“Never did I think that working at Costco would be the same thing as a first responder. We’re fucking ground zero,' an employee in Los Angeles said.
Employees at a Costco in Los Angeles are sharing gloves, when they can find them. A supervisor at a warehouse in Austin has been calculating which bills she’ll skip this month if she has to keep missing work because she can’t stop coughing. A worker in the South is waiting for her COVID-19 test results, wondering how many of her colleagues she might have infected.
BuzzFeed News spoke to more than a dozen employees from Costco locations across the country. They are supervisors, truck drivers, door greeters, cashiers, pharmacists, stockers, and TV sellers and requested anonymity out of fear of losing their jobs. They are some of the nearly 30 workers who have contacted BuzzFeed News over the past few days, expressing their fear, exhaustion, and frustration at the lack of gloves, masks, sanitization equipment, and protocol.
“We were having 3,500 people allowed to come in at a time and no masks have been required,” a supervisor at that location told BuzzFeed News. “Everyone is sharing gloves. We’re bringing our own and if we have enough, we give them to each other.” At the same time, she said her warehouse had made $1.4 million one day last week. Managers at other warehouses across the country shared similar profits, balking at how they’ve far surpassed their Christmas and Black Friday numbers, yet their employees say they aren’t seeing any extra compensation.
What’s been the most agonizing, he said, and keeping him up at night, is when his staff do stay home for their own safety— “They are getting docked their own sick time and vacation.”If Costco employees want to stay home because they develop a cough, are pregnant, have an auto-immune disease, or are concerned because they're taking care of their elderly parents, they said they have to use their own paid time off or sick leave, which takes a long time to accrue.
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