You can do better - Donation Attendant Goodwill Employee Review

2.0
Jun 5, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Co-workers are lovely. You get to sort some really cool stuff that people donate. You get a nice discount on top of prices that are incredibly cheap. You feel like you are contributing to a good cause.

Cons

Very low wage. Sorting donations is gross and disgusting work. My co-workers didn't sanitize the needles used on the pricing guns. All bosses in this general region have a reputation for being mean and verbally abusive. Mine was unpleasant and condescending. Training is subpar. Work behind the register can be very hectic when you have 8 people in line and they all have 1 - 2 carts that are full. Between the unsanitary work and the treatment I received and witnessed from my boss, the job wasn't worth it.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Jun 9, 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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