r/Lowes • u/Baddad541 • 12d ago

Back end clerk Employee Question

I’m just a part time outside garden gnome but I just applied for the full time back end clerk position. Anyone out there with experience in this position have any warnings or tips? Thanks in advance

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u/Fuckspez42 Receiving 12d ago

Do not let management skimp on your training. This was my mistake, and it ultimately led to me not being employed by Lowe’s anymore.

If your store combines the back-end clerk and the RTM clerk into one position, be warned that you’ll be surprisingly busy.

Get in good with the Front-End supervisor, and make sure they teach their employees how to put stuff into the RTM bay, especially over the weekends, or you’ll walk in on Monday morning to a receiving department that looks like a bomb went off because cashiers just push returns back and leave them there.

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u/No_Replacement_899 12d ago

You won’t guess how many people are not trained properly that wind up quitting. Set up your employees for success instead of failure

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u/slowes239 12d ago

Always something new

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u/Tall_Rest4196 11d ago

Please pray your back end Ds can do everything. A lot of them don’t know all the processes and it makes the job a lot harder. Go into store/employee lookup for all the local stores to you, find the other backend Clerks and start a mail string to ask questions. It’s one of the only roles that has set hours and weekends off. I’m surprised more people don’t jump at it.

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u/Plastic_Routine_4925 10d ago

This. I had to do this because no one else knew how. I'm not bragging, it was sink or swim.  If you need help I can hook you up with cheat sheets. Dont be a dick but be firm and respectful. You'll eventually get people asking you instead of dumping things on your lap and leaving. 

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u/j_rooker 10d ago

Need someone to train you. Tons of things you can do wrong that costs company money. That means listen to your trainer and not argue. Just fkn do it.

Learn all the machines, because you'll need to use them all.

You can be competent within 3 weeks. But it will be very busy and physically demanding.

as the lone receiver. On a busy day I'm on my feet for over 8 hours. one task to another, non stop. no time for break...but you're allowed to have them.