I work overnight at a home Depot, this has not been my experience.
this post was submitted on 08 Jan 2025
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~~European here (we don't have Home Depot),~~ ~~isn't Home Depot a hardware Store?~~ ~~What is there to do at night for eight Hours?~~
Nevermind the Question was answered one comment below π
Home Depot is an hardware shop in the USofA, right?
If so, why is an hardware store open overnight? What DIY emergency can come about that it can't wait for working hours?
I worked retail at a major store ~45k sqft and we had people come in at 2-3am and work until 10-11am βstocking shelvesβ. Thing is, part of our closing duties when it wasnβt busy was to restock the shelves. So most of the time the people stocking just ducked around for 8 hours. They were always super chill but had terrible weed.
They were always super chill but had terrible weed.
Gotta save the good stuff for after work π
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Ok, but what are the benefits? Is there a union? $17 is barely more than minimum wage.
The federal minimum is less than half of that
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That's how I learned to code. Got a night security job to pay bills and just took my laptop there. In my whole time there I had to get up from my desk maybe 2 times because some drunk dudes would get lost and stumble into the territory lol
It's somewhat the same argument for universal income. Gives people time to learn valuable skill sets without giving all their time and energy to some company.
I agree. I'm lucky I got this opportunity which really made me believe in social safety net as an ideology. So many people are stuck because there just no time to respecialize and re-invest your human resources. Automation, AI, robotics are only a problem because of this. If AI can take taxi driver's job and the taxi driver has the support to re-specialize to something more fulfilling then it's a win-win for everyone.
That's the dream.
Not the American one though sadly.
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Home Depot getting inventive with their recruiting strategies
Where is $17 a lot of money? In your parents basement??? I guess tendies would be covered for this greentext. Get an education and get double that, still be broke, and still work until your mental breakdown, at which point if all of you's can organize your break downs to align, we might be able to take that mental anguish out of the 1% families who's houses are burning in the palisades. Yeah I said it, the universe hates the palisades. Burn baby burn.
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Why not cut out the walking around in a store for 8h and still getting paid 17$/h. Universal Basic income now!
I hear what you're saying but the walking was probably the best part of that job. Barring disability, walking is so good for our bodies.