good learning experience, hard to advance or become full-time - Cashier/Cross Trained In Deli/Bakery/Front and Back Office Publix Employee Review

3.0
Dec 14, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

quarterly raises management is nice nice friendly employees good training opportunities occasional dividend checks no pressure on non-management to sell or make sales goals

Cons

near impossible to be promoted to full time (even though you work full time hours) you work pretty much every weekend day ever no discount or free items of any kind for employees customers are usually not very nice (look down on you and argue about prices, etc) management changes frequently and is transferred to other stores in the district sometimes with only a days notice management is over worked uniform is ugly and embarrassing starting pay is low, usually miminum wage-ish range

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Pros

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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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