Dad Gets 'Dream Job' at Costco After Daughter's Plea Reaches CEO

A Twitter user has proven that social media isn't all bad, after her viral Twitter thread landed a job at Costco in Michigan for her dad.

Jeff Mix, 58, had previously worked as a materials coordinator for a local hospital but was laid off due to COVID budget restrictions. His daughter Rebecca Mix took to Twitter to share a discussion she had with him about his job hunt, and the help she had offered, according to Fox Business.

"My dad has been laid off due to COVID and now that he's vaccinated he's itching to go back to work, so I told him I'd help him with his resume. I asked him where he wants to work, and he said, so earnestly, 'Costco seems like a nice place,' Im gonna cry lol," she tweeted on May 6.

"He's had the same email since before I was born and it is painfully dad-like and cannot go on a resume, so I am making him a new one. I was teasing him and said I was going to make his email 'pleasehiremydad@gmail.com' and he goes, 'hey, that'd get my attention,'" she added.

Rebecca Mix endorsed her father's character through his love of nachos, posting a picture of his cooking and writing: "Costco, Ik ur not on Twitter but if you see this please don't let him down. My dad is very nice, look at how proud he is."

According to her Tuesday piece for The Guardian, Rebecca Mix had only posted the tweets, "hoping people would get a kick out of it. At best, maybe someone might have connections to a local store." What she didn't expect however was that Costco's CEO Craig Jelinek would see the tweets and make contact.

Soon enough, a manager at a local Costco store in Michigan contacted her through Facebook, writing: "Our CEO was made aware of your tweet regarding you dad wanting to work for Costco and it's made its way to my desk through various channels. I don't use Twitter, so that is why I am reaching out to you via Facebook."

The manager then prompted her to get Jeff Mix to apply for an available position at the store.

"My dad has no idea how Twitter works, but he's very excited and wants me to tell all of you thank you for caring about him wanting to work at Costco," she wrote in a tweet.

Jeff Mix got through to the interview process, in which Rebecca Mix said he didn't mention the Twitter saga because he "didn't want to get into all that." She says this is "dad-speak for 'I am still very confused by that part, so I figured i'd best leave it alone.'"

After the initial tweet gained over 7,000 likes, followers were eager to find out what happened, but were left with radio silence for three weeks. Until on June 8, Rebecca Mix simply posted an image of her dad's new Costco name tag. "GUYS," she wrote.

"Last Tuesday, a text from my dad popped up from my phone. It was just a picture, and the words: Thank you. A picture of his new Costco badge," Rebecca Mix wrote in The Guardian.

Jeff Mix started his new role on June 10, and Twitter has been updated with how it's been going—well. According to Rebecca Mix, her dad's been humble about the whole experience, and didn't initially tell anyone he was the Michigan-Costco-famous "Twitter guy."

"Today's his first day, and they were showing him around and one of the employees said, 'I wonder if Costco hired the Twitter guy yet,' and my dad goes 'I am the Twitter guy,' and everyone freaked out because he hadn't told anyone about it," she tweeted.

Newsweek contacted Rebecca Mix for comment.