Speaking of Goodwill. Not the altruistic advocate for disabled.
My disabled son takes photos of items for their online catalog. The workers are not allowed a chair at their work desk or station. Management said not having a chair increases productivity, each minimum wage staff on the production line, has an hourly # to hit. The higher productivity means more money for Goodwill. Kind of makes sense from a money perspective. (Clarification: Disability can be autism, sensory impairment or intellectual or medical impairment.)
The “no chair policy for hourly staff” applies to most production departments. Example if you work in the back sorting hangers, you have to take the mangled hangers out of the bin & hang them on the rack. You need to fill so many racks in an hour. Or hang so many garments in an hour. Same if you are assigned to photography, you have to complete catalog photos on assigned hourly #. Obviously if you use a w/c you are exempt from the No chair policy. But you still have the same productivity #. The productivity# is by dept, individual situations/needs are not a factor.
They told my disabled son he could not have a chair, no hourly employees/worker bees with a quota, can sit. It would decrease their productivity. And that’s not good for the bottom line. Goodwill fires you if you don’t trend up to ur assigned quota in 3 weeks. Even if disabled & placed there by the State Disability Services/ VocRehab.
His supervisor has a chair. And the supervisor doesn’t have a production quota. CEO has a nice chair. But the disabled have no chair. Goodwill logic️It’s incentive to work hard.
Gotta love Goodwill helping the disabled.