Has anyone ever worked at Costco?

[JollyRoger]

Its no wonder that so many of you don't even believe in God.

Jesus didn't hold down a full time gig. It seems that one could have faith that God would provide if one worked 25 hours a week and spent the rest of the time serving Him in other ways.

 

[Dreadnought]

Jesus didn't hold down a full time gig. It seems that one could have faith that God would provide if one worked 25 hours a week and spent the rest of the time serving Him in other ways.

Yeah, being a carpenter for twenty years is a walk in the park.

 

[JollyRoger]

Yeah, being a carpenter for twenty years is a walk in the park.

Jesus is maybe referred to as a carpenter one time in the New Testament (it is sometimes translated as son of a carpenter) and given the context, it may have been by people who did not know him. He is called a rabbi 13 times and a teacher (which roughly translates to rabbi) 47 times. Given his age at death and documented non-carpentry years, 20 years would seem a stretch. Anyway, he achieved his greatest success when he was mooching off of others rather than working a real job.

I don't think he would have made a good Costco employee.

 

[Dreadnought]

From what I can tell, the current idea that Jesus was a carpenter is slightly erroneous; the correct translation, I think, is a "handyman".

That being said, if his father was a carpenter, then it is extremely likely that he was, as well.

 

[JollyRoger]

And if he was, he had the good sense to quit and lead a less labor-intensive lifestyle. Shouldn't believers aspire to be more Christlike?

 

[Quackers]

Its hard for me to wrap my mind around a job of 25-35 hours a week. When a sophmore in high school and in my junior year, I worked in a cotton mill on second shift. The school let me leave a little early and the mill let me come in a little late. I'd dash down the interstate making the commute in 4 minutes so I could clock in and get paid a full eight hours. I worked a 48 hour shift.

This while taking advanced college placement classes and maintaining a B+ average. I did only drive a school bus my senior year but that to spend more time chasing girls.

I worked 50 hour weeks at age ten during the summer months in the years before high school, for my father's construction firm.

That 48 hours a week was the least hours I then worked per week for the next 35 years before I suffered my loss of health. Seventy hours+ was the norm. Except of course those years I spent in felony prison, but still.

Since taking a health settlement with my last firm, in my medical retirement I do about 12-16 twelve hours days a month in various poker rooms. Though I admit there were three and a half years sandwiched in there when I was totally incapacitated.

So I can't fathom the world today, though I see it and the results of it. The mindset I had most of my life if proffered a job of 25-35 hours a week would have been to scoff and say, no, I am looking for a real job, and maybe take it as a second one. Or a third.

I really feel for the country. There really isn't an economy at all out there right now. I don't recognize this as life at all in the tradional sense. Its no wonder that so many of you don't even believe in God.

you went to prison brah?!

 

[JollyRoger]

Embezzlers often work at lot of hours to cover up their tracks.

 

[Cryptic_Snow]

Thanks for the input guys, especially those that work with the company or known someone who does. Would having a college degree accelerate the hiring process?

 

[Cryptic_Snow]

Were you only looking at in-store, retail level positions, or more on the corporate side? I work with CostCo above the store level every so often.

Probably in-store, retail level, although I'm not opposed to any position with steady hours. My background is in the medical field, science and history were my majors in college.

 

[downtown]

Thanks for the input guys, especially those that work with the company or known someone who does. Would having a college degree accelerate the hiring process?

At the in-store retail level, this actually probably hurts you. College-educated retail workers are significant flight risks.

 

[JollyRoger]

When I worked retail, the good old boys ran circles around the college boys as far as career-types went.

 

[Cryptic_Snow]

When I worked retail, the good old boys ran circles around the college boys as far as career-types went.

What do you mean by that?

 

[downtown]

What do you mean by that?

You're a flight risk. Training retail employees is fairly expensive, and managers and loath to undergo that investment in time and energy if there is a chance you'd leave too soon.

You said you used to be a teacher, right? You have a college degree. That makes you totally overqualified for a grocery retail job, and probably under qualified for a retail management job right off the bat (retail hiring is what I do for a living...the marketplace has enough workers with previous retail experience that there is seldom a reason to hire a guy without it)...so you'd have to start "on the floor" so to speak.

If we go by the numbers Elta posted, you're looking at like, 300 bucks a week. Why would you stick with that long enough to earn any real money?

 

[jtb1127]

I've heard that working at Costco is sort of a dream job when it comes to those who work in department stores and that sort of place. The average worker there gets paid $17 per hour.

Spoiler :

Costco offers employees health insurance including dental even for part-time employees who have been with the company only six months, as opposed to two years or more for Walmart employees. The average pay for a Costco worker is $17 an hour, around 42 percent more than at Sam’s Club. Costco can do that because its sales per customer transaction are 30 percent more than Sam’s Club.
CEO and cofounder, Jim Sinegal, feels that cutting costs by underpaying average floor workers while the CEO is making from 100 to 300 times more is deplorable. Even with Costco’s successful earnings record, Sinegal’s salary is kept at $350,000 – less than 10 percent of what other CEO’s make. He earns significantly less than his peers. Sinegal does receive a bonus – last year’s was $200,000 – and considers himself well rewarded from his stock holdings. Meanwhile, Walmart’s CEO, Mike Duke’s compensation package for the last fiscal year was around 19.2 million, almost 967 times the average Walmart worker.

http://willmarre.com/blog/for-costc...employees-financial-payoff-for-their-success/

 

[JollyRoger]

What do you mean by that?

In the assistant manager group, there were those that had worked their way up from entry level (no college) and those that got the job out of college. The good ole boys were always doing things to sabatoge the college boys and the college boys never really saw where it was coming from. It was just a summer job for me, so it was pretty entertaining and eye opening. Taught me enough about workplace politics to play it right later on when it really counted.

 

[luiz]

My mother manages a Costco.

They start out making 11 an hour, typically getting .25 cent or .50 cent raises every six months to a year. Raises for non managers stopping at $21.50. 25 to 35 hours of work a week is typical, more hours being given as one gains experience, or as needed seasonally. You are guaranteed to get 25 hours a week unless you mess up and are on probation. Pay is time and a half on Sundays and holidays. The medical benefits are pretty good.

As far as the best positions..... there are none, every manager's goal is to have a store that is completely filled with people who are able to work any position in the store and make $21.50 and work 35 hours a week. As such, they will put you anywhere and everywhere so that you gain experience.


That said, avoid the bakery the week before thanksgiving like the plague.

$21.50 seems like a very good salary for this position. One can live pretty well with that, especially in the most inexpensive states. So the OP should probably give it a try.

 

[downtown]

$21.50 seems like a very good salary for this position. One can live pretty well with that, especially in the most inexpensive states. So the OP should probably give it a try.

Why? The post said you start at about 11 bucks, and get a .50 cent raise every 6 months, capping out at 21. That means it would take you a *decade* to make that much money.

If you have a college degree, even a liberal arts degree, you can make a lot more than 43,000 after a decade of work. If you were a full time classroom teacher before, you prob made not too much less than that right out of college.

 

[Zelig]

Why? The post said you start at about 11 bucks, and get a .50 cent raise every 6 months, capping out at 21. That means it would take you a *decade* to make that much money.

If you have a college degree, even a liberal arts degree, you can make a lot more than 43,000 after a decade of work. If you were a full time classroom teacher before, you prob made not too much less than that right out of college.

You can if you're good, but it's pretty close to median salary.

I don't know how to navigate US census data, so I just looked at Canadian data from 2006 (this info from 2011 census isn't up yet).

Median salary for university educated 25-29 year olds is 33k, median salary for university educated 30-34 year olds is 47k.

Of course, spending your entire 20s working retail to top out at 43k isn't great for future career opportunities.

 

[Save_Ferris]

I'd work there just for the samples. On a good day, I wouldn't even have to buy food.

 

[Cryptic_Snow]

You're a flight risk. Training retail employees is fairly expensive, and managers and loath to undergo that investment in time and energy if there is a chance you'd leave too soon.

You said you used to be a teacher, right? You have a college degree. That makes you totally overqualified for a grocery retail job, and probably under qualified for a retail management job right off the bat (retail hiring is what I do for a living...the marketplace has enough workers with previous retail experience that there is seldom a reason to hire a guy without it)...so you'd have to start "on the floor" so to speak.

If we go by the numbers Elta posted, you're looking at like, 300 bucks a week. Why would you stick with that long enough to earn any real money?

Teaching and Pharmacy. I was in the medical field the past few years, but my company is going belly up. Costco is just one avenue I'm pursuing. I'd prefer working in the Costco Pharmacy, but if that isn't possible then retail or anything with stable hours. I'm wondering if their pharmacy staff are on a separate pay-scale than other workers?