Home Depot Reviews in Miami-Fort Lauderdale, FL Area

Pros

Experience, knowledge growth, room for career growth

Cons

No Overtime. No set schedules, Assist managers only care for themselves and their prospective departments.

Advice to Senior Management

Dont have associates work 1--12 hour shifts and make them cut overtime. Assistant managers are big at undermining supervisor tasks, Store manager in some stores show up bare minimal times.

Pros

Great Benefits within Home Depot.
Scheduling conflicts.
Tools provided for all job duties paid by the store.
Knowledge on all products.

Cons

Management is inconsiderate, unproffesional and rude.
Low pay for the duties the job requires.
Workload is impossible.
Coaching in front of customers and employees.
Job duties changed depending on the supervisor or manager.
Too many clicks in upper management.

Advice to Senior Management

Management should be closer watched with how they treat people, hire outside of the company.
"A mouse can not fight a cat."

Pros

Quick advancement to low level management. Stable company with great job security. Great management and leaders at the top of the food chain.

Cons

Low pay. Extremely slow and poor advancement opportunities after the Department Supervisor level. Not much flexability in schedule. If you work at the Home Depot you can not have a second job.

Pros

Great benefits packages. Easy to learn systems. Overall good upper management.

Cons

Flexible schedule makes it difficult to balance life or another job with work.

Advice to Senior Management

Front line supervisors are usually unable or unwilling to properly do their assigned tasks.

Pros

Benefits some nice people one hour lunch small bonuses pay for some education if related to your job get to wear orange

Cons

very low morale under experienc managers unfair promotions must pay for own christmas party and must have at the store usualy terible communicatin

Advice to Senior Management

more considerate to employees think about their personal needs dont manage a department you dont know job yourself say thanks more stop picking small stuff work on big stuff

Pros

Flexible hours are good for going to school (college). Most customers are agreeable. The POS system is much easier and comprehensive than most retail companies I have seen. That being said, I don't think they value college education unless you can increase sales. However, I have been good at sales anyway by selling at least 50 EPP since I have been here since April. So, even at 45 y/o and with 12 years of military education and service I don't expect a raise or promotion when I get my B.A. degree in December.

Cons

Again, at age 45, I question what qualifications the company recognizes for promotion or raises. Our store has exceeded sales expectations, yet I have never seen "success sharing" in my paycheck even though they say that is the reason to increase sales. Furthermore, management is not transparent even when they have senior management "surprise visit" the store and no complaints are mentioned.

Advice to Senior Management

A press release that says you will hire 60,000 new associates is good Public Relations, but you need to be more transparent with salaries and opportunities to grow. Mandatory computer training was long and intense and I have used much of what I have learned. However, it is too much to remember unless you use it everyday. Reward associates that seek out knowledge and are proficient at using it.

Pros

Health benefits for part time associates.

Cons

The company focuses on unimportant tasks i.e making sure the wall is this color and painting it asap, or putting displays together when you have other important tasks to complete. Basically they worry more about store appearance than anything else. The managers are just bombarded by coporate so they don't care for what goes on in your store or what you did for your store. Like me and another co worker always used to say, "it's not what you did for them yesterday, it's what you did for them today". Which discourages people from working over all I found it dificult to stay motivated and continue with my job. At my store you had the people who did all the work and the poeple who would hide or take way to many brakes. Incase your wondering no I did not get fired I resigned...

Pros

Meet some great people. Both customers and employees. A lot of areas to relocate to if you needed to move.

Cons

Long hours, always negative feedback, nothing is EVER enough. They talk about family but don't really care about you seeing them....the job has to get done! Pay used to be great, now it is on a performance percentage scale. Must have right mix of "performers" and "improvement needed" even if you didn't.

Advice to Senior Management

Get real!!! A lot of your employees bust their tails for you! It wouldn't kill you to pat them on the back and let them know you appreciate them!!!

Pros

The pay is good if you have experience. The benefits are superior.

Cons

The problems are that they hire incompetent managers while letting competent would be managers languish. The communicayion is slower than the rumor mills.

Pros

Personal development
Learning to deal with difficult customers

Cons

Underappreciated in my work area

Advice to Senior Management

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