Fifty pounds

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been rapidly getting much physically weaker and slower and clumsier. and was never that great to begin with.

it's making finding a job much harder. in addition to zero job skills. autism. "bad" personality. (rolls eyes)

makes me wanna puke constantly every waking moment.

got made redundant from plenty of jobs.

long amounts of unemployment.

racism sexism homophobia

government benefits not guaranteed, sufficient or permanent.

42. barely strong enough to drag groceries home from grocery store. sister keeps telling me she wants to sell the house that i have been living in. WHEN she sells the house, afraid of ending up homeless. otherwise, could live in a "food desert" and have to drag a wagon to the grocery store.

constantly afraid, edgy, uptight, hateful, wounded, useless, embarrassed, ashamed, inferior, inadequate.

Still haven't heard from the fifty pound rocks

Home depot communication is Grapevine and Telepathy only. For all I know maybe Javier told Corporate that I pointed out that the job description says "lift fifty pounds ", not "lift one hundred pound litterbox".

(Rolls eyes)

However I have not gotten made redundant thus far

Maybe tomorrow

my doctors letter said that she was on maternity leave until april 1. it is now april 10. tomorrow i go to work, and even if those idiots have the nerve to order me to make a drs appt, the soonest i could make it is may 2. right now, only got one doctor. the gastroenterologist, i only saw once july 2024. if that one dr refuses to sign the form, for any reason or no reason, then i have no Plan B. home depot might not have any jobs open that do not involve lifting fifty pounds. javier said: cashier, pro cashier, tool, kitchen, appliances. but kitchen and appliances only has a couple servants and they have been there for a long time. same as tool. cashier makes me wanna puke. but, i don't have any better ideas. besides, even if i could continue lot attendant indefinitely, sooner or later, will get hit by a car, or whatever. it's getting more and more inconvenient, having to call for backup for every slightest thing. customers and servants barking @ me b/c they think i am much stronger than i really am. even tattle tale tom barking @ me. (rolls eyes).

but i am just afraid of angry customers if i am cashier. do not wanna share a register with short tempered idiots that snap @ me such as Janice. standing in the same place all the time. having to talk and idiot customers and employees having the nerve to say "huh" and "what" instead of "excuse me".

but it would not be the end of the world.

"not all is lost".

below salvage value

exhausted all options

the point of no return

got no future

zero occupational prospects

Still haven't heard from the fifty pound rocks

Yesterday I wrote posts in a couple of lawyers forums asking if what home Depot did is legal. Only a couple answers and they all said it was legal. In so many words

Cortez said he was on leave of absence and then home Depot decided he didn't work there anymore

Ted said he got a doctors note he couldn't lift over twenty pounds

So many things are changing so quickly at home Depot and they don't tell us until we violate some unknown new policy.

Angela d and Angela w, idiots.

New lumber associate Jenny does someone look like she could lift eighty pound of concrete

Still haven't heard from the fifty pound rocks yet

It makes me want to puke how home Depot has the nerve to make me get Drs notes even though I fulfill the requirements

But I posted in a couple of lawyers forums and they all said it is legal

funeral

Assistant Store Manager JS and Human Resources TC said that I have to wait until I receive a certain email that tells me to fill out a form. Then I am supposed to fill out the form.

home depot NEEDS to do a "lifting test" before hiring. tell the applicant to lift the 100# litterbox from the floor to the table. if the applicant doesn't try or doesn't succeed, then no job.

that doesn't sound that unreasonable or difficult.

plenty of people can't lift fifty pounds (of concrete). some of them appear healthy. some of them *are* healthy.

not everyone knows if they can lift fifty pounds, because they haven't done it recently. besides, it is much harder to lift concrete than a barbell, even though they are the same weight.

it is just not just "Can you lift fifty pounds?".

inherent to the system

massive disorganization

When I first started Home Depot, Tattletale Tom (currently 55m, about 5'10 and 180#) was Greeter. the first time i asked him to lift something, he was complaining and walking slowly. That was 2020. december 2021, lot attendant roy (currently 68m, about 5'8 and scrawny), started working there. plenty of times, asked roy to lift something for me. every time, roy did it, without complaining. (former back office associate) christine and ASM javier said that Roy has work restrictions too. but roy seems to do everything lot attendants do (except pallets, but i couldn't imagine that that is a work accommodation. too specific).

but home depot is not legally required to "make sense".

fifty pounds is a lot.

i've seen plenty of women try and fail to lift fifty pounds.

i've only seen two women lift pallets.

i've only seen two women lift a tool from tool rental center.

i've only seen one woman, and it was a customer, lift eighty pounds of concrete.

still have not gotten the email about the fifty pounds.

today, logged into work portal. if i were to have been made redundant, i would not have been able to login @ all.

worried/afraid/scared that the doctor might refuse to sign the form. she could (correctly) say that i haven't come in for an appointment since the other time she signed the form in june 2024. or she could say that i didn't get a colonoscopy. or she could say anything. i do not have a legal or moral "right" to physically force her to sign the form.

besides, even if she does sign the form, something else might go wrong.

or home depot might not accept it. (rolls eyes)

april 24, 2025. still haven't heard from the fifty pound rocks.

I think the whole Home Depot owes me an apology for making me get a doctors note in the first place. Maybe home depot decided to not make me get a doctor's note ever again. They didn't tell me what they are going to do. The whole home depot communicated really badly. Maybe they're autistic.

Otherwise, any day now, the FES, ASM, or ASDS, might have the nerve to sit me down and tell me to get a doctors signature.

Oh well. If Home Depot has the nerve to make my worthless corpse redundant, I could apply for governmenet benenfits. Governmenet benefits not guaranteed, sufficient or permanent.

Panhandling.

(puke!)

I feel like such a failure.

Some of the ASMs, like DSmith and ASM Aaron, can barely string together one grammatically correct statement. I feel guilty for not working while they work. They also have zero job skills. Having zero job skills is not the end of the world.

April 25, 2025

Still haven't heard from the fifty pound rocks

Pacific Gas and Electric posted on the website that Utilities Worker applicants need to go there and carry it 30 feet. That's before job offer

Home depot needs a "lifting test" too

But because there no lifting test and those idiots offered me a job, I took the job because I need(ed) it financially

I don't understand why home Depot hires servants with no lifting test and then waits for them to fail to lift something and then writes them up

Rolls eyes

april 28, 2025

still haven't heard from the fifty pound rocks

it is now may 1, 2025

still have not heard from the fifty pound rocks.

maybe home depot corporate decided that i brought up a good point, that the job description only says "lift fifty pounds". but i find that hard to imagine, b/c home depot has its own lawyers and they earn a lot more than any lawyer that a servant could hire personally. (rolls eyes). more likely, as usual, home depot is just so disorganized it's not doing anything.

the first time i turned in the doctors note that i wasn't allowed to lift over fifty pounds, home depot took one whole month to get back to me.

May fourth 2025

Still haven't heard from the fifty pound rocks


Maybe home Depot should do a "lifting test" and everyone that can't lift a 567 pound cabinet gets promoted to Customer

may fifth still not made redundant.

so afraid of getting made redundant.

if i were made redundant, then i wouldn't be able to login to the portal, and i certainly would not be able to clock in.

when i clock in, i wonder if the time clock is going to block my ID number and tell me i got made redundant.

that's the way "communication" goes @ home depot: grapevine, murky, bad and absent

May 10

Still haven't heard from the 567 pound cabinet

March 5, ASM Javier told me that they would email me in three days. It's been two months

On the other hand, been getting much physically weaker lately. Lifting fifty pounds of concrete much harder than barbell. And not just one, a whole pallet. And lift it the way the customer wants it

Right now my one rep max about 53 pounds

Hate having to beg precious lil "people" to please lift it for me

Feel guilty, ashamed embarrassed inadequate useless worthless pathetic inarticulate hateful scared

On the other hand maybe this is a good excuse to get out of my job without getting made redundant per se. Afraid that if I get made redundant, nobody will hire me again. On the other hand plenty of other jobs already had the nerve to make my worthless corpse redundant so wtf ever

Unstable bad work history

Fifty pounds is way too much. 42 years old and 111 pounds. Bookkeeper said he has never seen a work accommodation for under 50 pounds. Although Raul said home Depot accommodated him to ten pounds. Ted and Cortez said that they got accommodated to 20 pounds and but they are in Kitchen and Pro Cashier

Lot attendant might be the least wrong job in the building that I could barely do

I am so scared of getting made redundant

Besides about one out of three minimum wage jobs require lifting fifty pounds..... That's a large barrier to employment

Besides government benefits not guaranteed sufficient or permanent

Don't even know what else to do in my spare time

Live alone, parents dead, no kids, single, no "friends", , no car, no cash

Freeter

Hikikimori

You can only apply for jobs for so many hours a day

Some Internet articles say that it is really hard to find a job nowadays

Besides even if I get a job they could fire me the next day