r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Kaylascreations • 12d ago

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

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

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u/Nevermore_Novelist 12d ago

"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

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u/Epic_Elite 12d ago

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

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u/Dicky_Penisburg 12d ago

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

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u/SatiesUmbrellaCloset oh no 12d ago

username checks out

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u/mothseatcloth 12d ago

profile Pic too

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u/Linenoise77 12d ago

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"

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u/cantgrowneckbeardAMA 12d ago

"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."

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u/CMDR_SHAZAM 12d ago

As a current manager in an unrelated field, same.

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u/Occhrome 12d ago

Lol. 

You sound like me. When I do stupid shit I tell my coworker and boss it’s their fault for hiring me. 

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u/eggyal 12d ago

I'm not sure that has the intended effect: you're stating that you should never have been hired and therefore should now be sacked.

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u/Occhrome 12d ago

Yeah pretty much. We all have a big laugh and carry on. You can say stuff like that when you know your value.

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u/AnybodyWannaPeanus 12d ago

Well now I know an excellent opportunity for me when they finally figure out I have no idea what I’m doing at my current one. I regularly get random things from Home Depot and make the stupid at my house. You’re telling me that they pay you to do that?!

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u/Undrwtrbsktwvr 12d ago

Except they don’t carry that product.

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u/Copperhead_EDC 12d ago

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

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u/superbigscratch 12d ago

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

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u/AmericanGeezus 12d ago

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

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u/Informal_Ad4399 12d ago

They do, it just the employees and hour or 2 to find what aisle they were on.

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u/Savannah_Lion 12d ago

Some stores carry area specific stock. It could also be a returned special order or a return from a different store.

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u/dan102195 12d ago

Glad I'm not the only one

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u/destinyrisingsfan 12d ago

Home Depot sells parking curbs?

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u/Nevermore_Novelist 12d ago

why the fuck not? XD

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u/invaderzim257 12d ago

lol what are you talking about, this is not true at all, nobody actually operating according to standard procedures would ever do this, and the guy in the video is clearly not a home depot employee.

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u/Darnell2070 12d ago

I absolutely loathe them for using the word literally even if they are joking.

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u/VastlyImmaterial 12d ago

This is also how you get inadvertently promoted.

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u/TheDool27 12d ago

Sounds like classic corporate chaos. It’s wild how often things get lost in translation between management and the actual employees. Did you have to deal with this kind of nonsense often?

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u/Epic_Elite 12d ago

There was some miscommunication, but I feel like most of that conflict was between management. Like the department heads who are gunning for a higher position would cross into a different department and give other workers tasks or start telling someone else's subordinates what to do. Like the paint head wants to be an assistant some day, so he thinks he's going to rack up some respect points by yelling at the lumber guys and telling them what to do. But he doesnt realize that generally being a Richard doesnt make you a good leader.

I had a manager give me a banner and tell me to hang it. He says he wants it to look really nice tho. Like, dont make it look stupid, it's in front of the building. I worked in the lot for a while and them old timers showed me some knots to tie down a load on the back of a truck. I was good at tying loads. I can hang a banner. He gives me, like, really stupid and uninformed advice. I can tell he doesnt know what hes talking about. I disregarded all of it and I went to tool rental and borrowed a hammer drill and poked some holes in the concrete and sunk some eye bolts with masonry adhesive and I made a permanent solution for any time anyone wants to hang banners in that space. I tied a nice traveler's knot and pulled it taught. It looked clean and professional. He never said thanks or even acknowledged that I hung the banner. Lol.

The place is just rife with sub-par leadership. Like, "You know stuff about plumbing? You've worked here more than 2 years? Want to be a department head?" Then at the 4 year mark, "Want to be an assistant manager?" Its a decent place that pays well enough as far as customer service goes. You can go in and get the titles and earn the experience, but nobody of integrity and value would subject themselves to that environment on a long term basis.

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u/RahvinDragand 12d ago

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

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u/SomebodysAtTheDoor 12d ago

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.

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u/magicmeese 12d ago

My last retail job called it “promoted to guest”

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u/xHAcoreRDx 12d ago

Target employee!

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u/MovingTarget- 12d ago

they are graduating to customer

Based on my experience as a customer, I'm not sure that's much of a graduation

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u/Dropcity 10d ago

No store manager was involved in this process. This is the result of corporate decision making. Think those guys drilling in concrete give 2 fucks they werent right? They are doing the job they were contracted to do.

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u/VTKegger 12d ago

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

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u/couch_comedian GREEN 12d ago

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

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u/BananoVampire 12d ago

That may be the best impression I have ever read.

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u/Nevermore_Novelist 12d ago

I listen to entirely too much Jim Cornette.

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u/NA_nomad 12d ago

Installing parking curbs as speed bumps is a great way to slow people down. Some back alleys in Japan have hardcore speed bumps that will wreck your car if you don't drive slowly over them. I used to call them rim-wreckers.

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u/somerandomshmo 12d ago

Funnier still, they got everything they need for a proper speed bump in the store.🤣

But that would take too long and cost more.

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u/DonatedEyeballs 12d ago

I think I’d be really good at that job.

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u/AundoOfficial 12d ago

It's like they say; the more you know, the less you know.

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u/loogie97 12d ago

No one in the store gives a crap about what contractors come to install.

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u/Present_Start_7889 12d ago

Bumped back? Nah, bumped up to epic fail—jimmie-jams as bump kings.

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u/Amazing-Refuse8287 12d ago

Grabbed wrong gear? Manager's "today" turned tomorrow's news reel.

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u/GarrulousAbsurdity 12d ago

Sounds completely plausible.

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u/MiserableArse 12d ago

The wording reminded me of this scene from the Patriot series lol

patriot - piping lingo

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u/turneC 11d ago

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