Publix reviews

With all of these benefits, will you believe working for publix is hell on earth? No set schedule. Especially part timers. Sometimes you work till 1130, then open at 6am next day. I found requesting time off resulted in "punishment" of less hours and closing every night. I know some people are very happy, but the remainder are really not. There is no in between really. If you are a favorite, you can no call/no show countless times, be excessively late or sick, even get complaint after complaint with no major consequences. Unfortunately, the rest of us work really hard for little or no recognition. Our schedules are changed last min, and when this happened to me, I had plans, I was told "Well your plans are gonna change, arent they?". They never miss a chance to call you in, even on a class day, and if you tell them no, they put a guilt trip on you. Yet the people calling out sick never hear a word about "not being a team player" or "now we're screwed" If you are a student, limit yourself to one class or your hours will be severely cut. I understand availability, but class one night a week should not result in half hours of before you went back. And if you want to transfer, good luck. I had been trying to transfer for 2 years before I quit. They obviously kept hiring people. The one time they offered me something else, I would have had to quit school and it would be an additional job class, not a transfer. Yet they brought more and more people in. The kicker was a new front end employee was transferred to the bakery. I had wonderful attendance, willing to work if I possibly could, great customer service, stellar reviews, yet I was stuck breaking my back frying chicken- the hardest most dangerous job in publix! I quit to go to school full time! I dont want to risk ever having to go back there!

Management positions tend to be spoon-fed to any idiot who can pass a test. Training tends to come in the form of your manager dropping a questionnaire and an answer book in front of you and leaving you in the break room to complete it. Pay increases and decreases tend to be at the whim of your manager who more often than not has biased opinions towards you and it's usually seen on associate evaluations. Although this is not the "practice" Publix promotes -- it is something that can happen depending on the store you're at. Experience has taught me that due to certain lawsuits suffered by the company in passed years, you often wind up with dramatically under qualified, inexperienced people in management positions. Pressure to complete a nearly absurd amount of work in a very small amount of time does indeed exist. By measuring productivity through IPLH the inevitable result is goals that are virtually impossible to achieve. This leads to understaffed stores, empty shelves, low associate morale, and eventually dissatisfied customers. Being a family-like environment comes with it's downs as well; drama, fraternization, etc.