A gentleman in Michigan has landed the position of his dreams doing work at Costco after his daughter’s Twitter thread went viral previous thirty day period.
“my dad has been laid off due to covid and now that he is vaccinated he’s itching to go back to get the job done, so i informed him i might assistance him with his resume. i requested him where by he wants to perform, and he claimed, SO earnestly, ‘costco seems like a good place’ i’m gonna cry lol,” Rebecca Mix wrote.
Combine, a youthful-adult author, extra that her father, who is named Jeff, “is a really good gentleman who will get the job done obnoxiously & is painfully handy.”
She also shared a image of Jeff donning oven mitts, posing proudly next to a plate of nachos.
“He is but a continuously cheerful man, really fantastic at generating nachos, who simply goals of doing the job for costco,” Mix spelled out.
Two months later on, Blend had an update for her a lot more than 20,000 followers. She had acquired a message from a Costco retail outlet manager in Michigan.
The notice examine in aspect, “What is your Dad’s title? Has he filled out an software on our site? That would be the very first necessary move for a doable interview. I look ahead to listening to from you relating to this.”
Jeff aced the interview and previous week, Mix shared a image of his Costco Wholesale personnel badge.
In accordance to Mix, Craig Jelinek, who has been president and CEO of Costco since 2012, had a hand in Jeff’s choosing.
“craig jelinek if u see this i have no plan how u found my tweets but congrats on hiring my dad he’s the ideal many thanks!!!!!” Blend wrote. “also my father already tried to persuade me to indication up for a costco membership lol. guy has not even started out nevertheless. what have i done.”
Combine edited her Twitter bio to read, “rebecca blend, proud daughter of a costco worker,” and the congratulatory messages poured in.
“AWESOME! Congratulations to your father — and to the Costco manager, who has almost certainly just produced 1 of the very best hires in that department,” wrote a single particular person.
Added a different, “OMG Congratulations to Jeff prolonged may possibly he assist folks locate issues up on the tall cabinets and have a $1.50 hot canine each time he needs!!!!”
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