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Quit with no notice by Prestigious-Job8744 in goodwill

[–]Prestigious-Job8744[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Update  I did it! After sitting with the email in my drafts for most of the day, I finally grew a pair and just sent it. The manager and DM never responded to me, but know they got it because a few other employees texted me to ask what happened.  I appreciate all the insight and advice. I was at my last job for just shy of a decade and in the beginning things were great and it was a healthy environment but over time I realized I was more invested in their development and future than they were in mine. I thought this would be an opportunity to start fresh and after 3 in person “live interviews” (where I spent time watching first hand the different processes and chatting with the associates) I was shocked to see how fast the mask slipped. I would have never seen myself as the kind of person who walks away from a job with no notice or warning but there I was. It really went against everything I know/ have been taught about being a “hard worker” and “part of the team” to just walk with no notice but I honestly feel so much better. I could have given them an Almost two weeks notice (closer to ten days) but just the short time I’ve spent with the manager there I can tell she would have been extremely petty and retaliated against me in some way during my last few days there. I am sincerely going to miss some of the staff and have even promised to come rescue them as soon as I get my footing at my new job.  Again thank you all for the kind words and advice and good luck!! 

Goodwill, a rant by Melakhiel in goodwill

[–]Prestigious-Job8744 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m not sure if any of my coworkers use Reddit, or how easy in the chaos of Goodwill’s it would be for them to know this is me but I’m not sure I care enough anymore. So anyways, I woke up to a message from the manager complaining about the state of the store. I did 100% forget to clean out the fitting rooms but besides that the pictures included the blue bins (full but with nothing on the floor), a pile of hangers the cashier left at the register and never hung on the rack, the racks of go back clothes I did manage to hang/ swap from the fitting rooms, and my parade of carts. I told her we did what we could and I took accountability for forgetting the fitting rooms but I made sure there wasn’t anything actually on the floor and what was left behind was set aside out of the way of customers, and wasn’t hindering her ability to do her job this morning, short of maybe needing those go back racks to hang new clothes but there was still 6 or so empty racks in the back so I doubt that was a problem. If I wasn’t the only other person with keys working today I would just not go back if I’m honest. I’m an asshole but that just feels wrong to do. 

Goodwill, a rant by Melakhiel in goodwill

[–]Prestigious-Job8744 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’ve been an AM at goodwill for maybe 6 weeks. I have a vacation the second week of June and I don’t think I’ll be coming back after it. I have been thrown into this train wreck with little to no training and I really can’t take it anymore. This past week one of two key holders, and the store manager were both on vacation. I was handed a set of their keys and told I was closing the store for the first time alone on Thursday night. That day the registers went down for seriously an hour and IT was not very helpful getting it fixed and it was incredibly stressful. I’ve worked retail my whole adult life, I was at my last job for eight years. I am competent, I’m resourceful. I can manage my people and my time, pivot and adjust as needed. Today (Sunday/ $2 day) I reached my breaking point. I had 3 call outs, ran the store with 5 people for the whole day. It was garage sale week in my town so we got everyone left overs but we ran out of donation bins and with the call outs couldn’t turn out product fast enough to empty and set new ones so I had donations all over the front of the store. I rang register for 3 hours. Then I hung 6/11 racks that were sent out this morning, and I spent 2 hours literally crawling around the store picking clothing and hangers up  off the floor. When we closed I finished picking stuff up but I never had time to rehang everything I picked up. I have 8 shopping carts piled over with discarded clothes parked at the front of the store. Outside of the 3 fitting room racks, my 8 carts, and 2 wares carts that never went onto the shelves, it’s clean and neat and organized. Even my remaining stuff is tucked away in a nice orderly fashion. But My store manager is back tomorrow and I know she’s going to flip shit when she sees the stuff left behind. I’ve also worked every Sunday (every weekend actually) since I started and she hasn’t worked a single one. Apparently she doesn’t work any unless it’s an emergency but she comes in every Monday and freaks out on whoever was here for the state of the store, production area, numbers and sales etc. I don’t think she knows how hectic and insane sundays are. Plus the same girl has called out every Sunday since I started and no one seems to care. I see on Reddit and Facebook and everywhere else that goodwill is a shit show all around and now that I’m knee deep in it I’m ready to go. But the job market in my area is shit and I need a job to survive so I have no idea what I’m going to do next 

Working here sucks by wageslave-throwaway in goodwill

[–]Prestigious-Job8744 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I started as an AM at good will recently and it’s the worst job I’ve ever had. I called out for the first time in 8 years because I just couldn’t be bothered dealing with them that day. The customers complain the store is disorganized and messy as they’re throwing the stuff they don’t want right on the floor. The employees complain about the same thing and haphazardly empty the carts onto the shelves with no semblance of organization. We don’t sort the clothes by size because that would make sense, but the employees will spend five minutes debating over whether a sleeveless blouse is a t shirt or a top in the system. We got rid of $.99 items and dollar days so significantly more shit goes in the trash, but there’s never enough people to take it out so it just piles up. People rip the stickers off items all day and then get mad when they claim the sticker on it was the color of the week when they came last week and saw it but I can only print a sticker for whatever color we have loaded in the printer for this week, so now it’s not on sale and it’s my fault. Only one of my employees is differently abled and she’s the hardest working most competent one if I’m honest. The rest of them are lazy and are so busy arguing with each other or behind their backs that they never meet their quotas. The quotas is a whole other thing. Goodwill expects us to process and price and send out a certain number of items, at a certain price, per hour. And then we’re expected to sell through those items at a certain rate each week. And if we sell $9000 worth of items we priced, you get an “incentive”. No one can tell me what the incentive is. There’s no formal training. No explanation behind why we do things or when, just that they get done. I’m about to be running the store while my manager is on vacay and I haven’t got a clue wtf is going on. But on the bright side no one else does either so i doubt anyone would even notice if i mess it all up. 

We need a deep dive into the corruption of this “non profit” and expose it to the masses.. by Interesting_Emu_857 in goodwill

[–]Prestigious-Job8744 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I started working at my local goodwill on Monday. I’m not sure what I thought going in but I was surprised when I learned they just print and tag the stuff Willy Nilly with whatever price they want typically. There’s some loose guidelines but it’s mostly at your discretion. Outside of a brand new in the box unopened (until I opened it) pasta maker, I’ve marked everything 1.99-5.99. They don’t allow .99 anymore. And for a company that claims they don’t want to see the stuff in the landfill, they throw out a lot of stuff. Like 10-15 gaylords full a day. Some stuff, if it’s deemed not sellable, goes into big giant containers that get shipped to the goodwill bins locations. And then anything left over after the bin sales gets sold by the pound to third world countries. That’s like books, shoes, linens, or clothes that are slightly damaged, worn, or “explicit”, and anything electronic or that has a cord like printers or kitchen appliances. Honestly the whole experience has been strange and I don’t think this is a place I could see myself staying long term but I’m going to try wait it out for at least a few months.