Ah, honestly didn't occur to me they'd censor it like that lol
Home Depot fires 60 year old black man after man screamed slurs at him
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Straight Edge
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Great, Home Depot has miraculously seen the light and decided to offer his job back.
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All Hail C-Webb
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Wow, that's awesome news.
Hope they give him a raise too, but that's probably wishful thinking.
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SLoWMoTIoN
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Home Depot treats their workers horribly and pays them next to nothing I feel bad for anybody working there.
Spheyr
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HD starts at about $10 an hour and bumps up to $12-13 before pay raises slow down, that's not bad for retail. And "treats their workers horribly" is definitely a store by store claim.
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SLoWMoTIoN
Unconfirmed Member
It doesn't maybe that is a regional thing but from knowing people that worked there while in college and multiple online articles regarding said company lack of vacation or sick days makes other retail places not seem as shit. That's saying something.
Spheyr
Banned
You also definitely accrue PTO at HD, so I don't know what people you've been talking to but they're speaking rectally
finowns
Member
That's good to hear. I was going say a conversation that goes from 0 - 100 would be shocking to anyone, who knows how you would respond, it wasn't necessary to fire him even if he didn't handle the situation correctly.
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The employee had amazing restraint.
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SLoWMoTIoN
Unconfirmed Member
That is not what I said at all.The days they can absent vs actual vacation time is half of what other retailers offer.
Spheyr
Banned
It's all one pot at Home Depot, they don't differentiate sick days from vacation in the PTO hours.
What retailer offers literally double what HD does?
Spheyr
Banned
Did you not read the thread either where it's been discussed like eight times that there wasn't actually a racist attack, just a bad clickbait title?
Phoenix RISING
Banned
Training costs money.
The kind of money that so many people here disagreed that Starbucks should have invested in.
The company will likely consider this a one-time thing.
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SLoWMoTIoN
Unconfirmed Member
Target, Walmart, Lowes...
What is their policy on requesting days, chances to be able to skip work and hours?
https://splinternews.com/true-stories-of-miserable-home-depot-employees-1826013344
On the subject of leave in America, I heard PTO is not a legally mandated thing? And help me understand paternity leave, so many people say it's not a thing but then I see companies like MS and Apple give employees paternity leave and I'm told that comes from their sick time off? So what happens if a woman is pregnant and she doesn't have much sick time? Does she get fired for not showing up? Do they take it from her vacation days??
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Vicetrailia
Banned
At Home Depot the only walk in position is cashiers, whom get paid the least. They need good, reliable, intelligent people.
Corrik
Member
No. I pretty much read the comment about 15-20 back of mine that said it was a racist attack. I was wondering where they put 2 and 2 together on that.
Phoenix RISING
Banned
It's a crapshoot as there is no federal regulation beyond FMLA, which is unpaid leave of absence.
If you call off sick, unless you're salaried, you typically don't get paid.
At a lot of places outside of "dream jobs" like Apple and Google, if they offer benefits like PTO/PDO/VAC, wages are not always competitive, to offset the cost of those benefits.
We covered some of this in a thread months back when an EU poster asked why we didn't get a healthcare system similar to EU. The most vocal American posters said they'd rather people die than be forced to subsidize their healthcare.
Capitalism is the American way.
Sakura Doritos
Member
In the hill article there is no racial slur but that Trump comment with the ghetto comment seems racist enough to me. Good on HD for offering back his job.