Best & Worst: Bob Nardelli builds himself a fat pay plan at Home Depot

I know it might sound crazy but bring back Bernie and Arthur to fix Home Depot.
Having the new ceo a Bob Nardelli pick won't fix the problem, you need people who know the DIY business
and know how to treat people.

Bernie and Arthur please help.

Reading about the decadent payout the CEO of Home Depot received......is just another example of this administrations' plan to eliminate the middle class......I know of a hardworking.....dedicated young husband and father.....As I'm sure you all do...... who is trying desperately to make a home for his wife and children here on Long Island and cannot make ends meet on the capped salary he earns at Home Depot...no overtime ever....and he's at the company's beck and call....and the government does nothing about these injusticies......yes....a ceo should make more but not all the company's profits should go into his pocket...the employees should get a share that enables them to support their families....Shameful!!!!! Is everyone in this country asleep?

It is sad to see once again how corporations release a CEO of a retail store with a big payday.As an employye of HD for a short time (9 months) I can hear, see and agree that the practice of the "employee" has changed since the arrival of Bob Nardelli.If you first started wih HD in the beginning stages it was known to be a great place to work and as a customer a great opportunity to shop at the HD.Since then, it has declined at a steady place under Nardelli and employees expressed as a greed. Employees were losing the battle to become better, knowledgeable and most of all to become the customers friend. Employees are also on the front lines with the customer and try to give that 110% but not be rewarded for it or maybe receive that .25 cents for a year increase per hour. How can we be effective if HD cannot keep up with the times and lets us enjoy working for the HD. HD has a new life now and should revisit how it did business and valued the employee with incentives for merit. If you do this, old customers will return plus Lowes will have to worry once again.

I hear you all loud and clear. I left the company almost two years ago. I was a Store Manager who finally had it with the BS. I worked really hard, spending at least 80 hrs a week at the store and way more during the summer. I had always received great reviews and my DM had me in training to move up. They split up our District and we got some idiot DM who followed big Bob to the T. He told me to cut my hours and get rid of my overpaid talent. Hire in new people within the PAY RANGE!!!!! One of my DH overheard him yelling at me to phase out all my DH's. 3 months after receiving a top notch review, 7% pay increase, and put in training to move up!!!! This new DM puts me on a BS 90 Day Improve or Remove and tells me he will make sure that I am removed. I dropped my keys and told him to improve it himself. Within a Month 2 other seasoned Store Managers had resigned and left. The new DM said that his how BOB does it. His excuse for all of this was that we were giving associates too much and following the weekly plans sent out and the monthly books sent out. I tried to run it like we always did, if you do it, you own it. You take pride in it. You push it. I didn't want mindless robots!!!! I wanted people who wanted to be there with me, having fun and driving sales. Making friends with associates and customers. Not the Nardelli Way!!!

I was a key carrier and DH for one of the Expo stores in So. California. Everything said above is soooo true. Nardeli cut and cut while piling on the work. We had to make reports on the reports we were reporting on. The last straw for me was when they began the Store Leadership Program of bringing in ex military with no retail experiance and promoting them over the long term staff because Nardeli thought being a trained killer taught them leadership. My store Manager and ASM were all replaced within a couple months and it was clear I was no longer welcome in the store I helped establish. when word of his compensation came out last year it was a huge blow to moral, people strugled to make a living while the top brass grew wealthy. So sad!

Home Depot is terrible, I have walked out on a number of occasions due to the lack of customer service. My neighbor works for them but shops at Lowe's. I can understand why the customer service stinks-the employees are treated like dirt and I guess it's just a trickle down to the customers. My big complaint is that although I am a huge Tony Stewart fan I have been disgusted recently that he is dating a PR person from Home Depot. She was married for many months while he hid her at various events and then tried to introduce her like she was someone new. I am sickened that Home Depot would condone the whole thing and can't believe that she supposedly still has a job and that he still drives the Home Depot Chevrolet. I wonder if things will change once a new CEO comes aboard. I doubt it, because the whole company is morally bankrupt.