Production Manager - Production Manager Goodwill Employee Review

3.0
Nov 13, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Great for beginners learning how to manage people. You are given a good deal of responsibility which can feel good to the right person.

Cons

work environment, opportunity to advance, and is not true to their core message. This is a non-profit that gives bonuses to managers and asst managers which deter the person from making the best decision for the community. Examples are paying all regular employees minimum wage, even with 5+ years of experience, and overcharging for donated products. These things should be sold to the community at a fair price but these prices are comparable to most stores. Their job training program teaches people to work for only goodwill. All their "goodwill" they put out to the community is advertisement only.

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5.0
Feb 1, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

This place does so much good for the community that the community does not know it does.

Cons

Not a con with the organization, but the space is hard to keep up with compensation wise

2.0
Jun 9, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Work fulfilling both physically and socially, dealing with donors and fellow employees for this retiree and former legal and business professional.

Cons

Creepy, clannish, petty, and cultish management is more interested in humiliating others under the guise of "following rules" many of their own making than in ensuring that the work facility is properly equipped to handle daily workflow. Communication nonexistent. Managers pop in and out, apparently stationed at some secret location.  Robotic replies to legitimate work questions when they weren't out-and-out nasty.  I've occasionally dealt with this sort of folks, but never an entire collection of them cheering each other on as might appear in some deleted scene from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Poisonous and bizarre. Recommended only for the Abnormal Psychology student.

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