Difficult to achieve growth or promotion within the company and easy to be sabotaged by juvenile, vindictive management. - Team Lead Goodwill Employee Review

2.0
4 Jul 2020
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Pros

Flexible hours and somewhat relaxed working environment. No hard manual labor, nothing requiring brute strength or advanced intelligence and decent wages for the amount of work plus they hire felons and don't really do background checks or drug tests. Extremely easy to get a job there....the only thing they check and won't hire is sex offenders.

Cons

Usually part-time hours and only starts at$10.00/hr, jobs can be monotonous and boring, customer base is lower income/poverty level so you have to deal with some really trashy, low rent people, drug addicts and the homeless constantly. The management is usually inexperienced and uneducated, they promote from within the company so any high school dropout or drug addict can get a job there and within a few months be promoted to manager and then be in charge of the whole store. High turnover due to juvenile and vindictive behavior by management as well as favoritism, racism, discrimination and retaliation if that behavior is reported.

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5.0
13 May 2026
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Pros

Mission is impactful, exposure to more training and skills, team environment, great way to gain experience

Cons

Low pay compared to competitors within job market, outreach events after hours and on weekends, framework for growth not clearly established

2.0
9 Jun 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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