Great place to work, if you are not a cashier - Cashier Publix Employee Review

3.0
Jul 30, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Customer comes first, clean stores, beautiful produce and meat department, coworkers amazing.

Cons

They make the cashiers and front service clerks(baggers) do custodian duties. Those duties include cleaning bathrooms, emptying trash in the entire store, sweeping and mopping the entire store, vacuuming and window cleaning, cleaning the break room, cleaning the refrigerator, cleaning the mop room. This is all addition to cleaning the register area, which is the only place they should be cleaning, anyway. They also make the cashiers and front service clerks run the auto-scrub floor machines until 11pm at night. It is hot in Florida, and the front service clerks (baggers) get to wear shorts and Publix polo shirts. However, the cashiers, who can spend at least half, it not their whole shift bagging, also have to bag and take people out to their cars, but they won't allow them to wear shorts. Instead cashiers have to wear the cashier uniform of long black pants, black shoes, a button up shirt on the men and a button up shirt with a vest for the women. It's dangerously hot, to the point I've seen coworkers at the point of collapse. The company will also not provide or allow baggers to wear any type of reflective gear, and being in the parking lot is dangerous, and it's just a matter of time before someone is seriously hurt.

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Cons

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Pros

Amazing 401K, free stock after one year of employment, health insurance is very good for part-time employees if only getting it for yourself, management always approves time off requests, hours are always available, will work around school schedules, tuition reimbursement program, will reimburse you for gas for work-related expenses as needed and will put you in a hotel as needed for work-related reasons that are more than 50 miles from your home.

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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