Stay away from Corporate Office unless you like living in fear - Anonymous employee The Home Depot Employee Review

The challenging part about working for home depot corporate office is that you will find yourself getting caught up in a lot of catch 22's with unwritten and unspoken rules that are terminable offenses. You will be faced with decisions about something or other that you need to do and have no one to give you guidance because they do not tell you everything on purpose. They like to keep people in the dark so they can control you. Once you make that decision, it's 50/50 as to whether you did the right thing. And it's just a matter of the time of year as to whether or not you actually get fired. How they are doing in their budget at the time is the primary thing they consider when letting people go. HD Corporate is notorious for their mass layoffs. If you notice, most people at HD get laid off in droves. Rarely do you get the one-offs. It happens, but mostly they lay off according to budget. It doesn't help your cause to be one of the top earners either, because you will become their primary target. Supervisors will dig through your phone calls, emails, notes, ask other associates about you and do what they have to do to find something you did wrong at some point so they can fire you. And the worst part is, it doesn't even have to be something that is a written rule and they don't have to have warned you about it. It can be your first offense and it can just be something they view as wrong in some way or another. Next thing you know, poof, you're gone. Trust me, it happened to me and many many many other people I know personally that worked in my department and throughout corporate HD. I'm telling you now, you will never feel safe working for Home Depot Corporate Office. You will never feel like you have a job the next day. You will go in every single day feeling like today could be your last day. Even if you ask your manager or supervisor how you are doing they will just tell you you are doing fine while going behind your back to HR to tell them about something you did. I'm warning you, you will not be able to decipher by your supervisor's or manager's demeanor if you have done something wrong. They will not let you know in your annual review. You will find out what you did the day you get fired and there is absolutely no recourse available to you, because GA is an at-will state. On top of it all, they will fight like cats and dogs to try to keep you from getting unemployment.