I thought Home Depot employees had the decency to insult customers to their faces, instead of hiding it on a receipt.

Kind or reminds me of these pants I baught for my daughter. I didnt really look to hard at them, but later, I saw that they said "Princess Kinky" on them. I'm saving them to give to her when she grows up.
At least the pants weren't being mean :)

Pfft... HEHE!

I wonder if it's fake? :P Either way, it's priceless

@B - Oh they stopped doing that because they were showing up too much on Consumerist.

People lately seem to be forgetting Rule No. 1: Never ever leave a paper trail. That's rule number 1 of everything, especially of stuff you don't want to get in trouble for.

i'd hate to get that job.

I used to have a receipt from a bar that listed the drinks individually, including a flaming eyeball, slippery nipple and a blowjob...

@IrisMR: I was thinking that too. It doesn't look real. I smell a photochop.

How old are these people? 12? I wish somebody would put something like this on one of my receipts. I'd be getting a pretty nice gift card out of it.

I'm just going to have to start reading all of my receipts. I want funny messages!

I suspect Brad typed that phrase on the PO#/Job Name line himself. He paid at a self checkout (SCOT58 indicates a self checkout register) and would have been able to enter a PO # or Job name for tracking his own spending as a contractor or other large purchaser.

It is entirely possible he had a cashier assist and that he or she entered the PO#/Job name, but Brad's use of a self checkout should give everyone pause before indicting The Home Depot on this evidence alone.

Next time I go to a department store or a restaurant, I'm going to see if they will print me out a receipt that says something vulgar and immature.

Could also be a disgruntled ex-employee who left a parting message, or someone hacking into the computer system...

Seems like it would be a fake. A clerk has to use their employee name/number all the time so someone, a manager, would have seen they made this their name at some point.

Unless of course they just made an extra name to randomly do this just for kicks. Which seems pretty odd.

Unless the receipt was altered it usually shows the last 4 digits of the credit card used, no?

@rochec:

Cleanest scanned receipt ever. My receipt scans never show up that clearly since there is usually a crease somewhere in that stupid glossy paper.

How did you find that photo of me drinking my daily herbal infusion?

@cashmerewhore:

while this rings true for most receipts i get, the home depot receipts are over a mile long.... they have to include spanish now, remember?

If it was placed at one of the automated registers with a company card, it would ask for that information to be entered by the customer. So pretty much anyone could put in that information.

Yeah, this doesn't look real at all.

Especially for the age; unless it's been scanned in and never creased, especially on the way home to a scanner...

I cropped, sharpened, rotated, and added the drop shadow to the receipt. Also blanked out part of the CC number. Can't vouch for the legitimacy of it otherwise but thought everyone should know that the image has been modified by Consumerist.

There must be something more to the story than "I walked into home depot, said "'Hello, I would like a mailbox lock'. and oh my, would you look at the PO name the rep used? I have no idea why."

Not exactly Home Depot's fault for the "dirty words" on the receipt... Here's why:

When I use my 5/3 "Professional" MasterCard at one of the self checkout lanes, Home Depot's system prompts me for a PO#/Job Name for that purchase. It comes up with a keyboard on-screen and I can type whatever the hell I want in there and it will show up on the receipt like that. So I can go to Home Depot during lunch today and buy a pack of gum and submit a picture of my receipt showing something like "15 mins free fame for typing dirty phrases here and submitting the image to the Consumerist" (it probably has a limit of characters you can type, but you get the idea).

When I lived in NorCal, there were some pretty scary people in Martinez (isn't that where the Zodiac lived - or was it Vallejo)?

Oh, and I'm not aiming that remark at the OP - I'm just saying I'm not surprised at the hostility he encountered - right down to the receipt.

I had a roomate that worked at Pizza Hut, was always bored, and playing in there computers. For 2 years after he left there, We would call and order pizza. They would ask for our phone number, then always ask (depending on if it was a boy or girl calling in) if this was Mr. Hue Jass, or Amanda Huginkis. Man we loved that!

@Chris Walters: Thanks for the note about the tweaking. It's easier to cry 'fake' if the image looks, well, faked.

Is 'cock sucking faggots' really an insult anymore. I mean, if you're of the male homosexual demographicit's pretty much a given that you've imbibed in some fellatio (or at least have been intimate with someone who has).

Really they should have come up with something inslutingly original like 'straight jerkoff who was forced to suck a dick while in prison for animal cruelty -- and ENJOYED it'. That would have made me mad.

It is a Self Service terminal.

See how at the top where it says "SCOT58"

SCOT= Self Check Out Terminal

Yeah a P.O. # would be generated by the company making the purchase, not by HD. This seems bogus.

@coolsright:

Agreed. It strikes me as a redundancy.

One time at Chili's, my waiter's name was "SEAN PENN", I guess because he looked like him.

I saved my recpiept from Dominick's from when I bought 3 Hallmark cards and got a free stuffed animal. The reciept says, "Misc - Free Puppy"

If you have a business card and use the self-service kiosk, you can type in that field on your receipt (I usually put "hi").

If you check out at a regular register, usually the cashier asks you for what to write in that area.

From what I can tell, there's no obvious difference between self-service receipts and cashier receipts.

Basically, this can go either way, but I'm more likely to believe whoever got the receipt wrote that message there themselves (especially if they were buying only one item).

I'M A HOME DEPOT IT ASSOCIATE AND I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT THIS CAME FROM A SELF CHECK OUT REGISTER. IN FACT IT IS "Self Check Out Terminal 58". and whenever you are at a SCO, the reg. asked you to manually input a "P.O or job name" if you were at a human operated register, a cashier would've asked you for the P.O or Job #. This is clearly a work of the person who submitted the receipt in response to the earlier UK Restaurant receipt you posted.

i purchase items with a company card at home depot all the time. As soon as you do, that's when the register asks what is the po # (purchase order number) or job name. this is always entered by you, to facillitate allocating your budgets later. hope this helps.

*the buyer entered that name, not the employee or home depot*

Look at the line on the recipet "SCOT58" - Now, I don't know about Home Depot, but at another store I shop at, the self checkout machines always print "Hello, your fast and friendly checkout today was provided by SCOT"... It seems that SCOT stands for Self CheckOuT [www.dumac.com]

@mmcnary: What, no Sex On The Beach or Screaming Orgasms?

@InsaneNewman: It could also stand for Self Check Out Terminal.

Remember when Jamba Juice's employee keyed in the word "dyke" on the receipt in order to identify the customer who placed the order?

Home Depot insults its customers by buying all of its products from China.

I bought a grill at Home Depot in Rockville MD a few years ago and was impressed to find the following right below the HOME DEPOT STORE#:

"All Your Base Are Belong to Us"

I laughed a bit and kept the receipt in my wallet for a while.

I work for a large company that makes/sells cash registers and the software that runs on them. Specifically, I work in the department that develops and supports the operating system and applications that runs on said registers. I can't speak for the Self Checkout lanes, since that's a different group within our department and they run on different software, but I can tell you about how the "normal" cash registers (the ones with a cashier working behind them) operate... Basically, anything that's on the receipt that a cashier hands to you, like item names, descriptions, etc., was not put on there by the cashier. All of that information is stored in an "Item Record File" that is used by the application that's running on the store's main server (called a "store controller"). There are typically very few people in a store that have the credentials to edit that data. So, if something like this appears on a receipt, it was most likely put there by a manager or someone else with more "authority" than a cashier. I can't speak for other companies' cash registers, but that's how ours work, and it would only be logical for other companies' registers to work the same way... You don't want your regular cashiers to have the ability to make changes to item names, prices, etc. That is usually reserved for managers and "higher-ups" only.
Just my 2c.

@mmcnary: I thought it was called a buttery nipple? My wife loves those :wink wink:

@aphex242: actually, HD can do that. If you go through the "Contractor" line in the store (which is usually at the far end near lumber). It's designed specifically for contractors so you can assign receipts to jobs for billing purposes later. The cashier asks you for a job or PO # and they type it in for you so it prints on the receipt.

You can do this at the self-serve kiosks as well and type in your own job name/po as well.

@Chris Walters: I'm gonna guess it was the person who sent it in that modified it, not Consumerist, and they only modifed the CC #. You can enter your own job name/PO at the self serve kiosks so it's just some young dumbass thinking he's funny.

@InsaneNewman: exactly

The receipt looks altered.

He/She payed with a Mastercard. On all my receipts the last 4 digits are always shown and everything else blocked--on this receipt, every number is blocked which is odd.

He/She may have blocked that out when they scanned the item, but if they did, then they could've altered other sections of this receipt.

@hexychick: Actually that makes sense about being able to put a business name or employee on the receipt--makes it easier to dtermine who bought what supply.

If this person indeed typed in their own name, I think Consumerist needs to change the heading to read, HD allows customers to type in own dirty words. Otherwise it makes it seem as if HD is behind this.

I work at Home Depot and by looking at the receipt, I cannot say this is a self checkout.
Most contractor accounts have an option to put a job name or some identifier when the invoice hits the credit card.
This can be a setup or it is possible the cashier did enter it in.
If the latter is true, I would be surprised if that cashier was working there much longer.

@hexychick: As a cashier who currently works at Home Depot, I can tell you that the contractor check out is just a regular register. The only thing that would be different about it is that no one goes through that line, everyone thinks you have to be a contractor, which is wrong. The PO#/Job name prompt for cashiers is tied to the credit card and we usually just enter 0 or press the space bar when someone doesnt have one.

@InsaneNewman: Im not too sure about the SCOT thing, but it was a self checkout machine because it is register 58, which is the 00058 part of the receipt. Regular registers are 1-11, self check out is 56-59, and garden is 16-19