I worked at Home Depot about 8 (?) yrs ago & absolutely HATED it. The hourly employees were absolutely WONDERFUL, they were very decent, down-to-earth & caring people — but the management were total ick-prays: the store’s General Manager was a 250-lb+ BUTCH who had an ultra-short crew cut for “her” hair style (I didn’t notice any tattoos, she was so fugly I didn’t bother to look), & my Garden Department Manager was an alcoholic whose breath reeked every now & then.
It was a very politically-correct business, too. The Christmas season in which I worked (we weren’t allowed to call it that, of course), we had a get-together & EVERYBODY won an award. I don’t remember what mine was, it was so nonsensical...but hey, I won something? Don’t ask me why, I hadn’t been there very long, but I won a prize of some sort for some reason.
Unlike the founder of another Atlanta-based business, the late Mr. Cathy of Chik-Fil-A, the founders (Messrs. Marcus and Blank) of Home Depot are not Christians; as Tony Soprano put it, they are our “non-shellfish eating friends”.
This is not meant as an anti-Semitic screed, but a statement of reality: our fellow citizens who adhere to Reform Judaica see the world vastly differently than Christians do. They don’t believe in heaven or hell; so their morality turns out to be 100% secular humanist in nature—there is no absolute truth, another person’s morality is none of your business, etc., etc. Yet they also believe that the world can be perfected.