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WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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.

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underisk@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
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.

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Fredselfish@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
They hire disabled people because they can legally pay them less then minimum wage. They aren’t the good guys.

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- Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  How?
  
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  - cheers_queers@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    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
    
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    Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    But they still get minimum wage I assume, just schedule fewer hours.
    
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ShepherdPie@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
The jobs training program where they hire people with disabilities and then pay them below minimum wage because of a loophole in the law?

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- possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  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.
  
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electric@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

“Friends of Goodwill, be dissatisfied with your work until every handicapped and unfortunate person in your community has an opportunity to develop to his fullest usefulness and enjoy a maximum of abundant living”

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.

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Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
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.

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