Reply #16: One of my former Girl Scouts

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is the manager of food services (she handles those food carts that block the aisles and make shopping at noon so much fun)at the Costco here in Charleston. She started when they first opened up several years ago at $10/hr and has gotten regular merit raises with the promotion to manager almost 2 years ago. She has sick leave, health insurance (with an optional dental policy), vacation time, overtime pay and life insurance and she has had those from the beginning...well, after the first 90 days. She loves her job and tells me that she doesn't know how she'd have managed as a single mother without it.