No training, no room for growth, no empathy - Associate Goodwill Employee Review

1.0
Oct 31, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Having a full-time job in town.

Cons

1. Management is detatched and jaded from working at Goodwill, and will want you to feel the same, and they will wonder how you can come into work in a good mood every day, while they can not. 2. Goodwill is not a charity organization, the money they earn (from free donted goods) is used to pay minimum wage employees, while the rest is used to line the CEO/Owners pockets. 3. There was a hiring/promotion freeze at the location I was working at, so any transfer or promotion was automatically denied without consideration, and you were locked into your role for an indeterminate amount of time. 4. All store employees were told hours were to be distrubuted to "whoever works the hardest." 5. Absolutely unbearible amounts of pressure and time-crunches.

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
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Pros

Having a set schedule every week with 2 days off in a row Goodwill scholarship program is fantastic lots of career advice and support giving back to the community

Cons

Working weekends, nights, and holidays The customers are so rude Management says one thing but then caves to the customers which undermines the employees so many exchanges the clientele rude people the customers

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