Pros
None, other than that their ad agency does good ads for them. But what the ads portray is totally NOT the real home depot.
Cons
Too many to mention. Pay too low, especially for the store workers. Yet the CEO and top executive leaders make fantastic pay. Many of them make more than execs from NON-retail industries. If the store workers are paid so low, the executives should also have their pay drastically reduced. Store workers treated poorly via work schedules that change daily, low pay, and store managers who are told to say stupid things to the workers like, "break up this pumpkin patch." That statement is code for "hey employees, do not dare talk about getting in a union to help you." Store assistant managers abused with 60 hour work weeks every week and low pay. They are given inane tasks to do. The managers of the store have to do cleaning in the store because the co is too cheap to hire more janitors. Products mostly cheap chunk from China. Top management puts on a good PR show to the public which is lies, especially when they pretend to do philanthropy. Charity begins at home, so this company needs to start their charity by improving things greatly for their workers like better pay. There are way too many stupid rules the employees must follow. Employees in store often get fired for breaking a minor store rule. They opened too many stores across America with low-wage, meaningless store clerk jobs with no future for the store employees. The only job the store clerk can move up to is assistant manager and that is the very worst job in the company where you basically go to work each day for long hours, go home to sleep; wake up and repeat. Forget about having a life if you are an assistant store manager. Company is too cheap to put enough workers in the store so customers know that most of the time they can never find anyone to help them. This is a company that discourages the employees from thinking and making good suggestions. They want you to shut up and be stupid and follow their dumb rules. They try to brainwash the employees with pointless meetings and fake cheers. When the electricity goes out in a store, they force the workers to keep working in a building with NO AIR for their whole shift even if the electric is off all day. This happened to me and I almost fainted. Their backup generators DO NOT provide AC or anything like that for the employees! The generators only keep on a few lights and just enough for this cheap company to keep selling to make money. The overnight shift job is terrible - they turn off the air for the entire shift of these workers! These overnight workers don't even have air to breathe. They do not pay the overnight workers more for hurting their health by working overnight and doing very heavy lifting. There is no overnight shift increase. Why do they have a huge, fancy office at headquarters and private dining room there for the execs when the managers in the stores have offices that are broom closets? In fact, the managers don't even have an office, only the store manager does and his/her office is a broom closet.
