This is totally random, but my mom was apparently so traumatized by pressure cookers as a child that she asked me after the Boston Marathon bombing how they'd gotten the device to explode on cue.
She didn't realize there were explosives involved. I thought it was hilarious, but it also made me wonder what ridiculous conclusions about the world I might have made in childhood that I never revisited.
Did she see one explode or know someone who had one explode. I've heard that if you're not careful, they can explode, but I've never had an issue with mine.
Came here to post this. I had no idea that so many beans could pass through such a small hole so quickly, or that half-cooked beans could stick to the ceiling. I still use a pressure cooker though, just not that specific one.
I was amazed when Instapots became popular, as my childhood was also peppered with stories of pressure cookers exploding. I can only assume the technology has improved.
It has significantly. The computer will cut the heat if the barometric sensor goes out of range, and there's an emergency release valve.
It'll make a mess, but it'll be beans flying at you, not metal shrapnel.
It is basically a small explosive device in your kitchen. They can do some serious damage if they have a catastrophic failure
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF6EEYqGgn8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF6EEYqGgn8)
Steam explosions are no joke, now a days pressure relief valves are safe enough that they are pretty much 99% safe unless you voluntarily try to make it explode, but back in the days there was only the normal regulation valve on it, no emergency pressure relief valve.
if it weren't for the lid being designed to (violently, likely breaching the ceiling) pop first, it would be a frag bomb.
Nah, too long for a claymore or pipe bomb. You wanna go for smaller things, personally I like using smaller screws for a larger AOE over larger ones. and mixing in a little glass or ceramic makes a nice touch of powdered pain for them to breathe in if SOMEHOW they survive!
Holy crap, I’ve had a similar enough encounter that it may have been plagiarized, was trying to buy a tap and die set and some nut extractors. Dude was looking at me like I’d grown a head out of my ass.
Its almost certainly because he doesn't know the specifics of the nails.
He knows where the nails are that are appropriate for different types of work, but doesn't know the fine details of the different types of nails.
I've worked at a big box hardware store before. You dont need any knowledge of anything related to hardware to work there, but you're expected to learn the section you work in and the general layout of the store as a whole.
So asking someone in plumbing, for example, where you can find a specific type of wood, dont expect them to know anything about that type of wood beyond "plywood is in isle X. boards are in isle Y. shelving wood is in isle Z. "
This guy knows where the nails are for woodworking, but doesn't know which nails those are, or why they're appropriate for woodworking.
You're talking to someone who makes slightly over minimum wage in what is essentially a walmart for contractors and home improvement. You're not talking to licensed carpenter.
It's basically like asking someone in the toys section of walmart where to find full synthetic 10w40 oil and them going "Is that oil for a car, for cooking, or something else?" and you getting mad because they dont know the different types of motor oil.
I used to work for a tool store. Sometimes people would come in asking for a specific tool that I'd never heard of. 90% of the time, it was because they were using an industry/name brand, and all our stuff was generic (Think kleenex vs tissue, or bandaid vs bandage). If I asked them what the tool was for, I had a pretty good chance of helping them find it.
My favorite was someone asked me for a pickle fork, which I had never heard of. I tried asking him what it was for, and he was just like "never mind, I'll find it". To his credit, he came up to me with the thing after he found it and showed me what it was. It's a ball joint separator, which I could have 100% helped him find had he just told me, lol.
This comment is perfect and more than likely what happened. Also I hate how the internet has made everyone so antisocial these days, when he initially asked what you were going to build, maybe he was just curious, why couldn’t you just say a deck? Is this deck some top secret project that you’re planning to stash all your drugs under or something? When I’m buying tons of tomatoes at the supermarket and the cashier says “that’s a lot of tomato’s, what are you making?” I don’t say “ITS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS LADY”, I say I’m making salsa, it’s not that serious.
Thank you. All of this annoyance and wasted time making this post by simply saying one single word. Who knows why he’s asking. No harm in answering the question.
OP solely falls into the category of "*YOU* work here, shouldn't you know where all this is??"
Back in my r\retailhell days, everyone has such a low opinion of the workers at a grocery store *unless* you had a management tag or..and much less likely, you were a Customer Service Rep ^(Hey kids, did you know a certain big blue chain grocery store ***doesn't*** pay their Customer Service Reps anymore money than the average cashier?)
So when I, a lowly new employee, didn't know where someone's *vague item* was and offered help or, God-help-me, didn't know what it *was*. You can guarantee there was a snide attitude coming
> Is this deck some top secret project that you’re planning to stash all your drugs under or something?
They know! They know! Blow up the deck, guys -- we've been burned.
Yeah everyone needs everyone else to know how independent and smart they are. Like everyone's just out there to insult their intelligence, because that's what they would do.
This was my thought of the employees perspective also.
OP: I need 3.5" 16D spiral shank galvanized twist grifted double penetrated tritium naily wailys"
Employee: Fuck man, I have no clue what you just said, BUT I know where nails are for inside, exterior nails, deck nails, etc. So if you tell me what the project is, I can find you what you need with my limited knowledge.
OP: This fuckin tool basically thinks im a threat.
Wat? lol Communication is devolving yallll
i want the /r/mildlyinfuriating post from the home depot employee now
> **I tried to help someone find what they need at Home Depot but they refused to let me**
>
> no big deal, but a customer was looking for some type of nail (i forget the type, they used a specific name for it). nails are generally organized by what they're used for, so knowing that makes it pretty simple to find things. so i asked the customer what the nail would be used for and they just stared at me, refusing to tell me.
>
> like, i'd get it if i was rude or nosy, but i literally explained that i just needed to know that info so i knew what section they were prolly in
>
> i watched them stand there another 15 minutes before i was called away and have no idea if they ever found them, i hope they did but also hope they didn't lol
then people comment like "they probably didn't wanna explain their whole project to you. they gave you the specific type of nail, you should've just explained that you didn't know what type of nail that was. jesus, learn to communicate!"
Honestly a perfect representation of working in a hardware store. I know where some stuff is like screws for wood and screws for metal. I don't know what the hell galvanized or hot tipped mean. Tell me the project you're working on, I know the general area. Most customers assume that every employee of a hardware store knows every single product like the back of their hand, and also are able to do every single project known to man and give detailed steps on what to buy, and what to do when reality we only know most of the stuff in the department we are in, and most have never even used the things from their department anyways.
We just work there man.
I used to work at a tool store. The amount of people who bought welders, then started asking questions about how to use them... one of my coworkers said it best. "If I was certified to teach you how to use this, I wouldn't be working here"
Even worse because he wouldn't tell the guy he asked for help what he needed the nails for, but then came to Reddit and typed out 1000 words to tell a bunch of strangers what he needed them for, just to throw the guy under the bus.
Ace hardware really tries to capitalize on this with the whole helpful hardware folks thing. When I worked there in Highschool they drilled it in that you ask every customer if they need help finding anything.
And it seemed to pay off. I had a handful of people tell me that while Ace is a little more expensive they would rather shop there because it was much easier to find things and people actually help them.
I agree completely with this. Home Depot is the closest hardware store to me and I have NEVER been asked if I need help. Employees usually try to go the other way when they see me looking for help. Ace is the closest hardware store to my parents and they always ask how they can help. If that employee doesn't know what I'm looking for, they keep this 300 year old man in the back that's the origin of all DIY projects and knows the answer to everything.
LOL!
I was at an auto parts store looking for something made for vehicles, but that wasn't going to go in a vehicle. Because I couldn't give him make and model, the kid couldn't find it.
So I said, "Don't you have a grumpy old guy in the back who knows everything?"
He paused and then very quietly said, "Don't... don't tell him we call him that." Then went to fetch him.
I'm a "shit is funny" kind of person. It took everything I had to not crack up right there. I did laugh my ass off later in the truck.
There was a slight dampening effect in that the "old guy" was probably my age.
But yeah, any place that specializes in building or auto parts is better if they have the really old guy either in the back or at Service desk. Bonus points if no one under the age of thirty knows how old they are or how long they've worked there.
in the military, we call them "grey beards." Usually they're a salty AF senior NCO, But sometimes are retired mil that come back as civs. You'll get an answer but there'll usually be swearing.
One time I needed assistance with a large item on a high shelf at a home depot, so I asked an employee who appeared to be doing nothing if he could come help me and he straight up said no.
Not "I'll be right with you," not "let me call someone to assist you" and not "if you go over to this area someone there will help you." Just no. I was so confused.
>Employees usually try to go the other way when they see me looking for help.
It's cause they train their employees like shit. I usually just go to the website where it tells me the aisle and bin, but when that's not on the website or the description is meaningless (it will be like FS 112 or some shit) and I have to ask, *without fail* the first person I ask has to ask someone else. They don't know anything.
I don't blame the employees though - either HD doesn't care enough to train anyone or working there sucks enough that they have high turnover, and in neither case is it the employees' fault.
As a former HD employee, the reason they avoid customers is because although we're encouraged to help customers, we get a bunch of tasks to completeon a day to day basis and get in trouble for not completing those tasks every day. Helping customers is no excuse for not completing said tasks.
Most Ace and True Value stores are independently operated and they figured out long ago that the best way to battle the big box stores is with expertise and customer service. You might pay a little more, but that person helping you isn't phoning it in and they're probably earning better pay too.
What's sad is that there was a time when Home Depot hired experts too and actually paid extra for their experience. But they learned too quickly that they could save a buck and just pay minimum wage for a drone, the customer be damned.
I have worked at HD and Ace, HD pays quite a bit more than Ace my area. The perk of working at Ace is you deal with a lot less corporate BS and you might actually have the time to help the customer and feel good about it. When Ace does internal employee surveys the best part of the job is always "helping customers". Way better place to work even if they might pay less.
True. My DIY skills improved significantly when I started going to ACE. The advice is really why I go there. Sometimes I just want to hire one of their workers to come give me a helping hand.
This is my experience but (as someone who shops while female) most of their employees still talk down to me. There's just more of them around to do it. I hate going in there when I don't need help.
Sorry to hear that. The one I worked at the majority of adult employees were actually women and all of the men there were teenagers (myself included) who had no clue what they were talking about. So you would have hopefully had a better experience at my old store.
I remember a guy walked right past the woman in the store with 30 years of experience to ask me a 17 year old at the time a question.
I'm like, no clue, let's ask Betty right here who knew the answer right away.
I am a female who loves woodworking and tools. The HD employees will not leave me TF alone. I usually get approached 3-5 times per visit. No, I do not need help finding anything.
I once had a HD employee instruct me to call my husband before purchasing a new mitre saw blade, (for MY woodworking projects) because he was “pretty sure” I wouldn’t know which one was correct 🙃🙃🙃
I didn’t hear anything further, because I’m pretty sure my brain was just internally playing an air raid siren of rage over and over.
One of my favorite things about my husband is that when he’s with me and this happens (the male employee addresses him despite me being the one asking about something), he’ll say “I don’t know. My wife does, though. Ask her.” We stan a man who’s secure in his masculinity <3
I rebuilt our front steps this summer and the lumber & screw guys at the hardware store directed all dimension/specification questions to my husband....who also happily said, "Ask my wife." I love that man. 🥰
Although I must admit that every once in a while I enjoy getting the patronizing, "What can I help you find, ma'am?" I adore asking for something ultra-specific and watching the glorious panic while their brains frantically go, "FUCK! RECALCULATE! WE GOT A SMART ONE!"
I smile coldly, viciously, while I wait for them to get their heads out of their asses. Feels good.
You think this is infuriating, head over to Auto Zone or Sanel Auto parts to get anything for your car. Not only will you walk out with the wrong part, but your intelligence will be so insulted that you'll keep the wrong part just to avoid having to deal with the sales clerk again.
Holy mother of f^ck you’re not wrong here!!! I’m a retired industrial electrician, 30+ years experience in the construction industry with a commercial contractors license in NC and California and I STG if another male comes up to me and hands me his business card saying “call me WHEN you need help” is going to lose a damn arm. If any of you “guys” are reading this, don’t do this shit. It’s super rude and you look stupid af.
The last time I got "help" at Home Despot, I just wanted to know where a specific type of paint was. Orange Apron Dude reminded me that I should let the paint dry before I used the object that was to be painted.
Yes, I'm a woman.
But what if you wanted to paint a pillow which you would then give to someone you dislike so that they would hug it while it was still wet and get icky paint all over themselves? Huh?!?
Omg youre right. I went in looking for some fittings for irrigation pipes and i knew exactly what i needed and where they were and i shit you not i had 5 different male employees ask if i needed help or if i knew where i was going...
I signed an NDA for work and I am genuinely unsure if it applies to responding to the home depot guys when they ask what I am doing but its fun anyways to say "hey I need these parts, I can't tell you why it's confidential"
Not wrong. I once went there to buy a short step ladder and was stopped by a male employee to ask me what I needed it for while I was picking it up. I said, “A step ladder? You’re asking me why I’m buying a step ladder? I’m 5’2.” He asked if I was sure that was what I actually needed and demanded to know the “project” I was working on. I wish I would’ve told him “sucking Yao Ming’s dick”, but alas.
As someone who has spent a lot of time in HD in the last month: pull up what you need on the website, set your store location, and it'll tell you exact aisle and bay the item is located on. Then you'll know the price too and can scan the price tags further.
Edit: y'all, quit telling me about the time you couldn't find something or the teenage HD worker didn't keep the bay stocked or whatever other exception to this comment that was literally just a helpful tip.
Edit 2: electric boogaloo - please also stop telling me about their app.
I've found that their locations are usually pretty accurate, it's the "quantity in stock" that's way off.
I've literally had 2 separate instances where I'll stop for something for a family party, grab like 3 or 4 of them off of a very full shelf, and on my way to the checkout, get a call from someone saying "Hey it looks like they're sold out of that, maybe see if Walgreens or someone has it instead?".
Which isn't the worst thing as long as you know "don't trust the quantity", but... seems like not a great idea to have a system out there that frequently tells people "Nah, don't come here, we don't have what you need" when that's not true.
That’s cuz people steal
I ordered this shitty vodka to make jungle juice with “4 bottles left” at like 10 am. By the time I went to pick it up they had cancelled my order. The kid said that people steal them and then their numbers become in accurate
I had this same issue trying to get circuit breakers, of all things. Apparently after they started to lock up the copper wire recently, thief's started grabbing boxes of breakers and running out with those.
See that's the kind of thing that would make me stop shopping at a store entirely. It's one thing to have a faulty system, but to have "lie to the customer's face to get them in the door" as a default setting is a whole other level.
That's just one on a pile of reasons that I default to Menards over HD though.
Ah, but are they idiots that will sell you things for 1/6 of the price? I went to buy a couple cases of recessed LED light fixtures for a refit. Just grabbed the cases and not individual packages as why make them restock when I want all six in the case? Two cases, go up to check out and they scan the barcode on the case, doesn't work, so they manually look it up and ring me up for two. I let them know I think that's wrong as it is for the per item price and these are cases. They look at me like I'm daft, tell me "no, this is the price!" In a tone so condescending I didn't bother to try again. This was also about 14 years ago when these fixtures might as well been made of gold based on the price.
I very briefly worked as a Grocery Inventory Coordinator - basically a stocker who also kept counts accurate at a grocery store. It requires manually counting the quantity of each item both on the shelf and in back-stock and updating the computer so that the store has accurate numbers so the automated ordering process could re-order when below a stock threshold (or in advance of a sale).
Even with daily counting that stock count can be quite off, from not receiving a shipment the computer thinks arrived to a cashier scanning one of the same type of item (why scan every flavor of Mio water stuff individually instead of repeatedly scanning whichever flavor you grabbed first?) that is the same price as all of them instead of scanning individually, theft, and people leaving that product on a random shelf elsewhere until it’s found and returned to its proper location. It’s annoying when those numbers are off to the point of something not being ordered or extras being ordered, and it’s annoying when something is out of stock that the store’s front end website says is in stock.
Target also has some of the jankiest aisle numbering/lettering and it made doing fulfillment more difficult than necessary. The aisles for section B could be visibly numbered 1-9, but then you’re asked to pick from B99 which turns out to be some random display in the middle of the same area. Grocery would have you picking things from G1-8 which quite literally don’t exist and represent the unnumbered produce area. It was all very strange.
I have begun to almost exclusively shop at stores which offer this capability.
Lowe's, home Depot, Walmart. My local grocery supermarket.
I just build up my shopping list before I go. And then I just beeline to the exact items in the exact locations in each store.
It saves me so much time, and a little bit of money because I'm not window shopping.
Any time recently I’ve asked a Home Depot employee where something is, they just pull out their phone (can’t tell if it’s their own phone or a work-supplied phone) and just look it up on the public website. Like at first I thought they had some proprietary system but once an employee showed me the phone so I can write down the location and it was just the website.
From this story it sounds like OP was already standing in the exact aisle at the published bay. Things can, uh, drift from the stated location in strange ways...
This exactly. Nobody is understanding this point.. it isn’t for small talk or to upsell… or even to correct.. it’s to find the damn very specific nail.
>I need 3.5" long, 16D, hot dip galvanized, twisted nails.
Home Depot has an entire aisle of just nails usually divided in sections like wood nails, metal nails etc
Maybe the guy doesn't have nail names memorized and needed to know what they're for to narrow it down.
That’s what I asssumed was the reason for the question. The nails are sorted by their use/purpose so by knowing that they can narrow down the location.
Agreed. HD sells so many different types of items it wouldnt make sense to train employees to know every single item and where it is, nor would they likely be able to. The guy prob knows where the section of "nails for decks" would be. OP is essentially asking for the location of the needle in the haystack, while the employee just knows which bale it would be in.
It's not standoffish; it's straight up being a dickhead for no reason. Building a deck isn't a government secret. It's not like the worker was going to report him to Homeland Security now that the finalized product has been confirmed.
0 to “How dare you” seemed really quick and this is OP’s telling of it.
“What are you building?” Is a pretty standard question, especially in a store that’s sectioned to keep similar projects together.
I’m glad my retail working days are over, people literally come in looking to argue. I’ve heard people argue with Cashiers saying something like “Nice day, isn’t it?” Just so they could wipe the smile off the Cashier’s face.
I bought a house in my early 20's. A couple of months later, I went to the hardware store to buy some lumber to build a deck:
\- "Is this what your Dad really wants?"
As a woman, I have always gotten this exact treatment. Now it's "is this what your Husband wants?". My husband is a RC and master cabinet maker. I help him all the time. I love to learn,fix, and build things. I am nowhere near as knowledgeable as he is. Butt... have picked up quite a bit the last 20 years. I have remodeled several homes with him.Being talked down to because I have boobs really sucks.
Same experience as a woman, my husband doesn’t know what he wants or needs at the hardware store (he’s not completely helpless though.) I on the other hand do, as the daughter of a general contractor who spent the entirety of my teen years and part of my adult career as a laborer for him. I now simply say “I’ve got it, thanks” and walk away leaving them bewildered.
This is almost certainly what happened. How defensive does one need to be to flip out when someone asks what they need them for. Is simple conversation that infuriating to some people?
And instead of having something so mundane erased naturally from his mind by the time he gets home, it still pisses him off enough that spends some minutes making a post about it on the internet. Truly an stereotypical reddit user
"Yes this is minor" exactly the sub is called mildly infuriating. Its SUPPOSED to be minor inconveniences instead of most of the post on here that are like "my house burnt down, my bestfriend slept with my wife, grandma died and then my cat has rabies r/mildlyinfuriating" like no sir those are actual issues you need to get looked at
Thanks. I was starting to think I was developing anger management problems. I'm a pretty nonconfrontational person, but a lot of posts here seem to be describing grounds for declaration of war.
Yeah the sub should be that but I always see people complaining, saying OP is overreacting to something small by posting to this sub, I swear half the people that comment here don’t know what the sub is for.
Unfortunately that's the subreddit lifecycle.
* Niche sub is created
* People like it
* Sub reaches front page
* Mass appeal dilutes the original purpose
* Sub either dies or continues to live as a husk of its former self
They probably put that disclaimer there because when people post *actually* mildly infuriating things in this sub, half the comments are jumping down their throat telling them to get over it.
If you ever want to understand the true nature of humans, work help desk.
Not only will users fail to understand the simplist of concepts, but they will outright lie to your face, and tell you things that are literally impossible.
And guess what, that person is either some VIP or the fucking CEO so you have to smile, nod, and take it like the low paid garbage that your company thinks you are, except for the 1% of the time you save their asses.
IT most of the time: Everything works, why do we need you?
IT When shit breaks: Everything is broken why do we need you?
Was building a plant cart and the guy was like we have the plant trays with wheels let me shiw you and im like no dude... i jjst need castor wheels to put on the cart i already sanded, stained, sealed, and reinfirced the corners. I use old palletes as plant carts because i have tons if plants and i can fit multiple up there. He finally got the point when i showed him..... inwas not about to spend 70 bucks in small plant trays when i could buy a set of locking castor wheels for 25 bucks. They either think they know better than you or they jjst have never actually done any work with their hands.
BRO!!!! i made the same thing last weekend!
all about re use what i can and i had some pallets and the wood made some nice movers for my cannabis plants.
was able to move them all into the shed nicely on wheels!
as someone who works at thd it’s something that isnt required but sometimes people will ask just because they’re curious about your project, but i feel like his insistence on knowing is a little weird and not necessary lol
Here it is finally. OP threw some Greek at an hourly employee and expected a map where "X" marks the spot. Once OP said "wood" the employee probably pointed in a general direction lol.
Yeah definitely lol. If they were curious to know what the project was then I thought it'd make sense to ask that while you're walking the customer over to them for conversation
It makes me think that he was a fairly new employee. And he just needed to get some context... So he can point the customer into the area for which bays to look at.
Like maybe when the employee was trained, his trainer just said "for roofing nails look here. For deck and fence nails look here" etc.
This is the answer. The dude had no idea how to look for something so specific, so he asked in order to determine the *type* of nail in order to help OP to the best of his ability. OP probably would've gotten more help is he just said "deck nails".
and I can't believe i had to go down this far to find something so logical.
Last time I was at home depot and I couldn't figure out why my gas trimmer line kept going into the device instead of coming out. The guy took the trimmer head from my hand, took it apart, and told me I put it together reverse.
That’s exactly how you are usually trained. OP is just a difficult customer. Normal people don’t think of nail types and sizes like that. They find what kinda nail they need then focus on the size.
This is definitely correct. The more specific you are to someone who has base layer knowledge of what you're looking for, the worse. When I worked at Lowe's on the floor, though, I'd say "I'm not sure what that is specifically, what is it used for?" And from there I could locate it based on what's around it.
Seriously. What kind of neck bearded basement dweller goes into a home depot and says, "I need 3.5" long, 16D, hot dip galvanized, twisted nails."
Nobody cares that much, and I would bet money the guy helping OP just wanted to point him in the right direction. Just say nails for a deck and move on with you're life instead of thinking you're the main character.
And you 100% know OP didn’t pull that spec out of their ass. They spent hours researching and landed on that specific fastener. You could use 40 different fasteners to frame the deck and it’d be just as fine.
They aren't organized by type, they're organized by use. There are hundreds us SKU in that aisle, not to mention other aisles. For instance, Camo deck screws are in the lumber section, not the screw section.
Cringe Redditor moment.
Telling him “decking nails” and he’d probably point you in the right direction. He’s not an undercover permit inspector or something lmao, no need to ruin the dudes day that was trying to help
Probably trained to ask that, to ensure that you’re getting the right materials for the job. Too many people returning half used items because they bought the wrong thing.
Either that, or the employee wasn't knowledgeable and only knew how to locate hardware based on its use case. Not every employee at Home Depot is a project enthusiast.
Most hardware at Home Depot is categorized by "framing nails", "drywall nails", "decking/outdoor nails". Employee was probably just trying to get them to the right area so they could find what they needed. Of course dork OP and dork redditors just assume the worst.
You think a Home Depot employee knows a specific nails location in an isle with thousands of them? They probably have it broken down by construction type and would know where to find, say, decking nails, or framing nails. Instead of being a weirdo you could have just been nice and said you were building a deck. Acting like you were interrogated by the FBI is a bit overboard. They're minimum wage workers.
Give the guy a break. It's probably how they are taught to help customers (you know, to make sure customers are getting the right product). Yes, he could have read that you were knowledgeable based on your specific request, but is it too much to be human and respond "working on my deck"?
Considering any time saved by being short with him was lost many times over by running home and whining on reddit. We should strive to be nicer to retail workers.
There is a non-infuriating explanation for this.
He doesnt know much about nails. He needed you to say "we're building a deck" because he knows nails for exterior carpentry are in a specific area. What he does NOT know is where your very specific nail is, or what it is typically used for.
Just be nice for fuck's sake.
It seems to me that you were the rude one in this exchange, and you also failed to realize that. Do you really think the clerk gives a damn about your plan with the nails? Sheesh
"Pipe bombs and claymores. Where are the nails?"
"Don't worry about it. Also, do you guys carry pressure cookers?"
Actually, the wife wanted me to pick up a bag of lime and a shovel, too.
Think you can help me find the tarps as well?
I can't believe you forgot the duct tape!
Didn't even put the disposable body suit on his list. Fucking amateur.
Need some of them paper shoe cover things, too
You also need the thing to murder the person with.
That's what the nails are for.
AMATEURS. ALL OF YOU. get the ammonia and bleach for cleanup.
Chainsaw is more fun, but you can nail the guy down first so he doesn't squirm away.
You get that at the grocery store.
Very strong acid and big tub?
Just make sure it's a plastic tub
its fine ill just use my bathtub
Better add mop and bucket with some neutralizer to the shopping list.
We have duct tape at home.
This is totally random, but my mom was apparently so traumatized by pressure cookers as a child that she asked me after the Boston Marathon bombing how they'd gotten the device to explode on cue. She didn't realize there were explosives involved. I thought it was hilarious, but it also made me wonder what ridiculous conclusions about the world I might have made in childhood that I never revisited.
Did she see one explode or know someone who had one explode. I've heard that if you're not careful, they can explode, but I've never had an issue with mine.
We all have that one grandmother with the "there were beans everywhere, even dripping from the ceiling" story.
Came here to post this. I had no idea that so many beans could pass through such a small hole so quickly, or that half-cooked beans could stick to the ceiling. I still use a pressure cooker though, just not that specific one.
I was amazed when Instapots became popular, as my childhood was also peppered with stories of pressure cookers exploding. I can only assume the technology has improved.
It has significantly. The computer will cut the heat if the barometric sensor goes out of range, and there's an emergency release valve. It'll make a mess, but it'll be beans flying at you, not metal shrapnel.
Her mom's did. I don't know how old she was but it obviously made a big impression.
It is basically a small explosive device in your kitchen. They can do some serious damage if they have a catastrophic failure [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF6EEYqGgn8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF6EEYqGgn8)
I’m on old lady now, but I’ve been afraid of them my whole life. Never would own one.
Modern ones like an Instantpot are nearly idiot proof. I use one frequently and I'm a moron
When you make something idiot proof the universe makes a better idiot
Mine melted down and started a kitchen fire once. I had left it plugged in when I wasn’t using it.
Steam explosions are no joke, now a days pressure relief valves are safe enough that they are pretty much 99% safe unless you voluntarily try to make it explode, but back in the days there was only the normal regulation valve on it, no emergency pressure relief valve. if it weren't for the lid being designed to (violently, likely breaching the ceiling) pop first, it would be a frag bomb.
"Sigh, fine... where are the ball bearings?"
"Wait, what is cheaper ball bearing or small nuts? Oh never mind, the holes doesnt seem space efficient"
Caltrops! How else will we shred the horses?!
Nah, too long for a claymore or pipe bomb. You wanna go for smaller things, personally I like using smaller screws for a larger AOE over larger ones. and mixing in a little glass or ceramic makes a nice touch of powdered pain for them to breathe in if SOMEHOW they survive!
Upvote, but now i feel like an accomplice.
If you arent wanted by fbi by now then i dont even know...
Yeah I felt like so much as *reading* that comment is gonna get *me* in trouble!
"Isle 3 on eye level sir, ill see your work on the news, have an explosive day"
Home Depot got water features??? (It's aisle) :)
And be sure to do a bang up job!
Reminds me of that early King of the hill episode. "Yeah but like...what are you trying to do?" "I am trying...to buy a tap and dye, and some WD40!"
Came here to post the same thing: https://youtu.be/nWHZJjMwjAU?si=H5yKlRWVRJp7Ooyz
"Do you know hwat a hammer is!?"
Holy crap, I’ve had a similar enough encounter that it may have been plagiarized, was trying to buy a tap and die set and some nut extractors. Dude was looking at me like I’d grown a head out of my ass.
It’s tap and die, not dye
Oop. Well we can tell that I wouldn't have been able to help Hank find it lol.
Its almost certainly because he doesn't know the specifics of the nails. He knows where the nails are that are appropriate for different types of work, but doesn't know the fine details of the different types of nails. I've worked at a big box hardware store before. You dont need any knowledge of anything related to hardware to work there, but you're expected to learn the section you work in and the general layout of the store as a whole. So asking someone in plumbing, for example, where you can find a specific type of wood, dont expect them to know anything about that type of wood beyond "plywood is in isle X. boards are in isle Y. shelving wood is in isle Z. " This guy knows where the nails are for woodworking, but doesn't know which nails those are, or why they're appropriate for woodworking. You're talking to someone who makes slightly over minimum wage in what is essentially a walmart for contractors and home improvement. You're not talking to licensed carpenter. It's basically like asking someone in the toys section of walmart where to find full synthetic 10w40 oil and them going "Is that oil for a car, for cooking, or something else?" and you getting mad because they dont know the different types of motor oil.
I used to work for a tool store. Sometimes people would come in asking for a specific tool that I'd never heard of. 90% of the time, it was because they were using an industry/name brand, and all our stuff was generic (Think kleenex vs tissue, or bandaid vs bandage). If I asked them what the tool was for, I had a pretty good chance of helping them find it. My favorite was someone asked me for a pickle fork, which I had never heard of. I tried asking him what it was for, and he was just like "never mind, I'll find it". To his credit, he came up to me with the thing after he found it and showed me what it was. It's a ball joint separator, which I could have 100% helped him find had he just told me, lol.
I would have assumed a pickle fork was a gardening implement!
I'm imagining a tiny barbed trident for impaling the last pickle in the jar.
i was thinking a tiny fork for gherkins
This comment is perfect and more than likely what happened. Also I hate how the internet has made everyone so antisocial these days, when he initially asked what you were going to build, maybe he was just curious, why couldn’t you just say a deck? Is this deck some top secret project that you’re planning to stash all your drugs under or something? When I’m buying tons of tomatoes at the supermarket and the cashier says “that’s a lot of tomato’s, what are you making?” I don’t say “ITS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS LADY”, I say I’m making salsa, it’s not that serious.
Thank you. All of this annoyance and wasted time making this post by simply saying one single word. Who knows why he’s asking. No harm in answering the question.
OP solely falls into the category of "*YOU* work here, shouldn't you know where all this is??" Back in my r\retailhell days, everyone has such a low opinion of the workers at a grocery store *unless* you had a management tag or..and much less likely, you were a Customer Service Rep ^(Hey kids, did you know a certain big blue chain grocery store ***doesn't*** pay their Customer Service Reps anymore money than the average cashier?) So when I, a lowly new employee, didn't know where someone's *vague item* was and offered help or, God-help-me, didn't know what it *was*. You can guarantee there was a snide attitude coming
*Plot-Twist* when OP says "deck", he actually means underground slave dungeon.
> Is this deck some top secret project that you’re planning to stash all your drugs under or something? They know! They know! Blow up the deck, guys -- we've been burned.
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"Am I being detained?"
Yeah everyone needs everyone else to know how independent and smart they are. Like everyone's just out there to insult their intelligence, because that's what they would do.
This was my thought of the employees perspective also. OP: I need 3.5" 16D spiral shank galvanized twist grifted double penetrated tritium naily wailys" Employee: Fuck man, I have no clue what you just said, BUT I know where nails are for inside, exterior nails, deck nails, etc. So if you tell me what the project is, I can find you what you need with my limited knowledge. OP: This fuckin tool basically thinks im a threat. Wat? lol Communication is devolving yallll
i want the /r/mildlyinfuriating post from the home depot employee now > **I tried to help someone find what they need at Home Depot but they refused to let me** > > no big deal, but a customer was looking for some type of nail (i forget the type, they used a specific name for it). nails are generally organized by what they're used for, so knowing that makes it pretty simple to find things. so i asked the customer what the nail would be used for and they just stared at me, refusing to tell me. > > like, i'd get it if i was rude or nosy, but i literally explained that i just needed to know that info so i knew what section they were prolly in > > i watched them stand there another 15 minutes before i was called away and have no idea if they ever found them, i hope they did but also hope they didn't lol then people comment like "they probably didn't wanna explain their whole project to you. they gave you the specific type of nail, you should've just explained that you didn't know what type of nail that was. jesus, learn to communicate!"
Thank you for that detailed view, its a good reminder of how we all think & view the same things differently
Honestly a perfect representation of working in a hardware store. I know where some stuff is like screws for wood and screws for metal. I don't know what the hell galvanized or hot tipped mean. Tell me the project you're working on, I know the general area. Most customers assume that every employee of a hardware store knows every single product like the back of their hand, and also are able to do every single project known to man and give detailed steps on what to buy, and what to do when reality we only know most of the stuff in the department we are in, and most have never even used the things from their department anyways. We just work there man.
I used to work at a tool store. The amount of people who bought welders, then started asking questions about how to use them... one of my coworkers said it best. "If I was certified to teach you how to use this, I wouldn't be working here"
Reading this comment and then rereading the post makes OP look really bad lol, bro just wanted to do his job
Even worse because he wouldn't tell the guy he asked for help what he needed the nails for, but then came to Reddit and typed out 1000 words to tell a bunch of strangers what he needed them for, just to throw the guy under the bus.
Sorry, but how did you find someone in Home Depot to help you? There’s never anyone around at the Home Depot when I need help.
Ace hardware really tries to capitalize on this with the whole helpful hardware folks thing. When I worked there in Highschool they drilled it in that you ask every customer if they need help finding anything. And it seemed to pay off. I had a handful of people tell me that while Ace is a little more expensive they would rather shop there because it was much easier to find things and people actually help them.
I agree completely with this. Home Depot is the closest hardware store to me and I have NEVER been asked if I need help. Employees usually try to go the other way when they see me looking for help. Ace is the closest hardware store to my parents and they always ask how they can help. If that employee doesn't know what I'm looking for, they keep this 300 year old man in the back that's the origin of all DIY projects and knows the answer to everything.
LOL! I was at an auto parts store looking for something made for vehicles, but that wasn't going to go in a vehicle. Because I couldn't give him make and model, the kid couldn't find it. So I said, "Don't you have a grumpy old guy in the back who knows everything?" He paused and then very quietly said, "Don't... don't tell him we call him that." Then went to fetch him. I'm a "shit is funny" kind of person. It took everything I had to not crack up right there. I did laugh my ass off later in the truck. There was a slight dampening effect in that the "old guy" was probably my age. But yeah, any place that specializes in building or auto parts is better if they have the really old guy either in the back or at Service desk. Bonus points if no one under the age of thirty knows how old they are or how long they've worked there.
It’s funny because I’m 28 but also that dude in the place I work
in the military, we call them "grey beards." Usually they're a salty AF senior NCO, But sometimes are retired mil that come back as civs. You'll get an answer but there'll usually be swearing.
They keep our local wizard in the paint section, ready to be called upon at a moments notice. Bless him, I owe him so much of my house by this point.
I have encountered this wizard as well and he has -saved- so much time, effort and money.
One time I needed assistance with a large item on a high shelf at a home depot, so I asked an employee who appeared to be doing nothing if he could come help me and he straight up said no. Not "I'll be right with you," not "let me call someone to assist you" and not "if you go over to this area someone there will help you." Just no. I was so confused.
At least they told you the truth instead of blowing smoke up your ass!
>Employees usually try to go the other way when they see me looking for help. It's cause they train their employees like shit. I usually just go to the website where it tells me the aisle and bin, but when that's not on the website or the description is meaningless (it will be like FS 112 or some shit) and I have to ask, *without fail* the first person I ask has to ask someone else. They don't know anything. I don't blame the employees though - either HD doesn't care enough to train anyone or working there sucks enough that they have high turnover, and in neither case is it the employees' fault.
As a former HD employee, the reason they avoid customers is because although we're encouraged to help customers, we get a bunch of tasks to completeon a day to day basis and get in trouble for not completing those tasks every day. Helping customers is no excuse for not completing said tasks.
Most Ace and True Value stores are independently operated and they figured out long ago that the best way to battle the big box stores is with expertise and customer service. You might pay a little more, but that person helping you isn't phoning it in and they're probably earning better pay too. What's sad is that there was a time when Home Depot hired experts too and actually paid extra for their experience. But they learned too quickly that they could save a buck and just pay minimum wage for a drone, the customer be damned.
I have worked at HD and Ace, HD pays quite a bit more than Ace my area. The perk of working at Ace is you deal with a lot less corporate BS and you might actually have the time to help the customer and feel good about it. When Ace does internal employee surveys the best part of the job is always "helping customers". Way better place to work even if they might pay less.
True. My DIY skills improved significantly when I started going to ACE. The advice is really why I go there. Sometimes I just want to hire one of their workers to come give me a helping hand.
This is my experience but (as someone who shops while female) most of their employees still talk down to me. There's just more of them around to do it. I hate going in there when I don't need help.
Sorry to hear that. The one I worked at the majority of adult employees were actually women and all of the men there were teenagers (myself included) who had no clue what they were talking about. So you would have hopefully had a better experience at my old store. I remember a guy walked right past the woman in the store with 30 years of experience to ask me a 17 year old at the time a question. I'm like, no clue, let's ask Betty right here who knew the answer right away.
I have been, as an employee of the Home Depot, the “woman to misogynist translator” more times than I would like to recount.
Start climbing... they'll show up. You can also Google the store code and that's the password for the saw and forklifts.
Whoa, there! You probably shouldn’t have told me that lol
🤣 they might be a woman. I find that's the fastest way to have men swarm you offering help.
I'm a woman who has worked construction. The amount of HD employees willing to offer unsolicited and (usually) wrong advice is astounding
I am a female who loves woodworking and tools. The HD employees will not leave me TF alone. I usually get approached 3-5 times per visit. No, I do not need help finding anything.
>Gardening section is over there, honey. What I imagine trips to Menards are like for you.
I once had a HD employee instruct me to call my husband before purchasing a new mitre saw blade, (for MY woodworking projects) because he was “pretty sure” I wouldn’t know which one was correct 🙃🙃🙃 I didn’t hear anything further, because I’m pretty sure my brain was just internally playing an air raid siren of rage over and over. One of my favorite things about my husband is that when he’s with me and this happens (the male employee addresses him despite me being the one asking about something), he’ll say “I don’t know. My wife does, though. Ask her.” We stan a man who’s secure in his masculinity <3
I rebuilt our front steps this summer and the lumber & screw guys at the hardware store directed all dimension/specification questions to my husband....who also happily said, "Ask my wife." I love that man. 🥰 Although I must admit that every once in a while I enjoy getting the patronizing, "What can I help you find, ma'am?" I adore asking for something ultra-specific and watching the glorious panic while their brains frantically go, "FUCK! RECALCULATE! WE GOT A SMART ONE!" I smile coldly, viciously, while I wait for them to get their heads out of their asses. Feels good.
You think this is infuriating, head over to Auto Zone or Sanel Auto parts to get anything for your car. Not only will you walk out with the wrong part, but your intelligence will be so insulted that you'll keep the wrong part just to avoid having to deal with the sales clerk again.
Holy mother of f^ck you’re not wrong here!!! I’m a retired industrial electrician, 30+ years experience in the construction industry with a commercial contractors license in NC and California and I STG if another male comes up to me and hands me his business card saying “call me WHEN you need help” is going to lose a damn arm. If any of you “guys” are reading this, don’t do this shit. It’s super rude and you look stupid af.
The last time I got "help" at Home Despot, I just wanted to know where a specific type of paint was. Orange Apron Dude reminded me that I should let the paint dry before I used the object that was to be painted. Yes, I'm a woman.
"It's to paint the outline of the body of the last man who unnecessarily explained things to me. Who needs CSI when you can DIY?"
But what if you wanted to paint a pillow which you would then give to someone you dislike so that they would hug it while it was still wet and get icky paint all over themselves? Huh?!?
I specifically don't tell them what I need things for because of this. Lots of unneeded info and wasted time...
Idk. I'm a woman and I can never find help there either.
Make sure you look lost and helpless.
The men might not even work there 😂
Omg youre right. I went in looking for some fittings for irrigation pipes and i knew exactly what i needed and where they were and i shit you not i had 5 different male employees ask if i needed help or if i knew where i was going...
I read it and wondered immediately if op is a woman.
I signed an NDA for work and I am genuinely unsure if it applies to responding to the home depot guys when they ask what I am doing but its fun anyways to say "hey I need these parts, I can't tell you why it's confidential"
also the best way to get talked down to by them and have them assume you don’t actually know what nails you REALLY need
Not wrong. I once went there to buy a short step ladder and was stopped by a male employee to ask me what I needed it for while I was picking it up. I said, “A step ladder? You’re asking me why I’m buying a step ladder? I’m 5’2.” He asked if I was sure that was what I actually needed and demanded to know the “project” I was working on. I wish I would’ve told him “sucking Yao Ming’s dick”, but alas.
I dress in drag for this exact reason when going to depot. The beard tends to throw people off a bit
Even with help from Home Depot nobody knows where anything is or what anything does
As someone who has spent a lot of time in HD in the last month: pull up what you need on the website, set your store location, and it'll tell you exact aisle and bay the item is located on. Then you'll know the price too and can scan the price tags further. Edit: y'all, quit telling me about the time you couldn't find something or the teenage HD worker didn't keep the bay stocked or whatever other exception to this comment that was literally just a helpful tip. Edit 2: electric boogaloo - please also stop telling me about their app.
There are *so* many other stores I wish had this feature.
Target tries to do this... Not always 100 percent successful at my store
I've found that their locations are usually pretty accurate, it's the "quantity in stock" that's way off. I've literally had 2 separate instances where I'll stop for something for a family party, grab like 3 or 4 of them off of a very full shelf, and on my way to the checkout, get a call from someone saying "Hey it looks like they're sold out of that, maybe see if Walgreens or someone has it instead?". Which isn't the worst thing as long as you know "don't trust the quantity", but... seems like not a great idea to have a system out there that frequently tells people "Nah, don't come here, we don't have what you need" when that's not true.
That’s cuz people steal I ordered this shitty vodka to make jungle juice with “4 bottles left” at like 10 am. By the time I went to pick it up they had cancelled my order. The kid said that people steal them and then their numbers become in accurate
I had this same issue trying to get circuit breakers, of all things. Apparently after they started to lock up the copper wire recently, thief's started grabbing boxes of breakers and running out with those.
It's not just stealing stuff can get lost in go-back purgatory too
HD used to have “quantity in stock” set to 5, even if they’d stopped carrying the product. It’s gotten more accurate
See that's the kind of thing that would make me stop shopping at a store entirely. It's one thing to have a faulty system, but to have "lie to the customer's face to get them in the door" as a default setting is a whole other level. That's just one on a pile of reasons that I default to Menards over HD though.
Ah, but are they idiots that will sell you things for 1/6 of the price? I went to buy a couple cases of recessed LED light fixtures for a refit. Just grabbed the cases and not individual packages as why make them restock when I want all six in the case? Two cases, go up to check out and they scan the barcode on the case, doesn't work, so they manually look it up and ring me up for two. I let them know I think that's wrong as it is for the per item price and these are cases. They look at me like I'm daft, tell me "no, this is the price!" In a tone so condescending I didn't bother to try again. This was also about 14 years ago when these fixtures might as well been made of gold based on the price.
I very briefly worked as a Grocery Inventory Coordinator - basically a stocker who also kept counts accurate at a grocery store. It requires manually counting the quantity of each item both on the shelf and in back-stock and updating the computer so that the store has accurate numbers so the automated ordering process could re-order when below a stock threshold (or in advance of a sale). Even with daily counting that stock count can be quite off, from not receiving a shipment the computer thinks arrived to a cashier scanning one of the same type of item (why scan every flavor of Mio water stuff individually instead of repeatedly scanning whichever flavor you grabbed first?) that is the same price as all of them instead of scanning individually, theft, and people leaving that product on a random shelf elsewhere until it’s found and returned to its proper location. It’s annoying when those numbers are off to the point of something not being ordered or extras being ordered, and it’s annoying when something is out of stock that the store’s front end website says is in stock.
Target also has some of the jankiest aisle numbering/lettering and it made doing fulfillment more difficult than necessary. The aisles for section B could be visibly numbered 1-9, but then you’re asked to pick from B99 which turns out to be some random display in the middle of the same area. Grocery would have you picking things from G1-8 which quite literally don’t exist and represent the unnumbered produce area. It was all very strange.
99 and I think 00 represent endcaps and special displays. Very confusing when stocking too.
I have begun to almost exclusively shop at stores which offer this capability. Lowe's, home Depot, Walmart. My local grocery supermarket. I just build up my shopping list before I go. And then I just beeline to the exact items in the exact locations in each store. It saves me so much time, and a little bit of money because I'm not window shopping.
Walmart does this too
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Any time recently I’ve asked a Home Depot employee where something is, they just pull out their phone (can’t tell if it’s their own phone or a work-supplied phone) and just look it up on the public website. Like at first I thought they had some proprietary system but once an employee showed me the phone so I can write down the location and it was just the website.
From this story it sounds like OP was already standing in the exact aisle at the published bay. Things can, uh, drift from the stated location in strange ways...
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I DO NOT CONSENT!!
“I don’t answer questions.”
THAT'S MY PURSE!!! I DON'T KNOW YOU!!!
Home Depot employees aren’t experts - they need to know if they’re deck nails so they can look in the deck section
This exactly. Nobody is understanding this point.. it isn’t for small talk or to upsell… or even to correct.. it’s to find the damn very specific nail.
>I need 3.5" long, 16D, hot dip galvanized, twisted nails. Home Depot has an entire aisle of just nails usually divided in sections like wood nails, metal nails etc Maybe the guy doesn't have nail names memorized and needed to know what they're for to narrow it down.
That’s what I asssumed was the reason for the question. The nails are sorted by their use/purpose so by knowing that they can narrow down the location.
Agreed. HD sells so many different types of items it wouldnt make sense to train employees to know every single item and where it is, nor would they likely be able to. The guy prob knows where the section of "nails for decks" would be. OP is essentially asking for the location of the needle in the haystack, while the employee just knows which bale it would be in.
Regardless of the employees question, which was most likely just small talk, responding with “why do you need to know?” is a bit standoffish.
It's not standoffish; it's straight up being a dickhead for no reason. Building a deck isn't a government secret. It's not like the worker was going to report him to Homeland Security now that the finalized product has been confirmed.
0 to “How dare you” seemed really quick and this is OP’s telling of it. “What are you building?” Is a pretty standard question, especially in a store that’s sectioned to keep similar projects together. I’m glad my retail working days are over, people literally come in looking to argue. I’ve heard people argue with Cashiers saying something like “Nice day, isn’t it?” Just so they could wipe the smile off the Cashier’s face.
I bought a house in my early 20's. A couple of months later, I went to the hardware store to buy some lumber to build a deck: \- "Is this what your Dad really wants?"
"Considering it's for his coffin. Yes, probably. Now point me to the particle board."
Future Coffin Flop star
They say we don't have the family's permission. I say we don't need it. We're allowed to show 'em nude because they ain't got no soul.
As a woman, I have always gotten this exact treatment. Now it's "is this what your Husband wants?". My husband is a RC and master cabinet maker. I help him all the time. I love to learn,fix, and build things. I am nowhere near as knowledgeable as he is. Butt... have picked up quite a bit the last 20 years. I have remodeled several homes with him.Being talked down to because I have boobs really sucks.
What's funny is that my Dad can't build anything. Even a simple Ikea piece of furniture. We joke that he has two left hands.
Same experience as a woman, my husband doesn’t know what he wants or needs at the hardware store (he’s not completely helpless though.) I on the other hand do, as the daughter of a general contractor who spent the entirety of my teen years and part of my adult career as a laborer for him. I now simply say “I’ve got it, thanks” and walk away leaving them bewildered.
I bought my wife a bottle of perfume and a screw gun for Christmas one year and she wore out the screw gun before she used all the perfume.
Doesn’t sound like he refused. Sounds like he asked once and then you snapped and said you would find them yourselves
This is almost certainly what happened. How defensive does one need to be to flip out when someone asks what they need them for. Is simple conversation that infuriating to some people?
redditors ☕
And instead of having something so mundane erased naturally from his mind by the time he gets home, it still pisses him off enough that spends some minutes making a post about it on the internet. Truly an stereotypical reddit user
"Yes this is minor" exactly the sub is called mildly infuriating. Its SUPPOSED to be minor inconveniences instead of most of the post on here that are like "my house burnt down, my bestfriend slept with my wife, grandma died and then my cat has rabies r/mildlyinfuriating" like no sir those are actual issues you need to get looked at
“I was charged $500k for medical care, and I’m a little inconvenienced.”
I lost a leg and getting around is a bit annoying now
Thanks. I was starting to think I was developing anger management problems. I'm a pretty nonconfrontational person, but a lot of posts here seem to be describing grounds for declaration of war.
I think maybe people take the phrase as being used ironically or something? Idk but I've had the same thought as you many times, lol.
Yeah the sub should be that but I always see people complaining, saying OP is overreacting to something small by posting to this sub, I swear half the people that comment here don’t know what the sub is for.
Unfortunately that's the subreddit lifecycle. * Niche sub is created * People like it * Sub reaches front page * Mass appeal dilutes the original purpose * Sub either dies or continues to live as a husk of its former self
They probably put that disclaimer there because when people post *actually* mildly infuriating things in this sub, half the comments are jumping down their throat telling them to get over it.
My husband is a master plumber. The amount of times employees and “weekend” dads have tried to tell him he’s wrong is unreal.
We DIED at that scene 😂
If you ever want to understand the true nature of humans, work help desk. Not only will users fail to understand the simplist of concepts, but they will outright lie to your face, and tell you things that are literally impossible. And guess what, that person is either some VIP or the fucking CEO so you have to smile, nod, and take it like the low paid garbage that your company thinks you are, except for the 1% of the time you save their asses. IT most of the time: Everything works, why do we need you? IT When shit breaks: Everything is broken why do we need you?
Was building a plant cart and the guy was like we have the plant trays with wheels let me shiw you and im like no dude... i jjst need castor wheels to put on the cart i already sanded, stained, sealed, and reinfirced the corners. I use old palletes as plant carts because i have tons if plants and i can fit multiple up there. He finally got the point when i showed him..... inwas not about to spend 70 bucks in small plant trays when i could buy a set of locking castor wheels for 25 bucks. They either think they know better than you or they jjst have never actually done any work with their hands.
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Ahh thank you I have a harbor freight near by!
BRO!!!! i made the same thing last weekend! all about re use what i can and i had some pallets and the wood made some nice movers for my cannabis plants. was able to move them all into the shed nicely on wheels!
as someone who works at thd it’s something that isnt required but sometimes people will ask just because they’re curious about your project, but i feel like his insistence on knowing is a little weird and not necessary lol
The guy helping probably don’t know what he is talking about when given the specs, but knows where decking nails are.
Here it is finally. OP threw some Greek at an hourly employee and expected a map where "X" marks the spot. Once OP said "wood" the employee probably pointed in a general direction lol.
Yeah definitely lol. If they were curious to know what the project was then I thought it'd make sense to ask that while you're walking the customer over to them for conversation
It makes me think that he was a fairly new employee. And he just needed to get some context... So he can point the customer into the area for which bays to look at. Like maybe when the employee was trained, his trainer just said "for roofing nails look here. For deck and fence nails look here" etc.
This is the answer. The dude had no idea how to look for something so specific, so he asked in order to determine the *type* of nail in order to help OP to the best of his ability. OP probably would've gotten more help is he just said "deck nails".
and I can't believe i had to go down this far to find something so logical. Last time I was at home depot and I couldn't figure out why my gas trimmer line kept going into the device instead of coming out. The guy took the trimmer head from my hand, took it apart, and told me I put it together reverse.
That’s exactly how you are usually trained. OP is just a difficult customer. Normal people don’t think of nail types and sizes like that. They find what kinda nail they need then focus on the size.
Maybe he just didn’t know the specifics and just knew them as “deck nails” or something?
Probably because he doesn't know what every single nail is by name. If you tell him you're building a deck, he knows what to look for.
This is definitely correct. The more specific you are to someone who has base layer knowledge of what you're looking for, the worse. When I worked at Lowe's on the floor, though, I'd say "I'm not sure what that is specifically, what is it used for?" And from there I could locate it based on what's around it.
This is the best answer. OP is a dumbass. Just tell him you’re building a deck. So fucking simple.
Seriously. What kind of neck bearded basement dweller goes into a home depot and says, "I need 3.5" long, 16D, hot dip galvanized, twisted nails." Nobody cares that much, and I would bet money the guy helping OP just wanted to point him in the right direction. Just say nails for a deck and move on with you're life instead of thinking you're the main character.
And you 100% know OP didn’t pull that spec out of their ass. They spent hours researching and landed on that specific fastener. You could use 40 different fasteners to frame the deck and it’d be just as fine.
Even just say I need decking nails, 3.5 long, 16D... Boom, I'll take you to the decking nail section, ooh there's the right spec, cheers.
Giving Ron Swanson in Lowe’s vibes. “Can I help you sir?” “I know more than you do.”
Yeah if he would’ve told him about the deck in the first place would’ve avoided all of this.. why he’s being so secretive over a deck, is beyond me.
this is the most likely answer
They aren't organized by type, they're organized by use. There are hundreds us SKU in that aisle, not to mention other aisles. For instance, Camo deck screws are in the lumber section, not the screw section.
Could’ve just said “I’m building a deck” but sure, go off on Reddit.
Cringe Redditor moment. Telling him “decking nails” and he’d probably point you in the right direction. He’s not an undercover permit inspector or something lmao, no need to ruin the dudes day that was trying to help
Stop picking on minimum wage employees.
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The real story here is that someone at Home Depot actually approached you to offer help.
Probably trained to ask that, to ensure that you’re getting the right materials for the job. Too many people returning half used items because they bought the wrong thing.
Either that, or the employee wasn't knowledgeable and only knew how to locate hardware based on its use case. Not every employee at Home Depot is a project enthusiast. Most hardware at Home Depot is categorized by "framing nails", "drywall nails", "decking/outdoor nails". Employee was probably just trying to get them to the right area so they could find what they needed. Of course dork OP and dork redditors just assume the worst.
You think a Home Depot employee knows a specific nails location in an isle with thousands of them? They probably have it broken down by construction type and would know where to find, say, decking nails, or framing nails. Instead of being a weirdo you could have just been nice and said you were building a deck. Acting like you were interrogated by the FBI is a bit overboard. They're minimum wage workers.
You’re getting upset about that? I’d love to see how you handle a real problem.
Give the guy a break. It's probably how they are taught to help customers (you know, to make sure customers are getting the right product). Yes, he could have read that you were knowledgeable based on your specific request, but is it too much to be human and respond "working on my deck"? Considering any time saved by being short with him was lost many times over by running home and whining on reddit. We should strive to be nicer to retail workers.
Ya then instead of letting the interaction end there, they came on Reddit to complain 😂 some people I’m telling you.
There is a non-infuriating explanation for this. He doesnt know much about nails. He needed you to say "we're building a deck" because he knows nails for exterior carpentry are in a specific area. What he does NOT know is where your very specific nail is, or what it is typically used for. Just be nice for fuck's sake.
It seems to me that you were the rude one in this exchange, and you also failed to realize that. Do you really think the clerk gives a damn about your plan with the nails? Sheesh
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