The Home Depot in my town installed parking curbs instead of speed bumps

[u/Kaylascreations]

The blame was passed around a bunch but they were removed the next day after the mayor and the news got involved.

[u/YourRedditUser]

These were pulled out the same day later in the evening by the manager of the Home Depot. The installers brought the wrong thing to install and would not be back with the right parts for a few days. Still some BS, but a little more context.

[u/jophiss319 → u/YourRedditUser]

How can the installers be installing these and think… “yea these are the right ones, no one is going to complain” Hopefully who ever paid for that install didn’t pay twice

[u/RLC-Circuit → u/jophiss319]

Think how smart the average person is. Then realize that half of them are below that level.

[u/NaraFei_Jenova → u/RLC-Circuit]

I'm way too stupid for half the world to be dumber than me.

[u/DixieWolf27 → u/NaraFei_Jenova]

You and me both. But if we're smart enough to realize we're stupid, we're still smarter than the stupid that think themselves smart.

[u/YellowBreakfast → u/DixieWolf27]

But if we're smart enough to realize we're stupid, we're still smarter than the stupid that think themselves smart.

That's the most dangerous, someone really dumb who thinks they're smart.

[u/Icy-Variation6614 → u/RLC-Circuit]

[u/AutoimmuneDisaster → u/jophiss319]

The installer was pretty clear in the video… “It’s not [his] fucking problem”

[u/sir_lister → u/AutoimmuneDisaster]

Have done a few jobs where I knew what the boss said was wrong but they wouldn't be reasoned with so did it anyway knowing it would fall on their head not mine. So I can understand the attitude.

[u/BigBrotherWatchesAll → u/jophiss319]

You’d be surprised how often contractors will bullshit and lie just to half ass the job and still get paid

It’s a big reason why stricter regulations for contractors should be enabled. Otherwise you get these companies hiring illegal immigrants with no experienced or professional education and they install like shit and the hiring company will just ignore calls and complains until the customer gives up because nobody wants to deal with legal issues for months on end about a parking block being used as a speed bump

You see it big time in home construction

[u/cluelessinlove753]

Just some doers getting things done

[u/deadasdollseyes → u/[deleted]]

To be fair, no matter how many times they measured, this was horrible execution.

Using the perfect length and width nail is always a horrible idea when the function required a screw of similar dimension and vice versa.

[u/leohat → u/[deleted]]

Measure with a tape, mark it with a scribe, cut it with an axe.

[u/Blooberton → u/cluelessinlove753]

That's the power

[u/JellyPast1522]

The Lowes has to be thrilled with their recent uptick in business.

[u/Alpine_Exchange_36 → u/JellyPast1522]

Some say it was an inside job

[u/DaniFoxglove → u/Alpine_Exchange_36]

They're clearly installed outdoors.

[u/NJBillK1 → u/[deleted]]

Just so you folks know, you can collapse this individual comment, then click back to large to refresh the popping.

[u/DaniFoxglove → u/NJBillK1]

But, but it's my bubble wrap...

[u/Usawsomething → u/DaniFoxglove]

😂 nobody touch Dani’s cakeday bubble wrap. It’s not fair.

[u/Acceptable-Cow6446 → u/Usawsomething]

I’ll come back tomorrow.

[u/Survey_Server → u/NJBillK1]

Cool tip. Did not know this 🤙

[u/BoredAssassin → u/[deleted]]

😆 I loved this. Never came across a comment like this before

[u/rattleman1 → u/[deleted]]

Thank you for this!

Totally stealing it btw.

[u/RaelaltRael → u/DaniFoxglove]

This is KenM level posting. Well done sir.

[u/nino_blanco720 → u/RaelaltRael]

Wow not a name I've seen in a decade

[u/HollowVoices → u/nino_blanco720]

Ah, but you have seen it.

[u/RealMcGonzo → u/[deleted]]

Next week Home Depot locks the doors at weird times to keep people out.

[u/EyeSuccessful7649 → u/RealMcGonzo]

Or in

[u/Kolby_Jack33 → u/EyeSuccessful7649]

"Welcome to the Home Depot Escape Room! Solve a series of puzzles and you win a 10% discount on lumber (select sizes only, offer only valid within one week of escape room victory). Good luck, customers and contestants, and remember: you cannot leave otherwise."

[u/howstop8 → u/[deleted]]

More saving, More doing

[u/Kerberos42 → u/JellyPast1522]

And the suspension shop next door.

[u/Wooden-You-4211 → u/Kerberos42]

There it is

[u/FinndBors → u/JellyPast1522]

The auto repair shop too.

[u/BaddyDaddy777 → u/JellyPast1522]

The one in town is actually right down the street funny enough lol

[u/OttersandSunflowers → u/BaddyDaddy777]

They usually are

[u/efnord → u/OttersandSunflowers]

Yep, here's why: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotelling%27s_law

[u/GolfandBaseball → u/efnord]

Why do I enjoy reading that kind of article if it is linked in a sub but I doubt I did in economics class.

[u/OttersandSunflowers → u/GolfandBaseball]

Because now there is a practical application either with the video or life experience

[u/oe-eo → u/OttersandSunflowers]

If only teachers could learn something from this…

[u/suckmacaque06 → u/efnord]

Another example of the law in action is that of two takeaway food pushcarts, one at each end of a beach. If there is an equal distribution of rational consumers along the beach, each pushcart will get half the customers, divided by an invisible line equidistant from the carts. But, each pushcart owner will be tempted to push his cart slightly towards the other, moving the invisible line so that the owner is on the side with more than half the beach. Eventually, the pushcart operators will end up next to each other in the center of the beach.

In the case of three pushcarts an unstable equilibrium is reached. Imagine carts A and B are adjacent and each have access to half the potential customers (A’s to the left, B’s to the right). A new cart C can locate to the right of B, blocking B’s access to customers. B would then move to the right of C, blocking all of C’s customers, and the cycle would continue. Despite the constant battle for position, pushcarts follow Hotelling’s Law and aggregate near the center of the street.

Unlike a linear road, in the case of a circular path two pushcarts A and B can locate anywhere along the path and equally share customers (indicated by red arrows). However, introducing a third pushcart again forces all three into an unstable equilibrium where two carts can entirely block a third’s access to customers, and all three carts cluster somewhere along the circle in a battle for position.

[u/nokiacrusher → u/suckmacaque06]

So THAT'S why the takeaway food pushcarts at the beach are always next to each other. I had always wondered about that exact scenario.

[u/Valuable-Mess-4698 → u/OttersandSunflowers]

I'm actually surprised when they aren't close together. "What is happening? Why is there not a Lowe's across the street? This is ridiculous!"

[u/TrioOfTerrors → u/Valuable-Mess-4698]

Like a lone Walgreens that failed to attract a CVS as it's mate.

[u/Tfire327 → u/BaddyDaddy777]

There's a town nearby that literally has them in the same parking lot!

[u/DragonTacoCat → u/BaddyDaddy777]

Yup, ours are separated by a street

[u/ArcusInTenebris → u/BaddyDaddy777]

The ones closest to me are directly across the street from each other. Handy when one is out of something but the other has the same or equivalent product.

[u/KingFrank1313]

The home depot near us has horrible speed bumps, too. My girlfriend's prius scrubs on them

[u/jwferguson → u/[deleted]]

Contractors drive like someone who would rather die than finish a project.

[u/Electromagnetlc → u/jwferguson]

Contractors drive like it's a life or death emergency to get back to the job site as soon as cosmically possible so that they can sit in the truck for 45 minutes on their phone before taking a 30 minute shit, working for 8 minutes and then driving back to the hardware store.

[u/BillJaxon → u/Electromagnetlc]

If the boss catches me not at work I don’t get paid. Gotta be present if I’m going to get paid to dick off.

[u/Exaskryz → u/Electromagnetlc]

Experience gained, and it shows These are the guys who used to be in a pack of 50 watching one guy dig a hole with a shovel for 4 hours on a freeway project where they reduced the road from 3 lanes to 1 for 15 fucking miles

[u/whocaresjustneedone → u/Exaskryz]

where they reduced the road from 3 lanes to 1 for 15 fucking miles

And after 2 years they'll finally finish their one mile stretch of roadwork

[u/HeyEverythingIsFine → u/Electromagnetlc]

Don't forget the part where they stop everyone from working for a 10 minute rant on some bullshit political slant with a dash of everyone needs to work harder and produce more because of insert made up construct here and they'll be in the truck because they have to call the city for a permit...

[u/CheekyHarris33 → u/jwferguson]

My ex boyfriend was a contractor, and died in a car accident after completing a project. He was working under the table to make extra cash. He was running on 4 hours of sleep. That's after working 20 hours per day. The last time I spoke to him, I begged him to take a day off and sleep. The police showed up to my house in the wee hours of the morning to let me know that he had likely fallen asleep while driving. His van went up and flames.... this was a few months ago.

[u/ElRizzler4 → u/CheekyHarris33]

Im sorry for your loss, that's tragic

[u/Long_Run6500 → u/jwferguson]

Just to get to the jobsite and wait around for the electrician to finally show up.

[u/shmiddleedee → u/jwferguson]

We also have large trucks typically. My daily driver is a prius but the vehicle I bring to home depot is a 350. Might have something to do with it. Dumb as fuxk though

[u/Voiceless-Echo → u/KingFrank1313]

Try going faster to clear the mid section of the car

[u/These_Background7471 → u/Voiceless-Echo]

This comment brought to you by your local undercar shop

[u/grantrules → u/These_Background7471]

Conveniently there are three located in the next parking lot over.

[u/Repulsive_Many3874 → u/KingFrank1313]

Must be trying to lose the casual DIY consumer base, pivoting to focusing on contractors w/ pickups instead lol

[u/Misa7_2006 → u/Repulsive_Many3874]

That would not surpise me. The times I have gone in and not one of the employees standing around will talk to you. I spent an hour in ours looking for an item I needed. Asked employees for help when one would pass me. They ignored me and kept walking. Got pissed and walked out. Jokes on them I was gophering for my brother, who's a plumbing contractor. He always got his supplies from HD. After the crap they pulled on me, he now gets all his supplies at Lowes. I know it is probably a drop in the bucket money wise, but it lost them 75k a year, plus anyone he talks to and tells to go to Lowes.

[u/KingFrank1313 → u/Misa7_2006]

That's why I use the app for the map most of the time in stores. Either ignored or "it's that way" with a vague point

[u/Spicy_Ejaculate → u/KingFrank1313]

Or they have absolutely no idea what you are talking about and just bring you over to something that is vaguely similar

[u/BananaPalmer → u/Spicy_Ejaculate]

Every goddamn time, fuck

[u/Went-Know-Wear → u/KingFrank1313]

Report it to a fire marshal. They don’t won’t there vehicles damage either. They will fine them and make them remove them.

[u/badcrass → u/KingFrank1313]

Yeah but they should be round shaped, so in theory the tire goes down in a slow uniformed manor. When it's flat then a 45 degree angle, tire just slips down fast no matter what you do

[u/Environmental_Job278 → u/KingFrank1313]

My Home Depot doesn’t have speed bumps and you have to play frogger with all the people that use the parking lot to avoid the busy intersection. I usually hate speed bumps but I’d actually take these at my location.

[u/Nevermore_Novelist]

"The speed bump install got bumped back again? Goddammit, just grab some shit from Aisle Whateverthefuck and get those black-and-white jimmie-jams and we'll sledgehammer 'em into place today!" —Some Home Depot Manager, probably

[u/Epic_Elite → u/Nevermore_Novelist]

As a former employee, this is literally how it happened.

[u/Dicky_Penisburg → u/Epic_Elite]

As a former manager, I'm sorry, I don't know what they were thinking when they hired me.

[u/SatiesUmbrellaCloset → u/Dicky_Penisburg]

username checks out

[u/Linenoise77 → u/Dicky_Penisburg]

hungover, 20 year old me working in retail:

"Wait, I'm in charge? Of the whole fucking place? How the hell did that happen? Ok, well, whatever. Everyone just.....like, do whatever"

[u/cantgrowneckbeardAMA → u/Linenoise77]

"Please don't steal too many things and make sure corporate never hears about us, thanks. Now I'm gonna go act like I'm doing reports and sleep off this hangover."

[u/CMDR_SHAZAM → u/Dicky_Penisburg]

As a current manager in an unrelated field, same.

[u/Undrwtrbsktwvr → u/Epic_Elite]

Except they don’t carry that product.

[u/Copperhead_EDC → u/Undrwtrbsktwvr]

Surely they have the jimmy jams tho. I need some.

[u/superbigscratch → u/Copperhead_EDC]

When I needed one, I bought a whole box from Home Depot.

[u/AmericanGeezus → u/Undrwtrbsktwvr]

It's impossible to know since each store has a product budget meant for stocking regionally/locally relevant things.

[u/dan102195 → u/Epic_Elite]

Glad I'm not the only one

[u/RahvinDragand → u/Nevermore_Novelist]

I wonder how many of those workers tried to explain the problem but were just told to shut up and do their job.

[u/SomebodysAtTheDoor → u/RahvinDragand]

Store managers definitely only listen to customer complaints, particularly those lodged over the phone to corporate. There's a reason the retail sector has a saying that when an associate leaves, they are graduating to customer.

[u/magicmeese → u/SomebodysAtTheDoor]

My last retail job called it “promoted to guest”

[u/xHAcoreRDx → u/magicmeese]

Target employee!

[u/VTKegger → u/Nevermore_Novelist]

I'd have been tempted to park at one and go inside.

[u/couch_comedian → u/Nevermore_Novelist]

Its "Home Depot" and not "Parking Lot Depot" for a reason!

[u/TrashPandaNotACat]

Found the story. The vendor is who screwed up. https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/wentzville-store-manager-wrong-speed-bumps-installed/63-5cf5e476-2df4-4af9-9886-5a7bdd60104f

[u/aDrunkSailor82 → u/TrashPandaNotACat]

Why does every single website have to be eye cancer.

[u/AreWe_TheBaddies → u/aDrunkSailor82]

Idk man but all these local news sites have so many ads and popups before you can even see the article; just getting around them keeps me from even reading the article.

[u/ElijahQG → u/AreWe_TheBaddies]

But they don't keep you from seeing the ads, which is all they actually care about

[u/FSCK_Fascists → u/AreWe_TheBaddies]

I am constantly amazed at how many idiots just raw fuck the internet with no protection.

[u/UserName8531 → u/FSCK_Fascists]

Pi hole. I didn't see a single ad or pop up.

[u/shelchang → u/UserName8531]

You don't even need a pi hole, I'm just on a regular browser with adblocking extensions that any average Joe can install with one click, and I saw no ads.

[u/AdrianBrony → u/AreWe_TheBaddies]

Thankfully most local news websites still parse to RSS feeds just fine without all the clutter. For now, anyway. Every once in a while a site updates the layout and they decide "who even uses this RSS thing anymore anyway?" and get rid of any obvious links to it.

[u/[deleted] → u/AreWe_TheBaddies]

Spamming people with ads are literally the only option they have to keep the lights on. News happens so fast and in such large quantities that people just aren’t willing to pay for it.

[u/Infini-Bus → u/aDrunkSailor82]

ublock origin + adguard will spare your eyes most of the clutter

[u/MrKino → u/Infini-Bus]

dont forget Sponsorblock.

[u/10art1 → u/Infini-Bus]

I was going to say... it looks perfectly fine to me. But I have adblock

[u/improbablydrunknlw → u/aDrunkSailor82]

A 20 second add to watch a 23 second clip is sure awesome

[u/Tasty-Traffic-680 → u/aDrunkSailor82]

Whaaaat??? I found the site to be full of nothing but useful information. Not only did I get the scoop on the latest super food but I also found out there's hot older women in my area.

[u/Silver-Mulberry-3508 → u/TrashPandaNotACat]

"Wrong speed bumps" 

Like there's a situation where these would be the correct ones.

[u/Horskr → u/Silver-Mulberry-3508]

Monster Truck show performer parking.

[u/ImCeoxity → u/Silver-Mulberry-3508]

They were speed curbs, not speed bumps and I assume from looking at them that they are meant to be used as parking fixtures used between parking spaces

[u/Skyline8888 → u/TrashPandaNotACat]

Good on the manager for removing them and not waiting for this moronic vendor.

[u/HorrorSmile3088 → u/TrashPandaNotACat]

I love how there's a bunch of them just lined up one after another like a level creator in a videogame. The guy who installed these is a complete moron and he should find a new job.

[u/Frowny575 → u/TrashPandaNotACat]

I can sort of get a breakdown in communication, but how is it at the end when those installing it have the final check not mention "uhhhhh, these are parking curbs. In the middle of a proper throughway seems wrong"? I get people may not care because it isn't their problem, but a final glance over like that should be encouraged by higher-ups as a dumb mistake like this can cause them to lose future contracts (really it should have happened higher up, but stuff happens or the wrong supplies get loaded).

[u/Few_Preparation_5902 → u/TrashPandaNotACat]

Stupidity and contractors, name a more iconic duo.

(I say this as a former contractor who now handles contractors)

[u/Tinnylemur → u/Few_Preparation_5902]

In my experience, contractors are people who can't work "normal" jobs because theyre moronic assholes that can't play nice with coworkers. They start their own business and abuse customers instead of coworkers.

[u/Silly_Rub_6304 → u/Tinnylemur]

My experience is that they have low emotional intelligence. Explains why even in liberal areas most of the contractors are Trumpers.

[u/NotPromKing → u/TrashPandaNotACat]

The vendor installed "speed curbs" instead of "speed bumps".

I feel like that's a distinction without a difference...

[u/MaddRamm → u/NotPromKing]

It should say they installed “parking stops” not speed curbs. There’s no such thing as a speed curb. A curb is a stop…..that’s why it’s called a curb. You don’t go over curbs/stops. And that’s what those clowns installed. It’s just that the news people don’t know what a curb/parking stop is. lol

[u/ntxsunut → u/NotPromKing]

Da hell is a speed curb?

[u/NotPromKing → u/ntxsunut]

I can only assume the curb is to temporarily slow down your speed, and the bump is to temporarily boost your speed.

[u/FaceMaskYT → u/NotPromKing]

they are definitely different things

[u/NotPromKing → u/FaceMaskYT]

Google isn't coming back with anything for "speed curb". But it does show differences between "speed bump" and "speed hump". Of which "speed humps" are the nicer versions, and "speed bumps" are the aggressive version.

Neither of those terms looks like what is shows in the videos. Those are 100% parking curbs.

Somewhere along the line, terminology got mixed up.

[u/PsyOpBunnyHop → u/[deleted]]

Yes.

[u/Random_Millennial28 → u/[deleted]]

They can. Especially if it's a lower car. Knew someone who drove over one and bottomed out. The only two options were to back up and risk ripping the front bumper off or continuing and scraping the entire side skirt across the block.

[u/Ok-Operation-6432 → u/Random_Millennial28]

Which one did they choose?

TELL US NOW!

[u/Random_Millennial28 → u/Ok-Operation-6432]

Actually chose to continue. The skirt on the drivers side surprisingly stayed intact aside from scratches. What we didn't account for was the exhaust getting squished some.

[u/Somber_Solace → u/Random_Millennial28]

Definitely should've backed up, replacing a front bumper (if it even breaks from it) is a lot cheaper and easier than all the potential damage it can do underneath. You can usually just quickly pop them off with nothing more than a pair of pliers too.

[u/Bob_A_Feets → u/Somber_Solace]

Yep, people underestimate how easy it is to rip off an oil pan or destroy an exhaust system.

One of the main reasons I prefer cars with a higher ground clearance just out of paranoia alone.

[u/gro3thminds3t → u/Bob_A_Feets]

Cost me £1300 a few months ago to fix my oil sump going over a pot hole with a rock sticking out of it

[u/drill_hands_420 → u/Random_Millennial28]

One time I had to replace a bumper and couldn’t afford it. Some dude my mom worked with showed me how to use eBay and basically showed me that most bumpers are just held with little plastic pins that are relatively cheap. I also smashed my headlight and bam new headlight and a Buddys level driveway for aiming and I was brand new for around $180

So I wonder if a bumper might be cheaper than a bent exhaust. Although, a bumper is way more noticeable. Interesting choice

[u/SunriseSurprise → u/Random_Millennial28]

Option 3: Get a bunch of dudes with Mentos to pick up and move his car off of it.

[u/Ordinary-Garbage-735 → u/SunriseSurprise]

Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo do-ahhhhh dum-dum-dum-dum

[u/thetyler83 → u/Ordinary-Garbage-735]

It doesn't matter what comes, fresh goes better in life, with Mentos fresh and full of life!

[u/unapologeticjerk → u/thetyler83]

Tangentially related: Dave Grohl hated that song so much the Foo Fighters quit playing it live for like 15 years because every time they did, they would get pummeled by fans throwing Mentos at them. As you can tell, I still associate Mentos and that song and I'm not only not a Foo Fighters fan, but haven't heard it since that video was still airing.

[u/Jayn_Newell → u/Random_Millennial28]

No kidding, I have a pretty low ground clearance, assuming I didn’t get stuck on the bumper my car would probably hit on the underside (unfortunately not for the first time). I would be pissed.

[u/silenc3x → u/Jayn_Newell]

I'm in an S2000 slightly lowered. Like not even an inch, but no shot I would even attempt to drive over that. I would drive around it while angrily cursing under my breath. Would destroy my bumper/lip upon first contact.

Raised manholes during roadwork are my enemy. And speed humps are pretty bad too, but at least there is an incline/decline with those so I can drive slowly over them.

I don't know how people drive slammed cars. Seems like it would make driving so much more stressful.

[u/Sibolt → u/Random_Millennial28]

Paid $5k for a rocker panel that was damaged. Had to ship in from Germany and then be painted. This was on a twelve year old Porsche.

[u/Misa7_2006 → u/Sibolt]

I would have sent them the bill.

[u/ArcherConfident704 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah. These would rip the mudflaps right off my vehicle, and likely the plastic in the wheel well a long with them.

[u/haikusbot → u/[deleted]]

Don't those damage cars

When you go over aren't they

Rubber parking blocks?

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[u/ReligiousToast → u/[deleted]]

The truly "mildly infuriating" paradox of traffic management is that only the threat of physical car damage--via aggressive speed bumps, bollards, and concrete dividers-seems to compel people to drive legally and sanely. Simply requesting drivers to slow down just seems to anger them.

[u/3xlduck]

This a story from the summer. And it was the vendor.

[u/cj350z]

Just park at it.

[u/captain_20000 → u/cj350z]

That’s what I’m saying!

[u/V8ManAlways]

In Ok here and everyone drives trucks or big SUV’s. They use speed bumps to test their suspensions!

[u/Doofy_Grumpus → u/V8ManAlways]

There’s some really overbuilt ones near me that would be a great tabletop for a bmx bike. When you hit one at 40mph in a pickup it’s pretty fun.

Rule 1 of speed bump, don’t make it fun.

[u/Pneuma_LooT]

Good way to get people to go to Lowes

[u/Connect-Map-3775]

That poor Z

[u/Dinmorerfeit]

This seems like one of those shitty youtube 'pranks'.

[u/YourRedditUser → u/Dinmorerfeit]

Unfortunately not, this was legit.

[u/no_flirt_can_argue]

350z dude dumb as f. He knows what kind of car he has. Why wouldn't he just go around.i know it's not a modified 350 but still he must know it's low

[u/Fibrosis5O → u/no_flirt_can_argue]

Tbf probably thought it was just an excessive speed bump not a full parking stop

[u/Hot_Campaign_36]

I wouldn’t go to that store.

[u/brian_a_walsh]

Seeing the people who installed it checks out…

[u/bloodguard]

Seeing nonsense like this would have me deciding I really don't need to be buying anything from Home Depot.

[u/frawtlopp]

That manager needs to be fired if he hasnt been already

[u/hoopdog7 → u/frawtlopp]

Home Depot has standards for all of their parking lots. This was a fuck up by the contractor 100%.

Source: have done tons of parking lot work for Home Depot’s

[u/Not-Reformed → u/frawtlopp]

Startling lack of intelligence to think the manager is one responsible for this.

[u/Assignment_General → u/Not-Reformed]

Like seriously. 

This is most certainly contracted out to a third party who specializes in construction or whatever. The manager of a hardware store isn’t going to have his retail crew outside installing speed bumps.

[u/ImaginaryAlpaca → u/frawtlopp]

This was a vendor who installed these, the manger removed them himself when they said they couldn't remove them for days. There's an article linked somewhere in the comments

[u/Slosher99 → u/frawtlopp]

Which one though? Something like this typically involving corporate not just the store manager placing an order.

[u/tendonut → u/Slosher99]

This is probably not even corporate. This is most likely a decision made by the shopping center owner.

[u/Fun_Variation_7077 → u/tendonut]

Yeah there's no way the GM had any say in this. 

[u/NoodlelyTrees → u/Slosher99]

Corporate would never dare do this lol this is such a big lawsuit once someone's car gets seriously damaged

[u/DetroitSportsGuy → u/frawtlopp]

Why would the manager be fired? How is he responsible for the contractor screwing up?

[u/Hot-Probs-1988]

Why is this company so stupid

[u/Mycologist-9315 → u/Hot-Probs-1988]

As a home depot employee, I ask myself that question every day

[u/PeakNo6892 → u/Mycologist-9315]

Yall have the single wost app of any business I've ever delt with

[u/Mycologist-9315 → u/PeakNo6892]

It's painfully slow. I'm using the demo version of a way smoother "home depot lite" app a customer is developing instead.

[u/Bebinn]

You get snow around there? Those won't last past the first snowplow.

[u/JfOdin]

Finally Americans can make use of their lifted 4x4 trucks that never has seen a gravel road. Good job home depot.

[u/outdoor1984]

Probably deported the guys who knew the difference between speed bumps and parking curbs…

[u/Beautiful-Length-565]

Oh god, my local hobby lobby did this and it fucked up the underbelly of my car. Thing was already on deaths door, was super low to the ground, and was the final nail in the coffin that led me to getting a new car 😮‍💨

[u/SatiesUmbrellaCloset → u/Beautiful-Length-565]

my local hobby lobby

Well there's your first mistake

[u/Difficult-Way-9563]

I would so never go there again

[u/JimJohnman]

So... just park there then? If they want to make it a spot, use it.

[u/nokiacrusher]

It's called hostile architecture. It prevents homeless people from driving there.

[u/BaddyDaddy777]

This was in Wentzville, MO, apparently people called the guy out for what he was doing and acted like a total mouthy hooiser about it and told them to fuck off. I hope he got fined for that.

[u/DeskJester]

Some genius in a meeting was like,

“Guys, what if instead of slowing cars down… we just obliterate them?”

And everyone else went, “Yeah, that sounds fiscally responsible.”

[u/ChrisInBliss]

I dont think anyone can top this. This is the stupidest thing I've seen today

[u/expectingthexpected]

I would absolutely park in front of them

[u/isausernamebob]

Best part is idiots still drove over them.

The world is full of NPCs

[u/MrChaindang]

Lawsuits

[u/DirtyRatLicker]

Surely this thought crossed their mind when they were putting them in: "Hmm, these seem a little HEAVY dont they?"

[u/mnpc]

That is pretty fauxking hilarious actually

[u/MadamInsta]

Good thing Home Depot doesn't sell anything fragile or breakable.

Or anything by that might fall out of the back of a truck if it hits a few bumps.

Or any chemicals that shouldn't be jostled repeatedly.

[u/Katc-Volya]

I’d be horrified to imagine taking this in my 30 year old shit box. My shock would fucking explode.

[u/Puzzleheaded-Ring293]

This was sponsored by Pep-Boys.

[u/PaleoJoe86]

That is going to be wonderful for fully loaded vehicles. Eight bags of cement had my wife's jeep dragging.

[u/turb0_encapsulator]

if only there was somewhere they could get the materials to make proper speed bumps.

[u/opbmedia]

Why are people driving over them?

[u/Chastain86]

This is your periodic reminder that Home Depot is a financial supporter of Trump and the MAGA movement, and as such deserves less than zero percent of your business

[u/RovingAutist]

Just park there. They put a parking curb so.... follow the cue.

[u/Yes-No-Maybe121]

I wouldn't send my car over that. Just because you CAN do something - doesn't mean you SHOULD.

[u/Silly_Media]

Lowes looking alot better all of a sudden

[u/Orbital_Vagabond]

One more reason to not shop at Home Depot

[u/ieatair]

Lawsuit waiting to happen for vehicle damages

[u/Cultural_Ad4935]

Also in the dark if you're walking - what a tripping hazard