Employees deserve to be treated with the utmost respect - Anonymous employee Goodwill Employee Review

2.0
Jan 2, 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The common mission and energy of the workers is to do whatever it takes to empower their clients and to build their capacity to improve their lives personally and professionally. The company itself is a well-respected brand and entity no matter where it establishes itself so the community easily embraces Goodwill Industries.

Cons

The down side is that the management at my particular location was aloof, neglectful and/or dismissive and disrespectful of its employees. The most common issue was the general practice of management treating to and speaking to their employees like children and not being fair and balanced in their assessment, reward and/or discipline of the personnel. Furthermore, they provided ultimately no training and overall, had an unprofessional manner of operating the business.

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5.0
Mar 4, 2026
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Pros

Tuition reimbursement Fairly flexible schedule

Cons

Inequity Low pay Lots of miscommunication

3.0
Apr 28, 2026
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Pros

I enjoyed my customer service work - helping people as a part of a larger mission to help the community. I found it rewarding to advance to supervisor and pick up new skills and responsibilities such as safety auditing and supply management. And of course it was always interesting to sort all the interesting and unique donated goods.

Cons

A change in management over the past year+ has been very difficult for me. I found my work more heavily scrutinized and criticized in ways that felt unclear and unfair. The new manager had a clear bias towards certain employees, gossiped openly and loudly and often with explicit HIPAA violations, and made it literally impossible for me to keep track of inventory supplies as a part of my responsibilities. Communication between management and associates - and even between management and supervisors is very poor. Workplace culture has seemed to shift from being very flexible and people-oriented to more stringent on policy and focused on revenue. Trust in upper management is strained. Day to day if you stick to your task and focus on production, you'll probably do well. But for me it isn't what it used to be.

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