Years and years ago I was around 23 years old. I had recently graduated college and started my first full time career job. After working summers as a donation attendant unloading the old 100lb 30″ tvs and never ending bags of clothes i obtained a bachelors. I accepted a job/promotion as an assistant manager. Pretty much what this entailed was doing all the work my manager didn't want to do who sat in an office on their phone. I still unloaded vehicles, drove a forklift. And any free time was spent on a conveyor belt putting price stickers on free/donated merchandise. Customers just swapped those all the time anyhow.
One day I'm called into the office and asked if I did anything wrong. I said not that I know, I've bought some baseball cards but never sold them etc. They pulled up the cams and showed me ringinging up my gf (at the times) 45 year old mother. They said I couldn't leave unless I signed a paper saying I violated the friends and family agreement. Apparently we are not allowed to ring up friends or family of people we know. Umderstandable.. ish… But we had a line and it was her mother and I was an assistant manager.
To embarras things further when someone is fired from Goodwill Industries of SE WI they escourt them with a policeman that is called in.
How shitty is that?! I get walked out by a police officer holding my lunchbag. I smiled. Waved goodbye. Said cya and good luck.
Worst organization I've ever worked for and hard labor for underpaid staff. People literally took shits in the urinals and on the floor in that place. Staff was misused and underpaid for hoisting hundreds and hundreds of lbs of merchandise from a never ending carpool of vehicles. Imagine burgerking but instead of a drive thru handing out a 1lb bag of food you are pulling out 50-100lbs of junk and clothes from every car.
Also a ladder hit my coworker in the head and they made her sign a nondisclosure before she left.
When I was fired I was fired for 'cause' and didn't even get unemployment.
DO NOT DONATE TO GOODWILL!
THE EMPLOYEES ARE MISERABLE.
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Never sign anything an employer says you must sign before you leave. I should have sued them for my loss of hearing after dumping about 10 shopping carts of glass items into a metal compactor every shift.
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What they can't profit off your donation goes into a trash compactor. Doesn't matter what it is.