Publix reviews

As I said, I put myself through college while working at Publix. Unfortunately, my college education came at the sacrifice of my career at Publix. The company values commiment to the company over education. You will find very few managers with 4-year degrees, and only a handful with graduate degrees. To that end, now that I have completed an MBA, I find it very hard to sell my superiors on the value of my education. All operational management positions, and most corporate/support positions are filled by those who chose Publix exclusively.

* Some problems with the benefits is that they cover up to 80% of most minor things, but some things they won't cover at all. Cosmetic surgery isn't covered at all, as well as glasses that are rimless, because they are considered cosmetic, therefore not a need. * There's a lot of favoritism, unfortunately. A lot of people try to get into manager's back pockets so they can get out of doing work or to get out of getting written up when they do something wrong. I've seen it many times and in the different stores I've worked in. * Bonuses and overtime get heavily taxed. 48% or somewhere there about. * You have to be full-time to get paid vacation and sick time, so if you're a part timer and you get really ill where you have to be out of work for a while, be prepared to go without money for a while. * If you are on disability, it takes up to 3 months before you get paid for being out of work and then it is only half of what you normally get. This is only for full-timers who have applied for long-term or short-term disability. * There are many people who are promoted to management who don't do their jobs right and make everybody else work harder and more stressful. I've seen many newly promoted managers who just stand around talking or disappear from the department to go fool around on the clock rather than helping the short staffed department or doing paperwork. If you keep up with the paperwork, it shouldn't take more than 15 minutes, 30 minutes max if you're that slow. Not 3 hours. The thought of many people who are wanting to go into management is that once they get promoted they won't have to help out. This is the wrong way to think, you still have to help out, you just have to manage over everybody in your department as well as do your paperwork. You don't get out of everything just because you're a manager. * You do not have a set schedule in most places unless you are a part- timer and have requested it as such due to family/school/military reasons. Most full-timers are warned before they are allowed full-time that they must have open availability in order to become a full-timer. Not all stores are like this, but the ones I have worked in are.