I remember a few years ago an 18 year old employee at a store in Tampa had committed suicide inside a bathroom within the store. They shut the store down for a few hours to clean up the corpse and then expected people to continue working their shift. It’s just so crazy to me how people truly and sincerely convince themselves that a company as large as this one would ever pretend to care about its employees to any degree when they do things like that after the death of an employee of theirs.

So within the past week apparently my store manager said that we cannot have airpods/headphones in at all before/after closing hours. Was confused because I thought the rule only stipulated while we are open? If we can't do that anymore I am gonna be majorly disappointed, jamming to tunes while organizing, cleaning, and throwing what is left of the grocery truck was one of the little victories I could get here.

Happy Halloween btw

I have been working in the deli since july and it has been an experience for sure.. i read the horror stories and stuff and even my store managers have told me that it is the most difficult department to work in, specifically the kitchen. Id say it might be up there with grocery because i cant even begin to comprehend what kind of entity that is. The grocery managers always seem out of breath.

Ive only ever worked in restaurants, which is probably why i was sorted into the deli. Funny thing about my store is that they also want me to work produce so i will do that every once in a while and it feels like a vacation. I will say at least my deli operates just like any restaurant and i feel like i enjoy working in it. The pay definitely leaves room for desire, but it is actually the best for any "starter job" in my area. The stories werent lying though, they really do test our limits and allow the system to create impossible demands, and the customers get extremely angry at my location. They will pout, cross their arms, snap, and yell. Nothing i havent seen before but still pretty obnoxious. I am grateful that they dont control my paycheck like they would with table service. Those are the same people to be like "how much of a tip do you think you deserve ???" Or you make one mistake and they give you zero dollars. It is so nice to just be able to walk away and forget about them. If they have some bs to say they can take it to a manager.

I recently started in the kitchen and it is insane. Its pretty chill on normal days but like i mentioned, our system is terrible and there are days where the kitchen is expected to perform impossible tasks. Even up front the online orders, closing duties, and customer lines push the limit every weekend it seems. I like our store manager though and shes helped me out when i needed it. I want to know how the deli has been treating everyone here 😁😁

We have a manager at our store that is on his phone during a significant portion of his shift. Walk in the back? Texting. Go in the walk-in? Texting. In his office? Texting. At the cheese case? Texting. I watch this man straight staring at his phone as he’s crossing the floor. You can see enough of the phone that it’s definitely texting and not Publix Pro. He also does pretty pointless busywork to enable this texting habit, such as writing what item is in a box even though they’re all labeled. I have people in other departments also noticing it due to how little he even tries to hide it.

Also, he’s friends with a manager at another store and her daughter works in our department. She got full-time after a few months and has barely been with Publix a year, just turned 20, acts like she runs the department, and follows this manager around like a puppy and gets blatant favorable treatment. She is very open about how much her and the manager in question text each other. 4 open shifts and a close that leads into a day off. We have much more senior full-timers who frequently get 2-4 closes a week and others who routinely get a close followed by a mid followed by an open. We have part-time college kids who have worked there a few months getting better schedules than the full-timers.
Most of the department has complained about it, but this (assistant) manager has been best friends with the department manager for something like 10 or 15 years so nothing gets done.

Training for full-timers seeking management is being held up until this girl is ready to receive her training. Morale is terrible. We just had 3 people quit, several others just do the minimum to get by, and a few others are looking to transfer. We just got 2 transfers in and one of them is already looking for the door. Everyone in the department feels this way, yet it persists. We are tired of having to pick up so much slack.

Is this something I should talk to someone about or is my department cooked? Advice is appreciated!

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My store doesn't sell it anymore and I miss getting Publix Cream Soda it was the best one (to me anyways)

Anybody's Store still sell it?

Every week without fail at 10pm on Tuesday nobody can check their new schedule!!! Works fine all week but come Tuesday CRASH!!! publix needs a website that will not crash when the new schedule comes out its so arrivating!!!

My sister had to get an uber all the way to work only to find out she is not scheduled today “oh, we took you off the schedule today you’re working tomorrow instead and someone forgot to tell you” I’m sorry, what? 😡 maybe you don’t have to worry about every penny, my guy, but a lot of us do. This isn’t even the first second third time this happened! She is LIVID! So, then of course she had to get an uber home… are they going to pay for that? Of all the irresponsible unprofessional… this is what they do to get people to quit. You can’t tell me it’s a mistake— a mistake doesn’t happen all the time. They did it to me when I worked for them. V

Was just involved in a car accident two days ago. Went to ER and got cleared but they did find herniated discs in my lower back and I have papers stating so. More appointments for the physical therapy and in a lot of pain.

I just started part time at this publix earlier this month. No idea what to do. Im fine with unpaid leave but I dont want to get fired. Already called out twice. Is there medical leave I can take where they cannot fire me during it? I am in so much pain.

Thanks

New stock price comes out Friday. I think it will go down to $19.45. what do you think the new price will be?

Hey just curious, if you were one of our FADM’s how long were you in that position before they placed you. I was one for 2 almost 3 years.

I have an associate that is late 15 times.

Is that true that Publix will discharge the associate if they are late 15 times ?

Or if the person is absence more than 5 times. Will that affect them ?

Called my last boss 4 hours in to get my job back and quit. Def not the place for me.

Go ahead, mods. Take it down.

Highly recommend the Chantilly one 😂

Does anyone else work in cs at a store that has seniors dropped off several days a week from retirement homes? It causes a huge burden on labor and they’re lowkey wild. I feel for them so we schedule extra when they come two days a week but shouldn’t these facilities have people that go with them and help them instead of dropping them off warzone style

I walked out of my closing shift, was just so done with it tbh. Im tired of customers attitudes yelling over meat and cheese. The money was good but that deli made me suicidal, Im looking for other jobs and applying to college now.

I recently applied for a job at Publix and was wondering how long it took for Publix to get back to you. I’ve waited about a week and haven’t gotten a text message or an email even though I consented to being sent them. Is this normal or have I done something wrong? If my application wasn’t accepted will they let me know or just never send anything?

Hello! I order a very specific pub sub often. Last time in the app I apparently misclicked to "pay in store".

I did not pay.

I am so used to prepaying that I just grabbed my sub and placed it in my bag and left the store.

What will happen to me?

Does Publix add sweetener to the freshly cut watermelon chunks that are sold in the produce section? They always taste so sweet.

I work at a pharmacy warehouse so I'm curious how many fills a retail pharmacy does a day on average.