Home Depot or Lowe's......?

[Vincerama2]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8177361#post8177361 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by RichConley
honestly, you deserved to be yelled at. He wasnt being rude, you were. He told you what it was, and you said flat out that you didnt believe him. Why would you expect him to treat you civilly when you showed a complete and utter disrespect to him.



(FWIW, 5/8 and 3/4 is pretty easy to distinguish visually)

Yes, I deserved to be yelled at for completely and utterly disrespecting him. I'm a bastard for asking the guy to check more thoroughly than glancing at it, and for doubting his ability to measure tubing with his eye at a distance of 3 feet. After I got frustrated with him and dug though the shelves to finally find an identical piece with the label on it and confriming that he was WRONG should have bought the wrong peice of tubing anyway, since doing otherwise would have been insulting him.
The manager must have been lying too when he told my wife and I that he's had other complaints about that employee from other customers. Poor guy has so many rude costumers approaching him asking him questions about the things in his department.

Oh, and I forgot that since YOU can easily visually distinguish between 5/8 and 3/4 tubing, then I should have been able to as well. Oops. I'm a jerk for not building up my visual measurement skills before going to the store.

V

 

[hahnmeister]

Children, behave!

 

[latazyo]

menards is aweomse, I wish we had one down here

 

[Vincerama2]

Sorry, knee jerk reaction...

V

 

[djyox]

I can distinguish 1/4" from 3/4"

I bet I could feel the difference too....

 

[RichConley]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8179896#post8179896 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Vincerama2
Yes, I deserved to be yelled at for completely and utterly disrespecting him. I'm a bastard for asking the guy to check more thoroughly than glancing at it, and for doubting his ability to measure tubing with his eye at a distance of 3 feet. After I got frustrated with him and dug though the shelves to finally find an identical piece with the label on it and confriming that he was WRONG should have bought the wrong peice of tubing anyway, since doing otherwise would have been insulting him.
The manager must have been lying too when he told my wife and I that he's had other complaints about that employee from other customers. Poor guy has so many rude costumers approaching him asking him questions about the things in his department.

Oh, and I forgot that since YOU can easily visually distinguish between 5/8 and 3/4 tubing, then I should have been able to as well. Oops. I'm a jerk for not building up my visual measurement skills before going to the store.

V

The guy works with plumbing for a living. He told you what the plumbing was, and you said "I dont believe you. You have no clue what you're talking about." To say that he can't distinguish between 5/8ths and 3/4, is like telling a mechanic that he doesnt know how to change oil. (whether or not he does, its still rude)

"The manager must have been lying too when he told my wife and I that he's had other complaints about that employee from other customers"

Have you ever been a manager in a service job? Thats basically your job, to tell the customer that everything theyre doing is correct, and its the employees fault, yada yada yada.

 

[gman19]

Depends on what I am shopping for, but Lowe's always is my first stop.

 

[exoticaquatix]

im not sure i could get by without either but recently ive been liking Lowes, they have Sch 80 plubing for cheaper than home depots sch 40 (limited sizes tho)
-nick