St Vincent de Paul Society Culture reviews

What is the best part of working at the company?Helping the less fortunate, volunteeringWhat is the most stressful part about working at the company?Not being able to help those in needWhat is the work environment and culture like at the company?Great set of volunteers, enjoying what we doWhat is a typical day like for you at the company?Busy but enjoyable, especially getting to interact with everyone

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Character building.

Homeless Coordinator and Attendent (Former Employee) - Sault Ste. Marie, ON - 2 July 2023

What is the best part of working at the company?Helping people find moral mental and physical support and shelter What is the most stressful part about working at the company?Hearing about traumatic events that lead to homelessness What is the work environment and culture like at the company?Strict, 12 steps not even aloud :( What is a typical day like for you at the company?Sign people in, give them bed, food, structure, clean, councelling, shift change.

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Fun place to work

Assistant Manager (Former Employee) - Belleville, ON - 25 May 2023

Great hours great perks. Really good atmosphere awesome coworkers. Would work there again. Miss the friends that i had made while working there. Thanks

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Fun Work Place

Volunteer (Former Employee) - Windsor, ON - 9 January 2019

It was an great environment to work in and there was a lot of people who would visit the place at least once a week and there was a lot of diversity there

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awesome!

Soup Kitchen (Former Employee) - Oshawa, ON - 4 December 2018

love helping around there everyone is so nice just a great place to be! everyone is so help full when i first arrived and no trouble was giving great management as well

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Insights into St Vincent de Paul Society

Based on 17 survey responses

What people like

Supportive environment
Clear sense of purpose
Feeling of personal appreciation

Very Nice

Back Door Team (Current Employee) - Bowmanville, ON - 8 March 2018

Very Nice St . Vinncent De Pual is a great place to work and is lots of friendly faces and is right next to plenty of places to get food and which is great

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it is an awesome work place

Merchandise Sorter (Former Employee) - Ottawa, ON - 26 February 2018

the people there are amazing and are very helpful if you need help with something and the work environment is amazing as well there is a lot of work to be done so you are always busy and always have something to do.

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It is an amazing place to work amazing people and good work environment

Merchandise Sorter (Former Employee) - Ottawa, ON - 21 February 2018

I would recommend to people to work here because it is an amazing work environment to be in amazing people if you ever need help they are always willing to help you with anything you may need.

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customers are always amazing

Floor Assistant (Former Employee) - Ottawa, ON - 14 February 2018

Loved being able to help customers and interact with them. Learned a lot about different people and loved being there to help whenever either staff or customers needed the help.

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fun quiet and easy going

Crew Member (Former Employee) - Bowmanville, ON - 28 August 2017

the staff were very kind and accepting people. they made the place fun to go to and it is a very calming and nice place to go. but sometimes it was to calming and quiet the time seemed to drag on

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enjoyable experience

Customer Service (Current Employee) - Cambridge, ON - 2 June 2017

Nice people, fun and enjoyable experience. Assist customers and maintain the cleanliness of the store. Manager is friendly, knowledgeable and very wise.

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Great place to volunteer

General Helper (Current Employee) - Vancouver, BC - 9 May 2013

Nice management staff. Packaged donated breads, janitorial duties, sort and clean donations and put them away. Hardest: dealing with shop-lifters. Most enjoyable: working with nice co-workers.