That situation doesn't exist outside my Home Depot, mostly because the Home Depot near my house is in an island of gentrified Oakland/Emeryville surrounded by slums filled with drug dealers and hookers, and it's kept that way with a dedicated security team.
That said, do you find that Home Depot employees tend to assume that the male-est person you're there with is the one with all the questions that need answering? That drives me crazy, too, though obviously it isn't violating to the same degree. I'm actually more mechanically minded than 70% of the dudes I live with, but if I go to Home Depot with a dude, I can't get a Home Depot employee to address me. Drives me MAD, and makes me less interested in shopping there.
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Date: 2010-09-16 03:50 pm (UTC)That said, do you find that Home Depot employees tend to assume that the male-est person you're there with is the one with all the questions that need answering? That drives me crazy, too, though obviously it isn't violating to the same degree. I'm actually more mechanically minded than 70% of the dudes I live with, but if I go to Home Depot with a dude, I can't get a Home Depot employee to address me. Drives me MAD, and makes me less interested in shopping there.