Posted on 06/16/2002 11:29:08 AM PDT by John Jorsett
Edited on 05/11/2004 5:33:47 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Home Depot Inc., the nation's largest hardware and home-improvement chain, has told its 1,400 stores not to do business with the U.S. government or its representatives.
The Post-Dispatch checked with managers at 38 stores in 11 states. All but two said they had received instructions from Home Depot's corporate headquarters this month not to take government credit cards, purchase orders or even cash if the items are being used by the federal government.
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Our store manager is a woman, the night crew department head and I think the new outdoor garden DH are women, and the company offers special how to succeed at home Depot meetings for women only.
Being in the retail business, I would suspect that nearly all their employees are under some kind of "glass ceiling".
Nice attitude!! I'm sure that you'll think of the taxpayers every time you sip that dastardly wine. Will you be dining with the Clintons as well? He thought pretty much the same of the taxpayers as you seem to.
For the record, I work for .gov as well. The difference is that I have a sense of duty to the public, my employers.
If they are paying cash, how do the Home Depot employees even know the items are going to be used by the government? Even if a soldier in uniform bought something, it could be for his personal use, not necessarily for work.
I'm with Hank Rearden on this one.
I had a business several years ago and hoped to start landing lucrative federal government jobs. Jobs that I was charging $5000 for, the government was paying $50,000 to competitors. I jumped through all their hoops, which involved a mountain of paperwork you wouldn't believe, and bid on one job. It took me literally days to do the paperwork for the bid and it was obvious from the get-go that they had already selected a contractor, that the bid process was a joke. As I suspected, the bid went to the company they wanted and I never wasted my time again.
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Yes, we were in the bracelet business. That is, until one day when suddenly, we weren't and just disappeared.
Elect? So we should all go vote right buddy? Vote? VOTE?
I can only say this.
We tried to voting in California. We worked for two years on Proposition 187 and this was the result, thanks to the Federal Government.
The people of the great state of California held a free election and voted 3 to 1 in favor of proposition 187 which would have put a stop to the tax paid support of illegal aliens. WE WON the election!!! However, the federal government stepped in and burned our ballots and declared our election unconstitutional.
LET THIS SERVE AS A WARNING! Wake up people.
Our borders and immigration policies have become a national disgrace, and now a complete national security nightmare.
Vote?
Spit*
All the article presents is the sales number. That's why the writer hasn't got a clue why HD is doing this. The new CEO at HD was a runner-up at GE to replace the Chairman and CEO, Jack Welch. The two HD founders were so pleased with the first years results, they decided to speed up their departure, and let their new choice do it his way.
It all comes down to dollars on the profit line. All the government red tape applies to all your business even if it only amounts to a single dollar on the sales line. Jack Welch's idea of the brass ring was running a grocery store but with big company resources. If one can avoid government red tape, and if there is sufficient business left without the government, the choice is simple.
They must have done the analysis and decided that even if they got most of the government business, it was not worth it on the bottom line, and it sure limits one's freedom to make quick and radical changes.
This may explain why Home Depot is so antigovernment:
In the same month, the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) moved to intervene in a 1995 lawsuit covering 310 Home Depot stores east of the Mississippi. A third lawsuit is pending in New Jersey. This is the largest sex discrimination case the EEOC has ever taken on. Home Depot responded that it was "puzzled and outraged" that the federal government has intervened in a class-action sex discrimination lawsuit against the nation's largest building supply retailer. According to the EEOC, "in too many instances, women at Home Depot were hired only for jobs such as cashier's positions--but not others."http://www.unite4santacruz.org/homedepot/hdfacts.html
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