Goodwill reviews

3.2

46% would recommend to a friend

(9,238 total reviews)

Catherine Meloy

50% approve of CEO

39% positive business outlook

Goodwill has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 9,238 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Goodwill employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the ONG y Organizaciones sin fines de lucro industry (3.7 stars).

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9K reviews
1.0
Jun 19, 2013

Unfairly treated

Recommend
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Pros

You are able to enjoy the quality of life.

Cons

The wages are low. There are dishonest Store Managers. There are a tremendous amount of favoritism shown by the District Managers towards certain Store Managers. There isn't enough support for employees when needed for business or personal matters. The upper management only worry about bottom line.

3.0
May 15, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Good first job Helping community Cool stuff donated Get to meet members of the community

Cons

Minimum wage Weekend shifts Boring, repetitive tasks Lots of cleaning

1.0
Mar 20, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

When I was there, before the rules against talking to anyone had been installed, there was a good relationship with a lot of the regular customers and co-workers, a nice little community vibe, as long as you werent on shift with one of the managers-from-hell.....and if you are a thrift-lover, dealing with that kind of merchandise can be a lot of fun. Your shifts were regular shifts, not all over the place.You had 40 hours, period. Not great if you want only part-time, but at least you knew where you stood.

Cons

Oh, where oh where do I start. Im a hard worker, and no dainty flower, but jeez, this place WORKED YOU TO DEATH. I had actual injuries from the amount of slave-driving, and I've worked a lot of very physical jobs.There was an insane obseesion with "sweet-hearting"(giving "special" prices to your pals or family, or ethnic group-upper management openly discriminatory to hispanics, btw)and "stashing"(putting away something you liked for yourself in a less conspicuous place for later), a ton of rules, too many to even name here, to pre-punish employees for everything from not having enough back-breaking work cranked oput of you per-minute to where you were allowed to sit at lunch in case you were trying to steal from thier incoming donations....thats the tip of the iceberg...they were successfully sued for sexual harrassment the year I was there...(it was in uppper management, no less)...trust me, this is the like something from cool-hand luke and in NO WAY is there to help the disadvantaged or differently-abled amongst us, as one of the more hones mangers pointed out this job would KILL an actual disabled person in less than a week. I cant comment on how this store operates in other locations, with different regional management, but I find it hard to imagine there isnt much of the same problems to some extent everwhere. Goodwill exploits, not enables. I havent mentioned all the many things that were wrong with this place, but frankly, its too upsetting to revisit in full detail! oh, did i mention that it is minimun wage? in 2008/2009, i was sweating my GUTS out for the princely sum of 6.25 before deductions.

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