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by AlexandrB 2241 days ago
> Which is the mythical company treating their low-skill workers far better than Amazon?

That's an easy one: Costco. Do a cursory Google search and you'll generally find positive stories going back years. There's nothing "mythical" here, it's a matter of explicit policy difference between the two retailers.
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sadturnip 2241 days ago
Costco is an okay place to work however, As someone who worked for Costco in the past, i think i was getting barely $1.50 more than minimum wage (this was 2015).

Furthermore you have a ton of full time employees who will sing praises about the company. However part timers get shafted hard. Oh you can't work 3 days a week due to school, okay enjoy barely 8 hours a week. There were a lot of people there who had to work multiple jobs simply because they could not get enough hours.

Unless you are fully willing to commit to them it isn't a great place to work.

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ngngngng 2241 days ago
Where was this? Sounds like the kind of things that are extremely variable depending on where you live. When I was working near minimum wage in California, companies would screw me like this. But when I moved to Utah, companies would give me nearly any hours I asked for since they really needed the work done.
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ashtonkem 2241 days ago
I knew a few people who worked at Whole Foods before they got bought; they seemed relatively happy with how they were treated.
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notatoad 2241 days ago
>before they got bought

this is the key - the bigger the organization, the further removed the workers are from the leadership. Consolidation and expansion removes a company's humanity. There's tons of examples of smaller companies that treat all their staff well. There's no examples of huge conglomerates who do.

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ashtonkem 2241 days ago
I mean, Whole Foods wasn’t small before Amazon bought them. They’ve gotten bigger, no doubt, but they weren’t exactly a neighborhood coop either.
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pgrote 2241 days ago
They have a good track record. The covid19 outbreak seems to have caused some bumps.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/briannasacks/costco-thr...

https://www.kuow.org/stories/costco-tells-office-workers

https://www.businessinsider.com/costco-workers-stressed-coro...

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