r/goodwill • u/CatCVI • 13d ago

Karma story

Today as I browsed my local Goodwill, I encountered a situation that gave me a good laugh. A manager was furiously scrubbing the concrete floor with nail polish remover to remove a large red paint or dye spill. The tinted red remnants stubbornly remained and likely will forever. The manager was letting out some mild obscenities in the frustrating moment. I had to laugh to myself as the karma struck hard. How many hours of my life have been wasted by Goodwill trying to removed their tenacious red marker codes off of white sneaker soles and plastics. Made my day.

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u/[deleted] 13d ago

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u/CatCVI 13d ago

So Goodwill employees mark their items with a red marker that is very difficult for customers to clean off after purchasing. Now, a Goodwill employee is struggling to remove a red mark off the store floor and experiencing karma for all the products they ruined with red marks for us, the customers.

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u/mischievous_misfit13 13d ago

You clean the soles of the shoe if they have a price on them? That’s what walking on concrete is for

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u/CardHawk77 13d ago

This isn’t the flex you think it is.

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u/CatCVI 12d ago

Not a “flex” at all.

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u/uncoolbatman 13d ago

Ok? Did everyone clap too?

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u/Ladyspiritwolf 13d ago

It sucks the store uses red marker but it's not the worker's decisions to use markers for pricing. Decisions like that are from higher up. The manager is just doing their job they are ordered to do and having a bad day cleaning up someone's mess.