ZERO STARS! Home Depot has some MAJOR hiring issues. WHY?
I have NEVER been so poorly treated - EVER!
On October 15, 2024, I stopped into the Bristol, CT Home Depot to purchase water wicks for my humidifier. The unit takes HDC-12 pleated paper wicks, which I have purchased at HD many, many times. This means that I am also familiar with where they are located in the store. (Matter of fact, I spend so much money at the HD, I know the layout better than most employees - but that's another review.)
Yes, things move around in a retail store from time to time, but when I looked at where the wicks SHOULD be, the shelves were empty. Looking up however, I not only noticed an exact model of humidifier tucked WAAAY up on the top shelf, wrapped in shipping wrap, but with it, a bunch of HDC-12 filters.
I approached a "sales associate" and was told he'd get me "Someone from that department". So I waited. And waited and waited. Half an hour, give or take. Seriously?
So up to the "Customer Service" desk I go. I was taken over to Chris, who mans the ProDesk because "They had no one in THAT department to help me". Keep in mind here, that I came to this HD armed with the CORRECT part number and amount of wicks the store claimed to have, according to their webpage. I did my homework. (Go ahead, punch in HDC-12 humidifier wicks and see.)
Chris immediately copped an attitude and "Informed" me that if they weren't on the shelf, they didn't have them. AND, he said that "If I didn't know what they looked like then he couldn't help me." EXCUSE ME? His own workstation had a picture!!!! I must have been bothering him - standing there looking marvelous as he was - and doing nothing. It's not like he was interrupted, he was simply being asked to help a customer - a customer who knew EXACTLY what he needed, what the part number was and where they are normally stocked IN ALL HOME DEPOT STORES!
But keep reading cuz it gets better...
So I asked him to please come with me so I could show him where they were and that a forklift or similar would be needed - as they had them, but were on the top-most shelf, which is why I went to customer service in the first place.
Nope. Chris took me to AIR FILTERS and rude as hell, pointed to the shelf and asked: "Do you see them here?" Well, it took every ounce of self-control not to just scream as this a-hole punk. Like I was some moron. (If he knew what I did for a living he would shit)
So I then insisted that he follow me to the area in the store where I know they should be so I could point out to him what I needed help with. He followed, but was NOT pleased. When I pointed to where they were, I again explained that I needed someone to get them down, he literally and as animated as a cartoon character, threw his hands up in the air and said: "I give up!" And walked off huffing to himself. I wish I thought to record this conversation because he would be famous this morning on You Tube.
In any case, I went back to "Customer Service" and this time found Dawn.
Now I hope you keep reading because THIS is going to make you crap your self: Dawn took my HDC-12 number, punched it into her workstation and pulled up the EXACT page that I did at my house that morning and the same page that Chris from ProDesk pulled up! And here's the best part; She informed me that the page not only had a picture and believed quantity - BUT IT HAD THE SHELF NUMBER AND LOCATION in the store. I know, right? Chris, Chris, Chris. At the Bristol CT Pro Desk Chris. (I want to be sure everyone knows who you are. Especially HD management)
She pointed to them right in front of her! She didn't have to take one step away from her register - she did it in about two minutes!!
That's right, HD had moved them to the front of the store because humidifiers sell this time of year when the humidity drops - but Chris, OH CHRIS! Fabulous Chris didn't have a clue. The unit on the way up top shelf? Inventory. (Yes, Chris - they were inventory.) And, by the way Chris, it's your job to get that stuff down if a customer wants to spend his money in your store. It's called RETAIL and it's you job!
Cudos and much appreciation to Dawn. If anyone from HD reads this - give that woman a fat raise!! 20 plus years with you too. Better keep her.
Chris at ProDesk Bristol, on the other hand. Well HD, if he treats your contractors the way he treated me, he's a liability to your bottom line and I'd fire him. God knows how many people he's pissed off and sent to Lowes.
And folks, just take a look at the reviews over there to the right...
Not all four and five stars, right? Even Three? Which means that Jeff Bezos is just going to keep getting richer because our retail managers in this country seem to have lost their minds with who they hire. This is unacceptable and I beg everyone who reads this review to start speaking out wherever you shop if you are treated poorly or don't get the level of customer serve that, at a bare minimum, is courteous and helpful. Shameful. read more