Home Depot to start giving free training in trade skills

They used to have classes in tiling back in the day.

Will the Home Depot Mexicans teach the class?

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I've been waiting for Tech companies to do the same with coding. If I'm Google, I am starting a college and heavily, heavily recruiting the top potential employees.

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Why do this when you can hire a part-time engineer offshore for a fifth of the cost?

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Why train people you will have to eventually pay when the bulk of coding will be done by AI in the very near future? They'd do better to train people to do stuff like work in data centers on the hardware, cooling, and energy side.

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I'm not tech so I don't know what they really do, just used coding as a stand in for current tech stuff.

I wonder who is gonna teach these skills, because in my experience 90% of the people working at Lowe's or Home Depot don't know jack shite about anything you ask them, and you end up having to go find the old arse dude who actually knows things to get decent help.

Highly doubtful Home Depot has anyone remotely qualified to teach someone anything at all about a trade but you can rest assured they ain't going to give anyone the full picture of what working in a building trade especially means in reality. They ain't going to tell anyone about working 12 hour days in 100 or 10 degree weather for a company that will run man off for taking a single day off no matter how sick he is. They ain't going to tell them about living in a gypsy camp in a camper while Mama and Jodie have a big old time back home on his paycheck. They certainly ain't going to tell them that by the time they are 40 their body is going to prevent their competing against those who are 30 and by the time they are 50 their body will be such that they will be lucky to still be walking without severe knee, back, hip and other debilitating pain. Like all the people touting the trades they never worked in one themselves for more than a few years and most likely that was a family member of friends company and not one that only cares if a person is physically capable of doing the work in any kind of weather and environment and is willing to do so 6 and 7 days a week 10 and 12 hours a day.

People dont need Home Depot for it. Apprenticeships pay you to work.

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Highly doubtful Home Depot has anyone remotely qualified to teach someone anything at all about a trade but you can rest assured they ain't going to give anyone the full picture of what working in a building trade especially means in reality. They ain't going to tell anyone about working 12 hour days in 100 or 10 degree weather for a company that will run man off for taking a single day off no matter how sick he is. They ain't going to tell them about living in a gypsy camp in a camper while Mama and Jodie have a big old time back home on his paycheck. They certainly ain't going to tell them that by the time they are 40 their body is going to prevent their competing against those who are 30 and by the time they are 50 their body will be such that they will be lucky to still be walking without severe knee, back, hip and other debilitating pain. Like all the people touting the trades they never worked in one themselves for more than a few years and most likely that was a family member of friends company and not one that only cares if a person is physically capable of doing the work in any kind of weather and environment and is willing to do so 6 and 7 days a week 10 and 12 hours a day.

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I wonder if they have anyone to teach about grammar or run-on sentences.

I have a grandson who just graduated HS, wants to work so took an apprenticeship with a very well established HVAC company in Louisiana.

Gets paid decent while he becomes a journeyman, seems like a win/win for him.