Last resort employment - Retail Associate Goodwill Employee Review

2.0
12 Nov 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Will hire almost anyone, for better or worse. Offer generally available benefits. Training not required. Insight into company's actual workings and foot-in-the-door to retail. Easy to work a schedule and draw a paycheck without concern for advancement, longevity, or particular care for the work. Non-profit staus may encourage one to believe they are actually doing good.

Cons

Peter Principle in action. Work scheduling a mess. "Customer service" used as excuse for breaking their own policies to the detriment of employee morale and safety. Poor management goes unchecked. Revolving door of employees, due to hiring failures, disappointing working conditions, and indiscriminate firing of people. Poor pay. WASTE. Riding on the laurels of a non-profit status and history of a name. Sales promotions almost nil. Employees treated as invaluable and expendable. Could be a decent workplace if employees were much better trained and treated with value.

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5.0
13 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Mission is impactful, exposure to more training and skills, team environment, great way to gain experience

Cons

Low pay compared to competitors within job market, outreach events after hours and on weekends, framework for growth not clearly established

2.0
9 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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