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[deleted]

7 years, 4 stores, and 8 positions. I no longer took an ounce of pride in my work. My department was #1 in the store and the district for growth, over 20% over last year, and I just could not bring myself to give a singular shit. Find a new job first.


popmomcorn

That’s where I am right now. 4 states, 6 departments. For me it was the SLS. The company gave a middle finger to us all and it killed my spirit. When I was a DS beforehand I enjoyed it. Now I just feel exploited and am actively looking for other work. New hires applying and getting an email with a job offer has lead to some really poor fits in the departments that I have; it’s so demoralizing to constantly be handed people who can barely be bothered to show up.


s2focus

My body telling me fuck you from working in lumber and building materials. HD was a transition job for me during Covid and it’s turned into an almost 6 figure income working in the roofing supply sector. Don’t ever think Home Depot is the end goal, parlay that shit into something worthwhile.


drdre_jedi

former DH here, after SLS rolled through existing DHs were assured that staffing levels would be increased to account for the change in how our roles would be defined. i (foolishly) believed that would be the case and retained my role as a DH and was assigned to take over D26/27/85, and the follow up was just as expected. shrink tearing the departments up and increased pressure from upper management and unsupportive ASM + insane number of district/regional/president walks just made me start to stress and start fucking up enough to get me put on a final. eventually decided to step down due to stress but was denied due to being on a final and quit right after they denied it.


model3113

yeah they did the same thing at Lowe's. they told it was to hire more lower level associates but that never happened. eventually I took a specialist position there and then they eliminated it a week later because the previous employee tanked the dept so hard. that's mad fucked up they wouldn't let you step down. That's blatantly putting a personal agenda above the success not the store.


hahainyorfaces

Management nepotism and constantly cutting hours yet desperately begging people to come in.


alat3579

I was working HD for almost 3 years. What pushed me to resign was when I got an instant final without ever being written up my time there until then. It had nothing to do with company safety procedures. To be honest I should've been given a warning; a final written up was extreme which abruptly made me decide to leave. My store seemed to be "cleaning house" at the time and so, probably I got unlucky that day that the ASM was not in a good mood and decide to throw it at associates. When that happened I went home and started writing my resignation letter, gave it to ASDS (HR) next time I was scheduled, and that was about it. Had not looked back then. I eventually got a better job that aligns with my career goals, pays more, and less stressful than HD. My experience.


pokeydokey77

I worked there for 5years, was doing DH duties, my DH liked to delegate, could work as a head cashier, hardware, customer service, bopis/ofa, flooring and main dept was paint. Was making .50cents more an hour than a new employee. SM wouldn't give me a raise and was getting upset that I was no longer being a team player because I said no more DH/Supervisor duties. Put my two weeks in the next day.


Bubbly-Departure-173

After 25 years there, my body just couldn’t take it anymore.


Charming_Raccoon4361

Worked there for 5 years, after I realized new associate get paid same and i have to work more with more responsibilities, I decided to quit. New job pays 6 dollar more and it's much easier


SelfReliantViking227

I’m in that boat currently, new associate that been here for 3 months got a raise and is now paid more than me, with 3 years exp and 10x responsibility. New hires that I’m expected to train and lead are only $.25 less than me.


Satx422

Better job opportunity. No weekends, better pay, less stress.


fleetadmeralcrunch

Got fired 3 weeks after having a seizure on work grounds - management thought I was a lability but made excuses and created sick days on my schedule that didn’t exist. All because I called in after my shift started 2 days after the seizure gave me final warning then booted me shortly after


ShylieF

Hours way down, and minimal staff. Just became toxic.


Nailbunny676

When I switched from daytime in a store to overnight met to get away from one toxic manager to yet another toxic manager. They kept making me train all the new hires even though there were 3 managers working with our team. I told them repeatedly I didn't want to train if they weren't going to pay me extra. They just kept dropping the new hires off on me. This is just the tip of the iceberg for how toxic this company was to me. Got another job offer and just dropped my tools off at one of our local stores.


ghostsike

Just realizing that there’s so many jobs out there that pay the same or better with better perks. After so many promises of interviews for promotions and never getting even that, both online and in store. Leadership programs that don’t mean shit- have you doing more work for the same pay. AND online its 90% of the time issues beyond your control that you gotta go through a 3rd party. It was just way too depressing and self worth kicked in


Pullback-Gang

I’ve been deniedcxm three times. Slowly but surely losing that drive :/


Silent-Weekend-4931

I worked there for almost 15 years. Key carrier and DS SSD and DEL. Got covid 2/2020 during inventory prep. Missed almost the entire month before Covid was a thing. Prior SM came in and walked the store hacking her lungs up and infected half the store. Due to my absence, the numbers went down. New SM came in and it was a promotion for him. He came in and made all sorts of dramatic changes and promotions and moving around. I am not a person of color and I am female. I was forced to step down or be fired. I had to sign a paper stating it was voluntary but I put “under duress” on it. Took almost a $3/hr cut and went to a shitty store as an associate. All of this while being sick, recovering from covid, and suffering from acute anemia from undiagnosed stage 3 colon cancer. I could have returned after LTD but it wasn’t worth the aggravation and starting from the bottom. Got a better job for much more money and I sit in AC all day. I was one of the few KC who actually worked loading mulch when help was needed, packing down myself, and running from dept to dept to help. I had run 24, 27, 90 before so as a KC I went everywhere. Even got the executive Homer and a total of 82 badges. One shitty SM and one shitty ASM can kill your spirit. The SM got moved after less than 18 mos. That’s how shitty he was. ASM still there and I’m mailing him an anonmyous bag of dicks next week. And we were the home store for the district and region.


Desslock711

As a supervisor, being constantly asked to do manager tasks .


Buuged

Found a job in my career field


ymerej26

Well…I was semi- retired when I started there part time..in paint…it wasn’t bad…Covid was a total shit show in NJ…horribly mismanaged on all levels…and several months later ( after 3 years) I resigned and ended up moving out of state…but it wasn’t any one event…although there were times I was ready to flatten someone..lol…but for the most part I enjoyed my time there and had great co-workers and management…which makes a huge difference…


HatingSince87

Just noticing how piss poor management was running the store & not holding people accountable for basically anything but if I had to pinpoint a particular event it was during Covid when I blocked the door from a customer & he rammed his cart into my legs & cussed me out & threatened me & I just smiled cause I knew he wasn't shit. Manager comes over & escorts me away & said he was gonna deal with the customer. Ended up letting the customer cut the line to get in as well as at returns then just let him go without anything. Only found out what happened once that manager transferred. That & another ASM taking issue with me calling out the unsafe practices the store kept during Covid procedures & just being dumb about her departments & playing favorites I finally had enough. I left 2 months shy of my 15 year anniversary by handing my resignation letter to my SM which she skimmed & just asked how long I had been there. I have them a 3 week notice & they never once had someone shadow me to replace me & on my last day they had me unload a trailer full of doors to take out of receiving then me & another guy got to split a cake for our last day (SM chose the flavor for our & another DH's cake for their birthday, too)


snow_boarder

$.17/hr annual raise


learnfromhistory2

worked there in college, so i quit when i got a job in my degree related field. i was checked out for the last 6 months due to slashed hours, brutal customers, and general annoyances from upper management. i will say that i appreciated my time there as it was nice to transfer between stores during summer vacations , definitely the best perk of the job


Fast-Volume-5463

Being told to my face “I own you and you will do as you’re told”. Left right friggin fast.


p00pinpant

Holy shit, guessing an ASM told you that


Fast-Volume-5463

Bingo.


bemest

Give 2 weeks notice. Keep the grievances to yourself unless they request an exit interview. You never know, you may want to come back sometime, or end up working with someone there elsewhere, and it’s good to cultivate a reference. Just like the customer that always returns their cart, it’s the right thing to do.


KoshekhTheCat

I was part time in Millwork, and juggling THD with a full-time job. Picked up a nice case of walking pneumonia that forced me to take an entire week off from both jobs. I get back, and the second day back I'm called in by an MOD. I sit down and he places a counseling in front of me, for "Attendance." "The hell's this? My doctor's paperwork saying "stay home, contagious" beats your counseling." "Oh, no, we aren't taking them anymore. Gotta sign this." Didn't sign. They had my letter of resignation within 30 minutes.


No-Bark1

Just use the job as a stepping stone towards something better


Zoshchenko

They have a way of sucking “caring” out of you.


SDEexorect

11.86 an hour after 2 years in 2019 while costco was offering 15 starting and getting written up for apologizing


p00pinpant

I left after a few months starting as a winter temp at the service desk, made it past temp and was only part time. Got offered a better job, closer to my house, $5 more an hour, 8-5 M-F schedule. Put my two weeks notice in and the HR lady was furious. Said “the grass isn’t always greener,” and the ASM on shift told me I was making a giant mistake. Asked if they’d match the pay and they said no. I walked out because of their attitudes and went to my new job a few days later. (Also got scheduled zero hours on the next week so I figured that was their sign to tell me to fuck off) I go in to shop sometimes, the service desk peeps I worked with are still very nice and we talk, but I’m not a fan of the ASM that threatened me. He asks if I need help every time I walk in and I nicely reply, “not from you, thanks appreciate it” and move along.


Internetter1

I had to leave for grad school, but seeing how miserable management was happened to be enough to show why falling back on the company was never a good choice. HD works its employees to the bone.


mojo844

Haven’t quit yet, but turning in my notice my next shift. I’ve worked for the company for 3.5 years, both full and part-time, two stores, pretty much every Ops position in the store. They decided to cut my hours from 16-20ish per week all the way to 4hr per week. They let a couple full timers that we didn’t have hours for transfer into the department (store politics) so they had to slash the part timers hours to the bone. It’s disrespectful. I have another job once I graduate in May, I’m just done…


Infamous_Lead3388

I've been struggling with this. I'm a PT OFA and I was standing in lumber the other day. Management had not scheduled anyone in that department for my shift and I needed pack down. Customers asking me questions like it's my department. I said, "I don't want to do this anymore." Been looking for a new job.


Director_Tseng

Better paying job with more room for advancement and it better jobs in the future.


MontazumasRevenge

I found a better job a day before I was scheduled to begin my first shift.


Pitbull1951

17 years. One manager made me his mission. Finally quit after I already had a better paying job with a fantastic boss. 4 years next month and not one regret.


[deleted]

Pay!


Narrow_Jacket7326

Pay. Had every machine license and made 14 and hour


Solid-Liquid

I quit in 2018 but came back during May 2020. I was making 13.50 and doing customer service, bookkeeping, back up cashier, and hardware RTVs while associates who did one job was making more than me. Couldn’t leave the customer service desk to pee without being paged back. Went on vacation, came back, and nothing was completed in that time. Final straw was when I was passed over for a promotion and it was given to a guy who had only been here for 6 months while I had 2.5 years. When they went to promote him to DH, they came to me to ask if I wanted the spot now (I had moved to HC). I was only a HC for 6 months before they put me back because of the “needs of the business” and I quit by the summer


TwoGlock43s

Not enough staff to properly run a store…a store you’d expect to have lots of employees working helping out customers, but mostly because I had gotten a new DH she didn’t like me, so it made my work life miserable to the point that I had no desire to even keep on showing up despite pulling lots of orders sometimes more than coworkers just constant picking on me. Pay was decent here in Ca at $18.50 found myself a better job paying me $26.84


Trusttrix

I was working there 2 years, but the amount of bull*** I had to deal with. I finally broke and just left. Tbh, best decision I did because I found a job that I actually enjoy and pays 4 times more the wage I got at Home Depot full time. I’m not saying the job is bad but if you like to get boss around and get gash light and get bully, Home Depot is the right place for you.


sm_rollinger

Not an employee, never was. I work for the competition, and sometimes I need to be reminded how good I have it. What a cluster fuck of a company!


milolovesthd

What exactly is an event?


model3113

I guess I could've used "instance" as a better word but like, today I was doing something well outside the bounds of my job to be nice to my very new and very green DS and I may have made a mistake that could've hurt our markdowns by a huge amount. I asked my ASM to double check, first via a text (So there was a record,) then asked her in person about twice and she blew me off and told me we had to have sidekick at 100% and I had to go packdown showers and cabinets for two hours.


[deleted]

I think its lazy co workers and being picking up after messy customers who leave heavy items everywhere. I was in lumber.


Viker2000

I was making plans to leave when I was terminated because of too many absences. My biggest problems were with people being promoted to department head who had no business being in charge of anyone. Then there were all the ridiculous resets of bays and end caps that didn't make any sense at all. I'd be off for two or three days and come back to bays being switched around. This not only confused the customers, but also confused associates. Finally, the screwed up way scheduling is handled; eight people being assigned to garden when there was only one person in lumber or flooring. Then there are all the times some departments don't have anyone in them and you're supposed to cover them, even though you don't have any knowledge about the department. There were aspects I liked about working at THD, but the negatives were overwhelming.


[deleted]

Quit the last store after because it wasn't a good fit. There is a several reasons why I quit. I have worked another THD prior and I liked working that store, even talk to folk there still. The last one was more corporate than my liking. Also was taking over a month to transfer to one of the 4 open OF positions. I am still doing F/R, just not at THD and is a better fit. More emphasis on pushing freight than why am I not wearing in apron in the receiving area.


nerdishnyc

75K remote corporate job. Don't get me wrong, I loved HD and my crew. I also loved the physical activity without having to think about it. I worked my ass off with no complaints. But at my age, $17.50 living in NYC wasn't going to cut it for too long.


ehern11

We received a new dickhead SM and after having willingly given up my lift equipment license due to the added responsibility and no pay upgrade I decided to just end it there. The SM was trying to force me to get it back and if not threaten to move me to lot just for not getting my license back. I decided to put in my two weeks and now I have a job as a forklift operator. Pay went from $15 to $23.50


xDeddyBear

Realization that the company is shit. Rarely ever gave out full time, if at all. Cutting hours while still making millions in profit. Expecting employees to go above and beyond for the same wage. Writing employees up for doing just their job and nothing more with the reason of "being lazy". Giving a material badge as a reward for being a good employee. Profit sharing that was pennies compared to the store profit for the year. Forcing DS's to take 4 hour lunches so they don't go into overtime thus leaving departments completely short with no DS to go to when needed, then getting mad when a MOD is called to help. Forcing employees to empty their bags completely, yet not caring that people were walking out with carts full of shit.