Good for him/her. I hope the suits in Lakeland don't interfere (but I know they will.)

Publix treats their employees terrible. They don't deserve success because they are a horrible place to work.

Publix is wonderful and there are like minded folks here.

baggers have it the worst...they have to do everythign it the store..if they stand around for more than 3 seconds they get holllard at....if you miss taking out one!!!!!! cart!!!!! you get written up!!!! what kinda crap is that..one cart..im sorry..if i had somebody pushing me out of the way to take my cart out i would push them out of my way.!!!!!!!!...you can be outside for more than 15 minutes grabbing carts sweat pouring off your head tired!!! and you get no respect...what so ever!!! 15 hours a day with a 30 minute break!!!! wow!!! nice!!!! and still can't go over 35 hours...nice!! liek i'll even make that!!!!! ....they cut hours so much its not funny then put more stress on th eothers!!!!! and managment!!! OMG dont even go there.. talk about military!!!! wow.. so strict its no funny..!!!WHAT DO I HAVE TO SAY ABOUT PUBLIX WORKIN THERE... NO FOR TOO MUCH LONGER!!! HAHA...WHAT NICE FAMILY ENVIRMENT IS WHAT I HAVE TO SAY... ...hmm... winndixie had more family values as a company than publix does!!!!!!! ..and pays more.... only thing "good" about publix is its cleanliness ...wow.. yah poor baggers do all that too.. yup.. publix...what a place!!! great...no hours... no money...bad management...no respect.....have a nice day...

hi i also work at publix and understand how this other person feels...because i work with them the management there is so bad all they do is yell when you go to carry someone out they get mad at you and write you up as if you dont carry them out....so i say u have a talk with all the mgt. in publix have a nice day

It really makes me mad to here all this crap because im sure the people that wrote those articles are very lazy no manager is going to just write you up for no reason or else they would be risking there job. So all I have to say to the guy that would rather work at Winn-Dixie is good luck because there stock is not worth anything and more of there stores are going out of business everyday.

I agree Publix is a very difficult company to work for. The customer motto is "the louder you yell the more you get" management only care about their favorite people and every one else gets blasted. your too slow, too quick, too loud, too soft, not helpful enough, too helpful. whatever the excuse. just don't try for a career, they will make sure it doesn't happen, and make you miserable for trying against their will!!!!
Just make sure management gats their BIG bonus!!

LISTEN TO THE WHINERS!

Publix is a GREAT place to work, it seems all you little whiners NEVER REALLY HAD TO WORK FOR A LIVING.....

Try my job! where I have to manage all you little babies in the cust service areas.... I'm in my 40's and never have I heard of suck siuckness, dieases and fatigue with a bunch of teenagers.

IF I HAD MY WAY ID FIRE YOU ALL and hire retired folks, at lesat they KNOW HOW TO WORK AND ARE RESPONSIBLE.....

All you whining punks JUST QUIT! if youre not happy WHAT ARE YOU... STUPID??? QUIT! We can always find good people who can appreciate THE LONG TERM!

SEAGATE OUT!

All I know is that after the stock split. I will have 6 thousand share of stock. This stock was given to me for WORKING at Publix. It has cost me nothing. I know many people who have MORE!

I have worked for both Publix and Winn-Dixie, they don't even compare. Publix takes care of those that want to work!! If your lazy, you'll stay making minimum wage. If you care and work hard, then you are rewarded with more hours and more pay. Name another retailer that pays there PART-TIMERS 4 retail bonuses and a Christmas bonus, plus vacation time. Don't even get me started on how well they take care of there full time associates. Stop complaining, you can't get everything on a silver platter, some things you have to earn.

GREAT LAST 2 COMMENTS!

Publix is ALWAYS looking for good people, and YES the split (5-1) is to reward us for hanging tough!

For ANYONE that is willing to WORK and Treat the company as their own there IS A FUTURE!

Holiday fest was GREAT AGAIN this year! Looking fwd to a GRRRREAT Thanksgiving and holiday season! (as well as the great 2 week Christmas bonus!) BOOOYEAHHH

and by the way..!! uhh...yah kinda funny how eveybody here agrees with us and not really you.. :-\ sorry bye

I just started working for PUblix 3 weeks ago. I left mangement from Winn-dixie to go full-time stock. The company is cleaner, nicer managers. But why when the Eggs, milk, and specials in the dairy dept are blown no 1 helps. At least at winn-dixie we had a dairy closer so when u cm ein the morning if something wasnt filled u knew who to get on. I dont say anything right now cuz im still on my probation period. But please help i cant keep the customer satisfied when baggers are playing with managers and stuff needs to b filled. But tell me to go home and eggs, and sales need filling.

Maybe the rest of us understand life. I have 21 years in Publix. I have seen MANY people come and go. Some took the money and ran. Some left and came back.I work with guys who have over 25 years in. Got two or three of the stock split. They also BUY sone. I made the last split, and I will make this one. I will have 22 thousand shares. A guy I know will have 200 thousand shares. He also has 44 years in. GET THE POINT!!!!

GREAT TO SEE YA TOM!

This will be my first split and glad to be here! ONLY wish I started working here at a younger age......

TAMPA AREA!

Get real Anonymous, there is no way you worked a 15 hour day at Publix. And if you are 25 and haven't been asked to move to stock or something other than bagging there is a good reason for it.

For those that want to work for Publix and make money I'll tell you the secret to success. Besides taking care of the customers and the common sense stuff like shaving before coming to work, you need to work! Don't stand around and say you have nothing to do, find something to do! There is always shelves that need cleaning or product that needs filling. It is called initiative. Pay attention to detail! Don't over look the little things, if you see a piece of paper on the floor then pic it up. If you do these things your managers will notice, if they don't then let me know the store number because I need more money and could do a better job.

Bill, I work dairy, i'm the full time dairy clerk and I understand your concern. I fill milk and eggs if i'm not busy with the dairy truck. At our store the rover fills milk and eggs if the dairy clerk isn't there or is busy working or unloading the truck, but if the rover is busy and the milk and eggs are blown the dairy clerk should fill the milk and eggs, it is his department. It takes me 5 minutes to do both.

Personally i think Publix should have frozen food and dairy managers instead of stock clerks. They need some good people on these departments and pay them well. I can't tell you how bad our Frozen food department looks because the stock clerk working and ordering it doesn't give a sh!t. Management is aware of the problem, but not really much they can do since the person could go get a job at homedepot making the same pay and probably would if they rode his ass about it.

Mr jenkins, if your listening, i'm willing to start at $35k per year as dairy manager, i gurantee you will not be dissappointed. Put in a good word for me with the big guy.

Dairyfairy out!

hey Bruce, I know your pain. We have chronic sickies at our store. I've been saying for years that Publix's sick policy is way to relaxed and they seemed to be trying to do something about it with the new raise policy about calling in or being late. What they should do is buy back sick days after so many are accumulated, this would reward those that come to work and maybe the ones that aren't sick and are just to tired will think twice about calling in. I have close to 900 hours of sick time, i believe that's the max.

Ya dairyfairy i agree with you about frozen/dairy managers. Publix does need that. At Winn-Dixie u were accountable for dairy. If inventory was below 2500 u had to go to a clinic to show u how to order properly. If u couldnt get it then u were demoted with no Bonus check. Also when i go in some morings ill stock for 3 hrs and dont have enough time to work backstock. Then if im off the next day no1 fills specials or works any backstock. Besides that i enjoy working at publix and want to move up with this good company

Hello.. I currently work at Winn-Dixie and I'm thinking about getting a job at Publix. I would like to know the advantages and / or disadvantages of working at Publix. One of my friends told me that you get a pay raise every 3 months or something like that, the company gives you free stock, etc... Also, if anyone is a Cashier, is it a hard position? I heard that it is hard to memorize all the codes and how to process checks and wic checks.. So, if someone can respond, that would be great.

Thanks

Please ignore the message above... Good Evening! I'm currently a Bagger / Produce Associate at Winn-Dixie, and I'm thinking about getting a job at Publix Super Markets. I would love to know the advantages and / or disadvantages for working at Publix. I have a few friends who work for Publix, and they say that Publix offers an excellent benefits package. I believe they told me that you are entitled to pay raises every 3 months or so, receive free stock (I don't know how much) and other benefits... If someone could tell me the other benefits that Publix offers, that would be great... Also, I'm applying for a Cashiering position at my neighborhood Publix and everyone tells me that it's a difficult position. I say that it's only difficult to memorize the codes and all and how to process checks and wic checks. So, if anyone could help me out, that would be awesome.

THanks Again

Well Bill i'm accountable for all aspects of dairy, but I do not manage anyone, i have no one else that works with me besides the occasional rover(part time stock clerk) that will fill milk and eggs. I personally like to fill eggs myself while i'm there because the kids I have to work with like to fill and fill and fill, but never rotate, so what you get are out of date eggs in the back and they will also freeze. Don't even get me started about the dates on the milk.

What my store really needs is an assitant grocery manager because the grocery manager or manager in charge is too busy up front or with their department to manage the part time stock clerks who would just assume stand around for 6 hours than work stock.

I'm not sure what you mean about below 2500, if anything I order more stock than Publix wants on hand. I have to have stock to work before my truck gets there or else i'd be working 12 hours a day. If anyone from the dairy warehouse is reading, get my freaking truck to me on time!!!!!

To the winndixie associate, you can check the publix website or go down to your local publix to find out about benefits, I'm not sure exactly how much stock you receive or when you get a raise, i believe it's different for part-time and full-time and stock depends on your hours you work, i think. I would hate to give out wrong info.

Incase there are any VIP's from corporate reading here I have a suggestion. Change the GTL position to night manager and pay them like a grocery manager, then maybe i'd consider it. The pay for GTL is a freaking joke, 50 cents more than i'm making now, no thanks! I realize some stores don't stock at night, but for the ones that do there should be a night manager or just call it stock manager. I'm amazed that put someone in charge of the whole store at night that is paid such a low wage.

I wish there were a corporate blog, but I could see a lot of kids on there crying about how unfairly they get treated, boo hoo, cry me a river. Some of these kids wouldn't work hard if they made 1 million per year, poor parenting IMO.

One comment about the free stock options. I'm not sure how it works for part-time associates, but for full time you can retire after 5 years and sell your stock, that is the only way to cash in the stock that is given to you and of course you have to pay tax on that money which sucks. It seems like you get 1 share of stock for every 40 hours worked, but I could be way off on that one.

Dairyfairy 2500 is what u would be short after inventory. We didnt scan damages we marked them down and if they go out of date just throw them away. But the point is some1 was titled Dairy Mgr. I agree with ya on the backstock work backstock before the truck gets there cuz if not u b playing catch up all day. If my truck was there around 530-600am i would not need backstock to carry me over.

Bill, inventory is a joke. No way is the count accurate, i wouldn't put any stock in how short each department is after inventory. I have been way over one inventory and way short the next. So long as people are doing the counting it will always be a guess at best. Oh and my bonus always seems the same no matter what the result.

I am a experienced tractor trailer driver and am considering working at Publix. I do know that you must go through the warehouse first for some time but after that can anyone tell me what the job is like as it pertains to the pay scale,bidding on routes,typical workday,is there overtime and how does the stock plan work. If someone can fill me in before I make this job change I would greatly appreciate it. It's important to do research on a company before you jump on board. Thanks!

i have been a cashier for three yrs and i really do love it if you have a good personality and like talking to people its great and you dont mind actually doing work the codes are not hard to learn wic is easy just pay atten. to the dates and whats printed on the check and it really doesnt tale long to move up i am in the front office now . will start training in the back soon i have also done deli seafood produce housewares just about everything whatever they are willing to teach me i am willing to learn that is how you have to be . the stock they give is awesome some people have come across some bad managers . not in my case i ahve worked at two differant stores and every manager has been great so if you ar ethinking about a job at publix there is nothing wrong with trying it for awhile

Dear DrverDude. Yes you must go through the warehouse system. At my location it now takes 9 years or so. It depends on what happens to the people who are ahead of you. They will train you, and give you your CDL test on the property. Ofetn they will have you jockey for awhile. Most new drivers start on the late P.M. shift, and take the poor runs, Each run pays a set amount, you get paid by the hour for all waiting time ect... As you move up you get better runs, and go to day shift. Every year they adjust how the runs pay. Every year they adjust the amount of stock they give you. The number of shares is based on your earnings. They establish an amount that normaly gives tou several thousand dollars in stock. IT COSTS YOU NOTHING! 401k, health, ect....

I recently retired with 15 years in at Publix in east central Florida. It was my first job at 16 years old. Here are the positives of Publix:

The stock has averaged nearly 20% a year since the 1950's.
They give you around 12% of your pay each year in stock in addition to your salary.
You arent out in sun all day.
Company seems too care about welfare of associates.
Quarterly bonuses plus two weeks free pay at Christmas.
You never have to drive far too work.
You can make up to 125,000 a year with no college in management.

Now the negatives:

Top hourly pay is about 12 dollars an hour, little more for meat cutters, but not much.
Health insurance is a bit pricey for the size of the company, about 375 month for family.
Schedules are different every week.
Management is brutal hours, about 55-60, causing lots of burn out.
Turnover from part timers is somewhat high, but not like a fast food joint.

Glad to answer any questions anybody may have who is considering going to work for them.

What a bunch of pussies and whiners! Publix rewards those who work hard and take initiative, instead of just talking about it and complaining. Your stories are obviously exaggerated, and anyone who knows Publix realizes that when they read your nonsense.

And to the dairyfairy... get a life. When I was stocking dairy for much less than you probably make, I could work circles around everyone in the store. And I filled milk and eggs, to boot. I'm not worth $35K, and neither are you, bud. Dairy and Frozen Food Managers are just W/D titles for glorified stock clerks. It only takes 40 hours to work dairy, with a little extra this time of the year with holiday sales. No company with a brain would pay that ridiculous wage for the amount of labor required. That job should be done by a stock clerk who has shown the ability to handle it (especially this time of year) and paid a decent grocery clerk's wage.

The problem is you are not going to get good people for the wages a stock clerk makes. You're going to get kids that don't give a shit. At my store Frozen food is constantly changing hands and it costs Publix money every time in the form of out of stocks. By the way i could easily work dairy in 30 hours per week, i never get overtime and I help the grocery crew most mornings. Dairy and Frozen are important sections of the store and should have the same people working/ordering them.

I am definately worth $35k per year for the work I do, you may not be judging by your attitude.

Gsbbagehead, you are correct on most points, but max pay is not $12, i make $12.30. I believe the max for a stock clerk is $12.50 and $13.50 for a grocery team leader which is the glorified stock clerk.

Scedules are not always different for every department, i know my schedule is always the same and so is the schedule for our full time stock clerks. Most of our managers work a fairly fixed scedule, but not the same hours each day, but usually the same days each week, no 9-5 management positions at publix and they work 10 hour shifts like you've said.

The biggest insult I think corporate ever did to the employees was that Market A crap. For those not familiar with it, there are a good percentage of stores located where corporate believes that the cost of living is more reasonable than others and the pay scale is lower by .50 an hour. These stores can be less than a mile apart from other stores that are not considered Market A. It's total bullshit as you have people who get transfered to the neighboring Publix who have to take a pay cut to work there.

I am turning this in at headquarters. I hope they fire you Josh.. Like we don't have enough people out to get us you give sanctuary to pinkos and freaks to lie about us..

I have removed a number of comments. If you're going to use the forum to insult others then it will be removed. In addition you cannot republish entire articles from established sources (why not try a link).

Richard:
I don't work for Publix so it would be hard to fire me. With that said, I do know quite a few of the senior-level executives at corporate.

It WOULD BE NICE to have an associate area that is private for like minds to commiserate.

Having said that Before moving to Publix (and FL)
I was Vp/Ops for the US division of a Canadian based company based outside of Montreal.

I moved to FL to take care of my mom and after her passing did a stint as a private business owner.... Finally got to the realization that I wanted some sort of stability and security for my last 20 or so years of employment.... I did a short stint with NRG but then opted for PUSH

I have been with PUSH for approx 2 years and have all in all been satisfied. I do notice quite a few instances where things could be improved....

I have heard and read about WIN and QIP projects but have been unsucessful in getting any support in starting one. All I hear is "whats your idea"

I am making 1/3 of the revenue I made up north in 1999 and am really trying to tough it out with the current low wage.... PUSH is a very good company but I do have some insight that I believe would have some values, but at the store level the mentality seems to be (too much), JUST SELL GROCERIES.

People give me funny looks when I talk about Statistical analysis, MRP, Process flow, Kempner Traego, etc.....

Am I being too aloof or do I really have some stills to offer in lakeland?

I was told that I am not to contact any higher ups without store level permission, but am getting no support!

I am prepared to even do a presentation on my own time! I would like publix to achieve GREATNESS, and i know if you start with the pennies the $$ follows so to speak.... Is there
an audience for suggestions, or is everyone in protectionist mode?

A bit frustrating, but I will continue to play like a good boy and suck up all of the info that I can....

If ANYONE can help me with some direction, I'd appreciate any help! JOSH?

TIA

I am a Publix dept manager, have 12 years with the company beginning as a p/t associate and moving up. In my opinion, many of the comments on this board are very accurate: Publix is very tough, and the ground-floor level wages suck!! However, it is also true that loyalty and hard work are amply rewarded with promotional opportunites, stock/ESOP, quarterly retail bonuses, and an overall benefits package---even for parttime employees---that is as good as any out there, and a lot better than most. Bottom line: if you are looking for advancement opportunity and are willing to work your ass off and be a team player (suck it up!!), you have virtually unlimited potential with Publix. If you just want a weekly paycheck and are content to be a mediocre slacker or a slug, good for you...but please don't bother to apply with Publix.
Publix has almost impossibly high ideals and standards; and the higher up the chain you move, the MORE is expected of you. There are days---when somebody calls out sick, our delivery truck comes late, the store manager calls an unexpected meeting, and Steritech arrives...ALL ON THE SAME DAY---that I would dearly love to throw in the towel!! The 10-hour day (minimum) for managers, is a joke on these days: try 13, 14, or 15 hours!! Tough hours. (And for this we are paid "Chinese overtime" which REALLY sucks!!!) When all of this is happening and you still have that ONE associate who is whining or bitching about a coworker or a difficult customer, then you REALLY want to toss the green nametag and never look back!!
Yet...we get quarterly inventory bonuses and year end bonus that add substantially to our salary; this year, for instance, I will earn just a smidge under 65K, and that is with only a HS diploma and the rest strictly on-the-job training, hard work, and hustle. My ESOP plan---to which I have not (and cannot) contribute a dime--is worth about 100K; and besides that, I have a healthy 401K account, 3 weeks paid vacation, 2weeks pay as Christmas bonus, life insurance coverage, 935 hours of paid sick time if I ever need it, a relatively good healthcare plan at a reasonable premium, and basic dental coverage that is slightly better than none (but at least it's SOMETHING, and not expensive)!
Let me say: I have worked my ass off for ALL of this; and everything that I have, I have earned twice over!! It's very satisfying to get the big checks---and very humbling to know that I am still not "above" cleaning a floor drain or hauling out garbage! But at least I have the satisfaction of knowing that, whenever I am ready to retire and decide I've had enough, my retirement package will go WITH me; and my stock WON'T be down to $2 a share like W/D.
Yes Publix managers are strict...but it is for all of YOUR benefit, that we are!! Those of you who are PT seeking FT...the reason we can afford to offer you that promotion (when it is EARNED) is due to being PROFITABLE. For FT seeking management: the reason you have a shot at promoting is that you have proven your abilities, shown extreme endurance under pressure, taken initiative to learn all you can from everyone you can, and are a cheerful team player no matter how tired and screwed-over you feel after that 15-hour day!...and because you are doing everything you can to assist us in being PROFITABLE: by NOT wasting time, money or opportunity.
We are ALWAYS looking for people to fill our shoes, and grateful to assist them in moving up!! Why?? Because someday, WE want to retire, and we have to count on the "next generation" of Publix people to continue to grow our stock after we are out the door!
So there you go: you people who are whining about the difficulty of your job or how strict your managers are, need to take a look at where YOU expect to be in 3 years, 5 years, 10 years, or more. The more you are willing to put in on the front end, the more will be in your pocket on the back end!!! Thanks to all of you who have worked so tirelessly, for the stock split that will soon be in ALL of our pockets! And to the above "undervalued" person who is looking for a group with whom to commiserate, and wants to know where is his "audience" for all his excellent business improvement strategies: how about you spend a little less time whining about your "lack of support" and answer the question: "What is your idea?"!! Sounds to me, again, like someone who doesn't want to take initiative to GO AFTER IT but instead wants everybody to come offering and grovelling. Sorry buddy, but we have WORK to do---taking care of customers, and mentoring associates who are really IN IT for the long haul. THAT is what makes Publix, Publix...as they say, don't talk the talk if you can't walk the walk! Consider that a challenge...and good luck on your CQI project.

Thanks for the input, manager.

I just spent 2 hours leveling the store after a 95k revenue day. I was scheduled to work 2-11 but one of the staff called in sick, so I worked noon-11pm.

Although it not my function I help throw stock, level, order some items, and foremost TAKE CARE OF THE CUSTOMER, as these are all things that encompass that.

WHINING? Not me! I fully understand the culture and appreciate the commitment of you and the other "forefathers" of the company.

That is why I am here at 25% of my previous pay up north.

That is why as soon as I was vested in I purchased 250 shares of stock with my OWN money.

I will have a check postmarked 12/31 for 100 more shares to piny up before the split.

That is why I contribute a full 10% into my 401k

That is why I work a second job to be able to afford to pay my mortgage.

NO WHINING HERE.

Publix has been good to me relatively speaking.

I am simply trying to get some support with a darn WIN/QIP project that I have statiscially run to save MY COMPANY about 1k a DAY in a certain space of RAW MATERIALS, at the combined retail level.

Yes I am a visionary, that is why I am here and why I am posting here after another 11 hour day, (and no I am not in management).

I am walking the walk, as I perform my duties without a mountain dew in my hand and a lip full of long cut.

Simply put again, I wish there was a forum for associates, as sometimes the chain of command is innefective.

Sure I could simply email directly from home to anyone I wish, as its not that hard to get through directly to ANYONE in the corporation fom home. I was using the internet when there was simply ARPANET, TRIDENT and a few other pre-windows platforms....

See I am just a soldier ant at this point but have held high managerial positions in other companies. I know how business is supposed to be run, I appreciate all the managers work as I am around them quite a bit. I was Admin Coordinator for a while and know the ins and outs a bit.

Again, just would be NICE to chat with some of you folks when you are not so busy dealing with Steritech, Inventory, SIMS, IPLH, MAPELS, Vendors, or any of the other multitude of tasks.

I am seeking something at Publix to CHEW ON, something to CHALLENGE ME, as Publix wants.....

In the meantime I can take whatever is thrown at me, as this is NOT a hard job at this point. I have not many problems working for managers that are my kids age that are doing well but lack the savvy and depth of experience.

I appreciate what they have gone through, and they have been "groomed", although many have been promoted due to the growth of retail space.

Just please dont call me a whiner, as I am not whining at all, if it came across that I was I'm sorry, I just sometimes HURT to be able to do more, to lend my experience, to be CHALLENGED.

FYI in the short time I have been employed (a little under 2 years), I have NEVER had a day out and was late mabey 3 times due to traffic, mabey 4-5 minutes?

I hope for at least another 20 years with Publix, and to work hard and reap the benefits that you have.

Mabey someday we will meet at the academy, ya never know.

A generally happy associate in the Tampa Area

Bruce,
Guess I mistook your frustration as whining! Mea culpa...and a great response on your part.

I see you are an intelligent guy and you definitely know the culture, expectations, and protocol. All good!! Now, as to getting started on your CQI:

What you will try to do as your first step, is to formulate a statement of your work study. You are going to study a PROCESS of the work flow, and attempt to eliminate waste in at least one of three categories as that process is done. These categories are TIME, MONEY, and OPPORTUNITY. A very important tip is, that opportunity cannot be measured; it is an "out there" guesstimate thing;and in order to have a successful CQI that can be carried through to completion, you have to have something tangible that can be measured both before and after you change the process, in order to determine if you have made an improvement. So start by developing a focus statement, and use this format:

"My CQI Project is to eliminate the waste of
(time/money) in the process of ___________"

Once you have determined the process that you intend to conduct the work-study on, go to a manager (preferably your own dept manager, or another manager who oversees the staff who "own" that process), and present your statement. They will then check with corporate to see whether a work study has already been done on that topic, or not. If so, you will want to revise your focus & statement. If not, you will then proceed to do a study of the current process AS IT NOW EXISTS to determine where the waste is---and there are, you will discover, MANY areas of waste, not simply one. The work study process follows prescribed steps...upon getting the go-ahead to pursue your topic, your mentor will go over this with you (we have had CQI Project Coach training, and all managers also have an accompanying handbook). You wil take the area of the process where the greatest waste exists (based upon the results of your work study) and it is here that you will brainstorm ideas for improvement, implement your idea, and re-measure the process for outcome. Depending on what you are studying, you may need to involve other associates in or outside of the store, or more than just one manager---but start with your Focus Statement before you do anything else. Another thing: don't go into it with a solution already in-hand....weird things happen as you conduct the initial work study, and perhaps things will come to your attention that you never noticed before. These projects can take odd turns and lead you into places you didn't expect---with surprisingly good outcomes!!---if you go into them with an open mind. Sometimes people try to do these things with their solution already in their mind, and once they get into it, they realize that their idea to eliminate waste in one area may actually create a lot MORE waste in other areas! So when it comes time to do your work study, put aside any preconceived ideas and look at the process as though you were from Mars and had never observed it before.

If you get your Focus Statement completed and are given the go-ahead, I don't think you will lack for guidance and direction in moving forward. But on the chance that you do, keep posting and I will try to guide you through the steps. Or put you in touch with somebody who can.

It's great that you are wanting a challenge and are motivated to improve Publix! I have done QIP's and WIN's in the past, but now it is ALL CQI (more in-depth, similar to a QIP) that requires a more elaborate approach but can be really fun & challenging if you take it seriously and follow all the steps as they are laid out.

Good luck & keep us posted on your progress!

Thanks for the response so quickly!

I also re-read your prev. post and what I believe I need to seek out is a "godfather" so to speak.

I get along quite well with the asst. store mgr, and after forgettting 3 times to help me get the project started, I spoke to him yesterday add he was very sorry to have put it off.

I know the business cycle here with Holidays fast approaching and the snowbirds coming down.
We agreed to go over the guidelines after the holiday/newyears rush is over.

Thanks again for a bit of insight into this project, and for understanding where I am coming from.

Day off today, getting ready to fire up the grill for some great thick cut pork chops and all the fixins. Then its down to the store do drop a hundred bucks on shopping.

Bruce

I have 21 years in. Started p/t, and then f/t. First retail, and now support. I have seen many, many come and go. I have seen many leave, and come back. WHY? The reality is that yes we have problems, but most other places are screwed up. On a recent day we had 81 people aplly for two jobs. WHY? the pay rate was 13.30 an hour. Support pays more, as we get no retail bonus.WHY do I stay? I have 6,000 reasons at 77.25 a share.

Well department manager, i know you aren't my grocery manager. He did plenty of work as a stock clerk and as a GTL for the short time he was one, but he doesn't do jack now. I will probably get more hours this week than him since I have 4 dairy trucks due to christmas. I'd rather have to work harder than put up with the bullsh!t though and it doesn't really bother me that my store managers retail bonuses are more than my annual salary, LOL! I think the days of fat retail bonuses are quickly coming to an end, it will be the first thing to go when the belt needs tightening.

The single worse part of working for publix for me(possibly any retail store) is they expect you to work on your day off if a holiday falls on a day you normally work, you can forget about a 2 day or three day weekend unless you are management. I haven't had two consecutive days off in going on 8 years. Working with teenagers ain't no picnic either.

I agree that every place has their problems and i've worked for a few places, Publix is by far the best of the lot.

I wish i could get cash for my sick hours.

Hey Dairyfairy, are you the same guy posting crap on the ragingbull board?

Sounds like you need to quit and find another job the way you are whining on 2 separate boards...

Either that or grow some BRASS and do some talking to the right people...

If you are there 8 years and still stocking dairy you either dont want to get ahead or are just a complainer.

As far as working on a holiday EVER HEAR OF A TIME AWAY FROM WORK FORM????

Season's here!! I can tell by the STRESS LEVEL in these posts! (haha) Hey, just 2 more weeks and maybe we can all breathe.

Hey Dairyfairy, my store's dairy guy works his butt off and I see what the date-diggers do over in the yogurt section, so you have my sympathy! Whopper trucks too and this crap of shipments coming in on pallets now instead of birds, really sucks!! You can't even find a float this time of year as it is; but with the pallet crap it's just out of control. Anyway, hang in and if you get more hours than your grocery mgr., he (or she??) will look like a real ass if the DM reviews the time cards. FYI: in my territory, the DM requires we copy our schedules to him weekly...and they also randomly review manager time cards! The more you do your job, and the better, it WILL be noticed...and those who slack will just look even WORSE by comparison. I am a working manager; I am in my dept until 8 or 9 pm at least one night a week, and frequently close (work with crew and walk out with them at 11:30) so I don't have any problem from the DM or anybody else. I have never put myself in a bad position but yes, there are always a few managers (and associates too, for that matter!) who duck & cover. Think about it....you know who they are, so you can bet your store mgr and DM probably do too! One thing I've learned out of 12 years with Publix and 7 stores: Just keep your head down and do your job;sooner or later, everybody gets what they have coming to them. That can go either way!!!...depends on who's doing their job, and who is not.

You folks including Bruce sound like a bunch of pompous asses.... Ranting about how the pay sucks but you can be promoted... Gee can every underpaid publix peon be a manager etc? If so who would do the necessary back breaking work of serving the customer from the warehouse to the person who assist the customer's purchases in the parking lot? Yes a board for those in the trenches needs to be available, not another back room pow wow secession of bullshit. And you managers spend so much of you Chinese Overtime sitting on your fat fannies in the office all day yacking about which employee is the next to hit the door.

Rick

Mastiff, do you work for Publix? I know you don't by your response, just try requesting the day before christmas off, LOL! You sissies who like to run your mouths on the internet need not respond. If you want to insult me I will gladly meet you anywhere you want, just post your phone number. I have not posted on ragging bull in over a week, it obvious there are lots of loud mouths on there with no backbone and that's boring.

If you read my other posts you'll realize that I don't want to get ahead, i don't want to be incharge of these worthless kids they hire, i don't need the money or the added hours and stress. I also don't kiss enough butt. I do realize that their are working managers out there, i have worked at another store.

No one works dairy for 8 years by the way, they'd go insane. I have worked dairy 3 seperate times all have been about 1 year in length. I've worked frozen food twice and the rest of my time has been on the dry grocery stock crew. I will probably retire to produce like all stock clerks who don't want management.

I don't mind the date diggers one bit, most give up after the second row and if I have a better date you can bet it's all the way in the back.

Glad to hear that other stores don't have any floats. I always have lots of floats on inventory Saturday, then the next truck day they are gone again. Too many other departments use floats as permanent storage(bakery). If I didn't have the lunch meat and cheeze backstock in my cooler i would just park my entire dairy truck in the cooler and use one float. Some manager probably thought that was a great idea.

This is the typical day of a dairy clerk for those that want to know. I work 6am-4pm 3 days a week (truck arrives at noon), the other two i'm scheduled 5 hours because there is no truck on these days. Work backstock, block, stack eggs/milk, work candy backstock, scan damages, Saturdays hang price changes before 7. I almost never take a break unless my truck is late, a 30 minute break is 30 minutes longer I have to be there, that's something you get use to doing working nights for a long time(dry grocery truck is a night delivery at my store), this isn't Publix's policy, just mine. Today i worked 6-5 due to the amount of customers in the store, 5 minutes to eat a sandwich, the rest of the day was non-stop work and that's what I like about Publix. There is always something to make the time fly by. I should easily get 51 hours this week, not that i'm trying mind you. Any other time of year i'd rather be at home than getting overtime.

Like I said before, if you are looking for a job at a grocery store then Publix will start you out at the highest wage and you'll get better raises than any other retailer, but you will have to work, if you don't work then your raise will show it. If you don't want to work then apply at super walmart or better yet Winndixie.

This will be my final post until there is a real publix forum, I just don't see the point of this blog. I only found this blog because I googled publix sucks trying to see if any unhappy customers were talking about the company. I must say there are very few hits compared to walmart sucks.

I know a manager at PUBLIX who is doing quite well nowadays. It took some bad apartments and low pay, but is definitely Upper middle class now. He works a lot of hours, but his free time is quality free time on vacation wherever in the world.

On the horizon is RFID tags on all consumer goods, and to be in his position is great for this cutting edge technology for tracking every item in every household, shelf, shopping cart, how long the item was studied by the shopper, etc.

Hey Fairy!

Is that how you respond to everyone? I saw you try to get people to meet you in parking lots on the Raging Bull Board.... You are one CRO MAGNON aren't you!

Please dont try and pick fights here, it doesnt make you look good as a publix associate.....

if you fill out a TIME AWAY FROM WORK FORM.... ever hear of those? and give your manager enough time you WILL get the day off!

Now be a good boy and reach down DEEP and rotate those yogurts well. Dont forget the Kozy Shack
puddings too! LOL

It is time the workers of Publix unite and invite the union on board.. Our company is the 2nd largest in Florida with employees in need of Food Stamps, Medicaid and other Taxpayer assistance.. It is time Publix stopped using the taxpayer to pay for the hidden paycheck...

HAHA A UNION SHILL ON THE BOARD!

Take your pleas to WAL-MART!

Publix is one of the FEW that offer PART TIME employees health benefits. BLUE CROSS for about 30.00/week for a family!

STEVE CRAWL BACK INTO YOUR STUPID UNION MESS HALL

Publix Union?

I doubt this will ever happen, and can't see it ever being voted in. I for one would never vote for a union.

Tell us all, just how many Publix people can afford $30 per wk for insurance? The union would insure the cost to the employee will be close to free.. It would be a little less for you company shills at the top.

Bruce, nobody cares what you think, 95% of the company is non management and large percentage of full and part time can't afford health insurance or their pension and given the right guidance would overwhelmingly support union representation. that is the dirty little secret the management at Publix don't want you all to know..

IGNORE THE UNION SHILL.

Just another spaghetti bending mafioso....

CALABRIA THICKHEAD? MULINYAN

Doesnt even know the pension is FREE, or about the 50% match on the 401k.

Just a union opportunist, probabally get a "kick" if union is signed in...

PUBLIX EMPLOYEE, NON UNION PROUD!

What A Joke Steve UNION BOY! You dont even take the time to read and find out he IS NOT management.... what a BONE HEAD!

LOOK AT WHAT THE UNIONS ARE DOING TO THE US AUTO INDUSTRY! NEED ANYONE SAY MORE???

GO BACK TO JERSEY, MUTTONHEAD STEVE UNION LAP-DOG

OH STEVEY-BOY

Please do a little research????

PUBLIX is the BEST PAYING WITH BEST BENEFITS supermarket in the south!

I KNOW, I worked for ABS AND WIN DIXIE!

What a HAMMERHEAD YOU ARE (NO DIRTY SECRET HERE)
you DONT EVEN HAVE YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT!

GO BOTHER ABS OR WINN AND PLEASE DRIVE THEM OUT
OF BUSINESS SO WE CAN GET MORE MARKET SHARE!

GO BOTHER WALMART!

Don't forget WEDNESDAY IS PRINCE SPAGHETTI DAY

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

HAHAHAHAHA

Why in Hades would we want to unionize?

We are treated very fairly with an above average pay scale and great benefits.

Back in the late 70's I worked for a shop that was great, then unionized, within 2 years they were out of business, but the union got FAT on the dues and deserted all the workers when they were laid off! The extra buck and hour wasn't worth it, as I would have had over 30 years with them NOW if that damn union hadn't gotten in!

Unions are a thing of the PAST, and are certainly not needed or WANTED at Publix.

Signed, a lowly hourly employee who is VERY HAPPY and treated very WELL. Am Interested in going into management and am receiving guidance and support from the store managers. If you work and show effort you are rewarded, PERIOD.

As the other guy said go bother WAL-MART who really needs a push to help their employees.

Steve, (union organiser?)

I am not management and have been at Publix for less than 2 years.

Publix does not need a union to govern itself, and from what I have seen has a great infrastructure without insiders dictating what it needs to be for a fee from each employee on the payroll.

FYI, Blue Cross coverage for a family is ver 400/month, and at approx 120/mo for full AND part-time employees, (including front service baggers) is very fair and just.

Did you know that even part time employees are invited into the 401k plan with 50% match and get free stock each year towards retirement?

What about 4 quarterly inventory bonuses and holiday bonus? (I got a weeks pay this year, and every employee is entitled to one). Long time associates can get up to 4 weeks holiday pay!

I think you are sorely mis-informed with any knowledge of Publix.

Why not go to your local publix and ask every employee you see if they want a union rather than trying to stir up things here?

I'm sure you would get a nice comission if you could sway people so this is purely money motivated for you.

Best of luck though, better people than you have tried in the past to start a union and it has failed. Publix benefits have only gotten better since then.

Where else can you become a department manager making 0k a year without a college degree, or in fact a store manager making over 100k?

PS I took an approx. 60% pay cut to work for publix because of the job security, health of the company, advancement opportunities, and good comments from associates who I spoke with.

Bruce

Greetings my Publix Shills,

Lots of tough angry talk here but not stated just how many Publix employees can afford the fair and just $400 or $120 a month Insurance coverage? And no one dared to state out of those who do pay for their fair and just insurance have enough left over to contribute to their pension to get that match? A union pension is given to all employees as health insurance is.. The dirty little secret is their will be less pie for the management clubbers..

To compare Publix Slave wages & Benefits with the auto industry woes is ludicrous. The auto industry retired shills are big business for the Publix Pharmacy.. Take my word for it Publix Shills, it's not Wal mart, Winn Dixie or even Publix associates or retirees that buy their meds at Publix.. It is those vile union bastards & government mules with a prescription card that pay inflated prices....

So go on, tell me some more about the joys of taking a 80% paycut to work for Publix... Temper temper, I wonder how many Publix employees of Italian heritage like the crude raps about spaghetti, organized crime & Jersey..

Have a wonderful day...
xoxoxoxoxoxoxo

Hi, I have been reading some of the comments here for a few weeks and I must confess that I am anti union.. I have always felt Publix has been a good place to work but there are a lot of flaws the past few years that I believe need some addressing, if not by management then by a union.

I have been employed by Publix for 15 years and currently work in the Bakery. In recent years raises have dropped for all that I know of, we have been asked to work extra some hours and told to leave early on other days.

After my husband and I pay our insurance deductible for family health, dental and disability we barely have enough to left to pay the mortgage let alone contribute to our 401-k.

We are luckier than many fellow associates, one has a medical lien levied against her because she cannot afford insurance after feeding her family. Some had to sign up at their church for help for Christmas presents for their children that consisted not of toys, but basics like blankets and school clothes. Others rely on government to insure the children.

While I am against unions from all that I have heard about them, it seems to me that those against them most at Publix have the most to lose, like the singles and childless couples that are fast tracking into management, that have the money to contribute the max to their retirement plans and buy stock. It is those people who benefit by higher deductibles and lower raises if any for the rest of the hard working associates.

Rates are due to rise again in the new year far out pacing our .50 increase. I would be willing to know more about a union and what they can offer us.

Cassie

PS. I would prefer if I didn't get nasty comments because I have few I could add. People I work with sometimes mention we need a union but are very discreet.
Thanx

Just one question Steve:

Why are you here and what are you to gain from all of this, or are you just a self appointed savior?

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Now for a couple of facts, nowhere did I say that the health benefits were 400.00/mo as you wrote.... I said it was approx 120.00/mo for benefits that would cost a family independantly approx 400+ ( and I correct myself, I just did a quote on the blue cross site), comparable benefits for a family of 4 would be 519 per month. the cost is approx 120.00/mo no matter how many children, so it is even better than previous! Thanks for urging me to look into this! SO Publix picks up approx. 85% of this quality insurance!

Pensions at Publix is FREE, and last year approx 11% of gross wages were put into the plan, OH and BTW plan benefits increase with the stock price avg. 16% annually!

And where did I seem angry or state that I took and 80% pay cut? It seems you have a good knack at distortion and creating tales of woe.

So once again why are you here and what is the
"value add" to you from all of this ruckus?

As for the bakery associate, with 15 years in the bakery I'm surprised that you have not gotten into management?

And speaking of pay rates, we just hired an assitant produce manager from WD, and he sayd that he is making more with us as a produce CLERK than he was in management at WD!

Ahh Bruce, my corporate shill.. Don't worry why I am here or what I have to gain. I see you are a pro spinning yarns.. You purposely aren't clear on your facts and then you get all excited when someone takes you at your distorted word.. You sir were vague on your $400 a mo and I just posted like you told it.. You should be more careful next time, some of us can think beyond the programmed green chip that you evidentally let the company install in your rectum.

Your insurance fact is wrong, using your very own spun numbers, the company picks up less than 77%, not 85%.. You also didn't point out the deductibles and minimums involved for either policy. Naughty Naughty Brucyboy. A union pension would be far better than your profit plan for the majority of employees who can't afford to add to their 401k..

What difference does it make if the 15yr employee didn't go into management? You claim you are not in management and you have the same lines of fecal matter as a Publix Executive at a union organizing event. Does that person deserve paltry wages and benefits because He/She is just an employee and not a company shill? Someone else here asked if everyone were managers, who would serve the customer? I notice your Mouth of Lies is closed to that question also..

If what you claim is true about your WD produce asst mgr, why isn't the entire body of WD and other retailers beating down the doors to your friendly Publix? Why does the majority of Publix employees never pass GO and collect their profit sharing plan monies because they are pushed beyond their physical and mental limits and wind up leaving before the 5 year vesting period?
Watch it Bruce-Juice, you might find yourself on the outside looking in because you are getting older and can't handle the newly groomed supervisor who barely needs to shave. Do you think you will top $11 an hour by 2012? Just keep blowing smoke up all our heinies in one big universal brain fart, you crack me up.

Fraternally yours,
Steve

Steve,

SO you cant answer ONE single question?

WHY are you here top save us?

Have I touched upon a nerve to get your gander and begin your insulting ways?

You can call me what you wish as I only speak facts as I know them. I am non-management as I previously told you.

I happen to ENJOY serving the customer, and almost every manager I have come in contact with has worked very hard to get where he/she is at.

Sure some of my current management are younger, some young enough to be my children, but in fact I admire them for putting in the time and effort to get where they are.

In the short time I have been there I have seen hard work and dedication pay off. Some want to excel, some want a free ride.... just like life.

I looked long and hard before making the commitment to Publix and their mission, to become the PREMIER grocer in the country! Why do you think they have been on the top 100 BEST places to work on the fortune list?

You are spinning false tales, my friend. Go ahead insult me as you wish, as I can see through your SELF SERVING mission, although you cannot answer a simple question, WHY ARE YOU HERE? What is your MOTIVATION.

Lets face it, you dont care about us, do you really? I guess that you have a problem that I fell cared about at Publix!

The doors are always open and there is a chain of command for anyone to use that wants to put forth the effort. Phone numbers are clearly posted in all associate areas as to the proper chain of command.

Too bad you cannot see the results of the annual ASSOCIATE survey. The anonymous survey as well is given by a third party to a number of associates.

Your AGENDA bothers me, but not all that much. I just think that is it sad that you come into a public forum about Publix and try and drum up unions support. To me it is quite PARASITIC.

Oh and Steve I like your buzzwords....

Paltry wages.... (Pub has one of the highest in the NON UNION grocery Industry!)

Insurance... 77% you are wrong my friend, as an average go and quote SAME PPO coverage for a family of 4-6 people!

I have single coverage and pay approx 60/mo vs
over 300 for the same individual coverage. and its GOOD coverage.

Pushed beyond physical and mental limits? LOL
C'mon man its a GROCERY STORE! Look at the national average of people who do not stay 5 years at ANY job!

Have you heard of FILLING THE GAP? Where I have been all work as a team, be it the Deli, bakery, Front End, Grocery, Meat!

I have spent time in each department because I VOLUNTEER to help out! I guess its all in the attitude.

People make choices, noone is forced to work here, last time I checked this IS the USA and not a prison camp. I cant count on my 2 hands the number of MILLIONAIRES due to the great pension plan.

It takes time, effort, and commitment. The systems only works if you work it. Many dont have tie time, effort, or patience. Sorry not my fault.

I was hoping this wouldnt turn into a publix union.not debate, but I just cant stand to see you insult MY company. I have chose to put MY future here, MY choice. We all have choices, wether you like to believe it or not.

BrucyBoy,
You claim you worked all these departments but I bet you never worked the front end because the way you count, you could make change for a Dollar.. You see Champ, $120 is 23% of $519 or the company pays 77%.. What don't you understand? And national averages is your excuse for Publix employee non retention. You call me parasitic yet you and your fellow anal retentive Green Chippers don't allow any dissenting point of view. Now that there is not only parasitic but anti American.. So tell us Mr Green Smoke, who would serve the customer if everyone were managers? My only mission is an alternative discussion that most of you are against. Your bullying might work in the stores and warehouses where no one has any rights, but on cyberspace you and others show the world just what an open door policy is all about.

Steve

Steve

HEY STEVE LAP-DOG

YOU STOLE MY WORD... UNION.."SHILL"

NOW YOU OWE ME UNION PAY EACH TIME YOU USE IT...
ONE SHILLING...HAHAHA YOU MUST BE PROUD TO HAVE LEARNED A NEW WORD SINCE YOU USE IT ALOT

TO BAD YOU CANT EVEN ANSWER A DIRECT QUESTION!!!!

TYPICAL FOR PIECE OF WORK YOU ARE!

I BET YOU ARE A LAID OFF WINN DIXIE EMPLOYEE WHO COULDNT GET HIRED AT PUBLIX

BWAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA

SO STEVE GEEBE JU-JUBEE

WHY IS THE STEVIE BOY HERE??? HUH???

CAN THE SIMPLETON ANSWER A SIMPLE QUESTION???

JUST GOT DONE THROWING A 1135 PIECE GROCERY ORDER AND AM PUMPED!!!! INVENTORY IN 2 WEEKS FOLLOWED BY A NICE BONUS!

THATS BONUS.... NOT BOGUS, WHICH IS WHAT YOU ARE!

GO PICKET WAL-MART

SHILLING BOY

DONT BOTHER SPARRING WITH THE UNION FREAK

HE OMITS ALL POSITIVES AND CHOSES TO SPLIT HAIRS OVER A % POINT OR 2

HE IS A UNION GOPHER, OR JUST A LOSER POSTING TO GIVE EVERYONE BIG WOOD

HIS COUSIN IS PROBABALLY MOVING TO FL AND WANTS TO BE THE BACK ROOM SHOP STEWARD OR SOMETHING

PUBLIX DONT NEED NO UNION, WE WILL DO FINE WITHOUT YOU AND YOUR "ILK" LOOKEE A NEW WORD STEVIE!!!! USE IT WELL

HAHAHAHAHA

Received the Diversistar Award for excelling in promoting workplace diversity practices (2003)
Named by Child magazine as one of the Top 10 Family-Friendly Supermarkets (2003)
One of the top companies in FORTUNE's list of "100 Best Companies to Work For" (1998 - 2005)
One of Jacksonville Magazine's top 25 Family Friendly Companies (2000-2003)
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One of Computerworld's Best Places to Work in IT. (2005)
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One of the top 10 companies to work for in America in the book, "The 100 Best Companies to Work for in America" (Currency/Doubleday, 1993)
Winner of the Mid-Florida Society for Human Resource Management Diversity Award (2003)
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IS THIS STEVIE BOY STEVEN MARRS?

The Union’s International Representative Steven Marrs testified that former employee Mario Eaton began an in-house group called the Publix Union Brigade to address problems concerning workplace rules, wages, work schedules, and some of the managers. *****Marrs himself is a former Company employee who resigned and was later recruited by the Union to work as an organizer and subsequently worked on the Union’s efforts to organize the Company.******

HELLLLLLOOOOO STEVIE BOY????????

"On their own time and at their own expense, our associates have campaigned against the UFCW with buttons, shirts and fliers. Their voices have now been heard. The results of this election confirm that Publix associates do not wish to be represented by the union. We’re pleased with the outcome of the election and the message it sends to the UFCW."

In 1999 the UFCW filed and subsequently withdrew two petitions for elections at the Miami distribution facility. Publix believes that the UFCW withdrew these petitions because it felt it wouldn’t win the elections. Publix was convinced the reason the UFCW wouldn’t win was because of the overwhelming support Miami distribution facility associates displayed for their company.

It seems most everyone here is concerned with themselves and not about the real issue that many Publix Associates are hurting. The only reason any non management or non fast tracker would wear an anti union or not speak of them as a good thing because they fear losing their jobs. It don't take much to have one set up or transferred out so far from home you would have no recourse but to resign.

I remember Publix was forced to pay every female $325. That was a nice bonus for us all. Of course the company told us we would lose out and not to believe in the suit. Everyone quietly accepted their bonus checks and had no feelings of guilt for Publix.

Cassie

Cassie I've been working for publix for a few years and have worked with quite a few people and havent seen alot of hurting people.

I think they pay well for what we are asked to do. You work in the bakery? Have you compared your pay scale for what you do with other companies and what they offer for benefits?

I had a friend who went to Kash and Kerry from our grocery dept for a .50 an hour raise, but lost his inventory bonus and all of his seniority pay. He was offered the sky and never got it and eventually came back to our company.

If you have worked for the bakery for 15 years I wonder why you have not tried to get into management? The pay is much better and with you experience I bet you could make a much better wage and be happier. What about being a cake decorator? They make good wages as well.

I have gotten decent raises since I have been there and am now GTL on my way to management.

Because of the flux of employees there is always room to move up if you take the effort and let your managers know your intentions. As soon as I said I wanted to be in management they took alot of time to show me things and prepare me for more responsibility.

I really dont know what all the rukus is over here. I think there is plenty of room to move up
if you want to put in the effort. All you have to do is communicate what you want and build a case for yourself like anywhere else.

On the other hand there is a grocery guy here with over 20 years in the company as a clerk, he is making almost 13.00 and hour and he has no intentions of going into magament, as that is his choice. I think he is getting 4 weeks of vacation and a very good christmas bonus. He has several thousand shares of stock and puts his 3% into his 401k every week where the company has a 50% match. He has been asked is he wants to be a manager but he only wants to work 40 hours as he has children at home.

To me there is place to get promoted and make better money but you have to talk to people about it.

I'm not sure what a union would bring to the table but I'm sure if they collected 10-20 bucks a week from every employee some union guys would
get very rich from this?

Who would pay? I think the consumer would, as we would have to raise prices and perhaps suffer quality of our product.

I think publix is a very healthy company with great job security and that is why I am here. I am putting every extra penny into the stock plan and want to price to keep going up so I can get mypiece of the pie. I'm happy with my current wage and look forward to my review next month and another raise. I also respect my managers as they have taken the time to get to know me and show me alot of things that they do.

Cassie, I hope you can be happy here as we are all one family and I dont think there is a need to get upset at managers because most of them started off pushing shopping carts.

This guy is here I think just to cause trouble, perhaps he is a teamster. The unions have been hurting these few years and I'm sure the big guys there are having a hard time supporting their lavish lifestyle and are trying to get large targets uch as us to help line their pockets.

Have a great new year, publix people!

One of your brothers

I currently work for Winn-Dixie and I'm thinking about working for Publix... Now, most stores that I know of hired people before the Holidays. I was wondering, is it possible that most of these stores will hire again after the Holidays? Also, what is the starting wages for front-end or Produce help?

Thanks

Wow what a blow out featuring the Publix Corporate Shills. Mastiff as his simple name suggests comes on this forum like a PitBull lapping up the Publix glory or is Mastiff shorthand for Master Stiff who has a hard on and gets his rocks off forcing his view down everyone elses throat ala his way or the highway?

The BullDog even thinks he owns the rights to use the word "Shill". Don't none of you Shills get yourselves in a Hissy Fit worrying about who I am or who I stand for. The Corporate Shills turned this forum into a form of self masturbation.

To the WD person, yes they will hire you after the holidays because the people who were hired before the holidays will most likely have quit when the realized what dung heap this company is..

Good Day
Steve

Hi Anonymous

Publix is always looking for good people.

We have hired a few former WD, ABS, And KnK people, and many have worked out well.

As far as starting pay, previous grocery experience is certainly taken into consideration.

Produce is not the easiest dept. to get into as this department normally has a smaller staff.

Just go to any Publix and fill ou the application at the kiosk at the front of the store. Your application will be put into a central database that can be accessed by managers at all of the stores in your area.

The front end is always looking for good people.
If going there you will normally start out as a front service clerk, (bagging, janitorial, etc...) OR if you have money experience you will end up as a cashier. We are in the middle of upgrading all of our POS systems which is pretty exciting, making it easier for the associate and
better for the customer.

If you work out as cashier, after a while you can ROI (register for interest) to be office staff which is the customer service desk and back office, (money room).

Stop by and fill ou an app! If all goes well we would love to have you!

I know WD stock is really in the pits, but our stock is up for vote in april for a 5-1 split! The avg gains is over 15% annually.

Feel free to ask any questions here as there are are few of us who are knowledgeable and will offern any advise and answer questions.

Bruce

STEVEN MARRS?
PAID SHILL UNION ORGANISER?
RESIGNED PUBLIX EMPLOYEE?
IS THAT YOU?

IM NOT TALKING TO ANYONE BUT YOU...*fella*

WHY IGNORE THE BROTHERS NOTE????
NOW YOU ARE CARRIES LAWYER?

YOU ARE FOS... EX BROTHER

GO CRAWL BACK UNDER YOUR ROCK
GO AND SAVE ALBERTSONS.... THEY HAVE NO UNION IN FLORIDA
GO PLAY CARDS IN THE BACK ROOM WITH YOUR ILK
TEAMSTER BOY

What is up with you Steve, why are you so negative?

Were you laid off from Publix or do you work for a competitor or are you really a union organiser?

I know quite a few people at several stores and noone ever seems that upset to work here. I guess mabey the ones that dont like it quit, which seems normal. Grocery is not for everyone.

I'm intrigued as well as to who you are all you keep saying is not to worry about who you are...

whats the big secret? you seem to be good at lashing out at everyone and painting such a dreary picture of working here.... I just dont get it, man

if you are so upset why not get a life and move on! looks like you have some serious issues to deal with..... If I quit or was laid off from a place I would just get on with my life, not be stuck in a negative rut like you are.....

If the winn dixie guy wants to try working here why not let him form his own opinion? Why do you have to poison him with your bad feelings.

just my two cents from another happy Publix employee

Brother

All I know is PUBLIX has the best subs and wraps around and their Rotisserie chicken ROCKS!

I'm always too busy to cook at home and its so easy to stop by and pick up a quick supper!

Everyone there is so nice no matter how busy they seem to be. I have GREAT LOVE for the ultimate wrap on green wrap and the pressed cuban!

KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!

Bruce,

Thank You very much for the quick response... Sorry, I wasn't on the response as quick. I really hope that Publix calls me in for an interview. I would really love to join a wonderful team like Publix. Everytime I go into the Winn-Dixie store I work at, the workers are very dull, they don't ask, "how are you" and shit like that. Everytime I walk into a Publix store, associates are like, "How can I help you today or How are you doing?" With associates like that, I feel very welcomed. It's great to have a team that cares about its future employees, as well as its customers... Bruce, I know this is going to sound kinda corny, but I'm 19 years old and applying for either a Produce, Cashering or Bagging position. For the interview, what would you recommend on dressing for this? I have a few dress shirts and slacks. Also, guys, do most stores hire after the New Years? I updated my application at the store a few days ago and it's valid till like January 25 or 26th. One question: What Benefits does Publix offer?! I know that they are "One of the Best Companies to Work For" for a couple of years and Best Companies to Work For in IT. Everyone, have a Happy and Healthy New Year and Thank You everyone for your help. Also, one more thing. If someone is a manager, what type of questions are usually asked during an interview?

Thank You!!!

Greetings my shills. Good to see you all think you know who I am or what I do. Lets get down to basics, Publix starts everyone on the bottom, their is no consideration for previous experience except for Dollar Signs in the hiring person's eye for getting experience on the cheap. Go on folks you told us all over and over how much stockholders make, now tell us how many paid holidays part timers get?

Tell us how much disability ins or dental costs? Ditto for health insurance. Tell us just what percentage of employees own their profit sharing plan? These things are more important to most employees, especially the families and single moms that are employed at Publix. Do Publix employees get a prescription card with a $5 deductible for their medication?

I notice a lot of talk here about Wal mart. Walmart is in an easy target because they don't have the spin machine that Publix has. I am nobody's lawyer, I just stand for what is right. But you Shills are great for fantasy PR.
Have a nice weekend Shills,

Steve

Happy New Year Everyone!

Hi Anon. I suggest "dress for success", at your interview, a nice shirt and good slacks will make a good impression.

As for questions, there is a standard set of questions all are asked and dont worry just be honest and you will do fine.

Yes publix hires after the new years, each store governs its own labor needs.

Unfortunately many that are hired in the fall season express that they want a long time career, yet are just looking for work to support their christmas shopping.

Having said that I have seen a few leave right after the holidays, and I imagine this year will be the same.

It is good you are over 18, so they will have more flexibility with your hours and you will have opportunity to get close to your 35 hours max at part-time. 95% of people are hired part-time so expect that.

As far as a position, you will have a better chance getting into the front end, (customer service), as this is the largest department in stores.

As far as benefits are concerned, they are different for part and full time and if you get hired, you will get an employee handbook.

After 30 days you get a prescription discount card. You will be on probation for 90 days.

You get the most part time benefits if you maintain over 1080 (I believe) hours a year. This includes the same health benefits as full time people.

Part timers do not get paid holidays or vacation, but do get profit sharing, 401k, retail bonus and a few other perks. Again, if you are selected you will attend a couple of orientation sessions and get a handbook with all explanations.

If you want, after 90 days you can ROI for other positions as well as go for full-time. Many locations give a raise after 90 days, and there are 2 pay evaluations each year.

It never hurts to call the store you would like to work at and ask to speak to the store or asst. store manager to express your interest.

I would suggest calling and asking for a 5 minute meeting, which if you impress, will most
likely get you an interview if you hit it off right.

I suggest if you interview and are offered, take any job to get into the door. I was hired at one position and in less than 2 years have changed jobs twice, which gives godd experience.

I also relocated my residence 50 miles away and my manager worked hard for me and the week i moved I had a job at a store 2 miles from my new house.

GOOD LUCK~

WHOA STEVEY BOY!

Looks like brother is right! you have some serious issues!
YOU WROTE:

"Mastiff shorthand for Master Stiff who has a hard on and gets his rocks off"

AND THEN WROTE:

"The Corporate Shills turned this forum into a form of self masturbation."

DUDE YOU HAVE SOME SREIOUS PROBLEMS... IS THERE SOME SERIOUS ABUSE IN YOUR CHILDHOOD OR SOMETHING? NOW YOU ARE BRINGING SEXUAL ORGANS AND OTHER NASTY THINGS INTO THE DISCUSSIONS?

DOESNT YOUR UNION PAY FOR YOU SHRINK?

OH YEAH, YOU WRITE:

"Don't none of you Shills get yourselves in a Hissy Fit worrying about who I am or who I stand for."

GOT IT FIGURED OUT! ARE YOU A PERVERTED MORON WHO GOT FIRED YEARS AGO WHO IS NOW ALL MAD OR SOMETHING?

DUDE, GET A LIFE!

Hi Every one

Ok ! I haven been reading all of this for a couple of week 's , And I Must Say Some of the negative comments are true and we all know it . I Have been now for publix for 6 years , i tough wen i put in my application i only will work there till i found something else maybe 6 month . I Started as a cashier part time . Now I work in the deli full time . And I do think my Pay Stinks for the work we do there . But its still better then working part time cashier . I Got good health Coverage and dental . Better then Most Places . And I am Hopefully Getting promoted to Assistant Deli Manager This Selection period . My Now Manager is Very Supportive In That Choice . Bruce is right , you Just Have to speak up in you goal with Publix . Oh And I am From another country where it is requires to join the union . And The didn't Do Much for Us . I Do agree with Most people here on this Board , the can't do Much for us at Publix . Because a lot of people are happy here with the way things are . BUT I do think the could do a lot for the poor WalMarkt People . Because from what i hear the get screwed :) I Love Working For Publix Because i Have pride in what i am doing and for Who i am doing it for . And I am Doing it for my self , because in the end i am going to have a nice retirement's fund .
And Submuncher Thank you for you Comment !!!!!!
Mastiff Don't Let Steve Get to you hehe think of him like another Unhappy customer :)

Bruce you said u hired a Winn-Dixie assistant produce manager? Well ive been at WD for 11 years and we dont have any assistant produce managers. Only glorified full timers kinda like Publixs full-time dairy person. At WD dairy mgr. And i was a Produce mgr for wd my pay was 1375 hr. I took a pay cut to work for publix. Long-term and benefits. But i must say that Publix employees put WD down but Wd has better ways than Publix and visa versa. But to all Publix employees dont put WD too much they might rebound clean up stores, fire top peeps, and take some customers. WD has some good points too guys. I am now all for the green but tired of peopl saying "betcha never seen business like tis for the Holidays". Lol if they even knew we did more at my last store at WD than at the current store im at now.

I see my favorite corporate shills are taking to bully tactics to go so far as to make falsehoods.. Take the illustrious Bruce, by his own admission a 2 yr Publix ASSociate formerly from Canada or the Yankee States, (please correct me if I am wrong) is an expert on Publix and Winn Dixie bennefits policy. Since when do Publix people get prescription cards after 30 days? And like another poster stated, what is an assistant Produce Manager at WD? I think you are an assistant BSer to Mastiff, another idiot whose only role on this board is to bad mouth anyone who post here that is not in accordance with their philosophy and bully tactics. I wouldn't doubt if these 2 idiots are the same poster. Funny how the "Bruce" alias whines and then the "Mastiff" alias bullies Bruce, Bruce says some nice things and Mastiff is all hugs and kisses.

Funny how Mastiff says Wal Mart is so bad and urges me to pick on them. Like Publix is a much better place. Wal Mart has their employee millionaires also and their employees get a 10% discount card good on all merchandise including drugs.

In the time to come I will make available a pro union blog complete with phone numbers, contacts etc and make it accessible to those Publix workers who volunteer to wear anti union buttons and so forth. I would do so here, but that would be against the rules of this forum and I believe in going by the rules.

Good Day,
Steve

Since you shills are so curious as to who I am and what my game is. Let me say I am a current Publix associate(I won't reveal what I do or which district) other than to say I own a considerable amount of stock, profit sharing and 401-k holdings and I along with a sizable numbers of other Publix associates operate a clandestine union operation. We have to come together in secrecy for obvious reasons in hopes to putting an end to much of the abuse that goes on in this company via of organizing a union. Did you folks think we got as far as the Deerfield Warehouse without inside Publix People's help? A few people were terminated, suffice it to say, they were set up w/o recourse along with quite a few who had nothing whatsoever to do with our operation. That is all I will tell you Shills. A unionist may be your best employees or workplace friends.

Steve

Bruce,

I have some great news. I called Publix early this afternoon and they mentioned to me that they are accepting applications and conducting interviews later this week or next week. You are correct. The store I applied for is mostly looking for help for the Front End and Stock. If everything goes well with school and all, I hope to work for IT. I understand that most people (not on this forum) mention that Publix is a very strict company to work for. So! Having a company that is strict is what makes it one of the best to work for. I also understand that you personally have to inquire about moving up in the company. Again, I have no problem with that, since mostly you have to figure things out for yourself. I'm sorry to say, but I'm getting confused!!! Is Publix a union or not? Also, I am looking forward into joining this team. It seems like there is a lot to offer if you are willing to take the time and apply yourselves. Thanks everyone for your help!

Great to hear anon! Good luck with your Interview.

As for Publix being a union, NO we are not! We are a privately held company, (our stock is not traded on the stock exchange either).

Carrie, Publix is in URGENT NEED of Baker managers, you can see for yourself on their employment page and on hotjobs dot com, just type in publix in the keywords.

Also on you comments Carried about being transferred for speaking up, only managers are eligible for transfer, hourly employees are never forced to transfer unless a location were to slow down.

Steve the Union organiser, sorry to see youa re still so angry but alas have not much time or energy to spar with you today but can CONFIRM the we do give ALL employees a RX discount card at 30 days, perhaps not when you were hired but as I said earlier the benefits have gotten better! Sorry about the comment on the asst. WD manager, I guess he was a manager.

Good luck to you and your little clandestine game.

I brought the company in Canada into the US via benefits of NAFTA back in the 90s and we employed a few US employees with a remote distribution center. I am not from Canada.

As for Unions, my dad fell short of his pension by a few months due to a union strike back in the 60s. His facility relocated to another state to get away from the union and they did not relocate him. So in the long-term the union did not help out our family at all.

I would just like to say Publix has been a wonderful first job, no doubt in my mind that I will someday leave them, but my managers and co-workers have made it a fun and helpful learning experience. I look forward to going to work, the people, especially my managers, are friendly and understanding people.
Mastiff, are you involved in the dog show world too, or is that just a breed you admire?

Bagier

Obviously Steve has never had to work for a living.

I have held many jobs both in manufacturing and retail and I can attest that Publix is the best company I have worked for.... 8 years and counting.

And FYI Walmart does not give 10% discount on food to employees.

Publix health and other benefits BLOWS WALMART and most others AWAY, both with part time and full time employees.

Trust me Publix is the place to get ahead, if you WANT to do the work, follow the system, and when need be SUCK IT UP and not be a WHINER.

Grow up Steve, and other Publix people hang in there! Theres some good data in this file.

BOTTOM LINE:

Those who cannot stick it out 5 years are not vested in the company and I GET THEIR STOCK!

Its a great place to work and I am giving them the best years of my life for a great retirement!

Great friends, great managers, great benefits, great opportunities, GREAT PLACE!

Its a dang SUPERMARKET! How hard can it be? Stack shelves, clean, be friendly, listen to the boss, be helpful, show up on time etc....

TRY WORKING IN A COALMINE!

NUFF SAID!

Did you folks read the new forbs list of 100 best to work for that just cam out?

Publix jumped from #98 on the list to***#56!!!!

Also, Publix was the LARGEST company on the list as well as one of the few employee owned!

Lots of great things going on here!

to Anon-Manager, I got my scores back from selection systems and passed both sets on my first try, scoring a high pass on managemental skills. Although not a finalist, will be pushing store management on ways to improve, (furthering my job class training), to get on the finalist list next time.

It's there is you want it.

Mastiff,

I believe people should back up what they spit out, you obviously don't and that's fine. You are another lover of the anonymous internet, sorry, but i'm not.

Unions breed lazy employees, we allready have to many of those, no thanks.

2 weeks holiday pay is all any employee gets. The longer you are with the company the more vacation weeks you can get, if you don't take any vacation all year then I believe you will get paid for it at the end of the year. I have not been able to make it a full year with taking a week off.

Hey Jax warehouse, get my dairy truck to me on time, please! And change the label on the publix yogurt back to the old one, customers don't like the new look!

You pro/anti Publix people are hot with words. I guess this is a good venue to release your heat the customers and the job itself gives ya... LOL Yeah, unions are very risky. They, in the past, done well...but in hindsight, have done very poorly many times. It's not worth joining. Unions tell their fellow 'unionites' that get paid $18/hr to push their mop as slow as they can...then the business (ie - Publix) goes broke, and finally the union organizers pull out with loads of 'unionites'' money while leaving them out in the cold. Unions are only good for helping the hurting competition (ie - WD...) and cause Corps like Publix to shut down due to extremely high wages and half-ass workmanship. It's happened this way many times.

Publix is a huge joke. That's really what publix is, for certain. I am a college educated individual who has no problem working hard, but there is a difference between being expected to work hard and being taken advantage of every day of your life.

After finishing college, I actually wanted nothing more than to build a wonderful career with Publix. After graduating, it was the first place I applied and I got the job.

I wont go into all the details...that would take too long, but lets just say the following:

1. Publix dangles "full time" status in your face like a carrot. It's only after you have tap danced yourself into a sweaty frenzy, somewhat like Sammy Davis Jr., that the notion is even considered.

2. The pay makes me chuckle. My manager was so proud of himself when he was finally able to increase my pay from $7.50 an hour to $8.50. I made excellent scores on my evaluations, and it didn't take long for me to realize what a great "deal" publix was receiving for their $8.50 per hour. Here's what they got: A very hardworking person who came in to work ALL kinds of CRAZY hours. (With publix you have NO life) My life suddenly depended on trucks. If a truck arrived late it meant working late. If a truck was going to arrive early it meant being to work by 2 and 3 am sometimes. They got someone who was required to work EVERY weekend. They got someone who tolerated split days off. Boy was it wonderful having Tuesdays and Fridays off. My social life took a huge nose dive. They also got someone who became a kneeling, stooping, squatting, bending and twisting Machine! I could throw a 900 piece dairy truck in one day, no problem. That was the biggest insult I think I have ever received. Being asked to work dairy and being expected to work it for $8.50 an hour. Anyone who has worked for publix knows that dairy is NOT an $8.50 an hour job!

3. They got someone who, for a time, was willing to buy into their corporate brainwashing. Good enough is NEVER good enough at Publix. The harder you work and the more you do, the more there is that is expected of you. The managers I worked for saw me as nothing more than a body. I was a means to their end. "Their end" being the fat bonus checks they receive. The managers themselves are always grumpy, aggrivated and extremely condescending. They act like the "haves" and the rest are the "have nots".

Needless to say my experience with publix was nothing more than a huge let down. Publix is the place where shopping is a pleasure, but a pleasure for whom? Customers love Publix and for good reason. It really is a great grocery store for those who can afford to shop there. But for all of those who work for Publix it's not such a pleasure. While working for Publix, I could not even afford to shop at the very store for which I toiled. It's a sad thing; it really is. In the nine months I worked for Publix I made full time and received a dollar raise. I also took the chance to chat with many who had been with Publix for years and years. Most say is it not nearly as good a place to work as it once was. It only took me nine months to figure that out. Thankfully I heeded their warnings to get out while I was still young and do something better with my life. I can honestly say I am ever pleased with my decision to leave Publix. I was not a slacker, nor was I ever in trouble. I left on great terms and now have a job working for an excellent company in the technology field. I was hired on as full time. I was started out at $12.20 an hour and full benefits kicked in after only 30 days. For all of those out there considering Publix as a career. Please do yourself a huge favor and look else-where. Peace!

Working for Canada's Largest Grocery Company Loblaw's, I would just like to compare notes on things like pay structure, benefits and working conditions.

Loblaw's operates under many different store names, but basically is broken down into Large Superstores, High End Grocery Stores, and Discount Grocery stores.

The store I work at is a Large Superstore. A solution for Household needs, Groceries and Specialty foods.

Pay Structure,
Part-timers with no experience start off at Minimum wage which is 7.45/hr Where I live. Pay is increased based on Hours, by 6500 hours you will have reached top rate which is 13.49/hr Full Timers Start at $10/hr and cap out at 18.50/hr.

Fulltimers receive a christmas bonus.

If this sounds unionized it is because we are unionized.

Management however is not unionized and is paid a salary. Managers make anywhere from 40K-60K a year. they generally work 52-60hrs a week. They receive shares of stock.

All full time employees receive benefits such as partial coverage for dental and optical. Part time employees have the same benefits if they have served the company for 3 years and work a minimum amount of hours.

Keep in mind these are canadian Dollars, and that our healthcare is paid for by our government.

Working conditions:
The store I work at is bursting at the seams. The area has grown so rapidly over the past years, and the customer base continues to grow. Despite this total labour hours don't seem to change, We just work harder. Night shift works damn hard, a crew of 5 will spread and put up 20 skids, and face the entire store. Daytime grocery and dairy clerks work hard as the shelves arent deep enough and are easily wiped out.

How does this compare to american stores such as Publix?

Well...first, i were to get a bachelor's degree..I wouldn't of applied for an entry-level retail position with Publix. It was your ignorance of applying for an entry-level retail. They can't honestly pay you 12 or more an hour due to it being an unskilled position with no need for intelectual critical-thinking that you supposedly used in college in which you received your BA. Plus their competition doesn't pay as high either. What kind of degree did you receive? You should of applied for a Publix corporate or Publix IT position. They pay higher plus it's a better match for you credentials. What were you thinking, Mule? This is the very thing I've been telling all my friends...college is WAY overrated. It's really only good for intuitive types and gives them an avenue to do research. American college is only good for the 'Rs' in 'R&D'. The 'Ds' are only better off learning hands on it a company due to the nature of the position....DEVELOPMENT (D)...creating/ physically doing things....not RESEARCHING (R), investigating, and theorizing.

Anyways, Mule, Publix is a highly-rated retailer to work for. It's rated and, frankly, the stats speak for itself! Sorry, Mule, but you should of sent your resumes to the employers that would of fit your credentials a little better. Apparently, you are considered 'over qualified'. Should of went IT or Corporate or something.... Good luck, Mule, on your new job.

Also, Canada, I can't really compared your Canadian grocer to American standards. The non-managers top at around 12something to 15something in most part of the US's demographics. But managers avg between 39T+ to 102T+ depending on your level tier. Publix gives 4 quarterly bonuses and Xmas bonuse and I believe 6 holiday pays too and $1 more for Sunday and for working on those selected holidays I think. For one..I think your dollar is usually around 1/3 higher. [US=1...Can=1.33] BUT! We get more for our money. I've had Canadian friends and we compare what we buy. American dollar is better cuz our products are cheaper to buy in comparisons. So in actuality. Your $13.33/hr is like us receiving $10/hr plus we get a little bit more in purchase. Literally our 10 is strong as your 13 plus a bit more purchase. And do you pay for union fees or is it included in the hourly? And yes you guys get free med. We get 100 free Dental i believe and pay for like a 1/4 of the monthly medical deductible of health, but publix covers all the med bills. The advantage I think of purchasing your own health insurance vs. government is that you can CHOOSE your doc and facilities. A big advantage esp. when the company pays for it or most of it. I believe that other countries LIKE Canada benefit in receiving free insurance. But here in USA, there are a bunch of lazy people that take advantage of free things in America for the sake of never working hard: the ghettoholics. I believe that there are certain people that need that temporary government help here or really need pernamently cuz they are TRULY disabled. All this is being said from someone who has lived on the streets.

Plus, Publix stock is the best compared to any major retailer and compared to anual avg. index ratings. And there are alot more benefits that Publix gives out as well. Personally, I know of someone that nets about 300T in stock value for only working 5 years. Wow! Not bad.

PEACE!

Well Mr. Bomb!, there was no ignorance on my part. I did attempt to apply for a position with corporate. I applied at the Publix employment office on Wabash.

I was living in Lakeland at the time, and I was only about 15 minutes from the corporate offices. I was told I would have to work in a warehouse, frozen foods, to be exact. I was told everyone with Publix starts at the bottom. So, to begin with, I took the warehouse job.

I found within the first two weeks, I would be required to remain in the selector position one year before I could post for I/T. I gave frozen an honest attempt, and for the two weeks I was there hated it. I resigned and then tried the retail end of the operation, and it was no better.

And in response to your statement: "They can't honestly pay you 12 or more an hour due to it being an unskilled position with no need for intelectual critical-thinking that you supposedly used in college in which you received your BA." Since when is intelectual, critical-thinking the only requirement for being paid a wage one can survive on? A fair wage?

Garbage men do not think critically, but I know for a fact they are paid a very good "live-able" wage. They are compensated very well for having to deal with everyone's garbage. So why can Publix not pay a decent "live-able" wage for having to put up with all their garbage?

My opinion is the younger "Publix generation"...you know, all of Mr. George's offspring? I just don't think they share their Grandfather's same vision. I would be ashamed to run a company at which many of my own employees aren't compensated well enough to shop there.

Publix is all about taking care of their external customers, and I am sure at one point they took very good care of their internal customers (employees); by all accounts I have witnessed...those days are long over.

Money is the root of all evil and, not only Publix, but many corporations today care only about their bottom line. They all want more for less and the "more" is taken out of the the backs, joints, muscles and sore knees of many struggling individuals.

Peace!

MULE,

ROFLMAO

stop crying, you left, put it behind you

SO IT DIDNT WORK OUT, SUCH IS LIFE,

NOW GET ONE!

MULE SOUNDS LIKE ANOTHER UNION SHILL

Dang if i got a better job in my eyes, would i be hanging around my ex employers blog? I THINK NOT

So you couldnt hack throwing frozen food, gave up after 2 weeks.

Then you came back to retail, couldn't hact that then gace up a SECOND TIME!

So the shoe didnt fit! B F D.

My friend youth is wasted on the young such as yourself..... good luck with your new job, UNTIL YOU QUIT THEN POST GARBAGE ABOUT THEM SOMEWHERE ELSE

Mastiff, why don't you work on your reading comprehension? I didn't say I was throwing frozen food. I was a selector. Enough said.

Peace!

OK, a SELECTOR, sowwy

You picked stock from a warehouse.

Sowwy you didnt do any research before accepting a position then GIVING UP.

Publix Mule, I share the same sentiments as you, only our pay was lower. I won't add anything because you did so well expressing the truth about this company.. I might add that many, especially the chicks were like the stereotypical union worker. F'ing slow and useless. I had this boss, Janet Ferguson.. She would come in and bellow over the pa every morning calling that morning's whipping boy to the office.. It was a trip, this lady would walk in and the entire store would frown.

Lapper

LOL

LAPPER

Another front end clerk, (BAGGER), prob. fired for being useless!

Glad you are GONE TOO! More dead-wood left to drift away.

With your attitude you had no future there anyways and we certainly dont need the like of you OR YOUR TYPE.

Mastiff, No I wasn't fired, I walked out, not once but twice. They begged me the come back the first time cause I loaded more than two men or 3 Public chicks. Thats right folks I worked at store 475, I was hired a month after 28 were hired, yeah all 28 quit by time I was hired. 475 always had a help wanted sign up cause they could never keep any help. I was a longtimer at 8 months. Guys like Mastiff are either lazies who kiss ass or kids who feel brave in cyberspace. I had an asst mgr like you, his name is Kevin Giguierre, do ya'll know him? Well its my understanding that a stock crew spray painted his car in the publix parking lot for acting like a bad ass.

Lapper

http://tampabay.bizjournals.com/tampabay/stories/2006/01/09/daily33.html

NUFF SAID

Oh whoopee doo doo, Publix fell from 96 to 56. They were once in the top 10 and we have the board jesters here stroking to old hype like it is something to be proud of. What you should all be asking is why did Publix sentiment fall so far so fast? By the way many Publix employees secretly remain committed to union representation.

Steve

HEYTHERE UNION SHILL!

BACK FROM UNDER YOUR ROCK!

DID THE LOCAL TEAMSTERS GIVE YOU ANOTHER 20 BUCKS TO POST A FEW MORE????

BY THE WAY 96 TO 56 IS BETTER! DUH.... NOT WORSE, AND THIS ARTICLE IS VERY NEW

GET A LIFE, UNION WIFE

I do understand what all the commotion is about with publix. I, like many others, have worked there for close to three years now. I started as a cashier and now work in the back office and as front end coordinator. The truth is that several managers can be extremely narrowminded and power crazed. However I have met several that are the exact opposite. Caring and intelligent people who treat all of their associates with respect and dignity. Publix is much like any other powerful business today. While some of the higher level people get paid for doing nothing at all, the ones being paid less are busting their asses on a daily basis. Again people, this isn't publix, this is business. So many teenagers start as baggers and get upset with the treatment they recieve from the managers for not taking a cart out or drinking a soda on a register. Though I don't agree with most of the harsh treatment from the managers, this is part of their job description. Winn Dixie, Wal-Mart, Fresh Market, etc. does not pay better than Publix. They just have lower standards and tend to care less when their associates responsibility to their position is lacking. But what so many people that are constantly complaining about with management is not something that is particular to Publix. When all of these front service clerks grow up and get real jobs, they will come to understand about the working environment and the fact that it really does not always seem fair, because half the time it really isn't. Business is a struggle. And some day, everyone complaining so much will come to understand that.

Well I work at winn-dixie unfortunatly and i want to tell you about 1 customer that really ticked me off. It was 6:35 in the moring on a sunday right and this lady walks in and goes over to the service desk and nobody is there because there is only 1 manager in the store there Mark, and Sheena walked in about 10 minutes later. She lays her stuff down on the service desk counter and looks around and just stared at me and got this really mean look on her face and so i walked over and said yes mam and she said I bought this 400 millimeter film yesterday and its the wrong size and i need a refund. and i'm like uh the service desk doesn't open till 8 am and she's like i don't care i need a refund THANK GOD sheena walked in. So I walked off and was saying in my mind it's 6:40 in the morning on a sunday and she wants a refund on her film this really. IN the Word's of Napoleon Dynamite You Friggin Idiot

This EARLy not this really

To the Publix mule: When I graduated college, I applied for a job in Corporate. I was hired off the streets, full time, with a salary in the low 30s. Not bad to start, if you ask me, and yes I'm still in Corporate. Retail seems to be a whole different world, because I haven't experienced any problems like yours. And to the poster who said that college is overrated... are you kidding me? There are so many reasons that your comment is incorrect. Most importantly, college is what you make of it, as is everything else. And even if you don't get a super job with a college degree in hand, isn't it enough to know that you've accomplished something? That you are an educated person?
My degree got me my job. It's as simple as that. My degree also gives me something to fall back on. It can never be taken away from me.

To All The Negative people

Stay Out Of Publix Jobs ! You All Make The The Job even harder On the positive people . No Job is easy , But You all Make Us positive people work twice as hard . You are NO team Players , And That is what Publix is a team . You All Need to get out of Publix and Work at Wal Mart Or WD And See if you have it better there !!!! I am Really Sick Of You Negative People !!!!!!!

I would just like to say that Publix has been an excellent company to work for. Their benefits are exceptional, and their pay is above average. I was in management for 3 years and worked for the company for 8 years. Why so long before going into mgmt? Because I was getting my bachelor's degree. Thank goodness I did because now I have retired and have to find some other line of work.
I retired because I am completely disappointed in the moneymaking attitude Publix has turned to. I know it is a business but one of the main reasons I stayed on so long was because of the "family" feeling and the way Publix took care of its associates. Now Publix is so concerned with the bottom line
they have forgotten what made them one of Fortune's 100 best companies to work for. No doubt the people clogging up the overhead think it's a great place to work, they are making ridiculous salaries and banking stock. But for those in middle management or hourly associates, it's another story. Payroll has been cut to the point where managers have to work 60 hour weeks to get their job done. We can't reward good associates with hours or raises because of the bottom line. It makes no difference if you are an awesome dedicated employee or a slacker, you will make about the same. If you are a department or assistant manager you are screwed, because you don't make enough to not care about it, but too much to cut your losses and leave. You go home tired and stressed every day and come back tired and stressed the next day. If you are a hardworking individual who takes pride in your work it is very discouraging. The managers who aren't going anywhere but were grandfathered in under the "old school" make way more than you even though they sit around all day doing nothing. You can't change anything without the support of your store manager, and most of them are just riding it out until the stock split.
It's a shame that the company has so departed from what it was founded on. The growth is great, but what made Publix a great company to shop at and work for is slowly being replaced by greed. I say the family should go ahead and sell, since they have already sold out.

Ducky you are CORRECT!

I dont have much time to respond today but TRUE TRUE TRUE

Many hourly people simply cannot survive under the conditions of pay and stress, many are working a second job to make ends meet.... The thing keeping them here is the RETIREMENT CARROT!

Store managers make 100K plus because they squeeze toe assocuiates until they are almost breaking down.... It's not even worth it to strive to become asst. manager to make mabey 30k for working 55+ hours a week.....

Publix is doing now 20+ BILLION, WHO IS MAKING THE MONEY????

And as for the great retirement plan..... avg associate gets 2k put into publix stock per year..... what if publix goes ENRON?

Speaking to some vendors, the guy who comes to deliver pepsi cases every week, makes more than 1/2 of the assoates in the store!

Perhaps a good UNION PUSH would wake up publix...... Publix has become a CULT with all the managers being cadres for the push, milking the associates to their benefit......

I have seen too many good associates being underpaid and just leaveing with much sorrow, wanting to stay but simply not being able to afford to live!

What happens when the FL housing insurance goes up 30% this year, and the avg pay goes up 3% more people have to get a second job.

Publix has become OVERPRICED, and with all that profit again WHERE IS THE MONEY GOING? WAIT until the economy downturns, and SAVE A LOT, U SAVE and WALMART starts to EAT PUBLIX LUNCH.

Now lets hear all of the brainwashed, FAT CATS come here and say IF YOU DONT LIKE IT, LEAVE!

much easier to say that than PUSH FOR THEIR OWN ASSOCIATES. THE FAT PROTECT THEMSELVES

What is hapenning with the union?

Any news?

Its time we stop the politics in this company and favoritism and get on with some real work ethic and PAY FOR PERFORMANCE.

I agree , TIRED of getting high reviews and .25 raises as the store manager and managers get MULTIPLE thousand dollar bonuses off our sweat!

I bet they get a good chuckle at meetings on how they have their SLAVES on a leash for pennies on what they are worth..... Meanwhile prices on publix items are on the rise! I bet more profit for the managers AGAIN!

Is it too much to ask...........

All I am asking is to be paid enough for busting my behind at Publix is to pay my bills and BUY MY FOOD THERE TOO!

The wages are so poor I am forced to do most of my shopping at Wal-mart! I think that is pretty poor of them to be bragging about all of their profit and customer satisfaction, while most employees aren't being paid a decent wage and cannot afford such things as putting into the 401k, which is quite a luxury reserved for managers and higher.

Can't wait for this years employee appreciation BS session where we get a piece of cake and are told how well we have it here....

My neighbor is a parking attendant at a major airport.... you know the guy who stands at the drop-off ant tells you you cant park there and gives out tickets.... HE MAKES 5.00 AN HOUR MORE THAN ME!

I'm embarrased to tell people my wages at Publix.... all they say is the company is making so much money! I say, do you need your lawn mowed? I need money to pay my rent....

WHAT A BUNCH OF WHINERS!!!! Not happy? Leave!!! Don't waste my time or air. I have 21 years in, and I am paid by the hour. I have 500 thousand in stock. The company has fed me and mine. The problem is the type of people we hire. You had to earn fulltime. I was parttime for two years. GROWUP!!

Tom,

21 years and you are an hourly associate?

OK so if you are top-ended you make approx 26k a year! What a great salary for working 21 years,
LOL.

Is your trailer paid off yet, or does your wife make REAL MONEY? Perhaps welfare is helping to foot your food bill and medical costs?

ALRIGHT TOM!

Typical response of CONCERN from publix!

Let me guess, you started as a pimple faced bagger at 16 and are a publix brainwashed ROBOT.

All I want is a FAIR WAGE! Is that too much to ask? Your answer is QUIT? Thanks alot PAL.

Doug nad publix gopher, Did not start a 16. no trailer, no welfare, no 26thousand a year. Do not work retail, but I have. Top pay in Southeast area is 13.40 an hour. I make more at the support . I do not get a retail bonus.My wife, and father, and one kid all are at Publix. I have 500thousand in stock, and the 5 for 1 split coming up. Publix is a company, not your MOTHER. We had 120 people in here on Monday, for three jobs. If you leave, we can replace you. Many do not stay, but we have three people come back. Try Winn Dixie or Albertsons!YOU have to earn it. I know only a few people from when I started, but WE all have something to show for being around. At least I sign my name.

Doug, what is a fair wage to you and exactly what is your position at Publix?

The only thing a union will do is pay those who don't work the same as those that do.

Where I live the cost of living isn't very high, if I worked at a St. Augustine store ,and want to have a relatively short drive to work there is no way I could manage on $28k per year.

I feel I work much harder than I get paid for. Not because my manager is breathing down my neck or complaining about overtime (I complain about overtime, i'd rather have the time off) and wanting me to work harder, but because I was raised to work hard for very little money (thanks Dad!). The problem is if I demand more money Publix would sooner put some slob in my position than pay more for me. That's the nature of the job.

With all due respect to my DM, you can keep your 'that a boys' and just pay me more money.

To those with 500k worth of stock, RETIRE!!!! I hate people who have a job as a hobby, find another hobby.

Listen up all you unhappy Publix grunts.

When they tell you you must shop at Publix with your weakly pay, tell em to go get F--cked. Let em fire you and turn around an sue them. Let the world see all the notoriety from these theives who exist to suck off of the employee. Yeah they make record profits yet they can't give out a .25 raise. Start thinking for yourselves people. Union is the only solution.

UNION YES! Who can we contact for union support?

Union Help.

Several stores and warehouses have clandestine organizing efforts. Keep your eyes and ears open and mouth shut as loose lips sink big ships. At least until the Mothership is sunk.
Good Luck

Steve

Unions will never be a part of Publix. Stevie Marrs and his gang (Lapper) can go work at Winn-Dixie.

UF

VOTE UNION!

It's the only way that the retail people will get a fair wage! (especially white males)

IM VOTING UNION and I BEG MANAGEMENT to mis-treat me! I have a PERFECT WORK RECORD, and would LOVE a chance to INITIATE A LAWSUIT against FAT MANAGEMENT for ILLEGAL UNION BUSTING TACTICS.

ALL I WANT IS DECENT PAY FOR HARD WORK!

Can I help it if I am a WHITE MALE and feel REVERSE DISCRIMINATION?

We all have at one point in time worked for a company that we did not like. While Publix is not the perfect company in the world, and lets face it there is no perfect company, they have received numerous awards for their customer service and creating an atomsphere that has allowed them to be apart of the Forbes Greatest Companies to Work For. I have worked for Publix for the past 6 years. Has everyday been great, of course not, but did they provide an opportunity for me to make money, go to school, earn a degree, learn managerial skills? Well, Yes and I am very happy for that and even though I have decided to leave Publix to seek out other opportunities I can't complain about Publix and the way they have treated me. I will say this that in my 5 year anniversary associate party our Regional Manager Phil Rosson did say that "we don't have enough qualified associates for management". This is where Publix needs to improve and provide better training for its associates to become great leaders, not managers! Many great associates leave because of the lack of leadership not only with our stores but also in corporate who see a problem and are reacting slowly to it. I am afraid to see the future of Publix if they continue to promote unqualified managers instead of looking for the qualified leader!

what about the mgrs they demote for failing a food saftey test, and there are ones who fail the test, and they do not get demoted, this test they give them 3 chances to pass, then demote, they all have work very hard to get to mangement, some are treated differently, they fail 3 times and they, don't demote them , is this fair or decent, whats up publix, is it only your favorates, it should be the same for everyone, maybe dateline would like to know this on there health inspections show they air recently, they have mgrs working that can't pass a food saftey test after 3 times still working as mgrs

Thank you Delichick!! I agree with you whole heartedly. Publix is not perfect, however, no one is. There are good associates and bad assosiates, as well as managers. You have to work through it with faith and confidence and give it your best everyday. Trust me, I owned my own business. This is the next best thing. No financial risk on your part. All we have to do is take care of the customer. As for taking care of the associates, we as managers need to follow in George's footsteps and commit ourselves to be dedicated to the dignity, value and employment security of our associates.

the dignity, it is sad that some suffer the demotion, and others don't i work in the bakery, sorry not the deli chic,it should be the same for everyone, george would not approve of this,unfair practice, i love publix , it just seems like the good ole boys system, some get to keep there mgr spots if your one of them, it is your food saftey skills here i do think it is very importantand would be a financial risk to me if they made someone ill, and they did not pass there test

Dear 17 yrs. I am in total agreement but at a loss about the food safety test. Is this happening in your store? Good ole boy or not this should be addressed. I am truly concerned!! Have you used your open door policy? Start with the store manager, DM and if need be RD. Keep in touch.

Its time for union

why do think that a union is needed?

After having worked for may years with Publix, I honestly have to say that they truly are one of the worst places to work in the U.S. If I had a dollar for every time I was abused by a manager or front end coordinator, I'd be rich! But no---instead they're rich, by making us work long hours with little pay, and cutting down our lunch breaks down to 1/2 hour, so we're forced to buy their expensive, over-priced food, or face starvation! To hell with 'em!

You people cry too much. All that is required is you show up for work without a hangover and give a good shift's effort. We at Publix mint more millionaires than any company in America. We are also among the most profitable. I am fond of saying Publix makes money faster than the government prints it. Now get a life and join all of the millionaires or go work for the competition and live like a dog. Bow wow crybabies.

Publix Dude

Where have all the millionaires gone? Everyone I know except some managers are low wage slaves. My manager's 17 yr old son got hurt in motorcycle accident and the company had to sponsor a fund raising picnic because of the terrible insurance they had. We are lucky we can afford health/dental insurance let alone stock certificates. But they tell us if we work hard we too will be rich someday. There is more to it than showing up to work sober and working like slave you have to be a good ole boy.

millionaires, slaves, dogs, cry babies, lots of names here lol publix is can be a good place to work if not for you, it is up to you to make a it a good place to work anyway it is hurricane season is almost here, look at all the overtime ,here at publix, stop calling names

If you remember George's philosophy "you might not get rich, but you will be taken care of for the rest of your life." Meaning get into the 401k plan, get into everything that Publix offers the associate. It really is worth it. And lastly, go to work and give an honest day's best effort on your part. Thanks for all you do!

I wasted 14 years of my life with Publix, when I could have been doing something better. The company is no longer want is was 12 years ago. For all you kids on here, there was a time when you could make some good money being a manager. The big change I say was back in 1998 when all the managers got capped off. Did you know back then store managers were making around $150,000.00 ( that was in southeast Florida). Meat managers were making around $95,000.00. I know I was a meat manager and we had asset. meat managers making $45k-55k. You were actually proud of your job. But it all changed, then they bought in "user" friendly beef, that was a joke. For all you the meat guys that may read this. Why do you think they bought in user friendly beef? It wasn't because they wanted to make it my efficient. When you make it easy like they have with the user friendly beef, do you really think its considered a trade? Now they have made it to were any person can come back and start cutting meat. But when you had four quarter meat, husky pork, and half carcass lamb, nobody could just go back there. That also was a time when we had help, after that salary cap came around, that's when we started loosing help. My only advise for you kids, is that you go to school. Make something of your self. Do you really want to work 55+ hrs. a week, not spending anytime with your family. Publix is the next Winn Dixie. Come on 5 bucks of a box of cereal?

We need a Unoin. There is to much reverse discrimination, all of us white brothers need to stand together united!! Vote YES

hi - My husband and I are looking to move Fl in Oct of 06. He is currently the deli manager of a supermarket right now. He also knows how to cut meat. He is food saftey trained and has worked in the bakery helping out as well. He plans to look for a managment position at publix. I have read that they usually dont hire managment from the outside though. Is this true?? Also around what do managers or assistant managers make? Were looking to move to Springhill area if that helps. How much is the health insurace for family too? Do they allow family to work there too (as I will need a part time job to bring in some more money :)
Any info would be helpfull since were in Rhode Island now and cant find any of this out on our own! Thanks

Patty

publix has a web site, you should check it out, and maybe call lakeland,Publix is a wonderful place to work,thats why they are voted in the top 50 best places to work

Stay in Rhode Island. Florida sucks, Publix sucks. Do yourself a favor and stay up north, I wish I did, again PUBLIX SUCKS!!!! HARD CORE!!! They don't pay enough for all the bull-crap. Managers work around 55-60 hrs a week.

You guys suck!!! Your actually proud of working for publix?? Get a life!!!! It's funny you type in FAG and this blog comes up..

Mean People Suck,

Hey Acerage Joe, did you ever think of bringing your lunch? The worst part about working at publix is working with you dumb teenagers. Go work for walmart, please!

My only comment....if u don`t like working at publix...quite...i would rather u work at a competitor an bring them down then be on my team an spread ur negativity...an yes i`m one of those publix millionaire...hehe

drpepper......hehe

LEARN TO SPELL doesnt publix teach spelling as a second skill besides throwing cans of green beans on a shelf?

,,,,,,hehe

Hey fairy, do you have a reefer in your breakroom?

We dont. We cannot keep our lunches in any of the product reefers. When I asked my store manager why we don't. He said we need to purchase our lunches at the store to show our support.... NICE

Only problem is, besides the deli food being over-priced, the wait at the deli and the reister takes 1/2 of the break!

Luckily there is a Target superstore very close where I can grab a GOOD pre-made sub, sammich,
or WRAP at 25% less that at my own store and check out quicker!

Publix pre-made subs are TERRIBLE, they should call them BREAD SAMMICH, and try to get any condiments to put on them? haha JOKE.

HAIL HAIL to the managers who would rather toss
close to expiry food than give to employees.

I've worked for Publix since March 18th 2006. I'm 17, and will soon get an evaluation. The only thing I'm worried about is not getting it. I'm a hard worker, and do my job; and more than likely, someone else's job every night I close. I work with slackers. That's the most annoying part. High schoolers (other than myself) do nothing but talk a lot and goof around.

When my evaluation comes, I better get more than $0.25 onto my paycheck per hour. Because I do more than $6.65/hour.

I've already have been given 5, FIVE +1% customer intimacy coins by the Customer Service Asst. Manager. If those chips don't show my hard work and effort, than I don't know what will.

drpepper (gay name) its clear that you work for publix. Its also clear that you don't have a education. Why don't you learn how to spell and form sentences? Oh and I'll take double paper and I have a special quarter for you if you do a good job!

You you seen the prices at Target? They are much lower that publix. Thats where I do all my shopping. Better service, better prices, and you can get in and out, alot faster than publix. It sure does feel good saving money at Target and blowing my money at publix. Thanks, Target!

the food at target is not the same as publix,i guess you get what you pay for. the meat is of poor qaulity, they do not have a wide variety. of dariy or frozen, dry goods selection sucks also, publix holds out the brass ring it is up to you to jump high enough to grasp it,George's philosipy is a very good and sound piece of advise, TOO BAD HE IS NOT ALIVE,to much of the meeting quota thing a my favorites can do no wrong

Is true that publix will fire me if i date some off the male assocates. just because i`m gay

reporting to work on time an working my ass off making sure those can of grean beans were stock in perfectly staight rows with the label facing out, using my god given common sence is what made me rich and not my lack of good grammar. o an by the way!!! dumbass your spelling of reister is wrong.....the correct spelling is....register, but i wont hold that aganst you as long as you have good common sence an you work with a sence of urgency.

Dear Patty, Publix is a great place to work. Tell your husband to go online at Publix.com and download the Publix's that you might be living by. Call those Store Managers and get himself acquainted with them. Also ask for a District Managers name. We are in need of Deli managers and would love for your husband to join the TEAM. Take litely to some of the bad attitudes on here. Good luck.

My husband has only worked at Publix. He has now been there 22 years. No, it is not the same as 22 years ago. Nothing is. Look at society's morals and the hand outs that are expected. In order to get people to show up on Superbowl Sunday, a big screen TV has to rented. Thw ork attitude of America is not the same as 22 years ago either.

Now, let's talk about the pay. I am a school teacher. I work more. I work longer. I have gone on to get my Masters' degree and I still make $10000.00 less than him. Go figure. He has a high school education. that does not even include retirement benefits.

Those of you complaining about insurance; again, nothing is the same. I know i selected the Publix plan over the School Board's for many reasons.

Go to any business. You will have problems in management. We have been very mistreated by various principals across the county. Stories abound. There are incompetent people everywhere. Sometimes it is because of the good ole boy system, nepotism and race issues.

If you are so unhappy, then leave. Why would you want to spend 1/3 of your life in a miserable environment? The benefits must outweigh the negative aspects. Focus on the positives and maybe your attitude will get the adjustment that is needed!

Please do not bash me for spelling errors. This does not have spellcheck and I am not a typist, nor am I perfect.

I just started working at publix about a month and a half ago.Im 17 years old, and Im a cashier , so far I like it, yes its tru the managers sometimes have their favorite employees and are much nicer to them , but thats natural and understandable. Your gonna be "nicer" to them because they know them more than you. Stop whining. The only problem I have is with some of the rude customers, I felt like cussing some of them out, or kicking them in the forehead, but I always stay calm and nice, When customers are pissed at me when I mess up , I just smile at them : ) because it pisses them off , cuz your smiling at their frustrations, thats a good way to piss of a customer without getting fired or into a huge verbal fight.

But all of you need to stop bi tchin most of you are lazy punks who want everything handed to them, spoiled kids who drive new 06 cars and live in a mansion so you whine about everything, that doesnt suit your large livin lifestyle. You have to bust your ass at a job , I see most of the kids there dont give a crap about working there and perform bad , and then whine about their pay. STFU. and be happy.

After having spent 21 years of my life in the retail industry, 5 of those being at the "retail giant" WalMart, I can honestly tell you from my experience that Publix is a wonderful place to work. There is a reason that they have been on the Fortune "top 100 companies to work for in America" list for nine consecutive years! I started my career at Publix as a Front Service Clerk (bagger) and have moved up to Cashier and then to my current position of Customer Service Staff in only 6 months. I expect to be moved up shortly to either Administrative Coordinator or Customer Service Team Leader. I'll be in management after that. Opportunities abound at Publix, as long as you are willing to work for them. You are only limited by yourself. Yes, you will have to work. Yes, you will have to sometimes do some unpleasant tasks, like clean the trash compactor or restrooms. Yes, you will have to sometimes work weird hours. Yes, there is stress on the job. But those things are not exclusive to Publix, either. They don't bother me, because I expect them as part of the job. Anyone who complains about that kind of thing just doesn't understand what it means to work for a company (or a grocery store). I would not hesitate for a moment to recommend our company to anyone looking for work. But, with that said, 'work' IS required. Publix rewards those who work, and doesn't reward those who don't. If you want a career, we'll give you one. If you're just looking for a little paycheck for a little while, that's also exactly what you'll get, a little paycheck for a little while nothing more. You get out what you put in. Now, I've got to go to work. See ya!

As an EX-Publix employee I can tell you that a couple of years at Publix can get you pretty good bucks at your next job.

Other employers have the ILLUSION that the pay is good.... LOL

I jumped from Publix to a smaller company that is very healthy and got a 4 Dollar an hour raise! Add to that the new company has a mandatory 45 hour workweek that puts my new salary at about 13k MORE that being a grocery whore for those rich managment lard-asses and coprporate jackoffs that are overpaid.

As for benefits? I now have:

PAID 30 min lunches
FREE LUNCH every friday
12 SICK OR PERSONAL days
2 week PAID VACATION (1st week after 120 days)
BETTER HEALTH INSURANCE
SAME 401k MATCH
And a whole list of other perks

There is life after Publix my friends, so be sure not to get trapped in the RETIRE AS A MILLIONAIRE SCAM!

Remember your retirement is in publix stock, and woe to you if the stock tanks.

Good for you, tata, glad to hear you are where you want to be.

I doubt very seriously, though, that Publix stock will "tank." I have also worked in the past for "smaller" companies during my tenure in retail. Lesson to learn: I'm at Publix right now. Reason? The other companies I worked for either changed (meaning reduced) their compensation plan and associate benefits packeges to defray other company expenses, or, as in one case, were bought by a larger company that downsized us. In other words, what started out as a good deal for me didn't end up that way. I am at Publix working for a lot less than I used to make at other places. But, you know what? Money isn't everything. Publix is a healthy, stable company that has been around for 75+ years, and is debt-free and going strong. I think I'll be here for a long time; even if the pay looks better somewhere else, I've learned my lessons the hard way. At almost 40 years old now, I hope some folks reading this won't make some of the same mistakes I did in thinking that the grass looks greener in other pastures. I wish I had found Publix 20 years ago and stayed there. I'd be retiring now at age 40 and wealthy. Is Publix perfect? Not by a long shot. But, it IS a great place to work. Are there better companies to work for? Possibly; but the problem is finding them, and then securing a position with them. They are few and far between. For those people that can and do find them and get on with them, congratulations! I wish you well, and you are always welcome to do your grocery shopping in my store. For the rest of us, and when some of those "smaller" companies go out of business, rest assured that there is a Publix Job Application Center at the store nearest you. Work hard and you will be rewarded.

june 1 is stock check day, what other copanmy pays a dollar a share, hang in there and do not listen to others with a bad taste in there mouth.

sorry company, spelling error, before it upsets anyone

OOPS

What other company pays a dollar a share?

lets look at it the intelligent way, in PERCEMTAGES! Publix stock pays UNDER 1.5% dividend.

At least get your statistics right!

In comparasin, Phillip Morris pay sapprox 5% dividend more than 3X greater than publix.

Actually HUNDREDS of companies pay more than double Publix dividend.

Statistics? Ok... Philip Morris, actually, Altria Group, symbol MO, posted their last dividends as $0.80 per share on their last payout (4/10/06). You can see this for yourself at http://www.altria.com/investors/02_09_05_divhistory.asp

Publix, on the other hand, paid about $1.21 per share to their stockholders (associates) today.

YES, CORRECT! .80 QUARTERLY DIVIDEND

That makes it 3.20 ANNUAL

thanks for confirming they pay TRIPLE what Publix pays......

now for a REAL STOCK, try PCU 11% annual and up over 100% this year!

Fine, I never said Publix was perfect. But, I don't own any Altria or PCU stocks, either. Neither did I have to buy any of the Publix stock I own. Free money is always good!

publix-"Where shoplifitng is a pleasure" because the managers are to pussy to do anything!!!!!!!

Give me a call when Phillip Morris (Altria Group) starts giving away their stock. Publix gives its associates stock. What's more, only a complete moron would compare a public company (like Phillip Morris) to a privately held company (like Publix). Phillip Morris has to give out large dividends in order to get people to buy their stock. Without the dividend no one would buy Phillip Morris stock. Publix does not need to give out any dividend in order to get people to buy their stock, nonetheless, they still give a very nice dividend. So next time, before you try to become a financial advisor and bash a privately held company for issuing a very nice dividend, do yourself a favor and pull your head out of your ass. You can think much more clearly that way.

LOL RXMAN!

snorting the residue in your bulk hydrocodone bottles again?

You should stick you your own PUBLIX PHARMACIST BLOG and read why you fools are one of the least paid in the industry, and cant find a compitant divisional manager!

I was merely giving some publix DREAMERS a little insight out of their little green world!

Sure stay at Publix and be bancrupt waiting for your millionairre bonus that HINGES on the stock price of your own company! Can you say
ENRON????

The only way that an associate can ear a decent way is to VOTE UNION! Watch out though, as Publix is a self proclaimed UNION BUSTER

Did someone say UNION? All it takes a majority vote, sooner or later you all will get tired of busting your humps, swallowing all the spoonfed corporate lies working for retirement that only exist in the pockets of a few managers and other blasts from the past.. Union Yes!!!!!!!!!

First we need to get the meatcutters together. That's the first job that they go to, because its considered a trade in the eyes of the government. The meatcutters in my are well knit and we have between talked about trying to get a Union in. We set a letter into one of their web sites and told them we wanted to get together and talk about how we can a Union in. They called us asking how many meatcutters were involved and the told us that they are going to call us back with more info.
UNOIN YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Everybody needs to take part and get involved. The managers are making their fat pay and bonus. Why can't we get paid worth a decent pay. Up north meatcutters are making over 20hr. Its been long over due...WE need a UNION!!!!!!! Meatcutters need to stand together, fuck management.Look at the pay of the managers and the stock options that they get. While do all the work and they walk around with their coffee and their faggy ties. As individuals they won't listen, but as a group we will me heard.

First we need to get the meatcutters together. That's the first job that they go to, because its considered a trade in the eyes of the government. The meatcutters in my are well knit and we have between talked about trying to get a Union in. We set a letter into one of their web sites and told them we wanted to get together and talk about how we can a Union in. They called us asking how many meatcutters were involved and the told us that they are going to call us back with more info.
UNOIN YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Everybody needs to take part and get involved. The managers are making their fat pay and bonus. Why can't we get paid worth a decent pay. Up north meatcutters are making over 20hr. Its been long over due...WE need a UNION!!!!!!! Meatcutters need to stand together, fuck management.Look at the pay of the managers and the stock options that they get. While do all the work and they walk around with their coffee and their faggy ties. As individuals they won't listen, but as a group we will me heard.

Doug, Steve and Meatcutter, what do you know about unions? Have you ever been a member?

Let's vote Union Yes? Oh hell yes, where can I sign up so that I can vote to cut my wages too. I lived in Michigan and worked for the Publix equivalent in Michigan is Farmer Jacks. I was a member of UFCW Local 876. Below is a story about the recent vote to cut their wages. Union did a hell of a job for us. I still have friends and family who work at Farmer Jacks. They would kill for the job security, pay and benefits that we have at Publix. The UFCW didn't negotiate squat for us. I'll post the damn 100 page contract on here. Pay was little if any better that Publix's and the health benefits, although free, sucked. Had to drive to Lansing (60 miles each way) to find a Specialist that took my lousy insurance.

http://www.detnews.com/2005/business/0508/28/B01-295061.htm

Farmer Jack union to vote on wage cuts

Tentative pact could mean 10 percent decrease in pay, limited overtime for 8,500 workers.

Farmer Jack employees across Metro Detroit will vote on a new labor contract today and Monday that calls for wage cuts and other concessions as negotiations continue between the grocery chain and possible buyers.

The proposed contract, obtained by The Detroit News, calls for a 10 percent pay cut for all employees, limits overtime pay on Sundays and reduces personal days from six to five days a year for senior employees.

But that is just one company. No wait, what about General Motors, Ford, Delta, Northwest, Delphi Automotive, Albertsons...Should I go on... Yes, let's ruin the great company we have by bringing in the people who bankrupted the largest company in the world, GM. I bet GM's management listens to their employees, listen to them all day long as they stand together in the unemployment line.

Rxman why don't you go back to counting your fucking pills, you little fucking college kid. Let the people who work for a living make these decisions. What concern is it to you, if you work in the pharmacy, then your bringing in 100K a year. Plus you little faggets get all the over time you want. And you only have to work 33hr one week and 44 the next. So DON'T tell me what's good you me FAGGET. And then work guys get all the help you need.

can't you get your point across, without all the bad words, you could have said the same they without the harsh words, if your not happy go north to the unions

Meatcutter,
You don’t know me or know anything about me. That is a great reaction. I, based on my own experience of working (as a Grocery Clerk) for a union grocery store (UFCW Local 876) disagree with need for a union at Publix and for that I am called a “faggot.” I notice that you don’t refute anything that I say, just resort to using an offensive and to many a hurtful and hateful remark. Steve and Doug, is this your vaunted Union. Attack anyone who disagrees with you as being a faggot. I guess if you would have know that I am African-American (yes we go to college to) you would have called me a nigger. Nice. Very nice.

And where do you get off telling me that because I work in the Pharmacy department (I am an hourly tech and not yet a Pharmacist) I no longer have a voice in this company. I gave my blood, sweat and tears for five years as a Grocery Clerk in this company while working my way through college. With the help of Publix’s tuition assistance, which Farmer Jacks did not offer. I worked all the overtime I could and only saw my wife at work (she work’s as an Office Cashier and is also going to college, guess I should tell her that ‘college boys” no longer have voice in this company.) and only saw my son late at night on Sundays. I just finished my first year of Pharmacy School. And, according to the union, for trying to improve myself and the life of my family I am a faggot who no longer has a voice in this company.

Is that what the UFCW tells to the children of its members when they get a UFCW Scholarship, that they no longer have a voice, to shut up and go count pills you faggot.

To anyone from Publix who reads this blog, read meatcutter’s comments. He represents the union. Disagree with him and you are a faggot or a nigger or a bitch or whatever filth he can throw at you. And if you try to better yourself and your family, then you no longer deserve a voice in the company you worked hard to build. I grew up in the streets of Detroit and I know the joys of a welfare Christmas. I worked hard to raise my self up and meatcutter, you will not tell me to go away. I will not be silent, I will not go to the back of the bus. I earned everything I have and will be damned if I will see it evaporate like the pensions of GM, Ford, United, Delphi Automotive and Farmer Jacks. The unions destroyed these once proud and profitable companies. God help us if there are more intolerant hate mongers out there like yourself.

I USED to work for Publix and was told straigh out that if I was BLACK, RICAN, WOMAN, VET or DISABLED I would have been made a manager, but they needed a QUOTA TO FILL.

BS!

So I watch a LAZY, TWO FACED, BLACK WOMAN get PROMOTED who scored LOWER in testing and has BAD ATTENDANCE.

GUESS PUBLIX GOT 2 POINTS FOR THAT ONE

REVERSE DISCRIMINATION AT PUBLIX

Discrimination of any kind is wrong. I sincerely hope that was not directed at me. I don't believe that I took my Grocery Clerk position from any qualified White associates and, given the fact that I have yet to meet a Black Pharmacy tech, I am pretty sure there are no quotas of any kind in the pharmacy. I realize it can be very difficult being a White Male in this crazy world of ours, but hang in there friend. In the end, the most qualified people, be they White, Black, Hispanic, Asian or whatever, will rise to the top.

Hi - Could someone please give me a round a bout area on how much deli managers make at publix? How about meat cutters? Im talking about springhill, fl area if that helps. But any areas info would be helpful. thank you!

Patty

ps -hubby and I are looking to move there. Hes a deli manager now. Thats why im asking :)

Is Publix PRO-FAMILY? as supportive of a man woman respectively together.

Do they support homosexuals, lesbians, transgenders, etc?

Do they give 'domestic partner' benefits, 'gender and sexual orientation training'

Thanks for the info...

Okay... I need a little advice please...

I have been a on again off again employee with Publix since 1999. According to all of my material that corporate sends me about the stock plan, I will be funny vested in August of this year. Sounds wonderful, right? Here's the issue...

We have a new manager in my department who is determined to make everyone miserable. She is rude, unpleasant, and dumb on top of it. We have had ten great employees leave our department in the past two months because of her (and I know that's why each of them has left because they have told me that- we're a pretty close-knit department). I will be starting a new career as a teacher in August, which makes the job at the store that much less bearable, since I know I have something else to look forward to. No offense to anyone who has a career in Publix, I realize the options there are great, but I went to school to be a teacher and I now have that opportunity and I'm eager to take it. But I have been in my department at this particular store for three years now. I'm in the back office, and am the one that gets called when others can't come in, the one who trains others in the back, and the one who does everything I'm needed to do without question or complaint. But this woman is just sooo unbearable that every time I work with her I want to walk out on the company right then. She told a coworker of mine that she could be written up for going to the restroom (she had to do girly things; and this girl is not one to waist time), wrote someone up and then had to revoke it due to a lack of information (cash discrepancy), regularly schedules five cashiers or less for an entire day's coverage (meaning that if you look at the list of cashiers from open to close, there are five people on the entire day's schedule, not five at a time) and has even yelled at me in front of customer service for rewarding an associate with some of those 1% tokens! I just need some encouragement or something... I have about 75 hours to go before I hit my 1000 before my anniversary date... but I don't know if I can make it to that anniversary under these conditions. Please help! I know that the company is great overall... but this woman is ruining it for my department, and it's ruining the entire store's moral, and I just know the customers can feel the change too... I don't know what else to do, and I'm not the type to sit back and do nothing... but I'm at a point where I get a sick feeling in my stomach just knowing I have to work with her. Input or encouragement is very much appreciated!

Don't get into Publix, unless you want to be a corporate butt-kisser to get promoted. Here's the typical day at Publix:Thurdsay MAY 2 5:45 AM: Get up so I can get to school around 6:30 or so. 6:30 AM: Get to school, and have Math for my first class. My grades have been doing pretty good this semester, the last one until I graduate high school. If I can pass this next math test, I can raise my final GPA to 3.51, good enough to get me a scholarship to Brown University, where I would love to attend and study medicine.2:30 PM: Get home. 2:45 PM: I tried to take a small nap before going to work at Publix, but was awakened by a phone call. It was my manager at Publix. I was supposed to come in at 6 PM that day. My manager informed me that 2 former cashiers who were now stock clerks had agreed to work today from 3 to closing for 2 other cashiers. OK, that's good. The stock clerks (who just so happened to know the 2 cashiers they were working for) had "called in sick", and now the store was short 2 closers. Funny how the 2 cashiers who traded shifts with the stock clerks had planned a party for that night. Also funny how the 2 stock clerks who were supposedly sick were still well enough to attend the party and show up half-drunk the next day for their stocking shift. Oh well, back to the managers call. Well, my manager asked me to come in 2 hours early to help out, becuase we'd be there forever becuase of the "sick" stock clerks. Knowing that we would only be blocking the cashier sections of the store, I told my manager that we'd be fine if he could get 1 extra closer for the night. He agreed to get one if I came in an hour early and only took a 1/2 hour break insted of an hour. I was pissed, but I agreed. 4:50 PM: I got to the store about 10 minutes early. But not early enough. My manager wrote on the schedule that I was coming in at 4 PM, not 5 PM, hoping he'd get me to help his stock clerks for an extra hour. I saw this on the schedule, and alerted our snotty Front-End Coordinator, who promptly told me that I'd be written up for being late, and to go to the manager to get a card to clock in. Reluctantly, I clocked in. 4:55 PM: I got to the front of the store and was informed by our pleasant Front End Coordinator that I would be placed on the express register. The poor district managers daughter (who was at express at the time) was very tired and exhaused. And why shouldn't she be?? She had been there for a full 20 minutes. I'm surprised how she survived. I ran to the register to relieve her before she fainted. Somehow, she didn't. But she was fine and dandy while bagging (and doing a halfway job of it). By the end of her shift, 2 egg cartons were broken, and I greeting card turned up missing. And it just happened to be misplaced at my register. So guess who got blamed for the mistake?? Me...After all, as well as my cashiering duties, I am also responsible for making sure the bagger bags everything. It's things like this that make me LOVE my job. 4:56 PM: My first customer walks up, and happens to bring a line of 15 more people behind him....What a great guy. So I start scanning the items. All 35 of them....mostly cat food. So I am about to give the guy his total. When he brings me coupons. About 20 of them. The good kind, too. Buy one get one free. After 4 minutes finding the prices and totaling them up, I get my first complaint. You see, the cat food was on special. 2 cans for 89 cents. the first one for 45 cents, the second one for 44 cents. So since 44 cents was the first price I saw, subtracted 44 cents off the bill for every free coupon he had. "YOU COULD'VE PUT 45 CENTS ON FOR A COUPLE OF THEM!!!" screamed the customer. Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't realize how much a penny is worth these days. After 2 minutes of the "cat man" complaining, I told him I'd fix his "problem".....Only 1 problem....I would need a key...I've been at Publix for 2 years now. You think they'd trust me enough to give me a key....Guess not. All I need to do is find a manager. No problem. There were 5 managers working, shouldn't be too hard to find. Of course, I don't know where the keg room is.....5:15 PM: After 15 minutes, I finally found one. He finally got a key and corrected the price. And I got another write up for being so rude to our customer and making him wait. The manager called me everything in the book other than being a thief. Great. This day won't get any worse. I was wrong. The customer still had to pay. He promptly hands me a nice, crisp 100 dollar bill. Hooray!!! Let's see.... 100 dollars minus 10.79.....That's 89.21 in change. Only 1 problem. They only give us like 50 bucks to start out with. I will have to get one of our speedy baggers to get me change. Another 15 minute wait. Unless I get the hyper bagger who had too much coffee in the morning and wants to talk about the most irrelevant things for his whole shift. Nope. I got Bob. The 70 year old guy who hits on 15 year olds....I give him the 100 dollar bill, trying not to touch his hand as I give it to him. Crap. I touched him. Now I'm gonna have to go to the restroom and wash my hands. come to think of it, I really have to go to the bathroom right now. I would've went before my shift started, but I had to clock in or else I'd be "late"...Well, speedy Bob was on the way to get change. Wow. He was making good time. Only stopped twice to hit on children. 5:27 PM: 10 minutes later, Dirty Ol' Bob was back with 3 20's, 2 10's, 4 5's, and 2 phone numbers. Gross.....I gave the "cat man" his change, and he walked away to go complain about me to the 1 manager who hadn't been on my case yet today. Well, at least I'll have a different job in 1 month when I leave for college....5:29 PM: The next customer comes up. Coughing like a Tuberculosis patient. Wow. She only had 18 items. A new record low for the express lane. I expected lights and confetti to go off, but was saddened when they didn't. Just as soon as Bob saw the order, he conveiniently had to go help out a hot blonde who had 2 items and already had a bagger. Too bad I couldn't. 5:32 PM: 15 bags of 20 pound cat litter , 3 leaking jugs of milk, and a pulled hamstring later, it was time for cleanup on the express lane. Of course, we were out of the 2 rolls of paper towels and 3 cans of cleaning solution allotted for the whole store every month, so I was forced to use my apron to clean up a mix of litter/milk. After only 37 minutes of work, I was smelling worse than a garbage man who had worked a triple shift. 5:35 PM: After the mess was cleaned up, I gave the lady her total. I should've known she wanted cigarrettes. I wish she would've told me that when she started the order. no problem. Just got to find a bagger. Oh great. Fast Eddie. We called Eddie "Fast Eddie" not becuase he is fast, but becuase we are sarcastic. Well, I guess Fast Eddie is better than no bagger. 5:45 PM: 10 minutes later, he is back with a box of Marlboro reds in a box. Suddenly, the lady gets the most horrible look on her face, like her first child has been hit by a car or something. "I SAID MARLBORO REDS IN A PACK!!! NOT A BOX!!!! WHAT KIND OF CASHIERS DO YOU HIRE HERE???? MORONS????? GO BACK AND GET THE RIGHT KIND!!!!!" Fast Eddie looks over to me with a confused look. I guess his memory is going away, as well as his speed and agility. Eddie just turns to the customer and says "I'm sorry, the cashier told me to get the ones in a box." Dirty bastard. Like I would tell him to get the wrong kind to tick somebody off. Instead of arguing with the old prune, (Eddie, not the customer) I offer to go get them my freaking self. It wasn't that complicated. I mean, heck, I don't even smoke, and I know the difference between a box and a pack. A box looks like a box. A pack doesn't look like a box. 5:46 PM: Great. There's Shorty the Store Manager. His name isn't really Shorty, he's just really short, hence, the nickname. Shorty immediately gets a huge look of disapproval. "What are you doing away from your register??? There are customers waiting." I try to tell ol' Shorty that I am trying to save Fast Eddie's butt by doing his job for him, but it is no use. I get the good old "I'm having a talk with you in my office. During your break." So much for getting food on my break. 5:47 PM: Eventually, Bob feels sorry for me and comes back. Or maybe he just saw the 3 middle school cheerleaders in the lane next to me. Either way, he's a bagger, and I still need this lady's precious cigarettes. I write down what kind the lady wants and give the paper to Bob. Bob immediately tells me thanks and asks me for my pen. Confused, I give it to him, and he is off skipping like a rabbit in a forest. Wow! He is to the office in record time (5 minutes). Unfortunately, so were 10 old people blowing their Social Security checks on lotto, 5 mooches with welfare checks, and of course, the 1 family of foriegners who don't speak a lick of English and are trying to do a Western Union. I apologize again to the customer for the wait. She just smiles and asks me if I'm new and asks me for my name so she could talk to management about me. I don't think she was going to tell them to give me a raise either. 6:02 PM: Bob is back. He gives me back the pen and the cigarettes. And also waves the paper I gave him, which now had 3 phone numbers on it. Wow. I guess the cheerleaders will have something to do after tonight's game. Gross!! 6:03 PM: Unfortunately, the lady decided she didn't need the cigarettes. Well, why couldn't you have decided that like 10 or 20 minutes ago when you came in my freaking line. She kept whining about how she was riding the bus which leaves at 6:05 PM. The lady payed me, and she holds out her hand to get her change. I give her a few ones, and try to give her the 68 cents that I owe her when she screams. The lady took so long sorting out all her money that the bus had pulled up and was driving away as we spoke. As she was screaming, the lady also proceded to take her hand away, causing all the change to fall to the ground. Another thing that was "my fault". Another complaint to a manager (as well as a taxi cab bill which Shorty says will be coming out of my paycheck so the woman could get back home). 6:07 PM: This next customer is one of my favorites. She always will come in with a cart full of groceries, sometimes two. It's not the size of the order that matters to me (even though it is the express lane), but it is the way the bill is getting payed for that pisses me off. The lady gets about 3/4 of the way done with everything, and then tells me to check her total. She wants to know if she has enough money to pay for everything. It came to 150.85. "O crud" said the lady. "I will have to put something back". She decides she really doesn't need the new blender. OK, just got to void it off. One problme. It is over $15.00, so I have to find a manager, and get them to turn a key so I can take it off. 6:12 PM: Shorty comes back from outside where he was just finishing putting a new chunk of chewing tobacco in his mouth, and comes over to "help" me. "Wow. You're seeing a lot of me today, aren't you?" he says. I just shrug it off as I imagine how I am going to hide his store keys when the store closes. He voids the item and walks away, muttering something about a discipline write-up. I give the lady her new total, and she promplty says "EBT", which in Ebonics means food stamps. Now this lady looks pretty well-to-do for someone who is using food stamps. I mean, she is wearing a gold chain, has the newest Air Jordans on, all 5 of her kids have Ipods, camera phones, and more bling than a jewelry store. Plus the family has more gold teeth than you could count on 3 hands. Well, I guess her baby daddy's drug money isn't going as far these days as it used to. It just really agrivates me how she can walk up to me and demand that she use EBT, with the nerve to act like I owe her something. After all, with all the groceries she is getting, she will be eating better than me this week, she will have cash money left over to buy more "bling", and my f*^king taxes are paying for it. At least if you are going to screw me over royally, be polite about it and don't act like I owe it to you. 6:15 PM: The lady slides her card. Nothing happens. Slides it again. Nothing happens. Wow. I guess she had been using it a bunch. After all. She is a skank who is in her mid 20's with 5 kids to buy food for. Too bad Shorty couldn't have stayed close by so he could help. But we all know how important visiting the keg room is. Luckily, Luther (aka The Devil) comes up. He is the manager who will make you stay till 2 AM when you have a meeting at 6 AM the next morning. One time, he made me block 1 door in the frozen food section for 25 minutes. And then when it still wasn't up to his "standards", he starts doing it himself and murmers something about "proficiency". Well, he types in the lady's card and enters his code (666), turns his key, and I watch more of my tax money going to undeserving people.6:20 PM: Well, I guess Shorty and Satan had enough of my "antics" the cash register, because I was informed by Angela our Front-End "Coordinator" that I would be bagging for an hour while it was slow. She gives me a sly grin as she tells me to go to register 10. I get there and who else do I see but Nell, the cashier who knows everyone and their Mom, and will talk with them forever about nothing. It is people like her who have forced Publix to have so many registers. If she wouldn't stop to chit-chat so much, stuff would get done and the cashiers who are scanning stuff to help pick up her slack would be doing other things like blocking or cleaning, which would help us closers a whole heck of a lot at say 11 PM when we could be going home. And Shorty doesn't help much either. He actually encourages people to be like Nell, and has given her twice the raise that she deserved last evaluation. She should only be able to make $10.00 an hour, but because of Shorty's signature on a veto paper, Nell and only Nell is making a whopping $15.50 an hour to be nothing more than a motormouth who occasionally scans a bananna or two. 6:22 PM: I start bagging for Nell and some long lost friend from the day who has to catch up on what Nell is up to. It couldn't be much different than 10 years ago when she first started working here. The customer comes up to me, and with a loud voice, she says the 2 most dreaded words in the history of all baggers: "DOUBLE PAPER!!!!!" And then they usually will throw in a "DONT YOU SQUISH MY ___________" (insert banannas, eggs, bread, or any other type of fruit). Well, I get to work making paper bags for the witch. She had a nice cart full, so I knew it would take a while. 6:29 PM: 14 double paper bags, 7 minutes, and 2 forests later, all the bags were made and filled to the brim. The sad part was that I could've got her finished and out with 1/2 as many bags and in 1/2 the time if we would've used plastic bags. Fortunately, there is 1 good thing about paper bags. Usually the people who get them will let you carry their bags to the car, which about 1/3 of the time means you may get a tip. Heck, with the money I'm making (I guess it's really NOT making) at Publix, I'll take an extra dollar or two when I can get one. I offer to take the groceries to the customer's broomstick, I mean car, and she says yes. I unload all of them and am about to walk off, when the lady says "I think you deserve a little something for all your hard work." Finally, some recognition! She smiles and hands me a nice shiny nickel. WHAT???? A FREAKING NICKEL?? You can't even buy 5 grapes with that!!!! You might as well have given me a paper towel. At least a paper towel has some use. But a nickel??? I took it from the lady, then threw it on the ground and spat on it. I told her that it was an insult. Then she told me that Mr. Bleg, our district manager would be getting a nice letter in the mail about what I had done. Oh great. Now my antics are getting county-wide attention, not just store-wide attention. I walked off and thanked her with half of a peace sign. 6:36 PM: When I came back in the store, all the registers had baggers, so I thought I'd get a rest. But I was wrong. On register 3, Dot was bagging. You all know Dot. She is the bagger with the earings that are bigger than cantalopes and with the 8 bracelets....ON EACH ARM!!! You would figure that she would take them off. They were obviously weighing her down, which was making her bag even slower than she normally does. Well, I decide to help Dot bag, so some poor customer won't have to be there for an eternity. Dot is working on the first bag when I got there, and by the time we were done, I won 8 bags to 1/2 of a bag. The customer taps me on the shoulder as she was walking out. "That's my poor old mother. How dare you insult her by helping her bag. She can do it by herself and doesn't need your help. I'm calling district and reporting you." Stand in line, lady. Dot walked out with her psycho offspring, leaving me to bag it alone. 6:44 PM: Up comes a huge wrestler-type guy. He has a snickers bar, and a mountain dew. Under new Publix "policies", I am required to bag this mans things, and offer to take them out to his car. I can understand a big order, or helping someone who really needs it, but for cases like this, it is absurd. I bag "the Hulk's" items and then offer to take them out to his car (hey, what was I supposed to do? Shorty was sitting at his little perch, watching my every move). The guy just starts laughing out loud at me. "Do you know who I am???" I say no. "I'm a professional body builder. Why would I need some skinny dweeb like you to help me bring my heavy things to my car?" I try to say something about Publix policy when Shorty comes up. "I'm sorry sir. Sometimes these baggers can be over-zealous. I apologize. This won't happne again, and he will be disciplined." You lying bastard! You were the slimebucket that made up the policy. Well, that's another customer who will have Publix Corporate offices on speed-dial by the time the nite is over with. Well, nothing much else happened on the registers of while bagging, unless you count the great spaghetti sauce incident, but I got to stop somewhere. 9:00 PM: After my break at 8:30 (which should've been at 7:30, but who's keeping track??), I was off to start blocking, which would've been easy, but I guess the 1 cashier who was scheduled to help out, also became "sick". And strangely enough, at the party 20 minutes later. Blocking is my favorite thing about Publix. We have to pull certain items to the front of the shelves and make sure they are all straight to help our stock clerks. I don't really see how this helps them other than to give them less aisles to stock. After all, if they are stocking something, they can just stock it till they're out and them make sure all of it is towards the front of the shelf. Usually, if we have enough cashiers to check groceries and enough to help block, we can get out at a halfway decent hour. Not tonight I guess. We had 3 cashiers who would be on a register till 10:30, and 1 who would be on a register till 11:30 when we close (or whenever the last customer leaves). And then we only had 3 other cashiers. Me, Jen (a good cashier/blocker who deserved a raise), and Clarice ( a minor who would be out of the door at 10:30 whether we were in good shape or not). Clarice would usually never block (just talk to Britt her friend until 10:30, maybe blocking every 5 minutes), so I don't see why Angela our front end coordinator wouldn't just let her be a cashier for the rest of her shift. Oh well, that's why Angela gets paid to make the tough decisions. 9:23 PM: EMERGENCY!!! A few more customers that we anticipated had come through the line, so I had to open back up. I opened up, but left my light off so I could check these 2 customers and then go back to blocking. 9:46 PM: 7 customers later, and I was back to blocking. I was in the middle of straightening a package of flour when a customer asks me a question: Do you have any Betty Crocker cake mix in the back? Well, I don't freaking know. I am just doing the stock clerk's job. I'm not an actual stock clerk. Why don't you go to the keg room and ask a stock clerk who may (or may not) know the answer. 9:55 PM: I was back with the customer's cake mix. Well, it was getting close to 10, and we were actually making good time. Already done with 5 aisles. If we could get done with the cookies and crackers by 10:45, we could start frozen, and if the last customer leaves at 11:30, maybe we could be out of here by midnight, leaving me just enough time to study for the big math test. 10:45 PM: We were done with everything else. Now comes the bad part. Frozen. 5 minutes in frozen will make your fingers numb for about 1/2 an hour later. With gloves on. It's not so bad when you have 4-5 cashiers blocking. It gets done faster. We had me, Jen, Britt, and Clarice. Basically 3 cashiers (minors count as 1/2 a cashier in my book). We go up to the front to find some gloves. Angela and Shorty are lounging by the doors discussing how big their bonus checks would be if they would put off some more evaluations and decline a few worthy people their raises. I asked Angela if she could come and help us block frozen. After all, only 1 customer is in the store, and if they needed a key for some bizarre reason, Shorty was right there. Angela gets an embarassed look on her face, but thinks up of a quick comeback: How dare you criticize my authority. You are just a cashier and have no idea of what it takes to run the store. And I guess you do, Angela. After all, you scheduled the fastest blockers to run registers. You scheduled 2 minors to help block, and all they have done was talk and break 2 jars of baby food. Oh yeah. And you can't even send me on break without getting it late by an hour. Oh yeah, you really know how to run the store Angela. Angela gets angry and decides to teach me a lesson. "You head right over to frozen and start blocking. Britt and Clarice, you go home. Jen, start at aisle 16, and start walking the store." Wow. What a biatch. 11:00 PM: Frostbite sets in. Not really, but my hands were colder than they have ever been before. I have 10 doors done, 55 more to go. Jen has walked the store and is going home (per Angela's request). After all. I was showing insubordination. I didn't need any help. 11:30 PM: Last customer leaves Friday MAY 3 12:03 AM: Shorty and Angela finish walking the store. I had finished frozen right when they came over to check it. Looks like I would finally be able to get home and study. WRONG!!!! Our smart Common Area Manager had scheduled 3 baggers to close: Andrew, and 2 minors who were long gone. I would be helping to mop the store (which in Publix language means: mop, help the stock clerks pull floats, stock, sweep, and then go home if you whine enough). 12:07 AM: Forgetting why I am mad at Shorty, I hide Angela's store keys. Heh heh. 12:34 AM: Finally get to wash my hands and use the restroom1:23 AM: All the mopping, stocking, float pulling, and sweeping is finally done. Shorty tells us it's time to call it a night. I walk out the door exhausted. Hoping to get a token. A token is a little plastic coin that managers sometimes give out. I've seen 2 in 5 years. Managers will give them to you for doing extra work or going the extra mile. I should've had 2 already tonight for catching a crook with a fake drivers license and a bad check, and for coming in early, but I guess they figure that doing those things are part of your ordinary job. I guess I should be coming in early and spotting phony checks every day. No wonder they never give me evaluations on time and only give me petty .10 cent raises every 6-9 months or so. Shorty smiles at me as I walk out and just says: Tomorrow, don't be late, or you're fired. Not a token, not even a thank you for your hard work. What an a#*. 2:10 AM: I finally get to bed. I am too tired to study. And why? Because I was up till 1:30 in the morning busting my butt for Publix so some corporate butt kissing wenches named Angela and Shorty could get raises. The next day I got a 79.9999 on the next day's math test. I needed an 80 to get the scholarship for Brown. That summer, I went to the local community college, all the while keeping my job at Publix. I never did getto attend Brown and become a physician. More and more days like the one I described occured where I couldn't study becuase of the outgrageous demands of Publix. Eventually I found a better job (better paying, and one where management doesn't get promoted for all the work that I do. Why do I say that Publix sucks? Because I have worked there.

Steve, send me some of your ideas for union organization. I have been barking up that tree for years. grandsonsofliberty@hotmail.com

Well, I can't speak about your specific experiences, because things like that just don't happen at my store. Publix is an awesome company. I have worked in retail for 21 years. I wish I would have been a Publix employee from the beginning. I'd be retiring a millionaire in about four years. My store is wonderful, our management is wonderful, and I hope to be a wonderful manager someday. I'm just a CSS right now, but looking to be an AC or CSTL soon. Now, don't get me wrong, there have been days that were crappy, and made me feel like I'm punishing myself for working at Publix, but then there are other days that make it all worth it. I'm not making a lot of money right now, but it's decent, and as soon as I move up a little more, the money will be better. If people have the right attitude about working, then it's all good. We need to be more like Mr. George. Publix will be a good place to work, or not so good, depending upon us. Personally, I plan to make it good.

OnMyWayUp

Not the Mr George BS again!

Mr George would be ROLLING IN HIS GRAVE if he knew what was going on with the company now!

Mr George BLAH BLAH BLAH.....

Have you EVER MET Mr George? I bet not, and you are just being a brainwashed little Publix PLEBE.

Good boy now, do the work of 5 so your CS Manager can continue to get HER 5k inventory bonus and your store manager can get his TEN THOUSAND PLUS bonus...

WOrk at Publix where your SWEAT equals MANAGEMT GOLD

I worked for Publix for 15 years in Broward County, FL and "retired" as a Customer Service Manager (I like being retired at 32); I left to move to the DC area to be near family and I now work for a "Large" grocery chain in this area. I like my new company but I really miss Publix. The benefits (ESOP, 401k) were far better, the stores were cleaner, and management was more dedicated - Publix managers eat, breathe, and sleep Publix! Publix managers worked their way up from the bottom - my current company hired me off the street as an Assistant Store Manager. I concede that the one problem with Publix is the low wages for hourly associates, but I don't think a union is the answer. Unions do not always bargain for the best benefits and have certain caveats that force managers to follow specific inane rules that are not always in the associate's (or the company's) best interests. EXAMPLE: unless you have prevous GROCERY experience relevant to what I am hiring you for, you WILL start at 6.15 or 6.60 per hour as per union contract rules. You could have been the Queen of England but you will start out at the bottom like the rest - there is very little room for management discretion, which may allow potentially good applicants to look elsewhere or quit after they realize how small their paycheck is. There is no reward for merit - everyone gets a raise after they work 520 hours (25 cents - no matter how long it takes you to attain those hours). Sure, pay rates for part-timers top out over $14/hr. and old school clerks (part-time) make around $18/hr, but the most recent contracts do not offer the same hope. The company pays SOOOOOO much in payroll for the veterans that the hours are cut to the bone; I now realize Publix seems OVERSTAFFED compared to what I deal with now (if you can believe that).

For all you whiners and complainers out there (you know who you are), I do feel your pain. Publix DOES make you work hard, sometimes like a dog. Managers (the dedicated ones) bust their collective asses and work insane hours, and the associates that give a crap will work twice as hard for their managers out of respect. Anyone who has 1000 hours in knows what it is like to own a piece of the Publix pie - I left Publix with over $100,000 in my retirement (not including my substantial 401k) and even though I no longer work for Publix I am STILL making big money every time the stock price ups itself. If you are fortunate enough to own Publix stock, I feel that it is OK to complain about the day-to-day BS but if you are not trying to be part of the solution, STOP BITCHING! Funny, as a manager, I never heard complaints on any given Thursday or March 1, May 1, June 1, August 1, or November 1 (not to mention the week after any inventory period or the second Tuesday in December). Believe me, even though my new employer pays far more weekly and pays managers a large incentive to work on Sundays, I still miss my Publix bonuses! Not to mention my new employer is open everyday but Christmas - I don't see you working on Easter or Thanksgiving!

If Publix opened stores in Maryland I would jump ship in a heartbeat; to all my homies at the big P, my retirement plans continue to thank you - keep up the good work!

For those of you who think that anyone who is not a publix zombie is "bitching:"

I happen to agree that Publix is a pretty decent place to work, if you don't mind earning your paycheck, which I don't. I bust my ass every day and don't complain about it. I'm a CS staff who daily spends about three hours bagging, running a register, blocking, and doing other "bottom of the food chain" activities, all with a smile on my face. In fact, this past Saturday we were so short handed that I didn't get to the back office until 6 pm, at which point I had ten tills waiting for me to count them, weekly files to be totaled and sent to corporate, and oh yes let's not forget the problem with ticketmaster that kept me at customer service for an extra hour after that. Did I gripe? For about two minutes, just to blow off steem. But then I jumped on my work and got it done. Not to brag or anything, but I regularly do things like this. I worked the night of my college graduation (came in afterwards), worked a split shift (in from 6am to noon, then back in from 7pm to midnight), and constantly come in when asked to, and what thanks do I get? Absolutely none. But I don't gripe about that.

What I do gripe about, though, is the managers who act like all of the things I have mentioned above are not even worth a thank you. Instead, they take the opportunity to find more to yell at me for. And it's not just me, my entire front end feels this way. And it's not all of the managers, just one. But she's my direct boss, so it may as well be everyone. And two people in my office team are leaving soon, which will leave four of us. That's just not enough people to run an office team! And do we ahve anyone that we can train and move up? No, because no one wants to work that closely with this woman. So we'll have to see if we can sucker someone from another store into jumping into this pit of fire... and I'm leaving in August too, so then they'll be back down to four again... which means that we're really in trouble. Our store will fall apart at the seams if something doesn't change.

I digress. The point is, those of you who criticize us for letting off a little steam need to realize that just because your situation is not as bad as mine, or someone else's, doesn't make it okay for you to tell me whether or not I have the right to vent.

Patty,
Go to monster.com or hotjobs.com (I can't remember which Publix lists with) and search "Publix." You will find a PLETHORA of bakery and deli management positions available. They will hire outside the company to fill those positions. It may be harder in Florida than other states, just because Publix has been in FL longer so there are more people vying for management dollars, but I am guessing it's not impossible.

At the Publix in Land O Lakes, they frequently say something like "All front service personnel to the front please." They do this several times when they're busy.

I put in an application today at Publix. Mainly for the benefits, and for a little extra money each week. I have a couple of questions that I hope someone can help me with.

1. Does Publix allow you to work 12hr. days, because I'm only going to be able to work Fri., Sat., and Sun., but I want to be full time also?

2. How much is it for there health insurance? I've worked at a grocery store before and the insurance was free, is that the case here or no?

If someone could post a comment letting me know, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Jennifer

Jennifer:

Good luck with your application? Just to give you a heads up, they rarely ever hire anyone full time off the streets. Most people who are full time have worked their way into one of those positions. It all depends on the store though...
As far as 12 hour days go, I'm not sure about 12, but I work 10 hour days right now and am part time. I work 3 ten hour days. So you might be able to do something like that, if they need it... again, this really depends on the store and the department as well.

Insurance is not free, but it's not outrageously high either. I don't have it, but a friend of mine does and she says she only pays about 20 bucks a week for it (but that's in GA, what state are you in?)

Hope this helps.

Burned Out,

I live in GA also. I'm applying for either Baker or Cake Decorator because I have about 3yrs. experience in both. And on the website they say they are in need of those so hopefully I will get hired. I guess I'll take 10hrs. a day if that's all they'll give me. And $20 a week is pretty cheap, that's not bad at all. My husband use to work at a job where he had to pay like $90 a week for crappy insurance, so I definitely don't mind paying $20. Do you know if it's good insurance or if it's crappy? Thank's for you help.
Jennifer

Jennifer:

I have never heard of anyone complaining about the insurance, although I've never used it myself b/c I've always been under my parents, and now under my husband.

Are you in an area where there are several publix locations close together or are they kinda spread out? I know our bakery is almost always looking for help for some reason... so you should have pretty good luck with that. Just make sure to be noticed when you fill out your application- whomever is at customer service may have a copy of the manager schedule on hand so you can know when to try to catch the bakery manager, and even the store manager, and just tell them who you are and why you're introducing yourself. I know that sounds juvenile, but I quit for a couple of years in the middle of my time with publix and if I had not jumped on the chance to stop the store manager to make myself known my application may not have ever been noticed just b/c they have so many people applying... but once they have a good impression of you, you should have a pretty good shot.

Land O Lakes, your manager is a freak

Land O Lakes, hehehehe

I work in Wesley Chapel and my store is full of freak managers too!

Lets take the grocery manager! He is a 28 year old kid with an army brush-cut, who constantly chews tobacco and runs around with a box-cutter tucked in the back of his pants stickint out of the top.....

He loves to run up the front and start screaming "ALL FRONT SERVICE TO THE FRONT, ALL CASHIERS CHECK, ALL BAGGERS CHECK, ALL PART TIMERS GET SHOPPING CARTS!

The hilarious thing is he starts having his seizure before checking the schedule and seeing that all cashiers ARE AT THEIR REGISTERS! All he manages to do is stress everyone out!

He also loves to patrol the store chewing his cud trying to find someone not breaking a sweat. His main goal in life is to be asst. store manager and cares not about anyone under him.

A new Sweet Bay just opened one mile away, so the stress level is very high.

All our store manager does is hide in his office or stand in the front lumbering like a big oaf, while the asst. store manager likes to hang out in the deli making subs.

Very loose store with job class training a joke.

As for the big publix BOGO strategy, everyone is now doing it, Publix better watch out! I always hear about customers shopping at the new Sweet Bay stores, Walmart, etc.....

One long time customer said he just comes in for sales and nothing else. He says Publix has become TOO PROUD of their items, in terms of pricing.

Its a real sad day for a company when their own employees cannot afford to shop at the store that they work at.

Who can afford a decent cut of meat for 8.99/lb ON SALE when they have worked for 3 years and make 8.00 and hour?

Why pay 5.99/lb for SLICED AMERICAN CHEESE at the deli, when 3 miles away it can be bought at Target for 2.00/lb less?

Why can't Publix give their employees a discount for supporting the store that they work at with their food purchases? GREEDY PUBLIX! Even Wal-Mart gives their employees 10% off!

I guess you have to be a manager to afford to shop at Pubix, and to be a manager you have to be involved with the politics instead of working!

What about Mr. George? WHAT WOULD HE THINK? Would he allow slighly bruised fruit to be thrown away, while his employees can afford a decent food shopping? Now adays you can get FIRED for taking food out of the garbage!

If you ask me Publix needs a WAKE UP CALL from the UNIONS! Something has got to give!

whats up everybody im a gtl for publix. does anybody know about store openings in knoxvill, tenn. let me know thanks

poor@publix

bro you have to remember we are part owner and 10% discuont will have us losing money. just think there are 864 stores or so times how many employees or should i say owner why would you want to lose money. the more discounts for us the less the inventory bounus is. the less are stockes are. the less times they can spilt.(by the way a couple of days till the split thank good) anyway if we had a discount program we might not be were we are today. i dont know about your store but were im at there is always food thats about to go out of date in are break room.

thanks for your time

poor@publix

bro you have to remember we are part owner and 10% discuont will have us losing money. just think there are 864 stores or so times how many employees or should i say owner why would you want to lose money. the more discounts for us the less the inventory bounus is. the less are stockes are. the less times they can spilt.(by the way a couple of days till the split thank good) anyway if we had a discount program we might not be were we are today. i dont know about your store but were im at there is always food thats about to go out of date in are break room.

thanks for your time

Listen here, *BRO*

You either have no clue or are just another brainwashed idiot!

Are you not aware that about 1/2 of the employees CAN NOT AFFORD TO SHOP AT PUBLIX?

LESSEE, SIMPLE MATH FOR YOU.....

EMPLOYEES: 100K PLUS
SHOPPING AT PUBLIX: 75k OVER-ESTIMATED!
AVERAGE FOOD BILL PER WEEK: 100.00

PUBLIX PROFIT LOSS = 750K (thats thousands)

NOW! WITH 10% DISCOUNT

100k SHOP:

ADDITIONAL REVENUE: 2.5 MILLION PER WEEK
DISCOUNT: 1.0 MILLION PER WEEK

ADDITIONAL GROSS REVENUE: 1.5 MILLION PER WEEK

At Publix OUTRAGEOUS MARGINS, the discount would be eaten up by the additional revenue!

LETS ASSUME the 500.00 shopping discount comes out of the inventory bonus, WHICH I SUSPECT less than 100.00 would. YOU ARE STILL AHEAD!

NOW lets assume the FAT MANAGERS DONT GET THE DISCOUNT, JUST THE POOR ASSOCIATES, NOW PUBLIX MAKES MORE MONEY........

AND CAN FEEL GOOD ABOUT THEIR OWN EMPLOYEES SHOPPING AT PUBLIX INSTEAD OF WAL-MART OR TARGET!

And heres another feature, HOW ABOUT Publix selling dented merchandise and close dates to EMPLOYEES, instead DONATING FOR A TAX BREAK to the food banks?

WHY CANT PUBLIX HELP FEED THEIR OWN NEEDY EMPLOYEES? WOULD THEY RATHER THEIR EMPLOYEES GO THE THE FOOD BANK FOR FREE FOOS INSTEAD?

IF THEY SOLD AT COST TO EMPLOYEES THEY WOULD MAKE MULTI MILLIONS!

PUBLIX IS MORE INTERESTED IN BEING A GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD CITIZEN THEN FEEDING THEIR OWN EMPLOYEES!

POOR MR GEORGE IS ROLLING IN HIS GRAVE WATCHING THIS ALL UN FOLD!

Hello!

I am wondering if it truly takes years to become a driver for Publix? I have a hard time wrapping my mind around this since drivers need to remain in expreience to get a driving job. It would really have to be worth the wiat of working in the warehouse for little pay??? Any info. or advice would be appreciated :) Thanks!

PPP and burned out are my new heroes.

I have a question for, well, everyone.

I've worked for publix for 3 straight months as a front-service clerk (90days for sure).I started 3 months ago in April. It's now the middle of July and I have yet to even hear about an evaluation, possible raise too =). Even with the new policy, every new employee gets their review after 90 days. I talked to my team leader and Department Manager, who proceeded to tell me that "oh, it's every 6 months", which is not true for new employees. It was said that the corporate office would send the info down to the store and they would follow suit then.

Question: WHAT SHOULD I DO? Everyone else had their reviews either on time or even BEFORE their period was up. Am i being bamboozled?...Should i quit?

Let me guess

Your CSTL is a spanish girl, promoted to fill a quota and your manager is a fat white woman also promoted to fill a quota and of fear of another lawsuit for discrimination.

Publix managers are for the most part AMATEURS!

Have you even been job class trained yet? If not I'm sure you were reported as such so as to not show up on a violation list.

Not to qorry, just keep double bagging paper, and doing 2+2.... oh yeah get them carts too.

You will retire a millionaire!

BWAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHA

HEY DAIRYFAGGOT

How can we bring in our lunch if we dont have a refridge or microwave?

My manager laughed when I asked and told me I neede to buy lunch at work to support the store and the stock price.

Too bad I have a family to raise and cant afford stock nor do I get the fat man manager bonus. I'm just one of the many soldier ants that make the fat man managers big salary possible.

Publix aint what It used to be! WE NEED A UNION! Screw them all and their management holier than thou attitudes.

Publix will get its due, our store sales are down and all the fat asses are crying thinking abou their reduced bonuses! I bet they will try and find a way to screw us out of our .25 raises.

Sweet bay is coming and it is beginning to show, as well at the Wal_Mart food stores.

Actually the cstl is white, the Store manager is a man. I'll look into a new job in one month if they haven't given me the same treatment as everyone else. Comments anyone? Advice? :please?

DAN

It is policy, (or at least good practice), that after 90 days you are off your probationary period. You should then be getting a handshake from the store manager, as well as a basic review, be it verbal or written.

It is clear your store is not following good practice.

Publix has some well run stores as well as some bad stores. Chances are you have a poorly run store, which seems to be the case more and more..... Everyone is out for themselves nowadays, then they wonder why there is such a high turnover.

Contact your HR rep, whos number should be in your break-room, or contact your store manager to inquire.

Best of luck to you, as standing up for yourself can be professional suicide.

Publix has surely changed for the worse since Mr. George died. His policies are not much more than a buzzword.... Few care anymore and as I said earlier most are just out for themselves.... sad but true.

Has anyone heard much about the new "Pay tied to Performance" program that went into effect on July 1st. Here is my understanding of it.

Publix has decided to divide the hourly pay scale into three categories: "Successful", "Superior", and "Role Model". Under the new program, everyone will still receive an evaluation every 6 months. However, when the total score of the evaluation is added up, it will determine whether or not you get a raise, or in some cases ,MAY ACTUALLY HAVE YOUR PAY DECREASED! For example, let's say you are a stockman, have consistently done a good job, gotten consistent raises, and are currently topped out at $12.75 . If you get two consecutive evaluations where you score in the "Superior" range instead of "Role Model", you will get a pay decrease of .25 per hour! If your next two evaluations are again "Superior" instead of "Role Model", you lose another .25 cents per hour. I'm not sure how high the score has to be to retain "Role Model" pay, but there definitely will be alot of people who will not score high enough and will see their pay decrease. IMHO, this will cause many long time, experienced employees to quit their jobs at Publix. I really wonder what percent of our employees at "top pay" will be able to retain their current pay level. It will also be interesting to see how many employees coming up the pay ladder will actually make it to "Role Model" pay. I don't know if this is being done as a motivation to get more employees to seek management positions, or if it is designed to help weed out problem employees who have managed to make it to top pay. So far, it seems that management likes this new program, but as you can imagine, hourly employees don't. The managers I've talked to say that this will allow them to deal with many long time employees that "aren't worth what they are being paid". IMO, many hard-working employees are going to get hurt by this.

ROFLMAO

PAY FOR PERFORMANCE, shouldnt this have been the norm all along?????

Just another sign of AMATEUR MANAGERS

A GREAT WAY TO INCREASE STORE MANAGER BONUS AS THEY ARE PAID ON THE BOTTOM LINE FOR THE STORE!

ROFLMAOOOOOOOOOOO HAHAHAHAHAHA

Why should a long-timer have been TOPPED OUT of they are losers anyways?

AMATEUR MANAGEMENT

PUBLIX WILL SOON BE 75% MINORITIES WHO WILL WORK FOR MINUMUM WAGE AND A GREEN CARD....

HEY MR GEORGE
WADDYA THINK?
WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

DO YOU THINK YOUR LITTLE BOY IS OWED HIS 50 MILLION HE PAID TO A TAX CONSULTANT TO TRY AND GET HIM A TAX SHELTER?

BWAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA

PUBLIX
WHERE BEING ON WELFARE IS A PLEASURE

SOWWY

LITTLE BABY JENKINS ONLY LOST 15 MIL

BUT WHATS A FEW MIL AMONGST FRIENDS????

http://www.tbo.com/news/money/MGBH1XDZ0NE.html

15 mill, for advice?:

Here's mine: "Umm, pay the damn taxes - you have enough money, Howard!"

To answer the driving question, Yes, it does take years to become a Publix driver unless you move to where a new warehouse is opening up. Then they seem to move out quicker.

My husband worked in Lakeland for more than 10 years and did not become a driver until he transferred to Orlando. His friend that stayed in lakeland was still in the warehouse until he had more than 15 years with the company.

So, i just got my pay evaluation today...

It was 20 days late. My buddy who used to work at publix claimed a 50 cent raise if you do your job. I did my job, i think. Whenever the cstl asked me to stay late because the PM clean didn't show up, I would amicably agree to help. Repeat many times this situation. How oh How is it possible that i got less than 9/9 on my FLEXIBILITY evaluation factor? I'm fully available during the week. How am i not fully flexible? Do i need to be a contortionist to get a higher ranking?

When other FS associates were hot and tired, I would tell the people up front that i was taking their cart duties. Nobody else has done this that I know of. I always compact the garbage I have instead of leaving it for someone else. I don't come to work with a bad attitude. It's unprofessional to do so. I save all the bad feelings for blogs =).

I know for a fact that the 25 cent raise i got is not the norm for the "successful" category. I know that other associates get 50 cents. There were no bad remarks on my evaluation. NO BAD ANYTHING! I personally made it my mission to do better than others: attitude, reliability, quality (just LOOK at the bathrooms after I"VE done them!), not to mention timeliness. This other kid calls in every saturday. HOW DOES HE STILL HAVE A JOB!? I've always made sure i have the proper attire and whatever else there is to think of.

My question for all people (including other managers) is this:

WHAT THE HECK AM I DOING WRONG!? IS INITIATIVE, ATTITUDE, FRIENDLINESS, QUALITY, AND ALL THAT GOOD STUFF WRONG?

I KNOW THIS WHOLE DON'T TALK ABOUT MONEY THING IS AN ISSUE, BUT COME ON. I'M NOT GOING TO BE SOMEONE'S CORPORATE SLAVE SO THAT THEY CAN GET A DOUBLE WHAMMY: SAVE MONEY WHILE GETTING EXTRA SERVICE.

I appreciate everyone who helped me on this blog. I have no idea what to do next: talk to my manager, quit, change stores, change departments, or whatever.

It sucks to be put in a class of people my age (college student) who are unreliable twerps that are paid more.

For the hardest work I could possibly provide, I was awarded the modicum advancement.

What on earth is going on here?
Any advice is appreciated x)

MR GEORGE IS DEAD

WELCOME TO THE NEW PUBLIX

WHERE SELF SERVING MANAGEMENT
AND USING HOURLY EMPLOYEES
IS NOT ONLY A PLEASURE
FOR THEIR BENEFIT
IS THE NORM

KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK
YOU WILL RETIRE AS
A MILLIONAIRE

HAHAHAHAHA

bob danonymous, who is your District Manager? I would suggest you first talk to your Store Manager and then, if you don't get the answer you want, talk to you DM. I had the same issue after I only got a 10 cent raise. Manager said he didn't want me getting to Role Model to fast. I talked to my SM one day and my DM the next and on my next check my pay was bumped up another 55 cents for a 65 cent raise.

There isn't much mention of Publix I/S jobs here..

I started working for Publix I/S about 2 years ago. I had only heard good things about Publix so I jumped on the opportunity.

I had to take a 7,000 pay cut because they hadn't adjusted pay scales in 2 years. I was told pay scales were in the process of being adjusted and as long as I met my position expections I would be brought back to my former pay level.
Long story short my performance reviews were well above average, pay scales were raised 10% for my position, but I didn't see anything but the standard 4% a year raise. I found out that performance reviews stopped being tied to compensation around 9/11/2001.

I get the same 4% a year raise as the everyone regardless of how hard I work. What kind of message is that sending out?

I did get a promotion. Lateral... no pay increase... I shit you not :)

Needless to say my family has really struggled as the cost of living has skyrocketed (along with Publix profits) and my pay hasn't.

Word is spreading around the Florida IT world that Publix pays 10k-20k below industry averages and doesn't compensate for good performance. Good people are leaving for better paying jobs and management doesn't seem to care. Hopefully they will realize this before it's too late.

Greetings all Publix People with discontent. If you want take on real Publix managers and other such ninny's on their own turf, you can do so at

http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=PUSH

Just sign in and post away, the Big Shots and the Lakeland Ledger reads this board.. Be prepared for being told you are lazy and that we are Publix millionaires.

Publix Slaves, Unite!!!!!!

http://www.myspace.com/peoplepersecutingpublix

Well, it's no luck with managers. Every other FS clerk that started with me in mid-april makes 25 cents more than me. These are the same people that come out of nowhere when they call all package help to the front. Where the heck were they? I don't know. Why are these lazy retards making more than myself? I don't know.

All I know is that Publix does not value initiative as much as I do. I'm switching stores soon. I refuse to take this sitting down. It is best not to stress, but it is good to change that which is bad.

My thanks to all those who helped me.
If any managers/assistant managers are reading this, then poo upon you if you've done this to someone.

Good day,

Short man out.

BOB

YOU HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD!!!!

PUBLIX GETS FED MONEY FIR HIRING RETARDS!

SEE FOR YOURSELF!

YOU ARE A WHITE, FULLY FUNCTIONING, NON VET MALE

YOU ARE AT A DISADVANTAGE!

WELCOME TO PUBLIX

WHERE BEING A MINORITY OR "DECK SHORT A CARD"
IS THE ADVANTAGE!

Frozen clerk:

Your manager said he didn't want you to get to role model too fast? A .10 raise? Too bad you didn't have that documented, as that would be cause for legal inquiry. Sounds like your manager was TRYING to discriminate against you.

Now you had to talk to your store manager and then your DM to get a fair raise? What a hoot!

Just an indicator of the negative changes at Publix. I guess the work is that the squeaky wheel, (not hard work) gets the grease.....

You probabally managed to shave 10.00 off the store managers bonus as well.

Cover your back, because you may get backlash for speaking up for yourself. I know many people who have been discouraged and quit due to these type of games with unprofessional and primadonna management.

The thing that will hurt Publix long term is not only the loss of good labor, but the "secret sharing" that they will give to their new employers.

What is secert sharing?

FROZEN CLERK

In addition to getting you .55 increase, YOU MADE YOUR GROCERY MANAGER LOOK LIKE A FOOL!!!! CONGRATS!

BUT LIKE HE SAID WATCH YOUR BACK! The AMATEUR MANAGER may be watching for you to be late or some nonsence to write you up and justify his action....

SECRET SHARING? PERFECTLY LEGAL, NO NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT SIGNED AT HIRING!

Why are you people complaining? According to Fortune the most common job at Publix pays in excess of $11.00 per hour.. Top rate is like $17 an hour.. Am I supposed to believe you stupid people or Publix?

Publix holds out the brass ring, some are strong enough to reach it, and some are not strong at all, they make there own lot in this life they are weak, Thats why publix is Great they have long term strong People, don't believe these People here they don't know what their talking about

OK TO ANSWER THE LAST 2 TARDS WHO POSTED MIS-INFORMATION:

TO I_LOVE_PUBLIX Where do you gt your info?
HAHAHAHA I know quite a few cashiers with 5 PLUS years (cashier is the most COMMON JOB), and they are making about 9.00 an hour! Their max pay is around 11.00.

The HIGHEST PAYING HOURLY JOB is MEAT-CUTTER, tops out approx 14.50/hr. AVERAGE PAY IN STORE is 9.00. FACT

and for LOL

BRASS RING?

Yeah they hold it ou, just like the RETIREMENT CARROT.

PUBLIX RELIES ON WEAK EMPLOYEES, MINDLESS, TO SCARED AND WEAK TO LEAVE..... BRAINWASHED, POOR, STUCK ON THE BENEFIT CARROT.

GET REAL, SCHMUCK! Not everyone has to go home smelling like a deli sammich or covered in dead animal blood to make a living, nor do they have to unload trucks like day labor!

LOL

I HAVE LOL EVER SINCE I LEFT!

like i said, you have to be strong, apparently your not,i have been 20 years with publix, alot of the things you say are not true or real,why does publix haunt you so much, i wonder where you work now,your nasty calling names and such publix is the winner here, you don't work there anymore ,

LOL

Congrats on your 20 years

I made 17 then left in disgust. I have over 25k shares of Publix stock in my retirement and about 3k in my 401k.

Why did I leave?

I left because Publix cares more about profits than their associates. I got tired of holding back some of my "boys" because of the constant need to fill quotas with women and minoroties,
even if performance and attendance were not within spec. I was too many numbers fudged,
and too many of my guys over-worked as the monorities were given preference!

You know as well as I the tax credits we get for minority hiring and promotions.

I am now woring for a smaller company that is just as healthy as Publix without all of the corporate FAT, where anyone can speak as they wish without fear of repercussions.

Just hired a manager off the street, another ex-Publix guy and he is over-performing and is amazed at how well he is treated compared to Publix.

You may say you have to be strong to stay 20 years, I SAY you need to have horse blinders on not to see what else is out there!

Tell it like it is at least!

IPLH will KILL Publix, or at least it was raising havoc with morale when I left.

Oh and BTW I was as asst. store manager when I walked out the door, grown and raised the GREEN WAY. I will admit my time with Publix did help me to land the great position I have now.

Best of luck and I will always send my wife in for the BOGO sales, haha

they are mandated my the courts, stemming from the class action law suits, to maintain quotas,just tell me where you make 58,000 , doing the same work, i,e, retail food mgr, i have check out walmart, target, and other food retailers, i just don't see it. where ever you work there will be bad eggs, thats the way the world is made up, good and bad, we make the choice, if you are content why do you bash Publix, did they do something to you?

You talking to me?

I was making approx 82k when I walked as asst. store manager. As a matter of fact I was on the finalist list to get my own store then decided it wasn't worth the extra 30k.

I didn't want to pay up to the dog an pony shop up the DM's arse parade. I've seen 2 store managers go down by stroke and heart attack over the stress and the constant competition to meet goals between stores.... all childs play

When I told them I didn't want a store they turned on me and relocated me 20 miles further from my house to a lower volume store to cut my bonuses.....

Now I'm a DM of a chain of gas stations, make just under 100, company car, and dont have half of the BS.

hi - Question for anyone who knows about this. Is it realistic for a deli manager to start out at 60,000 at publix?? Ive read that assistant deli managers start around 42,000. My husband has 2 almost 3 yrs experience as deli manager. He knows how to cut meat, and he also runs the kitchen and bakery when ppl go on vacation/need help. Were planning on a move to Fl from RI - anywhere within 1 hr of Tampa. Trying to fiqure out what his starting pay would be around. Ive asked on here a couple times b4 but still havent gotten an answer. Any help would be appreciated!

Patty,
Publix does not pay for exeprience, your husband has to start at the bottom which is currently part time @ .25 over minimun wage.. If your husband is lucky he can afford to sleep in his car the first few years while he proves himself. If he is willing to work hard, maybe off the clock once in awhile he could make it well here.
If not, I would stay in Rhode Island..

I hope this was helpful..

If your husband is lucky he MAY start @8.00/hr.

Being a white male he MAY be promoted to a ASST deli manager in 2-3 years making approx 35k.

Publix NEVER hires managers off the street.

ON THE ABOVE

IF YOUR HUBBY CAN PROVE HE IS MENTAL OR IS BLACK.... EVEN IF HE CAN LOP OFF A LEG OR BE A DRUG ADDICT REFORMED

HE WILL START @10.00 AND BE PROMOTED IN 6 MONTHS.

PUBLIX NEEDS GOOD MINORITY FACES TO PUT ON THEIR POSTERS AND PARADE TO THE DIVERSE GROUPS.

WHITE MALES ARE A DIME A DOZEN AND DO NOT GET ANY FEDERAL AID OR HELP THE LAWYERS OUT

ok so you mean that my husband would have to go from a deli manager in RI to a bagger or something at publix???? Making between 7-8 dollars a hour? Are you joking!!??? Has anyone heard anything about sweetbay?? Are they any good to work for? Hows the salary? Can anyone give me some more supermarket names in Tampa area of Fl? Thanks for all your help were in RI so its hard to do research!

Believe it or not Publix is the best of them all.

There is not one way that a yankee is going to come down and walk into a management job with the good ole boy networks down here.

Better off to stay at Stop+Shop or Edwards, Shaws, whatever is there.... I know Almacs closed years ago....

Ever get to Providence? Go to TWINS PIZZA on MINERAL SPRING AVE and say hi to the DEL RICCIS

hehehehehehhehehehehe

Missing the DELS LEMONADE TRUCK

go to publix.com and look at careers. publix is presently hiring for asst bakery and asst deli managers with experience. start pay is approx 42k.
hope this helps.

Don't pay attention to anything on Publix.com as it is all a facade. Nobody makes $42 off the streets. If Publix was that generous do you really think the stock would grow by leaps and bounds? Publix is for most a temporary low paying job, that is the secret of our success. I ought to know as I have a periennial help wanted sign in front of my store and more than my fair share of arguments w/corporate about the pityful compensation factor.

they are hard up for bakery, asst meat and deli, they will hire off the streets with experiance

You are FULL OF SPEWAGE "what kind of mgr".

We had a deli manager from NY get hired and was hired as a deli associate.

How can they hire off the street a manager who is not even job class trained as a regular grunt?

Our asst. grocery manager who was STORE MANAGER at a large store in WI was hired as a stock clerk? 6 months later was a GTL, but NEVER have I heard of off the street as an asst. manager.

They actually HATE previous experience! THey would rather hire a kid who knows NOTHING, teach him the GREEN WAY, then promote!

They need to INDOCTRINATE into PUBLIX PROPAGANDA and make sure BRAINWASHED before giving them grunts....

They are hard up for asst. managers cause they PAY DIRT WAGES, and the asst. does ALL THE WORK, while the manager COUNTS THE BEANS AND IPLH.

Lapper & Publix Grunt

You both sound like losers to me. Lapper is a whiney has been and Grunt is a racist pig supposedly studying to be an ambulance chaser who needs his dead daddy to leave him stock..

Yes, We have a clown that does nothing but put the company down while he collects college reimbursment credits to go to school and sucks off the company stock of his father. Anyone see anything wrong with this picture? Just another spoiled loud mouthed kid who has to act out online because he can't take criticism from a minority superior. Your attitude is going to get you into some serious trouble someday. Maybe you can get a job after school defending loser skinheads brought up for killing their mothers.

notice the stocks are under his daddys name. This alone tells you, how much he trusts his own son.your dad may say that those stocks are yours but at the end of the day they belong to daddy! yes keep studying law for they are a dime a dozen. Most of us will be shocked if you ever make a 6 figure salary. Let alone amount to anything of worth.

I have deleted a number of the recent comments that contained some derogatory language and sexual slurs.

Let's try to keep it civil here folks.

Hello,

Anyone work in the bakery at Publix? I live up north and my mom fell in love with the coconut cookies from Publix on a visit to Florida. (I think they're called crazy something, no chocolate in them.) Anyway, I'd love to make these cookies for her upcoming 75th birthday and was hoping someone would pass along the recipe.

Hello,

Anyone work in the bakery at Publix? I live up north and my mom fell in love with the coconut cookies from Publix on a visit to Florida. (I think they're called crazy something, no chocolate in them.) Anyway, I'd love to make these cookies for her upcoming 75th birthday and was hoping someone would pass along the recipe.

I kinda like working at Publix really.. Pays better the min. wage, at my store anyway, I get along with most of the people around me, and im really quiet. I just started being a Leveler today, Was a casheir before.Everyone was real helpful and nice, and we didnt get out to late, so my night went alright. I'm sad though,I am a part time person, but i'll be a year working there in febuary..but thats when i'm moving..and there isnt a publix where im going, so i feel i finally got to a year...benifit and stock time!...But i cant have them. That sucks =/. Does anyone know, if I leave publix, then come back again..Do i have to wait another year?

I worked for publix thinking it was a good job while going to school. man i was wrong.. I started as a bagger. oh joy 6 an hour. the pay was low but i was 17 and needed a job.. then after 3 years of hard work i only got a raise up to 8 dollars an hour. as a cashier.. I beg them for full time to get all the benifits but never happend i was never late.. and was very flexable. I just got fed up with PUblix they treat you badly.. then I got a job at Whole foods Market. what a change. for the better. I started as a chasier. 9 an hour. then after 3 months my health insurance was free and with a debt card with 1.800 paid a year for any out of pocket medical expenses. wow nice. then every month you get a paid out bonus. it could not get any better mind you i am a casher.. then after one year i got a raise. 11 dollars an hour. i could not belive it.. i hardly doo work. the cap is 14 an hour. for cashier.. now i been there 3 years and i make 13.75 and they treat me with great respect. and plus a 800 dollar bonus check on top of that every month. so its nice. for a job with out a degree. no wonder its number 13 out of the best jobs to work for. PUBLIX sucks get out of there and do organic. WHOLE FOODS IS MUCH BETTER>

I work at publix, and it is the worst place I worked at. Screw the top 100 company! They are the no 1 worst. I am a bagger, and wanted to be cashier. They said no, and gave 500 excuses even though I slave off for them. Managment thinks they know it all and that their the supreme master of the domain. I got suspended and written up for talking to myself. I was talking to myself and they thought I was on the phone. They accused me of lying. They wrote me up. I have phone records to prove them m------ers wrong. I work also with old people. A lot of them. Don't get me wrong. Old people can be nice. But these old people stink. Publix SUCKS!

I hate hearing all this bitching and complaining all of the time. I work for Publix, I'm CSTL (Customer Service Team Leader). I really don;t think anyone takes any responsibility for any of their actions anymore. If you don't like your job, leave. The manager are not out to get you. Most of them are fair. What you need to realize is that your people skills will get you places in life.

CSTL,
Honey, there is more to publix than people skills, any bubbleheaded blonde can say yes sir no ma'am, how was your golf game? In my experience the people skilled lack severely in muscle work needed to serve the customer. I have refused to give raises to my front end help who lack at pitching in when business is slow.

You know all this bashing of Publix on how they treat their associates is BS. Yes it does happen at some stores,but thats reality. It happens at any kind of business unluckily. As for these employees bitching about them getting "yelled at" for not takin out an order- I'm sure there is two sides to this story, Are you actually trying to take care of that customer atleast or not? If not, then get the fuck over it and get another job. But if you honestly have that drive to take care of 99 percent of the customers, then management needs to take another look before they "yell at you". ...One more thing- Publix in general has alot of great benefits. Insurance,401k,stock (Climbing every quarter!),car discounts from all major manufacturers,cell phone discounts,etc... For me I've been working for the company for almost 12 years - I started when I was 15- I never expected to stay here after college. But you know what I did- Why? The pay is alot better (managment), I already had my foot in the door, and I like the people and the environment in general. Yes I have my bad days, but who doesn't?!? So for those people that bash Publix and its associates.. Either get your facts right or shut the fuck up and quit.

HEY EDDIE

WIPE THAT KFC GREASE OFF YOU HANDS BOY

WATTERMELLONS ON SALE @WINN DIXIE

PS

CLEAN UP YO PIEHOLE BOY

BEFO I TELLS YO MOMMA

poor Quality watermelons,a little old,, Publix melons move faster, I wonder Why?

I got $4,000 off of my new car, I wipped out my Publix employee car discount card and walla, $4 big ones dissappeared from my bill of sale. My wife got $5,000 of of her car with card.. We also got a discount on Disney Cruise lines with our Publix employee benefit.. Don't knock the Big P until you tried it.. Word has it that corporate is working on giving all employees and their immediate families 15% off their shopping bill with a few minor catches..

Go Pubix we love you..

I work as a cashier in Florida. While I love the company, I do not love our management.

At my store, alot of us cashiers work hard. We level the store, bag when we are short handed (which is almost always), clean, and do everything we can to stay busy during slow times.

Pesonally, I have been working 38 hours per week for the longest time now, up until a month ago. One week the store manager made me work 44 and only gave me one day off.
I'm part time, and yet when I ask for full time, they say they can't give it to me.

Since last year, we have gotten a new store manager, a new store assistant manager, and a new customer service assistant manager.

Since the new management, our evals haven't been fair. I know someone, we call "mom" who has worked here for over 5 years, and does everything she can to be efficent, and is a favorite of the customers.

Our new Customer Service assistant manager has given her two bad evaluations in the past year, taking 25 cents away from her each time.
She doesn't derserve this, now shes leaving. She can't afford to lose any more money.

Alot of us feel that the managment isn't paying enough attention. Alot of people are leaving my store. In fact, there are only 6 original people from 3 years ago when I started at the front end, other than the office staff who gets treating like royalty, no matter what they do.

People slack off, yet its not being noticed. But the hard workers aren't being noticed either. We're being treated the same as the slackers, and its not fair. I'm really starting to think at this point, I should just transfer to another store.

At least our customers notice how good we are though... its the only thing keeping me smiling everyday when I have to go to work now.

Even the customers keep saying, "This store just isn't the same, it used to be so much better." and they are right.

I really don't want to leave my store, but I'm miserable going to work now, when I used to love going everyday.

I just wanted to say also.. regardless of my store, Publix is still a great place to work. I love my customers, and they love Publix.

One of the keys to profitability is to have the fewest number of employees at 5+ years.

That is less pension to pay, and after someone quits after 3-4 years we can hire FRESH MEAT at a lower wage!

Makes sense! Less pension payouts, less 401 contributions, lower wages for new employees.

=

FAT MANAGER PROFIT AND PENSION!

Fat Manager:

What you are forgeting is that customers come back because of our wonderful customer service. They have favorite employees, and when one leaves the grow upset ("Wheres Tom??").

Older employees are more loyal to the company, and care about making the company better. They donate more to United way, and they are harder workers. That makes the store more profitable. Plus, you know they are relible.

Why is this not more important?

YESEREE R

OLD FOLK WORKERS never get into the 401k, they never want to be full time, and 1/3 die before they get 5 years. They also never beg for a raise!

I'll take 1 OLD MAN over 5 that want to be long timers! PLUS many of the OLD don't use the health insurance benefits either!

My fat wife wants a new HUMMER, so I need to get confused gymps to work for squat to increas emy stores profits = BIGGER BONUS!

LET EM ALL BLEED GREEN FOR ME

Fat Manager:

The company will fall with people like you running it. You are a disgrace to Publix.

R

Sorry you don't think like a businessman, but you don't have to. Your job is to give encouragement so the herd stays the course.

BUSINESS CAN HAVE NO HEART

Business is business and is what IT IS to make PROFIT. Publix ix no charity by any means and every penny given is designed to foster INCREASED SALES AND PRODUCTIVITY.

You just haven't figured it out, and again there is no need to try and educate you.

Take one example

To become a truck driver, any potentials need to work in the warehouse and shipping dock for years. 95% quit within 2-3 years... PERFECCT!

We get a constant flow of cheap dock workers working hazardous duty with relish and vigor until they figure out it will be a long time before they get to drive.... It's called labor churning and it works well.

Mabye now you can figure out the rest.

Are you a manager? If so I hope you are a good "herder", because your bonus depends on how well you can train and control.

Fat manager, would you screw over a really hard worker, a person who has been there for years and goes beyond the call of duty.. for your own profit?

I can understand firing/or driving a long time slacker out of the company, but what about the people that do care about the company, and want to make it better?

Yes.. it may be more profitable to hire some teenager at minimum wage, or an old person, but doesn't this also lower productivity in the store?

Take a cashier that has been at the company for over 10 years. Their scan rate is much higher than that of a new trainee, and they bring in thousends of more dollars a day.
They know every code, every customer, and their drawer is always perfect.

Fat manager:

No, I am not a manager. I hope to be one someday, if I'm not driven out of the company by someone like you first.

I do everything I can to make my store better. I have a high scan speed, I am the fastest cashier in my store. I have driven myself to learn everything about the front end.
I stay late if they need help, and if someone in the closing crew calls off such as a bagger, I do their job.

I'm always driving myself to learn more, and do more, even though I'm being paid just above minimum wage, because its my job.

I think people like me are good for the company, they deserve benefits.

I took a job with publix almost 2 years ago, I was told it was a great place to work with great benefits, however the first few weeks all I heard was some manager treating me like some child to the point that one morning I came into work 7 am and all hell was breaking loose. This assistant manager took liberty to start on me right away and lets face it I am not a morning person, I am a adult and not accustomed to being treated like a child. I put my hand up like a traffic cop and looked at this manager and told her that all complaints go to the complaint department and that the complaint department was closed until 10 am. I also informed her that I do not get out of bed early to come into work to have some woman who has nothing better to do than ride my behind. I told her and the assistant store manager that if this is what I had to put up with first thing in the morning then they did not need to schedule me before 10 am. My schedule changed and that was the end of my getting up early and walking through those doors. One thing I notice is they don't even allow for a beverage break and as hard as they work you in one hour sweat is dripping off my face. The only way to stop this is to get cool liquids into me and when you go for refreshments you are frowned upon and there is always someone there to say something about it. I stood my ground and started giving them back what they were dishing out and guess what happened? Right they stopped trying to push me around. I have a feeling they are going to fire me soon based on an adult business I have. Problem is I told my manager about this site over a year ago but it's an issue now due to one of my competitors filing a complaint with my store manager. As it stands right now I am waiting to hear from corporate about this and without doubt from what I have been reading on the net about others getting fired from publix they have my head on the chopping block ready for their ax. I will post a follow up as soon as that ax comes down on my head which without doubt is whats about to take place. What I want to know is this was never a secret and my manager and assistant managers know as well as other in management within my store and the only reason this is an issue at this point is because one of my competitors came in and gave images of me to my manager who in turn told me they were not that offensive. The most that these images show are my bare back side and you see more than that on daytime tv. So now I get to sit back and wait for a bunch of men at the top of the publix ladder to determine if they find my site and pics reason for termination which without doubt I am sure they will.

I won't go down without a fight because for over a year management has known about my website and adult business and I was asked to keep it quiet which was impossible because it was someone in management that blabbed it all over the store.

Yes I am a freak, I work for publix but perhaps not for long!

Its time for a union to give us the pay and working conditions we deserve. There are too many many Fat Managers running this company..

I work for win dixe and have just started back with them. I am hearing a lot of complaining from teenagers and to those who are overworked i feel sorry for and the misstreated. My problem is i am getting only 8 bucks an hr am 30, i work with younger people at night all they do is screw off and hardly nothing. If i had my way i would fire half the damn crew at late evening. Btw i have a soon to be 22 yr old in my area , produce he thinks he is a pimp daddy i guess. he gets like 10.63 an hr and still bitches he has been there for 6 yrs. Boo hoo. Younger people are a joke today self centered bastards for most part. And yes as far as managers go we have our sorry asses too. Anyway only way to defeat this measure for me to go back to college . I am thank God. well young people have fun and remember you want more you gotta go get it ,school!!!!!

It pisses me off that it seems like men get paid more than women. I just got raised up to 7.75 an hour, and I've been there for three years! I work my butt off, and I know everything about being a cashier.. all the codes and everything. Yet I find out a bag boy who has been there for way shorter of a time than me and slacks off is making 8 bucks or more an hour. WTF?

Sometimes I Hate working for publix ! I have Ben waiting for My Promotion Now For almost 2 years Now . I Have ben working my But Of For Publix . No Calling in Sick , Hardly asking for Days off . Come In Early wen My Manager calls me at Home, stay late because my co workers don't want to work as a team . Run the deli wen both of my managers take the same day off . Set Up The deli by my self, wen my other so called team mate calls out sick , because the thinks he needs a 3 days off this week . I put 40 to 45 hours in ! So I Finally Made on the promotion list , almost 3 month ago !!!! Still waiting for Assistant Deli Manager . And I did NOT get a Pay raise in almost a year , mind ya'll i ONLY get paid 11 an hour . So I do think sometimes the heck with publix , the benefits are sometimes NO reward for the things you do sometimes . And I i am very Disappointed at Publix , at my Store Manager and my Deli Manager Because the Don't see what's going on ! And IF i ever Find out that the hire someone of the street for Ass. Deli Manager in MY district I Will Hire a Lawyer !!! Nuff said ! Sorry had to let of steam , I Just feel like sometimes Publix treats the hard workers UNFAIR ! Have a GREAT Day ya'll :)

Hey Guys,

I'm a 19 year old, been working for publix for 3 years. Now what I don't understand about baggers and stuff whining on here is, why the hell don't you move up? I started as a bagger, then went to cashier, and now I'm fron/back office staff and I am planning on ROI-ing for an FEC position. It's so easy to move up, just work your ass off as a bagger and let the management see your work ethic. From there just make sure you let your immediate manager know that you are interested in higher positions and keep on him/her about it. You MUST be persistent. I have had my share of bad days at work but overall I love working at Publix and I wouldn't be surprised if I were still here 10 years from now. So if you hate your bagging position just keep at it, only good can come from it.

Happy Carzy Publix Thanksgiving ,ya'll !! :)

I just quit my job with Publix after 1 1/2 years as an Aprons Simple Meals clerk. I loved the job and my customers, and felt our store was a cut above some of the others with great customer service-oriented employees. Although I wanted only part-time work (retired from Delta after 26 years), I felt I always went the extra mile, and brought to the job the same strong work ethic that had earned me awards at Delta. Up until my pay-for-performance evaluation this month, I was told that I was doing a great job, and had no reason to believe otherwise. Half way through my recent evaluation, I felt that lightning had just hit me. Although there was nothing negative written, I felt the whole number system had been "played with" to avoid giving me a 25 cent raise. No verbal "thanks for all your hard work." No mention of the two consecutive weeks when Aprons exceeded their goals (first time in the store's history). And this was the first time I was told by a manager that I should be doing more cookings during my shift. In my previous job, if something needed improving, it was mentioned before an evaluation so that an effort could be made to improve. An example of what an Aprons "role model" would be? To help out in the deli when Aprons was "slow." (When I pointed out that I had no deli training, she referred to running to get them supplies as an example of role model behavior. Hmmm. She just told me to do more cookings,implying staying at my station.)

Leaving the performance evaluation, I was shaking with anger, and knew I couldn't continue in a job where my efforts were so undervalued. Although I would have liked to have given Publix two weeks notice, I didn't feel they deserved it, and quit by phone the next day. With that one phone call, I threw out my newly earned Publix health benefits, and Publix lost one of their best employees. I will truly miss my "regular" customers who often told me they came to our store because of me, and some of the great employees I worked with. When I simmer down a bit more, I'll write to Publix headquarters, because I think their new pay-for-performance system can be easily misused (abused), and can cause them to lose good people rather than keep them.

Don't bother writing, most extra earnings are the property of the stockholders, the owners of the company. If they paid you what you are truly worth along with everyone else, their wouldn't be so many millionairs. So go work for Wal mart.

I have been at Publix for 19 years. I have heard all the complaints about poor management and everyone has favorites etc. I have heard how an associate feels "they are the best we ever had" and its all a bunch of bull. If you work hard and do your job you succeed. SIMPLE as THAT!! No manager will bust you for doing your job. Your will not get a poor performance eval if you are doing your job. If there is something wrong ASK. Do you think that because we are managers we are mindreaders? We have to "manage" all the associates, all the unhappy customers (Usually due to a problem with our associates) all the products, all the paper work, all the gross and net issues, IPLH, the counts with SIMS, Steri tech, Health dept., and then fill in when we don't have enough help because someone called in or didn't bother to show up!!! Sometimes associates need to remember that managers are people too and need to understand that we dont always know whats going on if you don't tell us. How can we fix a problem if we don't know about it? In all our training they never mentioned crystal balls or a way to mind read, so give us a break and help out. All we really want to do is take care of our customers, our associates and our retirement. And I am not saying there aren't bad managers out there, but just like with the associates, the good does outweigh the bad. As a manager I would do anything to help my associates.
To all the negatives out there....NO ONE came and knocked on your door and asked you to work at Publix, you applied. So if you are unhappy, change your enviornment. My grandmother once told me...The world doesn't owe you anything, it was here first.

wondering, what the application looks like for publix??? I just watched a grown man take 25 minutes to make my sub @ the deli. If u are working at publix be glad to have a job, cause no other business would hire a retard like the ones i have seen there.

My name is David Ellis and I worked at store #531 for almost 8 years. My entire tenure was spent at #531 as a customer service staff member. I can only speak about my store in Greer, South Carolina and the district I was in. I do not regret my time with Publix but I am very happy to be out of there for good. While at Publix I put myself through college and graduate school and I now work as a librarian in Southern California. The people that work at Publix can probably understand why I’m so happy.

After reading the posts in here I’ve come to the conclusion that both the pro Publix people and the anti-Publix partisans have valid points. I’ll start with the pro Publix people. It is absolutely true that one can make a living, even a good living working at Publix. The benefits are good and the stock is a huge plus. There are good advancement opportunities for those willing to jump through the various hoops that are in place. All of these things are true, at least on the surface.

The stock is great but one has to work 5 continuous years before it becomes yours. There are advancement opportunities but it helps if you are male and you are white. In the almost 8 years I work at Publix I never saw a minority store manager or assistant store manager. I only know of one female assistant store manager. Maybe there are reasons for this I do not understand but the discrimination lawsuits filed against Publix seem credible to me.

As for a union. I’d love to see one at Publix but it will never happen. The associates at Publix deserve better representation than they currently receive. Associates are at the mercy of managers who play favorites. Associates have little if any recourse when conflicts arise. Management fears a union more than anything and they will fight tooth and nail to keep one out. Of course, there is little demand among the workers. Management keeps telling the associates how well they are being treated and associates by and large believe it. The best thing management has going for it is that associates are generally not well educated and unskilled. Most full time associates have little more than a high school education. Management does the thinking at Publix. The last thing management wants to see are workers organizing themselves. Anyway, it does not matter. It’ll never happen.

Good luck to the people working in management. 50+ work hours for the rest of your careers, it was not for me. Being at the mercy of my manager as to which days I would be off and finding out only a few days in advance was not for me. Enduring the political crap that went on was intolerable. I worked for three store managers while at Publix. The first one was truly a nice man but a poor manager. The second one was a very good manager but cared little for the people that worked under him. The third is close to incompetent and a jerk, quite a combination. I worked at the number one store in the district in terms of sales. How does a manager with marginal skills get to manage the top-grossing store? The answer to those that work at Publix is obvious – Politics. Our district manager promotes the people he likes and neglects the people he does not. I’d like to see somebody say this does not happen in David Blankenship’s district. Instead of going to college I almost went into management for Publix. I can only thanks Dave for being the person and manager that he is. It is a disgrace that so many good hard working and qualified people get denied a promotion simply because Dave does not like them. It is not a case of sour grapes with me. I never ROI’d for a management position so I had little interaction with Dave. I’m just reporting what I’ve observed.

There are a lot of good, hard working people at Publix. I encourage those that can to go to college or learn a skill or craft that pays well. Publix is for people that do not have any other options. One of my biggest criticisms I see on this board is the favoritism that managers have. It has been my experience that managers do have their favorites but I understand why this is. Managers get bonuses based on how many people they can promote. My second store manager made no secret to the fact that he treated promotable people better than those that did not want to be promoted or who had little chance at being promoted. I fell into the “had no interest in being promoted” category so I was marginalized within the department. Being in college I did not mind being marginalized but the department suffered for it. I did my job well and I knew my stuff. I left Publix in good standing. I consider many people still there as friends.

I wish the store and its customers all the best. Feel free to email me at daveyelly@aol.com with any questions or comments off of this blog if you would like.

Publix has no union because 90% of the hires in a given year last 2 years. This is fact. Publix once complained they lost 30% of their fulltimers every year? Why do you think that is? This company is like a wealth pyramid. Those who fear unions the most have the most wealth to lose if the wealth was more fairly distributed. Publix is one of the most profitible companies in America year after year because of one simple formula.

Low Wages
High Turnovers
Plenty of propaganda

So keep working hard, previous generations of Publix emplopees and managers depend on you to keep them in RV's, Yaachts, ultra low taxed cap gains and dividends and cancer pills. Maybe a giant hurricane will wipe out this goofy company and its pyramid scheme.

I have been with publix for only one year and 2 months (hired oct 2005) and I just quit, with Sunday being my last day.

Publix was a great first job. I started out as a front service clerk. I don't work at the best store (lazy employees, less than stellar managers, shady customers) but the people, other than their work ethic, were a blast. I am a hard worker, I do my age group (minor) justice. I'm a cashier now, but back when I bagged I always offered carryout and went out of my way for the people and I tried my best to save bags. My only qualm was cart hours because it was blazing hot and my FECS/managers would get on me for coming in to get water (not fond of the heat despite this being FL). I used to tell them if I wanted to be in the heat, I'd be in construction lol. But I still generally kept up on my carts.

I finally learned cashier and worked as an 'emergency cashier' (bagger with numbers) and only got on if it was extra busy or to replace a call out. Eventually, I got really fast and good, so they started putting me on 2-3 days a week. Then it became EVERYDAY of the week, to the point to where I was off the bagger schedule. Despite this, I was still a bagger (job class 206 appeared on my evaluation and my counseling statement for tardies even though I was on the checkout schedule).

I've had a couple of bad experiences with publix. Last December, I came to work with a bad fever the day after Christmas and regretted coming in almost instantly but I tried to work through it. About an hour into my shift, I asked my ACSM if I could go home early, she told me I had to ask my CSM since she was the closing MIC and I was a closer. I asked my CSM who immediately said NO! I told her I can't stay. She said I had to. I walked right out of there. My store manager had a conference with me about it and said I shouldn't have just left without warning or anything but that she was wrong and that he doesn't want sick people working because it's a bad image to our customers and it's bad for us.

After my CSM was fired in March (for other reasons), our new CSM took over and changed the store around. She brought organization and motivation in with her. She told people "hey you're doing a good job" not just "you're doing this wrong" (she did that too, but she complimented when neccessary and gave constructive criticsm as well). She was an ideal Publix manager in my book. She had organization, motivation, knowledge and was passionate about the job and magnificent with customers. The only associates who hated her were the ones who did not want to work. After my old ACSM stepped down, a new one came...and he, I do not care for. He is the opposite of my new CSM, he is unorganized, can't make a schedule and never compliments anybody (except his 'favorites', which doesn't include me.)

The CSM I love was transferred to another store in November, in which my ACSM became our CSM. Now this made things worse...we're ALWAYS understaffed and I feel completely unmotivated. He has screwed up my and many other schedules many times. Is this the kind of people corporate wants in management? Anything I say to him (constructive criticsm) goes over his head. He makes me feel like I'm a bad associate and like I don't matter anymore. Like I'm easily disposable (which I am, we all are). He isn't RUDE to me but he isn't nice either.

Since he's been CSM I have not enjoyed working there, but I stuck through it because I like the company. After one year of busting my ass I now only make $7/hr. Yet people with bad attitudes and no teamwork skills at all are maxing at in the office. One office staff member REFUSES to run a line till because apparently he's too good for the line and he's rude to customers! Another one is a bitch to associates and also will not FEC or run the line. These are the people publix promotes?

I see too many good associates driven out, including our hard-working custodian who gets chewed out why the lazy and F/T custodian has a free ride. I know this is just only one store, but it shows a bad reflection on publix and I might consider letting corporate know about it, so they can investigate. I hope it's only my store...because publix has the potentional to be a GREAT place to work as they say they are, if only they lose these types of associates.

I have been with publix for only one year and 2 months (hired oct 2005) and I just quit, with Sunday being my last day.

Publix was a great first job. I started out as a front service clerk. I don't work at the best store (lazy employees, less than stellar managers, shady customers) but the people, other than their work ethic, were a blast. I am a hard worker, I do my age group (minor) justice. I'm a cashier now, but back when I bagged I always offered carryout and went out of my way for the people and I tried my best to save bags. My only qualm was cart hours because it was blazing hot and my FECS/managers would get on me for coming in to get water (not fond of the heat despite this being FL). I used to tell them if I wanted to be in the heat, I'd be in construction lol. But I still generally kept up on my carts.

I finally learned cashier and worked as an 'emergency cashier' (bagger with numbers) and only got on if it was extra busy or to replace a call out. Eventually, I got really fast and good, so they started putting me on 2-3 days a week. Then it became EVERYDAY of the week, to the point to where I was off the bagger schedule. Despite this, I was still a bagger (job class 206 appeared on my evaluation and my counseling statement for tardies even though I was on the checkout schedule).

I've had a couple of bad experiences with publix. Last December, I came to work with a bad fever the day after Christmas and regretted coming in almost instantly but I tried to work through it. About an hour into my shift, I asked my ACSM if I could go home early, she told me I had to ask my CSM since she was the closing MIC and I was a closer. I asked my CSM who immediately said NO! I told her I can't stay. She said I had to. I walked right out of there. My store manager had a conference with me about it and said I shouldn't have just left without warning or anything but that she was wrong and that he doesn't want sick people working because it's a bad image to our customers and it's bad for us.

After my CSM was fired in March (for other reasons), our new CSM took over and changed the store around. She brought organization and motivation in with her. She told people "hey you're doing a good job" not just "you're doing this wrong" (she did that too, but she complimented when neccessary and gave constructive criticsm as well). She was an ideal Publix manager in my book. She had organization, motivation, knowledge and was passionate about the job and magnificent with customers. The only associates who hated her were the ones who did not want to work. After my old ACSM stepped down, a new one came...and he, I do not care for. He is the opposite of my new CSM, he is unorganized, can't make a schedule and never compliments anybody (except his 'favorites', which doesn't include me.)

The CSM I love was transferred to another store in November, in which my ACSM became our CSM. Now this made things worse...we're ALWAYS understaffed and I feel completely unmotivated. He has screwed up my and many other schedules many times. Is this the kind of people corporate wants in management? Anything I say to him (constructive criticsm) goes over his head. He makes me feel like I'm a bad associate and like I don't matter anymore. Like I'm easily disposable (which I am, we all are). He isn't RUDE to me but he isn't nice either.

Since he's been CSM I have not enjoyed working there, but I stuck through it because I like the company. After one year of busting my ass I now only make $7/hr. Yet people with bad attitudes and no teamwork skills at all are maxing at in the office. One office staff member REFUSES to run a line till because apparently he's too good for the line and he's rude to customers! Another one is a bitch to associates and also will not FEC or run the line. These are the people publix promotes?

I see too many good associates driven out, including our hard-working custodian who gets chewed out why the lazy and F/T custodian has a free ride. I know this is just only one store, but it shows a bad reflection on publix and I might consider letting corporate know about it, so they can investigate. I hope it's only my store...because publix has the potentional to be a GREAT place to work as they say they are, if only they lose these types of associates.

Well...The first round of evaluations have come out since the infamous "pay tied to performance" program has been instituted. So far, out of all the folks who are at top pay at my store, I have only talked to one who scored "role model". I came close but, missed it by a few points mainly due to being a few minutes late (past 3) more than I should have. I'm predicting 90+ percent of the Publix employees at top pay will start losing pay after their next evaluations. I can tell you that alot of people will regard this as a slap in the face. I would have never considered joining a union before, but I am alot more open to it now. I keep wondering if this is just the beginning and wonder what they will try to take away from us next.

Hi,
I have been with Publix for a little less than 5 years as customer service staff. They are unfair, they punish you, they dont respect you and they have their favorite people. If you dont kiss a....they treat you bad. I am definetely out of there after the 5 years......

Hey someone,
I totally agree with your comment. Publix does not train their managers how to speak to their associates, they can disrespect anytime they want to and get away with it. CSM create short schedules so their bonuses are higher. I see so many "awesome" associates leave because they got treated like crap. I like Publix as a company but I think they are lacking a lot in their management training. Its hard to respect someone who talks to you like you are nothing. i am confused what to do? Stay or leave? I dont know if I can put up with their daily insults and punishments any longer.....

Publix managers are lame little brainwashed robots. They would never survive as managers in the "real" world.

I quit some time ago after being bullied around by an attitude driven little dweep female manager 20 years my junior.

She played favorites and straight out said to me "dont' talk to me today as I am having bad period cramps, just go and do your job" WTF

Too much politics, too much "good ol boy" network, TOO MUCH REVERSE DISCRIMINATION.

Now I work for the COunty, sure I'm a Jail guard, but HEY, I make 55k a year for 45 hours a week, have a GOVERNMENT pension, and am up for promotion very soon. At least it is PAY FOR PERFORMANCE, and JOB SECURITY

Okay, I Have a Question ?! Why Does Publix do a RE Posting For Almost every ROI Period ? Last Week I got Put On The Final List again for the second time , But The do a RE Posting . Why ? If The Have The People on that List . I Just Don't get That !

Pretty funny comments here.. Who was the period cramp manager I wonder? Wish we had a name... And to the poster who says that 90% of Publix people will lose pay due to performance.. Hey there is only one way to go in Publix, and unless you are some millionaire stock holder from the good ole boy days then that direction is clearly pointing downward.. Too late for a union, you folks drank the Kool Aid for so long the company has you folks where they want you..

George Jenkin's- Rev Jim Jones- can't tell em apart..

Top 10 Reasons To Leave Your Job

Whether it is poor pay, lack of appreciation, a long commute, or a tyrannical boss, many employees across America have just about had it with their jobs. This has led some employees to either passively or aggressively seek to leave their job within the next three months. The compensation experts at Salary.com recently identified 8,000 employees likely to look for a new job in the next three months, and asked them what makes them want to leave their current job. The results may surprise you.

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The Top 10

#1 Inadequate Compensation
Percent Responding: 57.2%

"Compensation for most positions is far below the market average for our region, no annual increases in the last 4 years."

Salary.com's survey results show that inadequate compensation is by far the number one reason that dissatisfied employees want to leave their job. It has been proven time and again that fair pay practices benefit not only the employee, but also the employer (by reducing unwanted and unanticipated turnover costs). Employees who are paid competitively, relative to their specific market, are generally much happier.

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#2 Inadequate Opportunities for Career Advancement
Percent Responding: 37.3%

"My boss has dangled the 'carrot' for a year."

Opportunity for career advancement is a major factor in retaining employees and keeping them happy. 37.3% of dissatisfied employees cited inadequate opportunities for career advancement as the reason they want to quit. Empty promises by upper management, such as promotions that don't pan out, have led many employees to give up on moving up the corporate ladder at their particular company.

#3 Insufficient Recognition or Appreciation
Percent Responding: 34.2%

"There is no recognition of my creative talent, training, or skills."

The three major portions of an employee's total rewards package are compensation, benefits, and the work experience. The work experience includes things like company culture, dress code, and how employees are recognized and appreciated for individual contributions and accomplishments. The fact that 34.2% of dissatisfied employees are disgruntled because of insufficient recognition or appreciation shows the importance of elements of the work experience, such as employee recognition programs. This proves that rewarding top performers with cash or gift certificates, or even just a pat on the back, goes a long way toward improving employee retention rates.

#4 Boredom
Percent Responding: 20.1%

"My job duties have gone from being challenging to boring."

20.1% of dissatisfied employees are unhappy because of boredom. There is only so much socializing with coworkers, surfing the Internet, or simply spacing out that an employee can do before it's time to find a new job.

The July 2005 AOL/Salary.com study on Wasted Time At Work revealed that the average American worker admitted to frittering away 2.09 hours per 8-hour workday, not including lunch and scheduled break-time. However, employees expressed that they are not always to blame for this wasted time. 33.2% of respondents cited lack of work as their biggest reason for wasting time.

#5 Inadequate Benefits
Percent Responding: 16.9%

"The insurance premiums I pay cut deep into my paycheck."

Results recently released from Salary.com's 2005 Small Business Basic Medical Coverage Survey show that nearly 90% of small businesses are paying more this year than last year for basic medical insurance for their employees. And these soaring healthcare costs are forcing small businesses, in many instances, to adopt measures that lower employee take-home pay. This has spurred some employees to start looking for work elsewhere, perhaps at companies offering more generous employer contributions towards the cost of basic medical coverage.

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#6 Inadequate Opportunities for Professional Development
Percent Responding: 15.3%

"I'm probably too experienced and educated for this organization."

15.3% of dissatisfied employees feel as if they have reached the pinnacle of their professional development at the company at which they are currently employed. Whether they are leaving to further their education, start their own business, or find a job that promises more professional growth, opportunity for professional development proves to be an important factor in retaining and satisfying employees.

#7 Insufficient Job Security
Percent Responding: 11.8%

"My job is being outsourced to Mexico and Asia."

Insufficient job security is a result of a variety of different factors, including outsourcing, industry decline, lack of profits, competitive threats, and rumors that the company may be sold. The survey results indicated that many employees are searching for new jobs in response to the fact, or rumor, that their company or job is going under. Many of the 11.8% of respondents who cited insufficient job security as their top reason for leaving lack confidence in upper management's ability to save the company.

#8 Undesirable Impact on Health or Stress Level
Percent Responding: 10.5%

"This is bad for my health- my knees are hurting due to 12 hour shifts."

Many employees are working long, hard hours and are finally realizing the effect that their job is having on their overall health and stress level. Some of these employees are opting to leave the workforce entirely, while others are in search of a job that won't give them an ulcer.

#9 Poor Relations with Management
Percent Responding: 10%

"Management is incompetent, clueless, overcompensated, abusive, hostile and predatory."

Bosses everywhere, beware! Your employees are watching you and may leave because of your behavior. Even though poor relations with management ranked as the ninth most common reason unhappy employees want to leave their job, employees who dislike their boss provided us with some particularly entertaining feedback:

"Upper management has no spine, they are jellyfish."

"My boss has a diagnosed mental condition, but doesn't take his medication."

"My employer wants to disregard regulations and laws in order to meet company goals."

"My direct employer is sexist, tyrannical, and engages in extreme favoritism, cronyism, and nepotism."

#10 Undesirable Commute
Percent Responding: 9%

"My cost of gas versus my hourly income equals my net pay."

Rising gas prices have become an effective pay cut for America's commuters, and many are starting to think about leaving their job for something closer to home. Assuming that individual and company goals are met, employees can expect a salary increase of about 3.7% this year. They can also expect to pour 3.3% of their salary down the gas tank, virtually wiping out that increase. In fact, while salaries are rising 3.7% year over year, commuting costs have risen 50% in the last year.

In some metro areas, the average commuter is spending close to 5% of their salary on gas needed to get to and from work.

I say it is time for the workers of publix to unite. They are not fair.

They will suspend you, first offense, for 13 days and make your working environment a living hell.

Management does not try to listen to the employees. Management is rude/nasty to employees. We come to work to WORK, not gossip in a middle school playground, isn't that enough?

You would think so but management does not seem to think so in Gainesville Florida. Never have I felt so discriminated against as at this workplace.

When you hire someone with a disability, knowing so fully, you can not hold them at fault for having a disability related medical emergency and needing to go home. AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT OF 1991.

If you people don't do something you will be seeing another law suit soon, trying to talk to corporate office does no good. We tried to warn them. Florida is about to become a boiling point for this corporation, and they will be hit hard!

Having problems as a Florida publix employee? Contact me at o0_tanshin_0o@yahoo.com

If you are fortunate enough to work near a whole foods store it might be a good idea to go over there and check it out. Publix likes to brag about being ranked in the top 100 companies to work for in America comingin at #57. Whole foods ranked 5th in the country. Publix hates whole foods because they pay their associates more than Publix does. In order to attract quality associates Publix has had to increase its starting pay in areas where there is a whole foods. You are doing yourself and your fellow associates a favor by going over to whole foods. Higher pay and better benefits is a good thing for everyone except for the people at the top in Lakeland.

Publix is a pathetic and greedy company. The management is out for themselves. This company has a comeuppence in store for it..
Publix Sucks!

What is the current lawsuit that is in process right now in Gainesville FL?

I know people from the 39th Ave. & 13th Street junction are going in to testify on Monday, but no one will comment on the case (like they would).

If it is similar to my case I need to know because it is obviously under way and I want to help testify against publix if I can, in any way at any time!

They push... they push... Then they realize too late that they pushed past the line... Again, anyone interested in a class action lawsuit please email me at:

o0_tanshin_0o@yahoo.com

All they had to do was follow the law and treat their employees with a little respect. Publix, you are taking good employees that are working their buts off for you and treating them like crap... The result, they don't work so hard anymore... They don't bust their buts any more to be threatened and suspended from work for 13 days for an employees FIRST (and only) mistake that was caused by a medical condition they knew about when they hired me.

How many lawsuits can you settle out of court before you no longer have the $$$ to stay in business? Sad...

Will you people grow up, its tuff all over. Publix pay is head and shoulders above the rest. We have more millionaires and early retirees than any other company. Now go earn your pay and quit whining.

I've been with Publix for about 5 months now, and I've had some very mixed experiences. Some of the other associates and customers for that matter, are really fun to be around - and make it a pleasant environment. However, there is the bad. Alot of people don't actually do work, or do alot less and make more money than me. They have a very biased system and they are a bit stingy on money. I don't get the bonuses, just some crap 7 and change an hour. And as a Cashier, I am occasionally off on money. I mean sometimes you accidentially give someone an extra 10 or 20 or forget to give them a 10 or 20 - it happens. However, the rules are very strict on that, and it can stop you from getting a raise which is sad. Also, the scheduling system is utterly fubar. Ive gotten the weirdest shifts and sometimes many consecutive days. Also, you seem to get written up for anything. Im blocking and my friends come by. I stop to talk for no more than 2 mins and I get yelled at, when other blockers do absolute shit, even shop on the clock. It is so damn biased. And for those who are gonna say its my fault - its not I work very hard, and feel cheated. So at Publix, you can get written up for anything, and it doesn't matter how good you work or much you slack off, if you have connections you're good. Besides, everyone seems to get the same quarter raise every 6 months. Peace, Ben.

And, like I posted on another blog, "And as a Cashier, I am occasionally off on money. I mean sometimes you accidentially give someone an extra 10 or 20 or forget to give them a 10 or 20 - it happens." -- if you did that at my store more than twice, I'd fire you! A cashier that's worth a damn won't be off by more than a dollar. Sure, things happen and a cashier may be off more than a few dollars ONCE, but if you're off as far as you say more than once in a six month period, you just need to go do something else. Accuracy in money handling is an important part of cashiering. Not just at Publix, but ANYWHERE.

CSM,

HAHAHAHA

Green blooded fool, dont you follow proper procedures? ID FIRE YOU? Is that what mr george would want you to post?

I bet his rotted corpse is rolling in his grave!

You better do your job right, you green BIOTCH, cause I am a stockholder and you WORK FOR ME!!!

You better be nice or I will send an email and you BET it will go all the way to JIM HERRING and you will have to answer all the way down!

So be nice little dweep CSM, and be sure to say THANK YOU PUHHHLEEEEESE COME AGAIN......

Oh and BTW I am doing just fine outside of Publix, thank you, no I dont get any free stock anymore but I'll take a 25% pay raise with NO MORONIC HOURS

Yes you Green CSM, get down on your knees and squeal like a pig in the manager's office after hours.

Follow proper procedures? Of course I do. I said, if you're off MORE THAN TWICE I'd fire you. Over/short $9.99 once = counseling statement. Over/short $9.99 twice = counseling statement. Over/short $9.99 three times = fired. That's procedure my friend, and Mr. George certainly wouldn't want cashiers in his store that couldn't handle cash. Since you're such good buddies with Jim, just ask him if that isn't so.

Squeal like a pig? I don't think so, and I don't see how that comment added anything germane to the discussion anyway. I guess you just outed yourself, and your mental level, though.

CSM, when I said that, I meant that about once every 6 months. Its been over 6 months, and I've been off once. But theres no avoiding things like that. What pisses me off is that it was a counterfeit bill that they caught me on. It was a ****ing 10 dollar bill. Publix never taught me how to tell them apart and never said anything about using the pen. If you used the pen for every bill, it would take way too long.

Over/short once is a 6-mo period is fairly acceptable. Things do happen once in a while. If your CSM never taught you about counterfeit detection, that is his/her failing. I go over that with all cashiers when they first start, whether they ever worked somewhere else as a cashier or not. It isn't hard to do, and only takes a few minutes. I'm sorry your manager failed you in that regard.

I've worked at #638 for 3, going on 4 years now. I started as a bagger at 14 in 2003, began cashiering while still a bagger in 2005, then basically shot through the front end all the way up to today. I officially became a cashier in June 06', moved to CSS in October 06', and I'm now doing back office and FEC.

I'd say I've worked very hard the whole time I've been here and I like the management at our store. It's changed a lot over the years, but I really haven't had a problem with anyone we've had. Generally, if you work hard, you're rewarded. There's a few of our baggers who I've seen that are exceptional workers, and it's being recognized. If you work hard and want to go for a higher position, you most likely will get it. One of our most dedicated baggers is getting to move to stock clerk, for example. He really deserves it too.

I guess my only real complaints are the late policy and the average pay rate isn't the best.
Don't get me wrong, I do my absolute best to get to work on time, and I'm rarely late, but I think a 3 minute tardy really shouldn't matter over a period of 6 months. What should be done is either shorten the period over which tardies are counted, or count the total amount of minutes an associate is late over that period instead of counting individual tardies of 3 minutes individually over that period.

It also irks me to see lazy/inefficient employees still allowed to work here. There's one person in particular who has been late plenty, always slacks, been suspended, left early multiple times without clocking out or telling the MIC or FEC, and hid in the store during the last 15 mins of his shift recently while I was running the front for the first time, which really made me mad. I'm not exaggerating either. He really has done/keeps doing all this crap I've mentioned. He's been doing this for 2 years or so now and HE'S NOT FIRED. I'm sorry, that's just a waste of money there. He really needs to go.

If Publix and our store can improve on those points in particular, I think they could really make this company much better, boost employee morale, etc. I don't exactly plan on making this my career, but I figure it's a good backup option in case something goes wrong. And hey, I'm getting pretty close to getting my stock, so I'm happy. =)

You people complaining in the beginning are just a joke. You can't even construct a decent sentence. All of you who complain that you have mean managers and are always getting written up need to look in the mirror.

Stop bitching about how hard your work is and just do it! . Trust me it's not that hard. It's called a job, you are required to work. Get over it people!

I am so sick of these kids not doing anything. They just stand around with ridiculous expressions on their face. They stand there and talk to other associates or play with merchandise or hide like one person said. I agree though management is not good at keeping track on these piss poor associates. lol well I guess I am bitching now but it is true. Some of you younger kids need to go elsewhere.

Not all of you are bad. I know this one girl who is a bagger and works her ass off everyday. The managers notice it too and she is rewarded. See if you just do your job at all times. Treat the customers like your own family you won't need to worry about being in trouble with them. (The managers). You have to come in with the right attitude. Having infantile attitudes like I've seen shows in your work whether you realize it or not.

As for those who say you can't move up you can too. I was hired as a bagger when I was 17 and not too soon after I was 18 I was made to be a cashier. I always did my work asked to do more work and never complained. I was never wrong with my tenders either as a cashier except maybe once. As is with any human but not losing money all over the place.

So after cashiering for 8 months I was moved to Front Office after sending in an ROI. Then eventually back office now I am a Team Leader. Why? because I just did my damn work! I didn't complain. I didn't participate in gossip. I looked for things to do. I made sure I did my job right and kept eye on my money etc. I asked to do more than I needed. You just need to use your brains people. God gave them to you so use them. It's really not that hard. You just need to come in with the will to work. Your managers are not going to spoon feed you. You need to make efforts yourself.

Hopefully soon I will be moving up to Ass. Cust Serv Manager. The only thing I would like to do is clean up Publix by getting rid of the people who don't give a damn about their job. Which a lot of stores are doing and some aren't but it all takes time.

Yes, the work is hard but it's not difficult to do. It's just in your head. You have to want it bad enough to get it. Yes management is tough they work almost 12 hours a day. Yes the wage isn't great at first but you get raised and managers make a lot. So hang in their those of you starting out. Just have good attitude and use your common sense. Communicate with managers. Talk your needs or concerns out but professionally. Publix has an open door policy. You mangers are willing to give what you put in.

Publix pays slave wages and needs a union Bigtime! Where can we contact such people.

Purp

Publix is an amazing company. I've never seen a company that actually cared for their employees so much!! I've worked there for 5 1/2 years and I love it!! You will hate working there if you are a shitty worker(hint hint to all of you complaining)....you will love it if you are a solid hard-working person.

Unions are an idiotic idea, Purplepin. They'd kill Publix just like they've killed the domestic auto industry.

To stay on top, publix should make a couple changes though. To begin with, the front end needs to stop hiring people just because they're available 24/7. The "interview" process is a joke. We get people who couldn't find their way out of an empty room, but they're one more body on the schedule, so they're hired. Someone near the top said he wanted to fire all his teenage associates and replace them all with retards. Good luck with that. The concept of the loveable, goofy retard grocery bagger is dead, it died long ago with all the poor eggs smashed under the cans. The customers don't want them to bag for them, the cashiers don't want to deal with them, the managers don't want to babysit them, WHY DOES PUBLIX KEEP HIRING THEM? Thats half the reason I moved to the grocery department right there.

On the other end of the spectrum, we have the firing process. The only way to get fired from Publix seems to be sexual harassment or being a no-show for two shifts back to back. Nobody gets fired just because they're generally useless. Cut the deadweight out of the stores. In some places I bet you could cut payroll by 30% and not affect output at all.

Publix has a huge potential, but I fear that if the company grows too big it will collapse upon itself under the weight of it's own bureaucracy. It's happening already. I see the next generation of management posting here, and I hope to join you. Take heed of what I've said.

Unions are the answer for hard working people because Publix such low wages many hires hold back and loaf. I have seen it first hand and much of this pathetic board says the same thing about loafers.. Its all in the pay baby..

Lapper, you are right, it is all in the pay. But unions are NOT the way to do it. With unions the wages will go up, but for the same amount of work.
What I'd like to see publix do is raise pay, but at the same time become much more strict about hiring procedures and much more willing to fire someone. If you're paying good money, you better be getting good help, or that help should be fired ASAP. If you work at publix, you have seen first hand cashiers who aren't even worth minimum wage (which publix, or at least mine, does NOT hire at.) If you're going to pay people more, you have to cull the ranks and only keep the quality associates. Management just doesn't have the stones to really fire the people that need it.

Stocker,
I was a stocker and when I seen it first hand there wasn't as many kids as their are today, a sure sign that the company has alienated all but the very young and the old who are there to socialize, fill time and supplement their retirements. Whatever problems you speak of about the help is the company's own doing. I seen people hired and quit in their prime because they could not stand the Mickey Mouse actions of Publix management for a pathetic wage. Perhaps, if you are a stocker you are jealous that the cashiers don't break their ass like you do, maybe you should be a cashier, a character building for sure. A union is necessary because obviously the present system isn't working too well. How you like to break your ass as stock for .25 more than a bagger or old man that yaps all day? The way Publix is set up, the people who work hard subsidize all the built slop that is in Publix, you can only be but so effecient as a bagger/cashier before you make the customer fell rushed, but in other departments- the shky is the limit with goofy hours, demands and low pay to boot and then be required to clock out to get your ass reamed because the boss woke up with a period. UNION is word baby.

Lapper,
You are 100% correct. A union is needed for all of the contingent slaves who toil for the management who owns the lions share of the stock.. At the very least, vesting should be moved up to 6 months because very few last at Publix for 5 years to collect their profit sharing which goes into management's pockets.. A union would add longevity and a more preofessional workforce. Unionize Publix!!!!!!!!!

Steve

Gotta laugh, we are always told about the hidden paycheck. Fact is the hidden paycheck is for the managers and stockholders. We get puny benefits abd little to no raises while the company makes record profits off of our sweat. I don't believe in unions,

B-U-T!

All you people who complian about Publix wages Start working harder!! If you don't like the pay find a different retail job that pays better. I am a part time deli clerk and work my butt off. I am also capped out and am happy with my current wage. Plus I get a great bonus every inventory. Publix is a great company to work for and if you ACTUALLY work you are rewarded. I am sick and tired of people complaining because they don't get enough out if the company. You get from Publix what you put into Publix.

Oh pray tell, what wage are you capped out at? $12 an hour for playing Super C?

I could tell you stories of how I watched many folks with 4 years get shown the door for pretty pathetic reasons, only to have their "built up" ESOP "remitted" to the investment pool.

ANY retired stockholder will tell ya that it's better to be a OWNER than an employee. That's the main reason that I say "any idea" that Publix is trying to promote "longevity" is misplaced.

Publix..like any good businessman...is trying to get their employees to work as cheap as possible....ask Chuck White (is he still around??)

Cheers Slaves
Get to work!

Pardon me for interrupting the vitriol, but any word on the stock?

Nevermind. Saw the pathetic $.30 increase.

Premiergrocery, yes Chuck White is still around. He's the Regional Manager where I work. Hopefully he speaks with more respect to the customers than he does to those working under him.

The same could be said for his DM's.

Same thing I've said before, Publix could conquer the world if it would trim some of the fat, and stop kissing ass to the Political Correctness crowd.

Personally I really enjoy working at Publix. Maybe I got lucky with really great managers and coworkers. However, things are not perfect. There a few things that irk me. Publix really does not seem to weed out the people who half ass everything and the people who work their asses off. That is just frustrating.

Example there were two employees,one girl and one boy. Both baggers. The girl is trying to do her cart hour the boy starts asking her stupid questions and she walks off to do her work. He follows and starts yelling and spurting a few fowl words, while she continues to walk off. Customer calls and complains. All they did was tell him not to let it happen again. Maybe with a write maybe not. This kid is constantly slacking and pestering co workers. Yet nothing is done. People disappear or don't even show up nor call. They still work there.

There are plenty of people in this world who need a job. That can't get one because people who could care less have them. Sometimes the managers are too nice. There needs to be some line drawn. I love my managers but they need to take better action when it comes to discipline. Also the hours are just crap. The store I work at is one of the busiest in my area. I know hours are based on sales but we make good sales. It seems the hours are given once again to these people who slack off. I know this is all automated but it needs to be fair. People who slack need their hours cut or something. If nobody does anything about it. They are just going to continue to BS there job.

Now that is all I really don't like. I really wouldn't want to work anyone else. The job can be fun if you make it fun. I just wish some of the above things could be fixed.

Everything else is pretty good. People here saying wages suck well that's not true at least not in my expr. If you do your work and maybe even a bit more. You will get a raise. Over a while you can make a lot more. Just do your job the right way.

Well that's it. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions.

yo dis is shit cuz publix suks they be writing up ppl for some shit like they write up you if you dont take some peoples to there car. like wtf thats shit. we not here to put guns to there heads. that is just effed up yo. then they make you clean up nasty shit from toilets and piss all over da flo wtf! i aint there fucking nigga they can hire some janitors or soem shit. we dont need to do that bs. and the wageas do suck they dont give me shit the bitcheas so fuck yall

I work dairy in a miami area Publix and I must say when a department (dairy/frozen) are making 120-140k a week in sales combined, they should start thinking about hiring a manager for that dept. Grocery managers cant do it all!!!

"Dawg" --

Well said.

I will have 5 years in with Publix on July 20th. I started out as a 20 year old meat utility, cleaning up the market 5 nights a week for 5.50/hr. I busted my can day in and day out for 3 and a half years and made it from the bottom, to Assistant Meat Manager. I am proof that anyone with drive and good work ethic can go as high as they want with this company.

Just my two cents.

Union is the only answer.

Where do I get my 401 k pin at? I was reading about some Beneficiary Designation Card that I should have gotten cause I've worked at publix for 2 years, but I don't remeber ever getting one. please help

I am about to become a gtl, and everyone that talks union tends to be the poor work ethic minded people. I have a very good work ethic, and have never encountered a manager that did not want to help me in whatever way possible. It seems to me that only the lazy workers and low achievers are the ones who dislike the good, strong managers.

Publix-er, I agree 100% with you. Keep up the hard work. Customers, coworkers, and stockholders alike appreciate it.

Publix used to be a great place to work when I was first hired. All the potential great benefits and flexibility. Since then numerous people were hired killing the hours I needed to get. Can you explain going from 20 hours in one week to 18 hours to the next week to 14.5 hours to the week, to 12 hours to the consecutive week, to 6 hours in the next week. All without changing my availablity Very unreliable job to hold a budget over.

Hey guys, I got a question for you. I've been with Publix for almost a year; it will be a year in May. I'm going to college in August and will probably need to quit then, as there is no Publix where I am going. 1) Do you have to work at Publix during college to recieve tuition reimbursment and 2) If I buy stock at a year, can I keep it after I quit and sell it down the road sometime?

Thanks guys,

Tony

Tony,

Can't remember the rules on tuition reimbursment (although I suspect you would have to work there throughout), but as far as the stock goes, you can absolutely buy it and hold it as long as you want. Now here's the important part... BUY IT! Buy as much as you can possibly afford. Borrow money from your parents to buy more than you can afford. You can always sell some of it down the line to pay them back sooner than later if they need the money.

I bought $10K worth when I was in college and now, 10 years later, it is worth $50K. At the historical rate of Publix's stock increases, when I'm 61 years old, it would be worth $1.7 million. If the rate that the stock has increased over the last decade continues for the next 30 years (5x the investment every ten years) then I'm looking at $5 million when I'm 61. I'm not saying that's going to happen, I'm just illustrating how valuable this stuff is. In a world where pensions are rapidly becoming extinct, none of these scenarios is a bad retirement.

Also look into whether you can take a "leave of absence" while attending college, so you can come back to work during summers and breaks and still be building your tenure (remember, 5 years of service and they give you stock).

But either way remember... buy the stock -- this could be a life changing decision for you.

David

I'm working towards my fifth year right now. I'm looking forward to keeping my stock that I have worked hard for. I might as well since I am so close.

You have to ROI to get ahead otherwise, you will be stuck continually proving yourself to the new person in charge who hasn't necessarily proven themselves.

However you can get a job bagging at Win-Dixie starting 8.30 an hour, 9 for a cashier. Publix will not let you earn that for quite some time.

I've been with Publix for 10 years, and I love it. As with any job, you'll have a bad manager or associate from time to time, but they usually screw up and leave eventually. WE OWN OUR COMPANY. We make what we want out of it. We've got open door policies for issues; and phone numbers to call if we really have problems. They GIVE us stock, then they GIVE us dividends on the stock they have GIVEN us. And for goodness sake...Keep it! I feel sorry for anyone who sold it before it split. Our benefits are better than a lot of places. Some grocery stores give their associates a bag of grits for Christmas!(I know the person it happened to). What do we get? a week or even two of money. I started out as a cashier and have been working my way up. You work hard you get rewarded. These younger kids don't understand that, and for the ones who bag and complain,....go ahead and get your college degree, TRY to find a job, and then come back and tell us how HARD it is to bag... boo hoo I have to clean up a spill....I wish they would grow up. The store's got to get clean some how, and I even come in to scrub when needed. Publix will take care of us if we take care of it. WE OWN THE COMPANY, WE ARE STOCKHOLDERS. And I love Publix for it.

Tony... You have to be a current associate to receive tuition reimbursement. If you leave Publix you can no longer receive this (or any other) benefit. Also, you have to be vested (work 5+ years with the company) to retain the stock upon separation. Otherwise you will be paid the current rate per share for each share you hold when you separate. That is because the stock is not publicly traded. You have be a current associate to purchase it, and a current or vested associate to sell it.

CSM--

Is that stock rule new? Say, in the last 9 years? When I left, I had like 3 or 4 years, but they didn't pay me anything. Should I be contacting someone? Thanks.

DB

CSM is posting bad data, it needs to go talk to the store AC before posting wrong info here.

CSM

Please provide your name and store number

I worked for Publix for about 2 years and never got my stock upon separation.

I would like to use your public comment to try and get the shares that I never got after I left.

Thanks for the note, I'm sure Publix is holding shares for many ex associates, and perhaps based on your comments something legally could be done. Perhaps a class action suit?

Thanks again!

This post is in response to Publixgirl from April 25th. With all due respect I have to take issue with some of your comments. I worked for Publix for 8 years so I know the company fairly well.

I put myself through college while working full time for publix on the front end. The job paid the bills but by being exposed to college life I experienced so much that was outside the Publix sphere. Telling people that going to college is basically a waste of time is terribly irresponsible. College prepares people for the real world far better than Publix does. If one stays at Publix it’s all that person will ever be able to do. Publix thrives on under-educated, unskilled workers; in fact you might call that segment of the workforce the back bone of Publix. There are always going to be jobs for skilled workers in this country. It might take a bit of time but people graduating from college do get jobs and by and large they are better jobs that working at Publix. In fact, people go to college so they won't have to work at places like Publix.

The best most people can hope for in Publix is to work up to a management position at the store level. The vast majority of Publix Associates will never make it out of the store. Managers work 50-60 hours every week. The work day starts as early as 5:00 A.M. and can run as late as midnight. Managers work nights and weekends every week and have little control over their schedules.

Since I graduated from college and left Publix I work a 40 hour work week. I go into work at 9:00A.M. and I leave at 6:00 P.M. Monday through Friday. No early Mornings, no late night and no weekends. This is the normal work week in the business community. Its how most people making over $60, 000 a year live.

The other thing about college is that it is a blast, probably the best time you'll ever have. You'll meet people and experience things you'll remember for the rest of your life.

The truth is the Publix propaganda machine is very persuasive. If you hear how well you have it long enough from these masters of spin you stand a good chance of buying what they're selling. Think about it for just a second, do you really think you own the company in any real way? The truth is Publix is an oligarchy. A few people make all the decisions in Lakeland and everyone else either falls in line or gets marginalized. The powers that be at Publix own over 51% of all the stock. That means if every single associate at all the stores combined organized to block an initiative coming out of corporate that attempt would still fail. The overwhelming majority of the wealth and power is consolidated in Lakeland.

In your post, you make it seem like they give you stock out of the goodness of their hearts. Corporate knows they have to throw the people a bone or two or people will organize. The idea of a union causes people like Charlie to lose sleep at night. I’m sure we can both agree that Publix is committed to making money. If corporate thought that a union would improve their profits you’d see one instituted today. Corporate will not allow any redistribution of the wealth. Make no mistake, you work for them. You are not an owner of the company.

DAVID,

GLAD YOU ARE GONE.

YOU ARE TOO MUCH THE INDEPENDANT THINKER AND INDIVIDUAL.

fat_manager,

There are alot of managers at Publix that are glad I'm gone. I was very popular with the customers and the associates but management had a difficult time with me.

I'm a critic of Publix but my criticism comes from wanting to see better things for the hard working associates at Publix. On a whole, for this industry, Publix is about as good as its going to get. I respect anyone that can sustain a career in retail. There are alot of talented, wonderful, hard working people at Publix and I just want to see them with a little bit more to show for their hard work.

I was critical of Publixgirl for her comments on this blog last week. Even though I disagree with what she had to say I do admire here for working at Publix for 10 years. 10 Years shows a commitment. I'm glad Publix has determined people committed to providing premier customer service. The people who work at the store level and in the wherehouses are the people that make Publix such a success.

warehouse/ May I ask you why the managers dislike you?

I have worked for Publix for about 3 months and I must say that it has been the most horrible part-time job I have ever had. I have a bachelor's degree and am working toward my master's and needed some extra money, and since I have worked for other grocery stores, I figured Publix was a good idea. Wrong. I have always been valued as a hard-working employee in every job I've had...but at Publix, I seem to get written up every week. Publix is overly anal in their assessment of employees. People make mistakes. Forget their bow ties. Have the urge to talk to someone during an 8 hour cashering shift. But Publix doesn't recognize this. The best part is that all the coordinators and managers stand together in the front of our store talking and goofing around waiting for one of us front-end workers to screw up. It's laughable. I can't wait to quit and burn that hideous green vest, bow tie, and grandma pants.

I have worked for Publix for about 3 months and I must say that it has been the most horrible part-time job I have ever had. I have a bachelor's degree and am working toward my master's and needed some extra money, and since I have worked for other grocery stores, I figured Publix was a good idea. Wrong. I have always been valued as a hard-working employee in every job I've had...but at Publix, I seem to get written up every week. Publix is overly anal in their assessment of employees. People make mistakes. Forget their bow ties. Have the urge to talk to someone during an 8 hour cashiering shift. But Publix doesn't recognize this. The best part is that all the coordinators and managers stand together in the front of our store talking and goofing around waiting for one of us front-end workers to screw up. It's laughable. I can't wait to quit and burn that hideous green vest, bow tie, and grandma pants.

I hear ya slave.

Question, How many of those manager idiots in the front are minorities?

Our store had a philosophy to promote minorities, as the store managers competed about how many they could get in the hopper.

Compete about everything, IPLH, repressed pay scales, minority favoritism, etc......

What would Mr George do?

Too bad he is fully decomposed.

There not just in the front, they are qouta babies.IPLH they do not work they hurt the items per labor hour, all the nonprotected workers, have to work harder so they can be lazy, and nasty to everyone.

Hi--I have an interview with Publix in two weeks. Although they gave me a list of the benefits--there were no specifics----like how much you have to pay for the health insurance/dental insurance. I'm trying to weigh out the pros and cons. Thanks! anne

I LOVE PUBLIX!!!!! GO CLUB-PUB!!!!!

The big question is:

Will Publix be bought out by Safeway?

OR Will the stock go Public?

Something is afoot

I think there is a problem when I have to witness the bakery and deli throw away everything extra every night. This is usually dozens of cakes and baked goods and many chickens. Management won't let the employees eat them or take them home, but instead forces the deli and bakery to throw them away.

I started on May 3rd. Moved to Atlanta from Cocoa bch Fl for a career...I have a culinary background and my goal was to be in the corporate offices in 5 yrs. Thank god I kept my house in ccb....I was completely sold on this company. The orientation was awesome and unheard of in this industry. My dad owned a chain of 25 stores in st. louis and i have worked in every department a grocery store has to offer. It was in no way the mass operation that publix is. What sold me the most about a career at publix was the illusion of how they look out for their people. Heres my 3 weeks at publix.
Orientation in Atlanta (Dacula) Sat and Sun.
Post orientation Monday 10 am at the actual store #226.
I then was thrown into the department. Alone. Without zero direction on what to do. I received not one bit of direction or training for the next 8 days. The woman who was supposed to be training me was a severe head case. She stated that there would be no career at publix. She went on to say "nobody here likes you your fucked good luck"...That was day 2...I told my department mgr. Nothing was done. The woman throws things in fits of anger and doesnt order anything shes supposed to. she has destryed more food in one week than i consume in a month. no exaggeration.They always run out of things or dont have them period. Anyway, I voiced my concerns about lack of training and was still given none.I then went to a publix 25 miles away and spoke to a grocery manager about this. (Thanks James) Of course I would not tell him who I was or which location I work at. He basically said they werent doing things the right way...DAHHHH!!!
My department (Dairy) is fast paced and high volume. For me failure was not an option. I wanted so much for this to work out. Last week I was in the cooler and was getting some eggs and the box broke sending my right hand crashing into a pallet of ice tea which should not have even been in our cooler. Im now not there and it's no longer my problem. The morlal of the story goes like this. I told spazzz what happened in the cooler (a part time guy was present when the accident happened) spazz said oh your okay.. I then reported it to the mgr on duty (Produce Mgr) he was more pissed off that he had to do a report , had me work another 1 and a half hours and told me to see hime before I went home. Ya right...
This company I was so sold on because they "CARE ABOUT THEIR PEOPLE" has not lifted the phone one time to say are you okay?
Thats sad. so much for taking care of their people...Incidently , My store mgr won an award recently in Florida for Divion mgr of the year...Job well done... Please instill your qualities down the chain of command..BTW my store mgr. did in fact deserve and earn this award...Its his complacent subbord that need their asses put on the block.Perhaps they need to be retrained.
Peace

MJ
Atlanta GA

retail supermarkets it is a rough job, when tea is on sale they put it where ever they can keep it, you are only one of the many workers that has an injury, maybe they are to busy running the store or you are just a baby that needs pity, take care of yourself, i bet you are 20 thru 28 the pity me generation, all that said, publix is a great place to work for if your not a crying baby, grow up and smell the dividend checks

You are one of the brain washed associates i see. Hope it does't happen to you pityparty

oh yes it has happen to me plenty, at work an not at work accidents happen. thats life, i still bet your age coicides, with they should call me, thats your work, not your parents . i have been with them for 16 yrs, not brain washed, i think you called for the pity party, in your post, there are far more injurys then yours, oh i do not want to go to your pity party, did i guess your child like age, grow up

im 38 and would love to meet up withyou so i could slap the taste out of your mouth...Your a know it all who has no clue in life....I work harder than the next person. You know zero about me...Lets get together sometime...

oh no slap me, did you say you quit publix, if you did not you should, 38 and you still want to slap the taste from me, you are stuck in a very imature age, i don't know it all. but i sure know more then you,

dont hide behind the comp lets meet up....
you do think you know it all...and id like the opportunity to meet you...

i do not like your vague threats, i do not wish to meet you, get real, i do not solve my problems though violence, i'm busy working 50 to 60 hour weeks, i hope you like your comp checks to pay your bills, i pay mine and i loved my 6000.00 dividen check, i do not know it all but i know more then you

you talk like trailer trash, a fact is i'm very strong from unloading trucks for years, so really don't know what your up to. i could throw you like a heavy wood pallet even with a hurt hand, and i do know together we achieve more, publix is a great place to work for, if not for a few trash mouth people like you, if don't quit you will most likely be fired, because you have a rotten attitude,

i must have hit a nerve....people like me put you in the position you hold...i just know that you are a fat ass ast.mgr who will never be promoted because your ass wont fit through an office door....i bet your pants rip if you bend down to pick up your pen to write someone like me up for knowing what a lard ass piece of shit you are.....No , I wont be quitting. Failure is not an option plus I know too many upper mgt people in Lakeland. My goal is to replace fat ass complaceant managers like you. If not given the tools to succeed i will raise hell until i get them....Now go eat something in the cooler,as i'm sure you do that and don't even pay for it... FAT ASS...

What is the website for the personal benefits like the car discount?

Publix is a horrible place to work only when you goal is success. There are more important things to do in our short lifetime than be successful. Shopping is one of them. lol

I am an outsider that would like to place some input into the web blog you have created and unions. Although I no longer live in Florida, I know some people that work at the company and have followed the organization drive since the scandal at the Miami distribution center in 2002.
By the looks of it you have some people, probably from the company, that are monitoring and giving input to keep the messages union-free. This is fairly typical and breeds the less thought out and more hostile comments that came from some of the bloggers. Generally these hostile comments would come from lower level management that are in the same position that you are in as hourly workers (low pay, less support, poor working environment, etc.). Additionally, as I scrolled through your messages I think that there are some genuine concerns that all, management and workers should take note on. One that there is much hostility between the younger and older employees and that there is a culture of have and have nots in your company. This is quite typical when there are differences in age, culture, and perception within an organization. The haves in the company as always have control and perceive the others as lazy, ineffective, and problem-some workers (whether or not they are and this becomes self prophesizing). Moreover, the haves in the company proudly display their shares of stock, which was by design a deterrent from union activity, stock may stay stagnant or decline slightly for a short period after organization. The problem with any stock share program is the stock itself. This is a parallel of having all your eggs in one basket.
Here are some truths of what you get from organizing. Real security, now no job is completely secure, but with a union you will receive seniority protection. Rather than a manager or another employee having it in for you (or the famous corporate inspections), you will have a number and a grievance (complaint) process that will allow you some restitution if there are problems. Additionally, rather than your benefits, retirement, and future decided for you there is a democratic process that allows all employees to have input on bargaining your salary, benefits, and retirement. Union employees generally earn 25% more than non-union (you can find information by researching the US Department of Labor) As far as part timers getting health benefits, that is standard in