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Re:In-N-Out managers earn triple the industry average by csdreamer7 on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @12:17AM (#16211217)
> There is no customer facing service aspect, and very little quality difference between employees. What quality concerns there are can probably be traced back to an individual employee very easily; returns due to poor packaging or wrong item can easily be pinned on the culprit.

I disagree; a counter argument would be Costco. Almost all of Costco has very little service interaction with their union employees. They have warehouses, distribution, and procurement that has little consumer interaction. It is difficult to find people to point what is what in aisle numbers and the lines in checkout can be very long. As far as I know all of the people who work in these facilities are union and they pay living wages and benefits.

The nice service workers who handle out free samples are contractors, not union employees the last time I checked.

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Re:In-N-Out managers earn triple the industry average by red_phone on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @02:10AM (#16211633)
As of two years ago, less than 8% of Costco’s workforce was unionized.

(Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/costco-wholesale-teamsters/u...)

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Re:In-N-Out managers earn triple the industry average by abritinthebay on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @06:12AM (#16212613)
Last time I heard that figure it had been asked why they weren’t and most replied they didn’t see a need - the company treats them well enough already.
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Re:In-N-Out managers earn triple the industry average by triplesec on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @10:52AM (#16214488)
Which could easily be due to a kind of Stockholm syndrome
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Re:In-N-Out managers earn triple the industry average by workthrowaway27 on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @11:00AM (#16214545)
Costco is known to be a pretty good employer.
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Re:In-N-Out managers earn triple the industry average by abritinthebay on Saturday January 27, 2018 @05:38PM (#16248504)
Hmmm but that trend would likely hold true across the US, unless you think Costco has some specific brain-washing process :)
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Re:In-N-Out managers earn triple the industry average by yalph on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @12:57PM (#16215608)
But as far as I know Costco is on the top ( or close ) of the list when it comes to employee happiness.
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Re:In-N-Out managers earn triple the industry average by lotsofpulp on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @02:10AM (#16211632)
I can't find any source that says Costco employees are in a union. It seems that a portion of them are, but the vast majority are not in any union:

https://teamster.org/content/costco-workers-stand-together

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Re:In-N-Out managers earn triple the industry average by bluedino on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @10:25AM (#16214263)
Right, but you can't just switch business models and expect things to keep running.

Sam's club couldn't just crank the pay of everyone and expect to remain profitable.

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