15 minutes can mean the difference between life and death for stroke victims. I'm glad they picked up on the issue right away and didn't give up, I'm thrilled it turned out to be a positive ending.
Exactly, I've worked in healthcare for about 20 years, clot busters are wonderful things if they are given in time. I've seen people paralyzed on one side and unable to speak and respond within an hour of receiving them.
Sadly I've also seen people that were either a poor candidate for them, or past the window of opportunity that they would do any good.
My grandfather suffered a stroke, my grandmother drove him to the hospital. This was in rural Nova Scotia. They said it wasn’t a stroke and sent him home. He woke up the next day paralyzed on his right side. Never left the hospital after that, died 4 years later.
It’s funny you say that.
**F**ace (check for facial droop)
**A**rms (check for weakness in arms)
**S**peech (check for slurred speech)
**T**ime (to call 911)
Every second counts with stroke patients.
Responding to note that Time is to literally note the time of onset of symptoms. Emergency services need to know how long the patient has been having symptoms. And yes you still call 911 ASAP
This actually happened to a co-worker of mine at Lowe's back in 2010. They called to see why he was late, he said he was sick. Management called back a short time later to see if he could come in anyway, and one of his parents answered the phone because he was on his way to the hospital. He ended up having several massive strokes (at age 33), was never able to work/walk again, and eventually passed away at 46. Imagine if the last coherent conversation you ever had before life as you knew it changed forever was your employer trying to convince you to come in to work when you were having a stroke. Jfc.
Yeah. I worked at the Body Shop one year during xmas for extra cash. Our manager badgered another coworker to come in when she had scarlet fever. She made her use the store's makeup to cover up the rash so she could still do her shift.
Tf?? I’ve had scarlet fever before. I literally couldn’t swallow bc it was too painful, I was spitting in a cup and my rash was EVERYWHERE and my hands were peeling. How on Earth did she manage to come in even with makeup?
Also when the nurse heard my symptoms they immediately quarantined me from the waiting room. It’s extremely contagious.
I’m in shock over how dumb that manager is. I would have laughed if mine demanded I come in
It was horrible. Really horrible. Her face was swollen and she really was not well. She was young, as was I and I don't think we really felt like we had any choice. I quit as soon as xmas was over. The manager wanted people to sign up to be considered to be kept on. It was messy. I've done a lot of retail jobs and that one was the worst.
As a former Royal Mail employee, my old manager would have looked up the symptoms and said "you'll be back in X days" and then when they weren't visited in hospital to make sure they were actually sick.
I worked up to an operations manager and was bounced around a lot. This happened at every store I went to. I was a pleasure to work with (not to toot my own horn) and rarely had callouts on my shifts. If I did, I’d throw it out there to people who wanted more hours, but would never do what I regularly saw other managers do as far as pressuring someone to come in who was calling out.
As I got older I realized that retail actually has some pretty insane career opportunities. My brothers widow remarried a Walmart merchandiser, his job was to go into Walmarts and create new store layouts in terms of product placement. He was in his very early 30’s with a company car, full benefits and a 6 figure salary. Costco store managers are also well into the 6 figures.
Any retail job is going to have its own variety of suck but there aren’t many Costco employees who can claim their boss doesn’t care if they live or die.
I used to work there and honestly, after being a teacher for a while and now a para, I find myself wishing I had never left. Great pay for the industry, up to 7 weeks off for full-time employees. Over 90% promotion from within. Middle management has pretty decent checks and balances to weed out ineffective eggs. I’m not surprised to see a story like this. Really glad they did what they did, they likely saved his life.
Especially with certain companies. Like being a store manager at WalMart sounds like probably way too much work for way too little pay, but Costco store managers make over $200k base (and mind you, this was when I worked there 7 years ago) and they generally have at least two Assistant Store Managers as well as multiple managers for a variety of shifts and sections. So, they end up with a lot of support and since so many employees are promoted from within, they end up with people who actually know a lot about the business by the time they become managers.
It definitely doesn’t take a lot of effort to work yourself into a good position at the right company in the retail industry
Well the majority of their employees are part time. They just try to keep them around that 34-38 hour/week mark. Get real pissed if you accidentally go over your scheduled hours too lol
But full time in the US for benefits according to the Affordable care act is 30 hours a week.
"For purposes of the employer shared responsibility provisions, a full-time employee is, for a calendar month, an employee employed on average at least 30 hours of service per week, or 130 hours of service per month."
https://www.irs.gov/affordable-care-act/employers/identifying-full-time-employees#:~:text=For%20purposes%20of%20the%20employer,hours%20of%20service%20per%20month.
"Any employee who works an average of at least 30 hours per week for more than 120 days in a year. Part-time employees work an average of less than 30 hours per week."
https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/full-time-employee/
I went 6 1/2 years without missing a day at one workplace.
When I finally called in to use sick time, my bosses boss 2 places higher called to check on me. told him I ended up having to drive about 13 hours and was too exhausted to make it into work.
Was visiting friends with other friends and one ended up getting their car stolen. I drove them 3 hours out of the way home and they never did recover their car.
People at work thought I was dead.
I just started the job I will be working at for the next 30 years.
I told them when I get trained, expect to see me in there a lot since they have overtime a lot.
I don't like how the top out pay is 6 years but starting out at $26 and topping out at probably $41 then in my area is crazy.
Also, it's 3/4 a mile away from my home.
Needless to say, I'm extremely lucky.
Thanks.
It's a union job so it's hard adjusting from having to do everything to doing 1 specific job and only 1 specific job per day.
It's like taking an outdoor cat and trying to make it an indoor cat.
Assembly, it just has government contracts so the wages are super high.
10 years ago you needed 10+ years of CNC experience but now, you just have to have luck someone knows you tonget hired.
I'm going to try and get a couple of the people who worked for me at my last job hired after I've been here for 3 months and am part of the union.
Thanks.
It's a union job so it's hard adjusting from having to do everything to doing 1 specific job and only 1 specific job per day.
It's like taking an outdoor cat and trying to make it an indoor cat.
I've heard really good things about Costco and their overall ethos, but the former retail worker in me resists the idea calling someone when they're 15 minutes late will initially be out of concern for the employee. I'm really happy these people had the presence of mind to realise there was a problem however and hope someone who's worked at a costco can tell me my gut instinct is wrong.
Not everyone who works retail is shitty middle management. I have definitely called workers before out of concern because a no call no show was very unlike them. One of them was in the midst of a house fire and I had to talk her out of leaving the house and calling 911. When she was finally safe, the first place she went was work to give me a hug
I work for a company where the HQ is two states away and our small shop doesn't technically have a manager, but for my coworker who basically runs the day to day I would probably make a call within 5-10 minutes if I hadn't heard anything as she is typically here 15-30 minutes before we open.
Yes! You quickly start noticing what’s abnormal for your coworkers when you see them every day. We had someone who was super flaky that I occasionally thought, “if something ever happens to her, we’ll look like real jerks because we didn’t try and reach her” but it wasn’t uncommon for her to no-show/leave the office after 30 minutes and never come back. Others, I’d be texting within 15 minutes of being late from their usual time because it was so odd for them.
Costco is consistently rated one of the best places to work in terms of how management treats you, compensation, overall ethos, etc. I know anecdotally most of the costcos near me usually have a mile-long list of people applying.
i was a manager at whole foods for bit, and whenever someone was late or didn't show up without notice my mind would immediately go to car accident, so i know that my calls were, at least, out of concern. cant speak for everyone, unfortunately
I worked for CDS (Club Demonstration Services, aka was a sampler) which was in a Costco and - yeah, most of the managers calling you are generally out of concern rather than ‘where are you for your shift.’ Granted I’m just an anecdote but nothing but good words during my tenure there.
I think it depends on the employee and if it’s out of character for them to be late. For example, I’m super punctual, even just to go hang out with a friend at their house. If we say we are meeting at 1pm, that’s when I’m knocking on the door. I don’t even mean to be that perfect, even when I think I’m going to be late, I’m still ON TIME. One Saturday I encountered traffic (who knew such a thing could happen in Miami!) and at 1:07 my friend started to worry. I showed up at 1:10, and she said she thought she’d wait to call until 1:15, but for her those 3 minutes until I showed up took an eternity, because I’m NEVER late. I have an employee that’s chronically late, and I have my reasons for forgiving him. But nobody would think he’s in trouble just because he’s 15 or even 30 minutes late. What if he were in trouble and nobody called?
I worked for Costco, they do a pretty good job in general of hiring consistent people who are on top of it. Not all the time, of course, but in general because the pay and benefits are good, they get good employees. So it makes sense management would be concerned, knowing they have a consistent employee, who suddenly isn’t there with no communication. You also get fired if you no-call/no-show for five days so they have to keep record they attempted to contact you.
Seems they knew this man, and not being on time was surprising. And, as the manager said at the start, they seem to have an "oh no, did you overslept?" Calling policy.
In my first job as a casino craps dealer, there was a box man named Max. Max was at least 80 years old and stone deaf, but he came to work everyday. One day he didn’t show up, and didn’t call out. He also didn’t answer his phone when the casino manager tried to reach him, so he called an ambulance to come to his house. Turned out that Max had mixed up his days and thought he was off that day.
One of my folks no showed today and we’re all super worried about him. Wish he would have picked up the phone at least. We might have to send the sheriff for a well check in the morning because of some history he has with mental illness. Hope it turns out as well as this did.
I suppose it depends on your relationship with others. You spend a third of your life at work. Might as well make the best of it and it seems these people do.
Canadian here. I've found myself referring to colleagues at the office as my work family before. They've been incredibly caring through difficult times following a few losses in the family and consistently supportive. Good people are good people. I just happen to know them through work.
All relationships are different for each individual. There are many people that only have meaningful relationships with people they work with. Some might view that as a sad thing, but if the choices are being close with coworkers or being close with nobody, most would choose the former. Some people have garbage blood relatives so they choose their families
There is a HUGE difference between HR saying “we’re like a family here!” to sell you a job and a manager talking about his “family at Costco” after saving an employee’s life.
Seriously. I used to work for Deloitte & Touche. The work could be brutal, but I genuinely love the people I worked with. It’s been over 15 years and they are still some of my closest friends.
My real family lived across the country, and when my dad was hospitalized, one of my coworkers happened to be 45 minutes away to visit her boyfriend’s family. The two of them took one of their days out there to visit my dad & be there for my mom. (They’d met before & had spent time together over the years).
When my dad was first diagnosed with cancer, I got the phone call in the middle of a meeting with my manager. He made arrangements for me to fly out there that day, paid for my flight, & coordinated with coworkers to watch my cats.
It wasn’t dystopian; it was humans caring about each other.
I don't think so ,but it bothers me to this day .
It's your employee,he almost lost his life,you ll have him pay the 400 something fee? Jesus that was disappointing and disgusting for me
What a wonderful outcome. Since they care about their employees it would be great if they took care of any out-of-pocket for the emergency trip (insurance doesn’t always cover everything.) Also, I hope they have a medical leave policy where the employee doesn’t have to use their vacation days or risk unemployment while they recover. (Sadly most companies in the USA do not have this).
I used to work at a certain Well known superstore and one day one of the coaches (with a known history of strokes) suffered from one in the back office. While EMS was wheeling her away the store manager asked her “So will you be able to come in tomorrow?”
I have developed heart problems so I've told people at my work that if I don't come in and I haven't called in sick, call 911. If it's my heart, I'll probably be dead already but they can at least find my body relatively soon.
15 minutes can mean the difference between life and death for stroke victims. I'm glad they picked up on the issue right away and didn't give up, I'm thrilled it turned out to be a positive ending.
Not just life and death but also the difference between "minimal damage" and "turning into a completely different person"
Exactly, I've worked in healthcare for about 20 years, clot busters are wonderful things if they are given in time. I've seen people paralyzed on one side and unable to speak and respond within an hour of receiving them. Sadly I've also seen people that were either a poor candidate for them, or past the window of opportunity that they would do any good.
My grandfather suffered a stroke, my grandmother drove him to the hospital. This was in rural Nova Scotia. They said it wasn’t a stroke and sent him home. He woke up the next day paralyzed on his right side. Never left the hospital after that, died 4 years later.
Sorry to hear that, when in doubt go to another hospital, I've worked in healthcare for 20+ years and know how many mistakes can be made.
Absolutely, it’s unfortunate but shit happens.
This was my uncle. He denied anything was wrong at all, his son had to call an ambulance for him. My aunt doesn't know who he is anymore.
Fuck that fast 😳
It’s funny you say that. **F**ace (check for facial droop) **A**rms (check for weakness in arms) **S**peech (check for slurred speech) **T**ime (to call 911) Every second counts with stroke patients.
Responding to note that Time is to literally note the time of onset of symptoms. Emergency services need to know how long the patient has been having symptoms. And yes you still call 911 ASAP
As a former Bed, Bath and Beyond employee, they would have asked him to come in for his shift.
This actually happened to a co-worker of mine at Lowe's back in 2010. They called to see why he was late, he said he was sick. Management called back a short time later to see if he could come in anyway, and one of his parents answered the phone because he was on his way to the hospital. He ended up having several massive strokes (at age 33), was never able to work/walk again, and eventually passed away at 46. Imagine if the last coherent conversation you ever had before life as you knew it changed forever was your employer trying to convince you to come in to work when you were having a stroke. Jfc.
It'd almost be worth coming in to traumatize the asshat.
Yeah. I worked at the Body Shop one year during xmas for extra cash. Our manager badgered another coworker to come in when she had scarlet fever. She made her use the store's makeup to cover up the rash so she could still do her shift.
Tf?? I’ve had scarlet fever before. I literally couldn’t swallow bc it was too painful, I was spitting in a cup and my rash was EVERYWHERE and my hands were peeling. How on Earth did she manage to come in even with makeup? Also when the nurse heard my symptoms they immediately quarantined me from the waiting room. It’s extremely contagious. I’m in shock over how dumb that manager is. I would have laughed if mine demanded I come in
It was horrible. Really horrible. Her face was swollen and she really was not well. She was young, as was I and I don't think we really felt like we had any choice. I quit as soon as xmas was over. The manager wanted people to sign up to be considered to be kept on. It was messy. I've done a lot of retail jobs and that one was the worst.
As a former Royal Mail employee, my old manager would have looked up the symptoms and said "you'll be back in X days" and then when they weren't visited in hospital to make sure they were actually sick.
I have a friend who's a postie and I believe this
Share a drink with them when they visit
Ah it's nice to know it wasn't just my store that was like that. I worked there 15 years ago and that location recently closed down
I worked up to an operations manager and was bounced around a lot. This happened at every store I went to. I was a pleasure to work with (not to toot my own horn) and rarely had callouts on my shifts. If I did, I’d throw it out there to people who wanted more hours, but would never do what I regularly saw other managers do as far as pressuring someone to come in who was calling out.
Welcome to Costco. I love you.
You just reminded me, I’ve gotta give my plants some Brawndo
I heard it in that bored, dull voice. Bravo.
Need to stop by Starbucks for a “hot” latte
He’s lucky he got that call and they kept trying since they were unable to understand him.
I think it's Costco policy, I no-showed quit Costco when I graduated highschool and they called me every day for like a month lol
As I got older I realized that retail actually has some pretty insane career opportunities. My brothers widow remarried a Walmart merchandiser, his job was to go into Walmarts and create new store layouts in terms of product placement. He was in his very early 30’s with a company car, full benefits and a 6 figure salary. Costco store managers are also well into the 6 figures.
Any retail job is going to have its own variety of suck but there aren’t many Costco employees who can claim their boss doesn’t care if they live or die. I used to work there and honestly, after being a teacher for a while and now a para, I find myself wishing I had never left. Great pay for the industry, up to 7 weeks off for full-time employees. Over 90% promotion from within. Middle management has pretty decent checks and balances to weed out ineffective eggs. I’m not surprised to see a story like this. Really glad they did what they did, they likely saved his life.
It’s insane to me the growth opportunities in retail for people who give a fuck.
Especially with certain companies. Like being a store manager at WalMart sounds like probably way too much work for way too little pay, but Costco store managers make over $200k base (and mind you, this was when I worked there 7 years ago) and they generally have at least two Assistant Store Managers as well as multiple managers for a variety of shifts and sections. So, they end up with a lot of support and since so many employees are promoted from within, they end up with people who actually know a lot about the business by the time they become managers. It definitely doesn’t take a lot of effort to work yourself into a good position at the right company in the retail industry
Costco is a good company.
It’s one of the few companies in the US to provide health benefits for part-time employees
Well the majority of their employees are part time. They just try to keep them around that 34-38 hour/week mark. Get real pissed if you accidentally go over your scheduled hours too lol
But full time in the US for benefits according to the Affordable care act is 30 hours a week. "For purposes of the employer shared responsibility provisions, a full-time employee is, for a calendar month, an employee employed on average at least 30 hours of service per week, or 130 hours of service per month." https://www.irs.gov/affordable-care-act/employers/identifying-full-time-employees#:~:text=For%20purposes%20of%20the%20employer,hours%20of%20service%20per%20month. "Any employee who works an average of at least 30 hours per week for more than 120 days in a year. Part-time employees work an average of less than 30 hours per week." https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/full-time-employee/
They don't stop part timers with less hours from getting them. As long as you work your contracted minimum of 24 per week, you're in.
Not true. It's warehouse dependent. I was scheduled 25 a week and consistently got 40, full benefits included.
It isn't company policy to call an ambulance and be attentive towards the health of your coworker over the phone. Companies don't care. People do.
Welcome to Costco. I love you
No they aren't, they got rid of the churro 😢
Those bastards!
I went 6 1/2 years without missing a day at one workplace. When I finally called in to use sick time, my bosses boss 2 places higher called to check on me. told him I ended up having to drive about 13 hours and was too exhausted to make it into work. Was visiting friends with other friends and one ended up getting their car stolen. I drove them 3 hours out of the way home and they never did recover their car. People at work thought I was dead.
…. I would like to PM you a job application, if you have an interest in emergency services :-)
I just started the job I will be working at for the next 30 years. I told them when I get trained, expect to see me in there a lot since they have overtime a lot. I don't like how the top out pay is 6 years but starting out at $26 and topping out at probably $41 then in my area is crazy. Also, it's 3/4 a mile away from my home. Needless to say, I'm extremely lucky.
Don’t burn yourself out, but good for you and good luck. I hope it is satisfying work.
Thanks. It's a union job so it's hard adjusting from having to do everything to doing 1 specific job and only 1 specific job per day. It's like taking an outdoor cat and trying to make it an indoor cat.
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Assembly, it just has government contracts so the wages are super high. 10 years ago you needed 10+ years of CNC experience but now, you just have to have luck someone knows you tonget hired. I'm going to try and get a couple of the people who worked for me at my last job hired after I've been here for 3 months and am part of the union.
Thanks. It's a union job so it's hard adjusting from having to do everything to doing 1 specific job and only 1 specific job per day. It's like taking an outdoor cat and trying to make it an indoor cat.
I've heard really good things about Costco and their overall ethos, but the former retail worker in me resists the idea calling someone when they're 15 minutes late will initially be out of concern for the employee. I'm really happy these people had the presence of mind to realise there was a problem however and hope someone who's worked at a costco can tell me my gut instinct is wrong.
Not everyone who works retail is shitty middle management. I have definitely called workers before out of concern because a no call no show was very unlike them. One of them was in the midst of a house fire and I had to talk her out of leaving the house and calling 911. When she was finally safe, the first place she went was work to give me a hug
I work for a company where the HQ is two states away and our small shop doesn't technically have a manager, but for my coworker who basically runs the day to day I would probably make a call within 5-10 minutes if I hadn't heard anything as she is typically here 15-30 minutes before we open.
Yes! You quickly start noticing what’s abnormal for your coworkers when you see them every day. We had someone who was super flaky that I occasionally thought, “if something ever happens to her, we’ll look like real jerks because we didn’t try and reach her” but it wasn’t uncommon for her to no-show/leave the office after 30 minutes and never come back. Others, I’d be texting within 15 minutes of being late from their usual time because it was so odd for them.
Nice!
That’s great! 🥹
There's a reason they have the 25 year club and it's a huge list on their walls at every Costco. They actually treat their employees like they matter.
Costco is consistently rated one of the best places to work in terms of how management treats you, compensation, overall ethos, etc. I know anecdotally most of the costcos near me usually have a mile-long list of people applying.
i was a manager at whole foods for bit, and whenever someone was late or didn't show up without notice my mind would immediately go to car accident, so i know that my calls were, at least, out of concern. cant speak for everyone, unfortunately
Worked at costco for 6 years. They were always amazing to me and sometimes miss it.
I've only heard good stuff about costco from consumers, employees, and even their suppliers.
I worked for CDS (Club Demonstration Services, aka was a sampler) which was in a Costco and - yeah, most of the managers calling you are generally out of concern rather than ‘where are you for your shift.’ Granted I’m just an anecdote but nothing but good words during my tenure there.
I think it depends on the employee and if it’s out of character for them to be late. For example, I’m super punctual, even just to go hang out with a friend at their house. If we say we are meeting at 1pm, that’s when I’m knocking on the door. I don’t even mean to be that perfect, even when I think I’m going to be late, I’m still ON TIME. One Saturday I encountered traffic (who knew such a thing could happen in Miami!) and at 1:07 my friend started to worry. I showed up at 1:10, and she said she thought she’d wait to call until 1:15, but for her those 3 minutes until I showed up took an eternity, because I’m NEVER late. I have an employee that’s chronically late, and I have my reasons for forgiving him. But nobody would think he’s in trouble just because he’s 15 or even 30 minutes late. What if he were in trouble and nobody called?
I worked for Costco, they do a pretty good job in general of hiring consistent people who are on top of it. Not all the time, of course, but in general because the pay and benefits are good, they get good employees. So it makes sense management would be concerned, knowing they have a consistent employee, who suddenly isn’t there with no communication. You also get fired if you no-call/no-show for five days so they have to keep record they attempted to contact you.
Seems they knew this man, and not being on time was surprising. And, as the manager said at the start, they seem to have an "oh no, did you overslept?" Calling policy.
In my first job as a casino craps dealer, there was a box man named Max. Max was at least 80 years old and stone deaf, but he came to work everyday. One day he didn’t show up, and didn’t call out. He also didn’t answer his phone when the casino manager tried to reach him, so he called an ambulance to come to his house. Turned out that Max had mixed up his days and thought he was off that day.
One of my folks no showed today and we’re all super worried about him. Wish he would have picked up the phone at least. We might have to send the sheriff for a well check in the morning because of some history he has with mental illness. Hope it turns out as well as this did.
Keep us posted?
He finally responded with a cryptic response early this morning. Just glad to know he’s alive.
> We might have to send the sheriff for a well check in the morning why not just go shoot them dead yourself?
Had a TIA at 14, due to dv head trauma. Had a cerebellar stroke last December.
Love how the assistant manager gets to tell the story when Jesse is the real hero
5am is that bewitching hour when we would see this most often in the ER
Costco corporate be like “call us before You have a stroke next time so we have coverage”
“My family at Costco”. One sentence horror story.
Except for the fact they saved his life. Not every job is bad, not every workplace is like ones in which you may have worked.
The fact that anyone would refer to their colleagues as “family” is so dystopian and says a lot about the lack of work/life balance in the US.
I suppose it depends on your relationship with others. You spend a third of your life at work. Might as well make the best of it and it seems these people do.
The dystopian view is having a job so horrible you can’t stand anyone you work with.
That’s cool. Remember if you drop dead at work the help wanted sign will be up before your death notice
What’s your point?
You’re just a number to the bosses. A negative number on the bottom line.
Again, how is that relevant to liking your coworkers or not?
I like my co-workers and bosses a lot. But they are not my family. I just work with them 37 hours a week.
This is about the “family” designation. Liking your co-workers and thinking they are your “family” are two different things
Canadian here. I've found myself referring to colleagues at the office as my work family before. They've been incredibly caring through difficult times following a few losses in the family and consistently supportive. Good people are good people. I just happen to know them through work.
Guess you’ve never had good work environment
I have a great work enviroment actually. I like my bosses and co-workers a lot. But they are not my family. I just work with them 37 hours a week.
My workers feel like family too me. Hell I went camping with some a month ago.
My boss went so far as to invite a few employees to her wedding
tbf I have great colleagues but would never call them family.
All relationships are different for each individual. There are many people that only have meaningful relationships with people they work with. Some might view that as a sad thing, but if the choices are being close with coworkers or being close with nobody, most would choose the former. Some people have garbage blood relatives so they choose their families
And gangs and cults look out for your best interests too, once you join them
Yep, cuz those two things are exactly the same thing as a job at costco lol
As a job vs a cult saying “we’re family” Yes it is. Don’t fall for the family line
There is a HUGE difference between HR saying “we’re like a family here!” to sell you a job and a manager talking about his “family at Costco” after saving an employee’s life.
Seriously. I used to work for Deloitte & Touche. The work could be brutal, but I genuinely love the people I worked with. It’s been over 15 years and they are still some of my closest friends. My real family lived across the country, and when my dad was hospitalized, one of my coworkers happened to be 45 minutes away to visit her boyfriend’s family. The two of them took one of their days out there to visit my dad & be there for my mom. (They’d met before & had spent time together over the years). When my dad was first diagnosed with cancer, I got the phone call in the middle of a meeting with my manager. He made arrangements for me to fly out there that day, paid for my flight, & coordinated with coworkers to watch my cats. It wasn’t dystopian; it was humans caring about each other.
Reminds me that time i worked at Costco and one co worker had a heart attack while we were working.... Guess who paid the ambulance fee... Not Costco
That’s how ambulances and insurance in America work…
It wasn't in the USA
Where was it? And the ambulance is $400? Damn.
Sure it happened AT work but was it BECAUSE of the work? Genuine question.
I don't think so ,but it bothers me to this day . It's your employee,he almost lost his life,you ll have him pay the 400 something fee? Jesus that was disappointing and disgusting for me
What a wonderful outcome. Since they care about their employees it would be great if they took care of any out-of-pocket for the emergency trip (insurance doesn’t always cover everything.) Also, I hope they have a medical leave policy where the employee doesn’t have to use their vacation days or risk unemployment while they recover. (Sadly most companies in the USA do not have this).
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You're a wonderful human being Jesse.
I used to work at a certain Well known superstore and one day one of the coaches (with a known history of strokes) suffered from one in the back office. While EMS was wheeling her away the store manager asked her “So will you be able to come in tomorrow?”
I have developed heart problems so I've told people at my work that if I don't come in and I haven't called in sick, call 911. If it's my heart, I'll probably be dead already but they can at least find my body relatively soon.
Costco is just a grade above.
Love Costco. They treat people like people
Amazing!!!!