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CBS News Has Learned That Four Managers Were Fired For Role In A Multimillion-Dollar Scheme
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- Greed (like love) makes people do stupid things. They ALWAYS get caught. Home Depot is still #1 with me....but Lowes is a close second.
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- lawandorder7, nice display of the lack of good family values. Don't be too surprised when your side loses yet another election.
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- If it resulted in lower prices, where's the crime? Posted by truthspeake2 at 07:07 PM : Jul 31, 2007
Uhhh... by definition, bribery doesn't lower prices. It is an additional cost to the vendor that is unrelated to the cost of manufacturing. Also, a bribe raises prices by potentially locking out a cheaper supplier. - Reply to this comment
- Home Cheapo is not the answer!
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- The reason the FBI is involved is what the story didnt state, the kickbacks were paid by companies owned by the Chinese Government
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- I was an employee of home depot for 3 months, till they fired me for too many points. I was hired knowing that I was a disabled vet and calling off was no problem. Until, the 90 day eval. showed too many points. I didn't want to work for peanuts anyway. Home depot sucks! They hire immigrant managers to save money. If you get hurt on the job, oh well. Don't shop there and it will disappear. Good riddens!
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- What these guy's did was unethical.
Home Depot fired them, end of story.
It's NOT Government's business to get involved.
We are so *** close to becoming communnist's - Reply to this comment
- Everything seems to be "of the utmost importance" to corporations. today it's ethical standards, tomorrow it will be customer privacy and the next it will be safety. what a crock of ***. These companies seem to have a standard template where they fill in the blanks and then release them to the press.
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- Kickbacks only hurt companies, never help. Home Depot stopped vendor gratuities in the early '90s. If the vendors products were any good, they would have already been on the shelf. This plan was to keep other vendors out, not help the consumer. If it was to help the consumer, no kickbacks would have ever been on the table. Glad to know that the new CEO did the right thing and let the axe fall.
I put 12 years of my life into Home Depot, I hate to see stuff like this damage a company that I worked so hard to help build. The day I began work for Home Depot, there were 118 stores and a lot of 'orange blooded employees'. I'd really like to see some 'orange blood' back in the company. - Reply to this comment
- truthspeake2 said, "If it resulted in lower prices, where's the crime?"
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That GOP rationale is offered as pretext for just about anything. Don't any Bush flag wavers understand they are supposed to oppose crime, not become criminals themselves? Of course, we couldn't guess by looking at the huge Bush criminal enterprise occupying the executive office.
The first problem with crime is it defies the rule of law-- the mark of a civilized society. Unlike people who think like criminals, law abiding citizens don't believe civilization is all about money.
Besides, whom do you believe finally ended up paying for the cost of Home Depot bribes and corruption? The consumer, of course. - Reply to this comment
- Kickbacks are unethical, if not illegal; and they don't always, if ever, result in lower prices.
If the products were worthy, why would the manufacturers have to pay millions in kickbacks to get them on the shelves of Home Depot? - Reply to this comment
- If it resulted in lower prices, where's the crime?
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