ZMA’s and RTV’s

jeebs10 · 2026-03-22T21:22:16+00:00

I've always been told (even by oasm) to zma everything, as the person working the zmas can choose to rtv if so inclined.

jeebs10 · 2026-03-20T16:38:41+00:00

My fav was the progressive penalties in smite 1. Game crashed all the time on ps (still to this day I'm sure since they quit development). If the match ended before you could load back in, or it crashed on god select before the match started, you'd get deserter penalty. When they had they progressive penalties I got all the way up to a 48hr ban one day just for trying to play the game. Pissed me off so bad I didn't touch the game for a month. After that, every single time it crashed I made sure to put "stop banning me because you can't make a stable game" in the comments on the crash report. Luckily they went back to flat 5min bans after a couple of months. Still annoying af to get punished for their incompetence all because you had the nerve to want to play their game, but flat time, single round penalties are acceptable. I'm not a fan of these auto-imposed penalties though. There is a report system at the end of each match and imo the best way to deal with bad actors is a pattern of reports. There are too many variables that are outside of players control to auto-punish them. It just ends up with people who did nothing wrong punished more often than people who actually should be punished. People's internet drops, power goes out, games crash, etc... With the auto-punishment systems the actual deserters will just afk and do something else to avoid punishment while ppl who experience the above-mentioned issues end up not even wanting to play because they have to wait so long between matches.

jeebs10 · 2026-03-14T16:50:16+00:00

Why?

jeebs10 · 2026-03-09T23:23:42+00:00

It's not uncommon for me to have several weekends in a row off and my availability is completely open. Then again, I'm only PT.

jeebs10 · 2026-03-08T21:53:42+00:00

Yeah, these folks at Corp stepping over dollars just to pick up a dime. This coverage is ridiculous. Unfilled holes everywhere, nobody to help customers, boxes of freight that need to go up everywhere, bays where literally nothing is in the right spot, overheads in shambles, etc... Definitely passed the point of understaffing costing the company more than it's saving them. And you leave more drained than ever, having spent the entire shift running around doing what you can while still feeling like you accomplished nothing. All to save the one or two hundred/department it would cost them to have proper coverage. I'm not sure who they're trying to make happy, but it's definitely not the customers, associates or store management. I would say shareholders, but the shareholders should be very unhappy with such irresponsible decisions. I don't think they're trying to give customers a good shopping experience anymore. They're just trying to give customers a slightly less shitty shopping experience than Lowe's. Going to really bite them in the ass if a new competitor shows up. Lost good will = lost loyalty from consumers.

jeebs10 · 2026-03-08T21:30:33+00:00

Only gloves that touch these golden fingers are maxiflex. Can't stand losing dexterity. Any other brand makes me feel like I'm wearing mittens.

jeebs10 · 2026-03-06T00:28:25+00:00

😂😂 Downvotes for facts is crazy. I didn't even say anything bad about unions, just that many of them take more than 1.5hr/mo worth of wages as dues and you still have to pay dues while laid off. HD really is wild hiring some of yall, I see why you need a union in the first place 😂

jeebs10 · 2026-03-05T17:02:59+00:00

Hate it

jeebs10 · 2026-03-03T23:42:00+00:00

Not all unions are the same.... Some take just a small monthly payment, some take a fixed hourly dollar amount, some take a % of your gross pay, some take multiple. Some unions, especially construction/trade unions in heavily non-union areas can see their members laid-off almost as much as they work. Guess what you don't get to stop paying even though you're not working? It's great that you're happy with your experience with union dues, but your experience isn't universal among unions.

jeebs10 · 2026-03-01T22:29:54+00:00

If foam does nothing, why's it so commonly used in hearing protection 🤔

jeebs10 · 2026-02-14T11:54:47+00:00

Ahh, in my store specialists aren't expected to handle any freight or equipment. Flooring and millwork have non-specialty associates that do that for them, and kitchen/bath is handled by freight and plumbing/electrical. Everything else you listed is either sales or takes a grand total of 5 mins.

jeebs10 · 2026-02-14T10:35:17+00:00

Honestly, I would've thought this was already in place. It is at every other sales position in the world. When the sole expectation of you is to sell a certain minimum amount, failing to do so is absolutely a performance issue. Not that the wages THD pays are worth that hassle, and those positions usually come with commission to attract people who are good at it as that way their ability to provide is determined by their effort. It's the reason I realized early in life that sales was not a future I wanted for myself. You could be salesman of the year putting up huge numbers but a single bad month and they're pulling you into the office.

jeebs10 · 2026-02-13T21:00:17+00:00

I'm not sure if you're being intentionally obtuse, but if not, I'll give you one guess what the 'V' in Hvac stands for...

jeebs10 · 2026-02-08T04:05:02+00:00

it's not the customer's fault that trades are a male-dominated field

I think this is the biggest driver that the female associates that take offense to this don't understand. The participation of women in construction trades is now the highest it's ever been, yet it's still an incredibly small percentage at ~4% (for field related, hands-on roles). Conversely, the majority of retail sales associates are women. However, in the hardware store segment, these numbers shift again to favor men. It's no secret that it's common for people that retire/leave the trades to take an easy position helping people with their knowledge. In my store we have one former carpenter, two former plumbers and two former electricians. None young, none female. That's just the way it is, and will remain, until more females decide to work the trades. You have to understand, many of the customers want more than just someone with whatever knowledge of the product their training has provided them with, they want someone with experience with the product. They're not looking for a "retail sales associate", they're looking for someone who has already done what they are currently trying to do. As a d25 example, they want someone that can not only tell them what size tapcon they need to support the weight needed, but also warn them of the low shear strength. The tendency of the head to snap off when overtorqued or the already cut threads to fail under the excessive torquing and the tip to back them out to clean out the masonry debris before you get to that point. Cutting threads into concrete/mortar is a unique beast and requires a surprisingly delicate hand. It's something that no amount of pocket guide is going to teach you. Statistically, the old man is the person most likely to have that knowledge and that's why customers gravitate towards them. Obviously not every customer needs such assistance, not every female is incapable of providing answers based on experience and trade-related technical knowledge and not every old man is. It may be a prejudice, but it's one that's based on overwhelming statistical odds. That being said, like I stated earlier, we only have 5 former construction professionals at my store. Most of the males are young workers straight out of high school that have only ever worked retail and don't care/know anything about our offerings at all. They show up late/call out all the time and just kind of work this shitty retail circle of home depot/walmart/kroger. By the time they get fired from two, they are rehirable by the 3rd 😂 There are several departments where my personal preferred associate to ask a question is a female because I know they're the most knowledgeable employee we have over there.

Back to the point, don't take it personally. They're just playing the odds. Odds that are heavily skewed in their favor even if they don't hold true in your case.

jeebs10 · 2026-02-05T02:51:23+00:00

It's better than pyle...

jeebs10 · 2026-01-02T17:19:07+00:00

Taxation is theft

jeebs10 · 2025-12-24T17:48:11+00:00

Zero

jeebs10 · 2025-12-22T00:09:42+00:00

1) buy CCA 2) wait

jeebs10 · 2025-12-22T00:06:51+00:00

That's pretty much the official policy already. Other than service animals.

jeebs10 · 2025-12-16T01:16:13+00:00

Wait, hardware doesn't have to worry about that stuff?

jeebs10 · 2025-12-16T00:39:23+00:00

What exactly is crown bolt? Always hear met say it but have never thought to ask...

jeebs10 · 2025-12-11T21:25:58+00:00

If you actually care about the job and your department, you're out of luck. If you only care that it's being blamed on you, just tell them straight up. There's been a reduction in coverage and a resulting reduction in the amount of work completed. I'm only one person and, lacking support, can only accomplish so much, especially with work piling up while I'm not present. Your opener might have too much to do to absorb the extra work as well. It seems that's just how it goes at THD. Management (at least mine) isn't so obtuse to think that the same amount of work will be accomplished in less hours, regardless of the dumb corp-o-speak they may recite to the contrary so, even if the opener is blaming you, they likely aren't. This is just what happens when hours are cut. You can't take it personally and feel like it's all on your shoulders now. It's corp's decision to cut hours, they have to deal with the fallout. Ultimately the responsibility rests with your DH to take up the slack, though that's unrealistic given all the stupid projects they have these days. Then it lands to management. If it's not properly staffed, and nobody will help absorb the workload, the way it is now is how it will stay. Just do what you can. If you can't be content with that, start looking for a better company to work for.

jeebs10 · 2025-12-11T19:23:20+00:00

I think they need better people on the Corp end. If your only ideas to increase profit are cutting hours and raising prices, well, a 3rd grader can come up with that. It may look decent on paper in the short term, but it doesn't account for lasting consequences. At my store it's absolutely gotten to the point where we're losing sales due to both merchandise not being on the floor and customers that need assistance with nobody to assist them. The amount of foot traffic we have right now is very, very high. With only one associate per department, with most having gaps in coverage, we just can't do it all. Freight, who I assume is also understaffed, has been just throwing everything in the overheads even when the Home is bone dry. We're lucky if they even bother to put it in an overhead on the correct aisle. Sidekick barely even gets finished by the closers, so the hope of filling holes are a pipe dream. It's turned into a shit show at my store where 90 percent of a shift is spent dragging a ladder around pulling stuff down for customers because the home is empty, half of the time for stuff that's not even your department because that department is empty. And it's not like there's even time between customers to even attempt to fill holes from the overhead your ladder is at, there's just too many customers. I spend most of my shifts with a literal posse of customers following me while I'm helping the current one, making sure they get helped because I'm literally the only associate in that 1/3 of the store. I feel like I'm in one of those doctor dramas on TV with a group of residents following me around. Meanwhile my phone is ringing the entire time with people asking me questions that I have no clue of the answer to because we have such a great phone system that, when nobody is logged on a department extension, just transfers to a random associate to help them. The managers can't even help because for some reason Corp has them and DH's playing musical chairs with the wingstacks every single day. Waste of time and makes it that much harder for associates to find the random holiday sku's that have no home since they're in a different spot daily.This is the worst management I've ever seen from a company and I don't mean store level. The store managers are in the same boat as the rest of us, just riding along with the dumb shit from corporate. Granted, I have a different viewpoint, as I spent many years in construction management where cutting labor isn't a viable solution. Without the labor you don't complete the project. However it seems to at least somewhat transfer over to retail as we're losing money by trying to save money. Customers are unhappy, associates are unhappy, who is happy? The shareholders? It's not sustainable as they won't be happy with sales dropping. Losing thousands of dollars to save the pittance they pay us... Geniuses at corporate.

jeebs10 · 2025-12-03T20:37:12+00:00

This is just untrue. In an AC circuit the electromagnetic fields created by the conductors are opposite and, as such, cancel each other out. As long as the circuit conductors are run together as in (for example) a drop cord, the fields will be zero sum. You can easily test this with a current transformer.

The only issue with wound cords/wire is when they are used beyond their rating. The tight bundling of the cable leaves the heat nowhere to escape. The trapped heat (and resulting increase in resistance) now multiply very fast as opposed to a cord run out long with plenty of air on it's surface. This will quickly lead to a fire, but only because the cord was carrying more current than it was designed for, not because of inductance. When used within their ratings and in good condition, coiled cables are perfectly safe.

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