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Arizona Goodwill Employee here! Donate elsewhere.

Saw a post recently in this sub about how very little of the money donated to Goodwill actually sees any use in the career services they claim to provide. While these services are provided, it is worth noting that the majority of the funding originates from government contracts and spending. Only roughly 1/8th of the donated proceeds actually go to the career services, while the remaining 7/8ths line the pockets of the wealthy. On the subject of donations, you should also donate clothes and other miscellaneous/electronic items to smaller, local thrifts instead. Very little of what we get is sold, and I myself have been personally tasked multiple times with pulling items off the shelves to be shipped off to be sold by the pound, or sent to the landfill (you know, that place Goodwill lauds themselves for never sending things). The pay is also shit, and the turnover at…


Saw a post recently in this sub about how very little of the money donated to Goodwill actually sees any use in the career services they claim to provide. While these services are provided, it is worth noting that the majority of the funding originates from government contracts and spending. Only roughly 1/8th of the donated proceeds actually go to the career services, while the remaining 7/8ths line the pockets of the wealthy.

On the subject of donations, you should also donate clothes and other miscellaneous/electronic items to smaller, local thrifts instead. Very little of what we get is sold, and I myself have been personally tasked multiple times with pulling items off the shelves to be shipped off to be sold by the pound, or sent to the landfill (you know, that place Goodwill lauds themselves for never sending things).

The pay is also shit, and the turnover at my location is so comically high that it would be laughable to hear my managers bitch about it if it weren't so pathetic.

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