It's a job meant for the able bodied and strong willed. - Cashier Goodwill Employee Review

3.0
7 Sept 2014
Recommend
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Pros

The good thing about working at goodwill is the steady pay. I also worked with some friends I'd gone to high school with which was enjoyable. Typically, with two weeks notice, you will get whatever requested time off you need. So long as the dates you ask for are not too much or too often.

Cons

The managers at my location seemed to be on a power trip. Very often a manager would come up to you and ask you to preform one task, then a few minutes later ask for something else to be done. Normally that'd be no big deal, but later on that day you'd get scolded for an incomplete task regardless as to whether you pointed out that you weren't finished with your original assigned task before being moved elsewhere. I had a stalker follow me around my store that my managers did very little about. It wasn't until he left me a love letter that anything was taken seriously. Like any retail store customers can be quite a handful. I once had a video game thrown at me because our return policy didn't allow for them to be returned. I also knew of another girl who had the same thing happen to her only she got shoes thrown at her head.

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5.0
1 Feb 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
9 June 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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