two days ago, angela w- had the nerve to write me up. ASM javier told angela that i was "walking around" "listening to music". (rolls eyes). instead of helping customers during Power Hours. i asked angela "could you please look at the videotape? i was pushing carts the whole time." angela had the nerve to refuse.
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home depot's portal has a place for comments to the write up
This is what i posted on home depots portal: (enclosed with quotations)
"The lobby did not contain enough shopping carts, so I was pushing more carts inside, Pushing shopping carts is part of my job description. On those dates, at those times, nobody asked me to do anything else. Writing “walking around” is misleading, because it is “out of context.” Pushing shopping carts inherently requires “walking around”, During the meeting, Supervisor Angela said that I was “more walking around than pushing carts”. However, everyone works differently. The method that I push carts involves walking up and down each aisle. Granted, other methods of pushing carts take less time and energy, all things equal. However, I think my method is more systematic. Furthermore, nobody has ever told me the “correct” “method of pushing shopping carts”. If and when someone in whose photo appears in the Leadership board, shows and me the “correct method of pushing carts”, I would be happy to change the technique that I push shopping carts with.
During the meeting, I asked “Could you please look at the video tape? I was pushing carts the entire time.” Supervisor Angela refused. In the write up, it says, “Based on the Company's investigation, it has been determined that this conduct violated Company policy.” Supervisor Angela said that a manager saw me “walking around and listening to music”. I think that statements from one person do not constitute an “investigation”, and that it is reasonable to look at the videotape.
The write up says “He was not assisting customers.” “During power hours when assists was needed.” However, the videotape clearly shows that I had a walkie talkie at all times. Head Cashiers could have called me on the walkie talkie. Furthermore, sometimes the parking lot and the building are so loud, that I cannot hear the walkie talkie.
Home Depot training videos clearly stated “as long as you are doing your best, you are always ok with home depot.” I was doing my “best”. [Not only that, but I have already changed plenty of things about my actions at work: (1) not going behind the building (even though I was pushing carts behind the building, and plenty of ASMs saw and didn’t say anything). (2) not wearing sweatpants (even though other employees wear sweatpants and even sagging jeans (3) not going to the Litterbox while clocked in, because I am afraid that the Head Cashier won’t be able to find me in the parking lot when necessary (4) carrying a walkie talkie. However, no matter what I do, has not been “good enough”. ] Over and over, I have told many head cashiers that when the walkie talkie goes off, it nearly gives me a heart attack. Sometimes I am doing something and cannot answer immediately. (That is “communication”). Then the head cashier says “lot attendant, copy”, twice in a row, and I think that it is urgent and important, but it is just something like pushing the carts in Receiving.
(A Home Depot employee told me that managers do not have access to the videotapes and only Loss Prevention has access.) Could a manager please sit down with Loss Prevention and look at the videotapes? I am transparent that I was working the entire time.
Plenty of employees also listen to music. It is a “double standard” to give me a write up, unless all employees that were listening to music also got write ups. If the Head Cashier would like me to stand in front of Garden, Customer Service, or the Cashier entrance, during Power Hours, (or at any other time), to assist customers, I would be happy to do so. However, I am not telepathic and cannot read someone else’s mind. Not only can I not read someone else’s mind, but I do not even know how to read nonverbal communication, as a function of autism. On the two dates specified in the write ups, nobody told me to stand in front of any of the entrances, or do anything like that.
The write up says “Going forward Manfan need to communicate with management only his daily task”. As a function of autism, I am bad at communication. However, I have been doing my “best”. The training video said that “as long as you are doing your best, you are always good with Home Depot.” According to that statement, I was doing my “best”, so that “should” have been “good with Home Depot”. Communication is a two way street. [The vast majority of the time, when I try to say the slightest thing, the other party acts like they did not (1) hear, (2) understand (3) believe (4) remember (5) care what I said. Meanwhile, almost everyone (especially at Home Depot), acts like every thought and emotion that goes through their heads, is the latest greatest scientific invention, and when I try to say the slightest thing, they grunt “huh” and “what” instead of “excuse me”. I think that that is not “clear communication”.]
A couple months ago, someone posted in the breakroom, the SOP. I think I remember it said that employees are only allowed to use personal phones if it is work related, on the sales floor. (Right now, I am not at Home Depot and have no access to the SOP to quote directly from.) The parking lot is not the “sales floor”, nor is it the paid area. As a result, I thought it was fine to listen to music, in the parking lot, while also working. (That is just “literal misinterpretation” vs “you know what I meant”. Semantics and pragmatics.) Supervisor Angela told me to stop listening to music, and I will never do it again. However, the write up also says “Going forward Manfan need to communicate with management only his daily task”.
Could you please check the SOP’s exact wording about phone usage?
Could you please look at the videotape?
Could you please tell me specific instructions (ie. “You need to stand in front of Garden and help customers”, instead of expecting me to read your mind?)
If/when other “disciplinary meetings” occur, may I please have my own witness? There were two Supervisors in the room, versus me. (outsmarted, overpowered, outnumbered, as usual)
I think that this write up is not fair, justified, or reasonable.
I think Home Depot should delete this write up altogether.
Thank you very much."
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i am so scared angela will have the nerve to make my worthless corpse redundant.
long amounts of unemployment. plenty of jobs had the nerve to make my worthless corpse redundant. bad personality. zero job skills.
plenty of people have felony convictions and not even authorized to work in the country but they still earn enough for families and cars. how do they do it? i do not understand. i literally and figureatively have been trying and failing to wrap my ugly fat stupid head around it. it's like organic chemistry in that i do not understand it.
she/they have been coming up with the most knitpicky BS. (puke!) (rolls eyes).
and angela w and angela d do little more than stand around all day long flapping their stupid lil traps.
12 Apr 2025, 2:21 pm
