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I still accidentally call Home Depots and Lowes Builder's Square sometimes, since that was my summer job in high school and some of college. A Home Depot opened up across the street and in the morning their manager had these little rallies where he would whip the staff into chanting things like "we're going to put you out of business". It was creepy, obviously, but also impressive to get minimum wage people to even pretend to care enough to chant CORPORATE WAR stuff, always wondered how that worked. Also, eventually they did in fact put us out of business, or at least Builders Square as a whole went bankrupt. Our local Home Depot is a total shambles (in this sense, https://www.theonion.com/t-j-maxx-recreates-in-store-shopping-experience-with-n-1819580303) and horribly run and luckily I have good locals options for hardware and for building materials and for appliances. I know other Home Depots are much better, though.
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pangstrom posted:I still accidentally call Home Depots and Lowes Builder's Square sometimes, since that was my summer job in high school and some of college. A Home Depot opened up across the street and in the morning their manager had these little rallies where he would whip the staff into chanting things like "we're going to put you out of business". It was creepy, obviously, but also impressive to get minimum wage people to even pretend to care enough to chant CORPORATE WAR stuff, always wondered how that worked. Also, eventually they did in fact put us out of business, or at least Builders Square as a whole went bankrupt. I've learned that when you have a very large company, anyone at manager level is a cultist who takes their job of bossing teens around for $30k a year very seriously. These people also can't wrap their heads around people not wanting to actually spend their time shelving light bulbs and garden hoses, so these kinds of activities are an attempt to mold them into acolytes.
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Nov 5, 2018 17:23
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Great, they're closing the two closest Lowe's stores near me. Luckily there's a decent sized ace hardware close by, but no sweet veterans discount there.
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Nov 5, 2018 17:28
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pangstrom posted:I still accidentally call Home Depots and Lowes Builder's Square sometimes, since that was my summer job in high school and some of college. A Home Depot opened up across the street and in the morning their manager had these little rallies where he would whip the staff into chanting things like "we're going to put you out of business". It was creepy, obviously, but also impressive to get minimum wage people to even pretend to care enough to chant CORPORATE WAR stuff, always wondered how that worked. Also, eventually they did in fact put us out of business, or at least Builders Square as a whole went bankrupt. If my boss told me to do that, I might just do it to break the monotony of the day, but I wouldn’t actually care in reality. Especially if they gave out a little prize for the best smack talk to the other store, that would be fun.
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Nov 5, 2018 17:29
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Iron Crowned posted:I've learned that when you have a very large company, anyone at manager level is a cultist who takes their job of bossing teens around for $30k a year very seriously. These people also can't wrap their heads around people not wanting to actually spend their time shelving light bulbs and garden hoses, so these kinds of activities are an attempt to mold them into acolytes. I forget where I read it, but one management analysis thing I read said that most large companies have sociopaths at the top, idiot cultists in the middle, and economic losers at the bottom - because the economic losers do all the real work, you don't want them to have to deal directly with the sociopaths and realize how much their being screwed, while the idiot cultists are there to absorb blame for things going wrong from both ends while adding no real value to the company.
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Nov 5, 2018 17:49
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Queen Combat posted:I don't often shop at Home Depot, but when I do it's in the middle of a project and I visit the store 4 times in one day. I'm from NY but now live in VA, and when people around here ask me if I like it here, my stock answer is "Well, I sure don't miss the traffic in NY. I do miss having a Home Depot that was open 24 hours a day, though" and watch their eyes get wide at that concept. When you're a crazy artist, ain't nothing like being able to go hit up the Home Despot for poo poo at 2am.
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Nov 5, 2018 18:02
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JacquelineDempsey posted:I'm from NY but now live in VA, and when people around here ask me if I like it here, my stock answer is "Well, I sure don't miss the traffic in NY. I do miss having a Home Depot that was open 24 hours a day, though" and watch their eyes get wide at that concept. When you're a crazy artist, ain't nothing like being able to go hit up the Home Despot for poo poo at 2am. Nice Freudian slip!
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Nov 5, 2018 18:04
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pangstrom posted:I still accidentally call Home Depots and Lowes Builder's Square sometimes, since that was my summer job in high school and some of college. A Home Depot opened up across the street and in the morning their manager had these little rallies where he would whip the staff into chanting things like "we're going to put you out of business". It was creepy, obviously, but also impressive to get minimum wage people to even pretend to care enough to chant CORPORATE WAR stuff, always wondered how that worked. Also, eventually they did in fact put us out of business, or at least Builders Square as a whole went bankrupt. I had a good friend who worked at Home Depot and she called the employee devotion to the place cultish and offputting. The employees at my local store do not, seem to have the same attitude, it's very much the Beavis and Butthead episode where Mr. Anderson gets lost in Home Labyrinth. Which is honestly fine with me.
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Nov 5, 2018 18:12
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Rick posted:I had a good friend who worked at Home Depot and she called the employee devotion to the place cultish and offputting. You'll find True Believers anywhere you work, although they tend to be old guys who've put decades into somewhere with nothing really to show for it.
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Nov 5, 2018 18:19
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Sir Lemming posted:Shame, I've preferred them to Home Depot for some reason. Though sometimes I still honestly forget which one I'm in.
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Nov 5, 2018 20:56
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One is blue and one is orange 
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Nov 5, 2018 21:13
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Iron Crowned posted:Nice Freudian slip! Not a slip but a quip, my friend. When I was in college, my upstairs neighbor worked there and that's what he called it. Name kinda stuck with me. My husband used to work for Lowes years ago and I can still make him shudder just by randomly yelling "Special assistance is needed in the wire cutting area. *DOOO, DOOO* Wire cutting area!"
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Nov 5, 2018 21:18
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VanSandman posted:I forget where I read it, but one management analysis thing I read said that most large companies have sociopaths at the top, idiot cultists in the middle, and economic losers at the bottom - because the economic losers do all the real work, you don't want them to have to deal directly with the sociopaths and realize how much their being screwed, while the idiot cultists are there to absorb blame for things going wrong from both ends while adding no real value to the company. lol. i absolutely can believe this even absent any evidence, makes more sense than a lot of other theories
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Nov 5, 2018 21:22
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Iron Crowned posted:Nice Freudian slip! I also say this, it's just a fun word substitution.
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Nov 5, 2018 21:41
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Lowe’s did just shut down the entire Orchard Hardware subsidiary just a few months ago as well
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Nov 5, 2018 21:45
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JacquelineDempsey posted:Not a slip but a quip, my friend. Yeah, I can't be the only one with a nickname, usually vulgar, for almost every chain I know. Home Despot, Burger Queef, Taco Hell, Pizza Slut, Ball-mart, the list goes on. My personal best was turning KFC into Kan't loving Cook.
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Nov 6, 2018 00:55
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rndmnmbr posted:Kan't loving Cook. I mean, intuitive knowledge of cooking is separate from objective reality, Immanuel. Queen Combat has a new favorite as of 01:47 on Nov 6, 2018 |
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Nov 6, 2018 01:01
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KFC got that name because the one nearest me at the time liked to sell theirs still pink in the middle. I mean, I'd give chicken sashimi a chance, but there's a difference between sashimi from one restaurant in Japan with rigorous quality control, and whatever the hell a bunch of high-schoolers in a fast food restaurant felt like doing that day.
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Nov 6, 2018 01:09
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They're closing the closest Lowe's to me...which is within 5 minutes of both a Home Depot and a Menards, so maybe there's a reason it's not doing so well.  It still sucks because it's really convenient to be able to check out all three with ease, but I get why it was probably one of their less profitable stores. rndmnmbr posted:KFC got that name because the one nearest me at the time liked to sell theirs still pink in the middle.
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Nov 6, 2018 01:14
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BLowes was my name for it, along with Home Despot we all know and love
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Nov 6, 2018 04:18
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I try to avoid Lowes, because I literally get sleepy when I go in there. Don't know what it is, but I could just lay down in any aisle and take a nice nap. Doesn't happen with Home Depot. Not sure what's up.
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Nov 6, 2018 04:39
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It is darker in Lowe's, the blue coloring doesn't help while hd always seems brighter from the orange.
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Nov 6, 2018 05:15
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Weird. Despite the orange coloring, I always found Home Depot to be dimly lit and grungy. While Lowe's has the white to balance out the blue and the lighting is brighter. It's kinda the difference between being in a Wal Mart and a Target.
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Nov 6, 2018 05:59
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VanSandman posted:I forget where I read it, but one management analysis thing I read said that most large companies have sociopaths at the top, idiot cultists in the middle, and economic losers at the bottom - because the economic losers do all the real work, you don't want them to have to deal directly with the sociopaths and realize how much their being screwed, while the idiot cultists are there to absorb blame for things going wrong from both ends while adding no real value to the company. The Gervais Principle
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So, I'm sure a long while back, there was discussion about dead Malls across America. And then there's the contrast up in Canada, where a lot of indoor shopping manages to thrive (mainly attributed to the long winters making them an ideal way to get out of the house). Well I just found this video of probably the dumbest way to capitalize on this fact. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjIaMNl9fxQ As the video states, it's built right next to another mall. A very popular one, a semi-regional shopping destination that has all of the big box stores and chains Canadians come to expect and then some. So instead, they built what seems to be an upper class flea market with intent to capitalize on the Asian community (as I'm pretty sure this mall's marketplace format was carried over from China). And this isn't even in Vancouver, which has both an impossibly large Asian community from all sorts of countries. This is in Alberta, the Texas of Canada, a land locked and particularly conservative part of the country. Not to say Calgary (where it was built) doesn't have a sizable Chinese community, but it's only 6% of a city made up of a vast majority of Racist White People. There are weirdos who still proudly display the Confederate flag from the Ford Brand Pick-Ups™, even though we couldn't even have less to do with that conflict. Once I even heard racism against the polish, that's how racist these white folks are.
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Nov 6, 2018 09:57
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Astoundingly Ugly Baby posted:I try to avoid Lowes, because I literally get sleepy when I go in there. Don't know what it is, but I could just lay down in any aisle and take a nice nap. Doesn't happen with Home Depot. Not sure what's up. I have, ever since I was a child, found myself insanely sleepy in department stores: Sears, JC Penney, Macy's, Foley's, Kohl's, whatever. Five minutes in one of those places and I'm constantly yawning and having trouble standing up straight.
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Nov 6, 2018 12:29
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UCS Hellmaker posted:Lowe's is good for appliances since they are there in stock. Home Depot they only display and never have any in stock. You must be lucky. Bought a washer & dryer from Lowes, told us it would be 10 days before they could deliver it. Then for three weeks they'd call us and tell us it wouldn't be in until the following week. Finally cancelled the order and went elsewhere.
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Nov 6, 2018 13:03
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Davros1 posted:You must be lucky. Bought a washer & dryer from Lowes, told us it would be 10 days before they could deliver it. Then for three weeks they'd call us and tell us it wouldn't be in until the following week. Finally cancelled the order and went elsewhere. There's always models that aren't in stock, but the point is Lowes keeps inventory on hand. You can go in and walk out with a large appliance although it might be lime green, wired for another country's power outlet, and have LCD panels all over the place.
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Nov 6, 2018 13:20
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Pastry of the Year posted:I have, ever since I was a child, found myself insanely sleepy in department stores: Sears, JC Penney, Macy's, Foley's, Kohl's, whatever. Five minutes in one of those places and I'm constantly yawning and having trouble standing up straight.
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Nov 6, 2018 17:33
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Yawgmoth posted:Holy poo poo, same here! I don't know what it is but I feel like I need a nap as soon as I stop walking at a brisk pace through any of those stores. It certainly isn't "I feel comfortable here". The Muzak? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgnaWbPLAks
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Nov 6, 2018 19:13
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Yawgmoth posted:Holy poo poo, same here! I don't know what it is but I feel like I need a nap as soon as I stop walking at a brisk pace through any of those stores. It certainly isn't "I feel comfortable here". probably conditioning from being bored in them as a kid
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Nov 6, 2018 19:46
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Don't mind me, I'm asleep in the middle of the clothes rack.
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Nov 6, 2018 19:50
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I always found the best spots to post up in nap in stores when I didn't want to be in them
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Nov 6, 2018 19:51
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It also may have to do with being dragged by your parents as a kid and having nothing to do, so you just fell asleep in the middle of one of those clothing racks until someone called the police.
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Nov 6, 2018 20:07
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If you didn't hide in a clothing rack as a kid because you were bored did you even really have a childhood?
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Nov 6, 2018 20:17
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vyst posted:I always found the best spots to post up in nap in stores when I didn't want to be in them Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
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Nov 7, 2018 00:15
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Weatherman posted:Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like? Yes. So many.
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Nov 7, 2018 02:30
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fizzymercy posted:Yes. So many. I mean, I am write to single and wait for answer again.
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Nov 7, 2018 02:38
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I was way too loving high when i wrote that
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i accidentally the whole mall
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