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Old 03-06-2010
magoosmomma magoosmomma is offline
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Wow! I would say so!! good luck! did they tell you they'd try to find a place there?
They said I would be hearing from them...
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Old 03-06-2010
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They said I would be hearing from them...
Excellent! Good for you! I wish I could have made it, I'm not above camping out at 6 am hahahaha, but I had work all three days

It sounds like they were rude to a lot of people though huge bummer.
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Old 03-06-2010
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coupld you post the ontario email or pm with it please?
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Old 03-07-2010
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I hope that some decent, qualified people actually get jobs, and not just those with nothing better to do with their time. Best of luck to all those who got in, I didn't even try since I had to work all day Friday from noon-11 pm and Saturday till noon. Now I am working overnight tonight til 7 am, but no way will I have the energy to stand in line after working all night, since I have to "work" again today on Sunday at Rhoda's.

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Old 03-07-2010
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2 friends of mine had 3 interviews yesterday with them and another only made it through 2.
I will pm the address Angie C.
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Old 03-08-2010
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Hey Puppy.. Could you also PM me the addy please. I would like to voice a few concerns myself.
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Old 03-08-2010
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I figure if you wait until about the middle of June you probably will get hired right away..half of the staff will probably be quitting by then as that is what happens in a lot of new retail businesses.
Probably the best approach by far!!! Or go toward the end of summer when students will be leaving for college.

IMO they offer higher than normal wages for warehouse/retail positions than other employers.....chances are most employees will end up spending the extra wages on goods and the company wins all around......and really you end up making nothing much more than if you worked at McDonalds for $9/hr.

Good luck to anyone who did manage to secure an interview.
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Old 03-08-2010
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hahaha, I can't even imagine someone crazy enough to leave that job in this city.
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Old 03-14-2010
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Yuck!

I went all three days to the job fair. On friday I got there at 4, they said that they were full and to come back on Saturday. The guy told me theyd be "opeing the doors" at 9am. So I showed up at 7:30am. I got to the doors and he said "Im sorry were full, come back tomorrow at 9am". I came back the next day to the same song and dance.
IMO they were very very very unorganized. They should have come up with a MUCH better way of sifting through the applicants. My father in law went and he sat from when the doors opened until they closed. He had 3 interviews. No offense, but if they were THAT busy, there should be no need for 3 interviews. The successful applicants should have come another time/day.
Because their hiring was so zoo-like. I cant believe such a huge chain, that has done a job fair many, many times before would be so ill prepared, and then have horrible people at their front door turning people away. Not a good reflection of what is to come.
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Old 03-18-2010
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What makes you think they care. Corporations don't care if you had problems with their interview procedures. They are here to make money. You will just get some automated response and then you will get blown off.
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Old 03-18-2010
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because we are their future customers and they can not take allot of bad publicity at this point with their "membership drive"
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Old 03-22-2010
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did anyone hear back yet, or know when people are supposed to? I didn't apply there, but know a lot of people who did, and I'm insanely curious! (ahhaaha, one of my friends say they pretty much wait by the mail box daily at this point o.o) Any who, just curious
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Old 03-22-2010
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On their facebook group it said Orientation was starting today.
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Old 04-08-2010
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Does anyone know of ANYONE else who actually got anything other than part time out of this botch job of a job fair?
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Old 04-08-2010
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I don't even know anyone who got a part time job. I wish I did, but I'm happy for everyone who got what they wanted
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Old 04-10-2010
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They are hiring part time now so that they can weed out the ones they aren't interested in and then possibly offer full time is what they were telling some of the people. Yes i do know some of the people that were hired.
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It really sucks for a few of my acquaintances who cannot leave their full time jobs on speculation of full time maybe eventually some day and so turned it down.
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Old 04-10-2010
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I know a couple of people that got hired. They were all told that it was a part time basis at first. Costco wants to make sure the people that they hired are a right fit. If they are a right fit, some will turn into full time, others will stay part time. Must make it hard for people to make a concise choice.
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Old 04-11-2010
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I just don't "get" that hiring policy. People were interviewed intensively in a day-long concentration camp style lineup, do they not trust their own instincts when hiring? When I was doing the hiring for my previous position, I knew within 5 minutes of sitting down with a person if I wanted them on my team or not, and I was only wrong once out of the 22 hires I did that year, I hired someone who I thought would be good and she failed to show up ever or return phone calls after accepting the job, but then again, there might have been circumstances that came up that were beyond her control. 4 times I was "forced" to hire someone I did not really want, because we were desperate, and all 4 were a total disaster from day 1. I still count those as knowing what I wanted, but we were in an extreme time crunch to get someone on the job. Some of my interviews were only 10-15 minutes long and in a hospitality industry with an average retention rate of 44%, I calculated ours at 70 %.

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Old 04-12-2010
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Is Cosco opening soon? May? Weird they have no bags in the store.
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