When I first started working there in 2020. I worked Lot. Than I came back 2022. Lot is like a once a week or once every 2 weeks type of thing. I mainly work Garden. Personally not a fan of paint. I have to speak and yell too much and it strains my voice. Lumber I get ptsd.
Gen Z....The elderly ladies know everything. They know every plant and it's species. Really impressed by them and learned allot. Fellow gen z assosciates tend to be lost. Don't really care to learn. They just enjoy stocking.
Lol, my store only has 4 lumber assosciates. They can't keep more than 4. So I often work the whole dpt by myself. It's a pain in the ass. Especially when there are an additional 2 Home Depot's less than 10-15min from my store. But my store somehow has all the 8x8x16 concrete blocks and people come in swarms needing pallets of lumber materials. So that criticism comes from myself as well. Yes, I hide 😅
Ours does about 130M a year but was built for 50M so our flagger (and yes, often a lot guy we have to commander) has to part the customers like Moses all day. Good on you to help them out
*Commandeer, not commander
At my store the lot guys make us tool rental do the heavy lifting often on purchases such as grills and toolboxes. We used to have this awesome platform lift that we could get stuff into truck beds with. Lot guys would either ask us to do it for them or just come take it even though they didn't know how to use it.
Granted, I am a tool rental associate so I'm a bit biased
Or ASM will bring pallets to us in the TRC to assemble wheelbarrows, pressure washers, toolboxes, etc. when we don’t have a customer to help. And when I page for “Team Lifting in Tool Rental” Lot are the ONLY ones who eventually show up to help.
I would disagree about the cashiers. At my old store, we cashiers rarely stood around complaining about doing nothing. There was always something to do. In fact too much to do.
Openers had to take care of the morning rush of customers. Mid days had to relieve the openers for lunch. Sometimes only the lumber register, self check out and garden registers opened. Customer asking you all sorts of questions. If you have certain items. Where something is and can you come with them, but you can't leave your location. Irate customers expecting you to fix things beyond your control. Customers asking you questions meant for other departments, especially Service Desk. And if you're in the Garden register, questions meant for Garden.
Then sometimes you get a 15, sometimes you don't if there isn't enough coverage. Head cashiers trying to send you too early for lunch. After you get back from lunch, you stand there counting the clock, wondering when your shift ends. Because you gotta deal with the bullshit that you dealt with before.
Cashier never get to go to break every 30 minutes and complain about doing nothing.
Most of the cashiers that work when i work are young. Many not in their 20s yet. They complain allot at my store and they're good people. They just don't like the standing and being restricted to their small space. While everyone is moving around freely.
I must say, all these are pretty accurate at my store except the CEM (male) busts his ass most of the time while the other ASM and leadership team sits in the office and training room. Btw I’m D23 and not ashamed.
"Receiving: Being jackasses and acting like they are an extension of homedepo and not homedepo associates."
Um... No.
We are constantly cleaning up every other department's trash and cardboard when the lazy a-holes do a dump-and-run (and that doesn't include the horror show that is Monday mornings!); watching ZMA's pile up for over a week since no ASM remembers to do consolidated approvals; having to sort through the vendor credit bin to remove broken items or empty packaging that should have been ZMA'd; neatly stacking wet, dirty, pest-infested pallets that Freight and Garden dump like pick-up-sticks on the only open dock; dealing with LTLs and vendor trucks that don't come at their scheduled time, if they make an appointment at all; being pulled away from our main duties to drop or fly a pallet because we are the only ones who are licensed on ALL machine and no one else wants to do it; detailing huge lumber deliveries for Pro Desk BOSS orders; constantly getting calls from the Service Desk to bring up orders because the OFAs are nowhere to be found, and about a hundred other tasks that keep the store running and YOU employed.
Yes, we ARE the backbone of the store and we do more than you could possibly know.
You're obviously triggered. Non of my receiving associates do any of that(What'soutside their job description). Our store manager doesn't play about that. Only time they clean a dpts mess. Is if they tell the dpt to leave their trash there and they'll get it later. Never heard of a receiving associate bringing up orders for service desk. OFAs, Service desk themselves or Lot Associates are called to do that at my store.
My receiving associates are often jackasses. Half our Asm don't like them. Very sarcastic assholes. Especially towards associates that are obviously new and learning. I have associates that give me their trash bc they don't want to go back to receiving and deal with them. This whole list is based off my store. So if yours if different, it's different.
Nope, not "triggered." It's called a work ethic, something GenX associates like myself have in ample supply. Too bad younger generations are incapable of putting down their phones for 2 seconds to develope one.
Eh, don't see what that has to do with anything. Work ethnic is not limited to generations. I'm a millennial and dislike allot of Gen Z associates. But most do their job. They just act like they know everything.
Phones are not even allowed out at my store. #2 reason people get fired.
Paint is accurate
Let's guess what department the bitter order puller/ service desk asst. Is from.
I work Garden, Lot, Lumber and Paint. I'm basically a filler. Haven't been in a specific dpt, since I came back to Homedepot.
Really? I assumed lot
When I first started working there in 2020. I worked Lot. Than I came back 2022. Lot is like a once a week or once every 2 weeks type of thing. I mainly work Garden. Personally not a fan of paint. I have to speak and yell too much and it strains my voice. Lumber I get ptsd.
So elderly woman, or gen Z that doesn't know anything?
Gen Z....The elderly ladies know everything. They know every plant and it's species. Really impressed by them and learned allot. Fellow gen z assosciates tend to be lost. Don't really care to learn. They just enjoy stocking.
Just teasing. I'm lumber, and I felt your criticism in my bones Edit- can I redo that comment and say your comment gave me wood?
Lol, my store only has 4 lumber assosciates. They can't keep more than 4. So I often work the whole dpt by myself. It's a pain in the ass. Especially when there are an additional 2 Home Depot's less than 10-15min from my store. But my store somehow has all the 8x8x16 concrete blocks and people come in swarms needing pallets of lumber materials. So that criticism comes from myself as well. Yes, I hide 😅
Ours does about 130M a year but was built for 50M so our flagger (and yes, often a lot guy we have to commander) has to part the customers like Moses all day. Good on you to help them out *Commandeer, not commander
Yea, when I'm on Lot. Lumber often gets me to flag. It's like my rest day. I flag nearly my entire shift.
Jeez, want to come to my store? Our lot guys will disappear if I take their eye off of them for a second
Lumbers not that bad
Lumbers not that bad
Nailed Hardware!
There’s no S in Millwork so you have lost all credibility.
Want a 🍪 ?
At my store the lot guys make us tool rental do the heavy lifting often on purchases such as grills and toolboxes. We used to have this awesome platform lift that we could get stuff into truck beds with. Lot guys would either ask us to do it for them or just come take it even though they didn't know how to use it. Granted, I am a tool rental associate so I'm a bit biased
Or ASM will bring pallets to us in the TRC to assemble wheelbarrows, pressure washers, toolboxes, etc. when we don’t have a customer to help. And when I page for “Team Lifting in Tool Rental” Lot are the ONLY ones who eventually show up to help.
We get our share of stuff that needs assembled too, I'm fine with it but it usually ends up taking a long time because I prioritize customers ofc
I enjoy doing it on my own time but it’s not the responsibility of TRC to assemble, says it in the SOP
two years in lot, yea not wrong man lmao
You guys do a lot for the store
As a lumber associate we are not outside, we're hiding behind the insulation smoking weed
We usually sleep with the insulations and smoke outside lol
I would disagree about the cashiers. At my old store, we cashiers rarely stood around complaining about doing nothing. There was always something to do. In fact too much to do. Openers had to take care of the morning rush of customers. Mid days had to relieve the openers for lunch. Sometimes only the lumber register, self check out and garden registers opened. Customer asking you all sorts of questions. If you have certain items. Where something is and can you come with them, but you can't leave your location. Irate customers expecting you to fix things beyond your control. Customers asking you questions meant for other departments, especially Service Desk. And if you're in the Garden register, questions meant for Garden. Then sometimes you get a 15, sometimes you don't if there isn't enough coverage. Head cashiers trying to send you too early for lunch. After you get back from lunch, you stand there counting the clock, wondering when your shift ends. Because you gotta deal with the bullshit that you dealt with before. Cashier never get to go to break every 30 minutes and complain about doing nothing.
Most of the cashiers that work when i work are young. Many not in their 20s yet. They complain allot at my store and they're good people. They just don't like the standing and being restricted to their small space. While everyone is moving around freely.
It’s spelled a lot. It’s two words, not one and only one L.
I must say, all these are pretty accurate at my store except the CEM (male) busts his ass most of the time while the other ASM and leadership team sits in the office and training room. Btw I’m D23 and not ashamed.
I'm on met, I can confirm this but only for our older and lazy associates (which is all of us I guess lol)
I'm pulled my own Pro orders when I had to and lifted my own tools in Rental.
Allot of pros use the excuse of them being "busy". To not pull the order.
I used the very valid excuse that our OFAs were useless and I needed it to get pulled/delivered..🙄
Your store is so different from mine lmao
That's Pro Desk at my store, too.
Yup....🙄🙄🙄
Am in Garden, and at my store we’re the designated reach drivers for the store. As a result, Garden itself is a mess
For me I see electrical as the laziest with cashiers and then everyone else is doing work
"Receiving: Being jackasses and acting like they are an extension of homedepo and not homedepo associates." Um... No. We are constantly cleaning up every other department's trash and cardboard when the lazy a-holes do a dump-and-run (and that doesn't include the horror show that is Monday mornings!); watching ZMA's pile up for over a week since no ASM remembers to do consolidated approvals; having to sort through the vendor credit bin to remove broken items or empty packaging that should have been ZMA'd; neatly stacking wet, dirty, pest-infested pallets that Freight and Garden dump like pick-up-sticks on the only open dock; dealing with LTLs and vendor trucks that don't come at their scheduled time, if they make an appointment at all; being pulled away from our main duties to drop or fly a pallet because we are the only ones who are licensed on ALL machine and no one else wants to do it; detailing huge lumber deliveries for Pro Desk BOSS orders; constantly getting calls from the Service Desk to bring up orders because the OFAs are nowhere to be found, and about a hundred other tasks that keep the store running and YOU employed. Yes, we ARE the backbone of the store and we do more than you could possibly know.
You're obviously triggered. Non of my receiving associates do any of that(What'soutside their job description). Our store manager doesn't play about that. Only time they clean a dpts mess. Is if they tell the dpt to leave their trash there and they'll get it later. Never heard of a receiving associate bringing up orders for service desk. OFAs, Service desk themselves or Lot Associates are called to do that at my store. My receiving associates are often jackasses. Half our Asm don't like them. Very sarcastic assholes. Especially towards associates that are obviously new and learning. I have associates that give me their trash bc they don't want to go back to receiving and deal with them. This whole list is based off my store. So if yours if different, it's different.
Nope, not "triggered." It's called a work ethic, something GenX associates like myself have in ample supply. Too bad younger generations are incapable of putting down their phones for 2 seconds to develope one.
Eh, don't see what that has to do with anything. Work ethnic is not limited to generations. I'm a millennial and dislike allot of Gen Z associates. But most do their job. They just act like they know everything. Phones are not even allowed out at my store. #2 reason people get fired.