Look Out For Yourself Because No One Else Will - Production Goodwill Employee Review

3.0
17 Jan 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Steady paycheck is nice. Good benefits once you become elagible for them. Good feeling to be putting used stuff to good use.

Cons

Keep your mouth shut. If you say negetive stuff it will get back to the wrong people. At my last annual review (4th one) I got a really good review and then got an annual raise of thirty cents an hour. After taxes that might be a whole ten bucks take home a week. Seems the manager got fired before coming to work here for the way his employees got treated and is starting to do the same to some workers here. Do anything management don't like and you pay for it, with split-up days off and the worst schedules.

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5.0
4 Mar 2026
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Pros

Tuition reimbursement Fairly flexible schedule

Cons

Inequity Low pay Lots of miscommunication

3.0
28 Apr 2026
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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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