Community Aid Thrift Store in Mechanicsburg, PA - Glenn Chandler owner * The worst place I've ever worked!* Mechanicsburg Pennsylvania

Community Aid is the absolute WORST place I've ever worked.  I've worked a three places in my whole life including Community Aid.  My other two jobs were at a fast food joint and a daycare center.  Both paid more than Community Aid.  Community Aid only pays 7.50 an hour.

Let me tell you the reasons I hated working there.  There are many.  First off, I don't believe that HR properly told me what the job would be like or really even what would be expected of me.  The interview happened instantly right after I filled out the application and I was asked to start the same day.  I couldn't.  I started the next day instead.  They are REALLY hard up for help and I found out later why that is. 

I didn't receive proper training.  My "trainer", if that's what you want to call her, was flighty and too silly to really do a very good job training me.  She'd show me something and I'd go to try doing it.  I'd do it and turn around only to see that the "trainer" was long gone.  Then if I had a question, I couldn't find her.  It's like she was hiding.

Another reason I didn't like working there was because of how inconsiderate management was to me as a new employee.  There I was on my first day, wearing my uniform and trying to figure out what to do.  The manager on duty that day saw me at least twice and never said a word.  I didn't even know he was the manager.  He didn't even so much as say hello or welcome me in any way.

Then there's the big-wig, Glenn Chandler.  I saw him a bunch of times before I even realized just who he was.  He owns the place.  He saw me as many times as I saw him in my first few weeks.  Never a word, an introduction, nothing.  The only time he did say something to me was when a clothing item had fallen on the floor once.  He said "pick that up".  They were the only three words he ever said to me.

While I worked there, I witnessed employees being rude to customers many times, especially Glenn.  He never seemed to be happy.  He was grumpy and had a nasty expression on his face all the time.

The work itself was VIGOROUS.  I was expected to put out wracks and wracks of clothes in a shift...thousands of items of clothes.  Also, I had to put back everything from the fitting rooms and straighten clothes the whole time.  I wasn't even allowed to go to the bathroom.  All this with no encouragement and pretty much no training.

I hated it and I finally quit.  Now they said I'm not even allowed to shop there anymore.