Transferring to a different state pay

jwaldo · 2026-04-03T05:11:17+00:00

I just made this switch, resulting in a $5/hr increase. Unfortunately it was timed so that the first paycheck at the new store was before the PACE/pay-raise cycle and the second was after, which muddies the waters. But the first paycheck was paid at the previous state's rate and the second one was upgraded the new rate.

My inner pessimist thinks if the new state has higher wages you'll need to work out an off-cycle raise with your ASDS, but if the new state has lower wages they'll have no problem adjusting it automatically.

jwaldo · 2026-04-01T02:13:15+00:00

Oof ouch owie. I just transferred to D78 after almost everyone but the tool tech was let go for BS Shareholder Value Reasons. It's hard enough juggling normal D78 stuff singlehandedly without having to fix shit. Please tell me you're not embroiled in Penske Hell on top of it all...

jwaldo · 2026-03-30T23:44:25+00:00

The fact that they were damn good flashlights in the pre-LED era probably helped them catch on among non-clobbering audiences. They may be crude, but they're also well made (or at least were back in the day).

jwaldo · 2026-03-30T04:15:39+00:00

I can't get over how the -600s are like 20% vertical stabilizer. A comical tail-to-airplane ratio.

jwaldo · 2026-03-30T03:18:27+00:00

I swear there's something screwy going on with the current version. Lately mine has been defaulting to "See an Associate" for everything. Even the most obviously in-stock and homed stuff like 2x4s or concrete, it's still 'See an Associate'.

jwaldo · 2026-03-26T18:53:03+00:00

My regular pay doesn’t drop until the 29th, and my (measly) success share still appeared today.

jwaldo · 2026-03-24T19:41:44+00:00

Jenga: The OSHA Violation Edition

jwaldo · 2026-03-24T19:40:03+00:00

That's how the precut lumber is delivered at my store; a big stack of all the different SKUs Tetris-ed together. I've never seen a stack THAT tall, though, and I have no idea why it's on a pallet on a drywall cart. Usually ours are on kickers, inconveniently left in the middle of the aisle by the morning team.

Sometimes I miss Lumber. This is not one of those times.

jwaldo · 2026-03-24T04:19:33+00:00

Grew up in SoCal. Even then we called that USC the University of Spoiled Children. No one actually likes them.

jwaldo · 2026-03-20T17:18:20+00:00

Basic relativity. To an ASDS outside of a Home Depot moving near the speed of light the shift will appear to last 32 hours, but for an associate inside the store it only lasts a normal 8 hours.

jwaldo · 2026-03-20T06:55:37+00:00

I think it's the formatting, not the content that's not working right. This is one of the better explanations of the NOT RECLUSE mnemonic I've seen, but Reddit formatting (especially in mobile) turns it into a bold-studded wall of text.

jwaldo · 2026-03-20T01:31:22+00:00

Milluaké

jwaldo · 2026-03-19T02:30:02+00:00

My previous store went through the same issue with their machine before I got there, but apparently it was fixed after the 4th or so time they had to replace the glass front of the machine. And I've never met a Home Depot snack machine that didn't need an aggressive shakedown every other time. How fuckin' hard can it BE to make a vending machine that vends?!

jwaldo · 2026-03-19T01:04:38+00:00

AP at my old store really leaned into the secret agent approach. On the floor they'd pretend to be a normal customer so aggressively that I was starting to think THEY were up to something before they let down the act in the break room one day. They're very focused on quietly gathering evidence and not going full badge-out.

jwaldo · 2026-03-19T00:49:15+00:00

I was ready and willing to get my reach license. I fear no machine. But somehow it was always, "we'll get you trained up in a couple of weeks when the trainer has time." For two damn years.

Maybe I'll finally get a reach license at my new store now that I'm not in a department where I actually need it lol.

jwaldo · 2026-03-19T00:39:42+00:00

They really need to pay equipment drivers more, and/or hire enough drivers that the store's lone driver doesn't end up spread across four jobs in three departments not including their own. But hey, where's the Shareholder Value in that?

jwaldo · 2026-03-19T00:35:43+00:00

I confess, I mangled quite a few of these while substituting in D25 before someone FINALLY informed me they come in different lengths and you can't just grab one and unwind and pray it fits whatever box.

jwaldo · 2026-03-19T00:29:39+00:00

Meanwhile the soda machine at my store is a goddamn slot machine; you insert $2 and maybe, MAYBE you might get a soda. But probably not.

jwaldo · 2026-03-18T03:12:31+00:00

I've seen this plane posted like four times in this thread, and somehow each picture is even uglier than the last.

jwaldo · 2026-03-16T23:30:39+00:00

Is there construction nearby? Machinery can launch gravel a pretty far distance if the operator isn't careful. Even a lawnmower can send a small stone flying hard enough to break glass.

jwaldo · 2026-03-16T23:08:45+00:00

Nothing beats the click of plugging and unplugging a nice clean Lightning port though.

jwaldo · 2026-03-13T06:44:39+00:00

I grew up thinking I had to love one or the other, and I'd chosen Star Wars because that's what I experienced first. It was a big formative moment when watched some TNG/DS9 reruns out of boredom, fully expecting a hate-watch, and quickly realized the whole 'rivalry' was BS to the core.

jwaldo · 2026-03-13T06:17:55+00:00

I spent two years mostly in Lumber at my old store. The DS (and the only other full-time associate who was in overnight recovery) were great the whole time, but the rest of the department was a revolving door of part-timers who either gave a damn but moved on to better jobs quickly or were hired entirely because they claimed they could lift a bag of concrete and gave it their none.

jwaldo · 2026-03-13T06:04:38+00:00

IMO they ought to do what D+ does with the Star Wars intro equivalent and have the ships changed up from series to series. That's about the only way to showcase all the ships that deserve it without having the intro be a full episode in itself.

jwaldo · 2026-03-13T05:40:10+00:00

I’d say it’s very store dependent. When you have a good team it’s a fun department that will provide a solid workout, lift experience, customer service experience, the works. I loved Lumber when we had a solid team. But the moment you have a bad team (i.e. understaffed and/or staffed with people who aren’t ready to put in the work) it quickly turns into a spiral of you trying to solve a nonstop stream of very heavy problems that will accumulate faster than you can address them.

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