Gay Associates at Home Depot

Does anyone else feel that Home Depot allows management and others associates make gay comments that are rude and sometimes hurtfull???

I work for HD and I've never heard it in my area

I am gay and I have had nothing but abuse and sh*t from Hd management.

Henry Russell (SM) and Larry Evans (HR) hate gays.

Lacy (gay) was fired, Chuck (gay) was demoted.

Sexuality has nothing to do with job competence.

We used to be a rainbow store, at leat 10 of us were gay.

Huntsville TX Homo wrote:

We used to be a rainbow store, at leat 10 of us were gay.

By saying that you were a "rainbow store" you seporates the gay and lesbian community from the rest of us. Who cares how many gays wear the Orange. As long as they work hard and take care of our customers. Your store was never a rainbow store. It has always been just plain ORANGE. In my experiance HD has always been non-discriminitory. You will have individuals who act like asses no matter where you go. If your rainbow friends are no longer with the company , they simply no longer wanted to work for HD. So the gay victoms of an anti gay company is a load of %$&. Our bosses have bosses, not that you
would ever have to go that high with such an issue. If you would rather work for a company that is "rainbow", go please we are having enouph real problems.

It does not matter if you are gay on not you can still be fired for an awareline

Robert wrote:

It does not matter if you are gay on not you can still be fired for an awareline

Im not sure why you would say that you can be fired for calling an honest concern in to the allert line. This is just not true. You are not even required to give your name.

Quit overreacting...I am a ASM in a store where I am straight, but my SM, HRM, and many many associates are gay/lesbian. And guess what? We are all proud to work in our store together. It's not a gay-straight thing, it's a "we work hard for Home Depot and ourselves" thing.

oh yeah. And we're not in a store on one of the coasts. We're in Colorado.

I am straight....we have gays/lesbians in our store. Some of these folks are nice.....some are not....same for the straight people.

I've never heard any rude remarks made towards anyone.

Our break room however is a incubator for all sorts of conversations. I do not spend anymore time in our break room that I have too....clocking in and out....that's it. I spend all my lunch time outside the store.

I do not care for idle chit-chat and the break room is the perfect place for just that.

No matter what your sexual preference, race, physical stature, favorite sport team, etc. there will be uneducated people making innapropriate comments. It is not just HD. I suggest you get thicker skin! We all make adult decisions regarding our lifestyles and must live with the consequences.

I say get rid of all the gays because they talk too much about being gay. Be gay not annoying!!!

Hello Huntsville TX Homo

You live in TX, would you expect tolerance? Maybe in a big city…

Go to college if you can. I am a professional now and they have a gay group at my job and I get to go to DC for a week every year to meet other gays in the company. Anyhow, go to college. That is always the best choice if you can afford it. I mean, people don't have to like gays, but the more education you get, the less it matters.

I worked at HD in college (1996-1998) and I know people who are still there, and yes times have changed. I quit without giving you notice and can't get rehired - which I was stupid in college. I would like to work a few hours a week just to keep busy.
Anyway, you need to get a copy of your ethics policy/code of conduct (http://ir.homedepot.com/governance/ethics.cfm ). Making comments about sexual orientation, which is a protected status, is also sexual harassment. I would take it to HR and the same day you take it to HR write a letter - read the policy and come up with how their behaviour is in violation of the code. Send the letter to the AUDIT COMMITTEE to the main HD in ATL, as well as whoever the president of the company is, but be sure to send it CERTIFIED and REGISTERED.

Say that the Code of Ethics Policy is not being enforced and you are writing this letter and calling upon upper management (ATL) to enforce this policy. You are concerned that the employees you named who made anti-gay comments have not received appropriate training regarding the code and that the company may be in violation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) of 2002, if no training was received. Tell them you think Code training needs to take place in your store...blah blah.

By law, the Audit Committee has to investigate but only on the grounds of no code training - the code is required by LAW and the audit committee is required to investigate any complaints.

At the end of the letter say you look forward to ATL firing the people and if HD cannot show leadership, you will be forced to file a complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission because you believe the company is in violation of SOX because management is not enforcing their Code. Any complaint will take thousands of $ to investigate and the managers will definitely lose their jobs.

You can email me at aplinhart at yahoo dot com and I can help you should you want to draft a letter.

tim vlach is a homo at our home depot store and he treats people disrespectfully at all times.

ASM wrote:

Quit overreacting...I am a ASM in a store where I am straight, but my SM, HRM, and many many associates are gay/lesbian. And guess what? We are all proud to work in our store together. It's not a gay-straight thing, it's a "we work hard for Home Depot and ourselves" thing.
oh yeah. And we're not in a store on one of the coasts. We're in Colorado.

I second that get over it

GET OVER IT

i have learned that within the omaha stores people are getting 'higher' positions within the company due to sexual favors. this needs to come to an end. people with just as much experience are getting shot down chances at management jobs due to others who perform sexual favors. what should we do about this?

I have been working for HD for several years now and I believe that gay men and women should not even be allowed to work for HD. Over the years I have been sexually harrased, physically and mentally numorious times by gay men working in the same store. So yes I do have personal reasons for my believes. I'm am not a homofobe, I am a striaght male. I even attempted to do something about it the first couple of times i was sexaully harrased by gay associates but because of HR being so gay friendly and I'm sure so scared of the reprocusions of another incident envolving gay associates, they just kept sweeping it under table. Then they started acusing me of being a homofobe and that I am discriminating agaist their sexual believes ! Bullshit ! I'm am so tired of the reverse discimination of striaght men and women especially in the workplace. Until you have been unwillingly touch and groped in a sexual way by your manager and fellow employees and had your HR department do nothing YOU NEED TO SHUT THE F$&@ UP !!!!!! Gays and lesbians !!!

They made me cry and I pooped my pants and everything. They made me work all day with poopie in my pants and then they ate my baloney sandwich. Oh I hate them so much I could smack them really really hard.

the problem is that gays belive whatever other gays have to say, you are straight that ok i'm straighjt too, but here in n.c. the sm,is gay and only belive in what the other gay people tell h.., so what happen to equal rights for all..

ASM wrote:

Quit overreacting...I am a ASM in a store where I am straight, but my SM, HRM, and many many associates are gay/lesbian. And guess what? We are all proud to work in our store together. It's not a gay-straight thing, it's a "we work hard for Home Depot and ourselves" thing.
oh yeah. And we're not in a store on one of the coasts. We're in Colorado.

problem with most (not all) gays is that they have no moral values.