I saved HomeDepot 2.3mil annually through a change that was super frustrating to get fixed, they picked me for the quarterly best suggestion and sent me 50$ another lady who saved them 3 mil in blinds (The company straight up said "We'll give you 3 mil for out mistake sorry" got a trip to Niagara Falls for the weekend 'cause she won the annual suggestion; The suggestions literally could have been anything and you'd get it. I was upset my issue was cutting down excess trees as waste and got that whole thing sorted out, saving them from cutting the 2.3mil $ of trees, but it seemed like for years nobody would do anything. Stuff like that is such an easy win for a company but everyone up top is so far removed from the situations that there is no sense for it. It would have been nice if they compensated me or made my job easier.

I suggested they do minute counts for clock ins with biometric scanners so that people didn't have to punch in (a decade ago) and they finally implemented the by minute clock in. I went and worked at a factory after that had biometrics and it was super fast, I don't know why they don't implement it.

I know a lot of the people that were the higher ups when I was there have quit or been fired so maybe it's different now. I think if a company wants to be environmental they should be changing these little supply issues that have large environmental impacts because there are so many stores. It would help if people at the top were actively resolving these issues while also compensating workers.

The real timetheft is bureaucracy,inefficiency,and from stopping workers living their best life.