My first job. - Anonymous employee Goodwill Employee Review

4.0
12 May 2014
Anonymous employee
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Pros

It is a good learning experience. Organization and decision skills improve. Tasks can be simple. Environment is enjoyable and can be relaxing.

Cons

The hard floors are killer on the knees and back. Sometimes customers can be quite rude and can donate pure garbage which they expect you to deal with. I've had to deal with poopy diapers and rat nests. The management treated us workers like thieves and threatened to place cameras everywhere to watch us.

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5.0
9 May 2026
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Pros

I get paid consistently. I don't have to stress about restraining people or raising my voice. My clients are friendly.

Cons

The pay is that good. I have to travel to NYC every day.

2.0
9 June 2026
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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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