Why does every question get an answer that says to ask the guy at Home Depot or Lowe's (if you can find one of them)? Those people don't know theirass from a hole in the ground.
If those guys knew anything, they wouldn't be working at Home Depot for eight bucks an hour, now would they?
2006-10-07 16:08:13 · 14 answers · asked by normobrian 6 in Home & Garden ➔ Do It Yourself (DIY)
DITTO, MOST OF THE TIME, I'VE MET A FEW THAT WERE FILLING A SPACE IN THEIR LIFE & WERE WELL VERSED & KNEW MUCH!, BUT, YOU'RE RIGHT, MOSTLY STREET PEOPLE.
2006-10-07 16:22:30 · answer #1 · answered by Bonno 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This obviously a store to store problem. You can walk into a chain MCBurger joint that is clean enough to eat off the floors, then go across town to the same chain and find a cockroach breeding grounds. Same with HD. In Jax Fla we have 5 . There are good ones and terrible ones. Don`t just blame the ASSociates. It`s the supervisors who place the personnal with fertilizer experience in the electrical department.
2006-10-08 05:04:44 · answer #2 · answered by william v 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I disagree.
When I wanted to paint my office with a specific color to match a Tropicana rose bush that I had, I went to HD. Three guys were there helping me mix it to just the right color. If not for them, I would not have ended up with the right shade. They knew more than I did about how a paint will look after it dries. For an amateur like me, it made quite a difference. I get many compliments on that color.
I've also got good advice in other areas, like when I rented equipment from them and bought the material to blow insulation into the attic in my "new" home. They've helped me to learn how to clean and maintain my wood floors...lawn maintenance...the list goes on.
The people I have met there are well-trained, experienced, polite, and eager to help.
2006-10-08 02:13:55 · answer #3 · answered by KIT J 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Generally I've found the staff at Home Depot knowledgeable, IF you can flag one down to ask them something. Whenever I see one they're usually surrounded by several befuddled couples waiting to ask questions. I think the box stores are way under-staffed. The guy at Wal-Mart knew how to mix the paint but had never heard of floor filler. Hmmmm....
2006-10-07 23:51:58 · answer #4 · answered by thyladydulcinea 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What's wrong with you. Did the Home Depot fire you for being stupid? Did you tell a customer to go to Lowes? Or are you just angry at the world for no obvious reason?
2006-10-08 09:02:54 · answer #5 · answered by ezachowski 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Last week I went to Home Depot in North McAllen (Texas) to buy a shillalagh, having misplaced my old one. I found a really nice steel pipe, six feet long. That is too long for a shillalagh, so I asked the man there is he could cut it on his pipe cutter, and how much it cost.
He said it was free to cut it.
While he cut my pipe, which of course gives me two shillalaghs, I asked him as I often ask workers I encounter, if he liked his job.
He said he LOVED his job and was glad to come to work every day. His tone of voice sounded like it, too.
My life's experience has been when people like their work they tend to learn as much as they can, which means they can be very helpful.
2006-10-07 23:20:44 · answer #6 · answered by retiredslashescaped1 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some of them are working second jobs because they want morefrom life than they are getting. Usually they work in an area of their expertise. So they are very knowledgeable. Unfortunately this isn't a perfect world and it doesn't work that way.
If you aren't too lazy, you should get at least three opinions about anything of importance. Tha is what is so good about yahoo answers.
2006-10-07 23:20:10 · answer #7 · answered by jekin 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is their job to know. Don't you know your job? And.....the workers at our HD make about 15-20 bucks an hour-not 8.
Not everyone is good at their job. You can tell who they are when you ask them something. But if they have any sense they will find someone that does know and get your question answered. m
2006-10-08 07:32:13 · answer #8 · answered by Mache 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yahoo Answers is not the end all for technical advise, but once
in a while you come across somebody that knows what he is
talking about. The problem of course, is figuring out which is
which.
2006-10-08 02:01:38 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some of them yes I agree with you. There are a few in my town that know what they are doing but can't work in the field anymore because of back troubles
2006-10-07 23:11:07 · answer #10 · answered by wowwhatwasthat 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I guess people assume that every one who works in a home improvement store has to know something!
2006-10-07 23:11:45 · answer #11 · answered by gravityworks2 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋