Ask a guy who works here anything part whatever

>>1102842
You're a useless cunt, no one cares.

you useless cunt

>>1102842
What dept?

>>1102842
who so you had to kill to find such nice job? How much do you make? do you have some employer's discount?

>>1102888
Home Depot hires almost anyone. You just have to pee in a cup successfully.

Can I steal a pallet from the back? I need one for the wood. I'll probably just swipe one at night anyway, what are you cunts gonna do about it

>>1102895
At the store I work at, they don't even go outside. They get loaded onto a truck in receiving and get hauled off. Good luck breaking into a semi

>>1102842

If I bring pieces of wood that I own would you guys cut it for a price. I don't have tools of my own but need some stuff cut in a certain way.

have they had the defiant flashlights on sale?

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on a scale of triggered to triggerered, how triggered are you if I ask you to cut 256' of 6x6x16's into 2' chunks be?

>>1102887
currently in specialty, have worked in a bunch of departments before that.

>>1102895
technically no, but you can 'buy' one for a $10 deposit.

>>1102899
same, altho they are occasionally by the pro entrance as well.

>>1102913
we can only cut at 90 degree angles with a rip saw, so if that's what you wanted it most likely wouldn't be a problem

>>1102916
probably, i think we had them in the christmas sale section

>>1102918
i wouldn't care, i'd just make you pay for it before i started. if management wanted me to feed wood through a saw all day, i wouldn't really give a fuck - there are a lot harder ways to pass your time.

>>1102923
Do you have any funny stories.

Do appliance salesmen all lie about what's in stock?
>order and pay for a refrigerator and dishwasher at HD. Salesfag 'all set'.
>day before delivery date I'm making all kinds of phone calls trying to find out when they're going to show up
>delivery date about noon finally get somebody to admit they're not in stock and are still over a week out.
Ffffffuuuuuu
>cancel order and go around the block to Lowes.
>order and pay for dishwasher and refrigerator. Salesfag 'all set'
They said they were in stock but were backed up and couldn't deliver for another week. I needed both ASAP which is why I couldn't wait on HD. Fuck it. Call Bozos with a Truck and set a pickup for following day.
>Next day. We have the fridge but the dishwasher is back ordered.
Ffffffuuuuuu
Salesfags-living down to the stereotype since the beginning of time.

>>1102918
>256' of 6x6x16's into 2'

I'd be annoyed that you weren't asking for 256' of 8x8x16's into 2' so that every number was a power of 2.

>>1102929
fuck yes.

my favorite is "do you sell double sided glue?"

>>1102930
it won't let us order it if it isn't "in stock". we don't actually stock shit, they're all from a centrally coordinated third party that does it all for pretty much every major appliance retailer - sears, pc richard, lowes, hd, etc.

that's why no matter who you went to, you were fucked - we all get them from the same source. one of the major issues we have in hd is that our online ordering is not synced to actual stock. our backend that you order from when you come into a store and talk with an appliance associate is, but not everyone knows how to use it. also not everyone knows about the issues with .com. so maybe the salesfag you spoke to ordered it from there, which let him take your money and make management happy, but it wasn't ever going to happen in reality.

it's one of the biggest flaws i think we have in our entire company and it comes back to bite us in the ass repeatedly. especially this time of year when everyone ordered during black friday and shit's all fucked up.

>customer calls livid a few days ago
>said he took off of work to get his appliances in for the brand new kitchen he's built with us.
>app delivery company called him three hrs after his slated time window that they "didn't have room on the truck and would reschedule him on the 29th".

i could repeat basically the same story of third parties fucking it up for us until this thread autosaged and i wouldn't be out of times when that's happened

>>1102842
>ps: your stupid customer service experience is probably half your fault but you're too ignorant of your own surroundings to understand this.

If the half of the problem that's mine is that I went to HD for customer service in the first, then yeah, I'd say you're right.

>>1102842
The last time I asked you, you said you had no aspirations to ever get an education or move onto a real job.

Do you still feel the same way today?
Youve been making these threads long enough you could have gotten a bachelors degree.

You could have been in the trades and be finishing an apprenticeship.

Instead you are working for a company that has no loyalty to you, and you are getting no tangible experience to further your career life in.
How do you justify this to yourself?

>>1102888
>retail
>nice job

bro I'm not knocking anyone with a job, but I worked retail for almost 10 years of my working life, even making management and it is the most soul sucking thing there is

>>1103076
i have had an education (bachelors) for 15 years and this is a real job. also, i've been making these threads for about 3 years, so that'd be an aggressive bachelors

>>1103127
what draws you to retail? are you in management?

>>1103129
i actually tend to like interacting with people, especially when people come up and say "i have a problem, can you help me?" and in most instances, i can. i'm not in management, but in specialty, so i make about as much as a department supervisor without nearly as many headaches. it's a fairly low stress, low hassle way of making a living that pays my bills.

>>1103137
Why dont you have a drivers license or own a car?

>>1103139
because i live in new york city, which has the best public transportation system in the country and i never have to drive anywhere

>>1103032
>>ps: your stupid customer service experience is probably half your fault but you're too ignorant of your own surroundings to understand this.
"you can do it, we can help" *unless your question requires ANY level of understanding beyond what would be learned in a middle school shop class.

>>1103146
you do realize that's like 4 out of every 5 questions we get, right?

I too used to work here

Protip: if you need anything related to electrical, go to Platt Electric instead. They're cheaper, have more selection, and better in every way.

>>1102932
Department 94 here, fuck appliance deliveries and pretty much everything related to them. i actually like the people in my Appliance department but their system has a tendency to make my life a living hell at a moments notice over something i had no control over and didnt even know about until angry customers come calling. i once had to spend an entire day driving 60 miles in our rental Load and Go truck just to fix the series of mistakes left behind by our awful delivery contractor.

>my favorite is "do you sell double sided glue?"

not funny at all but i still rage thinking about this conversation when i worked in the hardware department

hey guy
>yes sir
i need some blades
>what kind of blades
saw blades
>what kind of saw blades? circular saw, jig saw, sawzall, chop saw?
>Makita
...what

ends up he wanted 6 1/2 circular saw blades. also there's the guy standing by the socket wrenches who spent two minutes demanding where the "pins" are. "pins" as in 23 gauge pin nails for pneumatic nail guns 5 aisles over.

>>1102888
>do you have some employer's discount?

10% but only if you can get a cashier to give you a military discount on purchases no questions asked.

Customer service has always been top notch for me at HD.

>be idiot customer
>leave bag with stuff in it at register, distracted by amount of money I spent and the plethora of crap that didn't go in a bad
>realize hours later my mistake
>verify I paid for the items with Receipt
>tear car apart looking
>call garden center where I checked out.
>sorry anon, not here, come in and talk to the manager
>OK, I need to buy the thing again anyway
>garden center guy called manager and front desk so I didn't need to repeat the story.
>manager trying to find a picture of the item in the system so she can go grab a new one.
>garden center guy rolls up with the missing bag
>I found it anon, was behind some shit or some excuse.
>thanks HD, leave and go home.

Less than a 5min drive both ways and the manager was just going to let me walk with another off the shelf. Was just a cheap Christmas extention cord so I bet the reaction would have been different if it was a more expensive item but overall not a negative experience.

Also, bought a frig and washer + drier from there with no issues shipping or anything. I buy appliances over memorial weekend though, fuck black Friday shopping for off brand cheap shit.

Only negative exp I had was dealing with some lady who couldn't figure out the key grinder. She ruined like 10 keys before I gave up and came back with another associate 20min later (who got it on his first try.)

ask a college student who works here who isn't a mong working here for a "career" anything

>>1103137
What does a specialty position entail exactly? I'm MET, which is about the most specialized position my store has. Everyone else has a department, aside from one girl who wanders around trying to sell HVAC stuff. Took me a while to figure out what she actually does. I don't think she's employed by HD, though.

>>1103373
kitchen design, millwork/decor, bathroom design, flooring design are specialty positions. appliances kinda sorta, too. kitchen design gets paid the most, but bath is right behind and flooring/millwork/decor bring up the rear in terms of pay - still a good 20-30% more than the regular employee makes if not more.

>>1103380
Ah, I'm still pretty new and went straight to MET, so I'm clueless on how a lot of the store operates.

>>1103373
Hey!
I'm MET too.
Are you on a traveling team?
Do you guys get along with the aprons?

>>1103391
Our store is high volume so it gets a dedicated day team, which I'm on, and also a traveling night team that serves 4 or 5 stores total.

The aprons are pretty cool at our store; they're used to MET by now and only kinda do irritating things like filling holes with random product.
I've heard other places are a bit more segregated, though.

How are things where you are?

>>1103173
>can't figure out a key machine
They are literally the easiest machine in the world to use though

>>1103403
Single team, no travel, one shift. We're an SLA 1 store, the biggest small store in the district.
All the store associates work pretty closely with us. Except floor & wall. They always have their own game plan that involves setting things to a new order as soon as we get done with a TMO, as determined by a parakeet or something. And hanging out in the kitchen design area and chatting with the appliance ladies is very important for driving laminate sales, I guess.

I have had atrocious experiences with HD to the point that I will drive farther to hit Lowes.

>Working on replica prop for a buddy's Halloween costume. Find a section of scrap wire on their leftovers pegboard deal that's perfect. $0.44/ft (or whatever) hand-written on a tag attached to wire. Cool.
>Cashier has a meltdown trying to ring it up. It's like 2 feet long. 44 cents a foot. "Yeah I know but there's no bar code. There HAS to be a bar code so I can scan it..." He fucks about on his computer for a few minutes. I offer to just give him $2 and call it good. I don't care about the change. No dice.
>He has me wait while he leaves and "goes to look for a UPC to scan." I started a timer on my watch and left the store empty handed after waiting another 10 minutes.

>I always over-buy for projects I'm uncertain about to save repeat trips and just return what I don't end up using later.
>Got a couple lengths of precut PEX pipe for a water softener install. Ended up using far less than anticipated. Had an entire 8-foot section left over. No sweat I'll take it back.
>Returns cashier was very skeptical and claimed I had obviously cut some of the pipe off. I asked her to measure it and see for herself. Yep it's all there. Still "it looks like some has been cut" (rough edge on one end from their cutting I guess). I told her yeah I mean it's all precut here, I didn't cut any extra off. "Sir we cannot accept materials that have been visibly cut." Motherfucker IT CAME LIKE THAT. I watched you measure it! Holy fuck. What do you think pre cut means?

I have a handful more but I'm sick of typing. HD employees are straight retarded.

>>1103423
To clarify, the PEX was precut sections off the shelf. Like it's stocked that way. I didn't have someone at the store custom cut it and then try to return that. I'm not a dick.

>>1103423
Did you actually let a mere cashier stop you from returning a product?

>>1103428
Fuck no I got it taken care of. But any time things go the slightest bit outside the lines these dopes act like robots and I either have to walk away or waste 15 minutes of my life holding their hand through doing their job.

>>1102899
At mine the store does this but the quikrete, old castle and pave stone pallets are out back

im a neet trying to get his first job at HD
what should i say at my interview so i get really wanna stop being dead weight 2 my family

>>1102918
Worked at a lumber yard while in college. We did the first 5 cuts for free, charged a dollar a cut after that to deter this sort of shit.

One day I had a house wife come in who wanted me to basically do exactly this. She wanted to 6x6 cedar cut into 1 inch thick pieces so she could put them down as a floor. Told her about the price, she said no problem. I was skeptical so I told her it would take a while and to prepay for the cuts.

She actually did, although they did end up giving her a huge discount since she ended up needing like 800 cuts. Kind of wish she would have come back with pictures of how it turned out.

Now I imagine if you did that in most stores they would just say no.

>>1103076
>Instead you are working for a company that has no loyalty to you

This is true of all publicly traded companies, their loyalty is to the shareholders, not to employees. It's called shareholder primacy.

>>1102842
How good is home depot LP? What is the best item to lift?

>>1103380
Former D23 specialist who got stuck in D30 when I transferred. Can confirm, specialty is the way to go. fuckers in D21/22 and D25 have to break their backs and deal with all the shit while I get paid more to sit at a desk and wait for people to show up.

Seriously though, fuck their transfer system.

>Best friend's dad growing up runs flooring business
>start working for him at age of 14 during the summers
>Continue working until after college
>Move out of the area
>Get job with Home Depot as specialist because I've worked installing flooring and doing flooring sales for almost 10 years
>Buy house
>Transfer to store closer to house
>They accept transfer
>Show up
>"Oh sorry anon, we hired someone for the open flooring specialist position. Millwork is open."

So now I work in millwork, had to go through their retarded computer training for it, while some 18 year old who worked as a seasonal garden grunt is now a "flooring specialist" instead of putting him in Millwork.

On the bright side, I'm being courted for a position with a regional tile supplier. Their clientele is about 75% contractors, so less hand holding. Plus it is a 25% pay raise not counting commission, but I had commission anyway.

>>1103499
Just prepare for the "Name a time you had to work as a team" type bullshit questions.

Use phrases like "drive sales" and "put customers first".

>>1103504
Not very, just walk the place, they basically live in hardware. It will be the guy peaking around shelving with a cell phone and no cart.

They very often get reported to us for being suspicious by customers.

HD has the standard no contact policy as most retailers. You get instantly fired if you follow a shop lifter out of the store. This is in response to some home depot employee getting shot and killed by a spooked shoplifter.

The stores do all call each other and report theft so don't make the circuit. They also call competitors around here since they will often hit a Lowes or Menards too.

Best item is pretty subjective. Tools are probably highest valve but have the highest chance of getting caught. Wire is pretty decent value but less AP watching it.

If you're smart and cover your plates and park far away, you can just load up a cart and push it outside. You have the time it takes for management to call the police and for them to show up.

Some people around here were putting low cost barcodes on their hands a while back and using their hand to cover the barcode on the product at the self checkout.

If you just want to make out like a bandit with much less risk, just go to a competitors website, find the same product and just change the price on it and print it out. If you don't pick a retarded number, you'll easily get away with it. Just remember more than $50 requires approval, and supervisors and management take their jobs much more seriously.

>>1103507
More than $50 discount? Does HD honor competitor's coupons? I've heard some Lowes accept HF 20% off coupons.

>>1103508
Yes but at their discretion. I've heard of people getting a cashier to honor HF ones, but again if the discount is more than $50 they will call a manager who is going to say no. They will accept the 20% Lowes one you get in a moving packet. I bought a bunch on ebay years ago when I was working on a guy house. I gave him the listed prices and then pocketed 20% on a bunch of shit.

>>1103511
That sounds a lot like fraud if dude ever found out.

>>1103423
The returns cashiers at my store will literally return anything i'm lumber and building materials and i've gotten so much horrible cut shit

hey man
do you work here?

>>1103512
Not really. I gave him a price quote on materials and labor. As with others I told him he could purchase the materials if he wanted or I could handle it all and he could pay me when the job was done.

No different than some item being on sale when I make the purchase or me sending the list of materials to get bulk pricing.

I've also combined multiple jobs together so I could get bulk pricing on the items too.

No, it might have been fraud for me using the coupons in the first place since they were not originally sent to me, they are sent by the USPS, and because it probably says one coupon per customer. Not to mention the coupons were probably fakes anyway.

Oh well, ask me how much sleep I lost over it.

Oh, and for anyone wondering, those coupons are limited to $200 off now.

>>1102842
I actually like your guys' return policy. You will literally take anything back, even opened screw baggies with components missing.

Why are you guys always asking me if I need help when I do not, but when I actually have a question you are no where to be found?

>>1103423
>I offer to just give him $2 and call it good. I don't care about the change
honestly, that's the kind of shit i'm talking about when i mean part of it is your own stupidity. this is fucking corporate retail. we can't just ring some shit up like a mom and pop. the guy probably thinks you're a nice guy and all, but he's not going to risk his job over some stupid shit like that because that is literally a risk to his job. cashiers don't have some magical miscellaneous sku they can put in. if they're ringing up random shit - and for all they know, you're a secret shopper or some shit testing them - they can get fired.

the fact that it took 10 minutes is dumb, but goddamn, you think he should put his job at risk over a dollar of wire? fuck off.

>>1103504
same as everywhere. other anon said it best.

>>1103580
we've asked you when you do, and not asked you when you don't. but because of how human memory works, those times just stand out more. also, coincidence

>>1103517
i remember working in paint, getting a can back from returns and it literally felt wrong. opened it up and it was full of water. returns cashiers are supposed to open every paint can. fucking idiots.

>>1103518
no, the orange apron is part of my fetish gear.

>>1103580
company policy is to address pretty much every person we see, the most voracious managers will actually stop in the middle of conversations just to greet customers passing by.

also our main tactic for dealing with suspected shoplifters is to "customer service the hell out of them", so you probobly give off a criminal vibe.

>>1103633
In a word, yes: if customer anon is offering double what the item is worth for the convenience of getting the fuck out of the store, it is a completely inane policy to hold him up longer than it takes to get SOMEONE with a brain over there to okay it, especially over a fucking SKU. You are angering a customer, he is probably going to downtalk you (big hint there; he DID!), and you are hurting your business. He offered cash. Call someone over, even if it's just an apron or cashier, make double sure you aren't getting screwed. Take the $2, put it in the drawer, and don't ring up shit. The money will still go in the bank, guys. I realize this isn't the cashier's decision to make, but there should be a policy for this. I've had it happen to me at Lowe's, and I've never been back. Their stupidity cost them a customer, and it happens every day at both stores.

>>1103671
hello and welcome to corporate retail in the year of our lord 2000+16, they will not ring you up without a sku

>>1103683
At Clas Ohlson, we tag the item with what department it most likely came from, and an estimated price if we can't be bothered to look it up. I.e "Hardware: 1.90$"
So many items, at least 5% has a missing barcode.
Though, our "good guy"/"extra-mile"/"whoring"-concept and 90-day returns policy probably wouldn't work in a country based on lawsuits. Barely works around eastern europeans.

>>1103650
>>1103580
If you have a hood/beanie on, you are a shoplifter. Ask ask ask. If you are a male under 35 but asking retarded questions that don't make much sense, you are stalling for an associate. Ask ask ask / look for associate. After 2 years I've learned to sense the combination of stress, adrenaline, bullshit and skittish behaviour that half the shoplifters give off. No chance against the other half until after the fact though. Fucken ghosts.

>>1103683
Part of the reason for ringing it up officially is so that they can keep track of stock.

It's like you've never worked retail.

>>1103633
I worked retail for years and know very well there are always "default" codes you can scan in, write a product description and fill in the price.

>>1103671
when you are dealing with a multi-multi billion dollar corporation like Home Depot, inventory management is more important than the satisfaction of a single customer during a single transaction. we know what items came into the store and need to keep track of whats leaving so we know what we'll need more of. all the register is is a last part of the inventory process where a list of SKUs going out the door are cataloged; the actual cash going into the thing is a secondary priority and cashiers will get in trouble if they have too much or too little in their till.

>>1103738
home depot has those for every department but they arnt openly available to the cashiers so they just have to wing it. a smart cashier will call the department it came from and get them to cough up a SKU or find it in their online cashier book in the register. happened to me all the time when i worked in hardware, customers would cut their own rope or chain (which they arnt supposed to do and there are huge signs telling them not to) then they wander up to a register (or even worse self-check out) and just expect the 19 year old girl to know the difference between the 30 different kinds of rope, chain and cable we sell.

>>1103705
>if you have a hood/beanie

So what all of winter every employee is having a stroke ?

>>1103580
We have a "find a customer, help a customer" policy in place, which means ideally, an associate will try to assist everyone, but I've noticed the same thing about employees hiding.

Shit, we also have a "warm hand-off" policy so non CS-oriented employees can get department associates to deal with the customers, but I still end up having to page someone on the intercom 8 times out of 10.

>>1103752
Customers don't really give 2 shits about the inner workings of the store. HD sells products, they need a product, they try to exchange money for the product and are obstructed from doing so. Whether the obstruction is due to faulty design, employee incompetence/indifference, or some combination is irrelevant to the end result. A store (and it's employees) exists to facilitate the exchange of goods for currency. If that principle can't be met, for whatever reason, something is fucked. I expect employees to be able to do their job, because it's their job. They aren't doing me a favor. If a cashier can't ring up items that their own store sells, it's not the customer's fault.

>>1103774
>They aren't doing me a favor. If a cashier can't ring up items that their own store sells, it's not the customer's fault.

would you walk into a grocery store and pour a bag of cereal out over the conveyor belt and expect them to be able to ring you up? because that is essentially what these people are doing, especially when they go against clearly posted instructions and tamper with our store-use equipment, just because they dont have the patience to walk two aisles over to find someone in an orange apron.

though i will admit our stores really need some sort of customer assistance button at terminals like the key cutting machine or the wire spooler so people dont have to stand around like idiots waiting for an associate to walk by.

>>1103752
Customer skills are useful. I sometimes cut bulk items but I bring a pad and write the SKU and other label data down clearly and hand that to the cashier. I've shopped so long at a couple of stores that the staff are actually pleased to see me as a relief from the usual waterfall of retards.

Not being a choad helps tip the balance between minimal service and cheerful helpfulness. If there's time I bullshit with some of them. With small stores I make sure the owner remembers me.

BTW stores like Lowe's are deliberately understaffed (wages are a cost center) and run their employees ragged. Wife used to work for Lowe's. Would avoid. I'm not familiar with Home Despot.

why are you so shit compared to lowes? you wouldn't even cut plexiglass for me.

>>1103774
Too bad you're at their mercy.

>b-b-but I'll just go somewhere else
Yeah, because there is totally a store somewhere that only uses former contractors who also happen to be able to make management decisions as cashiers and not high schoolers who they can pay min. wage to.

Speaking of retards, I was into a Home Depot today to buy a face shield for my new lathe and got to over hear this old fucker in hardware talk about how global warming is all a scam to some teenager who clearly disagreed but had the look of knowing he shouldn't argue or he'll never get to hear the end on this. Later I hear him talking to a customer about how he was the most knowledgeable person in the store.

Give me the little fucking Asian girl who will just silently climb a ladder to get me my product any day of the week.

>>1103841
Why the fuck would they?

As someone who works with acrylic all day, I can tell you that the last thing you want is some cart jockey cutting your materials for you. If they use their saw the cut will be shit and they will gum up their blades which will make their shitty cuts even shittier. If they use a hand cutter, your lines won't be straight and you will probably have stray marks and gouges.

If you want plastic cut, go to a supplier. They'll probably charge you $5, but the product will be $5 cheaper and the cut will be done with plastic cutting equipment.

>shopping at big box stores
>not having your GC license and buying from outlet stores

shiggy diggy doo

>>1103847
they cut it at lowe's for me without a problem and they have a rig that keeps the cuts square.

>>1103854
What kind of rig? We don't have Lowes here.

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>>1103859

>>1103683
>>1103752

Sigh, I know all about the inventory hoo ha. I would also bet a decent amount of money that most items don't come out even at the end of the month anyway. The sad thing is: as much as I like to rail against the short sightedness of corporate America, I actually take pictures of any questionable SKUs with my phone so I don't have to deal with more crap than necessary. How's that for hypocritical?

>>1103872
It doesn't even just boil down to bottom line either. Businesses that sell products are required by law to keep inventory for tax purposes. This is especially true for multi-billion dollar international corporations.

>>1103728
not sure if sarcastic or not, but that's entirely my point. they won't ring up generic stuff because that fucks up inventory and is an easy way for theft to occur.

>>1103738
yea, cashiers don't have access to misc skus. leads to too much theft.

>>1103752
bingo

>>1103774
sure. except they don't give a shit. they deemed it a lot more cost-savings and effective to the shareholders to reduce the theft and tell you dingdongs to fuck off with your two dollar non-sku items.

did they fuck up by not putting the correct misc or cut tag sku on it? of course. does that change what the cashier is supposed to do? not in the slightest. he did exactly what home depot (and every corporate retailer) wants their cashiers to do.

>>1103803
see? that's the smart shit to do - bring a paper with you in case the apron guy doesn't have one handy to write it down on like he/she's supposed to do.

>>1103804
we're always borderline understaffed. we're adequate if no one calls out sick, but that happens literally every or every other day (people have sick time and are perfectly allowed to use it), so there we are.

>>1103841
because we don't cut plexiglass. we don't have an apparatus set up for it, nor are we opening a roll of painters tape and a hacksaw to do it for you.

>>1103872
of course inventory is off. every apron wearer is mandated to not make it off any more.

>>1103763
>>2nd floor of mall
>>+26 Celsius
Yeah, they're hiding their face. Unless it's a offspring enthusiast reeking of "fruit", but then you can kinda tell he lives in that beanie.

these stories are like opposite stories from my homedepot.

its in the ghetto cashier will take anything you return if its scans as coming from the store. ive seen people go in take stuff off the shelf and return it to the register for a credit. i've seen them take cut plywood and get credit. they don't ask anything if the cut is straight. the only hold up is some weirdos actually want cash for their stolen items. most employees have actually been in the trades.

security guard in the parking lot and frequently the cops for people who steal stupid things like pairs of gloves. you would have a hard time getting out of the parking lot in time.

my only real complaint is at my store nobody really wants to use the self checkout b/c its all actual contractors, old people, people with some situation that requires common sense, people who know the barcodes not gonna scan. Yet they will call you down to the self check out from your comfy cashier lane. 90% of the time you come out ahead in the cashier lane. Cashiers playing pocket pool by the lumber, tool rental, garden center but where everyone wants to leave the store one cashier getting his ass kicked. self checkout is not really ideal for this type of store but whatever its just my personal rant.

>>1102888
I work Dept 92 (over night freight team) at an outlet in western Canada. Our store does not give staff discounts, apparently none do in our district and we got two guys who transferred from Ontario and Saskatchewan who says those stores didn't either.

I came into the job experienced and started at $11.00/hr CAD part time at 24 hrs/week but usually got 32 hrs as our staffing levels are approx 65% of what other comparable sized stores have. The hours fluctuate seasonally. Compare that wage with the provincial minimum wage of $10.85/hr.

That said after 2 months I filled in 2 other positions so that I was getting 40/hrs wk with no benefits as I am still considered p/t. The beauty of it was that 2 of my 3 positions are considered store critical and thus as hours were being cut for the Aprons to as low as 12 to 18 hrs/week, I was getting 40 hrs no problem. I found the job online (Indeed-ca) but it took 3 weeks from application to starting my 1st shift due to internal corporate bureaucracy procedures.

Currently paid $12.20/hr. Most DS's make about $14 to $15/hr.

It's still a retail job, not the worst I ever had. Btw, the company President started at my store as a lot guy.

>>1103373
>>1103391

Fuck you guys. You know why.

>>1103752
>customers would cut their own rope or chain (which they arnt supposed to do and there are huge signs telling them not to)
If I have to wait 10 minutes to find someone, I'm cutting the damn chain myself.

>>1104756
Exactly.

>honestly, that's the kind of shit i'm talking about when i mean part of it is your own stupidity. this is fucking corporate retail. we can't just ring some shit up like a mom and pop
>It's like you've never worked retail.
>customers would cut their own rope or chain (which they arnt supposed to do and there are huge signs telling them not to) then they wander up to a register
>just because they dont have the patience to walk two aisles over to find someone in an orange apron.
>tell you dingdongs to fuck off with your two dollar non-sku items.
>nor are we opening a roll of painters tape and a hacksaw to do it for you.

Nothing worse than a low level worker with an overinflated sense of self-importance. How about just do your job, because it's your job. Your hourly retail job. They pay you to help customers and figure shit out. That's your function. You're literally whining about having to do your job.

>>1103580
This. Need a certain size/pitch bolt, know what I'm looking for just havent found it yet - get like 3 guys want to help. Now there's 3 guys in the way all staring at numbers they don't understand. Telling me "this will probably work" when I know it won't. Need something near the ceiling, "someone will be right with you." 25 mins later, the person I asked comes by.. "no one came yet" walkie-talkie another time... still wait 20 more mins.

>>1103650
>"customer service the hell out of them", so you probobly give off a criminal vibe.

That's why they do that. I've literally told workers to fuck off away from me before. I've never shoplifted a thing in my life, I'm not a degenerate scumbag. Next time, I'm getting the manager, telling them i know of this policy and inform them I'm going to get a lawyer for discrimination. Thanks.

>>1104756
I've done this.

>"you needed to get someone to cut this, you can't do it yourself"
>"i did. Nobody came for 15 minutes, i need to get back to work."
>"you needed to wait"
>"hey, know what? Sorry. Keep that piece of chain. I'm leaving."
>"we cant... uhn, uh, you already.."
>"BYE"
> go to Ace, guy asks and cuts chain immediately

>>1104913
the words are in english, but make no sense. we are 10000% percent not paid to help figure your shit out. said cashier is paid to ring you up as fast as possible while deterring any possible theft from occurring. having something with no bar code on it, no sku written down on a tag to substitute from it precludes all of that.

we are not paid to open said roll of tape at our cost, use a hacksaw at our cost and do something that 95% of the employees here have zero experience or training to do.

etc. etc.

you clearly misunderstand what we are paid to do. this is your fault, and one day, i hope you grow out of your ignorance. until that day occurs, you will continue to be disappointed when your stupid actions that do not conform to the accepted norms of corporate retail happen and you don't get a good experience because of it. this is wholly your own fault.

>>1104932
the manager will thank you for your feedback while internally laugh at you and thank all the workers who asked you if you needed anything later.

>>1104936
at some point, if LP gives enough of a fuck, they will just ban you from the store for destroying property. that'll probably take forever, so keep cutting chain yourself.

(personally, idgaf if you cut the chain yourself, but you're setting yourself up for more delays if you don't take pictures of the sku and/or find someone to write up a cut tag).

Honestly, if a customer grabs an orange ladder and goes up to the overhead and grabs something? yea, you're not supposed to do that, and if i see you, i'll tell you to come down and go and get it myself for you, but only for the fact that i don't want you to fucking hurt yourself or someone else and sue the place i work at for no reason other than you couldn't wait.

reminds me of the fucking idiots once who grabbed a ladder and went up to the lumber aisle and cut open a banded pallet of 2x4s despite there being a 3/4 full rack just beneath it. dumb fucker put everyone else who walked into that aisle at risk of being fucking killed because he "wanted a fresh bunch and he didn't like the ones down below". fuck him, the only reason i didn't punch that asshole is because i actually like the job and didn't want to lose it over such a stupid motherfucker.

fucking putting everyone in danger and wasting the time of everyone else because he couldn't be assed to find a good 2x4 in the literally hundreds we had available. the look on the manager's face when he realized he'd have to take a banding machine on an overhead puller and go fucking rack climbing to re-band it so we could move that safely. i think he might've risked his job over that asshole just to deck him, too.

>>1103089
Second this. Retail is to gain experience in talking to people, used for a stop gap, extra income or an in-between. Once I gout outta that retail hell, I vowed never again.

>>1104951
The good thing is, the HD i usually go to i go to enough where most of the people working there know me and don't ever give me a hard time. Yeah, sometimes i dig through the wood like an autist looking for the good ones. But i put everything back and they know i will. I've lefy shit in better shape then when i got there a few times. The incident happened in a different store by where i work.

>>1104950
Your attitude is why your store sucks. Helping us figure stuff out is exactly what you get paid for. You clearly misunderstand what you are paid to do. This is your fault and I hope that one day you grow out of your ignorance. Until that day occurs enjoy tepid sales increases and customers downtalking your store and you specifically, then wonder why your raises become non-existant, because you don't have the service skills to provide a good experience. This is wholly your own fault.

And yes, the manager will laugh internally the first time, maybe the second or third, but soon enough he'll get the point, and he'll remember who the idiot is that thinks all the wrong people are thieves.

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>>1104982
lol

at you, not with you.

Who's ACE here?

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>>1104984
>HD
lol
get your pink sheet shit outta here before it turns to toilet sheet, you good-for-nout corporate shill cunt.

>>1104990
>the biggest online seller is doing better than someone who isn't the biggest.
i am shocked and amazed at this revelation. gl going to amazon to get your 2 ft of cut chain because you're 10 minutes late to your job site

>>1104993
as has been repeatedly pointed out already ITT: if you in a hurry? HD is the fucking last place on earth you goto to be buying chain. AMZN (who are having HDs lunch, and you know it) + China Shipping Container + Last Leg Drone to jobsite be fucking quicker than finding one of you mongs competent enough to operate a chain cutter and fill out a cut sheet. And if its for a job/professional - wouldnt be fucking going to HD in the first place, would you? Go to a proper trade supplier, one who maybe actually knows what the fuck they are stocking/selling at any given point in time, etc.

>working register
>cash out customer
>does the pocket tap looking for wallet
>"don't have it chief; I'm a frequent customer can I pay you over the phone when i get home?"
>"Sir, you can pay for it in person when you come back for your stuff."
>Supervisor (let's call him Stan) notices what's going on, walks over and silently observes
>it's both terrifying and satisfying
>Always knew Supervisor Stan had my back, he was silent because he wanted to see how I handled a situation instead of just dumping it off
>But Supervisor Stan is a former German prison guard from decades ago. He never talks about it but you can imagine everyone has taken the nazi/hitler/WWII view when he gets angry. Stereotypes exist for a reason.
>"What do you mean when I come back? I'll take this stuff home and since I come here all the time you guys can trust me enough to wait for me to call in my card from home."
>I stared at him blankly, completely dumbfounded that he thought this idea would work
>Supervisor Stan steps in and goes all manager mode on the guy explaining how that's not going to happen
>Customer starts getting loud and swearing, starts pushing cart towards door. Supervisor Stan gets in front of it, puts his foot on the bottom rail. Everyone stops to watch
>I'm terrified. Never been in any confrontation ever and closed my eyes as tight as i could.
>find out later that Supervisor Stan grabbed the guy by the elbow and tried to forcefully escort him out.
>guy counters with a "weakass" punch to the chest
>Supervisor Stan laughs, the laughs in nightmares of 12 years playing their first WWII video game. I hear it every now and then. Chills up my spine.
>Supervisor Stan apparently knows some kind of ancient viking battle technique. His laugh was his battlecry as he took the guy in an arm hold and threw him outside, and when he caught his balance, Supervisor Stan did the "spartan kick" to put him on his ass

Never got any trouble over it. fuck shoplifters

>>1104995
>AMZN (who are having HDs lunch, and you know it) + China Shipping Container + Last Leg Drone to jobsite be fucking quicker than finding one of you mongs competent enough to operate a chain cutter and fill out a cut sheet.


>8 hr shipping with prime if you're lucky to live in one of the cities that offer same day shipping or overnight shipping or 2-day shipping is quicker than maybe waiting 10 minutes because the one guy in hardware is helping someone else before you walked in, o precious snowflake

lmfao
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how did you learn to inhale and exhale repeatedly? i figured someone as dumb as you would've died from eating paint chips years ago.

again, amazon is the #1 seller. by definition, they're doing better than literally everyone else. that means fucking 0 when it comes to the success or failures of others. hd is succeeding in spite of themselves, amazon and others.

and as far as supply warehouses? good luck finding them in your area. hd and lowes has closed like 4 out of every 5 small spots in the country. oh, and better hope you don't need something after business hours, because they aren't open after 5pm.

HD is literally the ONLY place on earth you go to buy chain in a hurry because half the other places won't sell you two feet, won't bother with you if you aren't meeting a minimum purchase, won't be open when you need it or won't be open at all because they closed up shop ten years ago and it's the only place in a 40 mile radius

thanks for spending your money at the home depot.

>>1104984
That increase? In 5 years? Talk about cherry picking... That's from the depths of a recession and a dead housing market to some significant recovery, correct? Have you pulled up dictionary dot com to see what tepid means yet? What you are showing us is exactly that. Try harder, kid. Then again, keep going; I like a good laugh.

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>>1105005
>hd isn't at it's near absolute peak of all time right now

wew lad

>>1102842
dude does home depot stock square tubing? LIke hollow steel tubes?

thanks

>>1105014
yes
http://www.homedepot.com/b/Tools-Hardware/N-5yc1vZ25ecodZc1xy/Ntk-All/Ntt-square%2Brod?Ntx=mode+matchall&NCNI-5

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>>1105015
tjhats amazing site ... do canadian stores carry the same shit?

>>1105020
amazing ... meant american*

>>1105020
beats me, jason. a quick browse of the homedepot.ca turns up nothing. call your local one and ask em

>>1104732
Stop putting random shit where it doesn't belong, apron!

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>>1105024
they wont answer lo... called thrice

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>>1105029
>https://www.amazon.ca/s/ref=sr_nr_n_1?fst=as%3Aoff&rh=n%3A11853100011%2Ck%3Asquare+steel+tube&keywords=square+steel+tube

go somewhere competent already - Amazon.ca OneClick™ Square Steel Tube Shopping From The Comfort of Your Shitter be (free) delivered to your home or workplace doorstep, long before you even get an ACK from these useless HD spergs.

>>1104982
lol... settle down, Spazz. You're embarassing yourself.

>>1104950
The manager can laugh internally but when they're in court with a lawsuit they won't be laughing

>>1105071
they won't. literally.

every be in court that is. keep fedora tipping tho, this is funny

>>1105089
Didn't say they'd be in court. There are laws against discrimination, it will be settled before it even get close to court. Then they'll be fired.

t. Literally have seen this happen before

>>1102842
>ITT: a snarky faggot poorly defends his generic retail job
> for 300 posts

EVERY FUCKING TIME

>>1105120
Seriously this. And if someone actually asks a serious question they also get an asshole answer. I work at HD. It's exactly like the job i had at walmart except now i cut some wood and keys. I got hired because i could use a paint mixer from learning at walmart. It sucks but it's better than being a NEET. I wish there were some way to report this guy to the corporate offices because it gives off the impression that every HD employee is some self-important faggot. And I'm sure people go to the competitor down the street solely because of these threads.

>>1105130
Lmao. I havent been to homedepot in like 2 years, because of this. They opened a Lowes like a block away. Literally identical store, except the op of these threads doesn't work for them

>>1105132
i actually feel even better about my evening that i butthurt you so much that you left because of me. i was having a pleasant day, and this was just icing on the cake. i doubt it's real, but on the off chance it is, thanks!

>>1105120
shit, anon, i don't keep bumping it. i just keep laughing at the dude who think that asking if he needs help will somehow get him moneys from corporate in a lawsuit, rather than laughed and probably countersued because the lawyers occasionally have to justify their existence for all the money i'm sure they pay them.

>>1105193
>i actually feel even better about my evening that i butthurt you so much that you left because of me

Its the little things in life isnt it?
Especially when you have made all the wrong life decisions and have ended up as a middle aged man whose career is at a home improvement store.

Though im not sure if he is going to care what you personally think.
Its like the homeless guy on the street judging you because you didnt give him change. Why would you care at all what he thinks?

>>1105115
Don't look like you're stealing shit. Done.

>>1105120
I have to say, I've seen these threads a few times now, skimmed through them, didn't think OP was too much of a douche. This one is different. It's pretty obvious he's just a troll now, just a douche.

As a matter of fact, hey OP! Do you even have proof that you are currently employed at HD?

>Inb4 What a glorious butthurt day for me now! I don't care if you believe me or not!

>>1104995
>>1104990
>>1105048
>all this rage against HD
>all this shilling towards Amazon
Did some HD employee fuck your gf, anon?

>>1105206
to continue your silly metaphor, its as if you changed your life patterns because of the homeless guy judging you - that's whats so funny about it.

>>1105223
i could post a picture, but no, i'm not going to post 'proof'

>>1105002
I'll take "shit that never happened for $400, Alex."

>>1105130
>>1105132
Plot twist: OP works at lowes, and gets *slightly* aroused when he's professionally helping a customer he suspects browses /diy/ and they mention they "only shop here because Home Depot staff are douchebags."

>>1105216
So.. take off my jacket outside and turn into an old white woman. Easy.

Troll somewhere else. Sage

>>1105375
>changed your life patterns

You act as if people have an obligation to a store. Nobody has an obligation to a shitty big box corporation. If a store employs absolute retards, you stop going in.

The only person who has an obligation to it is you, because your livelihood depends on a minimum wage job at a retail store. You may feel it's serious business, you may think running customers of with bad service is a big deal. For everyone else its really not.

>>1105115
>Didn't say they'd be in court.
>>1105071
>but when they're in court

You did say that exact thing. Also if your claim is "I was discriminated against because I was asked for help multiple times at a store that has a policy to ask all customers if they need help" you're in for a tough time and some legal bills.

Now if you were to have a recording of a retail employee saying something like "Make sure you follow that nigger, he's probably going to steal shit", you would probably get a settlement and they employee would be fired as an example. The only way you would get a big payout was if you had proof the store had a "follow niggers" policy in writing or on tape, which they won't.

>>1105206
>Especially when you have made all the wrong life decisions and have ended up as a middle aged man whose career is at a home improvement store.

I do work for a 54 year old woman who works at Home Depot who makes $32/hr to help people choose a blind color. She used to be one of their interior designers who would do in-home consultations. She has one of the most gorgeous houses that I have even been inside. Her previous house was featured on HGTV back in the day. Not to mention that Managers of large chain stores almost always make 6 figures.

>>1105512
>Not to mention that Managers of large chain stores almost always make 6 figures.

Yeah, when I worked retail my manager made big money too
Except he went to school and got a masters to become lead manager of the store.
The other "manager" positions exist to put people on slightly above minimum salary and fuck them over on hours.

Are you living vicariously through the very few people making an actual living wage at your store?

>>1105512
>You did say that exact thing.
>implying both were me

>>1104984
Argh! Don't remind me of the stock growth. I just about bought $21,000 worth in 2011. Quadruple my money in 5 years... fuck!

>>1104756
Absolutely, you do that! Then later because you are incompetent, the company will raise the prices or more likely cut staffing levels even further (now making it a 15 minute wait) to account for the short fall your impatient actions necessitated.

The System works!! Bravo!

>>1105529
>Are you living vicariously through the very few people making an actual living wage at your store?

I don't work at a store. I run a handyman service and employ 4 guys. I just do work for a woman who works at a home depot. She makes enough that she can hire me to maintain her exterior, yard, and pool.

Never known a manager of a home depot, but my buddy from college is a manager at a Target and he makes good money. A family friend growing up was the manager of a Sears and they lived a pretty comfortable lifestyle on just his salary. That was back in the early 90s though.

>>1105674
I'm only pretending to be retarded!

fake and gay sage

>>1105704
>I'm only pretending to be retarded!
i highly doubt it, but whatever.

>>1102932
hmm that's funny I worked as a vendor for home depot but stopped because the incompetence of your company is fucking astounding.

Op here. Fuck home depot. I got "laid off" when they really just hired a 18 year old kid to replace me at the wage i was making 3 years ago. The worst part is I fucking trained the kid.

>>1105724
no you're not. im op. i got fired for being a faggot

>>1105742
Not funny. Seriously tho, fuck HD.

>>1105742
>implying OP would have internet when he inevitably gets fired and cant find another job

>>1105761
the month isn't over yet

>>1105724
sorry numbnuts, they don't put the kids up in specialty tho, but lawd at you all being so assblasted over this that you'd do the old "I R OP" line. lol at all of you. double lol at the people trying to sage and failing

>>1105422
you keep saying dumb shit like "minimum wage" and "running customers off" inigomontoya.jpg becauseas i've said numerous times, i make significantly more than that, and i constantly get actual customers thanking me for helping them and have had numerous ones write letters to corporate stating as much. or at least one actually did, because one of the yon high regional managers popped by the store to ship me one of the silly homer awards one time. others have said they did, but didn't get the thuper duper pat on the back treatment but that one time. so who knows.

>>1105815
>, i make significantly more than that

I remember when I worked in telemarketing
I would spout the same horse shit to friends and relatives who gave me a hard time about having a dead end job.
>i make 3$ over the minumum, I make commissions on top of it!
>its a perfectly fine job!

If you got a real job, you might actually be able to afford a car.

>>1105724
My uncle was a store manager and they did that exact thing to him, after like 20 years with the company. Hired some new young guy for 1/3 the salary and they offed him suspiciously right before his pension was vested, effectively stealing several hundred thousand dollars from him.

He's suing them. Fuck that place. Literally encapsulates what is wrong with America in the 21st century.

>>1105724
No, I'm op. I quit because I got a better job at Applebee's. I put a thread up in /ck/. "Ask a master chef that works here anything" Head over there for more fun.

>>1105724
No im op! My mom clogged the toilet and i was able to fix it with a real plunger. Im about to start a ask a master plumber anything thread.

>>1105944
Im op i put a band-aid on my boo-boo. It didn't even fall off. Look for my "ask a doctor anything" thread in /fit/

>>1105831
things i want living in new york city:

[ ] a car
[x] unlimited metrocard and unlimited uber, but i don't use uber/lyft enough to justify the latter.

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>>1105724
>>1105742
>>1105943
>>1105944
>>1105945
on a scale of butthurt to assblasted, how sandy are your vaginas right now?

>>1105970
[x] garbage job that keeps you under the poverty line

>>1105831
>I would spout the same horse shit to friends and relatives who gave me a hard time about having a dead end job.

Anon, why are you butt-blasted? Someone has to work those dead end jobs.

>>1105838
That is what unions are for.

>Work union job
>You are admitted to union after 6 months
>Company liked to fire new hires right before 6 months because the union couldn't do shit
>My 6 months are up right after new years
>We have off from Dec 24th - Jan 2
>Call in sick that day because fucking food poisoning from shitty new years food at bar
>Get call saying I'm fired the next day
>State requires terminations be in writing
>They mailed me one to cover their asses
>They didn't get it in the mail in time for pickup
>Postmarked the day after
>Union basically says that they fucked up and there there was no provision in place saying that by me calling out that, it extended my probation period
>They now need union's permission to fire me
>Permission denied

>Get my sick and vacation time cashed out upon termination
>After 2-3 months I am informed that I was not actually fired and that they are required to give me back pay
>They also have to reinstate my vacation and sick time since I did not use it

On top of that I was working a different job while all of this happened. So I got an extra 2.5 months pay, a week of vacation pay, and a week of sick pay plus pay from a different job. That was a nice treat.

>>1105991
Being ass blasted and having pity are two different things anon.

You think that people are mad that you are wasting your life away at a piss poor job barely making a living?
Most people want more for themselves. These threads feel like a call for help.

Nobody else in your life has given you enough tough love it looks like. Once it finally clicks in your head how fucked you are, youll remember your peers here trying to help

>>1105991
yeah well the Deep Homo isn't a union shahp

Used to work for B&Q (britbong) on tools section, was one of the best jobs I had as I was not an utter fucktard and could actually help people. Some customers d take the piss though, once had to brown people ask me how to recharge a gas bottle from the mains

best way to shoplift dewilt batteries?

Do you get a discount?

THere is a smoking hot MILF in a CA store, how much does she make? (she's like a "senior" cashier whatever that means)
I am trying to get up in her guts, and my only chances are with low income femmes.

opee, git da fuck back in here or Ima turnover an endcap of chinese plastic shit for you to clean up

>>1106096
Op here. I put 2 or 3 in my butt, and walk out. I have a thread up about it. "Ask a freight transportation expert anything"

>>1105972
Dunno dude. That shit was actually kinda funny. And he seems like he's enjoying himself. AND got you so assblasted you keep replying.

>>1105002
Hope you're not a guy. That shit about being terrified and closing your eyes would be pathetic if you were. Must be from some soft rich suburb.

>>1105002
I do packdowns on weekends, so I see the areas with serious theft issues.

Last february a tweaker down the hall from me had a rental Rug Doctor cleaning machine with an HD label on it. Seemed suspicious so I snapped a pic with my phone and next day went to work and asked the guy in tool rentals if machine #12 was rented out or sold. They didn't know it was missing. Manager called me in with the LPO and they called the cops. Next day the guy was arrested for multiple theft counts & breach of probation.

Fuck tweakers. Fuck shoplifters. Fuck the people who buy the stuff on craigslist.

>>1106154
>AND got you so assblasted you keep replying.

More like people are getting MAD AF that I am happy, making well above minimum while providing a service to a lot of customers. Just because you have a shit work ethic doesnt mean that I do. People who are clueless projecting their anger onto me.
Its pretty sad

>>1106219
Well said. :thumbup:

Fuckin hate pro parking. I double park that shit all the time. Who's gonna stop me?

>>1105994
No idea what you are on about, I'm not OP and most retail chains aren't unionized as >>1105997 points out.

It does seem like you're really angry about some random guy on the internets job choice. If he is fine working a dead end job, and is fine with the pay, however low or high it may be, why the fuck do you care? The world needs ditch diggers anon, not everyone can be the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, as much as 4chan pretends they are.

>>1106100
She's a cashier, probably not a lot, defs sub $20/hr, most likely sub $15/hr

>>1106189
yuah, op here, i do the same - dress up in tights and hang around hd carpark on my rare day off, hoping to catch crackheads smuggling out wothless carpet cleaning machines the size of a medium-rated industrial hvac unit, all for their next fix. Ive got a thread up about on /mlp/, "tight vigilantes seek thrills in hd" - ama.

>>1105223
Read the op. Kid is a total douche bag

>>1106219
There's like 5 guys trolling the fuck out of you, you retard. Nobody is mad. They're fishing for (You)s and you just keep biting.

>>1104693
>technician
>buy an ohm meter and get out of there

>>1102842
Menards is better

>>1105028

Not that reason my voodoo deals keep disapearing

>>1106100
head cashier probly like 13-15, front end supervisor (who often will work a register because they have to be there and cashiers are generally needed) 15-18 maybe

>>1106101
son i'm up in specialty - there's nothing to sell you up in my section of the store

>>1106154
lol i didn't reply to you, but some other guy did and didn't do that bad of a job of what i would say. not exact, but it's in the ballpark

>>1106226
depends, if you block someone in and don't come and move your vehicle, we have called the cops to come and ticket/tow people

>>1106286
shrug, its my thread, i ignore some of the stupidity, but don't mind shitting on the others.

>>1106301
there isn't a menards within like, 800 miles of me, so shrug again. what's good about it?

How often do faggots reply "I know more than you" and walk away after you politely ask if they need help?

>>1106350
not once, parks and recreation is fiction. i'd also definitely be the smartass to reply "i doubt that"

>>1106363
>i'd also definitely be the smartass to reply "i doubt that"

You would put your livelihood in danger over a customers quip?

>>1106363
As a complete sperglord, I rarely find myself in a situation in a hardware store where the guy in the isle knows more than me aside from where to find a specific item.

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>>1103157
My nigga. D94 is the Fucking worst but it is also the most fun. I tried covering for d25 and I felt like I was dying for an hour.

>>1103332
Same. U Dylan?

>>1103499
Customer oriented. Safety first. Big into diy. Sociable and helpful. Always looking for someone who needs help. Etc.

>>1104982
>raises
>@ hd

L E L

OP is mildly dickish, cashier is an entry level position with almost no training so youre guaranteed to get clueless ones, and theres a few morons in here who dont understand how shit works while expecting the world.

No one working a retail job gets adequate training or has power to override procedure. Understaffing is chronic and no one can do shit about it.

>>1105048
>buying raw materials from Amazon

enjoy waiting 2 weeks for it to ship from their "3rd party supplier" in fucking Guangzhou.

find your items on the website that are in stock at your local store and my team (Department 94) will have it ready in less than 2 hours.

>>1106431
>buying metal stock from home depot

Literally the dumbest post in this thread, and there are some real doozies in here.

>>1106333
Whenever i walk into home depot i get the faint vibe that everyone there wants to kill themselves. I just don't get that from menards.

>>1106089
You have two types of employees anywhere you go. 1 wants to be there, is interested and engaged, 2 is just there for the pay check

>>1102931
Underrated

>>1106426

Just let him keep making these threads. It obviously fulfills something missing in his life. Let the guy have a few wins. He works at Home Depot for fucks sake.

>>1108886
It could be a lot worse.

>7-11

>>1108886
>Just let him
it'd take, as has been repeatedly proven, lot more than the entirety of the remainder of /diy/ screaming abuse or trolling the fuck out of him to 'make him stop' - your concern, while touching, maybe misplaced here. If OP truly wanted to win more? -should be a dick less, end of.

>>1102894
>Double streamed erections
And if you don't make it in?

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>mfw buying clearance items marked down to a penny

check them out at your tool rental desk if there is one, tool rental is always chiller about that kind of thing than the other cashiers since they don't deal with the departments responsible for penny items and they have no oversight from the front end management so they let shit like that slide. our D78 is also run by an Ex-marine that gives military discounts to people that he likes.

>>1110395
Or just take them to regular checkout and if they give you shit just tell them to call the manager who will give it to you for a penny because it was their fuckup.

>>1106720
Total opposite here. Local Menards is old as fuck. Every time I go there everyone looks like they are on suicide watch. Store is split into two buildings because it wasn't big enough. The local Home Depot I think drugs their employees. Fucking cashiers are on uppers or something because they always seem super excited.

>>1106350
I was in an Ace the other day buying some door hardware and I actually heard some middle-aged pinterest woman talking about how people in hardware stores couldn't help her because she knew a lot more than them. Her example was how she used black iron pipe to make a table. She said this with 100% certainty that she came up with idea. I started laughing out loud at her. The guy helping her said they get about 1 a week like her.

>>1110400
>>1110395
At Sears and Kmart, any item marked down to a penny in the system was one that had been marked down from clearance a few times and had been finally taken out of the whole system and didnt exist anymore.

We would get monthly penny clearance sheets and manually check shit to remove it from shelves. It would throw an error at checkout and we would have to get yelled at explaining to people we couldnt sell it at any price.

Sometimes penny clearance they are for weird reasons too. Like recalls, or Kmart used to have Martha Stewart branded cooking utensils like back in like 05. It got stopped in 08 and she went to another store to sell her line. With her contract up you legally couldnt sell her stuff, so it if was laying around and someone bought it we were liable for something like a $25000 fine, or so said my manager

It was the most laid back job (with extremely incompetent managers) I have ever had in my life, but penny clearance was one of the few strict things in that store.

>>1108917
I think the confrontation is kind of fun maybe?
People stopped asking questions and just started shitflinging way back in the first or second thread.

>>1106398
D94 isnt that bad when you work in smaller volume stores. my team only has 3 full time people working every week and we get all our tasks and projects done under budget and ahead of schedule with pretty much no supervision from management.

we only send out a few deliveries per week so most of our time focuses on picking Will Calls and BOPUS orders, supporting the pro desk and keeping our cages organized. when that is done and there are no orders to fulfill on the phone im pretty much free to do whatever i want; as long as im walking around frantically staring at my First Phone nobody questions what im doing or ask i help with BS tasks like cart runs or covering cashiers' breaks. it can actually be a very chill department later in the evening but our managers know that its a complicated position that requires an above average knowledge of the entire store's operations so they only select reliable OFAs from other departments that they know can get things done accurately and autonomously.

>>1111778
They've been telling us that they're turfing the 1st Phones and switching to something newer and better since summer. We're supposed to be one of the first and was to be the test bed before roll-out. Mid December someone realizes the wireless repeaters are not compatible. D'oh! Thousands of dollars wasted in our store alone. We're still waiting.

Btw, the batteries for the 1st Phones are freaking expensive. Between fall '15 & March 2016 they were disappearing and day guys were blaming us night guys (Dept 92) and vice-versa. 150 cameras and a DVR with a minimum 2 wk long retention capability finally was utilized by our LPO.

Turns out an old Fijian fellow of retirement age with 8 yrs with the company was (allegedly) pulling the batteries and tossing it as revenge for fucking over him & all the full-timers by demoting them to p/t while Managers got a nice tidy raise. To think he stood there quietly enjoying the drama as it descended into a shitfest over the months. Diabolical! Prob one of those types who secretly likes to watch the world burn. hehe!

It got so bad we had to sign for the phones and hand them back. When the problems continued Supes had to assign them and keep track of them. Several got into trouble when the battery thefts continued.

Sometimes the internal drama can be as entertaining as the customer ones. And I hate those 1st Phones... Windows CE circa 1999. Dammit.. no wonder I had to reboot 3 or 4 times a shift.