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Home Depot Inc., to hire 60,000 will they hire 99ers?

Posted 15 months ago|15 comments|865 views
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Home Depot Inc., the world's largest home-improvement retailer, this week said it is hiring more than 60,000 temporary workers in the U.S., as well as adding permanent employees for the second year in a row. Okay I just put a application in Home Depot in 11 diffident departments and 6 different stores. That is like 66 apps in Home Depot. How many of you think I will even get a call for a interview? After putting 300+ apps in over the last 2 years and getting 3 interviews I don't think will hear from them at all. And My background and experience fits all the jobs I applied for. But since I'm a 99er I am sure my app will go right in the trash.
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15 months ago: I live in Florida and the guy next door put a application in on Sunday and they hired him yesterday. And yes he was a 99er.
15 months ago: Well that's great, I hope my phone rings But i have my doubts.......
15 months ago: I wish you the best of luck!

I applied for 12 different jobs at 2 different Toys R Us stores over the holidays and got nothing but rejection e-mails. I understand what you are dealing with.
15 months ago: If you are qualified I am sure you will get hired. Home Depot asked my buddy if he had any friends looking for jobs.
15 months ago: What, is HD gonna pull America out of the recession? What's up with some 60,000 TEMP jobs -- is this just to stock fans and duct tape over the next few months? Is there an accurate explanation for this economic activity, and will it lead to a considerable number of permanent jobs down the road? That kind of information would be helpful in this post, in addition to a point of view about hiring temp jobs, etc.
15 months ago: Hey a jobs a job anyway you can get one now a days. And it does say some will be permanent.
BadCyborg
BadCyborg
San Antonio, TX
15 months ago: A better question might be "Will 99ers apply?". If they DO apply, they might hired and then what would they have to whine about - unless it is that they had to lower themselves to taking a lowly service job in retail?

If your title was somehow a suggestion that 99ers should get SPECIAL/PREFERENTIAL treatment in HD's hiring (a new form of "affirmative action") then I would most sincerely hope that they do NOT get hired - unless they are the one who interviews best.
15 months ago: OK, so I get it now, and it took badcyborg to point it out for me: people generally think those who lose their jobs first/ get cut first off the team, are the biggest losers.

Is that true, across the board/ in aggregate? Is there statistical proof? I know what constitutes a loser, dang, can't you see them from a distance? But, is there scientific analysis of the loser, and how they have a greater chance of being "let go" onto UI compared to the "other" who is not a loser and is still employed? Are the 9.4%'ers all losers for real? What about the 20% total unemployed, from sea to shining sea?

I am not of the opinion that the crop of 99ers out there are the biggest batch of losers, but it would seem badcyborg is of the opinion, because he refers to them as taking a job beneath themselves at HD -- as if they lost a higher-up job, and that taking an HD job would be a greater proof of their loser status -- yeah, I know it's weird, a job at HD is pretty decent.

Another way to look at badcyborg way is this: the connotation that all 99ers are taking a step down working at HD implies they should be preferred by the hiring claques in Atlanta, but that they don't deserve such preferential treatment, because, indeed, these 99ers are the biggest losers in their previous, higher-up businesses, and they should compete on their own merits as people who suck because they were cut from a job: basically put, badcyborg wants 99ers to have to all put on their resumes: "I lost my job in the recession of 2008" as part of their job history, and with that, suffer the consequences of being the loser, again.

BTW, badcyborg, I have come to like you despite yourself, so please don't take this critique too seriously, and also, sorry about the greens...what do you like, and I'll come up with a plan for dinner. Also, note that I took out the "the" before your nickname, which is high praise coming from me.
15 months ago: Okay for one Cypress I have worked in retail for the last 20 years and was paid very well. I don't in anyway think it is a job below anyone. And it seems that the 99ers are being subject to a form of discrimination. There are just to many of us out here who just can't get hired. That's why the EEOC just had a meeting about it last week. Employers don't want to hire the long term unemployed. Apps I fill out now ask your age color and if you have been out of work and how long. These question were not on apps before this. So I really think there is something going on cause the 99ers do want jobs. I have seen friends of mine go from one job to another without a problem at all. This makes no sense to me. exempt employers think after two years you became stupid and unhireable.
15 months ago: You have to have a job to get a job. This is just the mentality that some people that do the hiring think. It has been that way for many years.

Many years ago I had a job that I was going to quit because the company was being acquired by a larger company and layoffs were coming. I interviewed at another company that had an interest in hiring me. Word got out I had interviewed someplace else and I was fired unexpectedly. I went back to where I interviewed to get hired and suddenly he was not that interested in me. In a week or two I did prevail and get that job, but it made it clear to me to have a job to get a job.

The 99'ers have it that much worse. I've been unemployed 20 months now and the ONLY person that did not seem to care was an Insurance Company that I will soon be working for. I did briefly have one Call Center job that last only 4 weeks, so I decided to leave that off my résumé as I felt it better to leave if off rather than show I only worked 4 weeks in 2010. I was cut from that job because I did not meet the Close Ratio they wanted.

I've dealt with the EEOC before and it is a long drawn out process and all but impossible to prove discrimination. Sadly nobody is entitled to any particular job proving somebody was not hired due to length of unemployment will be very hard to prove.
15 months ago: I think the way you prove the hiring discrimination against 99ers -- discrimination against those who are out of work, with the level of discrimination increasing in direct proportion to the length of time unemployed -- is in aggregate through a class-action lawsuit, using the 9.4% class (a big one) and naming publicly-traded corporations, one by one, so that whichever presiding court this suit lands in decides to lump all the defendants as a single defendant instead of having a separate lawsuit for each corp.

Then you pull out of your briefcase the data that shows over the last few years how people who lost their jobs during the recession have serially not been hired back after a shown number of months, and that as the time got longer for those persons out of work, the effort to land a job got harder and harder for them, as demonstrated by the fact those out of work longer tend to stay out of work longer.

The defendants will do what is done here, and blame 99ers as being congenitally lazy, and that would be a hard thing to prove in a court of law. I don't think you can lump 99ers into a class that is "lazy" in the same way you can lump them into a class that is simply "out of work, and discriminated as such."

Sure in free America people should be able to turn others down for a job, but to do it in a discriminatory way is un-American, and it is clear to most people there is discrimination going on: it just seems to me folks on the right don't much care about the evident discrimination, that's fine it's a free country, but those center-left do care about it, and I bet that's where the argument will unfold, as usual: bleeding hearts and those that do not bleed.

People who lack a job have my sympathy, people who lack self-reliance can rot into the seams of their couch.
15 months ago: The main reason I believe 99er's are having a hard time finding employment is that their work references get stale after a few years. I know in my field they do a very in depth background check.
15 months ago: Consider yourself lucky...
I was in need of a part time job and I was offered one, which I took despite my reluctance in joining an organization that resembles more a cult than a retail business. The training was lengthy and useless. Consisting in about a week of watching "brainwashing" videos and taking quizzes. After a week I was apparently ready to join the workforce and I was thrown on the sale floor to deal, completely alone with a devilish store computer application (home depot don't jet know the world user friendly in information technology). Despite all the years I worked in engineering it took me about 3 weeks to figure out how to use that darn system, with no help from the department manager (which main purpose seemed to make my life hell despite the polished polite Endeavour). For the people complaining about the lack of expertise, I would like to point out that there are people with some expertise, just it is not usually put at use ( especially in the store in Campbell). It is definitely more fun for the management to watch a poor devil struggle with something he knows nothing about than put him to do something they can actually do. They rather give specialized position to people that have no business doing them.
The whole organization is a joke, they have monthly meetings were they make employees go to the store at 6 am and to give away clothes patches (someone that make close to minimum wage probably would rather be rewarded with a cash bonus rather than some crap to put on an apron). The whole store meeting system is however another way for some frustrated individuals to further arras and demise people they don't like. I haven't worked in other stores but I can ensure that the Campbell store is an employee nightmare (unless you are a into sado masochism).
14 months ago: If anyone was wondering no they never called just like I figured.
14 months ago: Well that sucks, but not unexpected. Keep looking there are jobs out there and you will find one.

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