Everyone who's been to Costco is aware of the front entrance position: the employee that stands at the store's entrance to check customer's membership cards as they come in. Sounds like that would be one of the best shift assignments, right?
As it turns out, standing still, greeting happy customers as they come in to do their shopping, avoiding all the lifting, and basically just chilling out might seem like the best, but Costco employees actually think it's the worst. As one former employee wrote on Reddit, "Working the entrance/exit isn't physical at all but YOU WILL come across rude people making the job tough. By rude I mean not showing their card, blocking the entrance when taking out their card, or forgetting their card and pulling the, 'but I've shopped here for years!'" Yeah, that sounds pretty crappy.
Yet another Costco employee revealed on Reddit that all that standing is just plain boring. "[The] position I despise the most would be Entrance Door Member Service," they wrote. "It's boring, trying to stand in one place hurts more than moving around. You have to acknowledge every member that comes in."
