I never encountered such rude customer service at a store. Everyone that helped us leading up to this one woman was great, but Cathy really ruined Home Depot for us.
My boyfriend and I came in to buy various items, including wood pellets and lumber. Of course, no one was around to really help with anything. We kept having to chase around orange aprons to get any questions answered. We finally got everything we needed, our total was $145 and some change.
The "helpers" strapped our lumber on top of my boyfriends car, very very loosely. We had to pull over 2x before we got home to tighten it. It could of killed someone. But whatever, we dealt with it and made it home. Lesson learned, STRAP YOUR OWN LUMBER.
After removing the lumber and getting all our other stuff out we realized we didn't get our wood pellets loaded. Damn it, we have to go back!
It took us 45mins to get any help, and this was near closing time-- it was not busy! We were handed over to people multiple times. Until FINALLY, a sweetheart named Don laughed and shook his head and said follow me. Receipt in hand, we followed. He apologized for the confusion and got us a cart, loaded up the pellets and told us to exit through the front entry way. So we did. He even followed us right to the big door and yelled "have a great evening!"... Until we heard "DID SOMEONE CHECK YOU OUT??"
We didn't realize she was talking to us, so we kept walking... "did SOMEONE! CHECK! YOU! OUT??!" in a witch like voice.
We turn around and this lady- Cathy - is following us, so we told her you guys forgot to load out wood pellets and Don helped us and we are fine.
She snatched the receipt from my boyfriend and said "so nobody checked you out. ok well lets see here" and read over everything we bought, she looked at us and said "you were here 3 hours ago, and your JUST NOW picking up your wood pellets?"
wtf so we said "yes, we bought lumber and had to take it home and realized we didn't get our wood pellets we paid for" she said "I don't see lumber on your receipt!!!" in a mean voice, I had to take a second NOT to tell her off, I calmly replied "its on there, at the bottom", her reply was "oh" still not believing us.
She then kept glaring at the receipt, "well three hours is a long time to wait to come get your items..." and started using her sharpie to write "picked up at 9pm" next to the wood pellets on our receipt.
This woman was interrogating us for 15mins. I couldn't believe it, she wanted to catch us stealing!! We had paid for the pellets, Don helped us find them and load them in a cart, and now this woman is making us feel like criminals! Why would we steal $10 of wood pellets? This woman had no business pretending she handled loss prevention- she was awful.
This is one of many bad experiences I have had at Home Depot, some employees are great, but others are complete assholes. This woman should be fired, and I rarely feel that way but she was on a mission to prove we were stealing. WE WEREN'T. We paid for all our items, and YOUR store forgot to load everything, as promised. Now we had to drive ALL the way back (when we had other plans- missing a dinner arrangement) to pick up the pellets and the staff took a total of an hour to get us out of there. Something that should take 5mins, took an hour.
Cathy- get a new job, you do not belong in retail or any sort of customer service. read more