My co workers last day and he left his vest up in the rafters. He was a great guy. I'm glad he left a memory for us.

Hi there. You may know as the "Lowes Guy", the "Box Dude", or even "Lowes Box Dude". Nice to meet you.

To start with, lets get the embarrassing factoids out of the way. Yes, I know, I sound like that.
What you have to understand is -

1. I suffer from Cleithrophobia heavily, due to an abusive father thinking it would be funny to trap me in fitted sheets when I was a baby.

2. I was out of shape at the time as I was coming out of bad habits from my youth

3. I was also very depressed at the time, as, being honest, my Lowes was an absolute horrible place to work in, but I had little other options as the hours were thin like I needed cuz I also needed to be a caregiver for my grandmother.

Now, onto the next part...how the hell did I end up in that situation?

An impatient customer, an idiotic manager/coworker, my own impatience, and, believe it or not, advertisements. I will be sharing the details of this incident and its original poster, as they are vital to the story, but I will be making no slanderous statements to make sure I keep within this subs rules. You can make up your mind for yourself on things.

A customer came in DEMANDING service for top shelf inventory. I'm talking pure male karen energy, the worst I ever had to deal with in my whole 8 months of work at Lowes. Our only certified order picker employee was out to lunch, and despite calling management on the Zebra, no help was coming. This man FOLLOWED me around my department, making me unable to do my job whatsoever. Reaching the end of my own patience, I consulted with a coworker and management again, and, instead of sending someone to tell the man to calm down and wait, simply suggested I try getting it down with the ballymore. (Management will deny that big time of course, but I could care less about them at this point.) Obv, a big mistake on my end. It was looking fine, until it slipped off the shelf and caused the machines safety to engage (which, also obv, wasn't actually keeping me safe at all) and rendered the machine inoperable until someone hit the kill switch on the bottom to allow it to restart.

After all that happened, I was sent home (not punished at all) for the day, which I was happy for, as that was a very embarrassing and painful thing to go through.

I woke up the next day to EVERY single one of my social medias absolutely exploding. Come to find out, the customer who bullied me and my coworker into that incident RECORDED the entire thing, and posted it to social media with a legit doxx of who I was (this is a relatively small town, EVERYONE knew it was me with just my first name). I was stunned. Overnight, I went from being a nobody to being the next viral lolcow, and it showed in the dms I got. Harassment, threats of harm, the usual you get from internet trolls, was not only all over MY account, but my families as well.

I had to reach out to the recorder of the video to find out WHY he would post something like that to social media, and what I found out was jaw dropping.

Unlike the op, I have no interest in doxxing people, so despite the fact he used his real name on the account he used to post it, so I will be making an effort to censor who they are.

It may be a bit hard to believe, but this came down to the original poster of the video wanting something viral to help advertise his automotive window business. Yes, ADVERTISING. If you're anything like me, you may be rolling your eyes or scoffing at the idea, but I am being so sincere. He posted this video with the goal of bringing more attention to his personal social media, and then his automotive glass business. He confessed to as much when confronted in a phone call, and (I have no proof of this was during the same phone call, so believing it is up to you.) actually asked me to make a follow-up video to "ride the hype train", asking me to say things like "our prices and deals will have you screaming like *insert video here*"

This behavior disgusted me, as did many others, as he soon had to delete the video from his tiktok and also remove reviews for his business for some time because people were using that to call him out for being just so evil about everything. At first, he blamed me and my family for this, and even had his brother (I think) call us "Devil worshippers" for saying he's getting what he deserved. I ended up quitting my job (not fired or looking for workers comp like some people said) because a coworker was telling me that people were actively looking for me at Lowes to try to farm content of their own. Why else would people be asking for me by name when no one ever did so before? (which, if anyone who did that is reading this, you're a big weirdo for that bro)

I wanted to save myself and my family further harassment so I just let it go, and focused on being a full time caregiver.

Yes, I am being serious. I will be posting links to some of the proof I have (this sub doesn't allow galleries), and it is as ridiculous as it sounds. I won't be posting much unless asked because this isn't meant to be a witch hunt, just proving it was recorded with maliciousness in mind.

( https://imgur.com/Inmar7X him thinking the post was no big deal and trying to damage control by "offering" me a job to avoid backlash )

( https://imgur.com/64aQ3by a single screenshot from his comments that tell you all you need to know about his mindset and how he felt about me. )

( https://imgur.com/ei9c2kq his excuse for recording, which is a whole nothing burger and clearly a bs answer after the fact because he was the one advocating for this to be done, you can hear proof of that in the video. He recorded because he knew it wouldn't end well. Instead of saying nevermind, he wanted a viral clip, end of story, and he even confessed to that later. )

To end off, I would like to apologize to my fellow Lowes workers on here, esp. If I caused yall to have to deal with extra safety training. I shouldn't have left that karen get under my skin, and I have to face the consequences of that, but I want to try to move past all the misinformation being spammed to make me look pathetic and try to make something of my life again. Going viral in the MILLIONS of views in my most embarrassing moment is something that is hard to get over, and I am hoping getting this off my chest (and showing how frankly malicious op was) may bring me some peace.

Don't end up like me, friends. The stigmata and internet footprint has sabotaged my life and lost me the respect of my peers and my partner at the time. Just tell those Karens no!

EDIT: I have asked the mods to lock this post down. The OP of the video is having their info leaked in the comments, and that wasn't my intention. I would ask that info be removed by the original commenters. I do not condone the harassment/doxxing of anyone.

So 8-10 years ago as a manager over the Millwork department I had a customer interrupt me while I was working with another customer, I told the him to give me 3 minutes and I could help him out. He puffed and sighed and walked in circles for all 3 of those minutes while I finished with the other customer. I knew what I was in for.

He told me he knows the store manager and I am to price match Home Depot for the windows he needs. I had no problem doing that, yet he just kept saying how he knows the store manager. So after much debate he begrudgingly gave me the item number from the stock window we carried that was comparable with our competitor. He told me many times how worthless I am, how he could have me fired, etc.

I tried to tell him several times about the price of the window, and every time I started he interrupted me and reminded me of his connection to the store manager and how I am to price match HD. So all 12 windows he bought that day I had to increase the price by $20 a piece so I matched HD prices.

I fall asleep with a smile on my face thinking about that asshat's windows to this day. May they keep your family warm, after all, you paid extra for them.

I would mostly walk to work or my dad take me here, but since he's going back to work after getting PTO, I have to start walking to work pretty much everyday now. My supervisor decided to gift me this bike so i dont have to walk and I'm really thankful that she bought me this.

Headed to returns on January 8th

His name was Orlando and he has worked at our store for almost 30 years. Sunday morning as we were helping set up for the meeting he was maqking us all laugh by pretending we were at church (he was a very religious person but never pushed that on anyone) and everyone that walked in brother and sister and asking us to pass around a collection plate. Had us all laughing so hard. And then Monday I get a call from my other co-worker who was crying, to tell me that he was gone. He helped me so much when I first started and continually helped me during these crappy overnights over the 3 (almost 4) years I have been there. He worked so hard but most importantly he was so incredibly kind. He was kind and polite to everyone and I never saw him even the slightest bit irritated. Like the sweetest and most chill dude I have ever met. This week has been so hard. I walk through plumbing and I expect him to be there. And on lunch, he's not in his chair falling asleep. And he has a family that absolutely adores him and I hate they won't get to have him anymore. My heart hurts for them. And it hurts for me and my team cuz we all loved him. This week has been so hard and I don't know how but of course Orlando would be the one to teach me how to grieve and actually let my emotions out intead of shoving them down and ignoring them like I usually do. I knew someday I would learn how to be a better person from him. I didn't realize it would be like this.

I'm so sorry for the long ass paragraph. I'm just very very very very very sad and I wanted to talk about him. I miss him.

Anyone had this happen to you? How long before you're past wanting to cry in a deep dark hole? And I will say though it's been hard but at least my team are sad together.

customer figured out our overhead page code and dialed it right in front of me. i thought he was an associate off the clock so i didn’t think anything of it walking by and the dude dialed it, waited a couple seconds and farted into the phone echoing a long strenuous fart into the store. i genuinely thought he might’ve shit himself. he then ran out of the store and i got in trouble for it bc i didn’t stop him???

I know that there are a lot of people worrying about food right now - so I've got to wonder: is anyone else's Lowe's providing a fully stocked food pantry for their employees now? Ours is in Gun Barrel City, Texas.

One of our cashiers found 5 kittens in lawn and garden and took them home. What a day

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I'm in disbelief that I actually won the 1 out of 50 buckets 🪣 and number 40 and got the prize winner. 😱🎉

I had been standing at the register for over an hour with my stomach hurting. I called numerous times to go to the bathroom and no one would relieve me until my relief came in because we are “under-staffed.” I tried to do the right thing and not walk off. By the time I was getting ready to flip the light, that’s when my relief showed up.

I took off running to the bathroom, full fucking speed. While I’m running down the aisle, obviously looking like I’m in a rush, a customer stopped me and asked for help. I politely responded, “I am so sorry, but I have to use the restroom. I will call somebody for you when I pass by this phone.” I paged for a code 4, and went on my way to use the restroom.

When I finally got back to the register, my manager pulled me to the side and informed me that no matter the circumstances, I don’t need to push off a customer. The customer complained that I was “rude” and “did not want to help.”

I know for a fact that they saw me running towards the bathroom, and to stop me while my stomach was in my ass was “rude” of them.

I told my manager what happened and was told that I don’t need to do it again to take the time out and help them.

Do managers at Lowes realize that we are humans and things are bound to happen at work? I’m here 40+ hours a week, my stomach is bound to hurt at some point.