Buckle up....you're in for a bumpy ride - Management Goodwill Employee Review

3.0
26 Dec 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Considering Goodwill's tend to vary tremendously throughout the United States, I saw significant improvements during my time with the company. Leadership has an astonishing ability to improve or diminish the culture, the work ethic and any and all perks employees will see such as discounted days for employees to shop, raises, whether assistant managers make hourly or salary, etc. If you are driven and don't get caught up in drama easily you have the potential to go far as there are lots of opportunities for growth within the company.

Cons

On that note, the changes in leadership have been consistently every 3 years and we underwent extensive changes in 3 year increments. Some not always for the best. While we were a profitable and generally happy workforce, that all nose dived after our beloved CEO retired. The replacement team seemed to balk at our core values of integrity and this was even more obvious upon attending meetings where talks of covert donation receptacle placement and a fierce competitive market strategies replaced talks of our mission to help people overcome challenges to employment. Teams could not keep up with the incoming changes and the SOP's were not updated quickly enough to refer to. It was like someone turned off the lights but expected the same productivity and sales. Gossip, unrest, and people only out for themselves quickly took the upper hand.

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5.0
1 Feb 2026
Recommend
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Pros

This place does so much good for the community that the community does not know it does.

Cons

Not a con with the organization, but the space is hard to keep up with compensation wise

2.0
9 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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