with the range of problems that occur all day
plus on certain days show up at 5 AM by herself to open the store and on
certain days close the store by herself late at night. She did her best
just like the person who was described and quickly left when she found a
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I was one of 125 new employees hired when a Lowes store first opened.
I lasted 6 months. After 5 years there are only 2 of the original 125
hirees left in the store. They went thru 7 store managers in those 5
years. Nationally Lowes has a 80% employee turnover rate.

KC