Posted on 05/21/2016 6:44:19 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
Sadly, Ms. Lake is unaware of our proud history and what needs to be done to restore our country’s greatness. She does not appreciate our many freedoms and American exceptionalism
It is sad that so many of our young people today are clueless about our country’s distinguished history. In a troubling story this week that generated national headlines, a 22-year-old Home Depot employee, Krystal Lake, of Staten Island, New York, was pictured at work wearing a hat that read, “America Was Never Great.”
The disturbing image sparked an explosion of online comments from across the nation with people expressing both support and opposition to her political message. A Home Depot spokesman responded to the controversy by claiming that her hat was in violation of their company policy and that “no one on our management team saw her wearing the hat, otherwise they would have had her remove it immediately.”
Jeff Croure is not great in English.
The solution -If she wears that hat again:
Customers fill the carts and go to her checkout lane.
Address the cap issue with her; Sorry, no sales transaction.
She gets to wear her rude hat and return all the merchandise.
I was an outside salesman (ie drummer) beginning in 1972. I worked for 2 privately held family owned companies. Both survived 100+ years. One is still going at 150 years.
I was outside salesman 14 years and wore many hats after that. Store program manager, regional sales manager, store planner, catalog department manager (print & web).
Yes, it is hard for a small company to compete, but it is not on the knowledge side. There were 625 wholesalers like that in the US when I started in 1972. Today there are under 40. The ones that are still viable are very large.
The survivors were almost universally good people.
I spent 5-1/2 years planning and setting retail stores. Most were Hardware Stores, Lumber Yards, Home Centers, Farm Stores and a few specialty Lawn & Garden stores.
I can assure you, I know that industry.
The story I was told was the lady asked the clerk to put on the cap and let her shoot photo. They may have offered to pay her to do it. They also may have offered to pay her to make the video.
I don’t think the clerk did this on her own.
I hate ax jobs on stores who have a good reputation.
When Home Depot and Lowes opened they had people working there that knew their way around construction and could help you find things. Today none of them seem to know even what things are called. I was looking for roof jack vents when we put a metal roof on our house went to HD to that section of HD...no one knew what I was talking about. A woman in charge of that section said she had never heard of them in a very condescending tone as if she was an expert. They didn’t have what I was looking for but according to her HD didn’t have such a thing so I couldn’t even order them.
I came home and looked on the Home Depot website thinking the name had changed over the years and low and behold on their website they were called exactly what I was asking for!
Years ago I worked in a large True Value Hardware as a cashier, when I began training my first job was to dust every thing on every shelf in the store, from back to front. I had to take nails, screws, etc out of bins- sort them clean the bin and continue on. When I got to the front of the store I began my training on the register. After I worked there a while I asked the owner why they trained cashiers that way. He told me the first person customers see when they walk in his store is the cashier and they will ask where something is located or if the store carries what they are looking for. By the time I was done dusting I knew the name of most items, darn sure where they were located, and had a good idea if we carried the item. Not only that but the store was clean!
I learn something all the time on FR. You used the term drummer. I didn’t know it meant a salesman. I looked it up and hundreds of years ago traveling salesmen used a drum to announce their arrival and get attention. I guess that’s where the phrase “drum up business” comes from.
The statistics you posted are amazing. 625 down to under 40. And you survived in that kind of market? I remember years ago when I was a kid I read in one of my parent’s magazines (I think it was Kiplinger) that hardware stores used to have the lowest bankruptcy rate and all that changed, almost overnight.
I carried a 25 lb. catalog for 14 years. I have a collection of them now.
For 5-1/2 years I ran a catalog department and produced the 3,000 page catalog plus indexes and supplement pages. It was a beast. 47,000 items. And my department generated the bullet descriptions for each item and the images for print and the web. If you have never created an index for a large volume, it is a unique experience. Each time I updated a section of the catalog, I updated the section and general index. I composed the entries directly into a spreadsheet and sorted before they were scripted into Quark for production.
In the beginning we only had a single image for a product that had many sizes. I found a way to open the .pdf of the catalog section, edit out some Adobe print coding and extract the page number to item number and multiply the images so we had each item illustrated on the web. Pure hack.
Thank God for Image Magick. An amazing powerful command line batch process imaging tool.
The print catalog and the seasonal promotion catalogs (7 per year, some were 1,000 pages) were scripted into Quark from the data file. The process was a total hack. Each step was a one of a kind process. I was the only person in the company who understood how to do it when I left the company. They eliminated the printing department just before they liquidated.
I worked for that company 2 times. First from 1972-1988 then another 5-1/2 year hitch. In between I worked for the 150 year old company for about 14 years.
“she looks stoned. Headshake”
That was my first thought too, and I’ve seen that same look on Obama’s face too.
In England, hardware merchants were called “Iron Mongers”.
Bet you did not know that.
I bet he is less dangerous when stoned.
Hog wash FRiend. Up here in Fairbanks they do just fine. Bet your behind that we wouldn’t put up with crap like that.
Today she has a job that gives her benefits and pays her a wage that supports her. Tomorrow, she may be working for the state in a job it decides she will do, and be lucky if it carries a wage at all, much less benefits.
Who will she turn to for sympathy then?
This is why I am so cynical about everything.
If Home Depot says they ask her not to wear said hat, and she doesn’t, there is no problem for me with Home Depot. I’ll shop there.
But if they side with her, that would be a problem.
I know what you mean, though. The left is known to manufacture these situations, so it is good to be on guard.
It was manufactured to stir the crazies.
I understand.
“America Was Never Great.”
Tell that to the Tuskegee Airmen, or the crews of the bombers they protected.
No bomber ever protected by the Tuskegee Airmen, the “Red Tails” was ever lost.
Take that, you bitch, (Not you, Sean)
It’s directed at Miz Slack Jaw.
Did this gal ever get fired from her job?
I’m so sick of supporting global socialist supporting mega firms...
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