Very poorly run - Store Manager Goodwill Employee Review

1.0
Sep 17, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Your customers leave happy. Especially if they are a low income family shopping for their children. It's a good feeling. Time off benefit was good.

Cons

Everything else. I was a store manager of Goodwill of the finger lakes in upstate New York. They really romance you to get you in and sell the organization to you more than the other way around. Very little support from the home office. Your people do insane amounts of work under a lot pressure for minimum wage while the CEO makes over $300k a year at a so called non profit organization. The retail staff at the main office is strictly amateur hour. District manager will not listen to anything you say and always talks over you. There is never any communication between people at the office and nobody ever had any idea what anyone else is doing. They plead poverty all the time yet spend tons of money on ridiculous things like donation centers that get 20 donations a week. It's next to impossible to get anything at your store fixed if there is a maintenance issue.

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5.0
May 9, 2026
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Pros

I get paid consistently. I don't have to stress about restraining people or raising my voice. My clients are friendly.

Cons

The pay is that good. I have to travel to NYC every day.

2.0
Jun 9, 2026
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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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