Not bad but not a long time career. - Sales Associate Goodwill Employee Review

3.0
13 Feb 2014
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Pros

I met a lot of nice and good people here. The work was very easy and simple. Hours were not bad either and I enjoyed it. Manger bought us doughnuts a lot. I would have stayed there but my other job would not work with the set Goodwill hours which was sad but I enjoyed my time at Goodwill.

Cons

Low pay and you cannot change your hours. They are set and you can not do anything about it. One of the mangers were horrible but the other was very kind and awesome. Work was easy but sometimes they acted as if it were more serious than it is. Being a cashier was kind of annoying because they wanted you to count some strange way... Plus there was no water fountain in the store which was weird.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
28 Apr 2026
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Pros

I enjoyed my customer service work - helping people as a part of a larger mission to help the community. I found it rewarding to advance to supervisor and pick up new skills and responsibilities such as safety auditing and supply management. And of course it was always interesting to sort all the interesting and unique donated goods.

Cons

A change in management over the past year+ has been very difficult for me. I found my work more heavily scrutinized and criticized in ways that felt unclear and unfair. The new manager had a clear bias towards certain employees, gossiped openly and loudly and often with explicit HIPAA violations, and made it literally impossible for me to keep track of inventory supplies as a part of my responsibilities. Communication between management and associates - and even between management and supervisors is very poor. Workplace culture has seemed to shift from being very flexible and people-oriented to more stringent on policy and focused on revenue. Trust in upper management is strained. Day to day if you stick to your task and focus on production, you'll probably do well. But for me it isn't what it used to be.

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