"KCnRichmond" wrote in message
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"me" wrote in message
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"wayne crimi" wrote in
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Recently the Wall St Journal ran an article about Home Depot training
7000 of its garden center workers to be "nursery consultants" via an
online course. Does anyone have information on that course, how I can
take it etc.....?



I am a home depo "nursery consultant" and the online training is at the
stores. In a nutshell its 4 hours of computer training on the proper
way
to care for plants and their needs. ITs very generalized and really has
very little value as learning about plants. Its a gimmick to bring in
customers. Lowes does the same thing, BTW.


......If you took the class that was 4 hrs, you are not the
consultant.....The Hort Specialist position requires a 16 hr session(8- 2
hr classes) in which you are moved from sales assoc to hort specialist
with
a new pay ceiling......
BTW the class is ALL ZONE 9-10 crapola.....You cant pass the classes
unless
you can put all the questions in relation with Atlanta & surrounding
areas......I'm in 7a..What do I care what is in Atlanta....It was a hell
of
a ride but I got-er-done last March 2004.....I'm none the wiser.....My
plants keeling over from time to time is due to the fact that the night
crew
turns off the irrigation so they don't get their fairy asses wet, and the
plants are too stupid to walk to the tap to get water after a 98degree day
or when shipped to us dry so the trucking co can save on the weight...(Wet
plants weigh more than damp plants, thus affecting the shipping) So when
they get to HD or Lowes they are already stressed some and if someone
there
isn't savvy enough to get them watered, then yea, theres your
complaint......The box stores differ from district to district....If your
DM
is a garden freak, then your stores follow suit....If they worked in
lumber
their whole career, then you see landscape timbers all over the parking
lot
and dying plants and poor selections....Give us a break General
Public.....We can't please everyone's interest.....While HD and Lowes are
getting creamed by you-all, no one is noticing that Wal-Mart is sneaking
up
on both of us.........
More to come.....

The Wal-Mart garden center near me a complete mess, as is the rest of the
store. It always looks like a cyclone just struck. Lowe's has consistently
better plants than either HD, Wal-Mart, or K-Mart. I suspect, as you point
out, that the quality of the garden department depends primarily on how
interested management is in that department. I would be afraid to buy any
plants from my HD if I didn't see them being unloaded. I know that anything
on the sales floor has been stresses over and over due to improper care (or
neglect).