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I did not get to take the kids to the Depo this weekend since I had to work. Josh took my place when I asked him to and he and the kids both had fun... Thanks Josh. Click on link above to check out the photo album
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If you have a daughter, why are you shopping at Home Depot? Are you aware of how they treat their female employees?
KEN LANGONE ADMITS THAT HD IS GOOD OLD BOY NETWORK IN 2006 DIRECTORSHIP MAGAZINE ARTICLE - FEMALE EMPLOYEE SUES
Search out the suit Sexton v. Lopez et al. in atlanta federal court WHICH INCLUDES HOME DEPOT AS A DEFENDANT.
The crux of the suit is that the lady in the suit and the other female merchant trainee in a 15 person merchant trainee program were only offered jobs which were the
split of a former male's merchant's job at the tiny, 34 store EXPO division, while ALL
the males got "real" 3000+ store jobs, where they could make real money and
had an opp to bonus. 15 people in the program, only 2 women and the women, who had more "experience" than the men, were only offered a
"split" of an "EXPO" male merchant's former job. EXPO closed 20 stores in 2005 and they haven't added any since then. She also claims she was paid less than
the men.
BUT HERE'S THE REALLY INTERESTING PART OF THE STORY!!!!!!
HD Board Director Kenneth Langone ADMITTED that
HD had an "HR function that was the epitome of the good old boy network" in
a 2006 Directorship Magazine article - and this suit points out Langone's
admission. In the article, Langone was trying to list reasons for Bob Nardelli's wild pay package but couldn't come up with any concrete ways that Nardelli changed
the way HR and HD Execs treated women at HD.
Kind of hard to assert that no exec or board member knew HD was discriminating against women with a statement like that by Langone
WHILE Sexton was making internal and external complaints about discrimination, retaliation and harassment in 2005 and 2006.
EVEN MORE INTERESTING IS THAT:
According to the suit, HD's Execs and HR not only continued to discriminate
and retaliate against this woman and other female employees and
CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS! -
allegedly covered up the fact that Lopez, former Business Process
Improvement and Customer Service EVP, pressured the single mother trainee to
? him in his office at the SSC HQ. Lopez was directly responsible for
signing off on this woman trainee's "graduation" from training.
This woman claims in her suit that after she made an internal complaint to HD, HD employees retaliated against her by, among other nasty things, shutting off her office phone for a few weeks, trying to cause her to have a road accident by putting nails into her car tires (in the employee card-controlled parking lot when her child's car seat was in the back of the car) and stopping all of her store's merchandise from being shipped to her stores so that her EXPO business would tank. She says in the suit that she has all of this documented.
This woman is a mid-level merch exec who says that she managed $135M and $55M businesses for HD as a Merchant and not some typical store clerk angry at a slap on the fanny. You can bet if she's a merchant she made over 100K a year and probably wouldn't tank a good job like that for no reason.
My ex employee friends from HD say that after this woman filed her EEOC claim in the summer of 2006 and told the company she was
going to "out" Lopez and the other execs and HR & Merchandising employees for the discrimination, harassment and retaliation,
that other execs, who were rumored to have had their
own "issues" with women employees there left before they could be identified for the same bad behavior. They all got big package deals when they left.
Maybe the mass exodus at
HD's top level, perhaps, and this is just conjecture, is NOT ABOUT BOB - it's about getting the hell out of dodge
before the execs may be caught with their hands in the female rookies' cookie
jars.
My bet is that this woman will be going on a federal court discovery spree to id and out all the jerks at HD who may have supported or did this sort of thing.
Check it out with HD employees, if you can find any who haven't left already, if you don't believe it's true.
Good ol' boy network - that's a good one, Mr. Langone. I sold my stock long ago.
Thank you for your obviously biased comment. Guess what. Every business is a good old boy business, even government. Rants like this do your cause no good. I am leaving it here but should you add any more to any other posts, those will be deleted. You have had your free speech. Go post the rest of your junk on your own blog please.
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