Despite the name, it's anything but goodwill. - Production Associate Goodwill Employee Review

2.0
29 May 2025
Recommend
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Pros

It gives second chance employment for those with less than sparking backgrounds and special needs

Cons

▪︎It's a greedy and misleading company in whole. The quotas that are humanly impossible. Even the long standing employees (17yrs) doesn't make the quota. ▪︎The manager at the one I worked at lied all the time to the employees and didn't take accountability for any of her mistakes. ▪︎ All the donations are priced by employees with no real training on quality, value or market price of things and the prices are decided willingly so the same two things can be priced totally different. ▪︎The benefits for suck, I was paying $300+ biweekly and it hardly covered meds. ▪︎ The training style reminds me of my dad... Non existent.

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5.0
4 Mar 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Tuition reimbursement Fairly flexible schedule

Cons

Inequity Low pay Lots of miscommunication

3.0
28 Apr 2026
Recommend
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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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