Nope! Costcos business model is masquerade as a benevolent company that cares about its workers and treats customers fairly so they can sell more memberships while treating all the non public facing workers like cattle and giving a maximum of 2% annual raises to only the most sycophantic employees.
It’s all bullshit, just because the warehouse workers are paid and treated better at Costco than Amazon or Walmart does not make them one of the good guys.
Shit one of their largest shareholders is Blackrock.
Edit: y’all ain’t gotta believe me, just proves their propaganda is working. I’ve worked at Costco HQ in the past. IT gets treated like absolute shit, worse than anywhere else I’ve ever done that sort of work, and the entire department agreed when I was there, but their skill sets are all Costco centric so they can’t seem to find anywhere else their skills map to. A manager tried to take their own life IN THE OFFICE recently according to one of my close friends that’s still there, apparently due to burnout and the disappearance of upward mobility, which is why I fucking left
That mentality leads to people supporting Amazon. If you give people nowhere good to go, they will give up and go to the most convenient thing. This world would benefit if everyone dropped Amazon and moved to Costco. It would not be perfect. It would be better. And better is good.
Sorry friend, I can’t in good faith let them keep pulling wool over peoples eyes. By all means keep shopping there if you need to economically, but they very much need you to believe they are different from the rest
Ok but they are different from the rest though. They treat their employees better, provide good products and services, and as far as I know are the only company who are even pretending to attempt to pass the tariff refunds along to their customers. It’s just not up to your ideal standard. Which is fine, we don’t live in a perfect world and should continue to push for the best.
Also their founder told the CEO “If you raise the price of the hot dog I will fucking kill you.”
Because bottom-up behavioral changes are an ineffective use of energy. Consumer-scale recycling, pushing people towards veganism, embracing mass transit, equal rights regardless of demographic… decades of effort and a losing battle. Societal change requires a legislative push, and that push is usually spearheaded by an organized group of regular people but they are pressuring Congress and businesses rather than shaming their neighbors.
Nope! Costcos business model is masquerade as a benevolent company that cares about its workers and treats customers fairly so they can sell more memberships while treating all the non public facing workers like cattle and giving a maximum of 2% annual raises to only the most sycophantic employees.
It’s all bullshit, just because the warehouse workers are paid and treated better at Costco than Amazon or Walmart does not make them one of the good guys.
Shit one of their largest shareholders is Blackrock.
Edit: y’all ain’t gotta believe me, just proves their propaganda is working. I’ve worked at Costco HQ in the past. IT gets treated like absolute shit, worse than anywhere else I’ve ever done that sort of work, and the entire department agreed when I was there, but their skill sets are all Costco centric so they can’t seem to find anywhere else their skills map to. A manager tried to take their own life IN THE OFFICE recently according to one of my close friends that’s still there, apparently due to burnout and the disappearance of upward mobility, which is why I fucking left
“If not perfect then also not good.”
That mentality leads to people supporting Amazon. If you give people nowhere good to go, they will give up and go to the most convenient thing. This world would benefit if everyone dropped Amazon and moved to Costco. It would not be perfect. It would be better. And better is good.
Dude.
I work in a Canadian Costco.
You get a dollar an hour raise every 1040 hours worked. Which at full time works out to every 6 months. So $2/hr in raises a year.
Next month I top out on the pay scale, after 4.5 years of employment. My wage will be $34.40/hr.
At that point my raises do go down to $1/hr per year.
In 2 years I start getting the long term employee payouts, which is $3,000 every 6 months.
What the fuck are you talking about? Oh, and if need be I can back this all up with photos
What part of warehouse workers get treated well did you miss?
Doesn’t it? The best could/should be better but that doesn’t change they are still the best.
Costco is publicly traded, anybody can buy their stock. Blackrock owning it should be irrelevant to public opinion of the company.
It’s also probably mostly BlackRock index funds. Which means tons of retail investors are part of this ownership.
Well, except that I’m theory, owning a lot of shares in a company gives you some leverage over that company to drive its policies and direction.
Ah come on lemme just have one man I’m begging you please. Just let me pretend a little longer
Friend, you can have all the men you want
Sorry friend, I can’t in good faith let them keep pulling wool over peoples eyes. By all means keep shopping there if you need to economically, but they very much need you to believe they are different from the rest
Ok but they are different from the rest though. They treat their employees better, provide good products and services, and as far as I know are the only company who are even pretending to attempt to pass the tariff refunds along to their customers. It’s just not up to your ideal standard. Which is fine, we don’t live in a perfect world and should continue to push for the best.
Also their founder told the CEO “If you raise the price of the hot dog I will fucking kill you.”
Is keeping the price of animal abuse products artificially low beneficial to the animals, the climate, or any of us though?
This thread is peak Lemmy.
That fight is with corn subsidies, not food court hot dogs.
Why wouldn’t it be both?
Because bottom-up behavioral changes are an ineffective use of energy. Consumer-scale recycling, pushing people towards veganism, embracing mass transit, equal rights regardless of demographic… decades of effort and a losing battle. Societal change requires a legislative push, and that push is usually spearheaded by an organized group of regular people but they are pressuring Congress and businesses rather than shaming their neighbors.