Just told the guy in Home Depot to f off

[Tribetime]

I was walking through there and walked right past and there's no mask it's about the fourth time I've been at Home Depot for people aren't wearing masks I just asked him no mask you said what I said no mask he said mind your own business I said I am minding my own business I'm worried about myself I have cancer then he said something and I told him the f*** off

[Thekaspervote]

1. Home Depot is a magnet for magats. The CEO is a big gop trumphumper!

[Mz Pip]

5. No

That guy retired from Home Depot years ago.

[Thekaspervote]

18. Should have said founder and original ceo. He still has influence over the company!

And they give large sums to the gop!

Here’s a link just posted. He’s still at it

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142584377

[Mz Pip]

54. CoFounder supports Democrats

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/totals?id=D000031642

[Cozmo]

29. Home Depot just donated millions to that asshole's campaign WAKE UP!

[we can do it]

43. They're big drump supporters fuck the orange hole,

[Wednesdays]

6. The tRump supporter is no longer CEO

See reply #4 here:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214090094

Edit: that doesn't necessarily mean Home Depot stopped being a RW corporation, though!

[dware]

16. Not true,

he retired in 2002.

[DownriverDem]

28. I hope

Lowes is better.

[murielm99]

2. I had someone tell me the same thing in the grocery store a few weeks ago.

He was there with his wife and kid. The rule in the store is one family member only, unless the person needs physical assistance. Masks are the rule, too.

He would not stay distant from me, either. I was waiting for my order from the meat counter to be wrapped. He kept crowding me.

I ended up in a shouting match with him. His wife told him to wait in the car. He did.

Several people came up behind me to support me. Nothing else happened.

I spoke to one of the managers to let him know what had happened. He said they could not force people to wear masks.

Anyway, I am glad I spoke up.

[Pisces]

10. Just get away from the fools. Not worth the confrontation

[Tribetime]

14. I know but for some reason the anger got the best of me today

I guess I shouldn't shop there anymore

[HAB911]

11. good for you

they don't have to force anyone, BUT they don't have to serve them either. If they serve them, they are complicit

[The Wizard]

12. The manager has the right to refuse service.

[Tribetime]

13. Like I said this was like the fourth day and nobody in the store is enforcing anyting

[ret5hd]

19. Then they can't force me to wear pants.

[dware]

20. No, they can't force you to wear pants,

but they can trespass you off their property, which is well within their right.

[ret5hd]

21. As it is with the masks.

[dware]

23. Absolutely,

and that's the policy at my daughter's HD, anyone refusing to wear a mask will be trespassed off the property until they put a mask on.

[ProfessorGAC]

30. When This Came Up In Illinois...

...the enforcement guidance from the AG was to consider noncompliance a form of trespassing.
Then, stores lost the "there's nothing we can do" excuse.
Call the cops, have the jerk cited for trespassing and have cops escort him out.
It's been done quite a number of times, around the state, in the last month or so.

[dware]

52. My daughter's HD store is pretty aggressive towards those that don't

want to mask up, they're given 2 chances/warnings to put masks on or leave the property, if they refuse to mask up or leave, then the Sheriffs Office is called to remove them from the property, if they still refuse to leave, they are cited and escorted off the property, if they return, HD will call the S.O. and have them arrested for trespassing.

[North Shore Chicago]

3. These people

don't think twice about violence against anyone who says anything about being unmasked. Just watched the video with the 67 year old white man hitting a 12 year old girl with a flagpole.

These people remind me of violent zombies who have been infected. Infected with trumpitis. We need to be safe against their unwarranted wrath.

[RKP5637]

7. Plus some carry concealed weapons and many are hotheads. Gotta be careful not to incite them. n/t

[groundloop]

32. What a sad state of affairs..... we're being held hostage by our fear of hotheaded gunners.

[we can do it]

44. I'm a sixty one year old female retired firefighter.

Some asshole tries that shit with me I’ll shove it up his ass.

[North Shore Chicago]

45. You're awesome!

[we can do it]

46. 🥰

[FBaggins]

4. With respect... you aren't minding your own business

You're correct that he should be wearing a mask (unless you live in one of the places where there has been almost no infection), but if you're particularly endangered by your condition... you shouldn't be going anywhere near such people. You should just walk the other way or (if he's standing where you need to shop), you can ask store management to move him or lose your business.

[cwydro]

31. This.

I go the other way when I see such idiots.

Most people seem to be complying here, thank god.

[Tribetime]

34. If it was just one time

I've let it go I've Let It Go for so long there's so many people doing it now is getting ridiculous and nobody saying anything. Nobody in the store isn't forcing anything they're just letting them do it I shouldn't have to be put in danger cuz of them

[cwydro]

37. I live in a red county in a purple state, and the compliance seems to be increasing.

Where are you?

[Tribetime]

38. Western suburbs of Cleveland....plenty of Biden yard signs

Few drump...less drump than 16

[cwydro]

39. Wow, I'm in the south, and people are taking it seriously.

CVS just started giving free tests.

[Tribetime]

40. I think I should just call the Department of Health tomorrow on Home Depot

[cwydro]

41. Worth a try.

Stay safe!

I’ve had the virus. It was no fun.

[Tribetime]

47. Best wishes to you on a full recovery

[Ms. Toad]

51. Yes. In Ohio it is the Department of Health that is charged wtih enforcement.

You can almost certainly make a report online. There is also a tracker for compliance in the Cleveland area - not sure where they pull their data from.

But enforcement requires our assistance - if we don't tell the Health Department where the problems are, they don't know.

I'm pretty sure that the piggy-back rule requiring businesses to enfore the mask order in our counties is party the result of my repeated reports (and the fact that my spouse is on the board of health and she's tired of hearing my complaints about the failure of businesses to enforce the mask order).

No idea whether it will do any good for Home Depot - but Panera's customer service responded appropriately - and followed up.

[AngryOldDem]

42. Store employees can't tell customers what to do.

My son works for a rival home improvement chain, and he sees this every day despite a mask mandate being in force. People who work at these places are in constant danger of being canned for the slightest of reasons, so don’t blame them if they don’t call out customers — blame spineless management. The employees are also at risk from these idiots. The stress they feel (on top of the usual store crap) is very real.

Check to see who you can call in your county to report violations. Let them deal with it. In the meantime I’m afraid your options are to give these idiots a wide berth or have someone else do your shopping. Both suck, but it sounds like home improvement stores are magnets for this kind of person. Every store or other place I go to, I see full compliance.

[Tribetime]

33. I disagree if there's so many

People in the store not wearing masks that you can't turn around they're putting me in danger and it's not right I've had enough

[FBaggins]

36. It's fine that you feel that you're justified...

... just don't think it's "minding your own business"

If you're at risk... then engaging with them is also "putting you in danger".

[Stallion]

8. Punctuation Can Actually Help You Communicate Your Point

[Tribetime]

15. Yes I know I was driving and I was pretty upset

And I was using talk and text sorry I knew somebody would call me out

[TexasBushwhacker]

9. Ugh. My niece works for HD

She said they have individually wrapped, complimentary masks, so there is no excuse not to wear one. Harris County (Houston) is still under a mask order and businesses can be fined $1000 for non-compliance. People are jerks

[dware]

22. Pretty much the same at the HD my daughter works at,

they can't force people to wear masks, but they can trespass them if the person refuses to mask up.

[DanieRains]

24. Tell Him He Is Under Arrest And The Police Are No Their Way

Citizen's Arrest.

[catbyte]

25. I feel so fortunate that it has never happened to me. I guess some folks are grumbling here but

everyone I've seen is following Governor Whitmer's Executive Order to wear masks.

[moreland01]

26. Home Depot

Both of our Home Depot's in Fort Collins have had Covid outbreaks. The stores don't close down. It's business as usual with the maskless masses. We just go to our very diligent Ace Hardware nearby.

[Cozmo]

27. BOYCOTT HOME DEPOT, GOD DAMMIT

This corporation is a major tRump donor, pulease!

[Tribetime]

35. Yes 👍

It's just kind of hard cuz I do plumbing work and they're the closest one almost all the time but I guess I'll have to go farther

[dware]

53. Nope, not gonna do it.

For one, I deliver to HD up and down the I-5 corridor, and, my daughter is a mid level manager at a HD, her HD does a pretty good job of enforcing the Gov. mandate that masks must be worn in public places, they also limit the number of customers in the store at one time.

Most of the HD's I deliver to are complying with the mask mandate.

[Meowmee]

48. Report it to hd corporate management

Take photos and report it to the local & state health boards, post it on their fb page, publicize it anyway you can. If it is that bad I would just stay away from the offenders or don’t go there anymore. Let them know they have lost your biz because the store is not safe.

Since all of this began I have only shopped once at Lowes during a power failure. Everyone there was masked. One employee outside had the mask under her nose, otherwise it was ok. Wear kn95 and goggles and gloves to protect yourself.

[Tribetime]

49. Thank you 😁 I should go to Lowe's

[Meowmee]

50. Yw😊

I don’t know if their politics are any better but at least mine seemed to be following the mask policy.