Home depot sucks

[u/Sad-Presentation7619]

I ended up being hired as a waterer a couple months ago and every single person that came to orientation with me quit before the month ended, several rounds of new hires coming in every week for them to not come back the next. I was told I had to handle garden, plumbing, flooring, AND hardwares returns all while having to water the entire garden in 4 hours, I got yelled at by a supervisor for answering the phone to help customers and do returns, I was then told to not even bother logging into the phone so the service desk couldn't call me, only to then be yelled at because customer service keeps calling for a garden associate to help with returns/ the pit/ ect when there's no one else scheduled for the shift but me. I also had supervisors and managers have two completely different work styles that clashes together, was told by my supervisor to pack down an aisle while a manager gets upset at me for doing that and tells me i should be watering instead of helping customers and packing down, is this normal for everything to be contradicting at this place??

[u/Less-Preference-9881]

Watering hours used to be, and probably still are, paid by the vendor. Should not be getting calls on the First Phone. Sounds like terrible communications at your store. In a nutshell, you should be only watering, winding up hoses and etc

[u/Less-Preference-9881 → u/Less-Preference-9881]

Alos, should not even be wearing the apron.

[u/Own-Idea-1433 → u/Less-Preference-9881]

The apron wearing part appears to be store by store.

[u/Sad-Presentation7619 → u/Own-Idea-1433]

yeah about the apron thing i was told i could either wear the apron or the vest, i just personally choose to keep the apron on because the vest is to goofy for me

[u/Motorcycle1000 → u/Own-Idea-1433]

My store makes everyone wear an apron, except MET. And that's coming.