Poor management, great benefits. - Retail Sales Associate Goodwill Employee Review

2.0
Dec 28, 2013
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Pros

Goodwill offers paid time and a half financial classes. You learn a lot in these free and paid classes that feed you, too. There was also the incentive of an extra $250 if you put your own $250 in a savings account. Goodwill hires criminals and mentally handicapped that can't find jobs elsewhere (also a con). They offer tuition reimbursement, an awesome retirement benefit, low premiums on healthcare. They don't genuinely care if you are 5 minutes late to work, even on a regular basis. They will always work around your schedule. There is a resource service that comes on a monthly basis to touch base with employees about everything from childcare to food stamps to doctors. There is also a department that deals with loans if you can't find any way to get a loan for an immediate need.

Cons

The management team at our store all have different ideas of what, when, where, why, and especially HOW things are done. They break rules all the time for customers and employees. Hourly employees don't hold their weight. Expect jobs to be done incorrectly and not fixed until the Vice President of Retail shows up.

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Cons

The entire corporate office is beyond ignorant. Completely out of touch with reality, price gouging customers trying to raise profit margins for the non profit. Everyday at any second one call from corporate and there is a change to how everything has to be done, usually causing more issues only to blame people who had nothing to do with their ideas. They don't let the store manager be a store manager.. in fact, I'll sum up everything you need to know in one sentence.. they went as far as to install systems to remotely control the thermostat from their comfy corporate office. Imagine not just the employees but the customers constantly complaining. That is how out of touch with reality they all are.

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