The Home Depot New Orleans Reviews

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Sometimes management is not always on your side and may want to do their own thing so approach some topics with caution. There are some politics at store level at most stores. The paid time off could be better starting out, but once you get tenure, it's not bad.

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Behind the times on inventory control/management.

Kronos time management system is cumbersome

They round your time into 15 minute block increments, kinda stingy and opens the company to potential wage theft lawsuits.

No real deal health insurance for part-timers.

Too many consolidated departments == increased turnover and limited advancement opportunities. (Kind of a pro, if you think about it while twirling your mustache)

Computer based training doesn't work for well for product knowledge.

The Homer Fund pushiness. They hit you hard in orientation and have the store manager come and throw a pity party for it by telling a super sad story from their $life_history.

MET team floats around the district too much.

Customer service machinery (wire cutting, key cutting, etc) seems like it's from the bad old days.

Too much pencil whipping of store safety checklists given it's a daily task for whatever $hourly_associate happens to show up that day.

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The stores are starting to short staffed and customers are looking for anybody to help them. While we don't mind doing that as well, it makes it harder to complete the job that we are actually supposed to be doing. In the merchandise service world this is a lower paying job.

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retail weekends nights turnover Part time

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Due to some less than subtle favoritism, the systems to reward those that go above and beyond. Also, there's more times than not going to be management who haven't been properly trained to appropriately interact with associates they disagree with.

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Morale has decreased, associates get used all over the store but aren't properly rewarded for their hard work, management schedules less people than needed and there isn't an employee discount.

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Will over work good ppl, shows favoritism, hostile enviornment, not protected by managers, terrible dept. supervisors

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limited hours, low pay,thats about it

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The Home Depot is totally about dictatorship that's what I get they are very contradictory here they want you to give your life and all your knowledge to the company that they didn't give you and they want it for free. They give you all the training and certification just for a title your pay does not reflex the title like specialist, certified and licensed, I always heard from the S.M., A.S.M and the D.S. That you do not need to know how to build a house to be productive and helping customers it's an home improvement store so knowing how to build a house should be valuable to them but that's the encouragement they give you, their are people that works are have worked in the construction industry and there knowledge and experiences doesn't stand for nothing in the pay they want you to do and know how to do everything in the building outside of your job title/position for the same pay which is $8 to $10 an hour and the success sharing is a juke the employees that makes the success sharing possible gets the smallest piece, all the success sharing goes to the Store Manager the Assist Store Manger and the Dept. Supervisor, why not split it evenly are give a bigger percentage to the associates we plays a big part in it. At this home depot there are authority figures do things purposely so they can write you up are fire you it like entrapment/premeditated creating an hostile environment there's no good leadership you have to go outside of your character to work there you have to be a back stabber, a rat, are a brown noser just to fix in all for $10. Some people wants to take advantage of what they do have to offer but it make it hard when you are uncomfortable and in fear of losing your job which open doors for mistakes since there are so big on safety always understaffed and want you to do the job of 5 men. You have to be full time to get decent benefits they only prefer to hire part timers who only gets discount programs that comes out of your check and no hours so every two weeks a about $350 to $500 are smaller is what you see for the kind of company and the money they make the pay sucks you can't make a living working there so you have to get a second job and they do give some people problem for having a second job unnecessary stress THIS IS AN AT WELL STATE / UNFAIR and that's what they lean on.

Cons

I work nights part-time, as I have a day job. The past year, I've been at a new store. I'm very disappointed in my new place. Most department heads don't do their job, there are 2 assistant managers that know what they are doing, and 2 that don't. I've seen the manager 2ce (store meetings) in the past year. I feel most of the work is put on my shoulders to run the department. I have to do packdown and put all freight up for my department, so they are getting two employees out of me. Almost everything in my department by Home depot standards require 2 people to lift it, but I'm told to do it or quit. No homer awards at this store, when they were frequent at my old store (plus a friendliest employee award for the district and two all star awards). Awards are given to some deserving employees, but more so "friends" here, and even department heads, which didn't happen at my old store. The store is also given a fund to feed the employees. This is for day shift only here. When the dayshift has food, any left overs are for afternoon/ night crew. My old store would have 3 different small parties for the shifts, with food only for them. Here for Thanksgiving, there was a ham bone left (no meat) and potato salad that had been sitting out all day. 4 night crew people got food poisoning. Christmas I was told I wasn't invited to the party because I hadn't been with the store a year (I transferred in September). They did have food for us at our last store meeting. My biggest complaint is the first phone. Here they are for the department heads, and are stored in their lockers. I've had one perhaps 6 times since January, only if I find someone forgot to "hide" it. We had a big walk recently, and I noticed after my picture was hung, stating I was the winner of an award. I asked about it, and was told they had to make it look nice for the walk. Didn't really happen. Our store gets good sales, because of the location, and being stocked well. I work with a lot of unhappy people though, and I see myself turning bitter. I don't like the person I'm becoming working at this location.