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Goodwill is out of control
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this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2024
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I understand the frustration but Goodwill sells all that stuff to support it's job training and skills program. Here's the mission statement . Most people see it's value as a place to donate old stuff or to buy used clothes cheaply but the organization sees it's purpose differently.
So fun fact. The top story on their success story site is Google IT certification. That's a 50 dollar a month Coursera course, which will take a dedicated person a single month. You can go to community college for 25 dollars a month and walk into actual IT certification tests. Hell you can take an online bootcamp course for programming and cyber security for 10 percent of the normal cost and pay them only if you get a job in the field.
If giving people a fucking coursera course is the limit of their job training then it's functionally non-existent.
They hire disabled people because they can legally pay them less then minimum wage. They aren't the good guys.
How?
people on disability are only allowed to make a very small amount of money per month, usually 1000 or less, or they lose their benefits. I'm guessing that's why
But they still get minimum wage I assume, just schedule fewer hours.
nope https://www.npr.org/2020/09/17/912840482/u-s-agency-urges-end-to-below-minimum-wage-for-workers-with-disabilities
Yikes, that sounds terrible. And profitable.
Yeah learned about it on Reddit long time ago. It actually legal to pay them so low. Why goodwill hires disabled people.
If they want people to keep shopping there and providing the income necessary to maintain that charitable work, they should probably try to maintain the perception that they price things cheaply enough to make it worth digging through racks of second hand goods.
Very powerful statement, but I somehow doubt they'd be so committed to the spirit of it. Like someone else said, companies are allowed to underpay disabled employees.
The jobs training program where they hire people with disabilities and then pay them below minimum wage because of a loophole in the law?
Goodwill does some good work for the community. A lot of the people they help would've been potentially homeless. I don't know what they pay but somehow I don't think it is the organization you think it is.