The Salvation Army USA reviews and complaints 1
View all 743 complaintsThe Salvation Army USA - discrimination and embezzlement
On the discrimination front, their policy is that the most you can stay is for 5 nights every 30 days, yet they allow women to stay way past that while kicking the men out after those 5 days by denying them extensions. Now, you can be given an extension if you've got a job, but there are women who are allowed to stay who don't have jobs. They're not supposed to let new people register until 7p, yet they'll let the women come inside and register starting at 5p while leaving the men outside the door in the broiling heat until 7p. On the embezzelment front, they get all these food donations from pizza places and the like, with plenty of eggs and sausage, yet they mostly serve cold cereal and green bananas for breakfast, and only rarely do the clients actually get the pizza, and when they do it's only 1-2 slices while the staff takes most of this food (the eateries that donate this approximate the donations as 1 pizza for every client) home with them. They claim they're working under the auspice of God yet their actions are as far from God-like as you can get. Someone who can do something about this needs to do so; they count on people not giving any credence to what some homeless people have to complain about. Oh, and they're incredibly rude -- their social-services counselor is supposed to see you from 9a-4p yet when you're at the door at 9a in the heat she'll open the door and tell you she doesn't see anyone until 1p. It's hard enough being homeless, but to have these heinous actions heaped upon those already suffering is unconscionable.
Typical -- rather than addressing the matters I've brought up, they're lamely deflected by inane generalizations. First, I'm for women's-rights as much as the next person, but denying men their fair rights is just as wrong as denying a woman of hers. Second, can you not read? These pizza places are donating pizza for the *clients* not the workers, and the workers are taking the majority of that pizza home! And they're serving cereal and rotten fruit to the clients rather than the sausage and eggs that, again, have been donated for the *clients*. What part of that don't you get? Third, sorry to bust your bubble, genius, but I'm not a client of the Salvation Army -- I'm a caring citizen who's researched this because it's a local matter after hearing numerous complaints from some honest citizens who have the misfortune to be poor. Hmmm, sexual discrimination and embezzlement -- how any of these fall under "God's teachings" is something I'd love to read. Or is it that these lame rebuttles were posted by Salvation Army employees who are continually and amorally misappropriating use of donations and making men unduly suffer?
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