Salvation Army Reviews

Pros

Excellent team of employees, always willing to give you time to ask questions.
Great executives and managerial staff

Cons

Personal vehicle is a must unless your in counseling program.
Needs more training for in home visit safety.

Advice to Senior Management

Have safety training include things about working in the field for in home visits. The current safety training is only for office and school/daycare environments.

Pros

Good Community
Nice Area
Beautiful Facility
Church in Facility

Cons

Long hours of doing nothing
Not enough busy work
Bad Management

Advice to Senior Management

Learn to schedual better
Fire those who do no work or take to long to get job done

Pros

San Francisco minimum wage, great co-workers, great team work and a place to meet some fun customers

Cons

lot of works and no chance of feedback/communication to the management

Advice to Senior Management

Please take some useful suggestions from ground level workers

Pros

The Salvation Army, despite it's size and international reach, is run like a family business. There is a reason that people work for the Army their entire lives and when they retire they have children and grandchildren that also work for the Army.

Cons

Resources are always low and budgets always tight. The Christmas season is very busy and can be quite stressful. The pay is below what you would make at a comparable position in the for-profit sector.

Pros

great retirement if you can can keep your mouth shut for 30 years.

Cons

too many to list! Low pay, management, leadership does not care about the employees, etc....

Pros

working with clients, helping others, fulfilling job

Cons

low pay but the experience is valuable

Pros

- Great benefits and vacation time
- Positive environment
- Passion among most of the staff about the mission of the Salvation Army

Cons

- Salaries aren't great (it is a non profit)
- Somewhat bureaucratic in their policies
- Can be a challenge to advance in the organization

Advice to Senior Management

It is understandable that there are reasons for many policies in place but at the Corps level, it is often very difficult to operate on a day to day basis while keeping within all of these policies.

Pros

the church setting is good, if you are into churches. there was alway food around. the rules were pretty straight forward.

Cons

its disorganized, had to come up with material from scratch. there's little discipline of co-workers who dont do anything.

Advice to Senior Management

give some training

Pros

Very flexible hours
A lot of hours during summer season
Working with kids (if you like kids)
Going on trips so you're not always stuck in one place
Form friendships amongst employees

Cons

Terrible communication amongst upper management
Very few employees due to financial cutbacks
Not many promotions/ raises
Minimum wage
Some kids are very disobedient

Advice to Senior Management

Come up with new ways to bring in revenue/ manage money better. Better communication so employees are not left knowing things at last minute

Pros

You were able to help those in need, benefits were good for those who could use them. Not alot of pros

Cons

Employees hired without approval and pay held back for several weeks until approval obtained. Staff over worked, If you were not a member of church you were treated differently. Staff that were members of church did not have to follow direction from their superiors that were not members of church. Staff personal issues discussed by management with other employees. Salaried employees unable to take time off when needed without extensive notice

Advice to Senior Management

Have life skills training for you management team. Read your bible completely not just choose scriptures that fit your orginazation