Poor Management - Anonymous employee Goodwill Employee Review

1.0
Jan 6, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Some of the education and career services they provide to the disadvantaged and economically disadvantaged are good programs. The employees at the entry and store management want to do the right thing. They provide great bargains to their customers.

Cons

I was in the store and saw little support from the top. We saw the district manager on a regular basis but she was always so stressed out and busy with items from her bosses there was little she would do for us. Our store manager didn't have the authority to do anything. She was always stressed out too! The CEO hadn't been in our store for years and it's never been renovated. It looks terrible! the pay is terrible and all the training is "figure it out yourself", there isn't any training! The turn over is always occurring in the stores since the pay is so bad and the work life balance. Plus the theft of items donated is terrible! We regularly saw employees from the donation side carrying out bags of items.

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Pros

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Cons

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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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