Jesus, I certainly hope so,,,, I have ordered thousands of pens with my company name on them for my business as well as hats and "T " shirts to give to my regular customers. I also have many vendors that do the same. I can't imagine a mammoth company like HD would let something so ridiculously stupid happen.
It must have been a brain dead employee who wanted to bust the guy's balls for some reason. Or a complete idiot,,,, and I've certainly ran into a couple employees at HD that fit the complete idiot profile!