r/CostcoEmployee

I started working at Costco in March and I don’t hate working here. Honestly, having this job has helped me become more disciplined and get myself together. The problem is that Costco just doesn’t align with where I’m trying to go anymore. I’m making $20/hr, but I’m only getting around 24–25 hours a week. My most recent paycheck was about 790$ after two weeks. I’m trying to save for a car and eventually move out of my mom’s house, but with these hours and the money I have to spend on Uber just to get to work, feels like I’m going backwards at this point. The work itself is a bit much but nothing I can’t handle, I’m out pushing carts in the Florida heat and sometimes even pouring rain (No poncho). Sweating my clothes so bad it looks like I pissed myself lol. Anyways great company I think my mental battle here is that I just really want full time work and to make enough money to actually build a better future for myself. No sob story I literally just want more for myself period. I come from a more material handling and warehouse background. Coming to push carts at Costco has been the most humbling experience of my life. Even more humbling then going back to your ex whose no longer interested in you 😭✌🏾

I’m a student, and I have class 3 days a week, I was told if I can’t fulfill 5 days a week of work even as a part timer, I would have to forfeit my part time status and lose my benefit? Can anyone explain. I still am available 4 days a week and am able to do 32 hours

i quit costco around february-march of this year & never received my w2 in the mail. i tried to use the former employee login and it’s saying my account is disabled. how do i get my w2?

I’m currently in bakery as a sanitation worker/wrapper. I’m super bored doing this job and past my 90 days. I hardly get to wrap anything and my coworkers kinda suck. I see job postings in the break room, but how do I sign up for them? Do I have to talk to my manager? I tried looking it up and it said to go to the job bank on MyCostco app but it doesn’t show the positions in my store and nowhere to sign up. Am I looking in the wrong place?

Since I started working at Costco, I’ve been called, how do I say this lightly, pretty much every slur in the book lol.

For context, I’m a white guy, but I speak Spanish pretty fluently, and I’ve literally been called racist for speaking Spanish somehow? 😂

Apart from that, it never fails to surprise me how creative members can get when they’re really angry and the kinds of things they’ll call you when they’re emotionally riled up.

The funniest part is that we’re literally just following policy. Members will act like I’m personally the one who created the rules and that I have some kind of vendetta against them and I’m out to get them. Like trust me, I promise I do not care enough to make your life harder on purpose lol.

Just curious, what’s the craziest or worst thing an angry member has ever called you? I know I can’t be the only one with some wild stories lol.

I’m so embarrassed to even say this, I’m a new hire and work in the bakery as a wrapper. Today was something I can’t even believe I had to say to my manager. I’m on probation obviously as this is my second week, the people in my bakery are amazing, so friendly and kind. I work hard, and I actually LOVE being a wrapper. I know I’ll get faster as time goes on, but definitely wouldn’t say I’m slow. This is my second week, I’m really hard on myself I want to be reliable and do my best always..that goes for any job I’ve had. I’m so embarrassed, today I started at 7:30am around 9am I started having the most insane stomach pain almost unbearable. I’m a girl and my pain tolerance is high since I have awful cramps during my period, but today it was next level and I’m not on my cycle. I excused myself to the bathroom and oof I had diarrhea. 10 minutes later I had to go again, finally took my 15 and sat on the toilet the WHOLE time. The pain and the frequent amount was like nothing I’ve ever experienced. I had diarrhea SIX times in the span of 40 minutes, the pain and everything was astonishing. I decided I needed to probably say something since this wasn’t normal. I did end up leaving early, my manager was so kind and understanding. I was super embarrassed to even say what was going on. I went home and it has continued throughout the day. I believe when we made tacos last night at home the meat was bad, but tbh no idea what caused it for sure.
My coworkers, and manager told me not to worry, that it will be okay and illnesses happen and they would do the same. BUT, I’m still nervous about screwing up my job because of this, its my second week and I’m so embarrassed that I had to even say out loud “I can’t stop having diarrhea and I’m in serious pain.” I’m someone who never calls out, and I’m just nervous I messed up this job since this is only my second week and I’m on probation. I work hard, and I love it but I’m just freaking out now because I don’t wanna lose this job. Am I just overthinking? I told them I’ll be there tomorrow, which I will be but I’m just nervous this one day will not go well in the long run. Also, I’m laughing while posting this because it’s so embarrassing and gross but it was NOT good.
Am I screwed?? Am I overthinking this?

Has anyone else's gm removed all their garbage cans from the cart corrals?

I'm a Wrapper in the bakery. The last 4 weeks I've been helping another store, mostly Sundays & occasional weekdays. So far I've been over there for 6 shifts. My coworker mentioned I can get paid for the mileage commute, which is only about 20 miles. I'm curious as to how I go about that & if there is a time limit on it since it's been going on for about a month, could I still request for that past time?

I’m good. The only issues they having with me is that I’m really shy and just want me to engage more. My team is really nice. My boss is very helpful and she’s very attentive. We work food court so it can be a little overwhelming but when I work with certain people, it’s super easy now I want to know in the food court are we able like down the line be able to just apply for early shift if it’s available I’m closing right now and sometimes I work in the mornings and they’re working with me with my kids school schedule, which is really nice, but that was my only question.Thanks in advance

Hello,

I’m a current employee at a BD in MN. I was curious if anyone knows what goes on or what it’s like working at a Logistics center. We have one in Brooklyn Center, MN where all the appliances, furniture and tvs get delivered from. I’m thinking applying to work there but no nothing about the hours of operation, what it’s like, what positions are even offered.

I’m a driver so I have EPJ/forklift experience and need to get out of my current store. Way too toxic with GM refusing to give me full time, even though I’ve been working full time hours since early may.

Any help with information about this location or a typical logistics location in general is greatly appreciated.

I started at Costco Australia in June as a Cashier Assistant, 4 weeks ago at my 60 day check in, my probation was extended and I was put on a plan, at the time I said that the comments on my report didn’t sound like me at all. For the last 4 weeks it’s been infuriating them saying things that just aren’t true about me not putting in effort ect in these meetings when all the feedback I get from supervisors , coworkers, and members is overwhelmingly positive and I’m actively trying to improve everyday. Basically today they’ve said they’re firing me in 2 weeks, and I’m so incredibly disheartened considering all the positive feedback I am getting to my face. This may be a stretch but I’m beginning to suspect somethings up as I don’t see these supervisors as being two faced saying one thing to me and the complete opposite to the report. In every meeting this supervisor Bethany (not real name) is there who I didn’t think liked me from the start, she’s oven been there on the floor with me when I get good feedback and today when she took me to the meeting I was in the middle of filling the dead space without customers getting boxes and collecting go-backs. Is there anything I can do it took me so long to get this job because the Australian job market is fucked and if I lose this I’m basically done.

So I very recently got a job at Costco. I took a risk and left my decent full time job to work there since Costco is supposed to be a great company. The issue is that I applied for baker, they hired me as a bakery wrapper/cleaner and I didn’t find out till after the fact. This is common for them to start everyone at the bottom. Which is fine. But had I known, I wouldn’t have taken the job. Cause unfortunately I do have physical disabilities. I’ve been baking for almost a decade now so I’ve learned how to manage my health stuff. However, cleaning is a lot harder on the body and it’s getting to the point where walking is becoming increasingly difficult. I already got spoken to about having an attitude when all I did was be honest with my coworker by telling them this wasn’t exactly what I signed up for when they asked me how I was liking the job. I tried speaking to the manager and all they told me was if I can’t do the job than they’re gonna have to let me go.

EDIT- I want to make something clear. There are two separate applications on the career website. One for baker and one for bakery wrapper. I applied for baker. Baking is pretty self explanatory so I didn’t think I’d need to ask questions especially seeing that it’s nothing I haven’t done before. I didn’t realize that I got hired as a bakery wrapper until it was too late and didn’t realize that it included cleaning until training. Like I know now that this is how they do things but if that’s the case, what’s the point in having a baker application and they should have made it more transparent during the hiring process.

I’m a new hire at a store that’s opened fairly recently, and I’m already getting scheduled 40 hour weeks, and I’m aware that both part time and full time employees get benefits after a certain amount of time worked.

So if part time can still get scheduled that many hours and still have benefits, how is it different than full time in anything other than name?

Is the only difference that one is a guarantee of a minimum of 40 hours a week while the other isn’t? Or are there more differences than that?

I work in the deli, and i close production every night. just passed my 90 a few days ago. Thought I was doing a pretty good job. My manager pulls me aside before my shift yesterday for my 90 day review. She said I'm "struggling" with closing the production room despite me just hitting my 90 days, and that Im falling behind and she expects more from me at this point.

The only thing I really knew about was one of the drains needed to be cleaned better, which is hard to do bc sometimes I can't get it unclogged. Even She also mentioned other minor things that were brought to my attention for the first time.

She also said I needed to move faster she was surprised i take so long to clean the production and she said usually the closer is able to do all the prep and because I cant and they have to shut down production early because of that.

She also mentioned at times the dishes haven't all been cleaned well enough, but I spend a good 2 hours doing dishes every night. Most of the time theres a full days worth and it takes forever to scrub them all.

she also said that I wasnt "picking up on everything" in the chicken room. So that day i did chickens and she basically said i had to "prove myself" that i could handle it whatever that means.

honestly it's really getting in my head and making me question my competence. Like I genuinely thought I was doing a good job, I have gotten compliments from other managers in the store on my work ethic, told that im very thorough and the room looks super clean whenever I leave. Then my manager just dropped all of that on me and told me to "prove myself" in the chicken room. and it just made me feel like I'm slow or something. Ik closing production isnt that hard. I'm not sure what to do but it's just really bothering me and would love some encouragement or advice.

I walked in for an interview yesterday with three others, i thought it went pretty well when he called me into the room and asked me questions, i answered, however at the end he told me and another guy with us to go ahead and he showed us the way, while telling us that we’d revive a call back if we were hired, or an email notice turning us down, however the third person stayed behind and was talking to him before we left. Should i still hold out hope? or should i start looking somewhere else. P.S. when would I hear back from them?

Hey all,

Just wanted to check if there’s been any official corporate or HR memo recently regarding wearing hoodies on the warehouse floor (specifically during morning merch/freezer stocking).

One of the managers mentioned it offhand today citing theft/safety, but I haven't seen any official posting or bulletin about a policy change. Is this a store-by-store manager preference, or is there an actual updated standard workwear rule coming down from corporate?

Thanks.