r/Fallout • u/Kreanxx • Mar 07 '26

Picture Someone donated this while I was working at goodwill

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Before anyone asks if they can purchase it off me, by the time im able to purchase it. The item would be long gone

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u/nihility101 Mar 08 '26

Not exactly, originally anyway. That part was meant as a way to get goods to lower income folks.

But now, as goodwill saw that those items weren’t going to the intended market anyway, they hold back “the good stuff” and sell it online and funnel that money into their main goals of helping people get jobs.

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u/Ok_Reception_8729 Mar 08 '26

Goodwill never gave a fuck about poor people that’s a common misconception

They also have a track record of exploiting disabled people for 10-30 cents an hour of pay.

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u/jschne21 Mar 08 '26

Yeah, if you look at their mission statement, it's not "give poor people the opportunity to get decent good cheap," it's giving people who can't usually get jobs a job. In other words, they pay people with disabilities or other challenges less than minimum wage to clean donated goods and sell for a profit. Said profit gets directly injected into the lifeblood of their executives.

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u/Ok_Reception_8729 Mar 08 '26

Yeah people confuse them with food banks for some reason

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u/OhNoDontBanMeLol Mar 08 '26

Don't forget C-suite compensation

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u/TooMuchTape20 Mar 08 '26

helping people get jobs

This has always made me laugh. How about they hire enough employees to actually maintain their disgusting stores? Maybe even test and repair some of the items? etc

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u/nihility101 Mar 08 '26

Not that kind of job.