Goodwill Does More to Create Malice than Extend a Helpful Hand - Production Assistant Goodwill Employee Review

1.0
20 Nov 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Maybe the sense that you are giving back to the community.

Cons

But Goodwill politics and practices internally are dysfunctional at-best. In fact, Goodwill Industries was just publicly listed by the Human Rights Commission (HRC) as one of America's top 50 worst charities. This should tell anyone out there about its workplace culture and climate--fake, deceptive, aggressive and callous management empowered to mistreat employees, and just a plain ol' stressful, dirty job with wages just slightly above minimum wage for everyone except the management.

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5.0
24 Apr 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Easy work, enjoyable, good company

Cons

A little boring, not long term job.

2.0
9 Jun 2026
Recommend
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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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