Worst customer service experience yesterday afternoon, 10/7/18!
I approached the customer service desk and found a customer seated waiting at an unattended register. On the opposite side of the desk at the Returns register, a lone employee attended a customer.
As I waited, another customer got in line behind the customer he was attending. If he was manning the Service desk alone, I'd have thought he'd redirect her to the line forming behind me and the customer seated at the man Customer service register, but instead, he allowed 2 lines to form. I wondered if perhaps another employee might have been working the other customer service register -perhaps had just stepped away. .., so I asked if he was working both registers, if perhaps there was just 1 line, but before I could articulate my question, it was as if he was waiting for the situation to escalate for him to immediately get verbally abusive with the first customer who dared ask him a question ... And he did this to me in front of my 7 year old child, scolded me and told me to wait my turn.., yet I wasn't asking for my turn, I was asking if he was working both registers or not and he scolded me and said that taking the time to talk to me had now slowed him down and that he would be with me in turn and told me not to roll my eyes...
?! Not me! I am ordinarily an extremely polite person, I usually make friends with cashiers and customers on lines! Simetimes my husband will ask if I know the cashier or customer because of our friendliness, that's just how I am, a "you get more bees with honey" type of person, so I KNOW this guy was allowing the situation at the service desk to escalate on purpose to give himself the opportunity to go off sarcastically on someone publically.
I'm usually friendly, never outwardly sarcastic, just wasn't raised like that. He obviously allowed it to escalate with two lines...just to give him the venue to verbally and publicly and sarcastically humiliate someone... that just happened to be me. He totally left me speechless. My daughter said later that she was afraid he was going to use the F-word at me ...!
For a 7 year old to realize that someone was verbally humiliating her mother to the extent that she was afraid he was going to curse shows you HOW sarcastic he got.
If there was a manager around, I would have asked them why they didn't have any assistance for him... Lowe's management needs to UNDERCOVER BOSS this guy. He was looking for an opportunity to be dramatic in public, and letting him run the service desk is allowing him to RUIN their service sesk. When he did come to my register, he really flared at me, but I told him it was NOT my turn: the seated customer was there before me, I was just asking a question, wasn't asking for my turn...when it was my turn, I showed him the item I wanted on my phone (on lowes.com), and he just said "give it to me" not, "may I have your phone?" ... like I said, he's going to ruin their service desk if they allow him to run it. Signed an ordinarily satisfied Lowe's customer read more