Mass Layoffs at Goodwill SF BAY
Work & Housing
Hey there Bay Area!
If there are any folks who are reporters that are looking for business stories here's one for you...
Goodwill of the San Francisco Bay just laid off a large portion of their workforce, large enough to trigger the WARN act. It included hourly employees and FT employees. It happened today, and I don't know all details yet. More will come out soon. But, in the process they are also closing their 2 HQ offices-- 1 in the City and 1 in Oakland.
This all comes after terrible mismanagement from the previous Executive team that saw the organization hemorrhaging cash to the point where they needed to sell the org off to another out of state Goodwill. The new Goodwill that absorbed Goodwill SF Bay is based out of Arizona. These folks are soulless individuals who have a demonstrated past of absorbing other Goodwill's and laying off all mission based works and services and treating the operation like a for profit retail store, not like the 501(c)3 that all Goodwill's are. Their 1099 can be found online and there you will see the large salaries and bonus structures that the AZ based teams enjoy.
Since the merger there have been multiple smaller rounds of layoffs, new quota based policies that see folks skipping lunches (sometimes unpaid), managers putting ESL employees through harassment trainings with videos going at 2x and in English only, and more.
Additionally-- the career centers that Goodwill SF Bay runs and are paid to do so by the State, County, and City, are being shuttered without a plan to move them elsewhere. Training programs have been cancelled because staff were laid off-- fully funded by State and City dollars! Donations made in the Bay Area are being put in trucks to be sold in Arizona. And that is just the tip of the iceberg.
This should be looked into, and reported on. The grift is real. The way they are doing the community is terrible.
