Home Depot 'Unpacking Privilege Packet' Leaks, Leading To Expectedly Divided Reactions Online
Home Depot, the construction goods store known for its lengthy aisles and banger theme song, has become the center of controversy after an employee packet on the concept of "privilege" leaked online in a viral tweet.
According to the New York Post, the packet was distributed by Home Depot's Canadian division, though "it hadn’t been approved by the company’s diversity and inclusion department." A spokeswoman told the paper "the information was not officially sanctioned as part of any required companywide training."
The packet outlines some very basic principles about the social concept of "privilege." For example, it notes that believing that police are working to "protect you" is an example of white privilege and that "expecting to have religious holidays off" is an example of "Christian privilege."
It's unclear why the packet was distributed to Home Depot employees and for what purpose. More clear is the reaction on social media, which was extremely divided down political lines, as some right-wing commenters bemoaned the company going "woke" while many left-wing commenters saw it as a positive step — causing the "unpacking privilege packet" to trend on Twitter today.
Home Depot just hit a new low! Lowes is my new go to store. #boycottHomeDepot pic.twitter.com/EN7fcCECP9
— R L W (@MsMtnHm) March 22, 2022
The same group of reactionary people that bought plywood because home depot wasn’t woke or whatever pic.twitter.com/UdNwgex4aX
— Ivory (@ioIetsgo) March 23, 2022
Welcome to the commissariat at Home Depot. How can our capitalist corporations be so blind to their own interests? https://t.co/bEgK2VFcTg
— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) March 21, 2022
As of now, there is no word on if Ben Shapiro will return the plank of wood he bought from Home Depot last year to show his support for the company after it took an apolitical stance on Georgia's Voter ID laws.
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Everything is Terrible
If it bothers you so much just draw a dick on it, or just draw a dick on it even if it doesn't bother you, draw dicks on all the workplace property you can, vandalism is rad!
Kenetic Kups
Yes mr 1%er do go off about privilege
mandrac
Generaly it bother me when a company do virtue signaling but since this is a flyer that only employee are supposed to see i don't think this is an atempt from HD to apear woke to the customer. So yeah whatever i don't care nor feel that my livelyhood is threatened by a flyer in a home depo lunchroom.
Hakajin
I honestly wonder if it's meant to be divisive, to break down solidarity within the workforce. I mean, I'm all about recognizing privilege where I have it, but in a case like this… You're still working at Home Depot. I mean, I'm White and have a college degree, but I had no fucking clue what to do after graduation, and then my family was REALLY struggling. I was working minimum wage at Panera, and… When everyone's struggling, yeah, there is kind of a solidarity there. We also had a common enemy: Panera Bread Co. With the anti-work movement on the rise… I dunno, it just seems a little too well-timed to me.
mandrac
Hum… maybe but that would be some 78D chess move from home depot. Puting a flyer that only some employee will read, of those people only some of them will take offense from it, of those some will report their frustration on their coworkers and of those a few might start a strike or something and only then does the effect of the flyer start to show as some of the people who fell victim to that employee's frustration won't raly him because of that damn flyer incident. I'm prety sure there's better and more effective way to achieve a divided workforce assuming that you actualy want a divided and uncooperative workforce rather than having employees that work well together with the production benefits it entail.
Sumarios
This is actually a very common union busting tactic. Just keep employees aware of their differences rather than their similarities. They will still work together just fine but won't trust each other enough to take a risk like organizing. It goes back over a century and today Amazon very is big on it.
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