Home Depot

[jack cay]

Hooray for the home-depot! i get more jobs from people trying to do their own work and save a penny!

 

[DanZ]

No, brownies are square.

Sparky, brownies are rectangles. Not all rectangles are square, but all squares are rectangles. jeez, doesn't everybody know that? *ducks to dodge food flung at head*:roll:

Mmmmmm...brownies....

 

[pbeasley]

You're trying to pull some of that fancy math aren't you? Everybody knows 14 + 14 = 28. This ain't some of that pie are square stuff is it? Everybody knows pie are round. Cornbread are square.

makes sense to me. So, if I run 2 #14's then I have a #28 which means it's good for, wait let me look it up... hmmmmmm, maybe I should stick with a #10 afterall... :wink:

 

[480sparky]

makes sense to me. So, if I run 2 #14's then I have a #28 which means it's good for, wait let me look it up... hmmmmmm, maybe I should stick with a #10 afterall... :wink:

No, the numbers get smaller when the wire gets larger, so two 14s make a 7, which is larger than a 10......

 

[mivey]

makes sense to me. So, if I run 2 #14's then I have a #28 which means it's good for, wait let me look it up... hmmmmmm, maybe I should stick with a #10 afterall... :wink:

You didn't get your secret 'lectrician decoder ring in the mail did you? With the secret ring, you can read the tables and get the hidden, correct data. I'm not even sure if I am supposed to tell you that so don't let on that you know about it, ok?

No, the numbers get smaller when the wire gets larger, so two 14s make a 7, which is larger than a 10......

It may be the same as a 10:
14+14 = 1+4+1+4 = 10

 

[iaov]

You didn't get your secret 'lectrician decoder ring in the mail did you? With the secret ring, you can read the tables and get the hidden, correct data. I'm not even sure if I am supposed to tell you that so don't let on that you know about it, ok?It may be the same as a 10:
14+14 = 1+4+1+4 = 10

I read this and hurt myself laughing. I'm confused now though. Do you add up or down?? Pluss no one told me about the ring.

 

[mivey]

I read this and hurt myself laughing. I'm confused now though. Do you add up or down?? Pluss no one told me about the ring.

What ring? I don't know anything about a secret ring.

 

[George Stolz]

You didn't get your secret 'lectrician decoder ring in the mail did you?

I was gypped - mine only said something about drinking my ovaltine.

 

[billsnuff]

ring....what ring

ring....what ring

 

[Packinaglock]

[ Home Depot is paying beaucoup bucks to electrical tradesmen to work in their sores.

They don't make much in the S.E.
$12-$19[/QUOTE]
I got a phone call a while back from H.D., someone refered me to them and they offered me around 28 dollars an hour. I was surprised.

 

[petersonra]

They don't make much in the S.E.
$12-$19

I got a phone call a while back from H.D., someone refered me to them and they offered me around 28 dollars an hour. I was surprised.[/QUOTE]
And you did not jump at that?

 

[SPARKS40]

I see a violation if you are going to use the white for a switch leg you need to make it another color either with a marker or other means, not tape though, I fail for this in the past

Tape as always been just fine, depending on where you're at, although i see your point. Marker can fade over time, whereas tape does not.

 

[SPARKS40]

While I was at home depot today take a look at what display they had. They are showing haha wiring 123

Yeah...ha, ha, ha..got a friend of mine that has filled one of these "master trade specialist" positions at Home Depot.....$28.00/hour, 40 hours a week, and one of the best insurance packages i have ever seen, including medical, dental, vision, life, and 401k, all at a time where some of us are wondering where our next job may be coming from.

 

[petersonra]

Yeah...ha, ha, ha..got a friend of mine that has filled one of these "master trade specialist" positions at Home Depot.....$28.00/hour, 40 hours a week, and one of the best insurance packages i have ever seen, including medical, dental, vision, life, and 401k, all at a time where some of us are wondering where our next job may be coming from.

A carpenter acquaintance of mine went to work for a local lumber yard. He said pay and benefits was about the same and he doesn't have to crawl around on his now older knees so much. Its also a lot more comfortable working indoors than outside in the snow and rain and cold, and no more weeks and months long layoffs. I think the hourly rate was a little less, but working year round made it come out about the same.

 

[hillbilly1]

It's lots of fun looking at the miswiring that Homer does in those stores, sometimes dangerous, I seen one display where they had receptacle testors plugged in showing what miswiring would light up on the testor. The metal handy boxes were mounted on a wood backboard at countertop level. The real scary one was "Ground and Hot reversed" Yes, this was operating at 120 volts waiting for somebody to touch the live handy box! Corporate was not amused when they found out about it.

 

[nc5p]

It is hard to believe a real tradesman would want to work there, unless retired. Stocking shelves, cutting wire, and trying to help clueless customers can't be very satisfying. Not like the satisfaction of a complex installation completed and working. I don't really recall running into anyone there who knew much. "I help in all departments" is a dead giveaway. Usually they struggle with properly identifying wire for cutting. Ask for #2 and they start measuring out #4.

 

[stickboy1375]

It is hard to believe a real tradesman would want to work there, unless retired.

I'm a real tradesman, and if the money is there so am I, Its all about the money, end of story.

 

[hillbilly1]

Yes, I know I misspelled tester, can't figure out how to edit it though.

 

[peter d]

I'm a real tradesman, and if the money is there so am I, Its all about the money, end of story.

I agree, when you need to earn money there is no job that should be "beneath" you.

 

[mark32]

It is hard to believe a real tradesman would want to work there, unless retired. Stocking shelves, cutting wire, and trying to help clueless customers can't be very satisfying. Not like the satisfaction of a complex installation completed and working. I don't really recall running into anyone there who knew much. "I help in all departments" is a dead giveaway. Usually they struggle with properly identifying wire for cutting. Ask for #2 and they start measuring out #4.

I know what you mean, being the "Electrical expert" or "Trade specialist" at Home Depot can be a drag at times, but that's any job really. It is beat stocking shelves, telling a customer the right way to do something and knowing that they don't care if it's done right, as long as it works and they save money doing it themselves, putting away returns that never should have been accepted (Used dimmers, cut wire) and seeing how much stuff is stolen out of the place. Oh my lord, you have no idea how much is taken from the department. Within the last three weeks someone grabbed three 500' spools of #2 copper, four 250' rolls of 10/3uf and who knows how many pairs of Kleins and testers were swiped. Selling cheesy Halex fittings and Carlon boxes kinda stinks because I know better materials are out there and being out of stock of something is the worst because I know how a contractor feels when they take the time to go to a Home Depot and they find the shelf empty. And yes, helping in all other departments can be a pain, we don't have the proper amount of help so I'm dragged all over the store.

On the good side though I always enjoyed interacting with people/customers, something a typical electrician doesn't get to do throughout the day. What I really like about working at HD is the work environment; I have access to a microwave, refrigerator, sink, toilet, a/c, heat plus the occasional cutie pie walking by.