Goodwill Raided by the Feds?

[kali_is_my_copilot]

Agents raid Goodwill in investigation into AbilityOne - CNN.com

 

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[artslinger]

I hope that they really come down on them hard. They are a bunch of crooks! They take $3 billion from the gov, and don't use it as they should. What about the billions that they make in their stores and on their little ebay business that they have going?

RJA

 

[diggummup]

I hope they shut down the entire Goodwill corporation. If this is case...

"Companies (Goodwill) awarded the taxpayer-funded AbilityOne contracts are required by law to have 75% of their work performed by blind or severely disabled employees."


I don't recall ever seeing a blind person or severely disabled employee at any Goodwill store ever in my entire life. The local grocery stores hire more disabled people than Goodwill does! Heads need to roll and people need to go to prison.

 

[mkulltra]

I hope they shut down the entire Goodwill corporation. If this is case...

"Companies (Goodwill) awarded the taxpayer-funded AbilityOne contracts are required by law to have 75% of their work performed by blind or severely disabled employees."

I don't recall ever seeing a blind person or severely disabled employee at any Goodwill store ever in my entire life. The local grocery stores hire more disabled people than Goodwill does! Heads need to roll and people need to go to prison.

Ditto to all of this

 

[DFW_THer]

75% of their workforce has to be blind or disabled? I'm sorry--but how on earth is a blind individual expected to work retail? What am I missing.

I will say that at my local goodwill (which I like very much) seems to have 'slower than your average bear' employees working the registers. I always thought something was kind of off about them and they seemed to kind of miss a beat. That would explain a disability of some kind..

Am I defending Goodwill? Sure am not.

 

[wingmaster]

It pretty much sounds like it's run just like the federal and state government, but then there's no room for two organized crime syndicates they might be cutting into each others profit. HH

 

[srcdco]

A few of the local Goodwill stores (Rochester, NY) do hire blind or nearly blind. The cash registers talk to them and they have a scanner for currency that tells them what it is. They do just fine. With that said, I know that nowhere near 75% of their employees are handicapped.

Scott

 

[NEPADIGGER7]

corrupt corporate companies?? i thought it would never happen...im sure some politicians wil take care of it hahaha

 

[GibH]

Read the article. The law isn't requiring 75% of ALL Goodwill employees to be disabled, just 75% of the workers on AbilityOne awarded contracts. The contracts are generally for janitorial services and have nothing to do with their retail operations.

I don't recall ever seeing a blind person or severely disabled employee at any Goodwill store ever in my entire life. The local grocery stores hire more disabled people than Goodwill does! Heads need to roll and people need to go to prison.

True enough. Publix here has more disabled people working than Goodwill does. The pay is better too!