/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>718917
So when did the faggots take over home depot? I hear they even have gay marriages there now too.

>tfw freight team
>hours cut from 30 to 12-16
>"Why aren't you guys giving us 100%?"

>>718917
Isn't there a deal with Intel to have a 3D printer on display in every store? To demonstrate its capabilities?

>>718917
how much will it cost?

Why is H.D. Baltic birch plywood so hit or miss?

One week it's nearly cabinet grade quality, the next it's 1/32" veneer with more gaps in the layers than a meth addict's smile.

>>718978
>implying butch dykes and gay village people construction workers haven't been in HD since the beginning

>>719020
Intel doesn't have a 3d printer. Makerbot reps are already in stores that sell them (limited markets)
>>719028
a grand
>>719047
the mill is shit

OP I was forced to go to Home Depot the other day as Loewes didn't have the PVC fittings I was looking for.

I had previously sworn off ever setting foot in the store again. Something that should have taken less than a minute turned into a fucking ten minute ordeal involving several employees one of whom wanted to get stupid when I was finally leaving the fucking store.

I guess my question is have you ever had a customer snap and beat the dog shit out of one of your employees?

Thanks in advance for your reply

>>718917
>buying a dremel branded 3d printer

for shame

>>719061
I don't know why, but home depot people are always stupid and they take forever to do anything.

I bought this shower enclosure there once, it took them three and a half hours to get it off the shelf. I don't mean i had to wait for that long for them to show up, i mean it took three of these people and a forklift three and a half hours to take this thing off a 10 foot tall shelf.

Last time i was there, i bought a toilet, i waited for an hour for an employee to show up, so i said fuck it and grabbed one of those roller stairs and pulled it off the fucking shelf myself.

>>719068

They have the highest affirmative action compliance in the industry. Loewes has the lowest. Which is why I always go to Loewes. They are both across the street from each other where I live.

>>718917
How suicidal are the lots guys know that it is getting cold?

>>719084
Lol

>>719084
Most lot guys that I know are so brain dead that they don't really notice the cold.

I prefer home depot employees personally, they stay the fuck out of my way. I don't ask them for anything, they don't ask me if i need help finding anything when I'm deciding between the small and big bottle of titebond, if i need a massive amount of plywood i take a buddy with me and we throw 30 sheets on a cart and don't have to wait for the fork lift driver to get back from blazing it in his car when he shouldn't even be on break. need something off the top shelf? go over and grab a ladder and get it yourself, you'll carry a twenty foot ladder back before someone with enough of a cognitive process to shut the aisle down and grab a high low appears from behind the display showers where they've been texting for the last half hour. just glare at them when they ask you what you're doing. yes, I'm that asshole that takes enough lumber to build a small garage through the self checkout, I'm the one who opens all the packs of bolts because the size gauge is fucked up, I'm the one who leaves all the warped 2x4s on top of the sheet rock because I'm pissed off that out of the 10 I picked up only 7 are usable. No, you can't give me advice on wiring 3 phase electricity, you can't suggest the $80 faucet for my slop sink in the garage. Fuck you, i go there because i need something for work, not to socialize with some jerkoff who is struggling(and failing) to get enough oxygen to his brain because he can't seem to find any air with his head up his ass.

you're a different breed op, you know how to use a website besides Twitter so you're already miles ahead of the other mongoloids.

That being said, do you guys have the Milwaukee 7 1/4" left blade corded circular saw in stock? been creaming over it for weeks but can't find one locally, one site said discontinued, would be a tragic day if it were true.

>>719052
>a grand

HAHA Nope.

>>719069
one of the best workers there was a mexican boy that i had cut and thread like 7 pieces of 10' pipe nto 1 1/2' segments at closing time

dude was a trooper for sure and i acknowledge my demands were dickish but i needed that pipe

You guys are just going to get closed out by menards in 5 years

>>719174

Way to be a liberal apologist. I had a very different experience at my local Home Depot.

Went in there in the middle of a roofing job. Some black kid with a shit eating grin managed to move four aisle blockers thereby trapping me in. Apparently he did it just to be a nigger as there wasn't any sort of materials being moved.

Adding to my suspicions is the fact he was laughing his nigger ass off as he ran away shucking and jiving with his little nigger loving co horts.

who's the nigger? the nigger that locked you in, or your nigger ass for not knowing how to work a gate

>>719177

I'm really excited that there's a Menards moving directly across the street from our Home Depot. We've got a Lowes nearby too, but they always seem really expensive for what they're offering.

>>719205
same here, I've got a home depot and Lowes closer, but the Menards is going in where a dirt mall is currently, at another home depot

>>719151
Same here. Don't wait for employees, get it yourself off the topshelf. If they try to stop you, pretend you don't hear and do it anyways.

>>719151
Take a chill pill

I know what you mean, I prefer them hiding, too. None of the advice is ever good. Unless you can't find something, then it gets really fucking annoying.

>>719061
naw, only time anything ever happened was when an ex employee went a bit nuts, walked in one day and started suckerpunching people who thought he was still friends with him

>>719151
>>719068
you do know the normal sized ladders are for customer use, yah? just not those big ass tall ones.

>>719181
/pol/ go

>>719151
James?

>>719321
It's only racism when white people do something shitty.

>>719203

Work a gate. I kicked the fucking thing over. Not a fucking nigger in the store said jack shit.

>>719321
fuck off worthless tumblr parasite

>>718917
Why the fuck is every store around me in a different layout????? I got a few memorized but then walk in a new one and it's fucking crazytown.
I spent 10 min looking for real duct tape, not duck tape, and finally broke down and the fuckers where the foil tape was, they acted like I was asking for gold dragon dildos.
Finally myself and a manager find it in a back corner of the store.

Also, fuck home depots in the city. Everyone is fucking worthless, but my hometown one is staffed by all old fucks that know right where everything is.

>>719174
The guy was super nice, that shit aint his job , I guess you also want him to hop in the car and install it for you and fuck your wife since you probably cant do that either

>>719589
oh no u got me

even after home depot made me a key and gave me their alphanumeric password to operate their lathe ohh nooo

>>719454
I understand the frustration with the different lay outs, but in every home depot I've been into, I always see duct tape in the adhesives aisle and in the aisle with the duct work.

>>718917
describe your worst customer

I buy everything from a wholesaler. Buying more online too.

I like the tool section. Sometimes seeing a new toy - I mean tool inspires a new project

>>719657
for starters, a rambler. i don't need to hear your entire fucking life story. if you don't know the exact item you want, tell me what you want to do and what you want to do it to.

idgaf that your cousin is a shithead who can't be bothered to clean the dishes and as such you feel the need to redo your backsplash in faux metal and you need a seat because you're old and feet hurt and etc. just fucking get on with it.

secondly, listen to what i have to say. i will repeat myself a few times but after that, it becomes one word "yes".
>does this do
yes
>does this do
yes
>does this do
yes
>does this do
yes

i've had to tell customers on rare occasions that "look, you clearly don't believe what i'm telling you. let me go get another associate". the reason you're in the store acting like a fucking moron is because you are one and i am not. listen to what i have to tell you and don't ask me the same question ten times.

finally, don't be a rude cunt. this goes without saying, but whatever bad day you're having, i don't really care.

>is this dropcloth big enough for my bedroom?
um. i don't know the size of your bedroom.
>well you don't have to be an asshole about it.

...

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>>718917
Would you rather work at one of those old full service local hardware stores, if they still really existed?

Personally, I miss them. They might not have had huge quantities of stock for big jobs, but they always seemed to have a least a couple of any one thing along with the old guys that collectively knew everything, and where it was in the store. I'd pay more for that any day of the week. I can't stand how a trip for one or to items which should be common turns into an hour+ odyssey even with prior website research and phone calls.

I feel like not only have the big box stores degraded expertise and customer service by dubious employee selection, but has also increased customer idiocy and rudeness levels. I suspect the one affects the other, and the whole business is in a rapidly downward spiraling shitfest that causes and is symptomatic of degradation in civilized society. Thoughts? I tend to have time to think of this shit while being treated poorly by other customers and employees at your stores.

>>719151
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td-Lb5NeFZo

Why isn't home depot open 24 hours a day? I'm a traveling floor installer and I almost always work nights. Every once in a while we forget to buy some important item and it ends up halting the whole job because we can't just go out an buy it. Can't you guys just have 3 people run the store?

>>719871
Maybe. I assume they would pay me better, but not give me benefits (health, dental, matching 401k, etc).

Also, there are plenty of small hardware stores near us. One is, in fact, two blocks away from the store. There's another about 10 blocks away.

Nah, you just see more people who have no fucking clue how to do something. Has nothing to do with us. People don't know how to fix anything anymore, but have too much pride to show that they're actually stupid. Grown men who quite literally do not know how to swing a hammer but make lots of money, so they think they should order and boss around people who have even vague half clues like kids working on associate degrees who spent a couple hours manning the table at the free classes we give.

>>719897
i'll assume you're not a fucking moron and can understand why you can't profitably run a 110,000 sq ft store on a 24/7 basis, so i won't get into detail

>>719931
>no profitable, 24/7 big box store
but, walmart

>>719871
I gotta love my locally owned independent ACE hardware stores. While they might not have everything, what they do have can do most things, and they lease out tools.

>>719946
my local aco is shit. my local ace is pretty tight. it's in the middle of the hood, and they have a decent selection. everything's over priced, but if I'm in the area I'll drive 3 minutes to get there as opposed to the home depot 7 miles away. they have a solid selection of tools, from mechanics to electrician to carpenter.

i can't get behind paying $6 for a $1 wall outlet though

Should I apply to be a department supervisor?

Sorta fired assembly-friend dropping in.

>two years exp, covered five stores and travelled to help regional stores
>20-30 grills/day around 2 hours for a pallet of wheel barrows
>training new employees, help HD managers run computers to receive payment
>my manager gets fired
>new manager doesn't who I am even though I travelled to bail out three of his stores, so no more work

How screwed are the HDs in my area when spring patio resets and grills come back around? I kinda want to see assemblers get f'ed in the a, but I also want to make that sweet green drilling together easy stuff.

>>719956
but you get back $5 for every 200 you spend with your ace rewards card!

>>719931
>running HD 24/7
Half of your staff does nothing for the majority of their shift. It would not be impossible to have some of the night employees skeleton crew the registers.

>>720055
THD receives little to no business at night, and if they were open their night crews would have to move SIGNIFICANTLY slower. M-F Nights are when they receive trucks and have to pack everything out. All stock received goes directly into overheads or bays, they don't keep shit "In the back". Because of safety standards, when customers are in the building they MUST put up barricades and have spotters available whenever going into an overhead, and when moving they have to move at idle speed. After closing hours they fucking floor those trucks and have all available hands packing out, instead of half the crew spotting. It would slow productivity to a crawl.

>>719871

Yeah I'd agree. I worked as a handyman for years. I've plain given up. Its now impossible to complete a job. Customers are fucking idiots. Durr hurr I saw it on Bob Villa. You can't find the materials or parts. Customers don't want to pay for your time to go store to store on a wild part hunt. Then when you do finally get the shit and install it said part breaks immediately because it was made by retarded slave labor.

Fuck it. Let your house rot to the ground. I've got other shit to do with my life.

>>720059
I remember when my local homo was 24/7. Shit was awesome.

>>718979
Shit sucks man. Thankfully enough people on our freight team quit so they opened up a full time position for me.

>>720059
You're right. I forgot what an ordeal the lifts become around customers. Receiving is always packed like a closet.

>>719998
if you want to up your chances of being fired by 50%, yes. otherwise, it isn't worth the 50 cent raise

>>719937
walmart pays even less than HD, has fuck all for benefits and doesn't have anywhere near the type of customer base we do.

let's pick a random flyover state. nebraska. there's a few in omaha, 2 in lincoln and 2 more in random bumblefuck locations. scottsbluff is the western one.
>Scottsbluff is a city in Scotts Bluff County, in the western part of the state of Nebraska, in the Great Plains region of the United States. The population was 15,039 at the 2010 census

shit, take an omaha one. they're the 42nd largest city in the country at a measly fucking 434,000 people. who in the fuck goes out for caulk, brad nails, 2x4s, drop-ceiling tiles, granite countertops and a new shed at 2AM in fucking omaha?

you'd get five customers an hour if you're lucky.

>>719605
>Itt:lies

>>718917
> no, we don't have any patio furniture left, you fucking idiot
Do you always chimp out on someone looking for a deal on unsold, out of season merchandise? And you wonder why people who are not idiots don't waste time on the typical home depot employee.

>>720330
>Out of season merchandise
>At home depot
Sure let me just go check the back of the store...
Oh wait, we're IN the back of the store because it is a warehouse store!

>>720339
So that shit that is already put together just magically disappears on the first day of fall? Nothing ever gets marked down? Home depot never puts anything on clearance? I'm saying it's not an unreasonable request and OP is being a bitch about it. Of course asking any home depot employee anything other than "where is x at" is mistake #1, looking for a bargain at that shit hole is #2.

>>720330
>implying we keep that shit in the store year round
it's november. that shit is gone. has been for weeks. longer if you're in a store in a city.
>random dumbass in a patriots hat walks into store today. we're one day post huge cold spell and it's windy + cloudy + in the 40s. asks this question.

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>>720355
no you fucking dunce, that shit was put on half off and then sent back to the giant warehouse centers weeks ago. if you're in south of the mason/dixon line? sure. northeast fag here. there ain't no shit left, don't be stupid.

>>720355
>first day of fall
>looks at calendar
you're special, aren't you?

>>720355
No, it gets marked down or returned to the regional warehouse way before that. I don't work at HD, but where I work all the patio shit is either returned to the distribution center or sold by ~mid-august. Otherwise we have to sit on it til spring.

I swear to god everyone should be required to work in a shitty retail job for a year.

>>720360
>>720361
>>720370
> getting this pissy and high and mighty because a customer asks a simple question.
> hurr durr, are you retarded
> not realizing they are the ones stuck in a dead end entry level job.
Jesus fuck people, how hard is it to just say no and go back to your trained monkey job? What the hell would you do if you had to deal with something actually stressful?

>>720381
>implying we actually do this and risk our jobs
>implying we aren't simply calling you a fucking idiot (you are one) because this is a vietnamese anime board infested with racists/skinheads/athiests/whatever your boogeyman is.

you really are that fucking stupid that you think we get pissy on an actual customer over this? you're that fucking dumb? goddamn son, you really are special

>captcha related: actual retarded QB: rommoo and

>>720384
Call me an idiot all you want. You still work at Home Depot.

>>720391

Looks like OP has totally given himself over to butthurts, ass sore and drowning his sorrows in a bottle of cheap booze affordable with Home Fagget wages.

About what I would expect from a typical Home Depot employe.

>>720414
why are you so buttmadd over us exposing your autism? it's nothing to be ashamed of (it is, but i'm being polite). embrace your stupidity at being thoroughly embarrassed by those you think to look down on

>>720360
Tewksbury?

>>720427
your mother?

srsly no clue what that's supposed to mean

>>720429

Clearly not then. That's where one of the stores is, I saw a similar incident take place.

>>718917
>PS: any of y'all buying the dremel 3d printer when it comes out in a week?

It's already obsolete. HP just made almost every 3d printer out there obsolete a couple of days ago.

>>720434
oh, that's a store. lol there was an actual incident? storytime

>>720438
man got arrested because he lost his shit when they said that they didn't have any patio chairs left yesterday. many keks.

>>719871
I live in New Jersey and probably drive by 3 local hardware stores to get to the homedepot. because they don't stalk me around the store like Im going to steal something.

If the guy at the homedepot doesn't know the answer to my question he just says I don't know. Doesn't question why Im doing what Im doing. Or make up some bullshit.

On rare occasion I'll buy grass seed at mom and pop because its by the pound and actual seeds not that mystery material homedepot has that might have a couple seeds in there.

>>720439
lmfao thats phenomenal. YESTERDAY IN NJ?! SHIT IT WAS 45, WINDY AND RAINY LOL

>>720442
Yesterday in Massachusetts.

>>720437
shit son, that won't be out until 2016

>>720443
is it? i googled tewksbury and got a "township in new jersey"

>>720445
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tewksbury,_Massachusetts

>>720444
beta versions are going out to early adopters in 2015.

>>720452
That's good. That will give me time to download the 500 Terabyte print driver.

>HP
>Ever
I work in an industrial print lab.We just had a brand new $12000 printer decide to slam the carriage into the inner wall of the printer and destroy itself and HP said 'Yeah that happens.'

That fucker is going to accidentally print out a goddamn bomb and blow up your house. HP has some of the better stuff out there but I'll be damned if they aren't buggy as hell.

FYI, the Dremel 3D printer appears to be a re-badged "Flashforge Dreamer" (not that anyone has heard of that one).

I really don't know how a store like Home Depot expects to support a consumer 3D printer. How many people are going to return it because the extruder clogged? MakerBot can't even support their customers - MakerBot's customer support takes a week to respond to a case and their support is pretty much just mailing replacement "Smart Extruders". The Dremel does not appear to have an easily replaceable hot end, so are they going to support people taking apart the print head to clean it out? I can't see this ending well.

>>720437
HP's printer is targeting "enterprise" customers. Unfortunately that implies it's >$100,000 and aimed at big corporations :(

>>720917
when you target commercial markets you're really making money from service contracts. so I dont expect them to be that expensive if they're making 500$ a service call every week when the head gets clogged

>>720940
FYI the Stratasys Objet Eden line of 3D printers *starts* at $250K, and that's a "jet" technology 3D printer. And you bet they are charging an arm and a leg on service contracts on top of that.

My employer priced out a Stratasys uPrint SE Plus, which is just one of their basic FDM printers. The printer "retails" for $20K, but by the time the service contract and a supply of material was added, the quote came to $40K! Filament is $250 per 1kg roll (and it has a chip to prevent refilling). Not only that, the build plates are disposable and have to be replaced after a few builds!

I would not let the HP announcement hold you back from buying a diy 3D printer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boI4D1FlIVs

i fucking hate the home depot that's by my house, everytime i ask a question to an older employee they literally side-step it and explain what i'm doing to me like i'm a fucking child
ex.
>Be me
>be 4 weeks ago
>need some 2 inch 316 #10 size wooden screws
>go to aisle, screw aisle is a fucking mess
>zero organization
>ask employee about screws location
>he proceeds to tell me all about how i need to make sure my hole is smaller than the screw blablabla
>isthisniggerserious?.png
>tell him i know how fucking screws work, i just need to find this specific size
>fucker still doesn't answer question
>go to lowes instead where shit isn't in complete ruins
I'm going to assume it was just my HD that was full of mentally challenged older men, but still, piece of shit made me mad as fuck

>>720917
lol its ok ill just print another printer

>>719181
I've always wanted to use my arm as a rake to knock literally everything off the shelves; seems like you had a good opportunity to do it. Why didn't you leave a huge fucking mess for those asshats to clean?

>>721050
because that story never happened

>>721031

Normally on 4 chan i'd call bullshit but from all the unbelievable stupid shit I've seen at home depot I'm gonna say this is probably true. People like that just need to fucking die.

>>721050

I did make a pretty good sized scene. Not intentionally I was just fucking black out mad. I've seen some shit and some shit accessories but that nigger's little stunt was about the most egregious I've ever seen in all my days of being a consumer.

>>721150

and yes asshole its a true story

>>721171
I'm sure it is.

>>720370
>everybody should have to work a shitty retail job for a year

and everyone should have to work a shitty outdoor labor job in a harsh winter to know my struggle

and everyone should go through a length of time as a drug addict or being homeless or having cancer to know the next man's struggle

or we can just realize that no one has a easy time and your shitty job could be the least of your concerns

>>721171
>people are laughing with their friends and since i must be the focal point of everything the joke must have been about me

lulz, typical self absorbed white boy

>>721385

Typical nigger

>>721648
What is 'typical nigger' about that post?
Or did you just want to post big mean words so you'd make daddy proud?

>>719174 Well if you did that then you don't belong here, unfortunately for you there is not a board for CDIBM (Can't do it by myself), so fuck off.
>>719589 You're right.

I am going to homedepot soon what should I get?

>>723214
this dick

>>718917
I have worked for both depot and blowes. Only difference I saw in the companies was Blowes paid more but that was only because it was just coming to another country and wanted to secure good employees in the beginning. Got a 4 dollar raise my first year there.

After 3 years Blowes had budget cuts and was letting people go "without just cause" to save money. Co workers were cunts who ran kliqs for special favors,raises, and to get out of doing work. They would try to throw you under the bus to get ahead.

Depot, co-workers very chill and good people. Boss's treated people like shit.I got injured at depot and cost me 2 months of back pain, chiro visits, missed time. They weaseled out of it and claimed it was "pre-existing injuries". I learned then that worker's comp is in place to protect companies (from getting sued) not to help the workers.

>>721688
>what is nigger

Nigger is always playing the race card

>>720917
the HP machine uses the same inkjets from a 2d printer that costs ~$500. If they wanted the consumer market, they could make the machine cheap enough for it. Heck, you could probably make one yourself, all you need is a printer with a page wide inkjet, a really bright lamp, and a powder management system.

>>720973
>>$250K objet machine
The HP machine doesn't use UV curing resin, so they don't need special high viscosity print heads which cost a ton

>>720896
>>had a brand new $12000 printer decide to slam the carriage into the inner wall of the printer and destroy itself
3d printers can do this too, even the big expensive ones. You should never ever, ever print really thin layers on an LS machine as these tend curl up and will destroy the powder recoating system.

Now HP is most definitely going to put chips in their ink cartridges like they do now, to prevent you from refilling them, but there are ways to bypass this. The ink should be pretty much the same as that used in regular printers and the powder you should be able to buy online.


This is the beginning of the end of diy 3d printers, the moment HP decides to make a machine for the consumer market, it's all over.

>>720117
>I forgot what an ordeal the lifts become around customers

Tell me about it. I work as a stage tech/lift op and people are fucking retarded around lifts, the general public being the worst.
>"Excuse me Mame, could you and your child please stand somewhere other than directly under my fucking scissorlift filled with heavy lights.

>>723561
>This is the beginning of the end of diy 3d printers, the moment HP decides to make a machine for the consumer market, it's all over.

Nah
Its going to take years and a lot of trial and error before its really viable to lock down the market.

The complexity and variables of printers is just a lot to deal with.

>>723361
>I learned then that worker's comp is in place to protect companies (from getting sued) not to help the workers.

ALWAYS hire a lawyer when dealing with workers comp.
My uncle went through hell and back with his workers comp claim, and after going back and forth from arbitrator to arbitrator finally got results when he brought a lawyer into it

Public Service Announcement:

As a Home Depot employee, telling me that you're going to go shop at Lowe's as some kind of threat is the funniest shit ever. Bitch I get paid either way, plus I don't have to deal with your shit. I'll probably even see you there, I shop at Lowe's all the time.

>>723597
I worked at Kmart, and their prices are very high on pretty much everything.

It was a daily thing for someone to say "Im going to walmart" under their breath, sometimes even to my face.
I dont think people understand how little we truly care about them fucking off to another store.

>>723597
shit, i tell people to go to other places if we don't have/are out of the item and they need it. i'll give the address, too. shit, one of my coworkers is on a first name basis with everyone in a nearby hardware store because of how often she would call them up asking if they had _____.

Shit, I do that with non hardware store crap that people want to buy we don't carry.

No, try the drugstore across the street
No, try the bed bath and beyond a few blocks south
No, try the art supplies store around the corner.

etc.

I want to grab some board like this

http://www.homedepot.com/p/GP-Braden-Cherry-32-sq-ft-MDF-Wall-Panel-739524/202090204?N=5yc1vZbqp3

And cut it to about 32" tall and line my walls with it.

Would the store cut it for me, or how would you recommend doing that?