Just In Lowe's is now competing with signs

[Marlene]

I love the instructions on how to steal artwork online. No wonder we see so many knock offs.

 

[F1225hgB42w]

Looks like it's buildasign, just Google the phone number listed as the support number and it returns BuildASign with a ton of other trade names registered to it.

I would have thought BuildASign would be smarter than to partner with a retailer at such high price points...

 

[Texas_Signmaker]

I have to admit... I've ordered bsigns from buildasign and unboxxed them at my shop and turnaround and give to my customer.... They are cheap

 

[equippaint]

I have to admit... I've ordered bsigns from buildasign and unboxxed them at my shop and turnaround and give to my customer.... They are cheap

You animal!

 

[DerbyCitySignGuy]

They used to have knowledgeable people and most departments were staffed by tradesman. When you went to plumbing, the guys were plumbers. They paid well so they could get those people and provided full time with benefits. Then came this shift in attitudes of these corporate leaders lock step with this hateful political tide where everyone thinks workers are being overpaid, knowledge is not important, anything can be taught to anyone in a 15 min class and workers could be replaced with a monkey. So now they hire part time people with no experience in any trade whatsoever and think they are saving money. Its short sighted and lazy. Its easy to measure dollars saved, its hard work to measure long term implications and assign a dollar value to poor decisions, so they don't. The shareholders stay happy in the short term which is all that matters.

I wish there was a way to double agree with this.

 

[AF]

It’s called corporate communism. The handful of execs (oligarchs) make huge money while the remaining tens of thousands of employees (serfs) make minimum wage and rely on government social programs to survive. Since the government is subsidizing these large corporations through social (welfare) programs, nobody else can compete.

 

[TimToad]

They used to have knowledgeable people and most departments were staffed by tradesman. When you went to plumbing, the guys were plumbers. They paid well so they could get those people and provided full time with benefits. Then came this shift in attitudes of these corporate leaders lock step with this hateful political tide where everyone thinks workers are being overpaid, knowledge is not important, anything can be taught to anyone in a 15 min class and workers could be replaced with a monkey. So now they hire part time people with no experience in any trade whatsoever and think they are saving money. Its short sighted and lazy. Its easy to measure dollars saved, its hard work to measure long term implications and assign a dollar value to poor decisions, so they don't. The shareholders stay happy in the short term which is all that matters.

Any of those who question how our economy has been steered to cater to corporatism and the interests of the top 1% at the expense of the working classes are denounced as unamerican, anti-free market, socialist, etc.

We've been on a clear, easily tracked 40 year downward trajectory designed to rob the working classes of their economic security in order to enrich the top 1% and create a society so financially insecure and divided that it will accept a lesser standard of living than previous generations.

 

[DerbyCitySignGuy]

Any of those who question how our economy has been steered to cater to corporatism and the interests of the top 1% at the expense of the working classes are denounced as unamerican, anti-free market, socialist, etc.

We've been on a clear, easily tracked 40 year downward trajectory designed to rob the working classes of their economic security in order to enrich the top 1% and create a society so financially insecure and divided that it will accept a lesser standard of living than previous generations.

The good news is that education is being gutted in a lot of states (like my own great Commonwealth of Kentucky), so in a couple generations the serfs will be too stupid to know that the lords are robbing them.

Higher education is really suffering. EKU has cut something like 17 programs and laid off dozens of professors. I think NKU is cutting back as well. Murray State is being privatized.

At least there will be plenty of people to stand around in Home Depot.

 

[Texas_Signmaker]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery

 

[TimToad]

It’s called corporate communism. The handful of execs (oligarchs) make huge money while the remaining tens of thousands of employees (serfs) make minimum wage and rely on government social programs to survive. Since the government is subsidizing these large corporations through social (welfare) programs, nobody else can compete.

Actually it resembles fascism far more closely than any derivative of communism. The heavy hand of government partnering with industry in order to weaken labor protections, environmental regulations, financial accountability regulations, consumer protections, etc. is more in line with fascism than cimmunism.

 

[d fleming]

Yep, making rum is looking better and better.

 

[TimToad]

The good news is that education is being gutted in a lot of states (like my own great Commonwealth of Kentucky), so in a couple generations the serfs will be too stupid to know that the lords are robbing them.

Higher education is really suffering. EKU has cut something like 17 programs and laid off dozens of professors. I think NKU is cutting back as well. Murray State is being privatized.

At least there will be plenty of people to stand around in Home Depot.

I think a good many serfs are already too stupid to know that the lords are robbing them.

 

[HDvinyl]

Ditch diggers need jobs too, but machines took over that job.

God didn't make many smart people for a reason. [HASHTAG]#TrumpReasoning[/HASHTAG]

 

[equippaint]

Ditch diggers need jobs too, but machines took over that job.

God didn't make many smart people for a reason. [HASHTAG]#TrumpReasoning[/HASHTAG]

Lol true but good paying, high ranking positions have their proportionate share of dumb mofos too. Don't confuse the job requiring intelligence as actually being filled with it.

 

[Texas_Signmaker]

A quote...

"The slave was precious to his master because of the money he had cost him ... They were worth at least as much as they could be sold for in the market ... It is the impossibility of living by any other means that compels our farm labourers to till the soil whose fruits they will not eat and our masons to construct buildings in which they will not live ... It is want that compels them to go down on their knees to the rich man in order to get from him permission to enrich him ... what effective gain [has] the suppression of slavery brought [him ?] He is free, you say. Ah! That is his misfortune ... These men ... [have] the most terrible, the most imperious of masters, that is, need. ... They must therefore find someone to hire them, or die of hunger. Is that to be free?"

 

[DerbyCitySignGuy]

A quote...

"The slave was precious to his master because of the money he had cost him ... They were worth at least as much as they could be sold for in the market ... It is the impossibility of living by any other means that compels our farm labourers to till the soil whose fruits they will not eat and our masons to construct buildings in which they will not live ... It is want that compels them to go down on their knees to the rich man in order to get from him permission to enrich him ... what effective gain [has] the suppression of slavery brought [him ?] He is free, you say. Ah! That is his misfortune ... These men ... [have] the most terrible, the most imperious of masters, that is, need. ... They must therefore find someone to hire them, or die of hunger. Is that to be free?"

I feel like I've taken a trip back to the 1860s with this pro-slavery gem.

I don't feel like I'm going out on a limb here when I say slavery is bad. Across the board. It's just bad.

 

[Gino]

So, now are y'all finished with your terms and labels for everything ya don't like ?? Buncha pots calling the kettle black.

Suck it up. It's called competition. None of ya are interested in anything other than making a buck, putting food on the table and being independent. Sure, we all have employees, taxes, and so many other things to pay, but at the end of the day, just because Lowe's wants to be in the sign industry..... what kinda customer is gonna buy signs at Lowe's ?? The kind you want...... I think not.

I just can't believe some of you (and you know who you are) took another stab at turning this into a political farce for your own shortcomings.​

 

[DerbyCitySignGuy]

So, now are y'all finished with your terms and labels for everything ya don't like ?? Buncha pots calling the kettle black.

Suck it up. It's called competition. None of ya are interested in anything other than making a buck, putting food on the table and being independent. Sure, we all have employees, taxes, and so many other things to pay, but at the end of the day, just because Lowe's wants to be in the sign industry..... what kinda customer is gonna buy signs at Lowe's ?? The kind you want...... I think not.

I just can't believe some of you (and you know who you are) took another stab at turning this into a political farce for your own shortcomings.​

I actually agree with you about the customers. I don't want the customers that are going to buy signs at Lowe's. They're the ones that tend to monopolize your time for one or two banners that you're probably not going to end up making any money on in the long run. Good riddance, let Lowe's have them.

Everything is political, Gino. Everything.

 

[equippaint]

So, now are y'all finished with your terms and labels for everything ya don't like ?? Buncha pots calling the kettle black.

Suck it up. It's called competition. None of ya are interested in anything other than making a buck, putting food on the table and being independent. Sure, we all have employees, taxes, and so many other things to pay, but at the end of the day, just because Lowe's wants to be in the sign industry..... what kinda customer is gonna buy signs at Lowe's ?? The kind you want...... I think not.

I just can't believe some of you (and you know who you are) took another stab at turning this into a political farce for your own shortcomings.​

The guy who complains about newbies knowing nothing is cool with a big box getting into the sign business? I personally have more terms and labels + many stereotypes and analogies for things I don't like, it saves me time. I have so many my wife always has to tell me to just shut up.

 

[Johnny Best]

Oligarchs, serfs, Communism, college education and social wefare subjects. All out of Lowes selling signs.
Wow, we have some smart people on here to get all that out of a sign display at Lowes.
I never ask for information from an employee in the big box stores, next time I am in there, going to ask what aisle do they keep the oligarchs on.