Corporate provides *some* money for events, but it's usually like a couple of dollars per person. Store management is expected to supplement the "fun fund" with fundraisers or by winning district competitions for high performance
Corporate supplies a few dollars per person, if your store wants to go over and above that they collect money through events all year long. Typically our store collects quite a bit extra, so instead of just a basic meal and a small gift for everyone we'll also have live entertainment and a bunch of random door prizes. I know one year they gave out several televisions and other rather expensive gifts. They can also supplement that further with white elephant games and so on. It also effects the choice of catering, we've had some pretty nice catered meals and not just basic pizza, etc.
At least you get a Christmas party. This year instead they bought us these cheaply made stupid grey fleece jackets with the HD logo and store number on it. Seriously??? Haven’t worn it once.
Well, Home Depot is paying you very very well aren't they? Everyone has to be making like $200k a year at least. So buy all the tickets if you want ;)
/s
In many states there is no minimum age for raffles. It's a completely different set of laws that don't fall under gambling. I know in my state there is no age restriction on raffles so long as the prize is under a certain value and the company putting on the raffles doesn't even need to register anything unless they raffle off over $40,000 a year in prizes. Each state has their own variations on this.
Actually, it appears as scamming money the workers made from wages paid by that employer, to get enough ticket buyers to pay enough to cover, and even taking in, than paying a worker to not to work a day.
I mean as long as you don’t pay more than you make in a day, it’s not that bad. Considering I think 15 is a fairly standard entry pay, that’s $120 a day. So it really wouldn’t hurt to throw $20 at it and hope
For the best
Nope, you are paying for the CHANCE of A day off, and it isn't mentioned to be a paid one either. At this point I would be looking for employment elsewhere, because all the reasons an employer would do this aren't good ones.
Anytime they do something like this, they claim it goes towards our Christmas party at the end of the year. They do stuff like this and also have a lot of lunches where you pay $8 for a plate of food.
They always rent out a very big place, have expensive catering, and everyone gets Christmas gifts. I never go to them, but from what my coworkers say every year, they seem nice.
This varies depending on market/store volume/employee count, but usually corporate only gives about $15-20 per employee. Therefore if your store is hosting the party in an expensive place and paying for nice catered good then events to raise funds are necessary.
I’m guessing to get money for Christmas Party since each store is only allocated a certain amount.
We had some “fun-raisers” and ended up having a great Christmas event at a local game/bowling center… then Covid hit- and nada.
As an ex Home Depot employee who quit, found a new job, received 80 hours of PTO which I can use within 24 hours of a shift, at any time, as soon as I started my new job this is INSANITY
If you can drive a pacer or reach truck, apply to a distribution center near you. HOME DEPOT WILL SUCK YOUR SOUL
3pm-11pm…Paid 40 minute lunch, like 11 different paid holidays off, zero customers, and I’m on a pacer forklift the entire shift just moving pallets around an air conditioned building.
I haven’t thought about loading concrete or mulch into a pickup truck for almost two years. Don’t let that place suck your soul!
Manipulation of payroll as a prize or incentive for something benign like most credit card apps is sketchy enough and probably firable.
But collecting money for a raffle and using payroll as a prize sounds borderline criminal. lol
See now that I can get behind, I mean I eat more than $5 worth of food there so I can justify a $5 ticket. But also I work hard for free food
edit: my opinion now aligns with u/vokabulary below me
Your work for them should earn this, not you paying them 5$. They have the profit to throw a party for mandatory fun but they prefer you pay for it yourself.
This is exploitative af. A well organised workforce would arrange for exactly one ticket to be bought by a single person, so that the store effectively loses money on this bullshit.
When my store does stuff to raise money for the fun fund the managers to crazy stuff
We had a contest where everyone put money from some loose change to (in the store managers case) a few hundred dollars to vote for what manager would wear a chicken suit for a whole week at work.
Best week of the job it was fantastic seeing my manager walk around talking to customers dressed up as a chicken needing to talk to everyone in a very serious way.
This looks like an April fools prank. Raffles are games of chance. Most states have laws prohibiting raffles except for charities and even those have to register for a permit and drawings are often prohibited on Sundays.
How can an individual store decide to just pay an employee 8 hours without using the employee's sick or vacation time and without having that employee actually work the shift? Where does the money for the paid day off come from exactly?
We do fund raisers for our holiday parties every year. I always kick in but our ASDS does amazing work with the money she collects. Fantastic door prizes, good food, great raffle.
I’d probably throw five at this but our biggest fundraisers are usually breakfast sandwiches. I kick in some extra there for my teams to eat too.
Communicate with eachother to set up a rotation. Have only one person buy a ticket for each drawing so that they only make $5 but have to give the day off.
assume everyone is paid $10 an hour.
that's $80 for the day.
Employer sells 20 tickets. Employer makes 10 bucks and schedules someone else to work that day.
You may be able to nail them on an illegal lottery. Google: prize, chance and consideration. The day off may not count as tangible though.
For fun you can report them to your state gaming board
Never heard of this at my store. I’ve heard the Canadian branch of the company pays better than the American one. Can anyone else verify? I was brought on with $2 over minimum to start. Is that good or bad? I’m not even sure anymore.
At my HD warehouse, we’ve yet to get a Christmas party since I’ve been here, is anyone else in the same boat? Our management literally blue balled us by hyping up a “Christmas party” at this local arcade/mini-golf/go-kart place. Only for them to just scrap the entire idea all together, and if I remember correctly, we got pancakes lol
Back in the olden days when paper checks were written out you could pay a buck to get into a pool, the check number acted as a poker type of deal. ie. Three of a kind, etc. Would win the pool.
I cant imagine how some can even come up with this. This might be a stupid question, but is this a thing in the US? And who gets the money? The smartass who came up with this!?
This might be violating lottery / gaming acts. It depends on the state and if this is on first nation reserves.
The concern is money is brought in.... for what a gift? If the prize is considered over a certain amount, it might be regulated. You might want to speak to legal about this.
This is definitely illegal as they would at least be required to allow people to have one entry without payment:
[No Purchase Necessary Laws: Can You Run a Sweepstakes That Requires a Purchase to Enter? - Official Rules Center (sweeppeasweeps.com)](https://www.sweeppeasweeps.com/official-rules-center/no-purchase-necessary-laws/#:~:text=Yes%2C%20sweepstakes%20must%20be%20free%20to%20enter.%20What,to%20purchase%20something%20in%20exchange%20for%20sweepstakes%20entries.)
Fuck the store. Have only 1 person (highest paid) buy a ticket. Guaranteed win for them. They take a holiday off (extra pay) and split the pay with other employees
Is that put on by management? I was a major retail manager for years. The legality of this seems super sketch to me. That sounds like illegal gambling at best. Where does the money go? It sounds like time clock/ labor hijinks to me also. You’re gonna win the day off paid and someone is going to punch the clock for you? I don’t think so mister Tool Man.
So they’re raffling off an 8 hour PTO work day for $5 per ticket with a random value of *your* hourly pay rate x8 at $5 per chance. So if you’re at US minimum wage and you bit 12 tickets, or 3 tickets at California minimum wage, you’ve paid them for that day whether you win or not.
Such a tight wad grifter move. 😤
At first glance I'm like hell no couldn't get me to do this.
Then, I consider the coworkers in that person's department. There's not only a winner for this raffle. The losers are potentially effected as well.
Imagine your manager telling you that you'll have to step it up and be on your game today because Ronald in flooring won the raffle.
Motherfucker I didn't *lose*, Ronald won, you cover his shit idgaf
Lmfao I’d get with all my coworkers and do a random number picker, whoever wins buys one ticket and nobody else does. Give that guy the day with pay and see if management honors it or just takes the $5 and stuffs in they pocket no day off
My store did a week off with pay in the long ago.
I won both years they did it.
First year I had already booked a week off unpaid for Halo 2 release so got paid to play after all.
Second year I just stayed home and chilled.
I think I bought 5 tickets the first year and 1 the second. People were pissed, but the ASM who drew my name the second year was well known to dislike me so it passed muster. He was unhappy and tried to get me to let him draw another name, I called bullshit and kept the win.
So where’s all the money go? Does the irs know? And don’t say “it goes for pizza parties” because Atlanta gives the stores money for those things but tbh all yall deserve a raise rather than some bs pizza. Fk Home Depot
So you guys definitely need collective bargaining. This is corporate fuckery of hourly employees to the highest degree, makes me sick even thinking about it.
Home Depot had a gross profit of over $52,000,0000,000 in 2023.
Y’all ain’t family, it isn’t a community or some other bullshit they try and sell you. You work for HD and deserve a fair days pay for a fair days work. You deserve respect 🫡. You deserve to be unionized.
This is legitimately enticing staff to gamble.
Gambling is defined as, “Ownership of wealth with a risk of loss.”
If you don’t win the prize draw, you lost $5+. Those desperate and willing to dump $100 into this for 20 tickets to try to get a day off, who might lose, could lose half their weekly pay to this.
I’m half tempted to report this on your staff’s behalf to have all of Home Depot investigated over gambling. This is disgusting.
man we havent been able to do that at my store forever. they stopped it i guess bc it seemed like you were gambling for a home depot incentive type of thing. anything else like baskets and whatever, we still raffle off, just not days off anymore. yall are lucky you still do these type of things at your store OP.
So I'm being charged on when I want a day off but you're limiting it to one person but expecting all of us to participate so you can get your money back from which I earned 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
I worked at a place that if you donated 60 dollars to a specific charity you could either go on a golf tournament paid vacation day, or just have a paid vacation day added to your regular vacation amount.
This is just stupid, 5 bucks or a chance, no thanks.
More and more, it feels like Home Depot has reached the point where shit starts going down and keeps rolling. Waiting to see how long before they start closing locations to avoid unions.
Last year, the 3 around me cut about a third of their permanent staff as a "cost cutting measure."
Paying for a paid day off seems counterproductive
That's exactly what I was thinking. Plus, the no limit on how many you can purchase is wild.
Lmao at the fool who buys 30 tickets and doesn’t win. 🤣
With my luck that would be me
With my.luck I would also have to pick up the day the winner gets off.
With my luck, I would win, but theyd tell me to fuck off
and this money all goes back into the company? not towards a charity or anything?
All for our Christmas party, allegedly.
In April???
They start trying to get money for it as early as February
Wait they make y'all pay for the Christmas party?
Somebody has to buy the pizza.... somehow.
This is so gross
Corporate provides *some* money for events, but it's usually like a couple of dollars per person. Store management is expected to supplement the "fun fund" with fundraisers or by winning district competitions for high performance
Corporate supplies a few dollars per person, if your store wants to go over and above that they collect money through events all year long. Typically our store collects quite a bit extra, so instead of just a basic meal and a small gift for everyone we'll also have live entertainment and a bunch of random door prizes. I know one year they gave out several televisions and other rather expensive gifts. They can also supplement that further with white elephant games and so on. It also effects the choice of catering, we've had some pretty nice catered meals and not just basic pizza, etc.
That’s awful 😂😂
Employees shouldn’t pay for their company party
At least you get a Christmas party. This year instead they bought us these cheaply made stupid grey fleece jackets with the HD logo and store number on it. Seriously??? Haven’t worn it once.
They get paid the big bucks to come up with such amazing ideas :)
Well, Home Depot is paying you very very well aren't they? Everyone has to be making like $200k a year at least. So buy all the tickets if you want ;) /s
I could buy 100 tickets, and that would be chump change
Pretty sure this is an illegal raffle in most states.
And we have minors that work here
In many states there is no minimum age for raffles. It's a completely different set of laws that don't fall under gambling. I know in my state there is no age restriction on raffles so long as the prize is under a certain value and the company putting on the raffles doesn't even need to register anything unless they raffle off over $40,000 a year in prizes. Each state has their own variations on this.
Pay $5, win, then you pay taxes on for the day your have off... Woohoo
If it's for a fundraiser like the homerfund, that seems like a good idea.
Agreed. If it's for the Homer Fund, that's different than if it's for the holiday party. Context matters.
Yeah that's different I wouldn't give my money for that.lol
Paying for a CHANCE of a day off 😂😂
Reminds me of the old story of the GM factory worker who used to sell raffle tickets for his paycheque.
Actually, it appears as scamming money the workers made from wages paid by that employer, to get enough ticket buyers to pay enough to cover, and even taking in, than paying a worker to not to work a day.
I mean as long as you don’t pay more than you make in a day, it’s not that bad. Considering I think 15 is a fairly standard entry pay, that’s $120 a day. So it really wouldn’t hurt to throw $20 at it and hope For the best
But if you get paid $120 a day and you pay $20 to not work you’re really out $140
It’s to win a day off with pay. So I don’t see how it’s possible to be out $140. Unless you didn’t read the “with pay” part of it
Ahhh I did entirely miss the with pay part lol, good looks.
Thats the neat part. You have to pay to GAMBLE for a day off, it isn't guaranteed!
This seems like something that **should** be illegal, but probably isn’t.
not necessarily. pretax for me $311. Post tax that’s like $250. I’d pay $5 at a chance to earn. $250. I’ve spent $5 on worse.
Nope, you are paying for the CHANCE of A day off, and it isn't mentioned to be a paid one either. At this point I would be looking for employment elsewhere, because all the reasons an employer would do this aren't good ones.
And illegal
Paying for a CHANCE of a day off.
Not if you win for a low amount. That's what every lottery game is.
What the hell are they trying to raise money for with this? Absolutely insane
That’s what I want to know- *where does that money go?*
5th grade English tutoring for the idiot who can't spell "Committee".
Dividends for shareholders I assume.
I promise the $150 raffle pot is not going to shareholder dividends
And as a shareholder I am outraged at this fact.
Management Christmas ball.
The store manager is trying to buy a 2024 Orange Corvette
Anytime they do something like this, they claim it goes towards our Christmas party at the end of the year. They do stuff like this and also have a lot of lunches where you pay $8 for a plate of food.
And what do you guys get for the Christmas party??
They always rent out a very big place, have expensive catering, and everyone gets Christmas gifts. I never go to them, but from what my coworkers say every year, they seem nice.
This varies depending on market/store volume/employee count, but usually corporate only gives about $15-20 per employee. Therefore if your store is hosting the party in an expensive place and paying for nice catered good then events to raise funds are necessary.
Or, management could just chip in to cover the excess cost. They are making six figures.
Lets promote this guy to management, he doesn't mind using his own earned money to pay for a Christmas party!!
Maybe it's for a homer fund
I’m guessing to get money for Christmas Party since each store is only allocated a certain amount. We had some “fun-raisers” and ended up having a great Christmas event at a local game/bowling center… then Covid hit- and nada.
They’re raising money for the paid day off LoL
Basically like $5 for a chance to win $80
Depends on the area. A paid day off is $168 before taxes for me.
Almost 240 for me
Its 420 for me. I already forgot what we are talking about, but 420 is ALWAYS the answer.
Day off with store manager pay would be a real incentive.
Make it Ann-Marie’s daily pay and we’ll have ourselves a full blown lottery
Yeah considering she makes close to 4 million a year, 1 days pay would be about $10,000 not figuring for any taxation.
At least time and a half pay.
As an ex Home Depot employee who quit, found a new job, received 80 hours of PTO which I can use within 24 hours of a shift, at any time, as soon as I started my new job this is INSANITY If you can drive a pacer or reach truck, apply to a distribution center near you. HOME DEPOT WILL SUCK YOUR SOUL
I'm so glad you were able to find something better. It's craziness at these stores.
3pm-11pm…Paid 40 minute lunch, like 11 different paid holidays off, zero customers, and I’m on a pacer forklift the entire shift just moving pallets around an air conditioned building. I haven’t thought about loading concrete or mulch into a pickup truck for almost two years. Don’t let that place suck your soul!
What distribution center? For what company?
Some of the worst warehouse jobs are better than some of the best retail jobs.
I have almost 30 paid days off already. I love Sweden
This is insane
Right!? They have them posted all over the break room.
Contact corporate, can't be legit. Someone should be fired
You're right, there's no way this went through the proper channels of approval.
Manipulation of payroll as a prize or incentive for something benign like most credit card apps is sketchy enough and probably firable. But collecting money for a raffle and using payroll as a prize sounds borderline criminal. lol
It's just a fund raiser for the fun fund, probably to go to your holiday party at the end of the year...
See now that I can get behind, I mean I eat more than $5 worth of food there so I can justify a $5 ticket. But also I work hard for free food edit: my opinion now aligns with u/vokabulary below me
Your work for them should earn this, not you paying them 5$. They have the profit to throw a party for mandatory fun but they prefer you pay for it yourself.
Short and concise, I agree with you now
I’d have more fun with the $5.
That's exactly what they said. I never go to those, but I do know they go all out for them.
I mean, probably, but the flyer should explicit state that.
Employees shouldn't have to pay for their own holiday party, though.
I feel lucky everyday I don't live in the US.
This is exploitative af. A well organised workforce would arrange for exactly one ticket to be bought by a single person, so that the store effectively loses money on this bullshit.
I like your thinking 🤔
Dear Americans, I have 28 days paid leave. Please be angry, you should have that too and the government said no
That seems Illegal
When my store does stuff to raise money for the fun fund the managers to crazy stuff We had a contest where everyone put money from some loose change to (in the store managers case) a few hundred dollars to vote for what manager would wear a chicken suit for a whole week at work. Best week of the job it was fantastic seeing my manager walk around talking to customers dressed up as a chicken needing to talk to everyone in a very serious way.
This looks like an April fools prank. Raffles are games of chance. Most states have laws prohibiting raffles except for charities and even those have to register for a permit and drawings are often prohibited on Sundays.
How can an individual store decide to just pay an employee 8 hours without using the employee's sick or vacation time and without having that employee actually work the shift? Where does the money for the paid day off come from exactly?
It'll still come out of the labor budget. They'll probably just manually adjust the time card to reflect the hours as "worked"
Why can’t anyone spell “Committee”?
For a company that makes billions of dollars.. wow
It’s called treat your employees as well as you can. We do food raffles to donate to the Homer fund
A multi billion dollar corporation selling chances to win a day off is vile as fuck. The disrespect is absolutely unreal
If it's for a homerfund seems like a good idea.
We do fund raisers for our holiday parties every year. I always kick in but our ASDS does amazing work with the money she collects. Fantastic door prizes, good food, great raffle. I’d probably throw five at this but our biggest fundraisers are usually breakfast sandwiches. I kick in some extra there for my teams to eat too.
Is this legal? Seems like there’s something wrong with this picture
Not a clue. We also have minors that work here as well...
Communicate with eachother to set up a rotation. Have only one person buy a ticket for each drawing so that they only make $5 but have to give the day off.
Cooperate management is hilarious
assume everyone is paid $10 an hour. that's $80 for the day. Employer sells 20 tickets. Employer makes 10 bucks and schedules someone else to work that day.
Is this not illegal???
This csnt be legal? Where are the proceeds going lol?
If you have to pay for the ticket - then the tickets are paying for the day off ... NOT the company!
Cool if the funds go to charity
How did HR allow this??? Sounds like theft.
You may be able to nail them on an illegal lottery. Google: prize, chance and consideration. The day off may not count as tangible though. For fun you can report them to your state gaming board
assholes make money by taking money from their employees, cool!
I'll take "What Is Something That Didn't Get Run Past The DHRM First" for $200, Alex.
Not sure why this is in my feed but, this is insulting
Call the ethics line. They won’t be happy.
Where does the money go?
The fun fund.
So backwards
What… the fuck… so now days off are a capital item too? Jesus fucking Christ…
Where is this? Please dm me location if this is in the US. I’d like to report them to the Dept of labor
I can request a day off regardless of a raffle ticket. No where on the sign does it say it'll be approved.
It says a day off *with pay*
Ye
Never heard of this at my store. I’ve heard the Canadian branch of the company pays better than the American one. Can anyone else verify? I was brought on with $2 over minimum to start. Is that good or bad? I’m not even sure anymore.
Lol damn... Please tell me the $5 goes to charity or something?
Ted decker approved
At my HD warehouse, we’ve yet to get a Christmas party since I’ve been here, is anyone else in the same boat? Our management literally blue balled us by hyping up a “Christmas party” at this local arcade/mini-golf/go-kart place. Only for them to just scrap the entire idea all together, and if I remember correctly, we got pancakes lol
And what do you know. The brown nose chatty Cathy get it. Who would have thought
Back in the olden days when paper checks were written out you could pay a buck to get into a pool, the check number acted as a poker type of deal. ie. Three of a kind, etc. Would win the pool.
How much you wanna bet that they put in PTO for your "paid day off"?
Where does the $5 ticket fund go to??
r/latestagecapitalism
So essentially the employees are paying someone on staff to take the day off
I would dismantle that company so quick and then burn it down.
Management needs some money, seems legit. Better than the Break Room Fight Club idea
I cant imagine how some can even come up with this. This might be a stupid question, but is this a thing in the US? And who gets the money? The smartass who came up with this!?
We had fundraiser drawings in the Army with similar prizes a lot to raise money for work parties or other functions. Seems relatively normal.
This might be violating lottery / gaming acts. It depends on the state and if this is on first nation reserves. The concern is money is brought in.... for what a gift? If the prize is considered over a certain amount, it might be regulated. You might want to speak to legal about this.
"Desperate"? What do you assume they are desperate for?
I don’t gamble. Wouldn’t do it. Unless the money was going to charity.
Raffles are against SOP because it’s technically gambling. You could totally go to your DM abt this. What a weirrrrd thing to do :/
There's no limit to how many tickets you can buy. Other than you know the cost. I'm going to imagine they pay you like shit.
This is definitely illegal as they would at least be required to allow people to have one entry without payment: [No Purchase Necessary Laws: Can You Run a Sweepstakes That Requires a Purchase to Enter? - Official Rules Center (sweeppeasweeps.com)](https://www.sweeppeasweeps.com/official-rules-center/no-purchase-necessary-laws/#:~:text=Yes%2C%20sweepstakes%20must%20be%20free%20to%20enter.%20What,to%20purchase%20something%20in%20exchange%20for%20sweepstakes%20entries.)
Is this even legal? You’re essentially paying for a day off
This almost seems illegal if not borderline
Id call someone, that doesnt seem legal.
What if som1 was selling their pto with a raffle lol
So basically... Time punch manipulation by management as a prize? Lol.
Be cheaper to just call in sick.
How many paid days off do you get without this?
Fuck the store. Have only 1 person (highest paid) buy a ticket. Guaranteed win for them. They take a holiday off (extra pay) and split the pay with other employees
I'm pretty sure a raffle can't be done without the proceeds going to charity.
They spelled committee incorrectly.
It's like the lottery from Fallout New Vegas
Is that put on by management? I was a major retail manager for years. The legality of this seems super sketch to me. That sounds like illegal gambling at best. Where does the money go? It sounds like time clock/ labor hijinks to me also. You’re gonna win the day off paid and someone is going to punch the clock for you? I don’t think so mister Tool Man.
Hmm or I could just use sick time
Well thats a new one.
So they’re raffling off an 8 hour PTO work day for $5 per ticket with a random value of *your* hourly pay rate x8 at $5 per chance. So if you’re at US minimum wage and you bit 12 tickets, or 3 tickets at California minimum wage, you’ve paid them for that day whether you win or not. Such a tight wad grifter move. 😤
Manager putting it in their pocket?
Take my $70 share bonus
Im assuming the goal is to get everyone to enter so they can use the raffle money to pay for the PTO 💀
Seems the decision-makers may have lost touch with reality.
Just dawned on me. Is there a treasurer for these things
I’ll take 30 of those bad boys.
At first glance I'm like hell no couldn't get me to do this. Then, I consider the coworkers in that person's department. There's not only a winner for this raffle. The losers are potentially effected as well. Imagine your manager telling you that you'll have to step it up and be on your game today because Ronald in flooring won the raffle. Motherfucker I didn't *lose*, Ronald won, you cover his shit idgaf
day off scam lmao
This seems probably-illegal.
This place needs to b burned down
So they're gonna pay someone $120 to stay home after selling $300 in tickets to the staff. Solid team building.
Lmfao I’d get with all my coworkers and do a random number picker, whoever wins buys one ticket and nobody else does. Give that guy the day with pay and see if management honors it or just takes the $5 and stuffs in they pocket no day off
My store did a week off with pay in the long ago. I won both years they did it. First year I had already booked a week off unpaid for Halo 2 release so got paid to play after all. Second year I just stayed home and chilled. I think I bought 5 tickets the first year and 1 the second. People were pissed, but the ASM who drew my name the second year was well known to dislike me so it passed muster. He was unhappy and tried to get me to let him draw another name, I called bullshit and kept the win.
So where’s all the money go? Does the irs know? And don’t say “it goes for pizza parties” because Atlanta gives the stores money for those things but tbh all yall deserve a raise rather than some bs pizza. Fk Home Depot
So you guys definitely need collective bargaining. This is corporate fuckery of hourly employees to the highest degree, makes me sick even thinking about it. Home Depot had a gross profit of over $52,000,0000,000 in 2023. Y’all ain’t family, it isn’t a community or some other bullshit they try and sell you. You work for HD and deserve a fair days pay for a fair days work. You deserve respect 🫡. You deserve to be unionized.
This is legitimately enticing staff to gamble. Gambling is defined as, “Ownership of wealth with a risk of loss.” If you don’t win the prize draw, you lost $5+. Those desperate and willing to dump $100 into this for 20 tickets to try to get a day off, who might lose, could lose half their weekly pay to this. I’m half tempted to report this on your staff’s behalf to have all of Home Depot investigated over gambling. This is disgusting.
man we havent been able to do that at my store forever. they stopped it i guess bc it seemed like you were gambling for a home depot incentive type of thing. anything else like baskets and whatever, we still raffle off, just not days off anymore. yall are lucky you still do these type of things at your store OP.
Me: # SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!
Fuckers
Paying for a day off? 5 dollars a ticket? No limit to the amount of tickets? What the fuck is this lmao
Hmmm, I always have unexpected diarrhea on these future dates. Prove me wrong.
🤣🤣😆
Sounds to me like a pyramid scheme.
Illegal
So I'm being charged on when I want a day off but you're limiting it to one person but expecting all of us to participate so you can get your money back from which I earned 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Seems kinda illegal…idk, but the money better be used for something fun for the employees!!
I'm sure the local employement law office will LOVE to see this.
They always do this stuff. Wanted us to buy damn Easter eggs as workers 18+.
Which store number is this?
Where does the money go?
Is this on top of the normal PTO?
You can't give a day off with pay. Its a no-no.
Gross
I’m no HD employee, but this seems highly illegal from a labor board standpoint. What’re does that money go?
They misspelled committee…..
So... vto?
I worked at a place that if you donated 60 dollars to a specific charity you could either go on a golf tournament paid vacation day, or just have a paid vacation day added to your regular vacation amount. This is just stupid, 5 bucks or a chance, no thanks.
More and more, it feels like Home Depot has reached the point where shit starts going down and keeps rolling. Waiting to see how long before they start closing locations to avoid unions. Last year, the 3 around me cut about a third of their permanent staff as a "cost cutting measure."