Publix... Where Working Can Be Frustrating! - Deli Clerk Publix Employee Review

3.0
20 Nov 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good benefits including health, dental, 401k, and employee stock ownership.

Cons

You don't make a whole lot of money if you're not in management. You could potentially make up to about 14 dollars an hour as a meat cutter or a seafood specialist but there is a limited number of those positions. Most people are hired making about eight or nine dollars an hour. Good raises are hard to come by. You really have to bust your butt and the sqeaky wheel definitely gets the oil. What's really frustrating is that most of the time while your working your butt off everyone else is doing the bare minimum.

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Cons

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Pros

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

Cons

Not every store is the same, some stores are run better than others, some managers look down upon people with disabilities, and some see people with disabilities the same as someone without disabilities, they are very big about favoritism, you have to work a lot to earn a vacation, the company does not give out sick time and full-time gets the most benefits and is next to impossible to get full-time. Also, you practically have to be a former employee with a clean record or related in some way to a current employee to get a job with the company though Kentucky Publix's don't quite function that way.

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