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Posted on 5/7/16 at 9:21 pm to 632627
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All the Home Depots near me employ a ton of young, cute Hispanic girls
Who else are they going to hire? You live in southern California.
Posted on 5/7/16 at 9:31 pm to Kujo
I have worked at both. Lowes pays better and offers more benefits to part timers. The number of personnel used at any store of either company is based on sales, but both hire more part timers now because of Obamacare, and some, but not all new hires know much about their products.
Posted on 5/7/16 at 10:24 pm to 632627
So goddamn true. Esperanza, I have bad knees and do need help reaching the bottom shelf. Thanks.
Posted on 5/7/16 at 10:56 pm to Chuker
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the worst thing that can happen to me at HD or Lowes is that an associate wants to help give me "advice" on something.
I feel sorry for anyone that would go to either for real help or advice I've heard some comical shite people have told me they got from hd employees
Posted on 5/7/16 at 11:57 pm to genuineLSUtiger
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All the Home Depots near me employ a ton of young, cute Hispanic girls
Who else are they going to hire? You live in southern California.
It's true every retail and big box store in so cal employs mostly Hispanics. What's different about all my local Home Depots is that they have a surprising amount of attractive young women working. The girls that work at target for example are usually hideous.
Posted on 5/8/16 at 12:01 am to 632627
Those little Hispanic chicas are nice. I'm sure SoCal is flush with them. 
Posted on 5/8/16 at 12:51 am to sportsaddit68
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You can think obamacare for all retailers getting younger and not as experience.
No offense but the service at Lowe's and Home Depot sucked well before Obama Care was even thought of.
Posted on 5/8/16 at 1:44 am to EmperorGout
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EmperorGout
Esperanza, I have bad knees and do need help reaching the bottom shelf. Thanks.
OK, I laughed. And then revisited the visual again.***
Posted on 5/8/16 at 7:46 am to Kujo
A lot of this must depend on management. Lowe's service here sucks. There are two older guys at Home Depot that truly know their stuff. I think they are just doing something during retirement and it's not a career for them.
Posted on 5/8/16 at 7:55 am to Kujo
I worked in the DIY business before, during, and after the advent of the DIY Warehouse stores. That is how Ipaid for my 9 year BSME 
Anyway, I worked for a place called Handy City then renamed Handy Dan in Lafayette. They hired a lot of college kids but the had regular training classes that we went to and usually had a few guys there who had pretty extensive experience.
Home Depot was the first warehouse store and really turned the industry on its head. We had double the employees per sq ft as HD. ultimately, though, lower pricing won out.
Lowes is actually an older chain but used to be almost exclusively contractor oriented. Although they dragged their feet initially, kudos to them for making the change in time to revive their sales in the late eighties/early nineties.
The issue, I think is that you can find 5 $10/hr guys for every guy you can find worth $20/hr in a even a steady economy and probably can find 20 $10/hr guys for each $20/hr guy who won't bolt within 6 months if an opportunity comes up within whatever field he is experienced in. Construction/remodel/work pays experience skilled laborers much more than $20/hr.
I think sometimes we buy into the line that these businesses are there to make our lives easier/provide us a service. Actually, they're in business to make a profit for the owners/shareholders by providing us a service. With HD/Lowes, they maximize that profit by buying in bulk and providing a minimum amount of service in order to sell items at a generally lower price than a local or Ace/True Value type store.
Anyway, I worked for a place called Handy City then renamed Handy Dan in Lafayette. They hired a lot of college kids but the had regular training classes that we went to and usually had a few guys there who had pretty extensive experience.
Home Depot was the first warehouse store and really turned the industry on its head. We had double the employees per sq ft as HD. ultimately, though, lower pricing won out.
Lowes is actually an older chain but used to be almost exclusively contractor oriented. Although they dragged their feet initially, kudos to them for making the change in time to revive their sales in the late eighties/early nineties.
The issue, I think is that you can find 5 $10/hr guys for every guy you can find worth $20/hr in a even a steady economy and probably can find 20 $10/hr guys for each $20/hr guy who won't bolt within 6 months if an opportunity comes up within whatever field he is experienced in. Construction/remodel/work pays experience skilled laborers much more than $20/hr.
I think sometimes we buy into the line that these businesses are there to make our lives easier/provide us a service. Actually, they're in business to make a profit for the owners/shareholders by providing us a service. With HD/Lowes, they maximize that profit by buying in bulk and providing a minimum amount of service in order to sell items at a generally lower price than a local or Ace/True Value type store.
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