Pros
Your time at Publix will be the greatest job you have ever had if your department manager is perfect and is qualified for his or her job.
Cons
You will be worked over 6 hours without a break, and come back from break with an hour or 30 minutes of your shift remaining. (This is why I quit, 28 times within 2018) Place like Target, Whole Foods, Food Lion, Kroger, and Walmart would not even do this. You will be scheduled agents your availability. You will be expected to stay 30 minutes past your shift due to business needs. You will be scheduled to close past 11:00 P.M. and will be expected to come back at 6:00 A.M.. Publix was ranked best place for millennials, but the management seems ageist against the young crowed. You will have a difficult time receiving full time. If you are a female that has to previous Deli experience, then you will start at a lower pay than a male with no experience in a deli. The best workers at my Deli were female. They stated at $11 or $10 with previous experience. Men hired usually started $1 to $0.50 more. All reference and procedure guides in the Deli are no longer valid for most things. You will receive a ton of loose-leaf paper with much of the information missing. Management will through you under a bus to save themselves. Management provided poor training to new associates. They often hired associates that did not even know how to do dishes. Publix is growing rapidly and management is switched up too much. Terrible work life balance, If you choose to be full time then they would want you available any day at any hour.