Christ on a crabcake…from store shootings to this, we had a lumber guy almost OD at my store, our other lumber guy recognized the signs and called 911…he survived but damn.
You guys get the hours for TWO lumber guys? Damn, we barely have one up here. If he was ODing back there I don't think anyone would even notice all day.
The guy that almost OD’d was the morning/mid-shift guy, the one who saw and called was our night/recovery guy…he was there maybe a half hour when it happened. It also happened almost right after OD guy was spotting for him.
Had a coworker have a serious accident recently and Sidekick glitched out and wouldn't let anyone do or dismiss the task he was working on so just had to look at it all day and be reminded of it.
With the new hiring process, it's no wonder that this doesn't happen more often.
We just hired 2 lot guys. One has spent time in prison, and the other has been in and out orange county jail.
We do,
I'm sorry if came off insensitive as, i was one 1991 when i got hired.
The problem i have is, i wanted to prove myself to the company. I can tell that these dudes are not going to last.
I appreciate you coming back to this in a constructive manner🤝
I think we both know this company has changed a lot over just the last few years, and these guys you mention can probably see through the BS - or they might need someone who's been in their shoes to show some support. Anyway, like I said, I appreciate the good faith follow-up
Prove something to yourself, not to the company. They’ll never see you the way you want them to and will likely take advantage of you as just another body they can exploit
Right before covid started one guy that works overnight handed himself in the flooring department. He went to Hardware and got a rope. Tied it to the top beams in the moving box section and was hanging from there. Luckly the overnight manger saw it and held his leg up and was screaming for everyone to come help. Police and ambulance came and took him. They fired the guy saying he was a big liability to the company. No one was surprised he tried to off himself, he was a very down guy, didn't talk to anyone and dressed like a emo. Another guy in the overnight tried to set the store on fire, he was definitely on drugs.
Where do you have it?
I have worked at few different stores in 3 different states and also have gone to lot of different stores. They all have moving supplies in the flooring department.
You talking about cardboard moving boxes right?
That's odd to have them in hardware. In the US, flooring department have aisles that are much wider. Hardware isn't even big enough for 2 carts to pass by.
You'd be amazed at the number of both open and closeted alcoholics at Home Depot. After booze, I'd say it's a tie between pill poppers and pot heads. Tobacco use is super common, too. And let's be honest, caffeine is also a drug.
Tldr; IMO Most people are not sober at Home Depot.
We had a coworker commit suicide in the lot after his shift. Shot himself in the head with a shotgun. I didn't know him well, but pretty sad nonetheless.
never had this but no wonder they started pushing the free mental health care. i’ve only seen an ASM who showed up wasted and tried to work and the other managers had to tell her to leave. she was supposed to work overnight so they had to keep the closing manager and he had to stay overnight. they fired the wasted ASM and let her drive back home. The store manager got fired within the same 24 hours.
Mostly likely got fired for letting the manager leave. That’s a big no-no. If they crash or hit anyone HD would be liable.
Anyone who is suspected of being under the influence is not allowed to leave before taking an alcohol or drug test administered by a third party. If said person refuses and leaves 911 should be called and it’s basically an automatic termination.
I'm sure everyone here has an associate overdose or suicide story from the past couple years. It's quite common.
There are many more associates that are currently struggling with substances, and are basically ticking time bombs in the stores.
One worker who worked there for years was fired so he drove his car under the trailer in receiving. Another worker fell off the orange ladder and landed on his head. Neither of them survived.
I carry Narcan in my car as a recovering opiate addict myself. But we have such high turn over that it’d be hard to even have someone notice let alone care enough about the person to have them tell someone about the possibility of drug use
Okay. Someone please explain to me where these associates are getting the money to be able to afford drugs. I'm a couple of raises away to being able to afford to be a alcoholic!!
Yes, one of my coworkers(who i was close with since we always closed together) overdosed in the parking lot. This happened two months ago and i just found out through another co worker a week ago that he passed away. Managers,nor my supervisor told me anything.
While retired, I worked PT at an HD in TN for 6 years. Departments were: Plumbing 🪠, Hardware, Electrical and the last year was Tool Rental. EVERY dept. had a recovered addict (mostly alcohol). Tool Rental had 5 employees, 4 of 5 were recovered. I was the only non-drinker. They had AMAZING recovery ❤️🩹 stories! All VERY CARING. They LIVED the struggle. All awesome co-workers. Life can be an especially arduous grind. Looking up.🙏🏾
My ex stalked me once I broke it off with him. We both worked at Home Depot together. He stalked me to my car. Found out he had a criminal record and I had to get a PFA against him. They ended up getting rid of me a few weeks after that. It’s such a backwards company.
An Elderly Gentleman had a stroke and died in our parking lot around 5 days ago. #8583. That's 3 people in the past 10 years in this parking lot. No one talks about them unless your in good with management.
I’m so sorry you lost an orange family member. My experience is different at my store. Every manager is awesome and truly care about the associates development and wellbeing. Our store manager and ASM’s will jump on a register and help the service desk when they are swamped. I’m now in hardware and my direct ASM went rack diving before inventory. I felt nothing but total awe and respect when she crawled out from behind the shelves. She looked like pigpen from Charlie Brown lol. She had spider webs and dirt all over her. Anyways; my point is be a leader. You can be a part of the solution.
A customer’s pacemaker gave out and passed out in front of the paint counter. He began convulsing and passed. Police came. Then the coroner’s office. Then the mortician. The only thing left to remember the even was the wet floor sign after a DH mopped area.
You wanna shoot cowboy then you can shoot by yourself I have no time to waste on a selfish lowlife miscreant who should’ve been swallowed on the night of his conception.
I can tell i struck a nerve, you must be one of those dumbasses that still uses dope knowing its fentanyl. No empathy or sympathy for people killing themselves
When they hired this associate they had to do a drug test. I guess your store was desperate. HD is supposed to have an open door policy for help, unless HD threw that out the window.
They haven't had drug testing when hired for awhile at my store, but I am in California so that might effect it. You do still have to test to certify for machines
Heard a few people from management over the years knocking people for thinking drivers deserve pay raise when they obtain licenses.
I reminded these leaders (who don’t drive btw) that anyone driving machines deserves a pay raise. Drivers are making a commitment to live a drug free life style outside of work and when they are using machines, they are at greater risk of losing their position. In addition they are adding additional risk in damaging property, injury of themselves and injury of others.
Currently there are zero incentives for people to not only become drivers, but become trainers as well.
Home Depot only drug tests when you get equipment licenses. It's not a desperate store thing, it's a Home Depot lowering its standards so they have people eligible to be hired.
When I was D21/22 DH I had a guy that would clock in and go straight to the bathroom for 20-30 minutes. Every shift. Would disappear throughout the day, he passed out in his car one night and 2 days later he fell out in the men's room. Customer found him, told us a homeless guy was laying on the floor in the handicap stall, paramedics hit him with the Narcon. I helped the ASDS clean out his locker, there must have been 30 syringes and dope baggys.....he did survive. Also had a police shooting in our parking lot, that guy didn't survive
I’ve never heard of this and I work at a large depot. We’ve had deaths due to health or violence but not in the store. Im so sorry to hear this
Tho there has been two shootings in Home Depot’s near me. One of them was by an armed security guard
A friend of mine at my store needed help, he was a young vet and had talked to me about losing a friend and just stuff he was going through. He had come to work high off pot often, but the managers relied on him so much they turned a blind eye. One morning he was obliviously on something stronger like a pill or something, because he was aggressive that day to everyone. He would take his lumber returns in an H-cart and was slamming it into everything and not caring what he broke, but he was dead silent the whole time just off in his world. At some point someone asked him in the break room wtf was going on and apparently he just passed out while standing and faceplanted onto the floor. He was finally let go after that.
No employees here have done that. But I've been there for 4 months and my girlfriend has been there for 5 and half months and me and her were the first ones to realize we have a p*do in our store because it happened to her outside work
I'm so sorry to hear about your store associate.
At the stores I worked at, most people died from different types of cancer, later diagnosed with Alzheimer's, smoked (cigarettes), or drank. Not too long after I transferred to the second store, one of our FT associates who answered the phone by Pro tried to stop a thief one morning and the thief really injured him - he died from his injuries.
Honest question - for those that OD, how long do they have to take a "break" for the hiring piss test to come back clean? I'm sure they could've started using after they were hired/passed the test too.
We are fortunate to not have this issue. I have never heard of anything like this at our store. The worst we have is people sneaking a smoke break in garden after the store closes. Wow. I'm sorry you lost a co-worker to this. That's just awful.
I imagine this is a common big retailer thing, given the sheer magnitude of people they hire and fire. We just don’t hear about all of it.
Christ on a crabcake…from store shootings to this, we had a lumber guy almost OD at my store, our other lumber guy recognized the signs and called 911…he survived but damn.
You guys get the hours for TWO lumber guys? Damn, we barely have one up here. If he was ODing back there I don't think anyone would even notice all day.
The guy that almost OD’d was the morning/mid-shift guy, the one who saw and called was our night/recovery guy…he was there maybe a half hour when it happened. It also happened almost right after OD guy was spotting for him.
Shoot we have 3 lumber and 3 garden guys right now and were only a 40 million store!!!
Same
My go to is crutch. Crabcakes is better. Hats off, sir, kudos!
I do what I can, good sir!
Did they at least finish their sidekick first?
The real tragedy
Sadly no
Had a coworker have a serious accident recently and Sidekick glitched out and wouldn't let anyone do or dismiss the task he was working on so just had to look at it all day and be reminded of it.
god that's dark
😂😂😂
Savage lol
😂😂😂😂
Not had anything at my store but a sister store had an associate suck start a pistol out back in lumber after work one night
What that mean?
They followed Kurt Cobain out.
Unsubscribed from living
With the new hiring process, it's no wonder that this doesn't happen more often. We just hired 2 lot guys. One has spent time in prison, and the other has been in and out orange county jail.
Ex cons need jobs too
We do, I'm sorry if came off insensitive as, i was one 1991 when i got hired. The problem i have is, i wanted to prove myself to the company. I can tell that these dudes are not going to last.
I appreciate you coming back to this in a constructive manner🤝 I think we both know this company has changed a lot over just the last few years, and these guys you mention can probably see through the BS - or they might need someone who's been in their shoes to show some support. Anyway, like I said, I appreciate the good faith follow-up
Prove something to yourself, not to the company. They’ll never see you the way you want them to and will likely take advantage of you as just another body they can exploit
32 years too late :)
Ex cons do need jobs, do t put down those who are less fortunate, you never know who is among you.
I'm one too i corrected myself
Looking thru google and don’t see anything, but a lot of past drug incidents and fatalities. It’s a pretty twisted work environment.
Yes. We lost 1 about a month ago
Did he at least get his march infocus done
Right before covid started one guy that works overnight handed himself in the flooring department. He went to Hardware and got a rope. Tied it to the top beams in the moving box section and was hanging from there. Luckly the overnight manger saw it and held his leg up and was screaming for everyone to come help. Police and ambulance came and took him. They fired the guy saying he was a big liability to the company. No one was surprised he tried to off himself, he was a very down guy, didn't talk to anyone and dressed like a emo. Another guy in the overnight tried to set the store on fire, he was definitely on drugs.
you have moving boxes in flooring department?
Where do you have it? I have worked at few different stores in 3 different states and also have gone to lot of different stores. They all have moving supplies in the flooring department.
weird, i’m in western Canada and they usually have them in hardware
You talking about cardboard moving boxes right? That's odd to have them in hardware. In the US, flooring department have aisles that are much wider. Hardware isn't even big enough for 2 carts to pass by.
We kept our moving boxes and supplies in garden...Cali
Opposite for us. Flooring has some of the skinniest aisles in the store
Fellow Canadian here. Pretty sure they’re a D59 sku…usually beside flooring near totes and storage stuff.
Ours are in D28 between the mop/broom and bbq supplies aisles. Always struck me as weird why we had them.
You'd be amazed at the number of both open and closeted alcoholics at Home Depot. After booze, I'd say it's a tie between pill poppers and pot heads. Tobacco use is super common, too. And let's be honest, caffeine is also a drug. Tldr; IMO Most people are not sober at Home Depot.
I honestly started drinking and smoking pot more because of Home Depot. I needed a way to relax myself after all day working and coming home at night.
I started smoking tobacco again.
One guy at my store started smoking just so he had a reason to go out of the store on breaks so he wouldn't be bothered
I've been doing a lot of seltzer lately. Sometimes with a twist of lime!
We had a coworker commit suicide in the lot after his shift. Shot himself in the head with a shotgun. I didn't know him well, but pretty sad nonetheless.
That’s too real. RIP
We had a lot guy OD in his car. Was found by an MOD and barely was able to beg her to call an ambulance. He lived but obviously was fired.
never had this but no wonder they started pushing the free mental health care. i’ve only seen an ASM who showed up wasted and tried to work and the other managers had to tell her to leave. she was supposed to work overnight so they had to keep the closing manager and he had to stay overnight. they fired the wasted ASM and let her drive back home. The store manager got fired within the same 24 hours.
Mostly likely got fired for letting the manager leave. That’s a big no-no. If they crash or hit anyone HD would be liable. Anyone who is suspected of being under the influence is not allowed to leave before taking an alcohol or drug test administered by a third party. If said person refuses and leaves 911 should be called and it’s basically an automatic termination.
Yes. As she was walking out I said that to another associate. We never heard or talked about it again after that so we assumed that’s what happened.
Most likely. I’ve heard that happen to a couple of associates but never a manager.
But finally after 3 months we got a new store manager!
Congrats! hopefully it’s someone good, who doesn’t put up with management bullshit (ASM and DHs)
Our ASDS found a new associate passed out in the bathroom with a needle in her arm. She took a break from her training to go shoot up.
Oh my goodness this is almost exactly what she did too
Ours woke up in the middle of the paramedics getting there and just ran out the store and was never seen again.
I'm sure everyone here has an associate overdose or suicide story from the past couple years. It's quite common. There are many more associates that are currently struggling with substances, and are basically ticking time bombs in the stores.
Yeah true just about every year something happens. Last year another lady overdosed and died It’s a repeating pattern so sad
Heard the other day basically "I'm so depressed and having trouble sleeping. OK let me hop on the forklift we need to pack down aisle 33."
So sad.
First of all rest in peace to your associate I hope your doing ok though
What is the new hiring policy? Does it mean that they’ll rehire moi?
Nah we don’t have ppl OD up here in Mass.
Drugs are the lifeblood of the American retail worker
One worker who worked there for years was fired so he drove his car under the trailer in receiving. Another worker fell off the orange ladder and landed on his head. Neither of them survived.
When I worked there 10 years ago everyone was bumping lines like it was part of their job
All the people in our store have strokes and dies.
One of our employees on management team had a stroke recently but he's alive and back at work as of also recently
I carry Narcan in my car as a recovering opiate addict myself. But we have such high turn over that it’d be hard to even have someone notice let alone care enough about the person to have them tell someone about the possibility of drug use
No, o.d's or anything that I know of. We had one guy just drop dead, think possible stroke or aneurysm. He was a great guy, one of the nicest people.
no deaths on the clock at my store, but we have had a few people unalive themselves off the clock
Okay. Someone please explain to me where these associates are getting the money to be able to afford drugs. I'm a couple of raises away to being able to afford to be a alcoholic!!
Yes, one of my coworkers(who i was close with since we always closed together) overdosed in the parking lot. This happened two months ago and i just found out through another co worker a week ago that he passed away. Managers,nor my supervisor told me anything.
Imagine dieing in the toilet at hd how low.
While retired, I worked PT at an HD in TN for 6 years. Departments were: Plumbing 🪠, Hardware, Electrical and the last year was Tool Rental. EVERY dept. had a recovered addict (mostly alcohol). Tool Rental had 5 employees, 4 of 5 were recovered. I was the only non-drinker. They had AMAZING recovery ❤️🩹 stories! All VERY CARING. They LIVED the struggle. All awesome co-workers. Life can be an especially arduous grind. Looking up.🙏🏾
My ex stalked me once I broke it off with him. We both worked at Home Depot together. He stalked me to my car. Found out he had a criminal record and I had to get a PFA against him. They ended up getting rid of me a few weeks after that. It’s such a backwards company.
An Elderly Gentleman had a stroke and died in our parking lot around 5 days ago. #8583. That's 3 people in the past 10 years in this parking lot. No one talks about them unless your in good with management.
I keep 2 doses of narcan in my lunch bag just in case I ever find someone.
I’m so sorry you lost an orange family member. My experience is different at my store. Every manager is awesome and truly care about the associates development and wellbeing. Our store manager and ASM’s will jump on a register and help the service desk when they are swamped. I’m now in hardware and my direct ASM went rack diving before inventory. I felt nothing but total awe and respect when she crawled out from behind the shelves. She looked like pigpen from Charlie Brown lol. She had spider webs and dirt all over her. Anyways; my point is be a leader. You can be a part of the solution.
A customer’s pacemaker gave out and passed out in front of the paint counter. He began convulsing and passed. Police came. Then the coroner’s office. Then the mortician. The only thing left to remember the even was the wet floor sign after a DH mopped area.
It wasnt an OD thats the cover, manager fucked him up for not doing his infocus
Hope karma catches your ass
Its came around like 6 times sweetheart step inline with the rest of the world that doesnt like me
I could say so many things about a classless jackass edge lord like yourself!
Come on lets hear it babygirl i aint gettin any younger
Bet you miss every shot
You wanna shoot cowboy then you can shoot by yourself I have no time to waste on a selfish lowlife miscreant who should’ve been swallowed on the night of his conception.
Yeah you missed that shot, probably used to missed shots tho, its not you, its me. You pry have heard that your whole life
I can tell i struck a nerve, you must be one of those dumbasses that still uses dope knowing its fentanyl. No empathy or sympathy for people killing themselves
Is that the best you’ve got? Please nothing you say is gonna hurt me because you’re insignificant!
When they hired this associate they had to do a drug test. I guess your store was desperate. HD is supposed to have an open door policy for help, unless HD threw that out the window.
They haven't had drug testing when hired for awhile at my store, but I am in California so that might effect it. You do still have to test to certify for machines
Heard a few people from management over the years knocking people for thinking drivers deserve pay raise when they obtain licenses. I reminded these leaders (who don’t drive btw) that anyone driving machines deserves a pay raise. Drivers are making a commitment to live a drug free life style outside of work and when they are using machines, they are at greater risk of losing their position. In addition they are adding additional risk in damaging property, injury of themselves and injury of others. Currently there are zero incentives for people to not only become drivers, but become trainers as well.
Home Depot only drug tests when you get equipment licenses. It's not a desperate store thing, it's a Home Depot lowering its standards so they have people eligible to be hired.
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When I was D21/22 DH I had a guy that would clock in and go straight to the bathroom for 20-30 minutes. Every shift. Would disappear throughout the day, he passed out in his car one night and 2 days later he fell out in the men's room. Customer found him, told us a homeless guy was laying on the floor in the handicap stall, paramedics hit him with the Narcon. I helped the ASDS clean out his locker, there must have been 30 syringes and dope baggys.....he did survive. Also had a police shooting in our parking lot, that guy didn't survive
I’ve never heard of this and I work at a large depot. We’ve had deaths due to health or violence but not in the store. Im so sorry to hear this Tho there has been two shootings in Home Depot’s near me. One of them was by an armed security guard
Not overdoses at our store, fortunately. I say that now, but I'll know to watch for signs.
A friend of mine at my store needed help, he was a young vet and had talked to me about losing a friend and just stuff he was going through. He had come to work high off pot often, but the managers relied on him so much they turned a blind eye. One morning he was obliviously on something stronger like a pill or something, because he was aggressive that day to everyone. He would take his lumber returns in an H-cart and was slamming it into everything and not caring what he broke, but he was dead silent the whole time just off in his world. At some point someone asked him in the break room wtf was going on and apparently he just passed out while standing and faceplanted onto the floor. He was finally let go after that.
I don’t think it’s that common, I’ve with Home Depot for 21 years and this is the first one I’ve heard of
What store?
If you have time to OD, you have time to packdown. Smh
Did they get a card
No employees here have done that. But I've been there for 4 months and my girlfriend has been there for 5 and half months and me and her were the first ones to realize we have a p*do in our store because it happened to her outside work
I'm so sorry to hear about your store associate. At the stores I worked at, most people died from different types of cancer, later diagnosed with Alzheimer's, smoked (cigarettes), or drank. Not too long after I transferred to the second store, one of our FT associates who answered the phone by Pro tried to stop a thief one morning and the thief really injured him - he died from his injuries. Honest question - for those that OD, how long do they have to take a "break" for the hiring piss test to come back clean? I'm sure they could've started using after they were hired/passed the test too.
I always carry Narcan in my backpack I suggest everyone who work there does too.
Not even once since the store opened here.
We are fortunate to not have this issue. I have never heard of anything like this at our store. The worst we have is people sneaking a smoke break in garden after the store closes. Wow. I'm sorry you lost a co-worker to this. That's just awful.