Assemblers Reviews

The merchandise is heavy and most of the time you'll work alone. It's tiring and Home Depot management wants everything done ASAP. I never have time for lunch and there's no place you can have lunch to sit down in peace and enjoy it. At the time of hire i was told by the manager that we will also do merchandise for other companies be sides Home Depot. I was also told that we will be doing customers calls and assemble their merchandise in their homes. All that never happened. Home Depot employees and management is the worst i've ever worked with and they do not treat Assemblers with high respect. Many of them see you and say: "Oh, you again?" There is no space in Home Depot assigned for assembly so you'll have to find your own spot making sure it's far from customers and big traffic. And sometimes the management doesn't care and when it's really cold out they tell you to assemble the merchandise outside. Which is very ignorant on their part. Sometimes i had to debate this with them and Home Depot management is not the brightest around either. Garbage, garbage, garbage! There is tons of it. Sometimes the receiving area in the Home Depot is so packed and it's impossible to get through to throw out the garbage. The people working in the receiving are not the nicest around. When you need invoices keyed in the computer they will tell you to wait and wait and wait..... Not caring while knowing you're not an hourly employee and your time is not paid. Again YOU DON"T GET PAID FOR TIME. When i first started i was told i make my own hours and i can come in whenever cause after all we're just assembling the merchandise and when it's done, it's done. Just make sure it's done ASAP..But soon as i started i was told i have to be there by 8 am the latest. I was with the company for over a year and never got any raise, the assembly prices would change and we'd get paid less. I was being sent too far for little money. Made no sense. There's 3 Home Depot stores in 5 mile radius of my house but i was being sent to those the ;least. Management doesn't think. Sometimes my manager would tell me to go to the store but when i got there Home Depot management would tell me there is no work at all. So i'd waste gas getting to work and waste some more going back home. No one would pay for the miles driving. You get paid 42% per each item assembled. Usually in 8hr day i'd assemble 8-10 grills and i'd get paid around $400 every two weeks after busting my back trying to assemble all that stuff. I never had a check that went over $500. Never!

Despite being very good at assembling the desired merchandise, I was usually making less than minimum wage per hour. And due to the crappy quality of some of the merchandise, out-of-the-box repairs were frequently necessary during assembly and would eat into wages. Several hours each day were spent, without compensation, determining what merchandise needed to be assembled since the store personnel usually didn't do this task prior to my arrival. Working conditions were less than desirable, not so much due to weather but due to cramped areas in the far corner of the warehouse area of the assigned stores. If their stock was overflowing, they did not care that it was overflowing into the very small work space allotted for Assemblers.