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I'm from Philly. Not sure now that I think of it that Russell will be on the ballot box. Must look into it. I have literally brutal work shifts. Probably 98% of the people at this site would not last a day at the Home Depot I work at. Picture some days not even being able to get a fifteen minute break other then a four hour break for a lunch period. People streaming into my electrical department... asking tons of mostly idiotic questions ...tying me up from even completing the many chores I have (must find ladders to pack down the daily list of things that are not on the shelves, having to do transfers between stores of many items other stores need, doing safety checks, loading huge spools of wire onto special pipes we then have to pull out to sell to customers.. think two hundred pound huge spools of wire that must be hoofed onto horizontal bars etc.)....alone for four hours plus... having to make decisions on who to help and who that often hardly speak English to find a licenced electrician...
All kinds.... think of a emergency ward where the nurse or doctor does not get to sit down for five minutes... for four hours plus....then a break then don't sit down until another... But the catch is.... I put in easily five miles to eight miles per day having to fast walk from the front of the damn store to the back....George from Electrical need you in aisle 36 for customer assistance... George from Electrical I need you at aisle 1 on to help so goon ....picture very very hard concrete floors... Oh my! Somehow I must find a large ladder in the store to drop very very heavy boxes of wire that we just ran out of on the shelves... whoops... must then run to next aisle to climb up and carry down fifty pound 200AMP Circuit Breaker boxes or eight aisles down to carry down very heavy ceiling fans.... George from Electrical please come to the service desk... George from Electrical ..... please pick up phone 4 for customer service.... George from Electrical please come to cashier booth 11....need help on item with no SKU number...
Close store at 11PM.. Oh my the dope in scheduling has me to come in at 5AM.
So I do not often have time to answer in full to each of the ten to twenty pings I get a day at FR.
Let along participate as I would wish in civic responsibilities.
So If you don't get responses from me...perhaps I am bleary eyed and partially non-functional.... I'm soon to be 64 and whithering at the bones.
No. Can't retire just yet. I depend on the health insurance Home Depot provides full time employees.
At any rate. Thanks for the ping.

Marine Uncle! I thought I saw you at a Thursday Morning meeting!

I talked to you in HD a couple times. (no not in the electrical deparment but in the front of the store)

I live just a few miles from the store.

Glad you got my post! Next time I come to the store I’ll introduce myself.

You are about 5 10 to 6 foot with dark hair with some gray correct?

You are certainly welcome! And don’t feel you need to answer all pings, as we Freepers all know lots of times we ping friends and really don’t expect a ping back. I try to answer pings to me if questions are asked. But often a ping back isn’t necessary.

You sure do have an out of sight work load! I am retired now, but sure understand.