Run Away As Fast As You Can... - Anonymous employee Publix Employee Review

1.0
Oct 23, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Pharmacy and people that work there are very sweet.

Cons

I was offered a job there.The offer was part time.I think because Publix is a grocery store the hours fluctuate with the flow of business.I was told I would work most of the time in the pharmacy, then could work a day or two a week in the front of the store....At my drug screening I asked about how they would schedule that so I could get 40 hours, the manager I was talking to looked like I grew a third eye and demanded to know who told me I could work 40 hours...then they brought in the store manager who very arrogantly told me I might get 30 hours if I was lucky and was up to snuff...Needless to say I told them to stick it.However the pharmacy and the people who work there are great....

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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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