MANAGEMENT NEEDS WORK - Central Fill Specialist Publix Employee Review

1.0
Feb 13, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The pay and benefits are actually good.

Cons

The manager is not skilled to run such a facility. He's not capable of making the right decisions on the spot. I've learnt from the very beginning that everything is based on whether or not they like you. If they like you, you could get away with coming in late everyday(they would change the schedule in the books so it looks like they're coming in at the right time), you could just stand around and not do anything. If they don't like you, get ready to be criticized for every little thing, get ready to run an entire area by yourself and get reprimanded by the leads when you complain about it. Everybody in that place is a snake and cannot be trusted. Don't try to make friends, if they're nice to you, it's only because they think they're getting something in return. The workload can be ridiculous if you're actually a good worker. There has been so many occasions where the hardest worker is forced to work in an area all by themselves which can be the worse thing ever when you're forced to fix 9 robots, plus run up and down a flight of stairs. Somehow you still get criticized if a robot is down. If you're not good or a lazy worker(which they're are plenty) they'd actually make sure they schedule multiple people to help out. Good Luck if you decide to take the risk and accept the job. The turnover rate is ridiculous.

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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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