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3.2

46% would recommend to a friend

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3.0
Feb 27, 2014

Not a bad place to work

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Pros

Strong focus on mission. Strong focus on retail driven social services. Good community of people.

Cons

High employee turnover. Low salaries and little opportunity for upward advancement. I do think Goodwill prides themselves on the # of employees they have, but they don't really take care of their own and foster an environment where people would like to stay.

3.0
Feb 26, 2014

Good place to work

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Pros

pay was good, hours were good, the work was hard but i picked up most of my skills there.

Cons

management was horrible. they had policies but nobody ever followed them. it was all based off of politics and favoritism.

2.0
Feb 13, 2014
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Pros

My coworkers were great. They all worked extremely hard for very little above minimum wage. The customers were great and it was fun seeing the interesting donations we would receive.

Cons

Hard work that doesn't pay off. Our store was extremely short staffed (we had five employees at one time) yet senior management expected us to produce just as much as larger, better staffed stores. They did not communicate with us and when they did, it was vague and unhelpful. Hands down, the most stressful job I have ever had (and I have been Store Manager at three businesses in my life). Also, they refuse to hire people with even the slightest disability at fair wages. A man who was only physically impaired (in a wheelchair) applied to work for us and I attempted to hire him under the regular pay code. I was advised I would have to hire him as vocational (and pay him far less than minimum wage). I told my manager that he was not mentally impaired, and I felt that would be offensive to him. She told me not to hire him at all then.

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