They're very stingy with their hours I personally don't care too much cause I'm in college student and I have way too much stuff to do for school that I never really paid attention. But my other coworkers this is their livelihoods and they can't feed their family with the amount of hours Publix are giving they're very stingy with that. And then there's no freedom in Publix you feel like you're stuck in a glass cage you have to ask your manager or customer service associate to do anything if you want to have a bathroom break you have to ask someone then out of nowhere customer will then you have to take care of them then go to the bathroom it's just unnecessarily overwhelming and they don't let you use their phones which is expected from some jobs but I work early morning it's literally empty in there and they expect you to sit there and not use your phone but the managers all the managers are different they will sit and talk to each other every single day but when you try to talk to your coworker they would look at you like they're telling you with your eyes not to talk them. But for them they will literally go from the produce department all the way upfront to the customer department just to talk to their manager friends it's so unprofessional and every associate is mad because how come you get to talk but we can't
