Tricky and unprofessional - Anonymous employee Publix Employee Review

1.0
Aug 14, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Having a job is good. They hire almost anyone, and its really difficult to get fired. Benefits are nice too.

Cons

I cant think of many reasons why I dont hate this job. Unprofessional management, noone ever knows whats going on. Doesnt matter which store, because Ive worked at a couple different ones. Terrible rude customers who look down on you. Bad job for anyone with anxiety, but they do a personality questionnare on the application that look for soft spoken people who tend to have anxiety so they know the employees wont talk back. And the TALK and GOSSIPING throughout the entire company is worse than high school. They tease you with a lot of hours when you first start, cut them SIGNIFICANTLY for three weeks, and just when you start to say thats it and look for another job, they put you on a bunch of hours out of nowhere and work you to death. Its very difficult to have a life outside of publix bc they expect publix to be your life and constantly call you on your days off. Its difficult to get fired so you could work with highly unreliable lazy people. All in all its the most trapping job I have ever worked.

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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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