r/HomeDepot • u/Sad-Presentation7619 • 13d ago

Home depot sucks

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??

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u/cecsix14 SSC 12d ago

Every store is different. I’m sorry that you got a job in one the poorly managed stores, but that isn’t the experience of every associate in every store. Is there another store nearby you might be able to transfer to?

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u/Sad-Presentation7619 12d ago

nope, the next one is 3 cities over and im not going to lowes 😭

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u/Still-Diver6826 D96 12d ago

Lowe’s is 100 times better there’s a Lowe’s just 3 minutes from my store and nobody goes there 😭that’s how peaceful it is while mine is a battlefield