HOME DEPOT, Inc. (NY:HD)

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Nov 19, 2009 04:43 PM Home Depot (HD) Declares $0.225 Quarterly Dividend; 3.3% Yield

Nov 17, 2009 01:52 PM Notable Midday ETF Movers 11/17: UUP, KRE, USO Higher; EWT, XRT Lower

Nov 17, 2009 08:17 AM Home Depot (HD) Earnings Drop, But Top Wall Street Views

Nov 17, 2009 06:49 AM Home Depot (HD) Tops Q3 EPS by 5c; Updates Guidance Above Street Views

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Nov 19, 2009 04:38PM The Home Depot Declares Third Quarter Dividend of 22.5 Cents

Nov 17, 2009 06:00AM The Home Depot Announces Third Quarter Results; Updates Fiscal Year 2009 Guidance

Nov 6, 2009 09:30AM The Home Depot Pays Tribute To Military Personnel by Offering a 10 Percent Veteran's Day Weekend Discount

Nov 3, 2009 08:30AM The Home Depot to Host Third Quarter 2009 Earnings Conference Call on November 17, 2009

Oct 23, 2009 09:00AM The Home Depot to Expand Its Recycling Efforts With Christmas Light and Power Drill Exchange

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Nov 20, 2009 05:27 AM RIP: Retail Stores Closed in 2009

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Nov 18, 2009 02:57 PM The Home Depot, Inc.Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript

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Gina
on Nov 16, 2009
at 09:31 PM Darn it!! I missed the recycling by 1 day!! This needs to be advertised more.
Article: The Home Depot to Expand Its Recycling Efforts With Christmas Light and Power Drill Exchange

michael mchugh
on Aug 26, 2009
at 04:07 PM treatment of employees hd employees are treated like property. They are forcer to wear all kind of badges and other CO advertizing.It is totally degrading to employees.
Article: Jesup & Lamont Initiates Coverage on Home Depot (HD) with a Hold

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on Jun 15, 2009
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on Jun 5, 2009
at 07:39 AM Relational Investors Discloses Hidden Stakes in Plantronics (PLAB) ... PLAB = Photronics (not Plantronics)
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Thomas J Maslar
on May 27, 2009
at 12:59 PM HD I have been following HD since Cramer was Bullish back in the fall of 2007 touting it will soon go to 40 he did the same for Lowe's when it was at 29 in 2007 glad I got out. Cramer is usually wrong more then he is right. In Jan 2007 up until August when he sold his Position On Toyoto Motors he spent weveral of his MadMoney shows hypeing on the stock as the best value play, His comment "you can buy this one and forger about homework, just put it away" it was around 132 then. Cramer is full of hype just to keep his show going for those who still believe in him.
Article: Cramer Continues To Load Up On Home Depot (HD)

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X-Depot
at Jan 26, 2009 08:13 AM Ethics, NO Home at the Depot! Ethics, NO Home at the Depot! Home Depot is out of stock when it comes to the ethical treatment of employees. Home Depot over the past year or so has been under fire for unsafe and illegal workmanship from its "At Home Services" division, sending known sex offenders to people’s homes to perform services, improper handling of hazardous waste and declining overall customer service ratings has recently come under fire regarding its hiring practices and unethical, retaliatory and discriminatory treatment of employees. On numerous occasions managers have lied to prospective employees, inflated potential earnings and advancement opportunities and covered up such misdeeds with intimidation and threats of termination. Managers would tell prospective employees what they want to hear just to get “aprons on the floor”. Home Depot publicly claims to treat all employees fairly and with respect touting its “Core Values” and “Code of Ethics” all the while operating in a manner largely foreign to these two codes. Employees are required to wear a wheel-shaped embroidered badge attached to their trademark orange aprons promoting the Home Depot “Core Values”. It is referenced on Home Depot’s website and in the company’s annual report which is sent to stockholders and potential investors stating how Home Depot treats all employees fairly and with respect. However when you speak to the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of employees who have experienced less than fair treatment at the hands of Home Depot’s management, you find the “Code of Ethics” and “Core Values” are nothing more than a marketing ploy. Posted online, printed in literature, displayed on large posters in the employee lounges and virtually stapled to the aprons of the workforce, the “Core Values” are everywhere except in the actual day to day running of the company. A former Home Depot employee, terminated in August of 2007, has documented his twenty plus months of employment with Home Depot as a trip through hell. From day one he was lied to only to have the lies covered up with threats, sham investigations, intimidation and wrongful termination. To date he has spent numerous hours to clear his name and has filed a lawsuit against Home Depot to hold them accountable for their unethical and abusive treatment. The suit alleges the Plaintiff, a former employee of Home Depot Store #0257 in St. Petersburg, FL, had been subjected to harassment, threats, retaliation, and wrongful termination while employed by the Defendant. Federal Case # 8:2008cv01878 Plaintiff alleges the Defendant(s) demonstrated a pattern of abuse and retaliation that spanned the period of time during which the Plaintiff was employed by the Defendant. The Plaintiff has assembled a significant amount of evidence in support of his claim that these were deliberate actions and not a case of an isolated 'misstep' by a rogue manager having a 'bad day'. At present the case implicates numerous members of management including Store Managers, Human Resources Managers, District Store and Human Resources Managers, Regional Human Resources Managers, Employment Practices Manager and CEO/Chairman of the Board Francis S. Blake, (others may be named upon discovery). Home Depot states in its Affirmative Defenses: “If any improper, illegal or retaliatory act was taken by any Home Depot employee against Plaintiff, it was outside the course and scope of employee’s employment, contrary to Home Depot policies, and was not ratified, confirmed, or approved by Home Depot. Thus, any such actions cannot be attributed or imputed to Home Depot.” “Any improper, illegal or retaliatory actions by any Home Depot employees were independent, intervening and unforeseeable acts that were not ratified, confirmed, or approved by Home Depot and thus cannot be attributed or imputed to Home Depot.” “Home Depot did not have actual or constructive knowledge of any of the alleged retaliatory acts alleged in Plaintiff’s Amended Complaint at any time material to his Amended Complaint.” Plaintiff asserts the multitude of evidence will prove it was in fact several unethical acts committed by many managers over a sustained period of time and all incidents were reported numerous times to human resources, store management and upper management. This was a deliberate pattern of abuse, harassment and retaliation that was all fully known by management from store level up to and including the CEO/Chairman of the Board as is documented in the numerous e-mails between the Plaintiff and Francis S. Blake, CEO and Chairman of the Board, Home Depot U.S.A., Inc. Evidence including the above referenced e-mails, employer documents, government documents, medical documents, forged documents, recordings and schedules will demonstrate a clear pattern of abuses resulting in harassment, sham investigations, cover-ups, retaliation and wrongful termination. It is suspected the Defendant(s) committed other civil wrongs or illegal activities relevant to this case. Said suspected wrongs are expected to be uncovered during the discovery phase of the case which is expected to include the serving of a Subpoena on several members of Home Depot management including the CEO and Chairman of the Board, Francis S. Blake. Other issues plaguing Home Depot employees include cover-ups regarding flagrantly flawed tracking of employee performance, inequity in rewards and scheduling practices, unfair application of a disciplinary attendance “point system”, retaliation, harassment and discrimination. Additionally, hardworking, dedicated employees are subjected to a hostile work environment fostered by store management and unchallenged by upper management up to and including CEO/Chairman of the Board Francis S. Blake. Home Depot’s hollow promise of ethical treatment for all employees misleads potential employees into thinking they will get a fair deal if they accept a position at Home Depot. These empty promises mislead employees, investors and customers by talking the talk of ethics without actually walking the walk. Although Home Depot maintains it’s position as a “work at will” company, it’s aggressive and public representation as a company that cares about it’s workforce and it’s public promotion that it maintains and upholds a “Code of Ethics” does potentially create an implied employment contract. At the very least, Home Depot’s promise of ethical treatment creates an expectation by employees, or prospective employees, that they will be treated fairly and they will be allowed to do their jobs without fear of harassment, retaliation or wrongful termination should they choose to believe the soon to be proven lies of Home Depot's “Code of Ethics”, “Core Values” and “No Retaliation Policy". Copyright 01/25/2009 Robert E. Blatchford Nonexclusive Rights are hereby granted for publication and/or broadcast of all or part of this article provided the author, Robert E. Blatchford is credited.

current depot manager
at Jan 11, 2009 05:58 AM home depot wrought with fraud. This case is the tip of the iceberg. This company is stinking of fraud and illegalities concerning employees, customers, and vendors. The good ol boy system is crumbling around them. I can hear HR and CFO shredding paper right now!!! This co does not know which hand is doing what. Let the games begin.Consumers should start w/ WAS / NOW pricing scams, stockholders w/ material mistatements in earnings, and employees w/ well... they know... a litany of EEOC and Labor violations. Paper trails are a bugger but email will bring you down HD.

another victim
at Dec 25, 2008 12:51 AM discrimination Same thing almost everyday. Harrassment, verbal assaults, unfair treatment, discrimination in ma.store.

Another victim
at Dec 19, 2008 10:02 AM me too I have roots going back with this company and actually give a dam about it. But due to a misunderstanding between myself and another person I am also being retaliated against by this company on what appears to be a pretty big scale. I don't want to sue them at all, but they don't seem to want to back off so it may just go that way.

X-Depot
at Oct 20, 2008 08:17 PM UPDATE - Home Depot CEO, Francis S. Blake Implicated in Employee Abuse and Retaliation Lawsuit Home Depot CEO, Francis S. Blake Implicated in Employee Abuse and Retaliation Lawsuit A lawsuit, case # 08-5833-CI-019, filed by Plaintiff, Robert E. Blatchford, April 22, 2008 in the Sixth Judicial Circuit Court of Pinellas County Florida has been moved by the Defendant, Home Depot, U.S.A., Inc. to Florida Middle Federal District Court in Tampa, FL September 19, 2008, Federal Case # 8:2008cv01878. The suit alleges the Plaintiff, a former employee of Home Depot Store #0257 in St. Petersburg, FL, had been subjected to harassment, threats, retaliation, and wrongful termination while employed by the Defendant. At present the case implicates numerous members of management including Store Managers, Human Resources Managers, District Store and Human Resources Managers, Regional Human Resources Managers, Employment Practices Manager and CEO/Chairman of the Board Francis S. Blake, (others may be named upon discovery). The Plaintiff alleges the Defendant(s) demonstrated a pattern of abuse, cover up and retaliation that spanned the period of time during which the Plaintiff was employed by the Defendant(s). The Plaintiff, and his council St. Petersburg Attorneys Sparkman and Sparkman, have assembled a significant amount of evidence in support of their claim that these were deliberate actions and not a case of an isolated 'misstep' by a rogue manager having a 'bad day'. Evidence including employer documents, government documents, medical documents, schedules, recordings and numerous e-mails exchanged between the Plaintiff and upper management including CEO/Chairman of the Board Francis S. Blake will demonstrate a clear pattern of abuses, sham investigations and cover-ups resulting in harassment, retaliation and wrongful termination. It is suspected the Defendant(s) committed other civil wrongs or illegal activities relevant to this case. Said suspected wrongs will be revealed upon the discovery phase of the case which is expected to include the serving of a Subpoena on several members of Home Depot management including the CEO and Chairman of the Board, Francis S. Blake.

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