Neat stuff but horrible place to work - Cashier/Sales Associate Goodwill Employee Review

1.0
24 Jan 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Know when something good is going on the sales floor

Cons

Upper management makes all the money. I got highest raise of anyone in the store and was a 6% raise. There were people working there for 20+ years and still only got the base pay increase. So disorganized lots of internal strife. Look at tax income of goodwill in your area and see what the higher ups are getting paid. I think the president of the Atlanta stores was making $500,000 a year from a nonprofit but the to make it nonprofit they have to get rid of all the money or use it to buy a new store or supplies so I guess paying high dollar to the bosses covers a good chunk and the rest they can give to people trying to get jobs thru their career center. Jobs which you can't go anywhere or move up.

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5.0
24 Apr 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Easy work, enjoyable, good company

Cons

A little boring, not long term job.

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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