October 19, 2008

HDTV - Long story short (too late), I wound up recommending A&B Hatchery to the lady on the phone. Andrew from the Front End helped me out in garden. He's a good guy. The atmosphere around here can be an awful lot like high school. A lot of double talking and gossip. And a lot of drill sergeants. Merchandising Manager Branden is a good example of this. One minute he's cool, a friend to the working man, the next moment he can be a dick. That's how youth and power usually work (he's only 25). He also has a militaristic air about him. Either he comes from a military family or he himself has done some service. That's my theory (turns out, it is a sound theory. I bet the Army positioned him at the Home Depot, and he worked up to a managerial job).

There are quite a few characters around this place. Charles, the plumbing and paint department head, is a tall, slightly scary looking teddy bear of a man. His eccentricities are so well hidden beneath his aesthetic demeanor that you would never guess otherwise. He has a 'prison tattoo' on his left hand that he got in the Army. Again - you'd have never guessed otherwise.
Earl in electrical is easily summed up. He is one of the few Depot experts as a licensed electrician, but the poor guy's worldly knowledge seems to stop at 1972. He is an old man in a young person's world.
Then there's the janitor, who's name I think is John. He seems like a lonely guy; smart enough, but stuck in a career that offers no real advancement, socially or fiscally, and surrounded by people he can't relate to in a work environment he doesn't click with. He talks to himself quite a bit, and tries to talk to others, but they disregard him or simply chuckle politely.
Yous don't knows snakes from dildos. What a world.