Home Depot Employees Are Sharing The Things They Absolutely Hate That Customers Do And I'm Embarrassed To Say I've Done Some Of These

1.Home Depot employees hate when you do dangerous stuff like this:

A person stands on a platform lifting wood boards in a hardware store aisle filled with stacked lumber
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2.Or like this:

a man tries to use a pile of wood to reach other planks of wood on a shelf

3.And especially this:

A worker on a ladder reaches for an item on a high shelf in a home improvement store, while another employee in an orange shirt pushes a cart nearby
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4.Home Depot employees hate when you completely ignore a warning sign and go into a blocked-off aisle:

Arthur the Aardvark meme: Top panel shows an "Aisle Temporarily Closed" sign. Bottom panel shows D.W. saying, "That sign won't stop me, because I can't read!"
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5.Home Depot employees hate when you return plants... or SOD:

Orange flatbed cart loaded with a patch of soil and turf grass inside a store. Boxes and tools can be seen in the background
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6.Home Depot employees hate when you give them the "I'm returning stolen items" speech:

Four-panel meme of a person applying clown makeup with the following text: "Can I return this lawnmower," "No I don't have the receipt," "I paid with cash," "I don't want to give my ID that's personal."
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7.Home Depot employees hate when you just STAND there:

Close-up of Kanye West with a neutral expression. Tweet reads, "Customers when a 3 ton forklift is honking the horn and moving directly towards them"
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8.Home Depot employees hate when you ask them to load an absurd amount of concrete bags...

A person wearing an orange apron labeled "Hi, I'm Walter" looks unimpressed. Text above says, "Me when the customer is explaining that they just had back surgery and I have to hand load the 35 bags of concrete."

9....especially when it's pouring rain:

Dog standing in a hardware store aisle labeled "Lumber." Top text: "me working 9 8 hour shifts in a row and a lady asks for 25 bags of mulch in the pouring rain."
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10.Home Depot employees hate when you make this exact joke:

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11.Or this joke:

Image of a meme featuring a quote about manual labor, with a still of a character from "The Incredibles" by Pixar. Text is a sarcastic comment on clichés

12.Or, lord, this one:

Meme featuring two drawn characters. One says, "I need strong wood for my bed because I have frequent and rough sex on it." The other, wearing a Home Depot apron, replies, "please sir, it's 8 AM."
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13.Home Depot employees hate when you forget the laws of cart physics:

Shopping cart filled with multiple bags of CustomBlend mortar in a hardware store aisle
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14.Like, come on, people:

Shopping cart tipping over due to being overloaded with bags of concrete mix at a construction supply store
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15.Home Depot employees hate when you think saying this will hurt their feelings:

Leonardo DiCaprio dressed in a suit, wearing a Home Depot apron and holding a mobile device, with text above: "When a customer tells me they’re going to Lowe’s instead."
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16.Home Depot employees hate when you put your trash all over the displays:

Sink overflows with brown liquid into an open cabinet below, creating a large spill. Countertop items include a box, towels, and a yellow bucket on the right
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17.Home Depot employees hate when you make orders like this:

A pallet of stacked floor tiles is labeled with text: "IF YOU ORDER THIS FOR CURBSIDE THEN YOU'RE A SPECIAL KIND OF ASSHOLE."
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18.Home Depot employees hate when you stalk the store in the wee hours of the morning:

A scene from the movie "Jurassic Park" shows a raptor looking through a fence at a man's face. Text reads: "Store opens at 9:00* Customers at 8:43"
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19.Home Depot employees hate when you can't be bothered to get your own cart:

Meme featuring Pikachu. Text reads: "Customer: I need a lumber cart. Me: Yeah, they're outside right before you enter the store. Customer: [surprised Pikachu face]."

20.Home Depot employees hate when you try to return items from the Middle Ages:

The image shows a receipt from The Home Depot, dated 06/07/95, from Jericho, NY. The purchased items include an AL post, a teko nail, and sales tax
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21.Home Depot employees hate when you think that every single employee knows everything there is to know about home improvement just because they have the apron on:

Meme featuring three penguin characters. Top text: "*puts on apron* customers who need help:". Bottom text over zoomed-in penguin: "WOULDN'T THAT MAKE YOU... AN ALL KNOWING CONTRACTOR?!"
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22.And when you act like they control the world economy:

Peter Griffin at a news desk with a sign showing gears. The image text says, "You know what really grinds my gears? When customers talk to me like I'm controlling the lumber prices."
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23.Home Depot employees hate when you ask extremely vague questions:

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24.Home Depot employees hate when they act like you can go Thufir Hawat mode and find everything in the store:

SpongeBob SquarePants and other characters in a crowded room. Text: "THERE IS OVER 100,000 different sku's in the store I don’t fucking know where that one item is on the spot without pulling out my first phone"
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25.Home Depot employees hate when you interrupt:

Two-panel meme showing a collision between a school bus and a train. Top text: "Me already helping a customer." Bottom text: "A customer interrupting who doesn’t have manners."
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26.Home Depot employees hate when you just stand there for 25 seconds with your card in the machine:

a man giving a blank stare with his mouth open
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27.Home Depot employees hate when you follow them into the breakroom:

Image of Mr. Incredible wearing a Home Depot apron with the text “Hi, I'm Bob. I put customers FIRST.” Caption reads: “me when I'm chillin in the breakroom and a customer comes in asking for help.”

28.And, finally, Home Depot employees hate when you hit 'em with a little rudeness:

A handheld device displays customer comments. Text reads, "The clerk that waited on me was more interested in her break than customer service. She also chewed gum like a cow."

Come on, now.

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