Mixed bag on management - Production Associate Goodwill Employee Review

3.0
11 June 2024
Recommend
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Pros

They are very supportive with your life goals mostly depending on your management. The company as a whole does have great support for career building and mental health support. They do hire people with disabilities. It can be interesting what you get to price.

Cons

They dont pay you like at all for other retail jobs you can get this one pays so low. The raises were funny receiving 10 cents more gee thanks. Its kind of a mixed bag with management and how good they are. Some are really to the tee with the rules micromanagers and other are alright and lax. All the store are different in how they run too, District management has different rules they stress based on the area, Its a very hard job on your body after awhile if you work in the warehouse. You stand a lot and it is very dirty. This is a job to get you started working, Not a place you stay.

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5.0
4 Mar 2026
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Pros

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Cons

Inequity Low pay Lots of miscommunication

3.0
28 Apr 2026
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Pros

I enjoyed my customer service work - helping people as a part of a larger mission to help the community. I found it rewarding to advance to supervisor and pick up new skills and responsibilities such as safety auditing and supply management. And of course it was always interesting to sort all the interesting and unique donated goods.

Cons

A change in management over the past year+ has been very difficult for me. I found my work more heavily scrutinized and criticized in ways that felt unclear and unfair. The new manager had a clear bias towards certain employees, gossiped openly and loudly and often with explicit HIPAA violations, and made it literally impossible for me to keep track of inventory supplies as a part of my responsibilities. Communication between management and associates - and even between management and supervisors is very poor. Workplace culture has seemed to shift from being very flexible and people-oriented to more stringent on policy and focused on revenue. Trust in upper management is strained. Day to day if you stick to your task and focus on production, you'll probably do well. But for me it isn't what it used to be.

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