A Great Mission - A Demoralizing Workplace. - Anonymous employee Goodwill Employee Review

2.0
Jun 2, 2009
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The mission and the customers make coming to work worthwhile. The direct service team is eager to welcome new people and you can feel hard they balance their efforts to be both organizationally compliant with innovative approaches.

Cons

Staff are given few opportunities to demonstrate their unique talents and skills, and stifled from innovative actions or initiatives. Praise is hard to come by, and exec. leadership personalities are demoralizing and sometime abusive. Goodwill is a place you want to commit yourself to, but you quickly see it as a place to transition from.

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Cons

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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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