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Omaha Steve's Labor Group

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Salvador Dolly

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Sat Aug 24, 2024, 03:38 PM Aug 2024

Costco Employees Claim They're Being 'Bullied' & 'Abused' Over The Store's New Policy [View all]

Costco Employees Claim They're Being 'Bullied' & 'Abused' Over The Store's New Policy
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/costco-employees-claim-they-re-being-bullied-abused-over-the-store-s-new-policy/ar-AA1pkBd2

Costco shoppers haven't been shy about expressing their anger over the warehouse's new membership card policy. The new rule, which was implemented in some stores in January and is now rolling out nationwide, calls for mandatory membership card scans to enter the store.

As frustrating as the new policy has been for some shoppers, it turns out that Costco workers hate the mandatory card scanning, too. Or at least, they hate they way it's making some shoppers behave.

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"A bunch of you are mad. Now, imagine being the low level employee at the door that is instructed to enforce those policies. Imagine the abuse that YOU, the public, has subjected them to. Calling them slurs. Getting in their faces. Swearing at them. Threatening them. Assaulting them. Spitting on them. Complaining to them," they wrote online.

"That smiling face at the door is a low level employee trying to do their job. They don't make policies. They have NO influence," the worker continued.

"Yet they face abuse and mistreatment at the hands of the general public daily. I've seen coworkers reduced to tears, crying because a Member decided that it was OK to take out their frustration (bully) on a woman standing at a scanner. We're just doing our jobs, people. Stop being like this."

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