Buyer Beware - Baker Publix Employee Review

I was told that I had finally gotten vacation. I had worked over a year with Publix. At the beginning, working 39.9 hr weeks, but that's not full time. (That's Publix part time hours.) Finally I agreed to a program that would insert me into management. After being shipped from store to store in my local area I got full time. But according to Publix, since I hadn't work one full-time year my vacation hours were just on loan. So when I used them and then gave my two weeks a couple months later (to relocate out of state to take care of my elderly grandmother) they sent me a bill for the hours I owed. Untaxed hours. So, essentially, the last week of my two weeks was paying back my debt/vacation to Publix. I would not be getting a final pay check. I was working for free. 10hr days with no break--because this is Publix and breaks are a luxury. (And while I was full time and supposed to get an hour long break, my boss, at this particular store, set it up that when we did get breaks, we only got thirty minute breaks. A crime all on its own.) But even working that final week, I couldn't pay back all of my debt because they untaxed the hours of my vacation, making it near impossible for me to quit the system of Publix. (It made me feel like an indentured servant. Require to work when I shouldn't have to.) Oh they also never gave my father his bereavement when his brother died (the man who had been taking care of my grandmother) and then sent him a similar bill after he quit to relocate and take care of his mother. Because Publix--where shopping is a pleasure, but working there is a nightmare (once you take your rose colored glasses off). George Jenkins is spinning in his grave with how you are running this place Todd. Publix is in great need of a Union. The things they get away with are criminal. The things they get away with are civil rights my grandparents fought for and to see this company unabashedly abuse people like this makes me sick to my stomach.