Word: depotism
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...went home, back to L.A. My parents were thrilled to see me,” Eric says, his voice saturated with sarcasm. “I had to get that job, so in a stroke of creativity I went to the local Home Depot and signed up for the lowest-rung position they had.” The work Eric undertook was anything but glamorous. “When the toilet overflowed in the bathroom, they’d send me to mop up the shit...
Eric’s time in the aisles of Home Depot translated to a huge impact on his current Harvard lifestyle. “There’s a really condescending tendency among Harvard students to kind of deify the working class, but there was a certain genuine-ness that I found. Eventually it got out that I went to Harvard, and within the store I had a dozen mothers—‘when you going back to school?’ a guy who would stop me and talk to me about Shakespeare in the break room...
...They just let me rot." BOB DOUGHERTY, Home Depot patron in Boulder, Colorado, on suing the company after store employees waited 15 minutes to respond to his cries for help?which they believed to be a hoax?in getting unstuck from a restroom toilet seat someone had smeared with glue
...McGoldrick, 30, and his partner of 10 years, Joseph Sacco, 29, know what it was like before the closet revolution and have all the fervor of the converted. In their previous apartment the master-bedroom closet was wedged between two walls and outfitted with wire-mesh shelving from Home Depot. "Our clothes were crushed together," says McGoldrick, a sales representative for a carpet company. In their new $915,000 apartment in Chicago, the couple spent $20,000 to upgrade all six of their closets. Of that amount, $11,000 went toward a 9-ft. by 9-ft. master closet...
...Miller expects the somnolent stock market to revive. Among the companies he thinks will benefit are banking behemoths like J.P. Morgan Chase and Citigroup. He's also wagering that Internet company Expedia will profit from increased online travel bookings and that other consumer plays, like Sears Holdings and Home Depot, will rebound as concerns over high fuel costs fade...