Decent Starting Job - Junior Manager Goodwill Employee Review

3.0
Aug 19, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Comprehensive training Flexibility between working the public front of the store or sorting roles in the back. Easy to learn assigned roles With good management, working with the team can be the greatest highlight.

Cons

Terrible pay Strict quotas to meet in sorting and organizing Just as a good manager and coworkers can be the best part of the job, a bad team can make the job a nightmare. It's customer service, so you're gonna run into difficulties with the public at some point. People can donate some gross stuff that is unpleasant to sort through.

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5.0
Apr 24, 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Easy work, enjoyable, good company

Cons

A little boring, not long term job.

2.0
Jun 9, 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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