Calls to Boycott Home Depot after Black worker fired after verbal attack from Trump supporter

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    My take: At least twice a month I have to professional deal with a white male or female cursing me the hell out. I have multiple options but none include me verbally defending myself with threats or cursing them the hell back out. Get a manager and let them know a man is trespassing and threatening you. Have security escort him out or the police will. As a matter of fact, back in November of 2016, my 1st client after I finished training was a Trump supporter who needed my services but couldn't contain himself because Trump had won the election a few weeks prior. If I had said one thing to this good-ole-boy that could've possibly escalated the situation; that would have been my last day as an employee.

    At first thought, I felt Home Depot could've given the 60 yr old a warning but he technically threatened a customer even though the customer absolutely needed his ass whipped. I'm almost positive this type of behavior is prohibited and the employee signed legally binding paperwork with HR to that effect when he was hired. Nonetheless I can't help but wonder if the employee was white, would Home Depot have fired him? So should folk boycott Home Depot? Imma get some Black folk together and we're gonna discuss it at Waffle House.

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    A Home Depot in Albany allegedly fired a black man after a racist Trump supporter hurled abusive racial slurs at him.

    The Times-Union reports that Maurice Rucker, 60-year-old black man, was let go from a job he’s held for 10 years—making $13 an hour—because he politely asked a customer to leash his dog in the store.

    “I said to him, “Sir, when you have your dog in here we prefer that you keep it on a leash,'” according to the Times-Union.

    He turned around and said, ‘F**k you. You’re an a*****e you’re a piece of s**t,'” Rucker said.

    He says, ‘If Trump wasn’t president, you wouldn’t even have a job.’ He said, ‘You’re from the ghetto, what do you know?'”

    “I’ve lived all over the country and I’ve had no one talk to me the way that this guy talked to me,” said Rucker.

    After the relentless barrage of insults, Rucker shot back.

    “‘You’re lucky I’m at work, because if I wasn’t, this wouldn’t be happening, or you wouldn’t be talking to me like this,'” Rucker told the Times Union.

    Home Depot, which had not given Rucker a sizable raise during his decade of service, told the paper that they were sorry their employee was subject to racist abuse, but that he was nevertheless in the wrong.

    “The problem here is that he had several opportunities to disengage and contact management to deal with the customer. We’re appalled by this customer’s behavior, but we also must require associates to follow proper protocol to defuse a situation for the sake of their safety and the safety of other associates and customers,” a spokesperson for Home Depot said.

    Craig Menear, the current CEO of Home Depot, made $11,641,012 in 2017 according to SEC filings.

    Home Depot fires 60-year-old black man after Trump supporter screams racist abuse at him
     
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    As a "customer facing" employee, I know how to deal with this. I can't cuss you out but I don't have to stay and listen. I would have called security and let them deal.

    Now I can't say what may happen when I'm off and you get caught out there in these... Well you know.

    I just wish Black people were not so triggered by this. Every other race's racists use that term on us because they know that it's a likely chance we're going to pop off. They get the reaction they wanted from us and in their minds, it proves their "point "with that Salem Witch Trial logic.
     
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    My phone won't open the article, but I wana know what exactly he said to the racist. Either way, I call bullshit on them firing a 10 year employee, who also happens to be a man of a certain age, for having a human response to being verbally attacked. A white person will fire their own mother w/o any facts just to save face and/or a dollar.

    For all of the judgement I receive for not working within the confines of a 'traditional 9 to 5', I'm very happy that I don't have to deal w or accept ridiculous standards of treatment such as this. Kudos to those of you who do for maintaining.

    And if black ppl cared enough to boycott anything short of 2018 slavery, and if I had a reason to shop at home depot, I would boycott.
     
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    You'd have to get the Latinos to stand in solidarity for this one.

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    As a former leader with some customer-facing employees, I can understand Home Depot's reasoning for terminating his employment. Employees have the support of management when abusive behavior from customers occur. No company can leave it up to employees to create their own resolutions since we all know some employees have a short fuse and will often misjudge a customer's frustration with aggression. I can't tell you how many times I received escalated complaints from customers, sometimes about the same handful of employees, that resulted in me having to terminate said employees. If this gentleman received training on customer deescalation and proper interaction with the public and he signed off as acknowledgement, then he understood that his response to this situation was against policy. The company can't let these things slide as everyone will want the same courtesy to respond in like fashion.

    I don't shop at Home Depot so there is no boycotting on my end. I will point out that companies have been firing white employees left and right recently for their interactions with black customers. CVS just went through this same thing.
     
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    FWIW, Lowes doesn't like The Gays. Soooo ...yeah. Lol

    People just gonna have to to choose their devils. But if there's some locally owned hardware stores that are cool with gays and blacks there you go.
     
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    Well this. Social media retribution being what it is, bruh man might receive some relief if this gains traction (I have to admit that The Root is good at getting people nationally riled up over this type of thing).

    That being said, yeah, we have to teach our folk when and how to fight battles, and have an understanding of the legal framework they labor under. One of the best instances I saw of this was a black employee on one of those pawn shop shows who upped the ante with an angry, bitchy female customer by returning insults with compliments. It was hilarious to see sister keep a straight face saying calm things like “ your hairstyle is lovely” and crazy bitch customer raving “fuckyous” and stream of cursing consciousness.

    I didn’t know Lowe’s was on the Chik-fil-a, Hobby Lobby tip. May have to cancel my account with them...
     
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    Yea... the big difference between the coupon carls and pool patrol paulas getting fired is that THEY were the aggressors. This black man was, based on the tone of the article, verbally attacked for trying to enforce HIS EMPLOYER'S in store dog policy.
     
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    Ottis got his job back...let the church say amen

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