Benefits are GREAT! But the way an associate gets evaluated every 6 months stinks. - Fork Lift Operator Publix Employee Review

2.0
31 Dec 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The benefits! No threat of being laid off. The company is constantly building new stores. The company has no debt & has a huge cash reserve, no worries about company going bankrupt.

Cons

The 6 month evaluation process: Basically one starts with 30 points. If you score 25 pts or lower you will lose pay. You can be on time for 2 straight years and then be 10 minutes late one day & that will cost you 1 pt. Same thing with attendance, perfect attendance for years, miss one day, it will cost you 1 pt. Our fork lifts have impact sensors on them. If you hit something it will sound the horn off. You need to get a supervisor to reset it & that will cost you 1 pt. The really bad part about this sensor is that if you hit the brakes to hard, it will be set off also. Management just assumes you hit something, no leyway. If the sensor goes off, it will cost you a point. You can go years with out damaging any product and then 1 day while you are taking a pallet out of a rack, that is 20 feet high, 4 or 5 cases fall from the pallet. That will another point. This is just a few ways to lose points on your evaluation. There are MANY other ways & I'm not writing a book.

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3.0
29 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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