Decent Pay for Frustrating Management
Decent Pay for Frustrating Management
Because of their raise schedules (based on those negotiated by unions on the West Coast), you can quickly make a lot of money for the work you do. After 4 years, you can essentially make $30.00 an hour to pull a pallet jack around.
Management is set up in such a way that responsibility is easily deflected.
Trying to escalate work-related issues is very frustrating, as blame and accountability are easily passed from manager to manager.
Supervisors and managers do not always have clearly-defined "chains of command," so as an employee, you are told that any supervisor or any manager can do what is necessary. This, in practice, is often not true.
Effective and consistent communication is also generally lacking at this location.
Work on defining a clear chain of command. Employees need to know who they can escalate work-related issues to, and need to trust that they will be taken seriously.
On the note of "trust:" Management also needs to proactively create private environments for these conversations. I walked into the main office several times while working there to hear a manager and a co-worker talking about specific workplace disputes or disciplinary actions that, as an hourly employee, I should NOT have been hearing.
Under no circumstances should I know what disciplinary actions are being taken against my co-workers, or what grievances are being aired to management about their actions. It is deeply unprofessional to not have these discussions behind closed doors.
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It was relatively easy. I just asked basic questions about experience. Most of the harder questions came from asking about customer service. Just remember they aren't customers, but members. They offer little training, so once you start, you're kin
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During seasonal hiring, they need manpower, so they spend several days doing interviews. Policy is to have three members of management interview you. Often this is separate, but for me, my first interview had two managers. The questions were pretty g
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Behavioral questions were the most common, like: "Why do you want to work here?" and "What makes you a good fit at Costco?" Leadership questions were also asked, so go off that.
Front End Associate
Santa Clarita, California, United StatesAugust 12, 2023It was relatively easy. I just asked basic questions about experience. Most of the harder questions came from asking about customer service. Just remember they aren't customers, but members. They offer little training, so once you start, you're kin
Front End Associate
United StatesSeptember 25, 2018During seasonal hiring, they need manpower, so they spend several days doing interviews. Policy is to have three members of management interview you. Often this is separate, but for me, my first interview had two managers. The questions were pretty g
Front End Associate
United StatesMarch 15, 2023Behavioral questions were the most common, like: "Why do you want to work here?" and "What makes you a good fit at Costco?" Leadership questions were also asked, so go off that.
