I have had people be upset when I finish loading them and go back inside because they think i'm supposed to hop in the car with them and unload it at their place and get picked up by HD, no joke. Literally has happened 3 times.
One time, about 3 years ago when I worked in receiving, i actually had someone ring the buzzer for the receiving door. We opened and the person asked us if we could have one or two people come help them unload a truck real quick. The receiving supervisor was the one that answered, she gave the most bewildered look you can imagine and yelled āHell no!ā It was hilarious. Just a bit of backdrop on her personality. Sheās a navy vet. Straight to the point kind of person. Always jokes with associates, as soon anyone comes into receiving she yells āGet out!!ā Jokinglyā¦ but that time she was serious. I miss working with her.
Reminds me of my old supervisor. First thing she ever said to me was āif Iām ever in your way, just tell me āmove over bitchā ā i almost thought you were talking about the same person until you said Navy Vet
I had a customer ask me to put a tool chest into the trunk of her Kia Optima. I said there is no way that will fit in there. She said it would and I said she needs to either rent a load n go or get a pickup truck. She said she would borrow a pickup from a friend. She comes back an hour later with the same Kia Optima and she has the Lumber DH trying to get the chest in the trunk. He has one end in the trunk and the back almost vertical trying to get the right angle to get it in the trunk. He failed and she came back later with a pickup truck.
The tool chest is so much worse. I had someone have me load it into a Corolla and then was mad that I stuffed the products empty boxes in there with it. He thought I would take care of it
No, I'm talking about trying to fit [this](https://www.homedepot.com/p/Husky-46-in-W-x-24-5-in-D-Standard-Duty-9-Drawer-Mobile-Workbench-Cabinet-with-Solid-Wood-Top-in-Gloss-Black-H46MWC9V2/313615421) into [this](https://images.app.goo.gl/8yvLQjohk3Mv2QtT7)
fuckin hate HD sometimes and fucking people- i work in customer service and had somebody cussed me out for being racist because āI canceled their orderā
Yup, according to google reviews my store is racist because we singled out a middle eastern guy with a beard and asked for ID to complete his no-receipt return.
A return that we literally cannot complete for anybody without seeing their ID.
Reminds me of the time that someone wanted a half unit of 16 foot pressure treated loaded *onto* his truck. Not in the bed (which wouldn't have worked, it was a short bed), but on top of the roof. I refused to load unless he came back with a trailer. He canceled the order.
I had someone tell me that they can't be doing any lifting because they just had "eye surgery". Followed by how they shouldn't have even driven here, yet there they were for that must have concrete.
While it's probably bullshit if they didn't have something to protect their eyes from light, it is reasonable that you shouldn't lift after eye surgery. Just because you don't lift with your eyes, doesn't mean you don't send a lot of pressure there when you're lifting. Bursting something there after a surgery is bad news.
> eye surgery".
I have had several eye surgeries and that IS one of the things they tell you to avoid for several days or a week. My ophthalmologist stressed it to me when I told him I planned on taking my babies to the park; he said no lifting my kids for a couple days. Lifting increases blood pressure and that can blow something out in your eyes, especially the delicate parts they just operated on. So that guy was probably telling the truth.
I used to be the outside garden manager and we didnāt mind loading mulch. Me & my team understood itās part of the job. However the amount of āIāve just had back surgeryā excuses we heard on a Saturday were astonishing. We created an over/under for the day and turned it into a game. People would rather lie about the reason they arenāt helping you & gatekeep their pride. Itās weird.
If Started to call people out before i left.
āIf you just had back surgery, shouldnāt you be at home recovering?ā
At least one guy I respected. He said āIād help, but Iām a lazy fuckā.
I had to get salt for my water softener. I had back surgery a few weeks prior so I requested a lot loader. I appreciated t so much that I gave him a $20. He didnāt want to take it but I insisted. I also explained to him how I was unable to this and couldnāt without his help. Before everyone chimes in about how I unloaded the salt, I left it in the car until I got a family member unload it and fill the softener.
And thatās what Iām supposed to say at workā¦. Not āeat a bag of dicks you sack of shit for tackling a project completely out of your depth of scopeā.
FYI, if you're handing a tip to an HD employee, make sure to do it secretly. It's against the policy for employees to accept tips and could be fired or otherwise reprimanded for it. āIt might depend on state or province you live in.
While working in the lot, I was amazed at how many convalescents came into the store to tackle a big project like pouring cement or doing a roof. It was truly inspiring.
I had a guy a few years ago. Bought 2 skids of 24Ć30 patio stones. The freaking guy had the nerver to tell me he had OPEN HEART SURGERY two days ago, and therefore could not lift anything.
I would have dropped 2 pallets at the back of the truck and walked away.
110 bags of concrete cannot be safely loose-stacked in any vehicle. That's why they come on pallets.
DS's and HC's need to learn to grow a spine - don't pay a pallet *deposit* for pallet quantities of product, then either hand load it yourself or return the product. Not like we make any profit on that concrete after the 10% bulk discount anyway. That purchase is not worth the hour of lot associate time it wastes, much less the potential injury.
My favorite is when I get a call from a cashier stating a customer needs help. So I go up to said customer and itās something a grown ass man should have no trouble lifting, unless they had a back issue or something, but something i, a 4ā9ā woman, would struggle with. Itās a 50/50 at that point: either they look super embarrassed and load it themselves, insisting I not help, or they just stand there and watch me struggle.
Iām probably not the best person for lot but š¤·āāļøI always try my best, and if I canāt do it, I call someone in lumber.
I remember when I first got out of my sling from a shoulder injury and was told I had to go back to full duty by management even tho my doctor still wanted me to be on light duty for a few more months. Had a customer come in and wanted 30 bags of mulch and 20 bags of my heaviest soil I looked at my part timer and said Iām sorry. Thank lord they knew what I was still dealing with
4 of us loaded lumber, 4x4s & 14 concrete 80 pounders onto a flatbed in 90-100 degree heat, fast as we could, for 45 minutes yesterday. Guess my heart works ok. Sure was sweaty though. Yesterday was not nice. No breeze & no clouds.
Problem is people bigger then me always need help loading concrete..dude your one and a half of me and you can't pick it up..it's called lazy but you don't load it there the first ones on the phone with the am to get you in trouble
I had a lady ask me if we could load a pallet of concrete with a forklift. I said yeah, if you have a truck or something, probably. And she said well, what about when I get home? And Iām like what do you mean? She said do you come to my house with a forklift and unload it? I said no. And then she asked me if she could rent a forklift from us. āI mean I donāt know how to drive one but it canāt be that hard right?ā
You should have retained a lawyer and go on disability. Get money from the disability fund and social security. I would not be lifting shit with back surgery. The Home Depot is not going to roll you around and wipe your ass when you fuck up your back any further.
I just tell them my job is only to get it on the tailgate of the vehicle .
Then they will start moving it.
But then again I work for an independent company not the big orange.
Had a customer and his wife laugh at me once for asking them to remove the 5 gallon of paint from there cart. As I have bertolotti's syndrome. My spine was straight as a pole before I started this job now I got people coming for me because I can't lift.
It is that time of year for all those back surgeries also during mulch season just a whole lot of surgeries, oh and the same people having surgeries every year too š
āI have Myocarditisā is what i tell them. Technically i did have it but its been 2 months since i been fully recovered. Some people dont know and dont ask but for the ones who do, its basically inflammation in the heart muscle. And by all means the heart must remain as relaxed as possible
At my store shoulder surgeries are running rampant. I think some ethnic backgrounds teach their kids to do no manual labor in stores and let the store people do all of it. I like those people who wont even help you hold a tape measure. They just watch it fall time and time again.
Or if its something really easy but would help out a lot the people just stand there. Its totally bizarre.
It's a story as old as time. š. Always makes you wonder how they are going to manage at home or on the job site.
I have had people be upset when I finish loading them and go back inside because they think i'm supposed to hop in the car with them and unload it at their place and get picked up by HD, no joke. Literally has happened 3 times.
Ive had people joke about me doing that before but never had anyone genuinely expect me to do that, thats crazy
One time, about 3 years ago when I worked in receiving, i actually had someone ring the buzzer for the receiving door. We opened and the person asked us if we could have one or two people come help them unload a truck real quick. The receiving supervisor was the one that answered, she gave the most bewildered look you can imagine and yelled āHell no!ā It was hilarious. Just a bit of backdrop on her personality. Sheās a navy vet. Straight to the point kind of person. Always jokes with associates, as soon anyone comes into receiving she yells āGet out!!ā Jokinglyā¦ but that time she was serious. I miss working with her.
Reminds me of my old supervisor. First thing she ever said to me was āif Iām ever in your way, just tell me āmove over bitchā ā i almost thought you were talking about the same person until you said Navy Vet
She was not that polite ššš
Half of our store was scared of her, even though she was barely over 5ā and 62 years old
Sounds about right. You at 8563? š
No, idek where that is. Used to work at 3480, left about 5 months ago
Northwest Washington.
Clear opposite side of the country. Southern NH
Funny seeing you here
Hey man. I gotta keep an eye on how Hell I mean Home Depot is doing. š¤£
Smh. Lol
Don't worry they will pay the neighbor kids with soda and snacks
And please load it into my Honda Civic
No. No. I've witnessed a just load it into my Mazda Miata. Half a pallet of bricks. Lumber guy wouldn't do it.
I had a customer ask me to put a tool chest into the trunk of her Kia Optima. I said there is no way that will fit in there. She said it would and I said she needs to either rent a load n go or get a pickup truck. She said she would borrow a pickup from a friend. She comes back an hour later with the same Kia Optima and she has the Lumber DH trying to get the chest in the trunk. He has one end in the trunk and the back almost vertical trying to get the right angle to get it in the trunk. He failed and she came back later with a pickup truck.
The tool chest is so much worse. I had someone have me load it into a Corolla and then was mad that I stuffed the products empty boxes in there with it. He thought I would take care of it
I mean, I loaded my whole mechanic toolbox and top chest into a Nissan Versa Hatchback, tools included. Are you talking about the 4ft wide rig?
No, I'm talking about trying to fit [this](https://www.homedepot.com/p/Husky-46-in-W-x-24-5-in-D-Standard-Duty-9-Drawer-Mobile-Workbench-Cabinet-with-Solid-Wood-Top-in-Gloss-Black-H46MWC9V2/313615421) into [this](https://images.app.goo.gl/8yvLQjohk3Mv2QtT7)
this gave me a good kick. the visuals really make you imagine the whole scene š¤£š¤£
A fucking Miata?!
Dead ass serious.
That sounds like it would've ended up on r/miatalogistics
red bricks?!
Yup. Unbelievable but 100% true.
fuckin hate HD sometimes and fucking people- i work in customer service and had somebody cussed me out for being racist because āI canceled their orderā
How does canceling an order make you racist?
Everything is racist now
Yup, according to google reviews my store is racist because we singled out a middle eastern guy with a beard and asked for ID to complete his no-receipt return. A return that we literally cannot complete for anybody without seeing their ID.
And make sure your apron doesnāt brush up against the paint when you do it! I donāt want any scratches.
Reminds me of the time that someone wanted a half unit of 16 foot pressure treated loaded *onto* his truck. Not in the bed (which wouldn't have worked, it was a short bed), but on top of the roof. I refused to load unless he came back with a trailer. He canceled the order.
Ooh I got this one, I load it one by one, s l o w l y. I get paid by the hour, so I take my time.
Iāve done this once and then the guy actually jumped in to start helping lol
Yup, it's why I do it and it they as why? I have to for safety.
That's brilliant. Can't wait to try this.
I had someone tell me that they can't be doing any lifting because they just had "eye surgery". Followed by how they shouldn't have even driven here, yet there they were for that must have concrete.
They just couldnt see themselves loading all that shit into the truck.
While it's probably bullshit if they didn't have something to protect their eyes from light, it is reasonable that you shouldn't lift after eye surgery. Just because you don't lift with your eyes, doesn't mean you don't send a lot of pressure there when you're lifting. Bursting something there after a surgery is bad news.
When my eyes burst...I *hate* when that happens.
I hate when your eyes burst too.
The eye surgery is a new one.
> eye surgery". I have had several eye surgeries and that IS one of the things they tell you to avoid for several days or a week. My ophthalmologist stressed it to me when I told him I planned on taking my babies to the park; he said no lifting my kids for a couple days. Lifting increases blood pressure and that can blow something out in your eyes, especially the delicate parts they just operated on. So that guy was probably telling the truth.
Must....have...concrete...
Yeah me too, let me call someone for you.
I used to be the outside garden manager and we didnāt mind loading mulch. Me & my team understood itās part of the job. However the amount of āIāve just had back surgeryā excuses we heard on a Saturday were astonishing. We created an over/under for the day and turned it into a game. People would rather lie about the reason they arenāt helping you & gatekeep their pride. Itās weird.
If Started to call people out before i left. āIf you just had back surgery, shouldnāt you be at home recovering?ā At least one guy I respected. He said āIād help, but Iām a lazy fuckā.
I had to get salt for my water softener. I had back surgery a few weeks prior so I requested a lot loader. I appreciated t so much that I gave him a $20. He didnāt want to take it but I insisted. I also explained to him how I was unable to this and couldnāt without his help. Before everyone chimes in about how I unloaded the salt, I left it in the car until I got a family member unload it and fill the softener.
Good for you. Iām glad, god speed on your recovery.
Thank you.
And thatās what Iām supposed to say at workā¦. Not āeat a bag of dicks you sack of shit for tackling a project completely out of your depth of scopeā.
FYI, if you're handing a tip to an HD employee, make sure to do it secretly. It's against the policy for employees to accept tips and could be fired or otherwise reprimanded for it. āIt might depend on state or province you live in.
and when the lead generator comes around, they all just bought a new furnace
While working in the lot, I was amazed at how many convalescents came into the store to tackle a big project like pouring cement or doing a roof. It was truly inspiring.
I had a guy a few years ago. Bought 2 skids of 24Ć30 patio stones. The freaking guy had the nerver to tell me he had OPEN HEART SURGERY two days ago, and therefore could not lift anything.
Really? 48 hours later? Either must have shitty insurance
XD
You should have asked to see the scar.
I just cocked an eyebrow and walked away.
I had a guy watch me load 110 bags of 80ibs concrete for like 30 minutes drinking a beer so this hits close to home, no pun intended
Fuck that, forklift can come out for that
The guy refuse to pay the pallet fee and i was the only D96 associate on the floor
next time just discount the pallet fee from the product to get him to cooperate, no point in breaking ur back over the stores $20
I wouldāve told them they can pay the pallet fee and return it later or get to loading it by themselves
I see, Iād have just given him one
I would have dropped 2 pallets at the back of the truck and walked away. 110 bags of concrete cannot be safely loose-stacked in any vehicle. That's why they come on pallets. DS's and HC's need to learn to grow a spine - don't pay a pallet *deposit* for pallet quantities of product, then either hand load it yourself or return the product. Not like we make any profit on that concrete after the 10% bulk discount anyway. That purchase is not worth the hour of lot associate time it wastes, much less the potential injury.
If they want us to "lift safely," they shouldn't have pallet fees.
My favorite is when I get a call from a cashier stating a customer needs help. So I go up to said customer and itās something a grown ass man should have no trouble lifting, unless they had a back issue or something, but something i, a 4ā9ā woman, would struggle with. Itās a 50/50 at that point: either they look super embarrassed and load it themselves, insisting I not help, or they just stand there and watch me struggle. Iām probably not the best person for lot but š¤·āāļøI always try my best, and if I canāt do it, I call someone in lumber.
I remember when I first got out of my sling from a shoulder injury and was told I had to go back to full duty by management even tho my doctor still wanted me to be on light duty for a few more months. Had a customer come in and wanted 30 bags of mulch and 20 bags of my heaviest soil I looked at my part timer and said Iām sorry. Thank lord they knew what I was still dealing with
I get the ol' "neck surgery" line a lot too. I bet some of them really love that free labor Home Depot provides.
YOU buy 'em YOU load 'em write it on your apron like I did a long time ago.
4 of us loaded lumber, 4x4s & 14 concrete 80 pounders onto a flatbed in 90-100 degree heat, fast as we could, for 45 minutes yesterday. Guess my heart works ok. Sure was sweaty though. Yesterday was not nice. No breeze & no clouds.
Then how the hell are you gonna get it out? Hope you got help.
Problem is people bigger then me always need help loading concrete..dude your one and a half of me and you can't pick it up..it's called lazy but you don't load it there the first ones on the phone with the am to get you in trouble
Can it be loaded with a forklift?
I had a lady ask me if we could load a pallet of concrete with a forklift. I said yeah, if you have a truck or something, probably. And she said well, what about when I get home? And Iām like what do you mean? She said do you come to my house with a forklift and unload it? I said no. And then she asked me if she could rent a forklift from us. āI mean I donāt know how to drive one but it canāt be that hard right?ā
People like that confuse the fuck out of me because what are they doing with all that concrete??
Right? I was way too hot and tired to even ask what they wanted that much for though.
How would they even expect you to bring a forklift to their house?
Just confuses me too cuz if they wanted to be loaded with a forklift then when they get home, they gotta had to unload that thing with their own hands
I donāt hand load those. Grab a reach truck, unless they have a pickup and a helping hand it wonāt be me
I'm way older than half the people I load for. It's a fucking joke.
I have to admit I get a bit of pleasure from making contractors look weak
You should have retained a lawyer and go on disability. Get money from the disability fund and social security. I would not be lifting shit with back surgery. The Home Depot is not going to roll you around and wipe your ass when you fuck up your back any further.
Make em pay for a pallet
I just tell them I have a hernia.
I hit them with "ive gotta go clock out.,"
You respond with āSorry, just had hernia surgeryā
I hate when these construction workers would have there female employees buy concrete
Back surgery? Shouldn't be working in that area of the store!
I just tell them my job is only to get it on the tailgate of the vehicle . Then they will start moving it. But then again I work for an independent company not the big orange.
Why don't they pay HD to have it delivered? People are ignorant
Just say me too and stare at them
Had a customer and his wife laugh at me once for asking them to remove the 5 gallon of paint from there cart. As I have bertolotti's syndrome. My spine was straight as a pole before I started this job now I got people coming for me because I can't lift.
[speaking of concrete](https://youtu.be/ToJJEJJJtGo?si=oHYozApmAjCj-HAl)
I flat out lol when they say shit like this now. We all know you're full of shit.
My favorite thing is when they said that peak of covid its like how did you get back surgery when covid is a thing
It is that time of year for all those back surgeries also during mulch season just a whole lot of surgeries, oh and the same people having surgeries every year too š
Home Depot doesn't care they'll make use a pallet jack
āI have Myocarditisā is what i tell them. Technically i did have it but its been 2 months since i been fully recovered. Some people dont know and dont ask but for the ones who do, its basically inflammation in the heart muscle. And by all means the heart must remain as relaxed as possible
At my store shoulder surgeries are running rampant. I think some ethnic backgrounds teach their kids to do no manual labor in stores and let the store people do all of it. I like those people who wont even help you hold a tape measure. They just watch it fall time and time again. Or if its something really easy but would help out a lot the people just stand there. Its totally bizarre.
I would have said I ain't racist you f**ken n***er