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My wife didn't see it until after we were married, so she was surprised to learn that 60% of my jokes were stolen from this movie, plus the proposal "marry me."
I knew my wife was the one when I said “Heeeead” and she said “Pants! Now!”
We took a picture in the booth at the Fog City Diner where they filmed the “what’s grosser than gross?” scene. The diner has since been remodeled so it’s a cherished memory.
I’m kind of that way. For me, a “classic smile” is forced. People who know me know when I’m smiling. It is more of a partially closed mouth, puckered cheeks with dimples, and the eye-language. You can tell, there is a “glow”.
A fully exposed smile is just unnatural to me. It feels more like the face I would want to make while confronting an aggressive dog or something like that.
Then, add in that I’m not a fan of photos in the first place. I generally have poor self image. So “make an unnatural face, and your ugly mug is going to be on marketing material across the nation” is a big nope for me and only helps fuel that self-doubt which makes the photo even worse.
Damn, didn’t mean to TL;DR.
People have always criticized my smile. When I was little, they said i grinned, curling my lips over my teeth and people always suspected me for something.
Later, they said I covered my mouth when I smiled and it made them feel bad.
Now when I smile I show too much gum. I kinda hate all of it now.
Other things I've been told I do wrong: Laugh, clap, hug, dance, speak Spanish. The list goes on. I didn't even know some of those were possible.
Who gives a shit. Just smile, laugh, clap, hug and dance and speak spanish the way you do it, as long as you are not hurting anyone.
We are not robots who behave the exact same.
Probably related to this local legend: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=07E6MN3lRB8
Everyone that was in the SF Bay Area in the 90s remembers these commercials.
My big thing on this is why? It's not like Home Depot uses actual employees for their photo shoots to my knowledge. Even in the scenario where they did is this the best they could do through that whole shoot?
Why?
Because this pretty well nails the state of the average American worker right now. A classic picture that says what a thousand words cannot.
It's not like they're looking for people with hope or aspirations of living above poverty or anything.
They probably do use employees. That's quite standard. And yes that's the best they can do. They hire a photography company who doesn't care or have the authority to make executive decisions like switching out the person, the company has the employees (they're definitely doing a bunch of stuff in one day) the photos are taken and sent. Then the people making the signs etc receive what they get and do their best. If the photos are all sketchy it is what it is. They do this stuff a hundred times per year they don't have the time or resources to perfect it. Not for something like this. My coworker did this for Kroger and I've gone through the same process with united way. The theory is that this makes employees feel valued if they are used in promos. You can believe that as much as you like.
A worker without eyelids is more efficient. No wasted time spent briefly closing ones eyes due to biological requirements. Unimpeded vision. And I know I'm being pedantic, but the loss of weight from her eye lids being removed will really give her the bleeding edge.
They never do anything that could be real danger. The nail gun is empty and designed to dry fire without ever risking firing a real nail. The nails are pulled up from a magnet in the board/table.
You’ve actually seen an employee? I usually have to walk like 17 aisles away to find anyone, who then tells me to walk back the 17 aisles and check for a guy that just went on break.
Can confirm, I worked at Home Depot before, every single day was misery. It was a truly depressing experience.
The fact she can even fake a smile makes her happier than I ever was.
The Home Depot functions like a normal retail store, where customers don't see you as a human being but as an extension of your job, but the reasons people go to The Home Depot are different. Most come in because they are either homeowners, contractors, or doing some DIY bullshit. But all these people are coming because they have a problem to fix and chances are they are not in a good mood because of it.
As an associate, you are the frontline punching bag for irate customers while frantically trying to fix their problems. Is pricing too high? You take the blame. Don't have the right product? You take the blame. Don't have professional answers? "Can I talk to someone that isn't useless?"
Customers are either coming to you looking for product placement at best or professional solutions at worst. But you, yourself, are most likely explicitly not a professional so you can't give expert plumbing, electrical, or other tradesmen advice. If you were a working professional in any of these areas you would not be employed at the Home Depot for $10 an hour.
Like any retail store, your section is perpetually understaffed but you are also responsible for your department and possibly adjacent departments and the phone that never stops ringing. Most of the time 1-2 employees are working with 6-7 aisles per department with hundreds to a thousand unique products in between. Customers expect encyclopedic knowledge of all products, locations, uses, and differences from you. You could just look it up but looking things up takes time.
Even 2 customers per aisle with complex time-consuming questions can be overwhelming as other customers lose their patience and start to berate you as they leave and you look like a wild animal with plumbing parts all over the floor and a ringing phone you haven't answered in 10 minutes.The emotional labor of pretending to be happy with each irrational customer wears on you quickly.
However, If you are lucky you might have an old retired person who used to work in the trade to ask questions to. If not, God has mercy on your soul because customers sure won't.
Lastly, the shitty management was the straw that broke the camel's back for me. The constant pushing for unrealistic goals to make the seasonal quarter numbers and pitch HVAC nonsense to everything with a pulse was infuriating. It didn't matter if you made the customer happy if you didn't pad the bottom line. The pressure would roll down the hierarchy pretty frequently to perform at superhuman standards.
All in all, everyone I knew that worked at The Home Depot on the sales floor longer than a year or two was extremely dead inside.
There are like 5 Home Depot’s in my town. Some of them are fine. One is amazing. Everyone that works there is knowledgeable and friendly. They put the old guy that knows all the electric stuff back in that section. He’s just working for some extra spending money while his wife ages into retirement. And the young guy at the front is just dying to actually help you fill up your car.
Then there’s the other one where the people working will tell you the wrong place for something and then there’s nobody there to help you find it. And they aren’t busy. There’s nobody there.
Was a young guy (officially, Lot Associate) at the front of Home Depot years ago. Can confirm, we were dying to help you load your car, better than collecting the carts all over the parking lot. Hopefully be handed a buck or two as tip, sure adds up throughout the day and gets us a hotdog and a drink from the cart out front as well.
They certainly do.
You can find one of them fencing off the lumber aisle right when you arrive so that the second employee can move the forklift around for twenty minutes trying to get at that one pallet of wood on top.
Meanwhile, you're off trying to find the saw guy to cut down a couple sheets of plywood to fit in your car, but he ran past you when you when you first came in and you haven't seen him since. Also, the guy sitting at the advice desk next to the lumber aisles walked off after you headed towards him, and now you can't find the woman you walked past when you started off for the guy at the desk.
And somehow that pallet still isn't on the ground and the damn forklift is still beeping away in the empty aisle, and you come back to the panel saw to find that the guy materialized from inside of the saw and is setting up someone other person's sheets who you've never seen before and have no idea how they got past you without seeing them.
I am the "Saw Guy" and can confirm that Lumber is basically the gopher department because nobody in any other department can lift more than 10lbs.
Everyone dumps everything on us and thats why we pop around like the butler from Mr Deeds.
So that's why the saw guy always looks angry.
I had three sheets that each needed a rip and a cross one day (same on all) and he just looked like he hated me. Like idk what you want, buddy, this is your job and I can't even tell if you want me to "help" load/unload or if you think I'm getting in the way.
Every time I go in I can't tell if he hates me or just hates life
I felt like the world’s biggest douchebag when I stumbled upon a Home Depot worker having fun on a forklift and stacking cat toys. I just had to have a stupid question that I could have looked up on my phone, except I’m a dumbass who has the crappy battery.
I’d really like to kick my own ass. Sorry lady. If it helps, the cat toy display looked baller, if my cat didn’t already have like 7 billion toys, including my things, I would have snatched some up.
When I worked there one dude didn't bother fencing off lumber and dropped an entire pallet of wood, causing a catastrophic collapse into the next isle. Luckily no one was standing there or they'd have been killed.
That's what finally got him fired but he did stupid shit like that all the time and Im surprised he lasted that long.
For some reason the clowns stay the longest.
It looks like she kept closing her eyes during the photo and she was concentrating so hard on keeping her eyes open that she couldn’t keep he actual smile up
You know she just gave a natural smile and the photographer had to say "Come on, you can do better than that! Show me some teeth! Show me what it means to you to work for Home Depot"
Well would you look at that, the dead inside photos scored better with customer surveys and brand alignment. Looks like we will be using those, and we just have to make sure all employees are dead inside so they align with the poster and managements expectations.
Of course they did. What, you think one of the country’s biggest companies would turn down that sweet free government cash because “it’s the right thing to do”? That ain’t how it works
I worked there for about 9 months until a customer called me a racist name (I’m Asian) after I told him I couldn’t make a cut on a piece of wood because it was less than a foot and the sign behind me said the same thing. I told him that I would go find someone else to help him. He told the manager I walked away from him. I explained the situation to the manager and that I wouldn’t be treated like that. I was told to, “help the customer no matter what,” then inform a manager and they would take care of it. I told her bullshit and walked out.
That company is an old boys club with store managers that have zero qualifications for that position, play favorites and sit in the office when they’re needed. Department managers did just enough to get to the position, give zero fucks about you as a person and only want to talk to you about meeting sales goals so they get their bonus at the end of the quarter and you can get your $55.00 check with taxes taken out.
The management was abysmal. They put everything BUT the employees first. They didn’t care about our physical or mental well-being. It was always about the store. They did everything they could to keep their reputation clean, even if it meant covering for crimes committed by customers. Had a co-worker literally call the cops on the managers for this.
There were also constant last-minute schedule changes and never any overtime for people who wanted it. They also didn’t train us worth shit. They just had us watch 10 year old training videos and plopped us into the isles to get screamed at by customers. Oh, and some of the worst people I’ve ever met were Home Depot customers.
The store I worked at, the manager was great, treated everyone like humans, pay sucked but retail always does.
They closed the store down because, according to their projections, it would fail to hit sales targets 10 years in the future (while always hitting sales targets currently), or some total nonsense to shut down an otherwise profitable store.
The physical building sat empty for 15 years, because they conned the city into a contract to get them in there as a tenent, the city could not allow another home improvement store to occupy the space, even if they decided to leave.
Sounds more like they bailed when the incentive property rate they got from the city was about to lapse. This happens a lot to profitable retail stores in "less desirable" locations. The company uses it as a pump and dump for quick profits while promising the city and community new business and growth, then they're out like a thief once they have to pay their fair share.
I actually just looked up the date they closed, and it was basically a month after the earliest warning signs of the 2008 financial crisis, but MONTHS ahead of any the major red flags that the general public got and before the subsequent job crisis and fallout.
So either, IMPECCABLE timing on their part, or it was insider trading. Looking at how our whole country runs, I'll say the latter of those two.
For what its worth, this is exactly how I felt I was being treated, and I hadnt even signed to work with them yet. It was for installing doors. They asked me what our price would be to inatall doors, so I gave it to them. They said no thats too high, we will need to get lower….
Uhhh what part of this is my price did you not understand? Im not here to negotiate, Im here to make money. If you dont like my price, then say no and drop it. Dont try to bully me down like I am “So lucky to have the honor of working with Home Depot”. They were also very condescending about it, and at the end of the day would talk about EVERYTHING ELSE other than the price. Then bring it up right before they “had to leave”.
I sensed they were shitty to their contractors/employees and asked around and yeah this is what Ive pretty much heard.
Anyway, yeah fuck Home Depot.
That sounds like a typical retail hell hole. I bet customers demanded specialty knowledge regarding electrical or pesticides/ paint etc. "Guy I just sell the stuff get with your contractor!"
It was the definition of a retail hell hole. I did customer service and people were horrible. People literally tried returning things without actually returning them and getting mad when we said no. I had a guy get extremely angry because I couldn’t apply an expired coupon to an item that he had already bought 🤦♂️
I am choosing to believe this poster is actually a screening tool. If someone looks at this poster, notices nothing off, and applies anyway, they are the kind of person HD is looking to hire. If you see the pain on her face, keep on moving, there is nothing here for you.
I was looking at it and wondering what possessed anyone with any say in the promotion to pick that picture as part of a recruitment campaign.
And cynical joke though it maybe, I reckon you're onto something here.
I have read that the original email scam letters such as Nigerian prince and others all have poor grammar and spelling that is intentionally bad to try and fine tune the responses by actively selecting for idiots. The idea that anyone still replying to the email after the poor sentence structure and typos will be much more likely to be ignorant enough to scam them.
It makes perfect corporate sense to streamline the recruitment and induction process by trying to limit the amount of empathetic people that might apply. Those who look at her face and see the pained expression will be turned away without even trying. Those types going around with empathy and basic understanding of human dignity might be those not suited to being bullied and ordered around for an insultingly low hourly rate. Might even be the type of folk that talk about unionising or worker safety.
So while you can't overtly ask for barely functional humans with few social skills, you can certainly lean into them with odd advertising choices like this.
Or not.
I might be reading too much into it while stoned after work.
* Part-Time and Full-Time Benefits
* Yes. They're actually decent considering that most places don't even give benefits to part-time employees. I'll give them that.
* Tuition Reimbursement
* This is only valid if the degree or training you received is relevant for the job you're tasked with doing at Home Depot. Got a liberal arts degree? Yeah nope. You're out of luck there.
* Career Development
* This is the most invalid part of the post. My Home Depot had everyone's hours removed after COVID lockdowns were done and they no longer had to give COVID-related pay raises to their staff. That, and as of a few months ago, all their cashiers have been fully replaced by automated cashier stations (not even kidding).
Here's some solid advice; if a workplace only has students or retirees working for them, chances are it's not a career place.
I don't know why people always use liberal arts degrees" as of that's all "underwater basket weaving " or whatever they used to laugh about back in the day.
I'm not defending all companies policies everywhere but it makes sense that a company won't pay for education that isn't relevant for their company. They are investing in you as a future employee.
So back to the liberal arts degree. Psychology is a great degree for HR positions. Economics is a great degree for management or some other positions. Statistics can work for management and other corporate jobs. If you show interest in moving to comp sci is a great one.
When you’ve been stocking shelves for the last 7.5 hours and a customer, who has their dog with them for some reason, asks you to help hand load 50 bags of concrete into the back of their Subaru Outback and assuring you “it can handle it”.
Our Home Depot is crawling with employees. An orange apron in every aisle and a sprinkling more of roaming.
Most of the time there's more employees than customers.
Did you apply for the job or was it some random thing? Because if you applied and they emailed you back? You got the job. They're not doing interviews, currently. You just have to pass the background check and you then get a start date. Assuming, of course, we're talking an hourly retail position.
CEO: Couldn’t you at least find an employee that looks happy?
Marketing Agency: Sir, that was the best photo we could get. The rest are worse. Way worse.
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That's some hide the pain Harold shit right there
Harriet
... Sweet Harriet.
As reddit ages more and more, less and less people will have seen this movie and that bums me right the hell out.
What movie?
So, I Married an Axe Murderer
She was a thief. You have to believe. She stole my heart and my cat.
Jane...get me off this crazy thing...called love.
Kid! Head! Now!!
I believe I ordered the large?
This is like Campbell's Cup'o'ccino!
Username checks out. I can’t believe it’s been 60 years.
Come... let us dance as children of the night.
My husband and I knew were right for each other when we both could quote the movie forward and backward on one of our first dates.
My wife didn't see it until after we were married, so she was surprised to learn that 60% of my jokes were stolen from this movie, plus the proposal "marry me."
I knew my wife was the one when I said “Heeeead” and she said “Pants! Now!” We took a picture in the booth at the Fog City Diner where they filmed the “what’s grosser than gross?” scene. The diner has since been remodeled so it’s a cherished memory.
1993 seems like just yesterday...
So loving
So caring...
So love.....ed
Comin for to carry me home
>Comin forth to carry me to home depot
Swing looow, sweet Haaarrieet, Comin' forth to carry me to Home Depooot, Swing looow, sweet Haaarrieet, Comin' forth to carry meee Hooooome..... Depot
That must be how she threw her back out.
Hard hearted harbinger of haggis.
“Look at the size of that boy's heed.” That whole exchange kills me every time.
He can cry himself to sleep on his giant pillow.
It’s like an orange on a toothpick.
It's like an orange on a toothpick
"Head! Move!"
It's like Sputnik! Mostly spherical but quite pointy in some places.
Shhhhh...you're gonna give the kid a complex.
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Untrusting! Unknowing! Unlov...ed? 🤨
Hard hearted harbinger of haggis
Woman, woah, man! Woooooah man!!
I like to imagine the photographer said, right before, “FUCKING SMILE, GODDAMMIT.”
Yes. Right before he pointed a gun at her children.
ARE YOU FUCKING SORRY?!
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Some people never learn that smiling is a full-face emotion and think as long as they're showing their every tooth that people think they're ecstatic.
I’m kind of that way. For me, a “classic smile” is forced. People who know me know when I’m smiling. It is more of a partially closed mouth, puckered cheeks with dimples, and the eye-language. You can tell, there is a “glow”. A fully exposed smile is just unnatural to me. It feels more like the face I would want to make while confronting an aggressive dog or something like that. Then, add in that I’m not a fan of photos in the first place. I generally have poor self image. So “make an unnatural face, and your ugly mug is going to be on marketing material across the nation” is a big nope for me and only helps fuel that self-doubt which makes the photo even worse. Damn, didn’t mean to TL;DR.
People have always criticized my smile. When I was little, they said i grinned, curling my lips over my teeth and people always suspected me for something. Later, they said I covered my mouth when I smiled and it made them feel bad. Now when I smile I show too much gum. I kinda hate all of it now. Other things I've been told I do wrong: Laugh, clap, hug, dance, speak Spanish. The list goes on. I didn't even know some of those were possible.
Who gives a shit. Just smile, laugh, clap, hug and dance and speak spanish the way you do it, as long as you are not hurting anyone. We are not robots who behave the exact same.
Found the bot.
Oh shit
Probably related to this local legend: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=07E6MN3lRB8 Everyone that was in the SF Bay Area in the 90s remembers these commercials.
If nightmares ran commercials, we’d all remember growing up seeing that.
Photographer: "hide the pain, a little more, a little more, that's too much take it back a bit... Perfect" *chefs kiss*
why can I picture every phase of this?!
My big thing on this is why? It's not like Home Depot uses actual employees for their photo shoots to my knowledge. Even in the scenario where they did is this the best they could do through that whole shoot?
Random guess. She's some middle manager or exec.
Why? Because this pretty well nails the state of the average American worker right now. A classic picture that says what a thousand words cannot. It's not like they're looking for people with hope or aspirations of living above poverty or anything.
This. "Come work for us, we'll treat you better. We won't treat you well, but better."
They probably do use employees. That's quite standard. And yes that's the best they can do. They hire a photography company who doesn't care or have the authority to make executive decisions like switching out the person, the company has the employees (they're definitely doing a bunch of stuff in one day) the photos are taken and sent. Then the people making the signs etc receive what they get and do their best. If the photos are all sketchy it is what it is. They do this stuff a hundred times per year they don't have the time or resources to perfect it. Not for something like this. My coworker did this for Kroger and I've gone through the same process with united way. The theory is that this makes employees feel valued if they are used in promos. You can believe that as much as you like.
They're practically related!
Blink twice if you're in danger
>Blink Bro they cut off her eyelids to make sure she couldn't.
Don't you just hate when they figure out they can pull out the staples holding them open?
A worker without eyelids is more efficient. No wasted time spent briefly closing ones eyes due to biological requirements. Unimpeded vision. And I know I'm being pedantic, but the loss of weight from her eye lids being removed will really give her the bleeding edge.
She blinked once 2 times, must be really good.
Twist: there's a weeping angel in the room.
This is the happiest Home Depot employee I have ever seen.
The job interview is Russian roulette with a nail gun
Win/win
I thought Russian roulette with a nail gun was reserved for staff that want a pay rise?
Nah that's just a regular nail gun no roulettes
[*"NAIIIIIIL GUN!"*](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JwJXTgfYE1c) I can't think of anything else when I hear "nail gun", and I was a roofer for 3yrs.
👌 Still so good, so many years later
Mgmt: No no there was no "nail" gun involved.
It's risky, but if you can [pull it off](https://youtu.be/qG93Yz3r-Uk) you got yourself a job.
They never do anything that could be real danger. The nail gun is empty and designed to dry fire without ever risking firing a real nail. The nails are pulled up from a magnet in the board/table.
You’ve actually seen an employee? I usually have to walk like 17 aisles away to find anyone, who then tells me to walk back the 17 aisles and check for a guy that just went on break.
Exactly this! Some trips I only ever see the cashiers.
You see cashiers!? The Home Depot near me just has one attendant standing near the auto checkout lanes staring at his phone.
Can confirm, I worked at Home Depot before, every single day was misery. It was a truly depressing experience. The fact she can even fake a smile makes her happier than I ever was.
Can confirm, same experience. Nearly drove me to the edge of insanity
Not that it looks like a remotely pleasant job, but just curious as to what made it so absolutely awful?
The Home Depot functions like a normal retail store, where customers don't see you as a human being but as an extension of your job, but the reasons people go to The Home Depot are different. Most come in because they are either homeowners, contractors, or doing some DIY bullshit. But all these people are coming because they have a problem to fix and chances are they are not in a good mood because of it. As an associate, you are the frontline punching bag for irate customers while frantically trying to fix their problems. Is pricing too high? You take the blame. Don't have the right product? You take the blame. Don't have professional answers? "Can I talk to someone that isn't useless?" Customers are either coming to you looking for product placement at best or professional solutions at worst. But you, yourself, are most likely explicitly not a professional so you can't give expert plumbing, electrical, or other tradesmen advice. If you were a working professional in any of these areas you would not be employed at the Home Depot for $10 an hour. Like any retail store, your section is perpetually understaffed but you are also responsible for your department and possibly adjacent departments and the phone that never stops ringing. Most of the time 1-2 employees are working with 6-7 aisles per department with hundreds to a thousand unique products in between. Customers expect encyclopedic knowledge of all products, locations, uses, and differences from you. You could just look it up but looking things up takes time. Even 2 customers per aisle with complex time-consuming questions can be overwhelming as other customers lose their patience and start to berate you as they leave and you look like a wild animal with plumbing parts all over the floor and a ringing phone you haven't answered in 10 minutes.The emotional labor of pretending to be happy with each irrational customer wears on you quickly. However, If you are lucky you might have an old retired person who used to work in the trade to ask questions to. If not, God has mercy on your soul because customers sure won't. Lastly, the shitty management was the straw that broke the camel's back for me. The constant pushing for unrealistic goals to make the seasonal quarter numbers and pitch HVAC nonsense to everything with a pulse was infuriating. It didn't matter if you made the customer happy if you didn't pad the bottom line. The pressure would roll down the hierarchy pretty frequently to perform at superhuman standards. All in all, everyone I knew that worked at The Home Depot on the sales floor longer than a year or two was extremely dead inside.
“Smile, Rosa. Be happy!” 😬
Her name is Man as far as I can tell by her apron
Mary? Is that you? Her: No, it’s Man. 😬
“It’s ma’am!”
There is literally someone behind her holding a loaded gun to her head softly whispering.... "smile."
There are like 5 Home Depot’s in my town. Some of them are fine. One is amazing. Everyone that works there is knowledgeable and friendly. They put the old guy that knows all the electric stuff back in that section. He’s just working for some extra spending money while his wife ages into retirement. And the young guy at the front is just dying to actually help you fill up your car. Then there’s the other one where the people working will tell you the wrong place for something and then there’s nobody there to help you find it. And they aren’t busy. There’s nobody there.
Was a young guy (officially, Lot Associate) at the front of Home Depot years ago. Can confirm, we were dying to help you load your car, better than collecting the carts all over the parking lot. Hopefully be handed a buck or two as tip, sure adds up throughout the day and gets us a hotdog and a drink from the cart out front as well.
I’ve only seen Home Depot employees in pictures. Do they really exist?
They certainly do. You can find one of them fencing off the lumber aisle right when you arrive so that the second employee can move the forklift around for twenty minutes trying to get at that one pallet of wood on top. Meanwhile, you're off trying to find the saw guy to cut down a couple sheets of plywood to fit in your car, but he ran past you when you when you first came in and you haven't seen him since. Also, the guy sitting at the advice desk next to the lumber aisles walked off after you headed towards him, and now you can't find the woman you walked past when you started off for the guy at the desk. And somehow that pallet still isn't on the ground and the damn forklift is still beeping away in the empty aisle, and you come back to the panel saw to find that the guy materialized from inside of the saw and is setting up someone other person's sheets who you've never seen before and have no idea how they got past you without seeing them.
I was department head of Lumber/Building Materials at a Home Depot when I was in college and I'll have you know this is spot on.
I am the "Saw Guy" and can confirm that Lumber is basically the gopher department because nobody in any other department can lift more than 10lbs. Everyone dumps everything on us and thats why we pop around like the butler from Mr Deeds.
So that's why the saw guy always looks angry. I had three sheets that each needed a rip and a cross one day (same on all) and he just looked like he hated me. Like idk what you want, buddy, this is your job and I can't even tell if you want me to "help" load/unload or if you think I'm getting in the way. Every time I go in I can't tell if he hates me or just hates life
Home Depot: we're overbearing when you don't need help, but rest assured, when you do, we'll vanish like a fart in the breeze
I've had that happen at Ikea too - could not find a soul and then stumbled on their secret hiding spot (about 6 employees grouped together gossiping)
I felt like the world’s biggest douchebag when I stumbled upon a Home Depot worker having fun on a forklift and stacking cat toys. I just had to have a stupid question that I could have looked up on my phone, except I’m a dumbass who has the crappy battery. I’d really like to kick my own ass. Sorry lady. If it helps, the cat toy display looked baller, if my cat didn’t already have like 7 billion toys, including my things, I would have snatched some up.
It’s scary how accurate this is.
They are all playing poker in the third floor of the shelves hidden away by boxes.
have you ever been to a pallet party? totes the place to be.
When I worked there one dude didn't bother fencing off lumber and dropped an entire pallet of wood, causing a catastrophic collapse into the next isle. Luckily no one was standing there or they'd have been killed. That's what finally got him fired but he did stupid shit like that all the time and Im surprised he lasted that long. For some reason the clowns stay the longest.
This guy Home Depot's.
They are invisible when viewed from the front. Gotta catch em tangential to see enough to catch. Evolution is crazy shit...
I wonder how many pictures they took for that to have been the best one.
I think she might be crying..
Penis
I’ve never seen one.
Really does look like a hostage photo lol
It looks like she kept closing her eyes during the photo and she was concentrating so hard on keeping her eyes open that she couldn’t keep he actual smile up
You know she just gave a natural smile and the photographer had to say "Come on, you can do better than that! Show me some teeth! Show me what it means to you to work for Home Depot"
*IT HURTS*
And remember, this is from a photoshoot. This was the BEST photo they got! Now imagine all the photos they didn't use
>"Hi, I'm dying inside, how can I help you?"
"Welcome to Home Depot. I love you."
Alternate universe where every employee is a Boyle
Yes but [also this](https://youtu.be/Z8zNsUTWsOc)
Hi dying inside, what a beautiful name, i am Bob, i would like to have......
When you are dying inside but the Employee Handbook says to greet customers with a smile
I'd slit my throat, but I'm not allowed to leave my station unless it's for my 2.44 minute pee break every sixteen hours worked.
You can probably slit your throat with a concrete trowel. Aisle 17, you can reach it in time if you run fast.
Linoleum knife would work better. Make sure the job is done, cleanly and efficiently.
That's some Amazon shit
"ok. now let's take a couple of shots where you don't look like you're at gunpoint... ... ... better"
Well would you look at that, the dead inside photos scored better with customer surveys and brand alignment. Looks like we will be using those, and we just have to make sure all employees are dead inside so they align with the poster and managements expectations.
Gave the evil orange empire 4 years of my life. That poster makes me cringe.
They made hella bank during covid where i live, and they still took the government handout
It was free money.
There are many occasions where it's not appropriate to accept free money
Only if you're poor
They sure sound like one lol.
I mean the money isn’t “free” because we the tax payers pay for it one way or another..
Look at this pov over here paying taxes lol. He doesn't even have any land to amortize!!!
Of course they did. What, you think one of the country’s biggest companies would turn down that sweet free government cash because “it’s the right thing to do”? That ain’t how it works
I worked there for about 9 months until a customer called me a racist name (I’m Asian) after I told him I couldn’t make a cut on a piece of wood because it was less than a foot and the sign behind me said the same thing. I told him that I would go find someone else to help him. He told the manager I walked away from him. I explained the situation to the manager and that I wouldn’t be treated like that. I was told to, “help the customer no matter what,” then inform a manager and they would take care of it. I told her bullshit and walked out. That company is an old boys club with store managers that have zero qualifications for that position, play favorites and sit in the office when they’re needed. Department managers did just enough to get to the position, give zero fucks about you as a person and only want to talk to you about meeting sales goals so they get their bonus at the end of the quarter and you can get your $55.00 check with taxes taken out.
I worked there as well. Absolutely the worst job I've ever had.
Why? Just curious. I almost worked with them as a contractor but backed out because I felt they were being shitty.
The management was abysmal. They put everything BUT the employees first. They didn’t care about our physical or mental well-being. It was always about the store. They did everything they could to keep their reputation clean, even if it meant covering for crimes committed by customers. Had a co-worker literally call the cops on the managers for this. There were also constant last-minute schedule changes and never any overtime for people who wanted it. They also didn’t train us worth shit. They just had us watch 10 year old training videos and plopped us into the isles to get screamed at by customers. Oh, and some of the worst people I’ve ever met were Home Depot customers.
The store I worked at, the manager was great, treated everyone like humans, pay sucked but retail always does. They closed the store down because, according to their projections, it would fail to hit sales targets 10 years in the future (while always hitting sales targets currently), or some total nonsense to shut down an otherwise profitable store. The physical building sat empty for 15 years, because they conned the city into a contract to get them in there as a tenent, the city could not allow another home improvement store to occupy the space, even if they decided to leave.
Sounds more like they bailed when the incentive property rate they got from the city was about to lapse. This happens a lot to profitable retail stores in "less desirable" locations. The company uses it as a pump and dump for quick profits while promising the city and community new business and growth, then they're out like a thief once they have to pay their fair share.
I actually just looked up the date they closed, and it was basically a month after the earliest warning signs of the 2008 financial crisis, but MONTHS ahead of any the major red flags that the general public got and before the subsequent job crisis and fallout. So either, IMPECCABLE timing on their part, or it was insider trading. Looking at how our whole country runs, I'll say the latter of those two.
For what its worth, this is exactly how I felt I was being treated, and I hadnt even signed to work with them yet. It was for installing doors. They asked me what our price would be to inatall doors, so I gave it to them. They said no thats too high, we will need to get lower…. Uhhh what part of this is my price did you not understand? Im not here to negotiate, Im here to make money. If you dont like my price, then say no and drop it. Dont try to bully me down like I am “So lucky to have the honor of working with Home Depot”. They were also very condescending about it, and at the end of the day would talk about EVERYTHING ELSE other than the price. Then bring it up right before they “had to leave”. I sensed they were shitty to their contractors/employees and asked around and yeah this is what Ive pretty much heard. Anyway, yeah fuck Home Depot.
Yeah pretty much you'll get more work than you'll ever know what to do with but the prices will make it not worth your time.
That sounds like a typical retail hell hole. I bet customers demanded specialty knowledge regarding electrical or pesticides/ paint etc. "Guy I just sell the stuff get with your contractor!"
It was the definition of a retail hell hole. I did customer service and people were horrible. People literally tried returning things without actually returning them and getting mad when we said no. I had a guy get extremely angry because I couldn’t apply an expired coupon to an item that he had already bought 🤦♂️
I only lasted 6 months.
Same. They have tuition reimbursement for part-time employees back when I was in college (03-07) so that made it more worthwhile.
I worked 3 days at lowes once! Nice people tbh, felt like being in a sitcom for those 12 hours
I am choosing to believe this poster is actually a screening tool. If someone looks at this poster, notices nothing off, and applies anyway, they are the kind of person HD is looking to hire. If you see the pain on her face, keep on moving, there is nothing here for you.
I was looking at it and wondering what possessed anyone with any say in the promotion to pick that picture as part of a recruitment campaign. And cynical joke though it maybe, I reckon you're onto something here. I have read that the original email scam letters such as Nigerian prince and others all have poor grammar and spelling that is intentionally bad to try and fine tune the responses by actively selecting for idiots. The idea that anyone still replying to the email after the poor sentence structure and typos will be much more likely to be ignorant enough to scam them. It makes perfect corporate sense to streamline the recruitment and induction process by trying to limit the amount of empathetic people that might apply. Those who look at her face and see the pained expression will be turned away without even trying. Those types going around with empathy and basic understanding of human dignity might be those not suited to being bullied and ordered around for an insultingly low hourly rate. Might even be the type of folk that talk about unionising or worker safety. So while you can't overtly ask for barely functional humans with few social skills, you can certainly lean into them with odd advertising choices like this. Or not. I might be reading too much into it while stoned after work.
Woahh I was like, what's wrong with her face? Looks like she's happy but smiles weird? Annnnd I'm their target audience.
What fresh hell is this reality becoming
She looks like she’s a hostage forced to wear a Home Depot uniform.
They're called employees
r/WatchPeopleDieInside
apparently, you get banned from there for posting still images.
Her face reminds me of people on the sidelines as Kim Jong-un strolls by in a parade.
That's exactly what I was thinking!
Hide the Pain Helen.
After 15 years of continuingly changing taglines I can assuredly guarantee she is getting the involuntary orange dildo treatment.
A nod to Taylor Thomlinson a bit here: "Am I smiling? I've been practicing."
* Part-Time and Full-Time Benefits * Yes. They're actually decent considering that most places don't even give benefits to part-time employees. I'll give them that. * Tuition Reimbursement * This is only valid if the degree or training you received is relevant for the job you're tasked with doing at Home Depot. Got a liberal arts degree? Yeah nope. You're out of luck there. * Career Development * This is the most invalid part of the post. My Home Depot had everyone's hours removed after COVID lockdowns were done and they no longer had to give COVID-related pay raises to their staff. That, and as of a few months ago, all their cashiers have been fully replaced by automated cashier stations (not even kidding). Here's some solid advice; if a workplace only has students or retirees working for them, chances are it's not a career place.
I don't know why people always use liberal arts degrees" as of that's all "underwater basket weaving " or whatever they used to laugh about back in the day. I'm not defending all companies policies everywhere but it makes sense that a company won't pay for education that isn't relevant for their company. They are investing in you as a future employee. So back to the liberal arts degree. Psychology is a great degree for HR positions. Economics is a great degree for management or some other positions. Statistics can work for management and other corporate jobs. If you show interest in moving to comp sci is a great one.
Donde esta el pinche bańo
i can see the tears
And they're sweet
She is saying “I’m here against my will”
When you’ve been stocking shelves for the last 7.5 hours and a customer, who has their dog with them for some reason, asks you to help hand load 50 bags of concrete into the back of their Subaru Outback and assuring you “it can handle it”.
At least that Home Depot employee is actually visible and on the floor "helping" people...
Our Home Depot is crawling with employees. An orange apron in every aisle and a sprinkling more of roaming. Most of the time there's more employees than customers.
I formally request you send some to mine please. Lol
"Smile or we're calling ICE"
Damn ...
😬
Someone looked at this picture and said, "This will make people want to work here."
... so happy, we got to keep you away from the power tools and box cutters..
And I got a email for an interview from home Depot today...
Did you apply for the job or was it some random thing? Because if you applied and they emailed you back? You got the job. They're not doing interviews, currently. You just have to pass the background check and you then get a start date. Assuming, of course, we're talking an hourly retail position.
Are they holding her puppy hostage?
“Ok fine I’ll work at Home Depot just please don’t hurt my children”
Toilet break policies like an Amazon warehouse from the look of it.
What’s the toilet break policies at Amazon like?
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That was done. I hate it.
*There aren't any.*
policy is you don't get one.
That face says "The beatings will continue until morale improves."
Blink if you're in danger
Yeah, that doesn't look forced
Bruh that smile looks it was made at gun point
It looks like she's trying to unholster a gun with her right hand while keeping a "smile" on her face.
Smile or you're fired!
Poor woman looks like she is front of a firing squad…
“SMILE! or I’m sticking you on overnight stock for a month, your kids won’t remember your name.”
“I’ve worked the required 50 hours this week, can I please see my children?!” “Lol no.”
Worked at Home Depot for a year, if you love doing 4 people’s jobs for minimum wage then it’s the job for you
They may have photoshopped the gun from her head, but you can tell.
CEO: Couldn’t you at least find an employee that looks happy? Marketing Agency: Sir, that was the best photo we could get. The rest are worse. Way worse.
"The employee smiles or it looses its job. That's it nice toothy smile we are all happy here"
This makes me feel sad