/diy/ - Do It Yourself

Are you mexican

>>834914
No, i work there, not shop there.

>>834917
Where do you go to buy tools and materials then?

>>834921
I rarely buy anything in general, as i have pretty much no need. I have the tools, and as i live in an apartment, it's usually the landlord's responsibility

>I will buy shit on sale doe

>>834910
Why did you start making your oranger Homer tool box in Israel? They used to be USA made, better quality, and marginally cheaper.

>>834932
>better quality
the new homer box is way better than the old one

Are you aware of Menards and how shitty Home Dept is comparatively?

>>834932
>Why did you start making your oranger Homer tool box in Israel?
Palestinian labor is cheap, which brings the cost down. We give each worker a slice of bread to take home to their families at the end of their shift. maybe 2 slices if they work more than the 16 hours.

>>834939
I am aware the Menards is midwest-only while Home Dee-pot is a national chain.

>>834939
I know I am. I only go into HD if I really need something, and it's half the distance to Menards. I love Menards rebates. I have many free t-shirts and tools because of them. I did buy something from Lowe's recently, and then had to return it. I wore a Menards shirt, mostly because free shirts are great chore shirts. The clerk noticed.

Whats under homer d poes hat?

>>834943
You jest, but it's probably African guest workers.

>>834939
I prefer Menards but Jesus it gives off that creepy Walmart vibe like nothing else.

Where the fuck do I get structural steel? Your little orange stores only seem to stock the kind you stick drywall on.

>>834910
>>dumbest question asked this week:
The girl at a local hardware store (not HD) told me some woman came in an asked how long their 1x4x8s were...

Flooring specialist here! I made salesmen of the year at my store. Ask me anything. Will post badges with time stamps proof.

>>834987

tell that woman they are a full 96 inches
unlike 2x4 studs that are often 92 5/8 inch

>>834991
>2x4 studs
aren't described as 2x4x8 either

>>834996
2x4 and 2x4 s4s are not the same thing. If you want full dimensioned lumber don't but it s4s.

>>834996
>>834998

even when I order both, they fuck up the delivery

>>834989

>>834989
Does the flooring department have a rivalry with the cabinet department?
Every time I see them cross paths it seems antagonistic.

>>835009
what's likely happening is The flooring people probably sells cabinets as a way to pad there numbers for the reports so they look good. This takes sales from the kitchen and bath department making them look bad.

>>835010
more like the kitchen people are always sitting on their ass pretending to draw sinks, and the flooring people do all the real work in the kitchen department.

>>835013
Yeah that sounds right. Kitchen is a whole lot easier than flooring. Some days I wish I was in appliances haha they rarely lift heavy.

>>834910
What isle is PVC pipe on?

>>834989
What isle is PVC pipe in?

>>835018
Usually the last aisle of plumbing near lumber.

>>834932
Beats me, that's at a corporate level

>>834939
Nope, i live nowhere near one of them

>>834985
Check the website or ask a local construction firm. Stores aren't going to carry such an obscure item.

>>835018
Isle of Man

>>835009
Ours doesn't, but as >>835010 and >>835013 said, there's probably some antagonism over 'stolen' sales or someone being lazy.

>>834939
>>835072
To clarify, i know they exist on an abstract level, but even in pictures, i've never even seen what one looks like. I also have no clue where one might be within a 2000 mile radius.

>buy a box of 5000 screws
>open the bottom of the box
>use 200
>return the 5000

did i do good, OP?

>>835094
Pretty standard, yea

>>834943
That's a rather hard home hitting joke for /diy/.

>>835094
Not OP, but you are scum of the earth.

>>834932
Another point for Menards. They advertise and promote American made products, even show the city and state it was made. Sure a lot of the products are Wisconsin made, but so is Menards.

>>834985
from a steel supplier
like alro
or discountsteel daht com

>>834910

What job position should I seek if I don't want to deal with customers?

can someone put some nazi stuff here please

>>835135
Met team, receiving, overnight, janitor
>>835139
/pol/ go ------>

>>835127
The Menards near me are now selling Wilde punches chisels and prybars. USA made, used to be the OEM for craftsman prybars and pliers.

I can buy Wilde pliers (rebadged Tekton) at the Rural King/Big R stores.

What kind of customer service trainer do store associates receive and why does it seem like the answer is "absolutely none" from the customer's perspective.

>>835159
Outside of the basics of "ask, be polite, respect people, etc", not too much. Coaching and shit if you get complaints or write-ups. AFAIK, no company gives anything but very limited training on 'how to behave like a reasonable adult', which is all this shit is. It's corporate retail, not a high-class restaurant.

>>834979
Maybe you are creeped out by the jingle they play every 5 minutes telling you to save big money.

>>835159
I have worked at both Menard's and Home Depot. At Menard's I got absolutely no training of any kind. Home Depot at least made me watch some videos.

I love and do all my shopping at Home Depot. I despise Lowes. Every time I go to Lowes no one knows what the hell im asking for but the second I'm at Home Depot they point me in the right direction. Home Depot is my go to for home improvement stuff but when we were looking to tile our bedroom we we turned off by the cost. Ended up going to a local warehouse instead.

>>834953
Remember HD will match the 11% off rebate of Menards

>>834979
i thought i was the only one who noticed that.

>>835058
this is the aisle to find 4chan

>>835202
Retail side ? I was a yard dog for 6 years

How do you feel about being basically forced to donate to that charity thing for other employees? I found that pretty weird. Homedepot seems to push a hard you're our slave but we're nice masters so they like it type of philosophy.

>>834950
HD is an international chain.
>>835227
This. Plus they give it as a discount at the register, not as a rebate. Home Depot price matches and beats Menards prices by 10%. So if a product is cheaper by a penny at Menards, I save 10% on it. Pretty sweet.

>>835227
They won't match the free stuff.

>>835224
why would you tile a bedroom :(

>>835231
At Menard's I was at the paint desk and at HD I am in hardware.

>>835232
I signed up for it but then emailed them later and had it cancelled.

>>835232
Remember though, unions are bad and we don't need them. The managers have open door policies!

Also the chants and shit at store meetings.

I actually know a lady who worked at HD for something like 1-2 weeks and her son was killed in a boat accident and Home Depot fund did actually donate a couple thousand dollars to her to help with funeral costs.

>>835302
>Also the chants
i fucking loathe those. had an ASM (asst store manager, home depot looooooooooves acronyms) who would never do the chant if he was the only one doing the meeting because he told us he thought it was demeaning. I liked that guy.

>>835302
>>835304
We have never done any chants at our meetings. I didn't even know they existed.

why the fuck doesnt menards sell dewalt tools in the store?

>>835306
you don't have the GIMME AN H GIMME AN O bullshit?

lucky you. fortunately, i hardly ever work mornings, so i am rarely sucked into those

Another Home Depot associate here, I work in the garden department if anyone has any questions. Garden also covers pesticides, herbicides, cleaning chemicals, grills, mowers and other power tools for yard stuff.

One word of advice: if you come in looking for a mower/trimmer part, KNOW WHAT MACHINE YOU HAVE. The number of people expecting me to find a tiny, specific part without a model number or even the brand name is ridiculous. I can find what they need sometimes anyway, but holy hell it's annoying.

>>835314
i love that shit. had a guy ask where the window screens were. showed him where, asked him what size window he had. he responded with the usual stupidity "i dunno, standard size".

there is no such thing, dipshit, especially in an east coast city where a third to half the buildings are 100+ years old

>>835224
I work at Lowe's and I'm not a complete retard. Far from it, I'm pretty fucking competent.

Need to know where something is? Great. Need to know how to build something? I can tell ya.

Now what I won't do is advise you in electrical stuff or plumbing stuff. I could probably rig up a sewage system that works, but it probably wouldn't be to code based on where you were doing said plumbing. Same with electrical stuff... I'm not an electrician and these things have gotta be done to city code.

Basically, hire a certified electrician or plumber to do that stuff. Come to me when you wanna frame a house or something, or do some finish carpentry or even do something nifty like fabricating something out of metal.

>>835157

Yeah, I noticed the switch to Wilde punches. Tight.

>>835308
We only did them at quarterly meetings.

>>835325
>electrician and these things have gotta be done to city code.

National code mainly. Most state and city codes are just amendments or weird shit.

i see my shits not tight

>>835302
Time for morning excercise! Am I in fucking elementary school? lol at the unions are bad videos. That was my favorite part of working there was watching those stupid videos because you could basically just sleep. I only worked there for three weeks though until my old job begged me to come back and gave me $22/hr. I felt bad for the people that HAD to work there. Also, the old people working there taking all the little patches and stickers stuff so seriously. I guess it's not hard to motivate stupid people.

>>834910
What cordless drill do I buy? preferably spending up to $150.

I can get an older Ryobi 18v for free, but I'd have to buy batteries, which are almost as much as a new drill alone.

>>835290
To make it easier to clean after the aisle 15 party...

>>835353
Well that makes sense then.

>>835346
When I worked there, I set my own hours. I refused to work mornings. Only ever did it a few times when I covered for someone.

My store was really weird. It was opened later than most of the ones around it, so there were a lot of lifers there. Not the old lady cashiers that can't find a new job but the people who worked there before the pay drop who make $30+ an hour. They weren't brainwashed. The 50 year old single lady cashier was the one who you had to watch out for because she would tattle on you like a child because retard loyalty.

>>834910
What is the worst product you carry?
Like, the one that gets returned the most and/or customers complain about

>>835349
Ryobi often does big bundle sales. The latest was a 18v drill, hammer drill, reciprocating saw, two batteries, a bag and a lantern for like, $150. That said, Milwaukee and Dewalt are probly the best quality that i'm aware of.

>>835401
Probably speedwall paint. You can't talk idiots out of it because of the price, and 4/5 times, they'll come back in complaining their paint can is defective because that shit's so watery and has such bad coverage.

Also, Cree light bulbs had a batch that was fucking up on the regular. People weren't happy that their $20 LED was going in a month. That hasn't happened in a while, but for a good chunk of the end of last year, we were getting them back on a daily basis.

Im only here to hate on you for being an employee of a corporate box store instead of a local lumberyard, like me. The customers we have range from hardened pro contractors to drunk repairmen and methed out roofers. I always figured the honeydews and white bread weekenders shopped at home depot, but my customers hate out Home Depot and Lowes because no one knows where to find shit and the service sucks fat donkey balls. Youre the reason why our treated yard has gone without a protective roof shed since its inception, and our boards get dried out and warped in the hot, humid southern heat. Fuck you

>>835416
i'd laugh at you, but you're in the south. you've suffered enough as it is

>>835432
Low cost of living, cheap as fuck rent, low cigarette tax and inexpensive gas. Get in good with the Old Boys club and you're set for life. Yeah, the coworkers talk too much about football and choose me, (the atheist moderate), to channel their political angst, but our gun laws are lax and the population is low. Its no worse than any other place, just a whole lot of poor black people, but the races tend to segregate themselves for the most part. Does Home Depot sell everything you need to kill someone and get away with it? We do.

>>835450
i don't smoke, walk to work, the coworkers are apparently inbred jesus freaks, don't care about owning a gun and yea, pretty sure the HD i work at can sell me enough muriatic acid, a reciprocating saw and enough contractor bags to make it happen.

>>835451
*you*" coworkers are inbred jesus freaks, sorry.

>>835452
fuck me i drank too much in this pre-fourth pre-gaming. time to get to bed so i can work 8 hours for no reason tomorrow! at least there'll be free grilled stuffs to eat while i'm on the clock.

>>835451
Huh, not bad. But can you call your supervisor an asshole and flip him the bird like its how you're supposed to interact with a superior? In all honesty I hate my fucking job, mostly because of dumb fuck customers. But, it does have its moments, like when the old black truck driver who doesnt give a fuck tells my boss to fuck himself.

>>835349
not op but dewalt 20v li-ion

>>835395
>The 50 year old single lady cashier was the one who you had to watch out for because she would tattle on you like a child because retard loyalty.
No need to explain why she's single. She'll most likely stay that way.

Do you guys custom cut acrylic?

>>835541
no

>>834910
how do i fix a leaky wooden roof?

>>834910
What the fuck is a bootleg slip n slide?
Is there some Godforsaken place where it is illegal to put some plastic and a sprinkler on a hill?

>>835816
Nah. Basically they mean a diy slip and slide. The derp didn't want to buy the real thing, he just wanted to make his own.

What things are worth purchasing from Home Depot? What should you avoid like the plague?

>>835823
What.
It's not Hazard Freight.
Don't buy shitty Husky stuff and expect it to last.
Don't buy bottom-tier paint.
Check wood before you buy it.
Common sense, really.

>>835823
Cheap, made in USA, its a good size to put some stuff in.

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Husky-16-in-Tool-Box-with-Metal-Latch-209267/203668044

>>835314
Fasteners are the worst for this.

>Customer: I need nails for my nailer.
>Me: Okay, do you know what size they are? Angle?
>Customer: No.
>Me: Do you know the brand of your nailer? Approximate size? Is it a brad nailer? Finish nailer?
>Customer: Nope.
>Me: ...
>Customer: I think it's maybe yellow.

>>835870
I was shopping in HD one day in shorts, sleeveless cut shirt, and sandals. Still had a woman try getting me to help pick out nails. I know HD doesn't have a strict uniform, but no orange apron means customer. I know I sound like a dick, but I was concentrating on my project, and trying to calculate the screws and bolts I needed. I didn't have time to imagine hers.

>>835876

>not calculating what you need before you actually go

>>835877
really you are better off ordering what you need online and waiting for them to tell you it is ready. otherwise you could go in and find that the store does not stock what you want or they are out of it. if you order it online ahead of time you can just wait for the email then pick it up at the service desk.

even if you need something that same day you can order in stock items and they will pull it for you. it is supposed to be done within a couple of hours but that is not always the case.

>>835877
Many times, I'm designing the project at the store because I need to see the item in my hand and test fit things together, because what I planned changes when I get to the store and fasteners or other materials are different than I thought they had. My wife just sees I'm thinking and disappears to the garden section. I don't just throw stuff together, I got to be creative and do something most people don't do. like making a light fixture from copper pipe and a mason jar, copper pipe for conduit and jar for encasing the light bulb for over the shower. Pipe fittings and electrical fittings do not bolt together, I had to find the right fittings to work together before I spent a bunch of money and have to return most of the items. Just easier to figure that stuff out at the store.

>>835878
Not a chance in this world would I trust HD, Lowe's, or Menards clerks to put my order together, especially when wood is involved. Have you ever tried building a deck from a delivered kit, never again. 1/3 boards were junk.

>>835886
They have to scan the barcode of each item as they pull it so there is no chance for them to mess up. As for the quality of the lumber it would depend on how much the person pulling it cares to look at them. Worst case scenario you would look at it before you took and could demand different pieces.

>>835870
>I bought it about 10 years ago (by which they mean 1980)

>>835902
I work retail as well. Most often situation.
>costumer:Where's (item discontinued for months-years)?
>Me:We don't carry it.
>costumer: *stares at me hard* I bought it here last week.
It goes down hill from there.

Second to that is.
>costumer:I saw this item on the other side of the country, why don't you carry it?

>>835609

rip the leaking old woods off and replace with new wood

>>835907
>rip the leaking old woods off and replace with asphalt
FTFY

>>835876
>I didn't have time to imagine hers.
home depot is full of desperate housewives trying to get nailed. but why did she waste her time with you, the sandals should have told her how gay you are.

>>835883
waterproof electrical fittings use pipe thread

>>835887
>Worst case scenario you would look at it before you took and could demand different pieces.
this happens on every lumber order. no one GAF about which boards they pull for you, either you take your shitty wood, or we then go cherry pick whatever's left

>>835965
Either way you have to look through the lumber so I don't see the big deal, at least some of what they pulled will be usable. Really though HD doesn't have a lot of good lumber in the first place. If you are so anal about it maybe you should try going somewhere else.

>>835816
>bootleg slip n slide?
Its kinda like I want to 'mod' my phone case
>paint or dye it a different color

sounds cool bro...

>>835922
It wasn't something that needed water proofing, it was I wanted copper pipe to be the conduit for the light. I soldered all the copper fittings. Get out of here with that pipe thread crap.

>>835920
I got a hot wife, I don't have time for a woman 20 years older.

>>835979
Why I go to Menards, their lumber yard is great. Much larger selection on wood. I could buy a 1"x12"x12' black walnut board if I want. It's very expensive, but they have it, all sanded pretty wrapped in plastic.

>>835979
>Either way you have to look through the lumber so I don't see the big deal
that is the exact opposite of what i just stated. all anyone looks for when fulfilling a lumber order is that they're all the actual product ordered. here, lemme spell it out for you:

let's say you want 20 8x2x1 pressure treated boards. i'm pulling the first 20 in the bin because they all have the same sku. you can easily see if it's the wrong item, because it won't be the same size or it won't be pressure treated. there's not a chance in hell i'm going to set aside the 12 or however many look bad, pulling 12 more and checking those and removing the bad 4 and repeating this process until you've got 20 beautiful looking ones while i've got to put the other 20 i've set aside back on the shelf.

either you are content with what was pulled or say "nah, i need better ones" and go rummage through the bins yourself. if you happen to be some little old lady, i'll probably be nice enough to do it for you (i've done this).

As someone who is starting his own home improvement projects and has no tools. What should a bare bone toolbox have inside?

>>836232
No tools from home depot that's for sure.
The worst of the big box tools

>>836232
cordless drill, hammer, phillips & flat screwdrivers, crescent wrench, needle-nose pliers, duct tape, electrical tape, thread seal tape, wd40, utility knife, putty knife/scraper, nails, screws, anchors

>>834910

Given the number of times you post this thread and for the length of time you've posted them, are you ever going to get a real job?

>>836264
Cashier at home depot is a career job

>>836264
>>836270

>make thread a couple times per year
>have worked at HD for <3 years
>like easy job, adequate pay, very good benefits
>have already been promoted twice in this timespan

yea, i think i'll keep this job for a little while longer. thanks for thinking of my future, tho

quick question here about plumbing.
we recently changed to new water saving toilets that flush with like a gallon of water.
I've noticed that i sometimes have a few kernels of corn floating in the bowl that refuse to go down.
I never had this problem before with the older larger tank.
Does Home depot sell something to fix this problem?

>>836282

You make this thread every fucking month dude. Don't lie; this shit is archived.

>>835314
Y u guys no stock stump remover with potassium nitrate? It was hard to jihad this 4th of july, i had to go to a lowes a dozen miles away to find some for smoke bombs since 3 local HD's didnt have any

>>836394
I had that same problem. I replaced it with a bit pricier model, works much better. Don't go cheap on new toilets, they don't flush the crap away and clog easy. Take the time to look at flush ratings.

>>835290
in some parts of the world such as SE asia, central and south america (parts of eurpoe?) and even southern USA (FL especially) where its always hot and humid tile floor makes a lot more sense than wood and especially more sense than carpet. but up north, yeah tile in a bedroom seems tacky, cheap or weird. especially on a 2nd floor.

>>836215
That isn't the opposite at all, I don't think you know what that word means. If you order lumber and they pull bad pieces you will have to go pull the good pieces yourself. You could skip the ordering process and go straight to that step but in both cases you are still looking through the lumber yourself. So like I said, you are looking through the lumber either way so I don't see what the big deal is. Even if every board they pull is bad you are doing the same work but there is no way they will pull all bad boards.

>>836029
>I could buy a 1"x12"x12' black walnut board if I want. It's very expensive, but they have it, all sanded pretty wrapped in plastic.

I am a member of a hackerspace, one guy regularly does this. I asked him why he doesn't shop at the lumberyard that is the same distance. He says lumberyards take too long and don't have a good selection.

>I can pick up the shit I need from a lumberyard faster than it takes to get through the menards checkout.
>Lumberyard stocks literal tons of hardwoods in a great variety.

You'd think the guy makes bank and just values his time. Nope level 1 help desk and usually fucks his own projects up by being a stingy jew.

>>836282
Dude, I worked at home depot. The benefits are shit. I mean it's better than none, but honestly, wait until you land a real job. Also their manager training is such utter bullshit. Have fun with it, if you go that route.

>>836282

>adequate pay

$9 an hour is adequate?

>>836408
sure pull up the archives, nignog
>>836451
you seem to have reading comprehension troubles, so i'll explain it again in small words.

i am not doing extra work on your order. i am grabbing your exact order with the first X items my hands touch that have the proper bar code. i am not going to grab and inspect 35 pieces for your 20 piece order and then put back the 15 shitty ones.

>>836480
shrug, i've got a matching 401k, health/dental and stock options. that's not shabby at all, especially given that it's an easy retail job.

>>836540
$9 is nowhere near what i get paid. i wouldn't be working there (or anywhere) for anything close to that.

>>836551

Google "Ask a guy who works here anything" site:warosu.org

Pages and pages and pages of your egotistical bullshit.

>>836417
Yeah, for some reason we only stock one stump remover in stores and it's just sodium metabisulfate. Spectracide's stump remover uses potassium nitrate, but it's online only. Best place to get it is online in bulk, much cheaper.

>>836551

>$9 is nowhere near what i get paid. i wouldn't be working there (or anywhere) for anything close to that.

what do you make an hour?

>>836561
>"Ask a guy who works here anything" site:warosu.org
cool, let's google that.
>first result, this thread.
>second result Apr 3 and Jan 18
>third result, the same Apr 3 thread
>four: Aug 14, 2014
>five: same jan 18
>six: mar 10 2014
>7: Dec 11 2013
>8: oct 31 2014
>9: sep 13 2013
>10: jul 7 2013

all other results are duplicates. so this is thread #8 instead of #6. my bad you gigantic whiny faggot.

>>836564
a few cents over $13/hr. I forget the exact # to the penny

>>836575
>all other results are duplicates. so this is thread #8 instead of #6. my bad you gigantic whiny faggot

Sorry to point out that you're an attention whore who makes shit for money. Maybe you can ask one of those guys at the contractors check out for an apprenticeship and have a real job with real money.

>>836579
or i can make enough that combined with my other income, pays all my bills, have enough to add into savings and ira's, lets me walk to work, and isn't hard.

money's nice and all, but there are plenty of other jobs out there if i want to make some of those trade-offs. like being able to walk to work, or makes me bust my ass. i'm perfectly OK with being a debt free person putting away some small amounts each month for my senile years.

only reason i make these threads is because people post in them. even if it's gigantic whiny faggots like yourself who no one gives a fuck about

>>836581

However you want to justify it man. Enjoy that 3.5% match!

Why do Home Depot sell pvc electrical masts?

>be retard who wants to fuck shit up as cheaply as possible
>get help from the guy wandering around in that isle looking to help people
>I'm already in the right isle but he says he'll help
>I point at PVC mast and say I'll get this since it's considerably cheaper compared to its metal counterpart
>He says I shouldn't because of codes
>ask why HM sells it
>uhhh
>"well sir, if you are going to buy this I can't be apart of this"

I should've told him that he shouldn't of been part of HM if the sell things that go against code.

>>836592
i'm actually not seeing any on the site, so perhaps we don't anymore because of code issues?

>>836592
Pretty sure they are or at least used to be in code. I'm 100% sure they were at one time.

>>836592
I had a HD guy try to sell me one for an outdoor light I wanted to put up. I still went with the metal because I knew the light would catch wind, and plastic would fail sooner.

>>834979
if you want the rich old man style, go to ace

>>835016
11

Once upon a time, I considered working at Home Depot. I had done a lot of remodeling, and home improvement projects, in addition to many years experience in various fields of residential, and commercial construction. The store near my house had hiring signs up, so I completed the application / test on the computer in the store.
Within a day or two, I got a call from HD headquarters. The guy was really enthusiastic about hiring me. He said my scores on the application were the highest he'd ever seen. He wanted me to manage a new store they were opening, and wanted me to start NOW.
I explained that with two kids in school, etc. it would be impossible to move immediately. HD did not offer any relocation expenses or sign-on bonus. If they had, I would have considered maintaining two households, until the end of the school year, but I would have been unhappy being away from my family.

I said I'd be happy to work at one of the local stores, but moving on such short notice just wasn't an option.

He said, we like to start our stores with a new manager, so it'll be "your store". Not that I couldn't have handled it, but it seemed like a strange policy to recruit someone to manage a brand new store rather than promoting someone experienced from within the company.

Long story short, I didn't take the job, and Home Depot got along just fine without me.

>>836250
You forgot socket wrench, corded jigsaw and circular saw

Does anyone know if HD or another such store sells something like self-installable insulation that can be used in a basement room? I just moved into a downstairs room and while it's awesome during the summer I'd like to look into insulating the walls that are just bare original ones

>>836623
>we like to start our stores with a new manager
Sounds like BS to me, probably some dead-end 'manager' position.

>What thickness of drop cloth do you think would work best for a bootleg slip n slide?

I've had at least 3 people ask me that in the past week

>mfw old farts ask for visqueen

>>836660
>old farts ask for visqueen
http://www.visqueenbuilding.com/
home depot doesn't carry visqueen products, just chinese knock-offs

>>836652
If it was very recent, I'd agree with you, but if his story happened some years ago during HD's expanding time, sounds legit.

I worked with a former HD store manager, they had some good years where he was making bank. But now that things are slowing down for them, not so pretty.

>>836650
frame wall with 2x4, install and use 1x1 support to drill.

Now if you wanna get fancy with drywall do it all right

>>836551
>you seem to have reading comprehension troubles
No, I am afraid you do because the entire conversation was from the perspective of the customer, not the employee. Go back and check if you don't believe me. Next time you try condescending someone you should at least know what you are talking about.

>>836785
hoss, this is the thread where you ask the HD employee anything. as the OP, i am responding as the employee, not the customer. here, let's c/p the whole bit.
>>835886
random anon
> Not a chance in this world would I trust HD, Lowe's, or Menards clerks to put my order together, especially when wood is involved.
>>835887
you
>They have to scan the barcode of each item as they pull it so there is no chance for them to mess up. As for the quality of the lumber it would depend on how much the person pulling it cares to look at them. Worst case scenario you would look at it before you took and could demand different pieces.
>>835965
me
>this happens on every lumber order. no one GAF about which boards they pull for you, either you take your shitty wood, or we then go cherry pick whatever's left
note key words here. no one gives a fuck about which boards they pull for YOU. YOU take YOUR shitty wood.
this is when you started to go full retard and attempt to turn this upside down like a downie fresh prince
>>835979
you responding to me
>Either way you have to look through the lumber so I don't see the big deal
in which you randomly flip shit around.
>>836215
me, literally saying i will spell it out, making it abundantly clear that this is the perspective of the employee
>>>836451
you, being very, very slow.
>>836551
me, again, stating things in very simple words so you can catch up.
>>836785
you, finally stating you don't know what the fuck you were talking about because you live in opposite world.

>>836790
You are seriously stupid. "You" is consistently used to refer to the customer and "they" is consistently sued to refer to employees. If you can't see how much you have missed the meaning in these posts then I can't help you.

>>834985
Structural steels are usually quite specific, if you're cutting a garage door apature you don't want the builder turning up with an rsj that has a '30% off super Saturday savings!' Sticker on it..

>>835609
Have you tried slating it?

>>836642
Or just a saw, lazy bastards

>>835416
>works at a lumber yard
>nobody there can into making a roof

>>836790

not him but you've been a pretentious asshole throughout this thread. humble yourself, ive seen teenagers do your job.

>>836809
that's odd, 2 of the lumber yards in my area
engineer and manufacture trusses on site.
this expertise generates a good portion of their revenues.
their clients are builders, not fixer-uppies like depot.

>>836729
>happened some years ago during HD's expanding time

Yes it was many many years ago (90s) while HD was building hundreds of new stores.

>>836885
>going on 4chins
>getting blowback and not expecting it in return
f that. this is an anonymous burmese knitting site. i can be as dickish to the people acting stupid as i feel like. also, i've seen 13 year olds graduate college with computer degrees, i don't really care about any of that.

>>834910
Is it acceptable to test spray paint colors on the spray paint shelf?

>>837086
some donkeys do. everyone would prefer you use one of the million cardboard boxes holding stuff in the aisles.

like the one the spray cans are on

>>837092
it's not the same. cardboard dries the paint too fast so it looks like shit.
my project that i'll be painting is going to be made of cardboard, i'm building it out of metal. seeing the paint on metal is the only logical solution.
plan b: design the paint rack to show sample painted materials.

>>837060

Dude. Get over yourself. You ring up fucking customers.

>>837231
i... don't actually, i'm not a cashier

>>837308
Can't do math or count money, eh?

>>837319
prefer to not get paid 30% less than what i do now doing some of the most boring work possible?

> /diy/pshits.

Every time i go to HD there's some fucker asks if i need help, i always say "no, I'm good". The few times I decided to say fuck it and ask an opinion on something or advice, they always look at me like i whipped out my dick, or ask them where something is they have no fucking clue. One time, looking for machine screws of a certain thread pitch guy asks if i need help, i tell him what I'm lookin for. Now there's some smelly faggot standing in my way looking the same as I was. Hands me the wrong shit, says "this should work", gets offended when i say "no it won't". In the tool section, look for driver bits, in front of the things, trying to fig out if i should get the 2 pack or 5 pack. "Can i help you with something?" Need something from a high shelf. NOBODY THE FUCK AROUND. Go find someone,
>tell them need shit from up there.
>"Ok I'll get someone."
>Now avoided like the plague. 10 mins, no one.
>15 mins. Go get someone again.
>10 more mins. Go to the desk, they page someone. Can actually hear it over the speakers.
>10 more mins. Go back to the desk. "Wow, nobody helped you yet?" Page again.
>Stay by the desk. 5 mins. Girl actually goes to get someone.
>Gone like 8 mins. Comes back with some fat slob.
>"What do you need?" I say that up there.
>"Oh, ok ill ber right back".
>10 mins. Girl goes to find fat slob again.
> Comes back with fat slob and old guy
> old guy gets thing while fat slob watches.
> girl says thanks for being patient
> nottheguythatmakesscenesatstores.gif
> "need help loading it"
> "no, you've helped enough for this year"

The only reason i go there is they undercut all the good stores into going out of business. Don't glorify your monkey tier job. You're all worse than the fags at the auto parts stores that try acting like they know more about cars than everyone.

>>837330
If i need to know something, I'll read up about it. Not ask someone who can't get a job in the industry of the department they're in. Cuz laziness, or incompetence, physical handicap, or whatever. There's way more resources available than the bozos that sell parts to guys that actually do the work.

>>837321
So instead of 9.55, you'd get 8.50

>>837308

What do you do then? Mix paint? Load my bags of limestone? *insert other menial task here*?

This thread would be worth it if you were one of the employees in the mid 90s. One of those old timers that retired from a trade and did the shit part time and actually knew what the fuck he was selling or talking about.

Actually overheard an HD employee selling Kwiksets Smart Key line as "great security". I couldn't hold my tongue so I proceeded to show the couple he was talking to a YouTube video of how they could be opened with a screwdriver.

Home Depot is staffed by garbage these days.

>>834910
Lol so much butthurt in here because apparently OP got the job that these other faggots wanted.

Do you think I could just spackle over this and repaint it? Painting decided to an hero a while back and took a chunk of the detail off.

Landlord is coming over and don't want her to shit a chicken

>>837330
I occasionally get the HD guy who decides he's going to try to explain what I'm looking at.
>Wife and I looking at garbage disposals
>HD guy: need help?
>Us: Nah, we're good.
>HD: (pointing at a tool) You'll need a special tool to.....
>me cutting him off: Go away.
I've installed a few garbage disposals. We were only debating whether we wanted to sink money into a new one or not bother. Besides, the special tool he was about to tell me about, comes in the box. I still have one from the last disposal I installed. I wasn't out to sound like a prick, but he interrupted my wife to begin with.

>>837413
Lmfao... yeah right. My friends brother works there. He's autistic. Not like joking autistic. Literally autistic. Diagnosed and everything. HD guys can just stay outta the way, let me find what i need, fuck i can even do the cash register myself, and go back to doing my real job. The only reason they're there is to help the other autists that don't know which way the fan blows.

>>837429
Painting will make it less noticeable but it will never match.

>>834910

the doorway between my living room and kitchen has a raised lip due to the fact that the apartment used to be carpeted. I stub my foot on it all the fucking time. What can I buy to pad that motherfucker?

>>836581
Do what I did bro. I got out after being a DH for several months.

Got a job as a Custodian at an elementary school. Work was easy as hell, far easier than HD. Don't have to deal with customers. Benefits are amazing.

My nights:
Show up and talk to the teachers or lunch ladies for 30min-1hr.
Take a half hour break.
Empty garbages for 1 hour.
At this point the building is empty.
Go eat the left over food that the lunch ladies left me in the fridge.
Put in my headphones and listen to audiobooks while vacuuming with a backpack vacuum I streched it out to 2 hours.
Go take an hour long lunch and shitpost on my phone.
Take 15 minutes to replace soap and toilet paper in the bathrooms.
Use cool pressure washer to blast toilets from across the room takes about 45 min.
Go take a break.
Drive around the school on an autoscrubber until 15 minutes before I leave or until the battery gets low.
Check all the doors and make sure no teachers are left in the building.

I got $19.26/hr and was home by 11pm every night. About once a month I had to setup for an event at the school, but then I got to skip all of my other work.

The only downside was that I worked alone, but for some people that's a plus.

>>837412
>Actually overheard an HD employee selling Kwiksets Smart Key line as "great security". I couldn't hold my tongue so I proceeded to show the couple he was talking to a YouTube video of how they could be opened with a screwdriver.

You always post this. Most people are not into "locksports" like you and really can't be bothered to look up each set of locks on the market to see how easy they are to open. Not to mention it's irrelevant. When I break someone's front door in to rob them, I'm not going to get out my lockpicks and play cat burglar.

>Home Depot is staffed by garbage these days.

WHY DOESN'T A RETAIL STORE PAY TRADESMEN 60K/YR TO WORK IN THEIR STORES SO I CAN GET FREE ADVICE!!!!

Because Carlos and Sindi are 18 and will do it for $10/hr and be loyal because it's more than they would make in any other retail chain.

>>837526

This is the first time I've ever posted that story on here. Feel free to check the archives. And, since you can't read, I said screw driver. As in, you stick a flat blade into the keyway and apply torque and it opens. No lock picking about it.

Home Depot never paid tradesmen that much either. They don't actively pursue retirees like they used to.

>>837413

Who the fuck would willingly work at Home Depot these days? Why would I be butthurt over someone having a job that pays, I assume, 4 to 5 times less an hour than what I make?

I got out of residential work because home owners, like Home Depot employees, are clueless idiots that need to be spoon fed. Give me NET 30/60 over that any day.

What's a decently priced indoor door that's sturdy enough to have a pet door cut into it?

>>837321
i get paid nowhere near either dollar amount. if i did, i'd work elsewhere.
>>837412
i remember you! you post that every time. yea, i don't know fuck all about locks. not my dept or anything i ever learned.

i CAN sell you an entire kitchen. i CAN answer pretty much every question fathomable in the paint dept. I CAN handle lighting, garden, building materials, millwork and specialties. what do i actually do? all of it, because i bothered to learn it. i spent my day day doing simple shit (again, ease is part of why i like this job) ranging from: selling appliances, arranging for an installation of 3 water heaters, helping some couple pick out 4 grand worth of flooring, getting some dude's HD credit card an increased line of credit, attended a department meeting, trained a pair of new employees, cut keys, threaded pipe, mixed paint, cut lumber, hop on the returns register, lent a hand to the hardware associate taking down a bay of products that's getting located elsewhere in the store, set up delivery for a pair of grills and helped customers with their normal bullshit.

is it hard? not really, it's retail. but people like myself are why our store does well on our customer service measures, because i'm actually good at my job and give a shit about doing whatever job i'm on right.

>>835416
Just today I went to a local lumberyard because I believe in supporting local business and this kid gives me half good boards while I'm watching.

I get a call and this nig thinks I'm not paying attention starts giving me some warped shit.

Hell nah have him put back 4 and get me 4 good boards. He gave me one with a few chips on the end but it was ok because I wasn't going to use all 8 feet.

>>837429
looks like you have a textured paint or maybe a paint that was thickened before being brushed on? hard to tell from a pic. take off a quarter-sized chunk and bring it to the paint desk. they probably can't color match it into the sand finish, but you can buy the additive and just mix it up yourself.

try and get a stiff brush and try some swirls.

>>837504
get a transition, or if you want to be weird and pad it, try some weatherstripping, since that's a small amount of foam with some sticky backing already on it.

>>837600
any solid slab. i hate putting pet doors on hollow-core

>>837696
>any solid slab. i hate putting pet doors on hollow-core
Hollow core isn't impossible, if you cut into the hollow part, glue in filler wood to frame it up. We had to do that when my father in law bought a hollow core door for a door frame that was a weird custom size. He cut the door and became stuck because he didn't have money for a new door. So I grabbed a tape measure, cut a piece of wood to fit inside the opening, glued and clamped. That door is still holding up. Later, I wanted to Dutch the door to the utility room because didn't want little kids getting in, but the cats needed to get to their litter. It was hollow, so did the same thing, and screwed a 1"by board to the top edge of the bottom half after my little door rebuild. It's still there.

>>837688

>cut keys

No. You loaded a machine that did it for you. You don't even use manual or semi-automatic duplicators. There is no skill in putting the key to be duplicated in one slot, the blank in the other, and pressing start. That's why you guys have such a set up: you were all too fucking dumb to operate an actual key machine so they had to simplify it for you.

>>837806
That cracked me up when I first saw those new machines. I have a cousin who has been a self employed locksmith for a few decades. Back when I was a kid, he had me work with him at his shop. It took me 20 minutes to master the ever so complicated key duplicators, manual and semi-automatic. He also trained me to work a key fabricator. Instead of a holder for the original key, you had two wheels to spin to move the blank and cut the grooves. A little card was inserted and then simply moved the blank according to that card and a code. At 15, taking a box of ignitions, a book, and cutting new keys for each ignition. It makes me laugh the way those clerks act all "Stand clear, let a master handle this."

how disgrunteled do i have to be before i can get a discount?

>>837846
Last week I flirted with this whale hag and she gave me a 5% discount.

>>837806
>>837834
i know! and yet, it's amazing how fucking lazy most of my coworkers are that they don't know how to do this. frustrating, actually

>>837846
depends on the associate. with me? not really. find me a semi legit complaint and i'll take something off. no one in management gets mad at associates for doing this, and i've had some of them specifically commend me for constantly "taking initiative in solving customer issues".

"Can i have a discount?" won't work. "This box has been opened and i can't tell if there's a missing part" = sure

>>837863
>depends on the associate. with me? not really. find me a semi legit complaint and i'll take something off.
Back when I co-managed a Little Caesar's
>delivery order came in
>street address was same name as an apartment complex in opposite direction
>tell her ~45minutes (standard ETA)
>veteran driver went to the apartments first
>realized his mistake and called the customer
>before he got to her house she calls me up and starts cussing at me about my driver
>he gets there 30 minutes after order was received
>She calls again and demands a discount
>I tell her to pay the full price or no pizza
>she starts screaming and cussing at me
> I cancel the order and tell the driver to come back
>he sells her the pizza for $5
>her and her husband continues to call every 10 minutes for the rest of the night screaming and cussing at me
>hubby makes false claims that his dad owns controlling interest in Little Caesar's
>I tell him I want Redwings tickets
>he doesn't get I just called him a liar
>I put a ban on them in the computer
>They continued to call after we closed, but by then, I don't have to answer the phone
The best part, she called on my last day and I got to tell her she was banned. They don't understand, that kind of phone harassment is criminal. We had called the police before, I was being nice that night. If we had messed up, I would've had no problem giving a discount.

>>837549
I've seen you post on /diy/ that exact story before right down to I showed they a video on youtube on my phone.

It still makes no difference, a lock is to prevent people from easily entering somewhere you don't want them to.

>Home Depot never paid tradesmen that much either. They don't actively pursue retirees like they used to.

I know they didn't and they never will. They do actively pursue retirees and veterans, they just won't pay them more than $10/hr, so they won't take the job. Guess those retirees should stop being so selfish.

>>837552
>Who the fuck would willingly work at Home Depot these days?

18 year olds who want to make several dollars an hour more than McDonalds. Middle aged women who have no skillset other than cashier.

>>837806
>No. You loaded a machine that did it for you.

What, do you manually file each of your keys? We duplicate keys at my work all the time. (over 500 different keyholders) we have a key machine from the 70's that is original to the building. My 8 year old niece could master it with 15 minutes of training.

>>837846
>Act upset but not irate.
>Make sure management is nearby.
>Tell them you're going to call customer care.
>Sit back and enjoy as the store manager fellates you

Also the official discount levels for the store are:
Any person wearing an apron: $50
Department Head: $100
Assistant Manager: $500
Store Manager: $1000

A good rule of thumb is to read a guy's name off his apron in the dept, tell the cashier that Chuck in Hardware said to take off <$50. They'll generally just do it. If you want to avoid getting called out find a person who isn't currently working. Works best when it's busy because they'd rather not have angry people waiting in line because they called to check on a $5 discount.

>>837877

>What, do you manually file each of your keys?

Every Home Depot I've been to has fully automatic duplicators. No aligning the shoulders or manual adjustment just stick the original and blank in and start.

If your store has a semi-automatic machine congratulations. Realize, though, that surveys have shown that customers overwhelmingly don't return to have bad keys corrected. In other words, you guys think you've got it figured out because they're not coming back in droves.

You chucklefucks were the main motive behind self-automated key machine kiosks and the reason they're slowly putting them in your stores.

>>837888

And of those returned, Axxess eats the cost. When a high ratio occurs, they send techs out to calibrate the machine (which only has 2 calibration areas - spacing and depth). That's how little Home Depot thinks of their employees. They don't think you guys are capable of loosening two set screws and comparing the relationship betwen the guide and cutting wheel.

>>837891
>>837888
>i think i can make precision cuts better than a machine can

>>837893
They're both machines. The semi-automatic is adjustable on the spot. The manual is just means the operator moves the key against the cutter. The machine HD uses is safe enough for a small child. There is no exposed moving parts, and unserviceable if something needs to be fixed because the keys don't work. Then the customer is forced to either wait, or go somewhere else. Now, it isn't that the machine is a horrible idea in of it's self, it's a good idea for walmart clerks. The problem is the people who are trying to sell you power tools that could kill, have to use a machine that would rather piss off a customer than risk someone doing something stupid. It's like buying a real gun from a guy who nervously only shoots a nerf gun.

>>837893

They aren't self-calibrating you dolt. If the spacing or depth is off, they'll still cut the key and you won't know until you try the key or put calipers on it.

When I did residential work I heard the story every day "Home Depot couldn't copy my key so they recommended you."

A good friend of mine is a sales rep for the company that sells wal mart their transponder equipment. Years ago he was holding classes for their employees to teach them how to clone keys. He called me up and asked me to tag along because he knew they'd require help and he couldn't help all 30 or so. Anyways, during one of the breaks, we asked one of the managers if he was aware of the publics perception of them being bad at cutting keys. He was and corporate did to but they didn't care. They found that the average customer spends over $20 on a single visit to the store - who cares if they cut a bad key and have to eat a dollar? That's why their key machines are in the back of the building: you walk by other products to get there.

>>837899
i've worked at two stores, both key areas were in very prominent locations near the entrance/registers.
>>837896
>It's like buying a real gun from a guy who nervously only shoots a nerf gun.
the fuck does that even mean. you're butthurt that home depot doesn't use some other machine where you expect retail associates to do the job of a trained locksmith? you expect hardware/tools associates to demonstrate machines with moving blades 10x an hour as their hands are inches from the metal?

wow, you really are shortbus special.

>>837899
>They aren't self-calibrating you dolt. If the spacing or depth is off, they'll still cut the key and you won't know until you try the key or put calipers on it.
also, lmfao no shit. or you can also just eyeball it by holding them up against each other. you'll be right 99%+ of the time.

ONOES THEY DONT SELF CALIBRATE! WAH! oh gosh diddly darnit, whatever shall we do.

>>837904

You worked at Wal Mart?

>>837906

The point is that calibrating a key machine is easy as fuck and they don't even trust HD employees to get it right. Most machines have the instructions printed on them.

On a semi-automatic of manual machine, you only have to adjust the depth since the spacing is constant (shoulder guide is a solid piece). So, again, Home Depot doesn't believe their employees can loosen a set screw and adjust the stylus.

>>837909
i misread you, thought that was a home depot class, not walmart when i replied. my mistake

insofar as fixing the machine, i'm sure it's some liability issue with insurance. it's a lot easier to pass any sort of liability to the third party than it is to let us fix shit on our own.

>>837915

The machine shouldn't be on when adjusting. If OP has a manual/automatic machine at his store then operating it represents a larger liability.

>>837924
that's not what i'm getting at. if someone adjusts it wrong and something breaks, injuring someone, corporate pays miiiiiilllllions. that's what i'm referring to when i'm talking about liability, not someone adjusting it while it's on.

>>837925

You don't adjust the wheel or anything attached to any moving part. Just stop talking like you have a clue, please.

>>837927
enlighten me, oh shitlord. if cutting machine no worky, then by extension, something that controls the slicey/grindy things is not right.

therefore, we are either a) adjusting slicey/grindy things, or b) adjusting things that are connected to said slicey/grindy things.

first option would be things that go back and forth. second option would be things that make parts go back/forth.

either way, should anything go wrong, it's a lawsuit. hence, better for corporate dingdongs to bulletproof, so things have no option

>>837888
>If your store has a semi-automatic machine congratulations.

I don't work at Home Depot, I'm the Facilities Manager of a school district.

>>837937

We're not talking about machine malfunctions, dip shit. Depth adjustments.

>>837939

Awesome. And you're constantly cutting keys for 500 employees? I worked for a facility with nearly 5,000 employees and we processed a handful a week, mostly for new hires. You might want to learn about key control.

>>837904
>you expect hardware/tools associates to demonstrate machines with moving blades 10x an hour as their hands are inches from the metal?
I expect people selling tools to know how to work with tools. If they can't function within inches of moving blades, then they shouldn't be trusted with sharp objects in general. They must be hiring from the shortbus. Real hardware stores that hire people who really do know the job, do use the semi-automatic key cutters. You ask those folks a question, you get a real answer. If a person can't keep their wits about them when a motor is running, and metal is moving, then they don't have much wits to start with.

>>837950
If they knew how to use them they'd have a job using them instead of working the paint desk on Tuesday for $8.50/hr.

>>837953

Hey! You've solved the puzzle as to why this thread is useless. If OP knew shit worth sharing he would be making legit money elsewhere.

If anyone has a product related question you call the fucking store. No one gives a shit about benefits or your stories. I don't post stories from my job although they're far more interesting (finding dead bodies, having guns pulled on me, etc.).

>in b4 hard work

Pussy.

>>837949
>I worked for a facility with nearly 5,000 employees and we processed a handful a week, mostly for new hires. You might want to learn about key control.

Fucking tell me about it. It's teachers. The way it's structured is fucking retarded too. If any of my Custodial staff loses a key, they get reprimanded and if it happens multiple times, can be fired.

If a teacher or any admin staff loses theirs, they just file a request for a new one. Nothing happens to them what-so-ever because of the compartmentalization of the staff. I can't reprimand a teacher because they don't report to me at all, they report to building principal then to superintendent. So if I want them reprimanded, I have to go to Director of Human services who goes to the Superintendent who goes down to their building principal who reprimands them.

Couple this with the fact that every classroom has to have a different lock for lockdowns, and that some teachers randomly have sub-master and master keys. It's a giant cluster fuck.

Exterior doors are all card keys, I strongly promote switching to all card keys in the building, but money.

So yeah, I cut probably 2-5 keys a week for the district on average. Keeping in mind that we only have one key machine for the entire district. It's also way higher at the beginning of the year where we can have dozens a week.

>>837982
are you really this butthurt? every time this thread comes up (8 times now over 2-3 years), it gets a hundred + replies that aren't you being a gigantic whiny faggot.

this isn't a "i know everything about construction and life" thread, this is an "ask a home depot employee anything" thread. i'm so sorry that no one who works at HD and happens to come to a ugandan weaving site cares to impart their encyclopedic wisdom on you is willing to do so.

however, people do actually post in here, sometimes even asking semi-legit questions. every single time this thread has happened, it's gotten 100+ responses, most of them unfaggoty like yourself. pic related.

>>838039
>I cut probably 2-5 keys a week on average.
oh, the horror

>>838039

Are you me? I run the access control/locksmith department of a major university. You're troubles are mine exactly. Sorry with what you have to deal with. It's the only bad part of my job.

>>838041

Oh fuck off clerk boy. No one gives a shit about your job.

>>838039
>oh, the horror
Yeah, it's a pretty big deal. This means we have to re-key every year. This means thousands of dollars a year. Which is funded by your tax dollars. All because some teachers don't think losing a master key that opens every lock in a school is a big deal.

>>838057
yet, you keep posting
>>838062
i was referring more to the amount of work that entails, not the ramifications, but ok

>>838064
>i was referring more to the amount of work that entails, not the ramifications, but ok

It's an added pain and it is technically my subordinate's job. She's just too retarded to be trusted with any responsibility.

>>838057
Maybe I need to change jobs?

>>838073

You know the drill with institutional work: red tape. Just part of the job unfortunately.

>>838064

>>838041

>oh, the horror

See, this is why you're an attention whore. You talk about why you stick with a job for shit pay because it's easy and then when someone describes work you perceive as easy you belittle them for it.

Of course, you probably don't see the hypocrisy because if you were well educated or well versed in an actual trade then you wouldn't be working for shit money.

Oh but you only need very little money because you live within your means? What a load of shit. my monthly overhead is small as fuck too but you know what? Extra money is awesome. I go on trips, I have a new car, I max out my IRA, and put more in my 401k by March then you do all year.

But yeah, keep justifying these threads and your shit job. I know your self worth must be low to be a 20 something doing a job that anyone with half a brain can do so I take back what I say, keep making these threads. You obviously need the attention.

Maybe one day you'll couple all the things you "learned" at Home Depot into an actual job. Think Home Depot is great? Get an institutional job. Astounding benefits, some of the highest pay for any trade industry, and the work is easy as fuck as long as you know what you're doing. Hell $13 an hour? Go learn to wire ballasts, cut ceiling tile, and other general maintenance tasks. You'll make twice that in your area and you'll actually learn something besides what aisle the tandem breakers are on.

>>838091
>You obviously need the attention.
Thanks! You understand me.

hey OP im a union carpenter, went to vocational school and an apprenticeship etc. i get laid off over the winter, wondering how much i would make if i were to like work in a department in there like part time

>>838150
How much do you think a minimum wage retail job will pay?

They dont care about your age or experience, unless of course you are a minor.

>>838186
i heard like the plumbing, electric, and carpentry "experts" make like 25+ an hour

>>834910
Perhaps if you weren't a smarmy dickhead attention whore, people might take you seriously and ask some questions. You start off with "/diy/pshits" and then proceed to pack up your bags and head to bragging camp. You can always expect everyone to try to knock you off your soap box when you show how much you don't belong up there. You quit your lame ass home depot job no one is going to care. No "oh no, anon quit, what ever shall we do now?" They'll just replace you in a day and not even think twice. You're just a single cog on a single sprocket in a gigantic machine that will keep going on if you just disappear. Next time you decide you want to "help" people don't start off on a high horse being a condescending prick.

>>838190
Closer to about 11$ an hour.

>>838150
you'll probably get like, $10-11, depending on where in the country you live
>>838190
that was years ago before they stopped paying people well.
>>838194
lol @ you

>>838194
>You're just a single cog on a single sprocket in a gigantic machine that will keep going on if you just disappear. Next time you decide you want to "help" people don't start off on a high horse being a condescending prick.

Not OP but this is literally everyone everywhere? When people die the world doesn't stop no matter who you are, it just keeps going.

If you don't like OP's thread why do you keep coming back in here? While I was slightly interested in your locksmith discussion could that be better served to having its own thread.

>>839172
>When people die the world doesn't stop no matter who you are, it just keeps going.
Yeah but some might give a shit. Nice job missing the point.

>>839172

I'm the locksmith and I didn't write that.

>>835007
Not once in my 1 year of working a cash register did I ever get a badge. Not even the 1 year marker made.

>>839287
I got three in my first week... Two for the exact same thing.

I was commended on how quickly I learned the layout of the store and where everything was, for having superior product knowledge, and for quickly rising to the top of the list for measures and turnovers in flooring.

They couldn't figure out how I did it. The trick? I transferred from another store with the exact same layout and products and they seemed to have missed that fact. Oh and the sales part was because I worked retail since I was 14 and know how to get people to commit to shit.

Not OP by the way.

>>839287
for starters, the register sucks wang and unless management makes a conscious decision to be extra nice to cashiers, you ain't getting shit.

secondly, and this plays on the first, it sounds like you had shitty management who doesn't like making the new people feel involved and happy and that stuff. smart head cashiers and management will go out of their way to give new people an award within the first couple months. it's a simple trick to inspire a bit of loyalty.9999

>>839211
>Yeah but some might give a shit. Nice job missing the point.
Some might but those people will die and the people they know and there kids will die and it will just keep going till you forgotten. Such is life.

>>834910

Is that your ranger parked out front?

>>839874
no, that is a stock image from GiS

>>837515
Not OP but that sounds awesome. How much weight do you have to lift? My back sucks and I'm limited to about 30 lbs.

Any fellow Kent Building Supply associates here?

>230 replies
tfw asked op a question like a week ago but too lazy to read the thread to see if he responded

>>836681
none in the USA

>>840229
>>837515

Same here. sounds like my dream job at this point.
because i'm tired of working around other people. don't mind being alone, even enjoy it.
just want a somewhat easy job with benefits, low stress

>>837695

We always get drywall delivered and there's usually two or three single boards with giant fucking gouges out of them, lumberyard pulls this shit all the time. They throw in free pencils occasionally though

>>834939
Discovered that this year. Definitely Menards>HD>Ace from cheapest largest inventory to most convenient and over-priced.

>>834979
Really? They seem more like they're just a glammed up warehouse to me.The product organization is really rough to boot.

>>840518
....I live close enough to a home despot, a menards, a lowes and a local ace hardware that I end up going back and forth between them for different things... home depot is better for dimensional lumber, lowes has a slightly better tool collection, menards has good wood, and ace is perfect for small bits/pieces parts...

>>840518
>The product organization is really rough to boot.
I've noticed that too, but arranging a store is an art form. Grocery stores tend to follow a general pattern, but bigger hardware stores really haven't agreed to do the same.

>>834910
What is the strangest/funniest thing that has happened?

>>835314
Last time I was in there they refused to order me a ton of Ammonium Nitrate without seeing my drivers license. Fuck you.

>>841057
either the guy who wanted to build the windmill on the roof of his building or the girl who wanted to paint the inside of her microwave

How many people are usually working loss prevention and how often do you see the loss prevention officer stop someone?

>>840229
>>840441

For the weight, 30 would probably be too low. Your day to day job you probably never lift over 30, you dump class garbage cans (weigh 1-10 pounds) into a garbage on wheels and that is dumped into dumpster with a machine.

You do have to do some setups though which might require you dragging some furniture around. The real pain in the ass is the last week of school. That's when the teachers and students throw out all of their papers and shit. I've have big recycling bins reach near 100 pounds during then.

On the bright side, they're pretty accommodating about lifting since a lot of the old guys had to dump heavy ass shit by hand for years before they required hydraulic lifts to do it.

Night custodial and security are pretty much perfect NEET jobs. They both pay a livable wage, and involve fairly little social interaction.

>>841281
0-1 they usually work at multiple stores. I've seen 2 at once before. They're really easy to spot in most stores if you look out. They're the ones that wonder around for hours with no cart or product in their hands. Sometimes they use cell phones to talk to other loss prevention or a guy on cameras. The tell tale sign is when they play secret agent and peak around corners.

They also spend 75%+ of their time in Hardware in HD because tools.