40 Funny Posts From Home Depot Workers Who Have Seen A Little Of Everything
Working at Home Depot looks like a trip. I like to imagine it’s mostly retired dads who ran out of projects at home and decided to get involved in everyone else’s weekend projects. Letting a Home Depot employee help you is practically a public service.
I walk in with the confidence of a guy who knows what he’s looking for. That lasts until I reach the first aisle. Then I’m staring at 200 nearly identical screws, calling my wife in the aisle, and asking her to remind me what I measured before leaving the house. Somewhere nearby, an employee is about to find out how little I know about the project I’ve decided to do myself.
They spend all day helping people like me turn a random idea into something that might actually hold together. I’d have plenty to say about that job, too. These posts from Home Depot employees on Reddit give the employees a chance to do just that.
1. Best Customer Comment Ever
2. Got A Job In My Major Field. Its Been Real. Peace Out
3. Yeah It Does That Sometimes
4. Where Is Your Dressing…oh Never Mind
5. Tell Me How You Really Feel
6. Lmao
7. Getting Even With The Not So Bright
As usual, I was trying to do my daily task of restocking the concrete mix out in the front. I was shocked to find this audacious driver. His car was full-blown parked. He didn’t even turn the flashers on, casually shopping. I did what I had to do and blocked him in.
Then some colleagues notified him with the overhead speaker. It took him about 10 min to finally respond.
I saw him make a couple of back and forth then I felt bad and picked the pallet.
8. Nice
9. I’m Sure It Will Be Fine
10. Tell Me You’ve Never Worked In Retail, Without Telling Me You’ve Never Worked In Retail
11. 1 Year Down, Time For New Apron
12. Uh
13. What I See When I Open Their Door And They Want To Cram In 2 Water Heaters And 3 Toilets And They Say “It’ll Fit, I’m Only Going Down The Street”
14. Found Our H-Cart In The Last Of Us Part II
15. Return Scammers Are Hilarious
“Im here to return this. I bought it earlier today and it was in the box just like this.”
Me: “……”
This is an old photo. But when the customer showed me this I said “there’s no way.” I called my supervisor over and showed her.
“Theres no way.”
The customer doubled down, called the police and said we were stealing from them when we refused to return this. Even after someone from our checkout team insisted they saw this customer earlier that day and the tool they bought was completely sealed. Zero signs of being a prior return.
The police shows up, we show them the item. The two cops look at one another.
“Theres no way.”
So they eventually stopped fussing and left. Came back the next day and had an employee that gave zero fucks and didn’t check the item to process the return for them.
16. How About Just Give Me The Raise??
17. Thanks Water!!
18. $9 For A Key? When I First Started At Home Depot In 2020 It Was $2.98 For A Decorated Key. I Understand Inflation Is A Thing But 3x The Price In 6 Years Is Insane
19. Someone Mailed Us Their Garbage
I have no idea what to make of this. Somebody literally mailed their garbage to our store through UPS. This is all from the same address.
20. Raises
21. 5 Years Difference
In 5 years from the left picture to the right picture so much has happened in my life, I feel like I’ve seen so much and know it’s not the end of it
22. Crazy Customer Review
23. How’d I Do
24. They Tried Cutting The Concrete Floor With No Water Or Ventilation
25. It Snowed Inside
Fire extinguisher fell and started spraying everywhere.
26. I Think My Store Wins The AI Slop War
27. Entitled Customers
Had a customer today tell me I should give him multiple bags of rocks for free as he “spends a lot of money” at HD. looked at how much he’s spent using his proxtra account.. who’s gonna tell him this is not impressive in the slightest.
28. You Think This Is Enough Signage?
29. Customer Asked Me To Bring Down This Penny Sku Item With The Op
Customer comes up to me wanting this penny sku (60 square foot shower door) that was thrown up in the worst spot possible. it spanned into the next aisle over and it was on the very top rack so it was really hard for me to bring it down safely. Went on to ask management and they told me to lay the door down into the open area on the right diagonally and slide it onto the safe-stocker of the Order Picker. The door couldn’t even fit in that direction either.
I told the customer multiple times that it is not possible for me to get this door down safely without risking losing my license or my job if the door falls off the lift. I told management about what happened and the customer (who spoke little English btw) kept following me around despite telling him that it is not possible for me to bring the door down.
30. Someone Returned A Water Heater Water Included
31. Take It Home Today With That Huge Dent In It
32. My Wife (Dh Plumbing) Got Permission To Work Today In This To Celebrate The New Mario Movie
33. I’ve Been Told This Is Safe, But It Still Makes Me Uneasy
34. Severely Understaffed
35. Early Wd40 X King Of The Hill Can
36. Today I Got To 30 Pages
37. Picky Customers
Customer proceeds to go through entire hack of 8’ standards, putting boards that aren’t up to their standards on the ground…I was blessed with this 1/1,000,000 customer who put them back all on their own even when I offered to assist multiple times. Felt great not tearing up my back for once. She left the entire hack an absolute wreck afterwards BUT I’ll take flat-stacking over moving all the boards back by hand.
38. Forklift Operators When The Store Closes
39. Lumber Incident
40. Dogs In The Store
