The Home Depot

It's a stable, safe company to work for.

It's not going out of business any time soon.

So-so stock options.

Pay is sub-par.

Few to no perks.

Corporate meetings are more like high school pep rallies.

Much of IT is going to a jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none approach.

They did away with specific DevOps groups, and now everyone on every team has to learn how to do everything on their own time while doing everything else as well.

No IT training opportunities, which is worse when they suddenly expect everyone to be able to do all the jobs required for IT projects.

Forced paired programming without trying to match technical skills or at least technical aptitude.

Invest in your associates with real training and improve benefits.

Get over the whole "IT must wear pants" thing.

Paired programming is not the cure-all you think it is; blindly forcing it just hurts productivity and doesn't help in the long run.