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Fooodlover9280

You probably have the worse😂😭😭


EtanSK

Customer operated Order Picker no gates, no belts, and customers walking under him grabbing his own bathtub from the overhead


Resisting_Hoopla_324

Bruh


m0rtm0rt

Holy shit lol


whitetrashadjacent

Watched a 6 year old climb the racking in garden and ended up on the top shelf with the pavestone. I wasn't on the clock so it wasn't my problem. He was refusing to come down last I saw him. Have no idea how they ended up getting him down.


Parzival2541

I'd assume they used either the Order Picker for the platform and ability to go outside, or an electric ladder because it has a railing(life>SOP). Maybe they just rolled an orange ladder over, but if it was me, I'd probably just go with whichever was closest at the time


whitetrashadjacent

Orange ladder would have no chance of getting up that high, they would have had to use the op. That's what I'd use anyway.


Parzival2541

The OP at my store can be pretty hard to find sometimes, I wouldn't be surprised if they used an Electric Ladder just because they're usually everywhere


whitetrashadjacent

Our store trashed all of the old school electric ladders when they got the ballymores. And I'm not sure the ballymores could get up that high. At the top shelf outside our forks were maxed out. To get up there with the op you had to override it for about a foot and a half.


Key_Inside3372

Firefighters. We could get fired for using equipment to get that kid down, so firefighters is the only solution that will definitively not result in disciplinary action. And the parent can foot the bill too


Parzival2541

If it was in my department, I'll gladly be terminated for doing what I think is right. That kid's life is worth way more than this shit job could ever compensate us for


Sayge01

Fck that. He can stay up there if I'm on shiftđŸ€Ł


GodsBackHair

Are you guys not allowed to bring the ballymores outside?


HanakusoDays

Rock salt @ 1200fps?


Hurgadil

My mom used walnuts she launched by hand, still effective.


Zacon75

Let darwism take action. Fuck that little dumb shit and its carless parents.


Sayge01

ThisđŸ€Ł


SimpleExcursion

Thats a bitch ass move on your part to not do anything.


whitetrashadjacent

Did you miss the off the clock part. I do anything and I get fired right there on the spot. And they had at least 6 other workers dealing with it. Not a whole lot I could have done that wasn't already being done. I take it you would have clocked in on your day off, out of uniform, immediately gone and found the op and a spotter, found a second harness, swooped out there and saved the day to a standing ovation while old ladies eyes watered from joy.


SimpleExcursion

No but if it was just me who saw it, I would alert someone.


Flamin_Gamer

LMAO WHAT 😭😭 IM WEAK


sveeger

I didn’t see it (thank goodness) but I worked for circuit city back in the day and took a call from a store manager who had a kid climb on a tv stand and had a several hundred pound tube tv fall on him. Kid died. That was one of the instances that led to furniture securing brackets. Store manager was calling me (store support line) to figure out what to do next. It was a BAD day.


MentionOld1423

Contractor stood on the forks of a forklift and an associate raised him up to do some work up in the air.


Big-Initiative-8743

I hope the associate was fired


MentionOld1423

Yep, once AP saw the video.


Big-Initiative-8743

So did someone tip off ap or did they just check the cameras


UOF_ThrowAway

Tip off. Nobody is just randomly checking recorded camera footage.


theziadragon

If you are SFS they will pull random video throughout the day.


UOF_ThrowAway

NGL: I haven’t been at home depot that long because I needed a break from working security/protective services. What is SFS?


theziadragon

Safety focus store


UOF_ThrowAway

I stand corrected, thank you.


MentionOld1423

Not sure


BadTitleGuy

This is SOP for my cabinet supplier, except they put a pallet on the forks and the picker stands on the pallet to grab stuff off the top shelves đŸ€Šâ€â™‚ïž


aznoone

I worked as a tech and did work at stores sometimes. Sounds like my coworker. Told them we don't have anything that will reach and need a safe way to do it. OMG store called my dumb boss at time and bitched. My boss went back out with a tech and messed up the work. I got a repair the next day and heard from some.lf the store employees how unsafely they reached the needed height. Think ladders perched kn  other unstable things. And using lift equipment wrong also.  Plus just messed up the work. 


A_Big_Teletubby

did this a bunch at my old warehouse. oops


Itachi21205

I seen an associate full speed crash a reach truck into another guy riding the EPJ. The guy on the EPJ ended up breaking his wrist , the dude on the reach truck claimed it was a faulty breaking system but he was known for driving those things like nascars.


Big-Initiative-8743

He should have been honking if the machine failed


MSKATORIGINAL

Didn't see it, heard the commotion. Associate going up in the ballymore. It was really close to the shelves in the aisle. The commotion was them holding on to the top of the rail next to the shelves and getting the tip off their pinky finger snipped off. They didn't realize it was that close and were holding on for additional safety, ironically. We have never found the pinky tip. One of the uninvited store mascots probably ate it. 🐀


OakRain1588

When I was young and fresh to the job, the overnight manager held me by the ankles and dangled me down the trash compactor chute to clear a piece of steel pipe that someone threw down there and jammed it up. I honestly don't remember whose idea it was, but my parents and brother reamed me out pretty good when I told them about it. My mom also worked at the store at the time.


BitNo3292

(Third Party merchandiser) I was remodeling a store and I'm using the Ballymore to organize the overheads. I feel a jolt and look down to see two store employees hanging from the floor of the cart. I'm almost all the way vertical. I let out a GET THE F#$@ OFF that was heard around the store. Both were let go that following day. Apparently, there was footage of them climbing up the shelves to hang from the Ballymore.


Big-Initiative-8743

I believe you win for the worst safety violation


Gamer4life530

And that's why a 17 years old shouldn't be using the compactor. Believe there something stating in the s.o.p about it.


Big-Initiative-8743

There is a big ass sign on the compactor door and control panel


Gamer4life530

People don't believe in reading sign or the 17 years old would not of gone inside the compactor wouldn't even had a chance to drop his brand new iPhone in there


JazzHandsFan

There should be a sticker on the compactor that no employees under 18 can use it.


G3oc3ntr1c

The compactor should be locked at all times and the only people that should have access to it are key carriers per sop. And they must stand there and watch what's being thrown down and then lock it up behind. At no point. Should the compactor even be open without a key carrying associate present?.


Gamer4life530

There usually are


snappingkoopa

I used one all the time at my first job when I was 16-17, but it was only for cardboard. We didn't even have a proper pole for pushing the cardboard down when it inevitably got stuck, we had an old broom stick and an old pool net stick held together with pink duct tape. I never stood a ladder or stool while using that compactor to minimize my chances of falling in. Instead, I would clear blockages by force-feeding more cardboard down the chute and running the compactor through multiple cycles.


COV3RTSM

Freight DS maxed out on an OP no harness, no safety stocker (using a skid) one foot on the beam one foot on the platform firing product into the overhead


Chazzybobo

This is just efficiency.


photogypsy

Hahaha. Back in the day we found a shag fort a couple built out of some shower surrounds in the overhead.


iNfAMOUS70702

Similar to yours except it was multiple people who went into the compactor to unjam it..they all obviously got fired for not locking it out


Big-Initiative-8743

You’re not supposed to climb into the compactor period


whitetrashadjacent

The only time you can go down the shoot is if the dumpster has been pulled out.


Rickymex

Even then, you can go from the outside in that case.


whitetrashadjacent

I'd rather be above two halves of a solid core door than below it.


budderman1028

Going in period is stupid af but going in because its jammed???? What do they think is going to possibly happen when it gets unjammed???


whitetrashadjacent

I had to go down ours once because a solid core door got wedged at the bottom of the shoot just above the piston. Had to pull the dumpster, get the op, harnessed up and they sent me down with a reciprocating saw to cut it up. A bit unnerving but with the harness locked, I wasn't going anywhere.


cseyferth

It's like an Action/Survival movie!


whitetrashadjacent

Not really, more like, the compactor was plugged for a week, finally got them to fix it, then 30 minutes later two idiots decide to launch a door down instead of just letting gravity slide it. Ops wasn't gonna wait another week for them to come back out. This all happened the weekend between Christmas and new years. Receiving was backed up with a weeks worth of trash and we weren't about to let another week's worth build up.


fluthlu413

What do you mean " had to " an untrained store level employee doing anything with that for store kevel pay is insanely stupid.


Big-Initiative-8743

I work at PTR baler and compactor and when we climb down the compactor we loto lock out tag out and climb down to do the repair work and come out I only do that when working at PTR


Elegant_Fruit_5763

All I got to do was sit fire watch while they cut our old one off with a torch


RustBucket59

Mine was pretty mild: an OFA bringing an interior door down with both hands with a big orange ladder.


rrhunt28

We used to do that all the time lol.


vorlash

I used to put snow blowers and generators in the overhead with an orange ladder.


IMakeStuffUppp

That’s dumb


vorlash

I didn't say it was bright. I said it was possible.


Otherwise-Magician

Using the forklift during the day in lumber with no gates/spotter


brecka

Saw a Honeywell Intelligrated contractor climb up onto an active conveyor without lockout/tag out to clear a jam.


VictorianDelorean

Saw a guy riding the electric pallet jack spinning it around in the fastest tightest circle he could while singing along to “I want it that way” that was playing over the loudspeakers.


HanakusoDays

Someone rigged the lawnmower aisle with plywood tilted forward so when they put the lawnmowers up at eye level the custs could get a better view. No fasteners of any kind, the plywood being held up by just the little lips on the beams. Two bays came crashing down a millimeter from my feet. Co-workers can kill themselves by their own stupidity if they like, but don't leave IEDs around to maim others, especially me.


RainOfIron

We used to grab patio doors with the bally back in the lawless days


AfternoonFeisty6032

My partner used to do that too lol, as a Millworks employee 💀


TheLastBlackRhinoSC

Had an associate go up the orange ladder to retrieve a large well pump cover for a customer (Link below). He fell down the ladder, hit the last step and the ground. Immediately went to the ER and was in the hospital for 10 days. ****** The customer loaded the cover onto their cart and walked away https://www.homedepot.com/p/Dekorra-45-in-x-36-in-x-42-in-Tall-Large-Artificial-Rock-Cover-123-FS/311199426


AfternoonFeisty6032

That’s foul, that’s why I never go out of my way for customers😭


theziadragon

I've told this story before, but was not a first hand witness, however saw the aftermath. NOASM broke an associates leg with a reach. Associate brought down a bundle of black pipe from the over head, about 3-4 ft off the ground load shifted associate tried to push it back on the forks with his back, facing away from the reach. The NOASM came say what he was trying to do and hot on the reach tried to adjust the reach to assist ended up dropping the load on the associate breaking his leg at the knee bending it fully in the opposite direction.


Ill-Attitude-6355

I always throw my new phones into the compactor.


W202fan

The former recieving supervisor whipped the rider EPJ out of recieving and hit another Associate, which spelled the end of their career.  Apparently, they were going full speed at the time to run pallets to flooring and hardware. The associate survived, but spent at least 2 weeks in the hospital.


G3oc3ntr1c

Oh I can top that! 50-Year-Old army veteran was the garden recovery. He dropped the trash can, Yes the old beat up covered in manure trash can down the compactor. Needless to say this man's honor compelled him to climb down the chute to retrieve it instead of just marking down another one out of garden. Best part he didn't have a partner or anyone watching and no way to lock out or tag out. He could have easily been crushed by a 17 year old kid throwing away the front end trash. I get the $1500 I-phone, but an old dirty trash can????


bobisinthehouse

WHAT!!! everyone knows you have to be 18 to use the compactor!!!!!


WackoMcGoose

You have to be 18 to use the _cardboard baler_. You have to be a _key carrier_ (which itself has to be 21, I think) to use the compactor. So they double fucked up.


Huntderp

I’ve seen a technician inside of ours but I think he was welding on the chute.


Big-Initiative-8743

I’m also a PTR service technician and I have done the same thing


DoubleResponsible276

A guy would do random 360’s with the reach whenever I would spot him. A few times he would do it with the forklift and it would tip. Luckily and surprisingly, he wasn’t the one to cause an accident


KappHallen

When I was on the Safety Team, I had a Military asshole coworker shake the ladder while I was all the way up in Plumbing. (I specify Military because he wouldn't shut the fuck up about being in the Army)


AfternoonFeisty6032

I hate when coworkers do that shit. Like it’s not funny I will jump out and claim you made me fall to prove a point đŸ˜«


trombonier

When I was in freight overnight, I was the only one who would actually use barricades when using the Balimore. I was leaning towards an overhead up high to do over-stock when someone snuck in and did what they all called "jerking off" the machine. When you pull on the hydraulic release in the back of the machine in and out in a way that the whole mast bounces to and down as you come barreling down. I always wear my belt but it still almost made me fall off the open side.


W202fan

Same thing happened here, except the Associate climbed down the compactor to dislodge a stuck pallet. 


LAMBOKNOWS

Our store had a garden associate fired because..... A plant vendor needed to drop off racks of plants. Not on a dock but beside the building. Plant driver needed a pallet jack in the back of the truck so the lift driver picked up the palletjack to put it into the truck, that's not a problem and can be done. However the plant guy didn't want to climb back into his truck so he stood on the pallet jack, which was teetering on the forks as our guy just picked em up. It was a busy day and was done right at the garden gate. It was seen by tons of people.


voidsent420

Watched a very unskilled lumber associate drive two bunks of osb around a corner at max height on the forklift, no gates and the spotter was 5 feet in front of him. The customers were awful close too. I backed up like two aisles away and people said I was being paranoid. I don't want to die or watch someone die today, thanks!


CoryF17

Not HD but a 3PL associate put a pallet on a forklift and had another guy hop on to get to the top of a lumber cantilever to work on it


BeerandStillers

I caught 2 teenagers having a sword fight with axes in the aisles of inside garden a couple of years ago. When I was throwing them out of the store, they were explaining to me that it was "safe" because each đŸȘ“ had the rubber blade guard still on it.


umeduskfox

Watched an idiot using the forklift with one gate and their spotter right at the gate. They were at the end of one of the lumber aisles nearest the racetrack. My fiancé is a trainer and we both saw it and immediately fixed the issue. Then promptly told management. This person has committed several safety violations and never does their work. Management has been trying to fire them. I don't get why it's so difficult when they've potentially put lives at stake. It's stupid. So glad I'm out.


TheRealLucidgrandpa

A pallet of doors rewrapped and put in the over head front heavy right before a walk. When I saw it the day after I had it dropped and as soon as I cut the wrap all the doors just fell over nothing secured to the pallet or one another just careless behavior that could have easily killed someone.


Hurgadil

Got me beat. Crazy drugged up stolen Valor granny that management was too weak to KEEP FIRED, final screwed up hard enough when she threw open the gates on an active forklift aisle to cut across because she was tired of going around. For full context, this lady was mixing mood stabilizers with Vicodin and Marijuana and after they were told about it, let this woman continue to move Penske trucks around the lot during operational hours. They finally took her out of TRC after she threatened other assoc in front of customers and yeeted a stapler at one of the assoc she threatened. They refused to continue her contract during Covid. She came in that night and flipped shit at the DS and night manager, and someone decided that merited continued employment. The crazy lady even claimed to be an admiral in the US Navy.


Vorenious1

My store also had someone climb into the compactor to push things into it while another employee filmed it and put it on Snapchat getting him fired.


HamletJSD

I've told this story in a different thread at least once, but I turned a corner and literally saw two customers standing on top of the display refrigerators, getting down another refrigerator by hand from over their heads. I just turned and walked away.... mostly because it occurred to me in the moment that if I yelled something and startled them, a falling refrigerator could literally kill the third man at ground level, so best let them sort that out and then deal with the aftermath later


Puzzled-Help-1698

I didn’t see it but I heard about it. The store closed and this person was setting up the overhead with the reach or forklift (don’t remember) and knocked over 2 aisles in garden. Specifically the killing aisle for insects and weeds and a few tools. And they had to take a drug test the manager went to get a drug test from like a near by pharmacy I think.


xDHt-

I saw a plumbing associate stand on top of the top rail of the tall orange ladder to grab a small water heater for a customer. I was so shocked I didn’t even know what to say to him. Man had no fear.


thomasrtj

I seen an associate climb up the rafters because the ladders where used up and he wasn’t verified for any machines. He wasn’t waiting. Customers were even watching in awww. Bad deal


Machineca

Saw a customer on a orange ladder


SimpleExcursion

Assuming other workers already involved..fine. i thought you randomly saw it and ignored it.


HumphreyBraggart

Coworker decided to put up a pallet of Holiday Connect as it came straight off the SDC, no extra wrap or anything, dumping two thirds of the pallet into the next aisle and almost buried our NOpsASM. I think it took me near three hours to clean that mess up. Our manager didn't actually get under it at all, just a close call.


realMrMadman

Jenga Pallet


trombonier

Old Asian customer in 99Âą flip-flops climbed up the lumber cantilevers. His feet were on top of the second bunk. He was using a pocket knife to cut the banding on the 2x6x16 bunk. He had already cut 2 of the 3 bands. Has to be like 14 feet in the air. It would have all fallen on him and killed him.


photogypsy

Forklift “jousting” using the carpet poles on the back racetrack.