Slave laborer - Store Associate Goodwill Employee Review

1.0
Sep 23, 2014
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Pros

This is a hard one... I had a job I guess?

Cons

Oh man... where do I begin? I've held quite a few jobs but this was by far the worst... it was an atrocious experience AT BEST. I stayed there for 6 months due to needing to pay my bills and I'm surprised I made it that long. Ok, let's get to it shall we? Your paid minimum wage first of all, then your given the privileges of a student in grade school, after that you get a single 15 minute lunch break, management that is about as conniving and evil as sin, you get wrote up at every opportunity for even small infractions such as having a shoe untied and given a severe scolding in turn, you receive a massive plastic bin full of donated goods at the start of each day and if you don't finish it or there are too many returns (for any reason) you are written up, your expected to know the prices of everything in your given workstation to the point of being an expert be it in Electronics, Books, Clothing, Housewares, shoes, etc and if you price something incorrectly you are written up, if you back talk even in the mildest manner fathomable you are labelled as an insubordinate and the leash around your neck is tightened giving you a higher volume of write-ups on a more regular basis. I could go on for hours and hours and hours to the point of insanity but this job broke me like a wild stallion frolicking in the plains of Texas by a Cowboy. I have never in my life, before or after had such a horrid experience as working at Goodwill including the time when I rolled my vehicle after hitting a deer and nearly dying, I am not joking. I literally felt sub-human during my tenure at that establishment after the 3 Nazi Germany-esque region employee gatherings and constant punishment I was given almost daily.

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2.0
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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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