Mistreated - Apprentice Cake Decorater Publix Employee Review

1.0
8 Sept 2015
Recommend
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Pros

After 3 years of employment you can keep your publix stock even if you leave the company.

Cons

All levels of management pretty much encourage customers to mistreat you. The company has unrealistic deadlines for the excessive amount of work they give you, plus they keep adding to the work load as the year goes on. Customers think you're their slave to mistreat and verbally abuse as they see fit. Oh, I misspelled your son's name because you didn't double check your copy of the cake order form, here key me fix that it'll take LITERALLY 5 seconds. "No, no, no! Ugh it's ruined this whole day is ruined! You idiots had one job! I want my $60 cake free! " and then management gives them the cake free.... this would happen at least 3 times a day even if nothing was wrong with the cake!

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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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