Hello, I just a got Publix job at the beginning on November at the bakery section. I have been coming in on time and been doing everything that was told. Recently, I called out for vacation for 5 days and the managers were fine with me, and now after that I don't see any more hours. I have no idea what I did wrong.

It got cracked and can’t read the PSI correctly so it shows that’s it empty. Where do you get a replacement for this?

A few times I’ve ordered a mojo pork meal for 4 online, just to get there and have them tell me they don’t have any of the items available to make it, they don’t have my order (they’ve been confused when I’ve given the confirmation) etc.

This would be a good deal and would be good for meal prepping if it would ever actually work. Is this just my location or is this a problem overall?

Hey there! Looking to ROI in February for assistant BM. What does the pay increase look like and the pay scale? (I make 20.40 so idk how much more I would get. How are bonuses for medium traffic stores? Hours? Any other helpful tips or info anybody can give me? Appreciate it!

I've taken advantage of the huge deals on Prime Rib in the past. I feel like if they were going to do it this year it should have happened by now.

Does anyonrle know when the sale starts?

Are the roi periods quarterly now? I know before they were twice a year. I’m hoping another one opens up in the beginning of next year tryna move up in the ranks

I'm genuinely trying to figure out if I need to just change my expectations, but I live in a small suburban town and every time I order a Pub Sub for pickup, it takes at least an hour for them to be ready, if they get made at all. On multiple occasions, I've shown up and my ticket hadn't even been touched yet or they made the wrong order.

I lost the SCO PHONE

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHGGHH

I DIDNT take it home and I didn’t leave it on a register.

AM I FIRED?! 😭😭😭😭😭

So I am new to publix been here about a month now and it's been great honestly I'm not doing nearly as much work as my other job but the only thing is them pushing publix pro since I first started which I don't mind it's pretty helpful. My only problem is with them getting on me about being on my phone when I am scanning things like why even push this if you are gonna be on my ass everytime I'm using pro??

I just called out for being sick and don’t know what to put down for my non fmla. I want to put throwing up because stomach ache seems like a minor inconvenience, but idk.

does anyone have the picture that shows the appropriate shirt colors that can be worn? and what color pants are we allowed to wear?

I got a 6 pack of cupcakes from the Publix bakery that were a mix of red velvet, chocolate, and carrot cake, all with cream cheese frosting. These things were out of this world delicious! Why is it that when I get the red velvet bar cake the icing tastes COMPLETELY different? The red velvet cupcakes were my fave of the 6 pack, so I thought buying a bakery red velvet bar cake would taste the same but it was not the same at ALL. What's up?

it’s my first day as a bakery clerk on Saturday (i’ve been a bagger this whole time before) so I am still very unfamiliar with it. My manager isn’t the best and I’ve had no conversation with her about what i’m supposed to do or what to expect. She’s just throwing me in there. Does anyone one have any tips?

I’m a former employee of Publix and was checking my voya account and saw that I had this much in my Profit plan account. Will this money keep growing?

I went in the other day to pick up some wings and potato wedges. I was on my way home from work around 4:30pm. Imagine my surprise that the hot food station next to the sandwich station was replaced with shelving. Lots of rotisserie chickens, carrots, and Mac and cheese, and tiny bags of potato wedges that had steamed in the bag until they were soggy. Zero wings at all. You can't even control the amount anymore. I'm so sad.

That realization hit me one day a long time ago, and when you think about the gravity of it, it's kinda wild/gross.

just say yes or no i can’t decide

Asked by store manager to get the drink cooler ready by 5, took an hour, only one drink we did not have

Bought a box of Swiss Miss hot cocoa packets, and when I got home, they were all open along one seam (cocoa powder everywhere!).

This also happened with Cheezits, multipack. Several bags looked like they had popped open.

ALSO happened with Ritz multipack. Is this some weird temperature-change phenomenon or a manufacturer issue?

Does anyone else find Publix parking lots annoying? Stop signs in awkward locations, tight curbs, etc. Just something about every one of them that irks me.

The week before I only had a 2.75 hour shift and this week I only have a 2.15 hour shift, I am a minor so I expect/know that I'll get less hours but this is ridiculous. When I first applied I was told to expect 10-15 hours per week but the most I've ever worked per week is 9.75, I am seriously considering applying to a different job with hours like these.

My Publix started changing Custodial shifts in an attempt to get more cleaning done by Custodial staff. Where it used to be 7pm-10pm or even 11pm, they changed it to start at 6pm. I quickly noticed a huge problem with this a week and a half later I am scheduled to wax the store on shift that starts at 6pm and ends at 12am (on an unrelated note I was also scheduled to come in at 10am the next day, we’ll come back to it later). My Publix usually schedules a break during six hour shifts, this break is mandatory and we are not supposed to skip it. But unfortunately when it comes to custodial duties if I take a break, even a thirty minute break, I will be behind and the cleaning will not be done on time. The new 6pm shift was given so they could have custodians vacuum and collect the rugs around the store. The problem with that is they are supposed to be vacuumed around 9pm at the same time I would have just finished cleaning the front restrooms and started on register trash and cleaning the break-room tables and microwave. If I had finished it late due customer interference “I really have to go and I didn’t realize we have a family restroom” or more than one lady showing up requiring me to step out of the restroom and stop cleaning until the women’s facilities are empty situations (noting by that time I have already cleaned both the mens and the family restroom). I can’t clean the restrooms early because the restrooms would quickly become messy again within that three-hour-timeframe. So I instead make sure all restrooms are restocked during the first thirty minutes of the new shift. And begin my regular cleaning shift (recycling and trash) at 6:30pm and to finish restroom cleaning by 8:30pm, so that I may finish rugs by 9:15pm-9:25pm and wrap up all cleaning after using remaining time to dust-mop the entire store. Which can take at a minimum takes thirty minutes, if however I am taking care of floors before waxing I take an extra 10-15 minutes to ensure the floor is as clean as possible. All of this is to say if you put a break from 8:45 to 9:15, it will be in the middle of my cleaning. I realized I would be unable to take my break if I wanted the store to be clean for waxing at the right time. So I skipped it. When I informed them of the problem and apologized that I would be unable to take my break they appeared to disagree immediately and assumed I was talking about cleaning up after the party they had just had in the break room earlier that day. Truth be told I had completely forgotten about that extra bit of cleaning I would have to do. So they sent another coworker to clean up the party before I got there, he left it with 1 large bag’s worth of trash (40-48 gallon bags) leave two same sized bags behind fully filled with trash. I guess it was a nice gesture?

Back on the main topic, by the end of the night it is 10:20pm I have finished cleaning and the very last customer has left, I hesitate to take my break now because I am unaware how long it will take us to clear the floors for waxing and when we will begin waxing. I had never waxed before so I was sure they wanted me to learn how for later shifts. So I couldn’t take my break later either. There were seven of us and five waxing mop buckets. I managed to get three aisles and half of the produce department by myself. My shift had reached 12am, the end of my scheduled time. Understanding we had more than enough people to finish the work and I had learned how to wax, I informed two nearby coworkers I was clocking out, I then did so. I then went to the pager and asked the closing manager to please come to the front to let me out. She refused. Along with three other coworkers (including the previously mentioned attempted cleaner). They insisted that I would have to wait until they had finished and they could also leave; by then we had finished half the store and two people had been walking around while five waxed. I sat there next to the door panicking, if I didn’t get home by a certain time I would have problems. So I called both of my parents to ask what I should do, my grandmother and my brother recommended a lawyer. After the blatant breach of the FLSA (Fair Labor Standards Act) rules regarding employees that are off the clock, I was starting to agree. I sat there for 18 minutes contemplating what to do as I quite literally had no where to go. I couldn’t break one of the slide glass doors to leave as I would be causing property damage. I couldn’t call the police as they had had several issues in our area and I didn’t know what exactly they could do to change my predicament. A few minutes later one of the customer service staff (my coworker we’ll call “T”) approached me and started asking me why I was doing this. I informed him that I had to skip my break to help them wax on time and I would have to come back at 10am for my next shift. T attempted to guilt trip me and insisted I help get “us all out of here faster”. Reminder there are FIVE buckets and SEVEN of us. He then asked me if I knew I could call in tomorrow and ask them to push back the schedule by an hour. I informed him, that in all my five years there I had no knowledge of anything of the sort. When I had it described to me the next day by a different coworker, I retorted with my full lack of trust in that as it sounded like an attempting an excuse for a later shift and I would not have myself clocked for coming in late. When I still informed T I wished to go home, he told me that I couldn’t leave until everyone else did. He then informed me that if I did help they would artificially clock me back in. I reluctantly helped them finish waxing while our closing manager talked and watched us work. I will note that T got an additional mop and tag teamed a bucket with another coworker while the closing manager watched us work. I was finally allowed to leave at 1:33am in the morning.

Regardless of all of my excessive detail, three facts of that night repeat in my mind.

1: I clocked out. 2: I informed my coworkers of my being clocked out and my intent to leave. 3: They denied my freedom and held me against my will. Should I go to HR or a Lawyer?

For additional details regarding “problems” I would have if I didn’t get home by 12.

I had my grandmother worrying what was taking me so long. My dog who had just recently started her first “time of the month” was confined to her cage and became very active and awake when someone enters the house (especially me) and needs to be let out side the house for 25-35 minutes before being put back in her cage for bedtime. I also had to sleep on my uncomfortable couch to prevent myself from sleeping in. Unfortunately my dog would wake up regardless around 8am for her morning schedule and want to be fed by regular schedule of 9am. As I mentioned she has to be in her cage while inside the house. Meaning I have to manually place her food and refill her water bowl when it’s time to eat. She will then howl at 9:30am to indicate that she was to be let out again. And I HAVE to be out there with her or she will sit by the door and do nothing or go dig holes. Keep in mind I still haven’t showered or eaten breakfast before my 10:30am shift and it is a 7-10minute drive to work.

no drinking and driving (a cart)

Changing out tags and caught this

My store just had our 2nd GTL quit in 4 months. I show up and everyone is waiting outside the door, because he texted out SM that he wasn’t doing the shitty schedule anymore. Grocery management was making him close, day off, then open at 3am twice a week. The position gets the absolute worst schedules, has the most difficult job in the store, no bonuses, no real authority, and no actual support from management. There is a reason why GTL is the highest turnover position in the company, so why doesn’t the higher-ups do something?