Very Physical Job - Anonymous employee Goodwill Employee Review

3.0
9 Jun 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

You get to see how recycling is important, you help train people who would never really have a chance to work if it weren't for Goodwill. You get to see them experience pride and self worth.

Cons

It's exhausting - you are expected to do a LOT of physical labor: lifting heavy furniture, overhead lifting, moving smelly clothes, dealing with donors handing you trash, dead animals and live bugs.

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Cons

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Pros

Having a set schedule every week with 2 days off in a row Goodwill scholarship program is fantastic lots of career advice and support giving back to the community

Cons

Working weekends, nights, and holidays The customers are so rude Management says one thing but then caves to the customers which undermines the employees so many exchanges the clientele rude people the customers

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