When did Home Depot become Big Brother?

[Daniel_187]

Ha... I was just in Home Depot today to buy a locking latch for a window in my garage. I picked it up and started talking to a guy about some hardware. Then I walked right out the front door without paying for the latch.

I didn't even realize it until I went to put it in the bag on my bike. I expected the HD SWAT team to take me down at any moment. I think I got back inside and paid for it before they could get geared up.

Hide your dog

[Big Wall]

My wife works part time at the Home Depot while she is going to school. I guess I shouldn't say too much, but there are a whole lot of people who know that everything there is free, or switch bar codes so that $400 items ring up as $1.97 at the self check out. Lawn mowers bought in the spring mysteriously have problems in the fall and are returned for a new snow blower which then has a problem in the spring and is returned for a new lawn mower. The Home Depot allows all of this to happen and then doesn't pay their employees crap because of it. You wouldn't believe some of the stories.

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

I actually worked in Home Depot last century when I was in College, after they put the local hardware store I worked at out of business.

I'm guessing that there is now law (duh!) and I'm going to make a stink about that dumbass lying to me about the legal reasoning. Any guesses as to how much of a gift card I can get out of them? I can be quite an ass and very demanding when I want to be, I learned it from my first wife- who I'm still married to.

[gnihcraes]

I recently had an encounter with a graffiti problem. Turned over some evidence to LPD. One item was the lid to a gallon can of paint, purchased from home depot. LPD did their investigation and called me some time later. They had information on the purchase of the paint from Depot, including the video snap shots of the purchasers of the paint. Old man and lady. So that ruled out them as suspects painting up the hood early in the morning.

They have the same cameras at my bank now too, right in your face at the counter. I usually wave at it or put an eyeball up to it just for kicks.

Cameras are everywhere, don't do bad things.

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

Cameras are everywhere, don't do bad things.

The more cameras, the more I want to do bad things. I think the more you monitor people and make them feel less trustworthy, the worse behavior you get. Just look at TSA checkpoints, another place that makes my blood boil.

Any may I point out that with all this increased surveillance they still didn't get the info they needed. Amazing how criminals just break more laws. Must need more cameras.

And while I don't like cameras everywhere, the real issue I had, and the reason I posted, was the rationale they gave me. I don't like being lied to.