A two-hour firing, no investigation, and a "retirement" story the worker says never happened
A 71-year-old worker says Home Depot ended his 23-year career in minutes - then told coworkers he chose to retire.
A longtime Home Depot associate is suing the retailer, claiming his decades-long career was cut short in a single morning over what his complaint calls a pretext.
Ludolph Olivier worked at the company's Norwood, Massachusetts store for 23 years as an Order Fulfillment Associate. In a complaint filed June 4, 2026, in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts, he says the end came on June 2, 2025, in less than two hours, with no real investigation and no conversation with Human Resources.
Here is what the filing describes. Olivier, a 71-year-old Haitian immigrant, was told to pull decking material from a restricted zone known as the "back pad." A customer who was not supposed to be there - and whom Olivier says he never let in - walked toward his moving forklift. Olivier alleges he stopped the machine and shouted three times for the man to stop. No one was hurt.
According to the complaint, a manager then arrived, reprimanded the customer for being in the restricted area, but never asked how the customer got there. When Olivier tried to explain in his accented English, the filing says the manager cut him off with "don't talk to me like that!" (or similar words to that effect) and walked off.
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