fraternization policies

Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Posts: 1 Location: Nevada

Does anyone know exactly what the companies policies are when it comes to couples in relationships or family working together? In our store alone, we have siblings working together, parents and children, boyfriends and girlfriends, department managers dating other DM's, 2 other DM's are getting married, one of which is leaving our store after she completes her MTP, but her fiance started out as her team leader, then was promoted to a DM in another zone. We had a zone mgr get caught w/ a head cashier and now he is our Ops Mgr and she is a DM. Our Store Mgr is married to a zone Mgr at another store, do you think that's why she is so tolerant of this? I do have to ad, all of these associates are truly professional about the jobs they do and don't let the relationships interfere, you could not walk into our store and figure out who's with who unless someone tells you, but WOW... a little too close for comfort. My mgr is the one who is engaged to the other DM and she is the greatest, I have worked in this store since opening day 4 years ago and she transfered in about a year ago and she has ran circles around all previous managers we have had and i can truly say because of her I look foward to going to work and, so does the rest of the front end but we don't want too see her end up in another store because of her personal life, which is totally kept out of the store. Smile

We would love to see her as one of our zone mgrs, she knows how to boost morale and ad enthusiasm to any situation.

Joined: 14 Apr 2005 Posts: 3

as far as i knew you could date someone as long as you had no direct power over them (i.e. teamleader and csa, dm and teamleader, zm and dm, so on and so forth) as far as being married you can marrie another employee that works for lowes as long as they worked in another store. my lps wife is the hm it another store. now thats what i was told.

Joined: 13 Mar 2005 Posts: 9 Location: Maryland

In our store its the same way. We actually have a mother in paint and her 2 kids work in lumber and as a cashier. We have a cashier dating the garden dm. We have an install sales associate married to an garden associate. Another lumber associate is married to a customer service desk associate. It affects the store in no way, all of our coworkers are mature about the whole thing and i think its wonderful. Our store manager doesn't care about any of this. What matters to him is running a store with reliable, hardworking, and happy associates. And for all them and most of the others in the store, thats what we have.

Joined: 14 Apr 2005 Posts: 3

i wish our store manager was that easy goin about it. he got rid of a guy because his son-in-law is a zone manager. then he fired on guy because his brother worked there and was going to become a zone manager. but he's cusions with a gut in flooring. and if you do date anybody for work you have to sneek around a bit. its like my department manager, she's dateing a guy in lumber but because shes a department manager and hes a team leader they have to watch how they go about things. it not right. the only "GOOD" thing i have heard about HOME DEPOT is that they have no policies about this kind of stuff. so that what i have to say

Joined: 07 Jul 2003 Posts: 95

It seems that most of the time, people with relationships with others in the store think that they can handle it, and that it doesn't affect anyone else. But this is rarely true. As far as people acting professional about it, by openly violating a policy, they are telling others: which policy we choose to follow and which we don't is a personal choice, and that seems far from professional.

Joined: 17 May 2005 Posts: 5

Joined: 22 Apr 2005 Posts: 22

We were told many times by our HR to end the relationship, transfer to another store, find work elsewere, else be terminated.

I believe i would of told Ms. HR to take a flying *uck and the both of you should of quit w/o 2 week notice. Who cares if Home Depot does not consider you rehirable w/o 2 weeks notice. If you go to Lowes you are automatically escorted to the door and you are not rehireable, so instead of burning the bridge burn the whole town!

Joined: 07 Aug 2005 Posts: 3

I used to dip it in my ZM about once a week when we first started, then she went to a different store. A few people knew what was going on, but they never gave us any problems. We kept it out of the work place unless the store was closing. Then there was this other girl....

anyway, you might as well say that I worked in the "plumbing department" because I was always laying pipe. Smile

They don't get to tell me who I can date for that little money. Thumbs Up

Joined: 12 Aug 2005 Posts: 4

I am a recently new employee of lowes. About two weeks after I was hired, the HM hired my husband at the same store. Even though she had our marriage papers and all the basic info was the same, somehow she didn't catch it. He was made to transfer to the next closest store. We were told that married couples can't work at the same store. Yet, I don't understand some of the reasons they gave as to why. Like for instance one reason was because if a family emergency arised, they would not only lose one person but both would call out. The thing is with that, so many mother/daughter, father/daughter, sister/brother, combinations work there to the same affect. While I can understand in some instances where it could be a problems and I guess making that rule prevents any problem that could arise. I still think it is a stupid rule.

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