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Costco: Our employees ‘deserve’ Thanksgiving off

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I figured out the best way to save money on Black Friday. Don't buy anything if you don't need it!

I wonder how many people rush out to all the black friday deals for stuff they don't need but they just buy it because it's on sale.
 
drebo said:
What they don't tell you is that Costco employees WILL be working Thursday night to prepare.

Don't believe me? Ask someone who works at one.
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nobody does believe you...now what we do know is they will be coming in early Friday morning sometimes after 12 mid night
 
moonbogg said:
That's a load of BS. Its a PR campaign and "nothing more complicated than that". Everything a corporation does is for profit. Making people think that Costco holds the moral high ground is likely to bring in more business and they will make up the loss from closing on thanksgiving.
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you can have profit even if you treat your employees respectfully.
 
momeNt said:
I guess I know where I WON'T be shopping on Thanksgiving to get early black friday discounts.

Signing their own death bed.
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so choosing not to open on one day is gonna negatively affect the other 354 days in the year to the point it no longer becomes profitable?
 
moonbogg said:
Exactly. Why scream it from the mountain tops when a simple sign on the door would do fine.



Could you buy a house in California with Costco pay? No? Then they don't care about you. Employees should get $35/hr because in California, that's survival pay. You need 2k per month for a cheap mortgage in the ghetto. What? California Costco employees don't deserve a house? No place to live? Why not? No American dream for California Costco people? American dream is dead I guess.
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Actually you are able to purchase a home in California with Costco pay. The House is not going to be in SF or Beverly Hills but you are able to move around to an area with lower cost of living and be able to purchase a home. Or if you choose to leave California you are also able to leave the state maintain your pay and move to any of the other states the company operates in.
 
rednas said:
Actually you are able to purchase a home in California with Costco pay. The House is not going to be in SF or Beverly Hills but you are able to move around to an area with lower cost of living and be able to purchase a home. Or if you choose to leave California you are also able to leave the state maintain your pay and move to any of the other states the company operates in.
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Sorry dude. California is 100k+ territory. You can move out to the desert and lease a cave or something, but if you want an actual house with electricity, you are paying out the ass for it. I guess you could have 5 or 6 Costco people living together...
 
rednas said:
Actually you are able to purchase a home in California with Costco pay. The House is not going to be in SF or Beverly Hills but you are able to move around to an area with lower cost of living and be able to purchase a home. Or if you choose to leave California you are also able to leave the state maintain your pay and move to any of the other states the company operates in.
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Unless you work as a food sampler who works 30 hours a week, making minimum wage, getting no benefits if any kind. Costco ruses tax payers to subsidize the cost of living for its food samplers, and uses a lowest bidder type approach to these jobs that they contract out, forcing people to live destitute and worst conditions than Walmart. Costco in the end is no better than Walmart, for they support people worst than Walmart to make more profit.
 
moonbogg said:
Sorry dude. California is 100k+ territory. You can move out to the desert and lease a cave or something, but if you want an actual house with electricity, you are paying out the ass for it. I guess you could have 5 or 6 Costco people living together...
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You do not have idea of what you are talking about. You really do not. I know a number of people who live in California and work for Costco who own their own home. They do not live in SF, the middle of Silicon valley, or out on Malibu or anything but they are able to afford decent places in areas where normal people live.

You have to realize that most people who are single do not need a huge 5br single family home to be comfortable and if they have a family their spouse also works. People adjust their expectations with their situation you feel that everyone regardless of who they are should be able to afford a large home in prime areas of California and that just will not happen for Most people in California regardless of who they work for.
 
DigDog said:
you can have profit even if you treat your employees respectfully.
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Contracting out to a lowest bidder company who treats employees like slaves, and who employees live in extreme poverty with no benefits isn't treating people respectfully. Costco views people as cattle, not as humans.
 
DCal430 said:
Unless you work as a food sampler who works 30 hours a week, making minimum wage, getting no benefits if any kind. Costco ruses tax payers to subsidize the cost of living for its food samplers, and uses a lowest bidder type approach to these jobs that they contract out, forcing people to live destitute and worst conditions than Walmart. Costco in the end is no better than Walmart, for they support people worst than Walmart to make more profit.
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I do not understand why this is a reply to my post.
 
FACT if you look at people who actually work inside of a Costco regardless of who they legally work for, these people are among the worst treated employees in the U.S.
 
DCal430 said:
It is reply because I pointing on not everyone who works at a Costco is able to afford a home in California. Some can't even afford food to live on.
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I was not aware that people had a right to own a home in California based on their income of a part time no skill job. Also, the employees of WDS are not employed by Costco. They have a different payscale and much less is expected of them.
 
DCal430 said:
FACT if you look at people who actually work inside of a Costco regardless of who they legally work for, these people are among the worst treated employees in the U.S.
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link me so any study that indicates this. All I have ever seen able Costco is that its one of the best places to work. I will even include a link proving that.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money...e-top-25-companies-for-pay-and-perks/9542969/

on this list from this year its ranked #2. Just behind Google.......
 
Hate to say it, but what if someone WANTS to work during Thanksgiving? Not everyone loves family time with maw and paw and the kids.

Not everyone HAS maw and paw to have family time with and would rather work (and perhaps work on holidays for time and a half). So while I commend this action, I also condemn it. If people want to work, why shouldn't they?

But then again, aren't Costco employee's on salary? So what does it matter to them?
 
rednas said:
link me so any study that indicates this. All I have ever seen able Costco is that its one of the best places to work. I will even include a link proving that.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money...e-top-25-companies-for-pay-and-perks/9542969/

on this list from this year its ranked #2. Just behind Google.......
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That only looks at people who are employed directly by Costco, people who are contracted out have a horrible experience, Walmart is like Google by comparison. When you shop at Costco you support this mistreatment of these workers.
 
DCal430 said:
That only looks at people who are employed directly by Costco, people who are contracted out have a horrible experience, Walmart is like Google by comparison. When you shop at Costco you support this mistreatment of these workers.
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You think google, facebook, and all other companies on that list do not have outside contractors working for them that are not direct employees? Costco is not different. I dont see why its a huge issue. The people who work for WDS dont stock the shelves, work the registers, make the food, etc. all they do is hand out samples to members. The jobs are not the same, the responsibilities are not the same, thus the pay is not the same. I do not understand why that is a hard concept to grasp.
 
The only Costco workers on salary are managers.

The regular employees will get Thanksgiving off, paid. Work 4 days that week, get 5 days pay. Same for Christmas, and New Years, iirc Memorial and Labor Day's, floating holidays for MLK Jr Day.

West coast is mostly (all?) unionized -- they basically match the pay/benefits elsewhere though, if only to keep their labor force from having the motivation to unionize.
 
I worked at Target a long time ago (maybe 15 years ago now), doing the truck unloading stuff. What a bunch of sleazeballs when it came to how they treated their employees.

The shit they pulled with "holiday" pay still pisses me off. They would just flag it as regular overtime pay, that way you could work 6 days in a week and not actually get "holiday pay" (because they tallied you up as 40 regular and 8 overtime hours, versus 40 combined regular and holiday hours, then doing 8 overtime hours as well). There were plenty of little things like that, I didn't feel too bad when I just walked in and quit finally. Only place I've ever done that at.
 
JEDIYoda said:
nobody does believe you...now what we do know is they will be coming in early Friday morning sometimes after 12 mid night
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God you people are dense. If you start at 1am, 2am, or even 3am on Friday, what time do you have to go to sleep on Thursday? Exactly how much of that Thanksgiving dinner do you really get to spend with your family? Not a whole lot.

But, go ahead and keep sucking Costco's cock. Yes, they run a good business, but they aren't special in this regard.
 
rednas said:
You do not have idea of what you are talking about. You really do not. I know a number of people who live in California and work for Costco who own their own home. They do not live in SF, the middle of Silicon valley, or out on Malibu or anything but they are able to afford decent places in areas where normal people live.

You have to realize that most people who are single do not need a huge 5br single family home to be comfortable and if they have a family their spouse also works. People adjust their expectations with their situation you feel that everyone regardless of who they are should be able to afford a large home in prime areas of California and that just will not happen for Most people in California regardless of who they work for.
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The hell I don't. I live in southern California and make a lot more than Costco people, and not even I can afford a house here. Not Beverly hills, not SF, not even LA proper, but the outer suburbs of LA are unaffordable for a single earner making much less than 100k. No debt. I am in the process of leaving to another state where I can put a roof over my head that someone else doesn't own.
I have a friend who works for Costco. He has a family. They both work. They can barely survive in a 1 bedroom apartment in Orange County. Don't tell me Costco takes care of its people. That's a god damn lie. They still suffer and struggle and live like shit.
My point is our economy sucks, opportunities suck, cost of living sucks and salaries and wages suck. Our system is broken. It doesn't work. People break their backs simply to survive in this country with almost no hope of a retirement, at ALL. If you are a special breed with a big brain and plenty of education and you are making it, good for you. The rest of us should be in the fucking streets, hunting down those who put their own dealings before the health of an entire nation, and world.
 
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