[Kennesaw]

"images from dozens of cameras can be stored nearly indefinitely"

interesting......

[Cate]

Here's my two cents. My future son-in-law is assistant manager at our local Home Depot. Long before I met him, we made frequent trips into HD. We've taken tiling classes and also some on painting. The only bad experience I've ever had in the store was when I foolishly stood and looked at all their nifty ceiling lights and fans and it made me sick to my stomach to watch all those swirling things. Our area is lucky to have a store that the employees are plentiful and the help is geniune. Hopefully some HD employees will see this thread and do something about improvements in your areas.

[rector seal]

Will the digitized images be watched by bored 3rd world night shift workers in India? Wait a minute, why not Iraqis?

[Recovering_Democrat]

O MY GAWWWWWD!
You'd think Home Depot cares more about its stores than some Americans care about protecting citizens from terrorists.

[razorback-bert]

Hmmm, found this tidbit

Posted - 08/19/2003 : 07:36:42 AM

---

The Home Depot had a Loss Prevention team a few yearas ago but did away with it. They are now bringing it back in which red flags should start going up just because of that. You will be working a minimum of 55-60 hours a week. I worked as a LP Manager for Lowes and I believe its a similiar structure. It is not typical LP where you get to catch bad guys and interview internals. You will be chasing paperwork all day and have very little time on the camera system. When you do use the camera system it will be for refund verification. LP at Home depot is more Shrink Control through paperwork errors and Saftey than anything else. You will probably have to wear one of their vests when you walk around on the floor, and help customers when needed. The LP training at Lowes was around 8 months, thats how much paperwork you have to know, plus you have to know every other department in the store and be certified in all of it. That means you will unloading trucks in receiving at 3 or 4 in the morning for about a week or so. Home depot has killed several people in their store because of saftey issues so I am guessing that saftey will be your priority. As far as advancement, you will probably have to re-locate if you want to advance in the company and want a higher pay rate. The pay rate in Home Depot and Lowes is based on the crime in the area and the Shrink Rate. It goes by classes from 2-6 I believe. What you should take into consideration is when you look on LPJObs.com or some similiar website you will see that most of the LP jobs available are from Home Depot and Lowes. This means that they cannot recruit and KEEP their LP managers because of unfair treatment. The bonus structure is based on if the store meets their shrink goals or not, if they dont, you dont get a bonus. I would only go to Home Depot if nothing else is available.

and this one

Home Depot is not a place to be if you want to go to LP. Everything bad you hear is right, and everything you hear good is wrong. Yeah, they make you work a MINIMUM of 55 hours a week. You get a staff of 1 maybe 2 LP people. There are endless audits and inventory tracking. The number one problem is the safety issues. I think like 9 people in the last two years have died at Home Depot from merchandise and stocking vehicle accidents. One of the most recent was a refridgerator that fell on a 8 year old girl. This company is full of libility issues that will heavily involve you.

http://www.lpinformation.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=963

[pray4liberty]

I don't think I want to shop at HD anymore.

[SevenDaysInMay]

So that is where the inventory and training dollars went. I hear new mgmt. is ex-GE guys who don't know how to run a contractor/DIY shop.

The four stores in near North/East Dallas are insulting fiascos. Inventory is so thin that it costs more money to shop there and the next place than to go on and skip H.D.

Too bad that H.D. didn't get the cameras et al. plugged in in time to tape me leaving in disgust for their security training.