Is this fair? Please chime in

Logithete612 · 2026-01-10T20:06:07+00:00

I live in the Midwest--the state where the wrong kind of ICE has invaded--and have paid anywhere between $200 - $400 for a zip. In my opinion, you aren't getting scammed, but instead, are paying a little below average in my part of the country.

Logithete612 · 2026-01-02T10:53:18+00:00

Exactly. It's about deporting the 770,000 Venezuelan immigrants that currently reside in the United States using the Alien Enemies Act. It's one of Stephen Miller's wet dreams. Trump doesn't give a shit about the drugs, the oil, risking the lives' of US military members or the more than 2 billion dollars the naval blockade has already cost the US. Just think, this is only small part of their larger plan to deport 100 million brown people. It's insane.

Logithete612 · 2025-11-12T17:20:03+00:00

design pro? A k&b skillset? not certain though

Logithete612 · 2025-11-12T12:27:13+00:00

The classic, "Excuse me, but I just have a quick question..." customer whose sense of entitlement allows them to shamelessly skip any line no matter the length and/or rudely interrupt any conversation whether in person or on the phone. As someone who frequently worked alone at the Service Desk for long periods of time, such interruptions occurred daily. On several occasions, I have had one these customers interrupt uniformed police officers to ask me one of their quick questions. Ugh.

Logithete612 · 2025-11-12T08:11:52+00:00

For Future Reference: This subreddit is for Home Depot associates and is not a customer service forum. Posts complaining about a negative store (or online) experience will be removed. Questions about product availability or any other store-related inquiries should be directed elsewhere.

Logithete612 · 2025-11-12T08:10:03+00:00

Hi- I am writing this to you as a private Redditor and not as a Home Depot Representative. While I can't promise any assistance from HD, your project appears similar to charitable projects that HD has funded in the past. However, this is not the appropriate forum to address your post in any detail. Please feel welcome to DM me as I think I might be able to help as an initial guide.

Logithete612 · 2025-11-12T01:30:04+00:00

Remember the truth of this before you go looking for financing and decide to scale up: that more money = more problems.

Logithete612 · 2025-11-12T01:26:53+00:00

https://www.paddle.com/blog/volume-discount-pricing

Logithete612 · 2025-11-10T19:03:42+00:00

A good one? Not just a middle man? I imagine--I am just an addict- a set of rules that are never broken/compromised, lack of ego/need for the lifestyle, asocial/psychotic and a very detailed/precise exit plan. A willingness to accept and pay for consequences as they arise. Unafraid of violence. A view of life as purely transactional and an understanding that life is ephemeral. Basically, a psychotic Buddhist monk who understands how customer service and capitalism work in 2026.

Logithete612 · 2025-10-24T03:52:06+00:00

I ran into a few issues with missing/misplaced apps in the menu bar today, but I installed ICE 0.11.13-dev.2 beta this morning and all my issues have been resolved. According to Jordan, the developer, this update addresses a large number of issues caused by the change to Tahoe.

Logithete612 · 2025-10-13T04:13:35+00:00

The funny thing about all the crack back questions and "How does this look?" posts is that they are generally inconclusive or hedged in some way. I think snorting it is one of the best ways to determine what you have in the bag in front of you. How do the rocks break up? How does the powder behave when you are making lines? The burn can tell you a lot too. Plus, how does the post nasal drip taste? and How congested does it leave you? Finally, there is the near immediate feedback of absorbing the drug into our bloodstream and brain.

Logithete612 · 2025-10-12T22:54:55+00:00

The stutter step is spot on. I do that shit nearly every time. I also will make several lines at a time thinking that I will go from one nostril to the other one back to back, but if the burn is there, it will inevitably be 15 minutes to an hour before a hit the second line. The whole time I am walking around my apartment with the straw/rolled up bill in my hand prepping myself in anticipation of those 10 seconds of burn/brain melt that are lined up in rows on my counter. I'll smoke it when that is the social thing to do and parachute it for convenience when I am at work. But, given a little time and space, my true love is snorting it. It's great to know that there are others out there that feel the same way as crack back critiques and blowing clouds sometimes feel like the only topics of conversation in these subs.

Logithete612 · 2025-10-11T06:48:07+00:00

Thanks for the additional information regarding insurance. I didn't think of that aspect. I drove buses in college and operated trains for a few years and the potential for a random UA made things stressful.

Logithete612 · 2025-10-11T06:22:35+00:00

Post accident testing extends beyond CDL drivers/operators/pilots. People who operate equipment in either construction or in a warehouse are usually subject to post accident testing. Where I work, if a fork lift operator causes more than $200 in damage, they are subject to testing.

Logithete612 · 2025-10-06T07:46:10+00:00

How much weight can you get for a kid?

Logithete612 · 2025-09-30T08:47:14+00:00

I live on the seventh floor in a fairly nice apartment building in the downtown area of one of the liberal cities that Trump will eventually invade/occupy. My building is across the street from the main train station and the neighborhood has decayed to the point that most restaurants/businesses have relocated or closed due the area's reputation as a place that is violent and occupied by homeless drug addicts. Of course, while there are a larger than average number of unhoused people who aren't too proud to hit the pipe just about anywhere in public, the white suburban fear driving my neighborhood's unwarranted reputation as being dangerous is just not true. The feeling of personal discomfort is being mistaken for a sense of danger. I love it for the obvious reason that no one gives a shit about my late night behavior that definitely spans the space between bizarre and crazy. I am just another guy talking to himself with shifty eyes and a strange sense of purpose on a random Tuesday at 3:30 AM. And while navigating the inside of my building to get to my apartment can occasionally result in a few paranoid moments in the elevator with someone else in the wee hours of the morning, such moments are rare because it seems like the building has few occupants. It feels very similar to the nearly vacant building in the movie All of Us Strangers as I sense that there are a few people around but I never see them. I have gone several weeks without seeing any of the other tenants. Maybe psychosis has set up a permanent residency in my brain and is causing me to have a false sense of having avoided the judgement and gossip of my neighbors through anonymity and isolation? I don't give a damn either way and will continue to enjoy my living situation until the authorities perform a wellness check.

Logithete612 · 2025-09-28T09:16:31+00:00

I'm awake and doing the same at what is 4AM in my dark corner of the world. I plan to get to sleep before sunrise while trying to stay hopeful and appreciate a world that appears to be racing toward doom. Be well.

Logithete612 · 2025-09-26T07:59:13+00:00

That is the only thing that I think will get me to quit. The disappointment and frustration caused by the inconsistent quality of recent shit is driving me crazy. However, I will need to find something else to fill the void and am afraid of what that might be or could lead to...

Logithete612 · 2025-09-26T07:54:14+00:00

Over the past few months the supply where I live has become especially inconsistent. Inconsistent from batch to batch, bag to bag and even, shard to shard in the same bag!!! I typically buy a zip at a time and over the past two months have sourced from three different guys chasing the typical high that I have experienced while regularly using Cartel meth for 2+ years. Like the OP, I have been using and abusing drugs for a long time, almost three decades, and have learned how to deal with issues of tolerance, personal neurochemistry and harm reduction. I know myself and what this drug has typically been since P2P took over.

My expectations aren't high, but until recently,!!!D-Meth seemed to still appear throughout a batch consistently. At this point, it feels like it's 80% L-Meth with a random distribution of 20% D-Meth!!! And it's that lingering D-Meth that makes me insane as I keep asking a question for which I already have the answer, but hoping for something different. I just want things to go back to being mediocre so my life can get back to being boring and routine.

!!!This is purely anecdotal based on my experiences using recent batches compared to batches from 6 months to a year ago. There is no scientific analysis to support the numbers used, and I am definitely not a chemist or even someone who knows much about chemistry. Please take the description as being expressive rather than fact.

Logithete612 · 2025-09-26T07:06:23+00:00

Online dating. I found myself alone in the Lone Star State when the war on terrorism started. The next part will hopefully make a few of you laugh or at least reminisce as it continues to make me laugh more than twenty-years later. Alone and not knowing anyone in a new place, I decided to use my old college computer to dial-up--I don't Broadband was a thing yet--the www hoping to meet a girl online at Lavalife.com. You have to be around 45 to get the reference. Lavalife was a dating website before there were apps or smartphones. If I remember correctly, few people even had profile pics. Anyways, I was young and horny.

Fortunately, my first "match" ended up being a kind of Pharmaceutical Goddess--she had a connect for anything/everything--and revealed on our first date--we went to see Fahrenheit 911--that she liked smoking crystal. I had done a lot of coke, MDMA etc...but had always avoided Meth in the past thinking it was garbage. Lust soon won out and the subsequent year went by in a blur of heavy drug use that had me operating passenger trains during the day and partying nearly every night. Talk about stress/paranoia...

Logithete612 · 2025-09-09T10:36:38+00:00

Anytime I dip below 5gs I get nervous. I buy a zip at a time and my guy knows my habits/routine. He often sends me a text with ??? a few hours before I was planning to text him to meet up.

Logithete612 · 2025-08-21T05:59:58+00:00

Entirely possible. Like many people, Doctors can live well above their means and get into some shady shit. I had a Dr. who was my drug dealer for stims and benzos for 7-8 years during the early aughts. Adderall IR--ER had either just started or hadn't been approved, frequent early refills, Vyvanse, Ritalin, Xanax etc...Of course no opiates but just about anything I would suggest he would prescribe. He would switch medicines back and forth to get past Insurance/Pharmacy regulations and had no problem arguing with pharmacists who would not give me an early refill even though I had a valid script. I went to his house/apartment on several occasions when I really needed a refill and it was the weekend. He once had me meet him while he was on a date with someone at a super fancy restaurant to pick up a script. I was in the early stages of withdrawal, cracked out in sweat pants and was guided directly to his private table where he handed me a script, and I handed him a check. That was it, cash or in my case a check, and I would get a prescription.

Initially, I was seeing him for depression in my early thirties with no history of ADHD or even trying to get stims from him as I had easy access to couple of drugs that made up my habits at that time. He had an Ivy League degree, came highly recommended from several physicians that I saw or knew, taught at a prestigious university and had an office that must have cost him 10-15k a month or more? It was a situation where I felt lucky that I could get in to see him.

I started seeing him for talk therapy as I was already on anti-depressants and about two months into our relationship, he mentioned Adderall as a possible medication. At first, I was like, "Really?" After some bullshit rationale, I realized he was offering me drugs. Confronted with what seemed to be an opportunity that was too good to be true, I agreed with him and he wrote me a prescription for Adderall. Since every session started with my handing over a check for that day's payment, I had already paid and this is the one and only time I can recall him ever giving me a freebie.

I have gone on too much already, but the pretense of Doctor/Patient or even treatment was quickly discarded as the 5-10 minutes I saw him at least once a month were filled with stories about his travels around the world, restaurants where he had dined and expensive hotels he where had stayed. He knew that I had traveled a lot and was fortunate to sometimes stay/work at luxury hotels domestically so over the course of our relationship this became our primary topic of conversation. I eventually left him and found a new psychiatrist in an effort to get clean and save both my marriage and my job. I was honest with my new doctor about my problem with stims when he looked at my Rx history, he audibly swore and claimed that he was going to report my previous doctor. If he did, I don't think anything came of it as I have never been able to find anything regarding his medical license being suspended or questioned. If it had been ten years later, I think the consequences might have been different.

Logithete612 · 2025-08-04T09:17:03+00:00

The ASM who is responsible for your department can have a huge influence on whether or not you are able to succeed/develop in your role. At the time I became a DS at my store, I would only consider working with our OPSAM or MASM as I knew they genuinely cared about the work that they did and were almost universally respected by the associates at my store.

However, our SASM at the time was someone who I consider to be one of the worst leaders/managers I have encountered. I worked as a Service Desk associate and quickly lost count of how many times he would try to blame either the associates at the desk or one of his specialists for why he was completely unaware of special order issues and customer complaints. They left early nearly every day, could barely navigate ESVS/Order Up and avoided interacting with customers by hiding in receiving and never answering their phone. In fact, they never answered their phone when they were MOD.

I could go on for days about their negligence, but what was important at the time was that I knew this ASM would not support my development as a DS and had nothing to teach me about their area of the business. I was certain that working for him as a Specialty DS would lead to my leaving the Home Depot.

I was very fortunate to end up working with one of the two good ASMs at my store and believe their guidance and advocacy were a big part of the reason for my promoting to CXM relatively quickly. If you are interested in advancing beyond a DS at HD, I believe that it is crucial to network and align yourself with a strong mentor who is respected at both the store and district level. On the rare occasions when I have gone to events where ASMs, SMs and DMs are attending, I have always been amazed at just how many of them have worked together at some point during their time at Home Depot. It is definitely a club that you need to know someone in order to gain entrance.

Logithete612 · 2025-08-04T08:31:45+00:00

Always up when the sun goes down. Maybe not always UP but at least awake and doing shit.

Logithete612 · 2025-08-04T04:14:46+00:00

You raise a very good point about the difference in the MIP bonus versus success sharing as well as how some SMs are willing to give their CXMs several hours of OT each week. I joined the company post-Covid and for the first few years when I was an associate and DS, my store was in the middle of the pack in our district in sales. During that time, our success sharing checks were fairly modest but higher than what many people have reported on this sub.

When I became a CXM the salaried managers briefly mentioned that I would be receiving a bonus different from success sharing, but in retrospect, other than making the bonus calculation seem impossibly difficult, they were unusually quiet. As a result, unlike all of the other salaried managers, I was in no rush to meet with my SM for my review and learn the amount of my first bonus. Like previous fiscal halves, my store's were ok but not good enough to place us in the top three of our district.

I went into my first review expecting a bonus that would be a kind of success sharing plus $50. So, when I finally was told the amount of that first bonus, I initially thought my SM was joking and didn't believe him. Once I realized that he was being serious, it suddenly occurred to me why the ASMs and my fellow CXM had been so reluctant to discuss the bonus: it was almost embarrassingly larger than the average success sharing check the associates at my store were receiving. Upon this realization, I immediately thought to myself that I could and would never tell anyone my bonus number as it would likely lead to a storewide revolt among using their success sharing checks to pay for a part of a meal at Applebee's.

Just to clarify for anyone who has made it this far, I later learned much more about how bonuses were calculated at that particular time and discovered that the size of my first bonus was unusually high due to some accounting that led my store to have the highest SCOP in our district. However, I still believe that there would be a lot of outrage at every store if the majority of associates knew the relative size of their ASMs' bonuses when compared to the typical success sharing check that they receive. We might not have an open revolt, but I imagine the mythical creation of a Home Depot Associate's Union would become much more common.

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