Home Depot Just Cut My Pay By 40% (yaay!)

Someone gotta pay for Obamacare...

life seems to be difficult for trade-person in usa

My god, i'm jealious you rich bastard

life seems to be difficult for trade-person in usa

I think the plan is to get rid of the working class altogether. So there's just rich folk, and ghetto dwellers standing around waiting for handouts.

But what I have not been able to figure out, after many years of being a working schmoo, is

who do they think is going to buy all this stuff, when NOBODY has a decent fucking job?

How is the big boss of Home Depot going to make his billions, when there's nobody left to buy his crap?

And WHO is gonna fix their cars, build their grills etc??

Mexicans maybe?

That's just the beginning. There will be much more of this as the year progresses...unfortunately

come to third world and that is reality
nobody can buy expensive crap so they pump up credit so few million middle class can buy some shit they produce

The rich will always stay rich //forever and ever

That's a shame. That actually seems like an enjoyable job. I'm currently working at an auto body shop and I'm in school for auto mechanics. I can tell you that the auto field is alive and well. You might want to try your hand in the auto industry! People are always crashing and breaking their cars.

Yup, it is less money for everyone in the long run. If money stops circulating then it is not really going to matter how much you have. There wont be anywhere to spend it and if there is it wont be safe to go there.

Yeah, brilliant plan guys.

I work with a Mexican sometimes, actually. He's not going to go for this shit either.

One more thing, before I go off to do my thing for the day.

DON'T BUY ANYTHING FROM THE FUCKING HOME DEPOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay...So I did the math. Even approached it on a day by day level. For someone, whom took an early retirement and remains bored through it all...I would take it! It beats having the wife ride your backside to mow the yard when you mowed it yesterday. Where do I sign up?

But... But the rich say cutting hours makes more jobs...

Home depot?

I am actually going to buy a new grill this spring.

Now I know where I will NOT be buying it. Or anything else for that matter.

Good guess!

And if that guy's wife is making him mow the lawn in February, he might want to consider working there for free just to escape.

That's what happens when your skills aren't in demand or easily learned.

No one to blame but yourself op. Had your skills been unique and highly specialized or difficult, you'd be picking and choosing between offers.

1. YOU ARE NOT A TRADE PERSON.... You assemble shitty chinese made pieces of shit for display.

2. You now qualify for unemployment. Congratulations. Yes, a cut in pay makes you eligible for benefits.

Aint that the truth.

Yeah, I'm not so sure this is just Home Depot arbitrarily doing this. They may not have much say in the matter if they want to keep their doors open.

Obamacare is going to have this effect on just about every aspect of business. It hasn't even really started to be felt yet.

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LOL!!!

Actually, this does sound like a good gig for a retired person or a young person, even at a 40% paycut.

But, seriously, I would not have ANY home remodeling or repair work done by Home Depot after I used them to do a minor kitchen remodeling job. Ended up with paint all over the dining room because the person who did it (middle-aged born-in-the-U.S. Caucasian, btw!) forgot to put the lid on when he was mixing the paint!

Best place, imo, to get any kind of "fix it" work done is through Home Advisor, where you can read the reviews of the individual contractors. We just had two bathrooms remodeled and a whole floor of ceramic tile (about 800 square feet) laid for $4,800 labor cost. If I had gone through Home Depot, they would have charged about $4,000 just to lay the floor!

I didn't even know Home Depot was till in business, but I live in the middle of nowhere far from the city lights.

Prolly they will just have the client build their own grills or just have it shipped to their home instead of a warehouse floor.

They're doing the same thing everywhere.In France, Goldman (ball) sachs has ordered businesses to reduce wages by 30%.
How the hell is anyone supposed to pay a 25 year mortgage if they keep lowering wages?

Maybe you should redirect your anger at the politicians who set the ball rolling. People screamed to the rafters that obamacare was going to cost jobs, but noooooooooooo the democrats knew better

Remember to thank them in November!!!

Was going to go to Lowes today, now I'm going to HD instead, quit whining and do something to become valuable to the employer for a change.

It usually helps to not get a mortgage in the first place.

^^^This. The people telling everyone to work harder or get better skills are just as clueless though. It is like this everywhere, even for the hard trades that are highly skilled and the college graduates with real degrees.

The problem is at the top not the bottom.

Ding ding ding.... We have a winner

You work for Home Depot - WTF were you expecting? A company that gives a shit about employees?

Don't Home Depot employees smoke pot on the job because there is no drug testing or is that wrong?

So how many people do you know who have enough money to buy a decent home outright or rich relatives who can loan you the money?

If you pay rent for years on end, what do you have to show for it? You are just making the owners rich.

But, yes, I agree that way too many people have too high of a mortgage payment for their income(s). We could have qualified for close to a $600,000 home, but bought one at half that price because we wanted to keep our payments down to where, if one of us lost our job for any reason, at least we could keep making the house payments!