Loyal employee done wrong once hurt horrifically on job - Management Publix Employee Review

1.0
Aug 17, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The money is better than most supermarkets.

Cons

Dont ever get hurt on the clock with this company. They will tell you how much they care about there employess and the treat you worse than a roach on the floor. I fell and broke several bones.and was still made to work part time hours for 180 days. My boss called my doctor told her to get my paperwaork in order and get me back on the job. I needed surgery...i was denied. iAfter a year and of course and attorney I got my surgery but, I had nerve damage due to working like that and not getting what I needed. I had to have lots of meds..which they would deny for weeks while my attorney fought with them to get them approved. I was denied MRI's, Physical Therapy,injections that I needed. I was told by a doctor that they sent me to for a evaluation for them that I was faking it. On top of all of that I had to fight for my weekly pay...I went months with out it. My family and I lost our home. I had to pay for wheel chair, shower chair, some medications, After years I still am fighting for what I need. I have nerve damage and can not walk well. Yet they follow me around..or they employee some one to do this. Trying to deny me everything. I have been to their doctors, physicologist, neurosurgeons who would disagree with all of my therapist, doctors,physical therapists. They will judge you, treat you like a liar. Then they will pay therapist to preform evaluations on you and pay them to lie for them. I am not alone in this others hurt warned me and since I have been hurt are going throught the same thing. When I first got hurt I was waraned this would happen by upper mangement. All of this has caused a fatal disease for me that is linked to the medications I was given they have their insurance company to say that it isnt related to my injury althought it has been proven that it is. So they will not approve what I need. I was left without my health insurance,life insurance, etc. Before this I truly belived in this company. They go out and help build homes for habitat, they are help with united way, they do fundrasiers but, this is how they treat there employess., I was a very upstanding employee and was well known as an elite employee by upper mangement....this happen and I was treated sooo bad. I wish I could tell you all lthe horror I went through with this company for several years trying to get better and just to get what I needed. I was shocked at how many people like me who worked for this company has been treated in this manner. I wonder what George Jenkins would think if he was alive today about this Ed Crenshaw they care for families (unless you get hurt working for them).

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Cons

Not every store is the same, some stores are run better than others, some managers look down upon people with disabilities, and some see people with disabilities the same as someone without disabilities, they are very big about favoritism, you have to work a lot to earn a vacation, the company does not give out sick time and full-time gets the most benefits and is next to impossible to get full-time. Also, you practically have to be a former employee with a clean record or related in some way to a current employee to get a job with the company though Kentucky Publix's don't quite function that way.

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