Pros
Full Time Benefits Flexible Schedule Five words?
Cons
Please keep in mind this applies to the store I work for, solely. Your experience may differ depending on location. Lack of training/direction. Everything before I actually started the job was awesome, I was blown away by the interview, orientation, and history of the company. Then I started to work there and received little to no information on product, sale methods, even company policy. Full-time/politics. You will not be hired as a full-time employee, and the determination of your full-time status depends 90% on your relationship with your manager(s). Publix promises a lot, and I have still seen them bring in out-of-state hires to manage. Personally, it feels like promising you a mountain, and then delivering a mound of dirt. I have seen many under qualified associates promoted wholly ignoring said associate skill-level/speed. Sadly this bleeds into... Unskilled Management. The best trainer is a skilled employee. I feel like the company missed the mark on this note. I've seen first-day employees who have never touched a slicer (I work in the deli department) in their entire lives been thrown to wolves (which happen to be customers, who expect the best, because y'know, it's Publix, that's the point) and cut themselves. They are not entitled to employee benefits because you are started at part-time. That means no healthcare, no stock options, no 401k, and especially, no sewing your finger back on to your hand because the manager (or any other employee) couldn't take 15 minutes to explain proper slicer use and safety. General Attitude. While Publix may be "A pleasure to shop" it is surely, anything but, a pleasure to work. Everyone in my department seemed (and proved) to be miserable from day one. Surely enough, I kept meeting other people, in other departments, who hated their job just as much as the next person. While this is normal to some extent, it is RAMPANT at Publix, at least in my location (SC). I assume all this stems from poor management, but you could imagine at least the goal(hope?motivation?) could at the very least, exist. The general attitude of management, which sadly spills on to employees, is my huge turn off from this company. It is a company that is growing too quick, too fast -- at the same time making too many promises to employees that it cannot reasonably keep.