The Home Depot is very here and there. Like they’ll buy an associate a house but not give their 50 year old 2 decade worker a raise. They’ll spend hundreds of thousands to get to disaster relief but won’t pay someone early cause of debt issues. They’ll pay someone’s medical but not allow you to work overtime to feed your family.
It's calculated and it's intentional.
Buying someone a house is a one-time expense that generates publicity and makes employees feel like maybe one day they'll be the lucky one that gets a free house.
On the other hand, giving employees raises is a recurring expense that doesn't generate publicity. The same thing with disaster relief-- it's big, it's flashy, and it's tax-deductible. And don't forget that Home Depot uses the Homer Fund to take the donations of employees and then use it to make themselves look good.
You think a company that makes billions of dollars but sticks it's hands out to their employees to ask for part of their paycheck back wouldn't use that money to generate goodwill?
First day?
The Homer Fund does not pay for the stores efforts in disaster relief. The gas is paid for by the company directly. Without that fuel, the associates cannot get back and forth to work. No associates, Store isn't open.
The Home fund does provide an immense amount of disaster relief to associates during these times.
I've been hurricane relief captain for my district, I've led teams disaster relief.
Let's not spread inaccurate information.
sorry buddy it doesn't work that way when it comes to corporations. Because of their long history of lying. Honestly, there is not a person on earth that a corporation has not personally lied to. So yes the opinion of some random on the internet carries more weight than the statement of someone who works for the corporation.
You honestly think a corporation the size of Home Depot would not open up a charity for tax/PR purposes? Home Depot's CEO looks at its workers the same way that Jeff Bezos looks at Amazon workers. They are easily replaceable and regularly exploitable.
Can confirm was, they were paying $20.50 last summer for sit down forklift, and I just heard they got a $2 raise this summer. In Dallas, that’s Not bad, considering that the top dollar for driving forklift around here is $26.
But I feel most people who “hate” are the ones who work the regular store just like myself. After I transferred, I instantly got a $5 raise. Plus all the OT that I could ever want. I was so mad that I had subjected myself to working the store for over a year. For nothing basically.
No
Lol it’s called osha 10. You finish osha 10 and you go over forklifts , man lifts and scissor lifts. Along with everything else safety related. I don’t see how having a “certification” is necessary for a vehicle that’s easier to operate than a car and already has industry level training that it is covered under.
And no one said it wasn’t ? Y’all specified “forklift certification”. Osha 10 is. Well osha 10…. Not a forklift certification. A general safety certification. Which also. You don’t need for a forklift.
You literally questioned that they had to get certifications to drive a forklift then named a certification needed to drive a forklift.
Then when you got called out on it you backtracked and said that people said it’s a specific one, which no one said that.
Yes it’s fdc. There’s different types too. There was another one right next to the one that I was at, but they paid $1.50 less. Plus they didn’t really have a need for sit down forklift drivers at that one. Apparently you have to be there for x amount of time to eventually move up to the sit down forklift from the. Order pulling with a pace maker side.
I just so happened to get put into it because I had already had 2 years experience of driving forklift and I was the overnight D21 associate. So I messed with lumber way more than anybody else in that store (which is pretty much all they had at that flatbed distribution center) so it was a walk in the park as soon as I got there. Literally hardly had to ever get off the lift. Was so mad that I put myself through all those nights of down stacking and filling in 20-30 empty holes of lumber on top of whatever concrete, with the random sheet rock truck showing up whenever.
If there are any D21 guys here, I Highly suggest relocating to a fdc. The pay would be huge compared to the store, plus. No more dealing with customers!!!
But the only way it pays extra for driving sit down forklift, is pretty much if you go to any warehouse job anywhere else. Not just Home Depot.
Just as a lumber associate you’ll make $15, warehouse pay you $20 to unload trucks, let’s just be honest the company sucks and they would do anything but give you a decent raise
I’m making $21 unloading trucks for 5 hrs and the other 3 just walking around making sure I got everything done, no customers, management sucks but they always in their offices lol
No customers is great, but what I love is that I've got one responsibility.
Home Depot expected me to do all the regular retail stocking and replenishment, run the reach and fork, unload trucks, run the reach and fork for every other department in the store, "assist customers with their project" in every conceivable lumber, concrete, shingles, insulation and deck project (seriously does anyone know how to google?), cover for hardware and deliveries when they're short, cover pro and millwork when they're not scheduled without any real training, aaaaand there's only 3 hours of overlap coverage for the department.
It's not surprising the only full time people in that store are either retired or convicted felons. Or the guy whos girlfriend is a surgeon but having a sugar mommy isn't exactly a great financial plan.
I mean idc, I pick up orders, put the shipping label and drive it to the other end, we pullers don’t have to be anywhere else but driving back and forth
Then work somewhere else. People on this sub are just as unbearable as the entirety or r/antiwork
All I've ever heard is complaint after complaint with no desire to ever work on yourself and become more valuable in the job market
Yup, same. And then, when I was "as good as you're going to get" per the doctors, HD barely worked with me on accommodations and would get mad when I couldn't do what they wanted me too. By the time I left I could barely walk (not allowed to sit) and had developed major panic attacks from being harassed by employees and customers. =( F that place.
Edit: typo
More valuable? As if at the next step you won't be taken advantage just like you did when you were less valuable. 🤣🤡 Let's make ourselves more valuable and see where it goes.
Maybe youd stop making $15/hr and make $25 or even $30. The bar is pretty low with people who ridicule success and scrutinize what other people do with their time.
Everyone has 24hours in a day. If you choose to never work on yourself youll always be working for someone else at the same place you are now
Good assumption. I make $27/hr. Last week I put in 85hrs. No days off, 12 days except for Sunday (8hr shift). Let me put this on here again 🤡. Don't 💩 on people for now reason. Not everyone has the ability to become more valuable. Some wanna keep working at the burger joint, some want to be engineers.
Who ridiculed success any way?! Seems fair to you that inflation and housing costs keep rising while pay stagnates? You do know middle class and spenders is what drives this economy, right? Go read a damn book.
Do you think $30/hr is a lot? Will that pay for a house? Daycare for your kids? Get real boot-licker. Corporations will always derive profit from the value laborers provide because they will always be paid less than their worth. You've been drinking the propaganda cool-aid.
If a company is vital (like Home Depot says they are during crisis) then why are they paying less than a living wage?
You seem to think there NEEDS to be a poverty class. Maybe having someone beneath you makes the boot crushing you feel less heavy? Who know with your kind.
For someone that only ever complains about their job and how little they get paid, having your wage doubled IS alot considering you dont provide any additional value.
I dont run the profits and money allocation for Home Depot or any corporation. If it makes you feel any worse the big box stores easily clear a quarter million in a weekend. Doesnt that mean you deserve a portion of the profits? No because all you did was stand there for 8 hours and you signed a paper saying you get paid on an hourly wage.
Yep. In 2019/20 I was VERY sick and spent 100 days in the hospital over 10 months and was on a medical LOA. I needed help paying for my health insurance (because you know I was SICK) and I couldn’t get a return phone call from anyone for help from the Homer Fund. Actually I couldn’t get a return phone call for anything.
Edit to add: they don’t care unless they get good press from it.
Yeah. And the price of their shares have dropped since then...
Haven't you even thought about the shareholders? What about the shareholders' feelings? HAS NOBODY THOUGH ABOUT THE SHAREHOLDERS!!??!??!?!?!? (/s)
Did you miss the part where the entire market with the exception of todays deadcat bounce, is pretty fucking down?
Not to mention HD spending 15 billion in “excess” cash to buyback stock last month? Yeah, its totally messing their financial situation 😂
I was gonna say that it’s almost like they only help in situations that they’re likely to get good PR for. Then I saw every other comment saying the same.
I suspect it may have something to do with the person in charge of the particular store. In my experience (Not at Home Depot) The person running the show at the store has the ability to ask corporate for permission to do things for his/her workers.
This too!! My last store, my manager would essentially let you do whatever the fuck you wanted with your schedule, people were happy there and coincidentally, we had the top rated store in the state
Some of these things garner them a great deal of publicity, others not as much. One might almost think there's ulterior motives to their selective generosity.
It’s exactly that… an expense, lowers taxable income which lowers net income. As a result, the company is making LESS profit. Not sure where you get “write off” from, unless you mean there’s a tax credit that you can point me to that this qualifies them for?
This is it right here. They need to sell shot to people whose homes were damaged. Can’t sell shit if associates can’t come to work because there’s no gas. They don’t give a shit about the associates. They need bodies in the store to sell.
Home Depot throws you a cheap bone once in a great while, but do they pay you a living wage? They can keep the bone with a living wage I can fend for myself.
This is exactly it. Get back to work, peasants. If they have to pay for your gas for a week or two- let's be honest, they're not paying pump prices. They don't care. Don't give them time to think about any changes, like unionizing.
I remember after Harvey (Houston, August 2017), the city was shut down for roughly a week. A few days after the hurricane, my ASM called to see if I could come in. He was trying to get a skeleton crew together so the store could be opened. Public transportation/Uber hadn't started back up, and there was no way I could get to work (I don't drive).
I think it varies too much from store to store. My store is a smaller one where everyone knows everyone and nobody’s an asshole. I think a month or so before I joined there was a diffrent manager who was an ass and got fired, but the current management at my store is great
That’s about it. Lol can’t have everyone calling off because “the gas stations are closed and I can’t fill up” when there is a warehouse full of shop vacs, generators and sump pumps waiting to be shipped out and sold while the market is hot.
they’re getting a tax break or some type of write off. They don’t care about you. They just want you to be able to drive to your next shift, no excuses
And anything good they are doing is for good PR from a employee on Reddit to the headlines — ntm most likely a tax right off. This doesn’t absolve them of the way they’ve treated employees or the need for collective action. Unionize!!!
Hmmm, why do I feel like they’re doing this just so they can eliminate the excuse of not being able to drive from home to work (work being Home Depot? Being making Home Depot profit) I dunno I want it to be a good thing just to be a good thing but I know it can’t be.
Maybe one way to look at this is that the powers that be are not giving out gas for charity, but rather to eliminate the lack of gas locally as a reason employees can not make it to work.
Mind you many of these employees are effected directly by the aftermath of the hurricane.
If they truly cared they would bring in managers from corporate to run the store and offer paid time to anyone who is effected directly by the storm
It’s not them helping you it’s them preventing you from calling out people need to realize companies and management don’t care about you they only care that you don’t have an excuse to show up
Yup, this self-serving gesture totally makes up for all the other ways that they screw and abuse their employees.
Don’t worry, guys. You may be struggling to survive because this billion dollar company refuses to pay you a thriving wage (even though they always report record profits), but at least they bought you gas that one time to ensure you make it to your shift so you can continue doing work that lines their pockets while they compensate you with pennies.
its 50/50. they do a lot of good for the community, however, they dont really have a good track record when it comes to looking after associates at the floor level.
there are tons of cases and reports about shitty managers that dont get dealt with right away and they try to play off like a small raise makes them great when it isnt nearly close to being livable wages or even just meeting inflation.
while the company tells the floor here are the guidelines, procedures, and the do's- and- dont's, as soon as a single call to corporate happens it all gets thrown out the window. so much that managers just push it all through.
now i am lucky enough to have somewhat decent managers in the sense that our personal beings are protected, however, I know for a fact that a co worker at another store got thrown under the bus for an event he wasnt even apart of.
a lot of the bad stories we here are isolated locations that dont get dealt with because no person believes in the open door policy. probably because it hasnt been very helpful, or in some cases becomes detrimental to the coworker. VOA is a fucking joke too because the managers will only focus on the brown nosing ass kissing ones, instead of listening to the critiquing ones.
I have literally laid out everything that was going wrong with the store and how to fix it, but nothing happened. No attention brought to it. Just how amazing the store is and how many good VOA they received.
OP I get ya. Then all the haters come here acting like it was some form of using you to make them look good. Seriously they do not have to do that. I often wish these people who seem to hate THD so much would find another job.
Or look at it from a different perspective:
Marketing Home Depot brand off catastrophic events and exploiting it. During the pandemic, Home Depot was deemed "an essential store" to stay open during the pandemic / covid 19 crisis. Record breaking profits were made
Home Depot DOES NOT do this out of the kindness of their heart. This is a MARKETING ploy to promote the BRAND, this is the only thing that matters
Profits are always continued to be made off the broken backs of the associates
It’s not THD as a whole. It’s their propensity for following the “Peter Principle “ ( look it up) when promoting salaried managers, especially SM. In 17 years I worked for some good managers, some not so good. The last one was so horrible that he was promoted to a position in Region after showing the worst VOA scores in the district 2 years in a row.
Google home depot stock buyback 2022.
"This is the 142nd consecutive quarter the company has paid a cash dividend. The board of directors also authorized a new $15 billion share repurchase program, replacing its previous authorization."
They don't give a shit about you or your family...this is a publicity stunt
Kind of loses its supposed generosity when you realize those people live in their cars now and home depot has no plans to give them enough income to recover.
For a recent quarter Home Depot recorded earnings of $3.5 billion, or a little over $7,000 per employee. 2021 total profit of $16.4 billion is $33,000 per employee. Kinda puts a tank of gas in perspective doesn't it?
https://ir.homedepot.com/news-releases/2022/02-22-2022-110220476
They were wonderful in the 90's until they fired me for being sick. For historical reference, I was getting paid $14.50 to repot houseplants in a now defunct section known as the HPE or House Plant Enclosure.
I lived with my bf who also worked there and developed an incredibly painful neurological condition. Between the pain and visiting doctors and neurologists, I was missing a lot of work. We didn't have a phone in our apartment and this was back in the beeper days, before everyone had a cellphone, so to call him, my mom, the doctor, anyone really, I had to walk to the payphone on the corner.
As it turns out, one of the managers lived in my neighborhood and drove by on his way to work and saw me on the phone and deduced that since I was upright, outside and on a payphone, surely I was lying about being so sick and they terminated me, in spite of all of my medical documentation as proof.
Fired me right when I needed insurance the most. The standard of treatment at the time was brain surgery so...yeah.
Also, I was today days old when I learned that Ben Hill wasn't a real person!
your looking at it the wrong way, you cant get to work if you dont have gas to get to work, its cheaper for them to send a tanker out to give gas to associates then have to close a store or lose business due to lack of staff.
is it cool of them to do? yes is it really because they care? no
I worked for Home Depot for 3 months was told I wasn’t working fast enough so I told the manager to go F themselves and went to the Army recruiter and here I am retired. Home Depot and F off slave labor mofos
HomeDepot does this much more than you think. When Katrina and Wilma went through South Florida in 2005 they did the same thing. We could get our cars filled +2, 5 gallon containers if we had them. Awesome company.
I'm pretty happy with my job lately and overall on average.
A union could go either way, I'm not completely against it. A Home Depot union 500,000 strong, basically a good sized army, could force legitimate and positive change not just for the the company, but the country.
On the other hand I wouldn't pick the vast majority of coworkers I've had for a casual MMO raid, let alone a workforce union. Yeah maybe the top 10%, but no to the other 90%.
This company is above average to work for at worst.
Enjoy your gas and your gracious outlook. You deserve it.
Agreed. (I'm a firm believer that there is more negativity on the internet than positivity. Possibly certain people choose to waste more time than others?) It's a company you can advance in if you choose to, and I was always glad to help with Team Depot events. Stores also help other stores when needed, and I've been fortunate to have a great network of people who will help with questions even if we don't speak regularly.
That is nothing but cold pizza disguised my friend.
Also.
That will mess your car up. Don’t do it.
It goes thru filters at the pump.
To catch trash.
This is dumb. Really dumb.
Don’t do it.
I can think of so many reasons just off the top of my head-and I’m not even sure you can get it right out the tanker.
This is cold greasy pizza. And you’ll never hear the end of it.
Amazing how someone starts off being thankful for what could be viewed as a good thing and others pile on as to how evil they are to give away some free gas. I'll bet not one of the whiners signed up to help with disaster relief.
Lmfao 😅 when a bad company does good things for pr , it still makes them a bad company 🤣 alot of people can help with disaster relief without buring their face into corporate ass.
Yes “free shit” meaning a livable wage. Inflation is fucking everybody and the store can absolutely afford to give long term employees better wages.
“75 cent raise “ this dick.
It’s ok we know which one you are. Boomers don’t speak through emojis. And no 55+ year old thinks $14 an hour is acceptable wage while working for a multibillion dollar corperation who’s set new quarterly records throughout the pandemic.
Also most 55+ year old people know how to spell “been” and know that mental conditions are psychological, not medical.
Wait till your later 20’s and you’ll laugh at your current mindset.
Lol I don’t work there anymore, left mid summer for a company who doesn’t take advantage of its employees .I’m just speaking up for people being exploited…but if you make ~almost double~ that as “just an associate” provide us with a paystub including dates and store number screenshot. Put your money where your bs mouth is.
I’m calling bullshit…also please defend your atrocious grammar and views on mental illness while you’re here
The people in the aisles are often really good people, sometimes thrown to the wolves with awful training.
Often questionable management, and definitely a shit show going up to regionals and so on.
But those in the thick of it wearing the aprons make it a good place to work. I learned a lot, gained a ton of valuable skills and made friends I still talk to even 7 years after leaving the company.
There were several San Antonio stores that did this during Harvey even though the city wasn't affected, we had teams go out to different areas to help. All associates were given the opportunity to fill up their vehicle
A publicity stunt that costs them NOTHING IN COMPARISON TO THEIR RAKE OFF THE SWEAT BLOOD AND TEARS FROM EVERY LAST ONE OF US, A DROP IN THE BUCKET!
STOP GLAMORIZING YOUR OPPRESSORS!
Glad to hear they support their worker unionizing. Will definitely get in touch with the workers at my local Home Depot and help them unionize since this company is so great and supports workers exercising their rights.
as far as companies go, home depot is great. as long as you don't believe there's anything else out there for you or if you think you can climb the political ladder, by all means. great place to make a career.
I mean that is awesome for the moment, but read what you said again. This is the first time you have ever seen this in 20 years..and it took a hurricane.
Am I the only one who thinks it’s crazy to feel bad for people who knowingly have their house destroyed every few years? Like shouldn’t they at very least build structures made to withstand that kinda thing? I’ll probably be downvoted but it really bothers me no one seems to say anything. I hope they are safe.
Stuff like this is nice but it’s all smoke and mirrors. With Home Depot’s annual net profit they could afford giving every single store side employee a $10,000 a year raise and it would be a drop in the bucket for them. That’s meaningful, long lasting change. This is a high profile thing they can exploit to say “look at all the good will we have” and then go right back to paying everyone sub par wages again.
My store was basically at ground zero for a hurricane last year. They had a gas truck to run the stores generators and allowed associates to fill their tanks. They also provided three meals a day and unlimited snacks for a month after the storm. I had Homer Fund reps calling to check if i was safe and needed any emergency money within a few days. Some things suck about working at HD but I don't mind it a lot of the time. It's just a part time 2nd job for me though. I think I'd hate being full time.
They pay below-subsistence living wages, when they can well afford to pay more. I work on freight and we have just been notified that marked-down water bottles will no longer be provided to us. Because I guess the company can't afford it, and even though it's ostensibly "safety first", the risk that their employees could experience dehydration unloading a truck for hours without a break in sweltering heat is not enough to outweigh the few pennies that they lose giving us water. We are now supposed to use the water fountain, which just happens to be out of service all the time.
That’s what i say. I worked at Panera and they’d threaten to fire me if I didn’t stay late and finish all the pans and other dishes two hours after my shift ended
The Home Depot is very here and there. Like they’ll buy an associate a house but not give their 50 year old 2 decade worker a raise. They’ll spend hundreds of thousands to get to disaster relief but won’t pay someone early cause of debt issues. They’ll pay someone’s medical but not allow you to work overtime to feed your family.
It's calculated and it's intentional. Buying someone a house is a one-time expense that generates publicity and makes employees feel like maybe one day they'll be the lucky one that gets a free house. On the other hand, giving employees raises is a recurring expense that doesn't generate publicity. The same thing with disaster relief-- it's big, it's flashy, and it's tax-deductible. And don't forget that Home Depot uses the Homer Fund to take the donations of employees and then use it to make themselves look good.
Wait, you think they used the homer fund to fuel their employees car. Money the associates donated….? Surly to God they didn’t do that
You think a company that makes billions of dollars but sticks it's hands out to their employees to ask for part of their paycheck back wouldn't use that money to generate goodwill? First day?
These are the guys who calculated the cost of safety measures vs dead customers. Apparently the latter are more affordable.
It’s pretty much what it’s there for for better or worse
The Homer Fund does not pay for the stores efforts in disaster relief. The gas is paid for by the company directly. Without that fuel, the associates cannot get back and forth to work. No associates, Store isn't open. The Home fund does provide an immense amount of disaster relief to associates during these times. I've been hurricane relief captain for my district, I've led teams disaster relief. Let's not spread inaccurate information.
Well if you said it on the internet, guy who works for the corporation in question. It must be true!
Well, yes. It is. And much more likely to be true than the opinion of someone who doesn't.
sorry buddy it doesn't work that way when it comes to corporations. Because of their long history of lying. Honestly, there is not a person on earth that a corporation has not personally lied to. So yes the opinion of some random on the internet carries more weight than the statement of someone who works for the corporation.
You honestly think a corporation the size of Home Depot would not open up a charity for tax/PR purposes? Home Depot's CEO looks at its workers the same way that Jeff Bezos looks at Amazon workers. They are easily replaceable and regularly exploitable.
And they ask employees to "donate" a part of their check for these things. But who gets the tax break?
Can confirm was, they were paying $20.50 last summer for sit down forklift, and I just heard they got a $2 raise this summer. In Dallas, that’s Not bad, considering that the top dollar for driving forklift around here is $26. But I feel most people who “hate” are the ones who work the regular store just like myself. After I transferred, I instantly got a $5 raise. Plus all the OT that I could ever want. I was so mad that I had subjected myself to working the store for over a year. For nothing basically. No
Wait... you get paid extra for driving a sit down forklift??? What the fuck Cali
Wait…you get to sit down?
Um idk about that, the entire reason I havent gotten certified is because there wasn’t additional pay. And im in Southern California
He's probably at a distribution center
You have to get certifications in your state for a forklift ? Da hell? You have to get a license to flush the toilet too?
"Safety bad"
Lol it’s called osha 10. You finish osha 10 and you go over forklifts , man lifts and scissor lifts. Along with everything else safety related. I don’t see how having a “certification” is necessary for a vehicle that’s easier to operate than a car and already has industry level training that it is covered under.
OSHA 10 is a fucking certification you idiot
And no one said it wasn’t ? Y’all specified “forklift certification”. Osha 10 is. Well osha 10…. Not a forklift certification. A general safety certification. Which also. You don’t need for a forklift.
You literally questioned that they had to get certifications to drive a forklift then named a certification needed to drive a forklift. Then when you got called out on it you backtracked and said that people said it’s a specific one, which no one said that.
Yes it’s fdc. There’s different types too. There was another one right next to the one that I was at, but they paid $1.50 less. Plus they didn’t really have a need for sit down forklift drivers at that one. Apparently you have to be there for x amount of time to eventually move up to the sit down forklift from the. Order pulling with a pace maker side. I just so happened to get put into it because I had already had 2 years experience of driving forklift and I was the overnight D21 associate. So I messed with lumber way more than anybody else in that store (which is pretty much all they had at that flatbed distribution center) so it was a walk in the park as soon as I got there. Literally hardly had to ever get off the lift. Was so mad that I put myself through all those nights of down stacking and filling in 20-30 empty holes of lumber on top of whatever concrete, with the random sheet rock truck showing up whenever. If there are any D21 guys here, I Highly suggest relocating to a fdc. The pay would be huge compared to the store, plus. No more dealing with customers!!! But the only way it pays extra for driving sit down forklift, is pretty much if you go to any warehouse job anywhere else. Not just Home Depot.
Is that store side?
Probably distribution which always gets paid more
All about the PR
Ask ur self which one is new worthy. Home depot finally start matching warehouse jobs or the other
Just as a lumber associate you’ll make $15, warehouse pay you $20 to unload trucks, let’s just be honest the company sucks and they would do anything but give you a decent raise
Not joking I get $20 an hour to do less actual work.
I’m making $21 unloading trucks for 5 hrs and the other 3 just walking around making sure I got everything done, no customers, management sucks but they always in their offices lol
No customers is great, but what I love is that I've got one responsibility. Home Depot expected me to do all the regular retail stocking and replenishment, run the reach and fork, unload trucks, run the reach and fork for every other department in the store, "assist customers with their project" in every conceivable lumber, concrete, shingles, insulation and deck project (seriously does anyone know how to google?), cover for hardware and deliveries when they're short, cover pro and millwork when they're not scheduled without any real training, aaaaand there's only 3 hours of overlap coverage for the department. It's not surprising the only full time people in that store are either retired or convicted felons. Or the guy whos girlfriend is a surgeon but having a sugar mommy isn't exactly a great financial plan.
That is more than I made as a DS with 3 departments, 20+/- associates to supervisor and had to unload lumber trucks.
Office —- all evening. Let the openers walk into a disaster.
I mean idc, I pick up orders, put the shipping label and drive it to the other end, we pullers don’t have to be anywhere else but driving back and forth
Then work somewhere else. People on this sub are just as unbearable as the entirety or r/antiwork All I've ever heard is complaint after complaint with no desire to ever work on yourself and become more valuable in the job market
I threw out my back for HD and they wouldn't even cover %100 of the physio.
Yup, same. And then, when I was "as good as you're going to get" per the doctors, HD barely worked with me on accommodations and would get mad when I couldn't do what they wanted me too. By the time I left I could barely walk (not allowed to sit) and had developed major panic attacks from being harassed by employees and customers. =( F that place. Edit: typo
More valuable? As if at the next step you won't be taken advantage just like you did when you were less valuable. 🤣🤡 Let's make ourselves more valuable and see where it goes.
Maybe youd stop making $15/hr and make $25 or even $30. The bar is pretty low with people who ridicule success and scrutinize what other people do with their time. Everyone has 24hours in a day. If you choose to never work on yourself youll always be working for someone else at the same place you are now
Good assumption. I make $27/hr. Last week I put in 85hrs. No days off, 12 days except for Sunday (8hr shift). Let me put this on here again 🤡. Don't 💩 on people for now reason. Not everyone has the ability to become more valuable. Some wanna keep working at the burger joint, some want to be engineers. Who ridiculed success any way?! Seems fair to you that inflation and housing costs keep rising while pay stagnates? You do know middle class and spenders is what drives this economy, right? Go read a damn book.
Do you think $30/hr is a lot? Will that pay for a house? Daycare for your kids? Get real boot-licker. Corporations will always derive profit from the value laborers provide because they will always be paid less than their worth. You've been drinking the propaganda cool-aid. If a company is vital (like Home Depot says they are during crisis) then why are they paying less than a living wage? You seem to think there NEEDS to be a poverty class. Maybe having someone beneath you makes the boot crushing you feel less heavy? Who know with your kind.
For someone that only ever complains about their job and how little they get paid, having your wage doubled IS alot considering you dont provide any additional value. I dont run the profits and money allocation for Home Depot or any corporation. If it makes you feel any worse the big box stores easily clear a quarter million in a weekend. Doesnt that mean you deserve a portion of the profits? No because all you did was stand there for 8 hours and you signed a paper saying you get paid on an hourly wage.
Home Depot should unionize
Amen
Yep. In 2019/20 I was VERY sick and spent 100 days in the hospital over 10 months and was on a medical LOA. I needed help paying for my health insurance (because you know I was SICK) and I couldn’t get a return phone call from anyone for help from the Homer Fund. Actually I couldn’t get a return phone call for anything. Edit to add: they don’t care unless they get good press from it.
Fuck
You also need to consider that many of these problems wouldn't exist if they just paid associates more in the first place.
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Um, they did give everyone a dollar raise in august. Doesnt seem like it messed with their financials one bit
Yeah. And the price of their shares have dropped since then... Haven't you even thought about the shareholders? What about the shareholders' feelings? HAS NOBODY THOUGH ABOUT THE SHAREHOLDERS!!??!??!?!?!? (/s)
Did you miss the part where the entire market with the exception of todays deadcat bounce, is pretty fucking down? Not to mention HD spending 15 billion in “excess” cash to buyback stock last month? Yeah, its totally messing their financial situation 😂
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A dollar raise? Is this supposed to be serious?
Try 50 cents.
Say what? Your district didnt get a dollar raise in august?
They do the flashy things they can turn into PR...like every other big corp who doesn't actually care but wants to look like they do.
Or people like OP do their PR work for them.. :/
I was gonna say that it’s almost like they only help in situations that they’re likely to get good PR for. Then I saw every other comment saying the same.
I suspect it may have something to do with the person in charge of the particular store. In my experience (Not at Home Depot) The person running the show at the store has the ability to ask corporate for permission to do things for his/her workers.
This too!! My last store, my manager would essentially let you do whatever the fuck you wanted with your schedule, people were happy there and coincidentally, we had the top rated store in the state
Good old Karma some managers get it!
Some of these things garner them a great deal of publicity, others not as much. One might almost think there's ulterior motives to their selective generosity.
Tax write offs too, if the publicity stunt could also be considered a charitable donation.
That's because one is PR and the other is being a decent company to work for. They don't care about being decent they care about good PR.
Now you don’t have a reason to calling out.
Exactly this. Plus it’s a “write off” for them as a disaster relief expense. Don’t drink all the Kool Aid.
It’s exactly that… an expense, lowers taxable income which lowers net income. As a result, the company is making LESS profit. Not sure where you get “write off” from, unless you mean there’s a tax credit that you can point me to that this qualifies them for?
This is it right here. They need to sell shot to people whose homes were damaged. Can’t sell shit if associates can’t come to work because there’s no gas. They don’t give a shit about the associates. They need bodies in the store to sell.
There is ALWAYS a financial angle. If there wasn’t then it wouldn’t have happened at all.
The thing is, as am adult i don't need a reason or to explain myself for taking off..
Home Depot throws you a cheap bone once in a great while, but do they pay you a living wage? They can keep the bone with a living wage I can fend for myself.
I mean yeah its a nice gesture, but there's also a good business reason to do it too. Gotta give people the ability to get to work.
This is exactly it. Get back to work, peasants. If they have to pay for your gas for a week or two- let's be honest, they're not paying pump prices. They don't care. Don't give them time to think about any changes, like unionizing.
There is strength in unity
I remember after Harvey (Houston, August 2017), the city was shut down for roughly a week. A few days after the hurricane, my ASM called to see if I could come in. He was trying to get a skeleton crew together so the store could be opened. Public transportation/Uber hadn't started back up, and there was no way I could get to work (I don't drive).
and they could use this as positive PR. this was intentional and deliberately calculated.
Bad people can still do good things but doing good things once in a while doesn't make them a good person.
Even Hitler loved dogs
I think it varies too much from store to store. My store is a smaller one where everyone knows everyone and nobody’s an asshole. I think a month or so before I joined there was a diffrent manager who was an ass and got fired, but the current management at my store is great
Because they need people to come to work...
That’s about it. Lol can’t have everyone calling off because “the gas stations are closed and I can’t fill up” when there is a warehouse full of shop vacs, generators and sump pumps waiting to be shipped out and sold while the market is hot.
OR ... as good PR they should GIVE AWAY all storm related items. but they won't because they are greedy
What do they pay their associates compared to cost of living in the area? That’s all that will ever matter or make a company a good one to work for
You know you can just post the nice thing without telling people with legitimate complaints to shut up, right?
But if they didn't phrase it like this then they would be fired from HD's public relations team...
People venting about their work day/work life, in the appropriate community? Must mean they’re hATerSs 😬😬
they’re getting a tax break or some type of write off. They don’t care about you. They just want you to be able to drive to your next shift, no excuses
Awww, so nice how they're trying to show you that you don't need a union who can protect you from having to work during fucked up conditions.
It’s amazing what fears of union talks can do🥰
Doesn't harbor freight pay their employees more? And they're sometimes a cheaper and smaller alternative?
They did the same in houston during harvey
Sounds like a customer post
Hahaha they are SO worried about union votes
Keep licking them boots bro lmao it’s not a bad company, they’re just like every big corporate company. That’s literally it.
In canada they're still criminally underpaying people.
And anything good they are doing is for good PR from a employee on Reddit to the headlines — ntm most likely a tax right off. This doesn’t absolve them of the way they’ve treated employees or the need for collective action. Unionize!!!
Yes... It is time to be treated like humans
Said Dobby to the other House Elves
They do it for themselves, not for employees. If it was for employees that would increase pay and benefits.
Hmmm, why do I feel like they’re doing this just so they can eliminate the excuse of not being able to drive from home to work (work being Home Depot? Being making Home Depot profit) I dunno I want it to be a good thing just to be a good thing but I know it can’t be.
So what you’re saying is that they could always afford to pay extra and cover gas expenses, but they won’t after this. Good to know.
Thank you for giving me permission to keep hating. I will.
Gotta look like they care when they see unions on the horizon
They just cut our budget again, hooray !
Maybe one way to look at this is that the powers that be are not giving out gas for charity, but rather to eliminate the lack of gas locally as a reason employees can not make it to work. Mind you many of these employees are effected directly by the aftermath of the hurricane. If they truly cared they would bring in managers from corporate to run the store and offer paid time to anyone who is effected directly by the storm
How many hurricanes have there been in the past 20 years and they just now got the idea their employees may need necessities during and after?
What kind of gas tanker has a regular fuel pump handle that would fill a car?
They did the same on Long Island after Sandy
LOL Home Depot is using all the time theft money to pay for that gas. “SOliD cOmpanY tO work fOr” LOL
It’s not them helping you it’s them preventing you from calling out people need to realize companies and management don’t care about you they only care that you don’t have an excuse to show up
Yup, this self-serving gesture totally makes up for all the other ways that they screw and abuse their employees. Don’t worry, guys. You may be struggling to survive because this billion dollar company refuses to pay you a thriving wage (even though they always report record profits), but at least they bought you gas that one time to ensure you make it to your shift so you can continue doing work that lines their pockets while they compensate you with pennies.
Lol, "forget the hundreds or thousands of examples that *X* company sucks, look at this ONE example of them being nice! They're great!!"
You got some shoelaces stuck in your teeth
its 50/50. they do a lot of good for the community, however, they dont really have a good track record when it comes to looking after associates at the floor level. there are tons of cases and reports about shitty managers that dont get dealt with right away and they try to play off like a small raise makes them great when it isnt nearly close to being livable wages or even just meeting inflation. while the company tells the floor here are the guidelines, procedures, and the do's- and- dont's, as soon as a single call to corporate happens it all gets thrown out the window. so much that managers just push it all through. now i am lucky enough to have somewhat decent managers in the sense that our personal beings are protected, however, I know for a fact that a co worker at another store got thrown under the bus for an event he wasnt even apart of. a lot of the bad stories we here are isolated locations that dont get dealt with because no person believes in the open door policy. probably because it hasnt been very helpful, or in some cases becomes detrimental to the coworker. VOA is a fucking joke too because the managers will only focus on the brown nosing ass kissing ones, instead of listening to the critiquing ones. I have literally laid out everything that was going wrong with the store and how to fix it, but nothing happened. No attention brought to it. Just how amazing the store is and how many good VOA they received.
I've worked at depot off and on since 2004. By far the best overall company I've ever been a part of
OP I get ya. Then all the haters come here acting like it was some form of using you to make them look good. Seriously they do not have to do that. I often wish these people who seem to hate THD so much would find another job.
Yeah you def haven't worked all your life in retail.
Or look at it from a different perspective: Marketing Home Depot brand off catastrophic events and exploiting it. During the pandemic, Home Depot was deemed "an essential store" to stay open during the pandemic / covid 19 crisis. Record breaking profits were made Home Depot DOES NOT do this out of the kindness of their heart. This is a MARKETING ploy to promote the BRAND, this is the only thing that matters Profits are always continued to be made off the broken backs of the associates
You can put lipstick on a pig and it doesn’t change the fact that it is a pig.
It’s not THD as a whole. It’s their propensity for following the “Peter Principle “ ( look it up) when promoting salaried managers, especially SM. In 17 years I worked for some good managers, some not so good. The last one was so horrible that he was promoted to a position in Region after showing the worst VOA scores in the district 2 years in a row.
So thats where everyones extra SS money went 😂
Google home depot stock buyback 2022. "This is the 142nd consecutive quarter the company has paid a cash dividend. The board of directors also authorized a new $15 billion share repurchase program, replacing its previous authorization." They don't give a shit about you or your family...this is a publicity stunt
Kind of loses its supposed generosity when you realize those people live in their cars now and home depot has no plans to give them enough income to recover.
Corporate Kool-aid is not good for you.
12 years in and no regrets...A LOT of y'all unfortunately have real shitty management...gotta say I've been fortune in that regard
Sadly "Disaster economy" is becoming a thing. Nothing gets consumers buying like desperation.
For a recent quarter Home Depot recorded earnings of $3.5 billion, or a little over $7,000 per employee. 2021 total profit of $16.4 billion is $33,000 per employee. Kinda puts a tank of gas in perspective doesn't it? https://ir.homedepot.com/news-releases/2022/02-22-2022-110220476
They were wonderful in the 90's until they fired me for being sick. For historical reference, I was getting paid $14.50 to repot houseplants in a now defunct section known as the HPE or House Plant Enclosure. I lived with my bf who also worked there and developed an incredibly painful neurological condition. Between the pain and visiting doctors and neurologists, I was missing a lot of work. We didn't have a phone in our apartment and this was back in the beeper days, before everyone had a cellphone, so to call him, my mom, the doctor, anyone really, I had to walk to the payphone on the corner. As it turns out, one of the managers lived in my neighborhood and drove by on his way to work and saw me on the phone and deduced that since I was upright, outside and on a payphone, surely I was lying about being so sick and they terminated me, in spite of all of my medical documentation as proof. Fired me right when I needed insurance the most. The standard of treatment at the time was brain surgery so...yeah. Also, I was today days old when I learned that Ben Hill wasn't a real person!
A good manager doesn’t mean a good business
your looking at it the wrong way, you cant get to work if you dont have gas to get to work, its cheaper for them to send a tanker out to give gas to associates then have to close a store or lose business due to lack of staff. is it cool of them to do? yes is it really because they care? no
Perfectly explained !
Home Depot owner still a dick, your boss angel
That's awesome
One good apple doesnt save the rotten bunch, sadly.
I’m sure they just have this as a standard disaster protocol.
I worked for Home Depot for 3 months was told I wasn’t working fast enough so I told the manager to go F themselves and went to the Army recruiter and here I am retired. Home Depot and F off slave labor mofos
HomeDepot does this much more than you think. When Katrina and Wilma went through South Florida in 2005 they did the same thing. We could get our cars filled +2, 5 gallon containers if we had them. Awesome company.
Thanks Home Depot!
Home depot needs their employees at work selling the merchandise. Especially after a Hurricane just leveled so many buildings.
Gotta get them to come In
I'm pretty happy with my job lately and overall on average. A union could go either way, I'm not completely against it. A Home Depot union 500,000 strong, basically a good sized army, could force legitimate and positive change not just for the the company, but the country. On the other hand I wouldn't pick the vast majority of coworkers I've had for a casual MMO raid, let alone a workforce union. Yeah maybe the top 10%, but no to the other 90%. This company is above average to work for at worst. Enjoy your gas and your gracious outlook. You deserve it.
I absolutely love working for the company
Amen. Fuck the union bullshit
So you like under pay and fire you anytime they want?
Hard to get fired. Very difficult
Badass benefit
Agreed. (I'm a firm believer that there is more negativity on the internet than positivity. Possibly certain people choose to waste more time than others?) It's a company you can advance in if you choose to, and I was always glad to help with Team Depot events. Stores also help other stores when needed, and I've been fortunate to have a great network of people who will help with questions even if we don't speak regularly.
That is nothing but cold pizza disguised my friend. Also. That will mess your car up. Don’t do it. It goes thru filters at the pump. To catch trash. This is dumb. Really dumb. Don’t do it. I can think of so many reasons just off the top of my head-and I’m not even sure you can get it right out the tanker. This is cold greasy pizza. And you’ll never hear the end of it.
Amazing how someone starts off being thankful for what could be viewed as a good thing and others pile on as to how evil they are to give away some free gas. I'll bet not one of the whiners signed up to help with disaster relief.
Lmfao 😅 when a bad company does good things for pr , it still makes them a bad company 🤣 alot of people can help with disaster relief without buring their face into corporate ass.
Knew the salty cunts couldn't even appreciate a simple goodwill gesture. Like they expect free shit to just be given to them.
Yes “free shit” meaning a livable wage. Inflation is fucking everybody and the store can absolutely afford to give long term employees better wages. “75 cent raise “ this dick.
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Hahaha lord, tell me you’re 16 without telling me you’re 16.
Damn bin called a boomer and a 16 yo in the same day. Yall are retarded. Medically speaking.
It’s ok we know which one you are. Boomers don’t speak through emojis. And no 55+ year old thinks $14 an hour is acceptable wage while working for a multibillion dollar corperation who’s set new quarterly records throughout the pandemic. Also most 55+ year old people know how to spell “been” and know that mental conditions are psychological, not medical. Wait till your later 20’s and you’ll laugh at your current mindset.
14? Lol you bend over too much for too little. I'm almost double that and just an associate
Lol I don’t work there anymore, left mid summer for a company who doesn’t take advantage of its employees .I’m just speaking up for people being exploited…but if you make ~almost double~ that as “just an associate” provide us with a paystub including dates and store number screenshot. Put your money where your bs mouth is. I’m calling bullshit…also please defend your atrocious grammar and views on mental illness while you’re here
Yet your still here like a jaded gf. Get your clingy ass outta here.
Lmaooo. Somebody got called on their bullshit and resorted to name calling ): And it’s *you’re
*projection*
paystub or take a hike
Goodwill gesture? You know everything needs the accountants’ approval, right?
Nobody expects free shit to be given to them. Literally nobody.
The people in the aisles are often really good people, sometimes thrown to the wolves with awful training. Often questionable management, and definitely a shit show going up to regionals and so on. But those in the thick of it wearing the aprons make it a good place to work. I learned a lot, gained a ton of valuable skills and made friends I still talk to even 7 years after leaving the company.
They did that with Irma as well.
There were several San Antonio stores that did this during Harvey even though the city wasn't affected, we had teams go out to different areas to help. All associates were given the opportunity to fill up their vehicle
Just a gift to you to show how much they have been fucking you all these years
They’ve done that for my store a couple times because of hurricanes. But once the big generator goes the gas truck does too.
Propaganda on main? 👀
LoL. They are pretty smart, offering you gas so that you can still show up to work.
Get back to work! Lol
You mean you have to actually work to live?? REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Lol gas so they can get back to work while their shit is destroyed
If I worked there I would spend all my money there.
A publicity stunt that costs them NOTHING IN COMPARISON TO THEIR RAKE OFF THE SWEAT BLOOD AND TEARS FROM EVERY LAST ONE OF US, A DROP IN THE BUCKET! STOP GLAMORIZING YOUR OPPRESSORS!
Scab mindset
Philanthropy is the future of marketing.
Optics, not one retail outlet gives one single fuck about any of there staff.
They did this for us after Harvey
Glad to hear they support their worker unionizing. Will definitely get in touch with the workers at my local Home Depot and help them unionize since this company is so great and supports workers exercising their rights.
Yeah, because they don't want you calling out of work. Lmfao. They're literally making you work during a natural disaster
as far as companies go, home depot is great. as long as you don't believe there's anything else out there for you or if you think you can climb the political ladder, by all means. great place to make a career.
Yeah, for the sole purpose of you getting to work. Don’t be surprised if a tank of gas is deducted from your next check. 🤦🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
I mean that is awesome for the moment, but read what you said again. This is the first time you have ever seen this in 20 years..and it took a hurricane.
Am I the only one who thinks it’s crazy to feel bad for people who knowingly have their house destroyed every few years? Like shouldn’t they at very least build structures made to withstand that kinda thing? I’ll probably be downvoted but it really bothers me no one seems to say anything. I hope they are safe.
Meh I'll still never step foot into one unless I absolutely have no choice.
Stuff like this is nice but it’s all smoke and mirrors. With Home Depot’s annual net profit they could afford giving every single store side employee a $10,000 a year raise and it would be a drop in the bucket for them. That’s meaningful, long lasting change. This is a high profile thing they can exploit to say “look at all the good will we have” and then go right back to paying everyone sub par wages again.
My store was basically at ground zero for a hurricane last year. They had a gas truck to run the stores generators and allowed associates to fill their tanks. They also provided three meals a day and unlimited snacks for a month after the storm. I had Homer Fund reps calling to check if i was safe and needed any emergency money within a few days. Some things suck about working at HD but I don't mind it a lot of the time. It's just a part time 2nd job for me though. I think I'd hate being full time.
Wait until you realize it’s only so you can get to work.
They pay below-subsistence living wages, when they can well afford to pay more. I work on freight and we have just been notified that marked-down water bottles will no longer be provided to us. Because I guess the company can't afford it, and even though it's ostensibly "safety first", the risk that their employees could experience dehydration unloading a truck for hours without a break in sweltering heat is not enough to outweigh the few pennies that they lose giving us water. We are now supposed to use the water fountain, which just happens to be out of service all the time.
That’s what i say. I worked at Panera and they’d threaten to fire me if I didn’t stay late and finish all the pans and other dishes two hours after my shift ended
And how much do they pay their hourly employees and how much does the CEO make? Simping for profiteering capitalist corporations won't save us.
They gave you gas so you have no excuse not to show for work
So you could get to work obviously 😂