Second to slavery - Deli Clerk Publix Employee Review

1.0
25 Jul 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You might get free food at the end of the night, but you can’t let anyone know or they’ll get you for stealing…even if no one picks up the order. At my location I made 17 an hour which is better than most minimum wage places.

Cons

Literally everything about this job is horrible, from the tyrannical management who are somehow both demanding and lazy as all hell. You will not be treated like a person here, especially if you have a busy store-you are expected to work when you’re sick and management and your coworkers will bully you out of taking your deserved breaks. The customers make the job worse as they will not be patient and will demand the impossible while you are solely responsible for making thousands of sandwiches in person and for online orders because your coworkers will NOT help you. I was on the sub line for 6 consecutive months and it was second to slavery or indentured servitude, I begged my management and my coworkers to let me do something else or train me for another part of the deli and they all refused because then that would mean they have to do sub line, the worst part of the job that everyone including management treated like a punishment. Your coworkers will either make or break your experience here and they will most likely break any good perceptions you have of this job, mine were lazy, rude, petty, and unprofessional a majority of the time-they will call for help on sub line and then immediately disappear when you go to help them because they know they’ll get stuck there and want to fool around in kitchen or traditional then deal with customers. I would rather break every bone in my entire body then work another shift here, corporate has too many deli selections and options for the deli department to be manageable and they keep adding more and more to the menu while working their skeleton crews like slaves, they’re only missing the whips.

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5.0
1 Jun 2026
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Pros

Flexible and Friendly work environment, and great management depending on your exact store.

Cons

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3.0
29 May 2026
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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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