Pros
There is chance you will advance quickly. The pay is good, and a job is a job, and they do hire quickly.
Cons
Goodwill starts you off at part-time, and right now they are struggling to even give full time employees 32 hours. At my 30 day orientation, I was told of all these opportunities that would be open to me. I though wow, this sounds to good to be true.... and of course it was. First of all you are supposed to be doing a certain amount of training hours a year depending on you position and whether you are part-time or full-time. Well because we were not on budget, I had to literally put everyone on computer training hours on the computer, instead of sending them to the gcc where the good classes are given. I had an ultimate goal when I got there, and no matter how hard I tried, I needed some of the classes that were being offered at the gcc, but because of budget, my goals were tossed in the toilet. I wanted ultimately to work at the gcc doing something with computers, but could not get the proper training classes I needed to advance to that level. Everytime I tried to schedule myself for a certain class a the gcc, we were not on target for budget, so I had to cancel any class I had scheduled for myself or anyone else. There quite a few that wanted to take certain classes that could not because of this. There was too much gossip, dis-honesty, back stabbing, and just plain old he said she said so let's do this and nothing ever worked. everyone wanted to do things there own way and of course because management is always right... that is the way things got done. These are very selfish people. working for a good cause yes, but the amount of trust that is put into these people's hands...we should be ashamed of ourselves. The CEO makes 6 figures, but can not afford to give part time employees half the time barely 15 hours. wow now that is saying something.
