Employee Sing Sing
Employees have frequently taken the time to create videos discussing their employment at Depot. These are offered here for review. The author can neither confirm nor deny their authenticity. While it is probably true happy employees are less likely to build a video on You Tube than the aggrieved, the number of videos readily available also seem to tell a story of simmering discontent under bad treatment. Keep in mind older and part time employees are even less likely to bother lacking both time and skill sets.
Exhibit 1. This employee worked as a cashier for a period of time slightly longer than me. Several of her comments resonated. Her comments on the credit card pressure is of note. I was able to deflect some of that by saying my faith prevented the offer of usury and I documented that with the local HR rep in writing. Meeting a sales goal while not being paid any commission in flooring is another vice employed by Depot against an employee. Guess they believe their salaries are so exorbitant there is no reason to pay commission but if you don’t meet quota in flooring then goodbye. Of course paying commission to producers would not be tolerant nor inclusive and highly discriminatory right?
Exhibit 2. Another employee detailing the life and times at Depot. He details precisely what the author has observed first hand. Again, he started in the front end as a cashier. His review of the floor managers has also been experienced by the author. The benefits provided by Depot on the whole are ghastly lacking. The company may incur a big expense for the benefit offered but the benefit offered does not bring the utility for the funds expended. Or they are simply being cheap which is likely.
Exhibit 3. Meltdown by customer and manager at a store. Everyone is human but when staffing is stretched way too far these moments increase exponentially. The customer should not have to wait ten plus minutes to give store money and the cashier frazzled needed another cashier to help handle the traffic. When no one is available this is the predictable result. The manager’s conduct is appalling. I experienced this several times over the years and employees began to send me their angry customers before calling a manager.
Exhibit 4. Here is a webinar discussing tenets of the book and Home Depot Practices discussed in detail.
Exhibit 5. A short video about revenge of the cashier towards a difficult customer. The scene with the customer sitting inside the dryer is a reminder that most aisles have one thing in common and that is no Depot employees present. Of course they do have video or so they claim.
Exhibit 6. Discussion of the Wokism published in Canadian stores. It has been published that this event did not reflect instructions from the company. The company employs a diversity officer. How did this extreme prejudice go public? How did he not know? Or was this just a beta test? If he did not know that strikes to his competency. That he did know or plausibly knew that strikes to his prejudice and character.
Exhibit 7. Another review of Wokism diversity and hate speech sprung on Canadian employees.
Exhibit 8. Tow motor operators do not wear hard hats. I complained about this lack of safety and this video shows why. Now you can begin to understand how and why they had two fatalities the same month in the company in 2021. Safety is often deemed an impediment to operation and profit.
Exhibit 8. What happens when drywall pallet hits a sprinkler head. Well at lest the sprinklers were charged and functioning.
Exhibit 9. Home Depot likes exclusive and cheap. This video demonstrates this policy in place again. Diablo equals devil?
Exhibit 10. The first half is comedy on Loews and the second half is a proposed commercial by Depot in response. Depot is way too cheap to invest in robots when they have an endless supply of human ones instead. Sort of like slave labor to the Red Chinese.
Exhibit 11. Depot encourages dogs. Sometimes the store resembles a dog kennel that sells hardware. The company believes dogs are morally equivalent to human beings and if you really do not want to shop in a dog filled store too bad. Add to this some Karens and here is the result. I had one dog sitting a cart spit on me as I placed a bag into the cart. Asked the HR representative if Depot provided Raby shots.
Exhibit 12. Short video analyzing Glassdoor reviews of Home Depot. Need I say more? Priceless.
Exhibit 13. The store was robbed yesterday. Here is the narrative to use.
The book contains numerous examples of excess cash held in the registers. The Decatur store policy was strip if three or more $100 bills were in the till everywhere except PRO. There five one-hundred-dollar bills was borderline. If the cashier had excessive twenties clean the till . Place all the money in a tube and send it to the safe in the back of the store. Tubes available was sketchy at best and many supervisors and cashiers simply did not do it. April replaced Christy as Front End Supervisor FES. She made it a point of emphasis, but tube availability and management apathy did not support her efforts.
On June 29, 2022, an armed robbery occurred resulting in a ridiculous high-speed pursuit by two city and county sheriff departments resulting in a wreck killing one of the robbers. The media did not bother The media did not bother to interview a single store employee and focused exclusively on the wreck. Two reasons for doing so. First, Home Depot sponsors media so interviewing them is not good for that commercial revenue. Secondly, such interviews might help establish Depot vicarious liability. How about the response? Would a locally owned small donut shop received this kind of response and action? Oh I get it. Home Depot brings in all that sales tax revenue, right?
Home Depot provides no security in any store. They are wide open for any kind of criminal activity. Many times their cameras don’t even work. As an employee I complained endlessly about strips and tubes. Know we know why.
Miscellaneous comments from Employees
Pinned by Dear HR
I work for Home Depot, never again. I rather go homeless! Promises made, promises broken. I had a great Store Manager, family oriented, he work for Home Depot for 15yrs, they fired him during the pandemic, no one could figure out WHY? Before he found out about being fired, he promised me that he was going to keep me in seasonal with all my experience I had with lawn equipment & such. I was hired as seasonal for the season originally, after his firing the (store manager) they replace him with, was pure crap! And my opportunity was gone, they let me go at the end & the New Store Manager said this, I did a great job and I could reapply; I stated, if I’m already here & did a great job, why should I reapply? Silence! Even my supervisor was taken by it. There turn over rate is a joke. I’ll say this; My dog has a higher IQ then some of the Store Managers.
Nearly died at Home Depot lol. The complete disregard and disdain towards employees is pathetic. I was in flooring for about a year and I quite because I couldnt even like the position anymore. The pay is not worth it, the training is god awful. There is no responsibility or accountability for night crew or assoiciates who screw around. If you are a good worker you will be used like a doormat. Be warned.
Trying to find my way out too. Sick of management trying to push more on me when I’m already practically in charge of my area (cause I’m the only one that works). You want me to train to be a cashier and try to get me to DS? I don’t have the time. Or the energy anymore. The problem with thd is that if they see you busting ass, they put more work on you.
Home Depot does not deserve its reputation, I believe. In my case, I felt like a slave in terms of personnel management and communication.
Home Depot in my opinion made the classic corporate error not understanding the importance of good workers.Back in the day companies had a Personnel department now they are honest enough to call them Human Resources departments because they are telling you what they value.Not you as a person which is what the customer wants but what the company wants Just like the paper clips, the light bulbs and the store fixtures that’s how they value people.I was a union member for much of my life and companies don’t like unions because the union makes sure that employees are treated fairly.On top of the good wages and benefits I earned I now get a pension check every month instead of a worthless 401k scam.that companies push.When I worked for a non-union company and quit the fee to distribute my money was more than the money I had “invested”.Best Regards to you.
I worked at The Home Depot during the start of the pandemic, and left a year and a half later. It was a very unpleasant place to work. Some of the supervisors and managers were clicky. When I had to ask for an intermittent leave of absence due to a medical treatment, the retaliation started with coaching sessions. Little did they know a previous employers manager was trying to have me come to work for them. After the second bullshit coaching session, I realized THD was nothing but a shitshow. This company is worse than working for Walmart. I never received the training listed in the new hire training packet handout where someone was supposed to walk the store and show you where and how to cut chain, wire, lumber, and to cut keys. When I left, I left the new hire packet paperwork for my training in my employee locker for them to find so they could see where they screwed up. The store manager also told the supervisor at the customer service desk to train me there to. Nothing happened with the training at the service desk either. When they pushed a second coaching session, I went home, and contacted my former boss who was trying to get me to work, and was offered an immediate job offer. When I gave The Home Depot my notice, their response was to remove me completely from the schedule posted on workday. I had all remaining hours taken away from me. I just didn’t go back to finish my remaining time with them. My experience with THD was so bad that a district manager reached out to me through email and wanted me to answer some questions, and wanted to know if I had any comments. I did tell the district manager everything they did. I even told the DM they wrote me up saying I was late 4 times when the time clock detail only said I was late two times. Being late was also due to the medical treatment I had, and THD had the nerve to tell me I needed more documentation from my treating physician under the intermittent leave asked for.
This story is about five yrs to late. An old friend would send me all the woke brainwash seminars and directives he had to enroll in and study at home depot.He was the only non-minority out of 13 in his section. He would joke in home depot he was the minority.
While I realize that this video came out in 2020, it occurs to me that Home Depot dropping product line that’s rated number one, is not to separate itself from other retailers. It’s to improve their bottom line. It also indicates their total disregard for customer service and customer choice. Customer service is dead in America.
Admittedly this is a very small and inconclusive sample. That said Depot does enjoy rapid and unending employee turnover like most major retailers. The experiences of most of these is not good in their collective opinions. Some are not good workers, but many are more than acceptable. How many ex pats have anything good to say about their ex employer? Sadly the good experiences are a small minority. As stated in the book I doubt Home depot is much worse or even as bad as other bog box retailers. That they decline to use their commanding market position to be better or do more is the problem. You need only look at the major shareholders and executive compensation packages to see why.