Home Deopt plans to celebrate Gay Pride...(Vanity...Utah)

[The Axis Effect]

A Home Depot store in Utah plans to celebrate Gay pride in the Store with decorations of Rainbows and employee Tee shirts announcing gay pride. Inside sources say that this is something that will be devastating to business as most of the customer base tends to be on the Right side of the issue as they are mostly religious people. I am actively involved in this business and i dont want to be a part of it bacuae this is contrary to my belief and would like advice from more experienced FReepers on how best to disrupt these outrageous plans...

[The Axis Effect]

Please help...

[pissant]

They must have a celebrate “box of rocks” day in the works as well. Because all the help is that dumb.

[RC2]

Go to work for Lowes. I won’t give Home Depot my business if this proves to be true. Not a good business decision on their part. They should have stayed out of it.

[MississippiMan]

Call the AFA (American Family Association) in Tupelo, Mississippi, and see if they’ll help you out. This is right up their alley.

MM

[Sax]

Just “De-opt” out of it.

[Morgana]

Oh man, I have shopped at home depot! I have seen the men who come out of the contractor’s side and they are NOT gay! In fact they look like they would beat up a queer any day of the week! This is soooooooooo not cool!

[wintertime]

hm?....Is this the Home Depot in Salt Lake City that is directly accross the street from Lowes?

I don't live in Utah, but ski their often, and have friends there, so I know the city somewhat.

I bet customers will be shopping at the Lowes on the other side of the street.

[rockabyebaby]

Damn, and I like Home Depot....until today.........

[The Axis Effect]

Thanks for the tip. I’ll give them a call...

[polymuser]

You might want to source that claim.

[XR7]

There’s a Lowe’s down the street.
They’ll get all my business now.
Poof.

[duckman]

Note to Home Depot: Time to hide the Snap On tools.

[Jeff Chandler]

[The Axis Effect]

I am the source, i work there...

[AngelesCrestHighway]

“A Home Depot store in Utah plans to celebrate Gay pride in the Store with decorations of Rainbows and employee Tee shirts announcing gay pride”.....

Funny!....Have they run out of straight customers? Is Home Depot management pandering to gays for their dollar? Will they tie pink ribbons around my 2 X 4’s and two bags of cement?

[Cobra64]

These jerks didn’t learn from Ford Motor Company did they?

[kbennkc]

Are you offended because they tried to recruit you ? Take off the BYU shirt and maybe they will think you are straight .

[happinesswithoutpeace]

It is on the omg internets. It must be true.

[polymuser]

Isn’t sodomy outside of marriage still illegal in Utah?

[trumandogz]

If you feel that strong, you should quit your job in protest.

[The Axis Effect]

Displaced retired Airman from Texas...STFU

[wilco200]

“Go to work for Lowes. I won’t give Home Depot my business if this proves to be true.”

That won’t work either, as Lowes has ALL its signs posted in both spanish and English - at the same size and prominence.

[The Axis Effect]

Well quitting my job in protest dosent pay the bills

[kbennkc]

You just keep digging .

[Morgana]

"Note to Home Depot: Time to hide the Snap On tools." That and they may want to hire some one to watch the bathrooms, God only knows what kind of "tap dancing" will be going on!!!!

[Neoliberalnot]

Contact the Alliance Defense Fund for support in avoiding participation. If you are forced or reprimanded you have a nice suit to pursue. The perverts and pedophiles can’t force this disgusting behavior in your face if you find it rightly offensive. The sickos are winning as long as we stand by and take it. If this happens, I will not set foot in another Home Depot.

[XR7]

Home Depot Customer Care

The Home Depot is dedicated to providing our customers with excellent customer service.

Call 1-800-553-3199 to speak directly with a Customer Care specialist about your comment or complaint or send us an e-mail.

Customer Care Service Hours
Monday - Friday: 8 a.m. - 8 p.m. ET
Saturday & Sunday: 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. ET

[taraytarah]

Rainbow Depot Ping

[stuartcr]

I really doubt this will affect business. Most people probably won’t even notice. At least around where I live.

[theDentist]

Is this a 1 day event (take a vacation day) or a week long or summer long event? Don’t wear the T-Shirt. Tear down the signs. Just be ready to face repercussions. Heck, ask your boss what they will do to employees who refuse to submit to such a demeaning action.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Can you imagine the reaction if they were supporting marriage and the traditional family? Suppose a major retailer said they support marriage and family. In today’s politically correct climate, they would be charged with being anti-homosexual.

[trumandogz]

However, if you quit and you were able to convince 10 or 12 of your fellow HD employees to quit, you would sent a strong message.

And what is more important, paying your bills or sending a righteous message?

[The Axis Effect]

well i live in suburban Salt Lake City, not San Fran...

[stuartcr]

I don’t understand how this would stop you from liking a store? They obviously have felt this way before, when you liked them.

[Cobra64]

In today’s politically correct climate, they would be charged with being anti-homosexual.

And their sales would go UP.

[stuartcr]

So, I live in Tidewater, VA

[weegee]

Shouldn’t this be “sexual pride” or “self-awareness pride”?

They can celebrate “holiday season” all month long in December and end it on December 26th with loads of “post holiday” sales (even though the “season” of so many holidays ends with New Year’s).

[stevio]

WTF is going on?

[trumandogz]

I could find no such place named “Home Deopt” on The Google.

[N. Theknow]

Homo Depot

[rockabyebaby]

They obviously have felt this way before,

Before when? This is the first I've heard of celebrating gays at HD..........

[bmwcyle]

Send them an e-mail

[old and tired]

what is more important, paying your bills or sending a righteous message?

Are you joking? What are you, 15? You'd quit your job just because a bunch of people want to wear rainbows to work one day? Really?

[rockabyebaby]

LOVE your tagline,,,,,,,,sooooooooo on the money! They are sooooooooo self righteous it’s maddening.......can’t tell you how many family members have gotten away with jail time, fines, etc. etc. etc.

[bk1000]

Careful, I was almost sent to sensitivity school for refusing to celebrate gay pride where I work. I used all the right buzzwords, too; hostile workplace, violating my civil rights, religious discrimination, etc. I couldn’t win considering the dyke HR rep we had at the time.

[weegee]

Target’s similar internal campaign is on their own internet website.

By your logic since it IS on the web it must not be true.

http://sites.target.com/site/en/corporate/page.jsp?contentId=PRD03-002096

Calendar June - Gay and Lesbian Pride Month

They’ve had more online in the past. Perhaps they still do. This is a redesigned site with more Flash and fewer active links.

[Morgana]

Dude I understand that you just can't up and quit your job. Thanks for telling us what Home Depot is doing. I would have thought they would have learned from Ford, but I guess not. Oh well, they will learn too. When the calls and emails come in across America and the stocks drop like a hot potato then they will learn.

[Osage Orange]

Will they tie pink ribbons around my 2 X 4’s and two bags of cement?

Naw, just your 1/4-20 nuts........

[Clemenza]

The bathrooms at the Home Depots in Miami were notorious gay cruising areas a few years back. Even made the news when I lived down there.

[trumandogz]

No, I would not permit such a trivial event to force me quit my job.