Publix Super Markets review: Bad company 50

I agee about how employee are treat at publix At my store you have to be in you 20 to get any hours a single girl living at home with mom and dad still most of her bill will get more hours the a Single Mom/dad or a older person on a fix income If your not a manger pet you do not get any hours I seen where they have cut the hours of older em;ployee down to 8 hour until that employee quite and then hire a 20 and give them 33 hours for part time and if the stay partime most like will go full i a very short time within weeks

Get this one Whenyou are express (small item check out) you not shut it down not for no reason If you need to you use the bath room you have to call mangement ant that can take you to 30 min or more I guess then want to wear depends NOT Ithink tis is worss then jail you have a bath room YES EVERYONE WATCH YOU BUT YOIU CAN GO WHEN YOU NEED ONE ALSO MANNGEMENT CAN GO WHEN THEY NEED FAIR HUMAN TO US CASHIER NO NOT IN THE LEAST AND NO I CAN NOT GO ON MY 10 MINUTES BREAKS WEE DO NOT GET THEM AND WEE CAN WORK UP TO 4 HOUR TO 4 1/2 HOUR BEFORE ARE LUNCH

I have been in employed at Publix for the past 11 years in the Deli as a part time employee and I love my job. There is always work in the deli whether you open or close, constantly doing something your entire shift. Believe me when I tell you that after an 8-hour shift, all you want to do is sit and not get up. To those employees who are dissatisfied with Publix, leave ... find jobs elsewhere where your talents and hard work will be recognized with rewards of more money and promotions.

You want more hours? Go the extra mile, exceed in their expectations. If you are a bagger or cashier be friendly, smile and thank the customers for shopping in your store. DO NOT complain to your customers about your job and if you take out my groceries out DO NOT make a face if I fail to tip you. If you work in Customer Service, please take care of me promptly and don't let me stand around while there are 3 of you behind the counter. To the associates in the other departments, go up to your customers and ask them if you can help them whether it's picking ripe fruit, a cut of meat or a loaf of bread from the Bakery. Don't stand arount the time sheet browsing how many hours this one got this week and how many that one got.

The managers are that ... Managers. Not your drinking buddies, not your best friends. They are there to run the store, make sure that the shelves are stacked, the store is clean and that the store is ready for busness at 7 am. You can make it in Publix, get good raises and get promotions. Just have to work hard and not just be an average employee. No matter where you work, there will always be employee complaints about their boss, their co-workers and the job but I have found over the years that you have to love what you are doing and if you don't it's not the job for you. PS: I am 66 years old, retired, and although I have been asked if I want full time the answer is always NO ... thank you. I prefer part time.

I totally agree that Publix is an awful place to work. I was a Customer Service Staff for 10 years. Managers disrespect you, they humiliate you and they treat you poorly. When you make an honest mistake they punish you by demoting you to a bagger for a few months so the rest of the store can laugh at you. And all that for 10.40 an hour. I finally had it and walked out on them. I have my life back. Now I know what people mean with being under the "Publix cloud".

at the publix 1239 theres a redhead cindi lauper wanna be who works in the back who hates everybody, especially men. i was warned by everyone about her so i approached her with nothing but respect and friendliness.and the claws came out...(wow) i have never met a more miserable human being in my life.she has a bad attitude to go along with her smartass mouth as well.everybody who works in the back in the morning suffers because of her piss poor attitude...they call her MJ and she is truly a flat out [censor]!1

Class Action Suit, , you can see my stores all over this site.. ten years with the P, , ive seen lots of unfairness going on.. LETS.. I do it cause i need the job and so do all of you.. THATS WHY THEY GET AWAY WITH IT... I Took the test bunch of times for deli Manager, even Produce Manager i aced it ever time got nothin... We get them 15 cent raises thats cool, , i guess..Seen workers who dont even care about working get ahead.. 24 years in the supermarket business under me... Then to see Albertsons people slide in as managers... I feel you guys...This is not the way Mr. George ran our company, , its all about the money... Class Action Suit Again is the way i see it.. thx

Too many ###s in tennessee stores

white ###s like us agree. the rich ceo, s get rich, we get mini raises.. and gotta have a huge smile..### getting deep with publix.. lots of unhappy people my friends.. theyre looking to make poeple quit if you ask me.. all you ten year, 20 year workers they want you guys out.. new young faces in, who dont care about you and do anything to cut hours and listen to what the big shots say.. peace my friends

publix is ### backwards. Ive been working there for five years for a misely 10.40 an hour as a dairy clerk which is an extremely hard position and they still dick me around even though i get the highest scoring evaluations of anyone in the whole store. though now i have a shot at management now im not sure i want it. I just couldnt live with myself being like them. if i ever decide to quit i will repay the favor by screwing up all the inventory on the computer systen before i leave costing publix alot of money and i will get the last laugh. Anyone who thinks pubix is a great place to work is stupid and should get their ### kicked.

Publix just sold Crispers.. We lost lots of money, the CEO of Crispers lakeland had put in place jacked them and had to sell chain to a miami Boyne Capital, besides 9 bucs for a small sandwich wouldnt cut the bread... Sad to see how people screw each other over.. Mr. George had a loving heart for his people, we get stocks cause of him, paid time off, raises..We shouldnt have to deal with lies and cheats.. But BUT i see this in alot of our managers sad to say.. Young managers who got family in publix are scewing up the system, they feel they dont have to care about people, not a care in the world about workers...Then me or you [someone who cares] get turned down for management come to find out, , some young punk got promoted cause his dad is a store manager... Its happen.. Publix is a better place or not a better place cause of you.. THAT GOES FOR EVERYONE NOT JUST WORKERS...

Publix lost money in Crispers the CEO they had put in place jacked them big time, , had to sold Crispers to Boyne Capital, besides 9 bucs for a small sub wasnt cutting the bread... But sad to see how people screw themselfs today... Mr. George had a loving heart for people, if he didnt care about people this publix would have never been... 193Os bad times in America, Mr. George still hired and helped his people at work and he had just couple of stores...I im greatful for that.. Stocks, pay raises, paid sick days etc.. What i been seeing is them young managers not really care about people, , some of them got promoted cause of family members in publix already too.. Publix dished out 9 million for BOARS HEAD selling classes? When the bottom line is leadership, take that 9 million and put it into leadership classes... Then maybe managers would start saying hi to customers and start careing about workers not hide in backrooms., thats how you get more sales in them stores... people skills dont see that in new managers Unreal...

I love working for publix. it is hard work, but I love it. I know what my job is everyday and I do it. I find that all the people that seem to have a problem with publix are those who do not know how to work in the first place. they want everything handed to them on a silver platter. I go in and do my job like I am supposed to. i'm never in the office complaining about anything. I stay out of everyone's business and do my work. I go to work with the attitude that I am going to work harder than anyone here. that is how you get promoted and get full time. no one want to be around negative complainers all day, nor do they want them managing there stores. having a good attitude goes a long way. you can't convince someone that they are not a hard worker, but that is the biggest problem I feel with these employees at publix that have "such a problem with publix".

Your assumption about complainers is wrong. I am a very hard worker and my manager tells me this on a regular basis. I am the first one in every morning at 5:00 am to open the kitchen and have only been sick once in a year. I clean and pick up after the other workers and when the night crew doesn't do their job, I catch up for them in the morning and do my job because I know it has to be done in order for the bakery to run more efficiently all day and will make my manager's job easier. They trust and count on me and I try my best not to disappoint them. You really have made quite a statement, "you can't convince someone that they are not a hard worker" wow you really have it all sealed up on your end. Are you sure that you are not management also? I have never had anything in my life handed to me on a silver platter! I have owned my own business for 20 years plus working for Publix for the last four years and raising a family and taking care of my mother. Look! The truth is you are hiding your head in the sand like an ostrich and ignoring all the bad doing that is going on around you just so you can keep your job. Well, that is wrong. Get this part of life correct, Evil thrives when good people stand by and do nothing. Sounds like you do a lot of nothing. You are like the three monkeys "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil". Monkey see, monkey do:) ha!

I've been there a week and I have had to lecture people at past places on sanitation procedures. I'm closing the meat dept (was a mgr elsewhere in another state) and the night manager asks who trained me to close. The drains are dirty... They are!? I ask. They
are 99.9 % cleaner than any other store I've ever seen! They NITPICK. I have 20 years experience butchering and 4 in meat management and I am amazed at how little meat gets cut and how much butchers do meat wrapping duties. And they want you
to stay til 10:30 PM and then come back at 8 AM again? They don't seem to know that wearing a hat look 900% better than a hairnet
alone. Don't get me wrong, most the people are kind who work there, but the procedures and work hours expected of a person in
a skilled position just don't impress me. Not only that, I could mention numerous stores that look better. Please no more hospital white everywhere. I should also mention that in my dept, I pretty much have to learn all the procedures myself as no one really takes the time to train. Meat people: ask during your interview what hours you will work. They don't tell you that you'll be there til close and then again at opening.

I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who feels this way.
I'm 20 years old, I've been working for Publix 1196 (The first and only job I've ever had) since I was 16.
Now, I may more biased than the most of you, for I've never worked for any other companies...
Regardless, I feel as though Publix is VERY unfair in the way they manage their employees.
I'm not going to sit here and tell you I'm the best worker in my store like most of you seem to claim, I know I have flaws and I know I can improve... Problem is, I no longer have the desire to.
4 years with this company and I currently make $8.80 an hour. I barely make enough money to LIVE in this world. Now, most of you are worried that you don't get enough hours... I can tell you honestly, you CAN work as many hours as you want at Publix. There are ENDLESS ways to make your 35h/week. whether it be working in another department an extra day, or asking your manager if you can stay a few hours to help, trust me, you'll get hours if you really need them.
But what's the point in [censored] for a company only to receive $200-250 a week? My ###ing car insurance is $233 a month. That's a QUARTER of my monthly income.
I finally reached my boiling point when my Deli manager hired FOUR (NEW, not current employees transferred from another store) employees to our department making $9.50 an hour.
These new employees who can't tell the difference between a smoked ham and their left testicle are all making more than I am after being a dedicated, hard-working, and most importantly, LOYAL employee my ENTIRE working life.
And as if it's not already degrading enough to WORK with these new employees, my manager decided it would be a good idea for ME to train them.
Imagine that; I'm training employees that make more than I do. It's disgusting.
It had been bothering me for weeks and it was beginning to affect my work productivity.
I was depressed, unmotivated, and all-around ANGRY that this was being happening to me.
Bringing my concerns to my manager's attention only fueled my anger. She basically told me "Get over it or find a new job."

I could continue for hours, but I just wanted to share my support for any others who may feel the same as I do, and because most of the comments I've read seem a bit one-sided and exaggerated. I'm going to quit working at Publix very soon because I honestly feel like I'm going to do something bad if I don't...
-Shawn Briest

The bottom line is that publix is a horrible place to work. The people who are questioning that are questionable themselves. You have to be blind to think publix is a great place to work. People who have been with publix more thAn five years and are over the age 25 make me sick. Before I stayed with publix. Publix is a joke. They brainwash you and hire people desperate for jobs, then mistreat and work them to the bone. There whole image is a ###ing joke. The managers are a joke. If you want a job like our political system please work at publix! Let's all get used by people who have nothing but power over you. I have never felt so revengeful in my entire life. I'm not speaking out in anger, but in disgust. I could go on for hours about all the ###ed up things that happen at my job, but I'd rather not throw up this morning... To be continued !

This is my schedule go in 630am next day go in 2:30 pm next day go in10am next day 8am then off then 8 am then 2:00 pm then 10 am then off then 12:45pm then 8 am then 6:30 am ... Sorry I'm not a robot with a on and off switch Publix sucks

I have worked at a Publix in TN for about 5 months.. I know its not a very long time but I have experienced some really awful things. On my first day in training I was told I may not be a good fit for my job for not achieving proper carryout. The same manger gossips and does almost nothing most days. I have almost been hit by a car on the crosswalk 4 times now.

After my first month er so I started feeling better about my job and started feeling mildly good about what I was doing and slowly I was getting more hours. Until, recently a girl in the customer service staff has started not letting me go on brake until she feels I deserve it. As far as my work goes I try my very hardest to be kind to every single person I bag for. However, I am required to grab peoples carts from them and take them out side without ever asking them to take there carts out. So I end up with people yelling at me because they think I am trying to steal there Food, Purse, Wallet, or child. I also get behind peoples carts who have children and there children start screaming. Recently, I and one other bagger was pulled into my mangers office so we could watch videos of our selves not doing carryout properly. He then told us that it was just a warning and that if we kept it up he would restrict our hours and consider not giving us a pay raise. I check my schedule this week and funnily enough I'm working 5 hours. I have been doing carryout constantly even though I end up having more stressful situations that way.

I am with everyone here. I worked for Publix almost 5 years as a bagger/cashier. I loved working there, for the most part. I loved my customers and co-workers. On the other side (or...the dark side), I tried for almost my entire time to get into the bakery as a Decorator Apprentice. I did the proper steps and filled out an ROI form, and when it expired a few months later I filled out another one. Well...a few years later, some little girl comes waltzing in work, starts as a bagger and one day she ended up in the BAKERY learning how to DECORATE CAKES. Her name was NEVER on that stupid ROI form. I was LIVID. Now mind you, I am not one to sit there and gripe to the managers about how I wanna work in a different department, so maybe that's what I did wrong. But the fact that someone just got a position in another department without filling out necessary paperwork pissed me off so bad it wasn't even funny. I even wanted to work Customer Service Staff at one point, filled out ROI form but people who never filled it out got the position. I can almost GUARANTEE you it's because I wasn't skinny at the time; all skinny, beautiful people got those positions.

I have worked at Publix for the last six months. Am I the greatest employee, no I would say that I am average to good. But I have seen things that the company has done to myself and others included. I would not recommend anyone to apply or work for that company. They do not value hard work at all, all they really care is if you are an ### kisser. I was told that but not in those words during my evaluation. I have noticed they treat the ''non ### kissers'' who are extremely hard workers like crap. They don't give them any types of hours, no raises no chances to advance, and always always insult their work. But the good old boy who are the perfect employee in their eyes everything. This one girl who is a slower cashier then I, got promoted quicker even after they have told her to quicken up the pace, because she is an ### kisser to them big time. I believe in being friendly to people, but I do not believe in selling myself out to the Management by ### kissing. That is almost like prostitution to me. I am from the North and we have a work hard mentality, sure you'll have the ### kissers there, but it is not as bad. It is a sad company to work for. Myself and others are currently looking for different employment and have in secret boycotted the store and are shopping at different places. I hope someone will read this before applying at the company and think to themselves, should I. Just as long as they think to themselves I would be happy. i didn't come to the store on my own will. The previous store that I worked for up north was closing and I sadly had to move in with my parents.

I been here 4yrs and its the worst place ever store 1183 in Fairburn Ga I hate it and that's a word I don't use but I hate the way we are treated like we are doormats for customers and managers Lord please hear my cry and cries of others deliver us from evil!

I don't get it, , How many people, workers have been mistreated at publix? Why no one but Managers did a ( overtime )class action lawsuit? All the workers on this board, must be well over hundred, , .. Why? I quit cause of all the same reasons, .. Bullying, getting looked down on by managers.. Hard working full timers never late, I know cause that was me, and I know that's all you guys on this board. Why should workers have to be bullied? Why not class action lawsuit, we are all here on this site... Proof is on this site...

I've been scheduled to close almost every night in the bakery and I'm pregnant they give me no morning shifts or midshifts ever and I have to bend over and mop and clean donut cases they don't care everyone else leaves early but not the 6 month pregnant girl. My manager gave me a ### raise because I don't pull cake toys . HELLO IM NOT ALLOWED ON A ###ING LADDER! They don't even have people to close with me but every other publix bakery has two closers. So ###ed up. Don't work for publix .

http://www.cohenmilstein.com/cases/340/publix-hourly-wage-and-hour-claims. NATIONWIDE CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT FOR HOURLY ASSOCIATES

Thank You!

For the most part, the department managers at Publix suck. Firstly, they have miserable jobs and work miserable hours, and are just plain miserable managers. They have no managerial skills, and no people skills. I worked for one of the most incompetent bakery managers. He was nothing more than a glorified baker, who liked to sit in the office, on his fat ###, playing or texting on his cell phone. He was so hooked on Ruzzle it was ridiculous. He would discuss cell phone usage with the crew members of the bakery and have us sign policies about it...but he was so guilty of using his, and he never directly addressed the true offenders...he would address the woman, who didn't even have a cell phone. Such a big fat chicken, so afraid of confrontation. For the most part, the department managers are just uneducated, lazy bullies, who had nowhere else to go in life.

It is obvious you did not get the promotion because of your attitude. If you have to beat down other employees and make them look bad by pointing out on their bad points in order to make yourself look good, you are not a team player therefore you are not qualified for management, no matter how high your test score is. Also calling a 20 year old girl, who legally became an adult when you behave like a two year old is way out of line. With your spelling and grammar I doubt you scored high on the test, nor do I believe you have the education to move up. Just a huge ego, which does not work when seeking a promotion.

Your ego and swell head as well as your lack of being a team player cost you the promotion.

Also stop referring to a 20 year old as girl when you behave as if you are two.

Beware of Publix being super tolerant of any actions of straight women, gays, lesbians, or minoritys. They are hyper afraid of backlash from this terrible media in our county these days and thus will be more concerned with them as to your straight male. I just today was accused of making a inappropriate joke to a lesbian coworker of mine and I was talked to like it was 100% certain I was guilty. I told the minority astmngr I didn't recall doing it and was immediately insulted "how can you not recall, are you hurt in the head?" He was instantly mad and said he would have to start an investigation when he could have "nipped it in the butt" right then. So now I'm in fear for losing my job. I've only been here for 2 weeks... 90 days isn't up so if he does fire me tomorrow I can't even pursue him legally. Even if I did I would be called a sexist and a racist because I accused the two people of being wrong. I feel like I'm being discriminated because of the color of my skin and my sexual orientation and I feel like if I state that, that they will either laugh at me or some how get offended. Anyways. Come 3pm tomorrow I goto work. After reading all this. I don't know if it'll be that large of a loss. The hours are good though, and I really liked this job and the customers. 1st week. I got shoved into Frozen without training. Told to work a 3 pallet frozen truck and then got yelled at for not doing it the next day. Don't apply for Publix. Go make Wal-mart a better place for shoppers. You will be noticed there.

Jakes instead of doing the childish and immature thing by claiming you were discriminated because of the color of your skin or your sexual orientation why not admit you were not given the job or promotion because of your lack of skills. That would be the mature and adult thing to do. You discriminate make, comments about your lesbian coworker. Even if you did not they have every right to investigate instead of just taking your word because you told them it never happened. Funny how you cry discrimination yet you discriminate against your lesbian co worker. You are not the one being discriminated, you are the one doing the discriminating. If you are innocent after their investigation you will not be let go. But the fact that you have an issue with them doing an investigation instead of taking your word for it makes me wonder if you are telling the truth.

Jakes it seems you are the one discriminating not being discriminated against. They have every right to investigate rather than take your word.

Worked in The Meat Department in Florida and In Nashville, and from the INTERVIEW I was insulted and made to feel as if I was not important and that they were all important. Thought it might be just an individual store thing, so I transferred to Tampa, and worked in the meat department for the worst excuse of a human being I have ever known. A few of us found pre-written 'write ups', about 6 per employee in the department, so that if he wanted to get rid of any of us, he could just sign his name and submit it at any time. None of the write up's made any sense either, things none of us ever did. But I guess that is how crooked Publix is. He had to learn that from someone, so I guess it was mr bushee. Another poor excuse of a human being. When someone got promoted to Assist Mgr, bushee sat him down and explained how to keep his employees under his thumb. Passive Agressive techniques only someone like Ted Bundy would be able to comprehend..hey, wasn't he from Florida as well?...mabye he wrote the management manual for publix before 1989?...something to ponder

I worked for Publix for two years, they recruited me from Kroger, I am a 30 year butcher and manager. The insults started at the interview. And they continued until I had had enough. The managers are taught by the district manager to make employees feel like they aren't worthy to work at Publix. It is alot of psychological warfare. The managers are passive agressive towards employees. You get written up for anything and everything. I found write ups in the managers office one day, where he had write ups for every employee with issues he had made up out of thin air. He had several on me and everyone else, one supposedly happened on a day I was on vacation. So If you like being treated like you are noone, then please work at publix. They could care less about having good employees, and their company suffers from that.You can't just replace people and find the same quality of people you just let go or they quit because they are tired of being treated poorly. I guess they will find out, too bad they are so ignorant and arrogant. Bad combination for a company to be.

All Publix is concerned over is money, and profits. You are a name and number and a machine. If they know you are a good employee, they run you into the ground and then humiliate you after.

Working At #0472 is hell. The store mgr. is lazy and racist. he will promote whites faster than any other race inside the store. He promoted a stock clerk that is clearly a functional alcoholic to full time in 6 months. This guy comes to work smelling like alcohol, doesn't follow the rules, but yet he gets promoted. When its time for someone of another race to get promoted the manager says, "I need to see more from you." The only time anyone follows publix policy and procedure is when the DM or someone else is coming to visit. They want you to kill yourself so they can get a bigger bonus at the end of the year. This is a horrible company and all the managers are only looking out for themselves.

I work for publix also and let me tell you about the drama that goes on in there;well first of all they do think that they are all better then everyone else just because they are managers.And well they started me out in front end.Then they moved me to grocery stock well i really enjoyed that until they changed my scedule without telling me and i was put back in front end again because of there mistack, just because i was the only person who could fix the crappy floor cleaners, i have been with them for 3 years and i only make 8.80 hr.now this week they give me 8 days of work striaght, with no day off.They are always changing the scedule without telling me about it then they want to suspend me for it .Publix is a very bad place to work for, we should all boy cott publix.