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I'm not sure if you mean advice for getting a job there, being sucessful there, or if it's a place you should work so I'm just gonna uhhhh, say a whole bunch of stuff and hopefully something here is what you wanted to know.

Disclaimer: I work at a costco in canada so I'm not sure how much of this is accurate if you live anywhere else. I've heard from people who have worked at other costcos that our location is a fairly relaxed one.

the bad:

compared to other retail jobs I feel much more scrutinized here

it isn't uncommon for people to be let go at the end of their 3 month probation or at the end of their seasonal contract. I've seen a lot of people I thought were good employees get let go.

the training is not great, you do kind of get thrown into things and expected to know things and then get in shit for not knowing things you were never told

If you aren't good at sales, don't work front end or membership because the expectations for marketing are high and you are very pressured to push membership upgrades and credit cards.

Everything goes by seniority so it can take a long time to move up the ranks or get into certain departments or even just get full time unless you apply to stuff that no one else wants to do (like food court)

Every new hire starts part time and at the bottom of the pay scale no matter what experience or education you have.

there is no giving your boss your "availability" you have to have fully open availability or they won't hire you.

The work itself is very rigid in how they want you to do things

most of my "good" things are going to be pay related because that is largely what motivated me to stay

there is SO much drama. So many people have been there 15+ year and they all have weird grudges with each other, and everyone is petty about random stuff, it feels like being in high school a lot of the time.

The good:

minwage where I live is $15/h, starting pay for Costcos here is $17.50

that $17.50 is a base pay and there are a lot of premiums depending on what you are doing: eg. sundays are an extra $4/h, if you are on a forklift you get an extra $2/h, if you are on cash you get an extra $1/h. So very often you're getting more than $17.50

You get a raise every 1000 hours you work

The benefits package is great - health benefits, rrsp matching, life insurance etc, it all kicks in around 6 months in.

if you are willing to learn multiple departments and make it clear to managers that you want to learn and are able to pick up extra shifts you will almost never have to worry about your hours being cut

Because they only promote internally there are opportunities to move up - supervisor pay is $30.50/h and I was able to get contract supervisor in under a year.

even if you never want to move up or get full time or pick up extra hours, just staying there is worthwhile in the long run because the payscale caps out at around $30/h and once you're there around 5+ years you start getting biannual bonuses (currently these are $3000-4000 twice a year)

once you are in you can transfer stores to anywhere in the country without having to start over

free membership for you + 3 family members

trans policies are good and also not good, it's complicated.

its a very active job which is good and also bad. My feet hurt like hell every day for months until my body got used to it but i no longer have the back problems that working at a desk 8 hours a day for 5 years gave me.

honestly I like working there because while I'm there I can just turn my brain off and do the work and once I'm not at work I don't even have to think about it which is a lot healthier for me than most of the salary jobs I had before this.

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