Two more weeks. No more retail!

[jmowreader]

I promised my wife I'd stay at The Home Depot until my full-time employer really took off.

It's happened. So...I put in my two weeks notice at Home Depot. Yes, it felt really good to do that.

[Gormy Cuss]

1. Congrats, but I'll miss the customer stories.

I think of you every time that I find myself in the Home Despot.

[jmowreader]

5. How about a dumbass associate story?

My wife is now a head cashier. On Monday I was talking to her at the store, and a customer came up screaming bloody murder...because she bought bright red paint to paint her walls, and it looks pink. She wanted us to give her $50 in cash, right now, for her trouble.

Turns out that the fucking idiot behind the paint desk told her that she had to use tinted primer under the red paint. PINK-tinted primer! (It's supposed to be gray.)

We didn't give her any cash, but we did give her a gallon of gray primer and a good roller cover.

[Gormy Cuss]

6. That's what I'm talking about.

Dumbass DIY stories.

[fizzgig]

2. yay!

that has got to be a fantastic feeling

[jmowreader]

3. What's even more of a fantastic feeling...

is seeing the results of my work.

And not just in my pay envelope, although that's substantial--never less than twice what I made at Home Depot, and usually more than that. But I actually get to invent things here--two of them are patent pending, and we've just started on a third.

We've got some really neat shit going on. Right now I can't really tell you about any of it, but in probably six months you'll start seeing it on the news, or it will be on PatentStorm. And then I'll tell you.

[AlCzervik]

4. Congratulations, i worked for HD and The Expo for 7 years, felt damn good to exit.