Publix reviews

Part-timers get the shaft in the long run. Full-time employees enjoy an enormous amount of benefits, but part-timers (who often work just as many hours as full-timers) don't reap much benefit from store performance, stocks, etc. If you're planning to make Publix a career, and you're SERIOUS, and you know how to handle all different kinds of people, you will probably retire filthy rich. If you're not good with people, time management, or work ethic, you're just going to stall here and never get anywhere -- hard work and politics is how you get ahead in almost any career setting, and Publix is no exception. The sooner you accept that, the better your experience will be. And for god's sake, do NOT accept a deli position. It's the worst position in the store and everyone knows it. Too stressful, and far too much work for their pay scale. Seriously. In addition, the company may have started out as a family-like business, but George Jenkins has been dead for a while -- it's a corporate enterprise now. You will have to answer to the big guns pretty regularly, as your district managers will often tour the store in order to find problems, and your immediate superiors are constantly pooping their pants trying to meet fairly unrealistic standards mandated by corporate. Typical status quo type stuff.

The customers can yell at you, say whatever they want, and you can never defend yourself. Management doesn't really care about employees as an individual and just demand the work force to break their back. The idea of the company is great, the implementation is flawed.