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The Salvation Army

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The Salvation Army in UK are terrible employers - Administrator The Salvation Army Employee Review

1.0
13 Jun 2017
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Pros

The only pro that I can think of is that they all pretend to be nice to your face to stick to their Christian values.

Cons

If you are non-white, non-salvationist it is very difficult to work there. You are made to feel different and lower than them if you are not part of their domination and racist undertones exist including the use of disgusting language. including asking a Muslim woman being told to 'just pick the bacon off' her salad (I have many more and worse examples). They are also homophobic. They act as if they are superior to others as they don't smoke, drink or gamble (not in front of witnesses anyway), instead they just have affairs and pretend as if they didn't happen. Very inward looking, the most self-centred organisation I have ever worked for. Everyone works for their own gain to improve their status in the army/in corps. Management do not care about for their employees (unless you are a salvationist). This organisation fail in many areas around employment law. Confidentiality is poor as so many relations (ie husband, wife, sister, brother) work together confidential information easily spreads throughout the head office all the way down to corps level. They only care about protecting the brand.

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5.0
7 May 2026
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Pros

Loved being part of the mission to help anyone in need. Everyone was great to work with and it was such an encouraging environment.

Cons

Lots of long and outdated internal processes.

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1.0
23 Apr 2026
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Pros

Staff (not management) genuinely cared about the people they were serving

Cons

People are always shocked when I tell them about the morally corrupt (not to mention, illegal!) things that happened in our Denver office on a regular basis. The only thing worse than management's toxic and discriminatory behavior, was how HR enabled it. I can speak to 4 different incidents where an employee went to HR with DOCUMENTED PROOF of sexual harassment, sexual misconduct, discrimination, and/or retaliation from management. HR never opened an official investigation into any of those complaints, forcing the employees to return to an even more toxic work environment, because the managers were allowed to see the entirety of what the employee had submitted to HR. They were then able to turn around and write up that same employee for phony or nonexistent issues. The employee couldn't contest it or do anything to challenge its legitimacy. And once they received 3 or 4 of those written warnings, they were eligible for termination, which is exactly what happened. HR forced 2 of the aforementioned employees to write a resignation letter. The other 2 were let go under the guise of "budget cuts." All of the managers named in those complaints still work there today, and never received so much as a written warning.

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