Great Company - Making Friends/Trusting Mngmt will work against you - Customer Service Associate Goodwill Employee Review

3.0
Apr 17, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Capitol Hill is a unique wonderful store. Great Benefits, Free Education & Training and employee support through the trainers and educational leaders. Regulars at CH GW are great and the store is Seattle Goodwill's One Of A Kind Store. DM - Paul is wonderful, he may seem hard on ya yet his opinions are spot on and if viewed constructively can offer great feedback on improvement needed.

Cons

Capitol Hill has High Turnover, Poor Management, Back Biting, Gossip that in some cases are traumatic. There is a constant playing of favorites, false fronts and one can be singled out for trying to aid in remedies for the many unresolved Issues. Promotion is many times dangled in faces stating to work harder being a role model to prove value. While many employees especially management waste time, stand around gossiping or stay in the office not running the floor. It is often the ones whom lack the 110% work ethic and are part of the gossip and slow or no work click...Who will get the position thats been dangled in ur face

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Cons

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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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