A funny thing happened at Home Depot: A young man buys a drill press.

Grrrr Joe!! Grrrreat review!

-- Rob (A) Waxahachie,TX

Which store is Joe at. So I can go to a different one and get a different Joe.

-- I've been blessed with a father who liked to tinker in wood, and a wife who lets me tinker in wood. Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

Burbank, CA

-- -John "Do I have to keep typing a smiley? Just assume it's a joke." www.flickr.com/photos/gizmodyne

Sounds like Joe had a little drain bamage.

-- Gary - Never pass up the opportunity to make a mistake look like you planned it that way - Tyler, TX

Actually, Employee of the year.

-- -John "Do I have to keep typing a smiley? Just assume it's a joke." www.flickr.com/photos/gizmodyne

It’s a wonder that they are able to sell anything, other than they have can offer tools at an attractive price and in some locations are the only game in town.

I suppose another way at looking at it, if you order a tool over the internet, you may end up waiting a week or more rather than an uncomfortable two hours it took Joe to get the drill press down for John.

Dalec

Fun review – can you turn this episode into a comic?

-- Dorje (pronounced "door-jay"), Seattle, WA

was so much easier when we could just grab the ladder and help ourselves.

Our Big Boxes seem so overstaffed and it’s a hunt to find the people who can actually help you…. Which does happen once in a while. Usually I end up knowing more about what I’m looking for than whoever happens by.

There are 3 Big Orange Boxes nearby (and a couple others that are an hour round trip or less (Not counting time in the store!) and they all are so different inside. (Not to mention the Blue Box a mile away from the Orange one (just got a second one!), one can find certain items in electrical or plumbing, but never both. So frustrating to have to be a frequent patron of a store so we can keep tabs on their layout, which is faster than finding our Joe (who needs someone else to point us to the watchamacallit.)

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Van Gogh -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

My Home Depot has many too many Joe’s, I go elsewhere if at all possible….....

-- EPJ,Calif

The nearest HD to me is actually pretty good. I have suffered none of this type of horror story. I still don’t go there all that often, however.

typical corporate mentality, joe dosent care if h d likes him or not , he can go right across the street and get as good or maybe better job at macdonalds . you want fries with that ??

at our Rona store (Canadian Big Box store) we’ve been very fortunate to have received help (quickly) and with good advice! Wow.. they actual hire people who know what they are talking about. I’ll keep my eyes open for “Joe” though.

Overall.. a good review.. it does what it is supposed to do. Do we really need more than that????

And it’s a Ridgid, so the warranty is good!

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Home Depot is really hit and miss with customer service. I try to go to the local hardware store as much as possible.

-- -John "Do I have to keep typing a smiley? Just assume it's a joke." www.flickr.com/photos/gizmodyne

Good story, good purchase, good for you. (Good my name isn’t Joe)

-- -- I'm no rocket surgeon

Dude, I’m surprised you can roll it on casters. I mean it weighs, like 500 pounds!
I second the comix idea… “Gizmodyne is assimilated by the BORG (resistance is futile).

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.