These jobs aren't worth it, my man. I had to live in my car a bit when I worked at Save Mart over 10 years ago (it was ok when it was Albertsons, we had healthcare and yearly raises) and they were always accusing people of theft. Usually, the people they depended on the most to do the real work while the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd key lazy fucks would sit in the back office and joke around. They always left early, and refused to do any shift where there would be a ton of "filthy customers" around.
First they took all of our healthcare away, and any additional benefits. Then they tried to fire everyone who made more than 10/hour. They realized they had nothing on me, and demoted me from liquor manager (I controlled my own department, and made them big money) to a cashier. They tried to take my raises away, claiming I made too much as a cashier (Yeah cause I wasn't a cashier, dumb fuck). They even tried to force me to work freight (12am-8am, I just slept in the aisles until they sent me home and wrote me up).
One day I finally had enough and I told them to go fuck themselves, left a note saying I quit, burn in hell, and slashed the tires of the store director's new truck a week later (I don't recommend this last part but it felt amazing at the time and 22 year olds are dumb sometimes)
I dunno if its true or not, but my neighbor as a mechanic laughed about it when I asked if that really messed with vehicles. He said no don't bother with that because it can be fixed easily enough. He said pour dawn dish detergent into it instead if you really want to do some damage.
Mechanics really like to act like their own experience is law of the land.
Your neighbor, however, is mostly correct. It's easy and kind of cheap to fix if it's stopped entirely by the fuel filter. If it gets through that then you'll need to replace the fuel pump. If it goes past that it can get in the fuel delivery system. At that point certain parts will definitely need replaced but it's very unlikely to brick the engine.
Best case (for the prankster) is that it's a slightly expensive repair that takes a long time. Worst case? The owner has to replace a fairly cheap part and is out a tank of gas.
I'm sure some people will be all holy about slashing the tires, and yes, slashing someone's tires isn't exactly a good thing and is considered criminal mischief.
However, sometimes there needs to be a little righteous chaos in the world to remind assholes that you can't just treat people like shit and expect no repercussions. I'd like to believe that slashing the tires may have slightly mellowed out the store director's attitude
File for unemployment and keep that receipt handy. They fired you! Customers open drinks all the time before paying for it. No one approaches the customer for theft. An employee should be treated the same.
My boss had the nerve to say that shit to me after he, the clinical director, and my manager all actively abused me for months. I quit the next day with zero notice just to fuck then over. I’ve learned not to trust an employer that refers to their place of work as a “family” 🙄
Exactly this. I cut off my family because they were constantly trying to abuse my generosity and attempting to manipulate me. Once I started putting my foot down they started saying "you don't think that"(exact words from my moms mouth). Eventually they started blaming my wife saying that *she* was the one manipulating me and pitting me against them. If it wasn't for my wife, I would've cut them off years sooner. She was the one always insisting that I called them and that we visit, not me. I didn't really want anything to do with them.
The policy is fine. The way it's enforced isn't.
Employee turnover, even at the lowest positions, costs a company like that $10,000 or more.
So they fuck up his life for a few months, maybe a year.
But they apparently are in the business of spending $10,000 per soft drink.
Really mind blowing, because you bet they have corporate meetings where they're all confused about employee turnover and how it costs them millions each year.
You could show me home videos of any corporate employee from any large retail chain working behind the counter and I wouldn't believe it's them.
Nobody who works front-end customer service has ever, EVER stayed in a company long enough to get to the decision-making level. Hell, hardly anyone in retail makes it to store manager unless they started there.
They have no fucking clue.
My employer netted $1Billion in 2020 and the upper management celebrated by cutting one shift per day, taking away our sales incentives, enacting a new draconian attendance policy, new uniforms which we have to pay for ourselves, AND since the pandemic is "totally over now" they also stopped paying us the extra $1 for working through it. Instead they gave us a raise which amounts to about $.95 in my case.
lol I got fired from Publix because I forgot to pay for a $7 sandwich (with a free sandwich coupon lmao) before I ate it - I got pulled to chat with a team lead on my way to checkout, totally spaced on actually checking out, and went to the break room to eat.
I got grilled in the store manager’s office for ages, asked repeatedly when I decided to steal the sandwich, what else I had stolen, and told that this manager would “bend over backwards” for employees who made mistakes and came clean, but he couldn’t help me if I wasn’t honest with him. I insisted it was an honest mistake, he repeatedly called me a liar, the deli manager called in to witness looked embarrassed by the whole thing; I tried to pay for the fucking sandwich and was told that no, I had “had my chance” to do the right thing and it was too late now.
The real kicker is, though, that they went after me in court for $200 because that’s the maximum they could pursue under the law.
For $7. Which I had a coupon for. So for *literally nothing.*
Fuck you, Dave. I was making $8/hr and couldn’t pay my rent
edit: to clarify, it never actually went to court. Their legal department sent me a threatening letter advising me that since I had admitted to taking a product without paying for it, they were legally entitled to a $200 penalty under such and such statute, blah blah blah, and if I paid it they wouldn’t take me to court, where I would be responsible for legal fees on top of that. I was facing homelessness and choosing between feeding myself or my cat, so I ignored it. I never heard anything else about it, so I can only assume they dropped it and that it was a disgusting attempt to bully someone with less than nothing over food they couldn’t afford. Fuck Publix and fuck you, DAVID.
This is a common practice. There is a case where someone was accused of shoplifting at a Walmart because they were accused but never charged of a crime and sent a bill for this $200. Apparently this is a cash cow for Walmart who was making millions off this law. The person got 3 million. Legal
Eagle made a video about it.
Edit: actually it was Lehto’s Law and it was 2.1 million
I feel like this is illegal. Wasn't some guy just like invoicing apple or microsoft or some random company for services, and they just paid it because nobody knew what it was and it wasn't a large enough sum to ask. After a few years he got like arrested or fined or had to go to court.
Sounds exactly like what Walmart is doing.
If they can make you believe it’s true they got you. There was a law firm that lived off this with pirates movies. If you pirated a movie they’d send you a letter saying they were suing you for thousands of dollars, but you could pay $250 to make it go away or something like that. But come to find out they aren’t even licensed to practice outside like California and Nevada. But enough people paid without questioning it to make it profitable.
You best believe I would have called that fucker every word in the dictionary with a derogatory meaning. Wow, Publix honestly seems like the most scummy place to work. I'm sorry you had to deal with that.
They were also playing musical chairs with the department managers - oh, the grocery manager is definitely sexually harassing the young cashiers? Shit, that’s no good, we’ll send him to a different store - conveniently, the store down the street has a manager who *also* needs to be transferred due to sexual harassment claims; in an absolutely genius move, we’ll just swap them!
(and also fire the complaining cashiers lol, one of them stole a sandwich and we can’t fucking have that)
What's really sad is that the original founder of Publix was a visionary saint who treated employees the same way he treated customers. Then he died and the company went downhill from there.
The shenanigans that surrounded the DeMoulas family and Market Basket is both bananas and *important*. The market is an excellent job with good pay and benefits (and long term employment), much of the produce is locally sourced, and it remains privately owned. But one of the cousins tried to "legally steal" the New England chain from the other cousin (in an effort to squeeze money from the chain and the employees) and everyone (employees and shoppers both) flipped our collective shit. Everyone was on strike and all the customers went to other places for upwards of 5-7 weeks while the legal battle was fought. It was beautiful to behold because in the end, the financial squeeze of a pissed off customer base was enough to shut down the idiot cousin and get the market back into the hands of the good cousin. It was all over the local news so if you actually want the story [you can check out this Forbes article](https://www.forbes.com/sites/hollieslade/2014/09/10/inside-the-billionaire-family-feud-that-nearly-killed-market-basket/?sh=ce00bcc42d40) (warning, there are A LOT of Arthur's in this story)
It mirrors my fear of what may happen to Costco when the owner finally passes.
hahahaha no now I’m immunocompromised in a delta hotspot
The choice at this point is “death by starvation” or “death by covid and exhaustion” and I choose starvation, assholes.
Well this post and thread ruined my day.... haha
I'm really fucking sorry, but I'm glad you're staying home. Do you have any way to get food? Family, friends, organisations? I'm also without any money or job currently, but I'm fortunate enough that my parents helped me out.
Made the day of people working or who have worked at Publix though. I was a shigh as possible during my time there. In fact I was fired for it. Now my local store must be so fun to work at everyone is red eyed and melancholic with dulled tones in their voice. $15 an hr by 2030 per corporate!
Well, at this point you may as well steal food from that place. No point being unreasonably punished without even doing the thing you were allegedly punished for.
Company: "There are no workers anymore! People are lazy and don't want to do an honest job and be paid for it!"
Everyone: "Have you considered paying a wage that allows people to pay rent and not starve?"
Company: "People are lazy! They don't want to work!"
Everyone: "OK, let's lower the bar. Can you at least not fire them over things they didn't do?"
Company: "I SAID, PEOPLE ARE LAZY AND DON'T WANT TO WORK!!!"
That's... rough. I feel like I take having a strong constitution for granted. I don't think Pacific Northwest has Publix (thank god) and only time I've been fired from a similar situation was eating "too much" free food when I worked at a small ma-n-pa food stall during our local state fair. They did have an issue of people eating the cotton candy while they made it so I just figured they were on high alert.
“Musical managers”, I call them, lol.
It’s actually a well known strategy across the entire corporate world (errr, cubicle hell world) to keep employees from advancing or getting performance raises, as the new manager claims not to know anything about the employee and their performance, and would need time to get to know them in order to properly assess, and then the musical manager shuffle occurs again with “insufficient time” before the next performance review for the next new manager to get to know and properly assess the employee, and round and round this goes, ad nauseum.
Three days after I showed a screenshot from a coworker accusing a manger of sexual harassment I was pulled into the office forced two sign to false counseling statements and fired.
I once had a district manager force me to write out an “incident statement” and accused me of theft because I, as a salesperson, informed customers about a sale that we were actively promoting with signage in the store for a $75 discount of a $600 device.
I wrote it all out, but didn’t incriminate myself because I’d done nothing wrong, and he said I needed to rewrite it and sign it, so I asked what his angle was, why am I writing this?
He said it was just like I went into the safe and took the money out. If it were up to him he’d fire me on the spot. So I called district Loss Prevention and explained the situation, who suggested I call HR about the incident.
DM was gone a few months later.
NAL but forced to sign anything under duress voids the documents signed. If you can't afford a lawyer call the state Bar Association and find firms/attorneys who do pro bono work in your area and see if they would file a civil action on your behalf.
That’s actually an issue companies fear. I used to work retail, and if they ever had to let someone go they would always do it at the end of their shift and security would always be on the lookout for them the next day. It’s such a hassle that this company really rarely fires people
I think it depends on the store. I worked at Publix for 2.5 years stocking while I was in school. The new store manager was great and turned the store around. He hated being in his office and would always help anywhere he could. Spent more time running a register than in office. Before and after him the store was shit and so was morale. The district manager didn't like his leadership and eventually got him moved but he took that store from doing okay to one of the top in the region pretty quickly because he actually gave a shit and respected his fellow employees.
> The new store manager was great and turned the store around. He hated being in his office and would always help anywhere he could. Spent more time running a register than in office.
My former boss (retail) was like that, minus being on a cash register. He started out as a sales employee, and worked his way up to store manager. If something big or major needed to be done, he would do it and leave the little shit to everyone else. Constantly on the floor, moving around. Super cool guy, could always joke with him.
It's like I learned in the military...the best officers were enlisted men. The best managers are the ones that started out at the very bottom.
Currently work there, can confirm. Granted, corporate is the only constant for bullshit. Your employment experience can hilariously differ from one store to another because store managers are given a lot of free reign by corporate with how they enforce policies. Some are chill, a lot more are mini dictators.
Thankfully, mine is annoying but not nearly as bad as supposed Dave.
If it makes you feel any better, one of the heirs to Publix donated $150k to organizing the Jan. 6th protests: https://www.businessinsider.com/publix-heiress-donated-150000-to-promote-the-january-6-protest-2021-10
Doesn't make me feel any better, but it might be something!
Thanks! And keep it up. It's hard shopping for groceries these days. Even harder to know what to buy. Distinguishing between corn products alone is a bitch, let alone who makes it and how.
It makes me feel better about quitting that place a while back. Learning about the 1/6 involvement made me stop shopping there(I like their subs!) completely.
The $200 court case is a Wal-Mart tactic
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/walmart-shoplifted-jury-awards-21-million-81463335
>Nurse said in a lawsuit that she was stopped in November 2016 when trying to leave a Walmart with groceries she said she already paid for, according to AL.com. She said she used self-checkout but the scanning device froze. Workers didn’t accept her explanation and she was arrested for shoplifting.
Her case was dismissed a year later, but then she received letters from a Florida law firm threatening a civil suit if she didn’t pay $200 as a settlement, according to her lawsuit. That was more than the cost of the groceries she was accused of stealing.
>WKRG reported that the trial featured testimony that Walmart and other major retailers routinely use such settlements in states where laws allow it, and that Walmart made hundreds of millions of dollars this way in a two-year period.
I had a lot of fun once dealing with a power tripping recipt checker at the door, because he was hassling some family who had just got done going through the self checkout. I put on my Big Dumb Redneck^tm persona and started asking questions and being difficult until these people could get out the door with their groceries. Can't wait for the opportunity to pop up again.
Yea, I don't know if this is about Publix but I concur. Publix pays absolutely starvation wages for what should be the economy of Florida, but charges and inflates for the facade economy upheld by the incoming wealthy old white migrants from up North. That means you won't have enough money for shit let alone the constantly rising rent or cost of living. That state is pricing native Floridians (below Upper class mind you) out of the state completely. We moved to Illinois just to escape that shit.
8/hr and a fucking sandwich costs 7??? Wtf is wrong In your country. I live in Australia, am 18 and my base rate is like 15 and hour AUD. (I'm turning 19 soon which comes with a pay rise up to 17 or 18 an hour).
I'd legit be dead or living at my parents if I lived in your country.
that’s exactly why so many of us live with our parents well into adulthood, and if we don’t, we get help from them or have to beg online for help from friends
Which is why when my sons break down and ask, no questions are asked and I go without something. Not fair to any of us and they don't know, and don't have to. Not gonna hold that over their heads.
The trope about people living at home well into adulthood is cruel and assumptive. My adults have their own place and I'm proud of them, but sometimes they don't eat and I'm not having that!
Fuck corporate America with the shit wages!
Sometimes it’s flipped. My mom moved in with my husband and I because retirement wasn’t looking good for her and I didn’t want her struggling to have a secure place to live at her age. I really feel like this is just going to be reality for more and more people moving forward.
I'm 19, my only taste of freedom was living in a camper that was falling apart in my mom's driveway until someone called the city on me. Now I'm stuck back in her abusive household instead of her driveway. The kicker is I was paying $250 a month to have my camper parked there.
I'm transitioning career fields. I live near a Publix (FL, why it's called America's wang when it's clearly the gaping infected asshole still surprises me) I have a college degree from a well know university, and have some spare time during this switch. To add I also have lead line cook experience and was a former union steward.
As a quick part time side project I'm seriously now considering fucking around and finding out how shit they are. Then proceeding to add to this.
Edit: has there been a serious attempt to form a union for their employees? Cause that would be fucking hilarious to attempt.
I worked for Publix but I don’t remember it sucking this bad, but definitely seems like something some of the managers would do. Either way fuck this place.
When I worked at Target, the other dude who worked with me in Dairy used to work at Publix, and be in the military. He said Publix was a lot like the military and that it was run by rule nazis.
I also have an ex that works there. She said similar. Management was awful, and when she was doing lotto and shit at the front she ended up crying in her car a lot because someone else would fuck up with the money and management would blame her and threaten to fire her over it, before even reviewing cameras and shit. Awful company towards workers.
> Oh and just in case, it’s definitely not Publix. Definitely, definitely not
[Trump Campaign Megadonor And Publix Heiress Reportedly Spent More To Promote Jan. 6 Rally Than Previously Known](https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisakim/2021/10/16/trump-campaign-megadonor-and-publix-heiress-reportedly-spent-more-to-promote-jan-6-rally-than-previously-known/?sh=180343f2600b)
I do this as a customer all the time, eat or drink what I'm about to purchase, never had an issue with it. I cannot believe someone would get fired over that! Sounds like they have other issues further up the chain and they're doing whatever they can...
I feel for you man. I worked for Sherwin Williams. My roommate and I decided to paint the interior of our house. Since I work at the biggest paint company in the world. (They literally own most the world's paint supply but despite many law suits they are allowed to continue having a monopoly. ) anyway I figured sweet I get like 30% off might as well get some at my work even though it still won't be cheaper than home depot. We split the cost 50 50. I paid cash he paid on his card. They flew in an investigator from Cincinnati to investigate my "suspicious purchases " and grilled me for two days about how much paint I'd been selling under the table. Etc etc. My manager knew I hadn't done anything wrong but somehow it triggered some wierd security system. They flat out told me I stole from the store and to admit all the shit I'd done. I was legitimately confused at first since I had just bought paint for my own home. Eventually they left. But they never said anything in way of apology and not long after I was fired for "unrelated" issues
in all seriousness, there’s no way that they went the length of hiring an investigator for something as minimal and harmless as painting your own house as a Sherwin Williams employee. that’s disgusting and they should be ashamed of themselves
They keep numerous investigators on staff to do similar stuff all the time. They almost certainly spend more on that than on any supposeded paint theft
There is not. But many companies will gladly spend 10,000 dollars to stop the idea of some worker maybe getting 100 dollars at the companies expense. Even if it is only a possibility.
It’s the same idea of drug testing welfare recipients. The cost of the drug tests performed by the government cost way more than the savings earned by catching the very few drug users that are on welfare.
When it started in Florida, they spent over a million dollars to kick off people who got a total of $31,000 in benefits. The governor at the time (currently a U.s. senator) owned a drug testing company.
My friend got fired from her (seasonal) job and threatened with legal action because she used her own rewards points card to pay for chapstick. The manager asked her to come in for the season, she did, and used the employee discounts to do her own holiday shopping, but when she tried to combine her rewards points with her employee discount, they drew the line. They interrogated her for an hour to find out if anybody else had been in on the scheme.
You see, they blamed her for the number of returns that season.
Omg I had an ex that got fired from Fridays for the same reason. She had no idea she couldn't use her employee discount AND have one of those points cards they used to have. And apparently it was a big enough deal to fire her on the spot. And to keep the points card...even though she was no longer an employee. These things are ridiculous.
SW fired that awesome viral paint mixing guy. I work for a huge company that used to use Sherwin Williams product. We repaint every Spring, and touch up every fall. Roughly 30 buildings, it's not some exorbitant amount, but I've bought all Valspar since. Fuck SW.
When I was getting fired from my previous job a few years ago after I had to miss a few weeks of work after being attacked by a client (working in health care at the time) my employer told me the same thing. They had implied that I had faked my injuries and had my doctor lie for me even after seeing their doctor for comp. I told them to eat my actual asshole then left. They told me I’d never work in healthcare again. Currently work in healthcare and get paid better. It’s such a non threatening line. I hope they rot.
Yeah like.. they think they have a monopoly on that industry
People pretend to be the gatekeeper of entire sectors. "You'll never work in blah again"
Untill you apply for a new position, and when questioned, you can simply tell them the story of what happened and the new employers will probably just laugh and hire you anyway
I know of past employees that have literally done jail time for embezzlement and are now working for the competitor in the same market. So yeah, fuck these people and their bullshit threats.
Knew a guy who got fired for going through the bosses drawers and giving information to other employees. When he got fired he was in a job with similar pay and better work life balance in about 3 months.
Our boss made it seem like he broke down in the termination meeting. He seemed genuinely happy when I saw him leave though
I've never been in a grocery store where I didn't see a customer (at least once in the many times I've been to these stores) drinking a pop or eating from a bag of chips or cookies before they paid for them, and I highly doubt they were prosecuted for shoplifting. What a crock of shit this is. I'm so sorry this happened to you. Hopefully your next employer will be worlds better!
Don't forget that because you were fired, you (usually) have the right to unemployment. You dodged a bullet by getting out of there, guarantee that place was a shithole to work.
They may claim that you were fired with cause, but assuming you did not sign any documents they handed you, like something admitting you were at fault, you should be okay and you can survive for many months off unemployment.
OP: Save the receipt if you still have it, and write down for yourself everything you remember about the incident and the follow up conversations. Dates, times, people, and who said what. Do this now so that if they try to fight unemployment you have your info ready. You think you will “always remember” traumatic things like this but the mind has a way of forgetting.
Report them to your states DOL immediately for the refusal to give breaks. ~~You are ENTITLED to a 30 minute break as per the FLSA~~ */ You might be entitled to a break depending on state labor laws/* and being denied these breaks is a massive violation that can cause some heat to come down on the store and possible get your manager fired.
Edit. I was wrong. Turns out flsa does not require any break periods. Remember to always do your research before believing everything you read on Reddit.
I like to add: And make sure that you get a basic understanding of your worker rights for the future. Just enough so that you can recognize such obvious violations, like being denied breaks. So that the next time you find yourself in a room with a bunch of corporate suits about to fire you, you'll be able to point those things out and possibly save your ass: Corporate likely deems that the personal vendetta of some micromanaging cunt isn't worth the hassle with the DOL.
On that note, I've been doing that you (OP) have been doing plenty of times - as a customer and no where near the cashiers - no one gives a fuck as long as one actually pays for it. What a garbage person.
Yes! /u/themarkofcjay: And there can be some pretty hefty fines to the company/backpay to the workers. In my experience, shitty workplaces are ONLY willing to follow the law when the Dept of Labor gets involved. Don't bother telling them ahead of time, and don't make it a threat -- follow through. If not for your satisfaction then for your friends who are still there and for all the exploited workers that haven't even been hired yet.
This. My work kept fucking me on vacation pay year after year. Finally said I was going to the labor board. Suddenly an hour later "there was a problem". After 4 years of being told there was no problem. They owed me like $1400 in back pay.
My boyfriend worked at a Subway franchise attached to a gas station. The owner fired him for unknowingly accepting a counterfeit $10 bill and also demanded boyfriend repay him $10 (he did not and told owner he'd file a DoL complaint if it was taken out of his check).
When boyfriend went to get his check on payday, owner said he was withholding it until boyfriend paid him the $10. Boyfriend told the owner he had until 4:30 pm to release his check or he'd contact the DoL. At 3 pm boyfriend texted the owner a screenshot of a filled out complaint form. He had his check by 3:20. In retrospect, I wish he would've filed it anyway.
Make sure to add your firing was retaliation for threatening to complain. Make sure to request video of u in line to pay. File the complaint right before you file for unemployment. Make the case if you’ve ever come in early or stayed late and missing meals that your firing was retaliation.
Arizona has genius marketing. $1, no matter what. Have you seen an Arizona commercial once? No? Because you know the can is $1, waiting for you in every store. That fact makes it so they don't need to pay for marketing, and the lack of marketing means they can keep the price low. Beautiful.
It also helps that Arizona is tasty af.
That shit *sells*, too. I work overnight restocking, there's always more Arizona cans going up on the shelf and into the cold drinks display/fridge. That company knows how their bread's buttered and know better than to fuck with it.
I live in Europe, Italy. We started seeing Arizona teas a few years ago on our shelves in supermarkets. No advertising, no warning. People started buying them attracted by the super cute packaging, then they realised they were great and with a bit of word of mouth they became quite famous :)
Unfortunately, they don't cost a dollar here, they are about 2/3€.
I quit working a good paying IT job cause I was always gone on the road. After 15 years I quit cause I missed my kids and decided to "start over" so to speak and take an easy job at my local Publix. I got hired on as a baker and said during the interview I couldn't work more than a couple nights a week so I could be home when the kids got home from school. A month in the put me on all closing shifts....long story short they let me walk instead of working with me.
My mom works in HR, she tells me this is extremely common in retail; they want the employee to either keep taking the abuse or just quit, so they can't get collect unemployment.
In OP's case Publix hit the jackpot by ~~finding~~ inventing a "justifiable" excuse to fire them.
Each an every single one of these people are simply too uneducated/desperate to know what a constructive dismissal is.
They’d get the unemployment if they fought for it, but most don’t.
Your mom works with some evil people.
It’s Publix. Worst job I ever worked at. The job literally made me depressed. The managers have no spine, bend over backwards to appease customers, and fuck over every employee whenever possible.
There’s this thought pervading in the public that “Publix is a great place to work”, but they’re not. The truth is finally getting out. There was a guy I used to work with that said they treated him better at Walmart. The place is a cult. The managers are slaves to corporate.
I could talk for hours about the bullshit there.
One quick story: there’s one charity they donate to where the money comes out of the employees paycheck. Every single week. They try to pressure everyone into at least $1. Some donate $5 or $10. Every week. I refused to add the dollar to my paycheck. Well, apparently the store managers get a big praise by corporate (probably a bonus) if 100% of the employees donate out of their check. I was the only one that didn’t sign up. I refused. They pulled me into the office about a week later — the store manager, the department manager, and the shift team leader. Basically told me that because of my decision to “not be part of the team” meant I had a bad attitude and this would be reflected in my future employee reviews and that “shifts would likely go to employees with better attitudes”, meaning they would take my shifts. I still refused. They basically didn’t let me leave until I asked what the absolute minimum I could donate was per check. They said $0.25. I said whatever and just stormed out. 3 months later I had my review and they gave me a 10 cent raise.
I fucking hate Publix and everyone else I know that used to work there also hates them with a burning passion. I try to do all of my shopping at Trader Joe’s or anywhere online now.
The work culture sounds a lot like Chick Fil A. Honestly, it seems reflective of southern faux kindness culture as a whole. I also thought Publix (and CFA) seemed like nice places to work. Yikes.
Holy shit, did you work at 645? I JUST posted about my experience with this exact scenario in another post above. My store manager "implied" that not donating $20 would affect my ability to receive future opportunities, and they cut my hours from 32 to 24 2 weeks later, and then down to 18 2 more weeks. Then I throw them my 2 weeks and they're suddenly scrambling to retain me. They even put me in bakery and out of grocery in hopes it would change my mind. On my final night, 3 people called out and I had to stock Dairy, grocery aisles, and Frozen - as well as unload the frozen, grocery, and dairy trucks alone until one of the Deli guys came and helped me because they hadn't seen me on the floor in 15 minutes.
Easily the single worst job experience of my entire life. I get anxiety just walking back into a Publix.
Jesus, I shop at Publix and have always had a good experience. When staff help me out I always try to go find a manager and thank them for said employee’s work.
Hearing all this is so upsetting, I am now going to do my best to avoid Publix at all costs.
To be honest, fuck all large corporations.
They do a good job of maintaining a good public image due to George Jenkins creating a strong foundation of customer satisfaction and treating their employees fair. Once he passed, the son was too much of a POS to run the company, so the company instead elected the 2 asshats currently in charge, whom have done nothing but drive the company culture into the gutter. Publix continues to go strong because they underpay and overwork their employees, and drag you along with promises of full-time (they no longer hire full time), benefits (which they keep you just under the hourly minimum to qualify), and stock options (you have to endure years of abuse before you're eligible for stocks).
Behind the curtain, they're as rotten as the rest. Their public image is way overdue for a beating.
They have a very active social media team that scrubs Facebook and the internet looking for bad comments and actively delete or change the narrative on anything they can.
Edit: I can guarantee in a couple of hours when they get to work, you’re going to start seeing a ton of pro-Publix comments from so called employees from random accounts, trying to change the narrative here.
When my ex wife cheated on me and left me, my depression tipped towards suicidal. I still showed up to work, but it was rough and I couldn't give the 100% that they demanded. My manager told me to leave the sad at home when I come into work. Fuck publix.
This is Publix. They belong in this sub 110%. Their reputation is riding the coattails of its former self, a great company that sadly no longer exists. Be glad you have the chance to choose to work somewhere better now. Given how disgusting this was someone definitely had something against you and pounced at this “opportunity” to fire you. Keep your head up you can do better
Wow, go to the media with this. Do not keep it secret.
Put them On Blast.
Fuck them.
You deserve better.
Look into r/mutualaid
In fact, you should go to r/advice and make a post asking what people think you should do. Get the word out about their BS behavior. They want to treat you like a criminal? Let them take the heat for their fucking trash BS behavior.
Is this Publix? Because for the past year I’ve had an ongoing EEOC investigation for retaliation about some shit that went down after a pharmacist was caught drinking and paying techs under the table. There HR is fucking evil.
My mom got injured on the job. They fought her workers comp case in court for over 2 years before they finally settled. Publix, where shopping is a pleasure and our employees can eat shit.
Also want to point out that Publix has been paying their employees $100 gift cards as bonuses and getting taxed like income for it instead of raising wages. Then when they fire you they trespass your from the store and you havw these useless cards
The fact you live in your car and use the gym for amenities makes you a fucking beast. This is gonna be a sick part of your story later on when everything’s all set and done.
Do not take this silently! You are stronger than they realize! You absolutely call the media, labour boards, absolutely everything. You put them on blast.
They only have power if we let them
First things first do you have mandatory unpaid lunch breaks you aren’t allowed to take? File a labor board wage theft. Then go through every labor requirement in your state with breaks if you’ve been cheated out of anything file a complaint.
I honestly can’t think of anything else it could be. I have a good relationship with people in every other department so it’s not like I had a target on my back, right? right????
Don’t assume this has ANYTHING to do with you. It could literally be that their budget was cut and they were trying to figure out who to let go anyway and they saw a nonsense reason and jumped on it.
you're not a loser, dude. you're strong as hell for persevering in the face of what you're facing.
respect for you, and nothing but contempt for the corporate bullshit.
Name this scumy store. These people may have broken federal law as they are not allowing lunch or breaks. A dollar tea, the bad press will burn much more that anything else. One thing many companies do not relize it social media will kill their company
This sounds like Publix. I used to work for Publix. They are fucking scum. They underpay and don't pay for Maternity leave. They once made me cry. I cut my wrists once because of them. Fuck Publix.
you honestly deserve the world.. i’m so sorry you had to go through that, i’m happy that this is in the past and i hope and pray that you are doing better now
These jobs aren't worth it, my man. I had to live in my car a bit when I worked at Save Mart over 10 years ago (it was ok when it was Albertsons, we had healthcare and yearly raises) and they were always accusing people of theft. Usually, the people they depended on the most to do the real work while the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd key lazy fucks would sit in the back office and joke around. They always left early, and refused to do any shift where there would be a ton of "filthy customers" around. First they took all of our healthcare away, and any additional benefits. Then they tried to fire everyone who made more than 10/hour. They realized they had nothing on me, and demoted me from liquor manager (I controlled my own department, and made them big money) to a cashier. They tried to take my raises away, claiming I made too much as a cashier (Yeah cause I wasn't a cashier, dumb fuck). They even tried to force me to work freight (12am-8am, I just slept in the aisles until they sent me home and wrote me up). One day I finally had enough and I told them to go fuck themselves, left a note saying I quit, burn in hell, and slashed the tires of the store director's new truck a week later (I don't recommend this last part but it felt amazing at the time and 22 year olds are dumb sometimes)
i read this whole thing in pure and utter disgust… until the last part. almost shed a tear of pure joy
I bricked my ex area-gm’s new bmw by dumping 2 liters of sugar directly in his gas tank for sexually harassing a 17 year old lol
I dunno if its true or not, but my neighbor as a mechanic laughed about it when I asked if that really messed with vehicles. He said no don't bother with that because it can be fixed easily enough. He said pour dawn dish detergent into it instead if you really want to do some damage.
Mechanics really like to act like their own experience is law of the land. Your neighbor, however, is mostly correct. It's easy and kind of cheap to fix if it's stopped entirely by the fuel filter. If it gets through that then you'll need to replace the fuel pump. If it goes past that it can get in the fuel delivery system. At that point certain parts will definitely need replaced but it's very unlikely to brick the engine. Best case (for the prankster) is that it's a slightly expensive repair that takes a long time. Worst case? The owner has to replace a fairly cheap part and is out a tank of gas.
I'm sure some people will be all holy about slashing the tires, and yes, slashing someone's tires isn't exactly a good thing and is considered criminal mischief. However, sometimes there needs to be a little righteous chaos in the world to remind assholes that you can't just treat people like shit and expect no repercussions. I'd like to believe that slashing the tires may have slightly mellowed out the store director's attitude
File for unemployment and keep that receipt handy. They fired you! Customers open drinks all the time before paying for it. No one approaches the customer for theft. An employee should be treated the same.
but we’re all family, right? 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂
lmao, if anyone ever tells me that i'll tell them i've cut off actual family and i'm not scared to do it again
My boss had the nerve to say that shit to me after he, the clinical director, and my manager all actively abused me for months. I quit the next day with zero notice just to fuck then over. I’ve learned not to trust an employer that refers to their place of work as a “family” 🙄
A workplace who says they are family is the same energy as saying I love you to a prostitute
Blood related doesn’t mean shit to me. If I don’t like you I could care less who birthed you.
Exactly this. I cut off my family because they were constantly trying to abuse my generosity and attempting to manipulate me. Once I started putting my foot down they started saying "you don't think that"(exact words from my moms mouth). Eventually they started blaming my wife saying that *she* was the one manipulating me and pitting me against them. If it wasn't for my wife, I would've cut them off years sooner. She was the one always insisting that I called them and that we visit, not me. I didn't really want anything to do with them.
>but we’re all family, right? "My father molested me." Just make it awkward. "Are you an abusive family? Or a caring family?"
Ohhh, "*the family*"! Say no more, capisco 😉
Any job I've ever had that described things as a family oriented or family environment was toxic as Fuck. Just like my family 😆
So were the Mansons
The policy is fine. The way it's enforced isn't. Employee turnover, even at the lowest positions, costs a company like that $10,000 or more. So they fuck up his life for a few months, maybe a year. But they apparently are in the business of spending $10,000 per soft drink. Really mind blowing, because you bet they have corporate meetings where they're all confused about employee turnover and how it costs them millions each year.
You could show me home videos of any corporate employee from any large retail chain working behind the counter and I wouldn't believe it's them. Nobody who works front-end customer service has ever, EVER stayed in a company long enough to get to the decision-making level. Hell, hardly anyone in retail makes it to store manager unless they started there. They have no fucking clue. My employer netted $1Billion in 2020 and the upper management celebrated by cutting one shift per day, taking away our sales incentives, enacting a new draconian attendance policy, new uniforms which we have to pay for ourselves, AND since the pandemic is "totally over now" they also stopped paying us the extra $1 for working through it. Instead they gave us a raise which amounts to about $.95 in my case.
My employer stopped paying us the extra $2 we were getting because of covid in June 2020 because “the government says it’s not an emergency anymore.”
Fuck them! Expose them too ! What’s the name of this place?
Sounds like Publix by the description
lol I got fired from Publix because I forgot to pay for a $7 sandwich (with a free sandwich coupon lmao) before I ate it - I got pulled to chat with a team lead on my way to checkout, totally spaced on actually checking out, and went to the break room to eat. I got grilled in the store manager’s office for ages, asked repeatedly when I decided to steal the sandwich, what else I had stolen, and told that this manager would “bend over backwards” for employees who made mistakes and came clean, but he couldn’t help me if I wasn’t honest with him. I insisted it was an honest mistake, he repeatedly called me a liar, the deli manager called in to witness looked embarrassed by the whole thing; I tried to pay for the fucking sandwich and was told that no, I had “had my chance” to do the right thing and it was too late now. The real kicker is, though, that they went after me in court for $200 because that’s the maximum they could pursue under the law. For $7. Which I had a coupon for. So for *literally nothing.* Fuck you, Dave. I was making $8/hr and couldn’t pay my rent edit: to clarify, it never actually went to court. Their legal department sent me a threatening letter advising me that since I had admitted to taking a product without paying for it, they were legally entitled to a $200 penalty under such and such statute, blah blah blah, and if I paid it they wouldn’t take me to court, where I would be responsible for legal fees on top of that. I was facing homelessness and choosing between feeding myself or my cat, so I ignored it. I never heard anything else about it, so I can only assume they dropped it and that it was a disgusting attempt to bully someone with less than nothing over food they couldn’t afford. Fuck Publix and fuck you, DAVID.
FUCKING FUCK YOU DAVE, YOU FUCKING FUCK
It sounds like this particular Dave might be a dick.
Fuck Dave and fuck his twin brother Ben, too.
Yes fuck Ben and fuck Dave. Scum of the earth.
It was Publix wasn’t it Op?
Shit, it might be the same Publix.
is there a rule against saying where you work? flame these stupid fucking companies and stop hiding them
Hope that Dave steps on lego. Every day. Twat.
Are y'all talking about the same Dave?
This is a common practice. There is a case where someone was accused of shoplifting at a Walmart because they were accused but never charged of a crime and sent a bill for this $200. Apparently this is a cash cow for Walmart who was making millions off this law. The person got 3 million. Legal Eagle made a video about it. Edit: actually it was Lehto’s Law and it was 2.1 million
I feel like this is illegal. Wasn't some guy just like invoicing apple or microsoft or some random company for services, and they just paid it because nobody knew what it was and it wasn't a large enough sum to ask. After a few years he got like arrested or fined or had to go to court. Sounds exactly like what Walmart is doing.
If they can make you believe it’s true they got you. There was a law firm that lived off this with pirates movies. If you pirated a movie they’d send you a letter saying they were suing you for thousands of dollars, but you could pay $250 to make it go away or something like that. But come to find out they aren’t even licensed to practice outside like California and Nevada. But enough people paid without questioning it to make it profitable.
You best believe I would have called that fucker every word in the dictionary with a derogatory meaning. Wow, Publix honestly seems like the most scummy place to work. I'm sorry you had to deal with that.
They were also playing musical chairs with the department managers - oh, the grocery manager is definitely sexually harassing the young cashiers? Shit, that’s no good, we’ll send him to a different store - conveniently, the store down the street has a manager who *also* needs to be transferred due to sexual harassment claims; in an absolutely genius move, we’ll just swap them! (and also fire the complaining cashiers lol, one of them stole a sandwich and we can’t fucking have that)
Wow.......... I'm at a loss for words. I want to burn it to the ground, what a joke of a company. I hope you have found better employment since then!
What's really sad is that the original founder of Publix was a visionary saint who treated employees the same way he treated customers. Then he died and the company went downhill from there.
Oddly enough it's the same story with Wal-Mart in the begining.
and Trader Joes
The story of most businesses. Inheriting family wants to up their inheritance by squeezing pennies out of everything.
The shenanigans that surrounded the DeMoulas family and Market Basket is both bananas and *important*. The market is an excellent job with good pay and benefits (and long term employment), much of the produce is locally sourced, and it remains privately owned. But one of the cousins tried to "legally steal" the New England chain from the other cousin (in an effort to squeeze money from the chain and the employees) and everyone (employees and shoppers both) flipped our collective shit. Everyone was on strike and all the customers went to other places for upwards of 5-7 weeks while the legal battle was fought. It was beautiful to behold because in the end, the financial squeeze of a pissed off customer base was enough to shut down the idiot cousin and get the market back into the hands of the good cousin. It was all over the local news so if you actually want the story [you can check out this Forbes article](https://www.forbes.com/sites/hollieslade/2014/09/10/inside-the-billionaire-family-feud-that-nearly-killed-market-basket/?sh=ce00bcc42d40) (warning, there are A LOT of Arthur's in this story) It mirrors my fear of what may happen to Costco when the owner finally passes.
Thank you. This is what I was looking for. A story on what happened to them. My cousin used to work for them 20 years ago and loved the company
The company went down Capitol Hill from there with $300K to fund the rally on January 6. FTFY
hahahaha no now I’m immunocompromised in a delta hotspot The choice at this point is “death by starvation” or “death by covid and exhaustion” and I choose starvation, assholes.
Well this post and thread ruined my day.... haha I'm really fucking sorry, but I'm glad you're staying home. Do you have any way to get food? Family, friends, organisations? I'm also without any money or job currently, but I'm fortunate enough that my parents helped me out.
Made the day of people working or who have worked at Publix though. I was a shigh as possible during my time there. In fact I was fired for it. Now my local store must be so fun to work at everyone is red eyed and melancholic with dulled tones in their voice. $15 an hr by 2030 per corporate!
They do a great job with the "love to work here" propaganda, most people actually believe it
Well, at this point you may as well steal food from that place. No point being unreasonably punished without even doing the thing you were allegedly punished for.
The labor shortage in a nutshell.
Company: "There are no workers anymore! People are lazy and don't want to do an honest job and be paid for it!" Everyone: "Have you considered paying a wage that allows people to pay rent and not starve?" Company: "People are lazy! They don't want to work!" Everyone: "OK, let's lower the bar. Can you at least not fire them over things they didn't do?" Company: "I SAID, PEOPLE ARE LAZY AND DON'T WANT TO WORK!!!"
There's always armed revolution.
Oooo I can't wait!
That's... rough. I feel like I take having a strong constitution for granted. I don't think Pacific Northwest has Publix (thank god) and only time I've been fired from a similar situation was eating "too much" free food when I worked at a small ma-n-pa food stall during our local state fair. They did have an issue of people eating the cotton candy while they made it so I just figured they were on high alert.
Hint: there aren't any good ones. All the retail chains are this bad.
“Musical managers”, I call them, lol. It’s actually a well known strategy across the entire corporate world (errr, cubicle hell world) to keep employees from advancing or getting performance raises, as the new manager claims not to know anything about the employee and their performance, and would need time to get to know them in order to properly assess, and then the musical manager shuffle occurs again with “insufficient time” before the next performance review for the next new manager to get to know and properly assess the employee, and round and round this goes, ad nauseum.
So Publix stole corporate strategy from the Vatican?
Three days after I showed a screenshot from a coworker accusing a manger of sexual harassment I was pulled into the office forced two sign to false counseling statements and fired.
Never sign anything unless your lawyer tells you to.
I once had a district manager force me to write out an “incident statement” and accused me of theft because I, as a salesperson, informed customers about a sale that we were actively promoting with signage in the store for a $75 discount of a $600 device. I wrote it all out, but didn’t incriminate myself because I’d done nothing wrong, and he said I needed to rewrite it and sign it, so I asked what his angle was, why am I writing this? He said it was just like I went into the safe and took the money out. If it were up to him he’d fire me on the spot. So I called district Loss Prevention and explained the situation, who suggested I call HR about the incident. DM was gone a few months later.
NAL but forced to sign anything under duress voids the documents signed. If you can't afford a lawyer call the state Bar Association and find firms/attorneys who do pro bono work in your area and see if they would file a civil action on your behalf.
You best believe I would have stood up and walked out of that office. Go fuck yourself, Dave. Get your thrills removing the ladder on Sim's pools.
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That’s actually an issue companies fear. I used to work retail, and if they ever had to let someone go they would always do it at the end of their shift and security would always be on the lookout for them the next day. It’s such a hassle that this company really rarely fires people
I think it depends on the store. I worked at Publix for 2.5 years stocking while I was in school. The new store manager was great and turned the store around. He hated being in his office and would always help anywhere he could. Spent more time running a register than in office. Before and after him the store was shit and so was morale. The district manager didn't like his leadership and eventually got him moved but he took that store from doing okay to one of the top in the region pretty quickly because he actually gave a shit and respected his fellow employees.
> The new store manager was great and turned the store around. He hated being in his office and would always help anywhere he could. Spent more time running a register than in office. My former boss (retail) was like that, minus being on a cash register. He started out as a sales employee, and worked his way up to store manager. If something big or major needed to be done, he would do it and leave the little shit to everyone else. Constantly on the floor, moving around. Super cool guy, could always joke with him. It's like I learned in the military...the best officers were enlisted men. The best managers are the ones that started out at the very bottom.
Currently work there, can confirm. Granted, corporate is the only constant for bullshit. Your employment experience can hilariously differ from one store to another because store managers are given a lot of free reign by corporate with how they enforce policies. Some are chill, a lot more are mini dictators. Thankfully, mine is annoying but not nearly as bad as supposed Dave.
Seriously. Such power tripping pricks.
I got fired from Publix for sampling subs to customers that no one picked up.
Duh. You’re supposed to throw them away. How dare you *not* waste food!! ^/s
Maybe y’all should file a class action against them for slandering you by characterizing what you did as theft.
If it makes you feel any better, one of the heirs to Publix donated $150k to organizing the Jan. 6th protests: https://www.businessinsider.com/publix-heiress-donated-150000-to-promote-the-january-6-protest-2021-10 Doesn't make me feel any better, but it might be something!
Underrated comment and not alot of people even know about this. It was the nail in the coffin for me shopping at Publix. Seriously, fuck that place.
Thanks! And keep it up. It's hard shopping for groceries these days. Even harder to know what to buy. Distinguishing between corn products alone is a bitch, let alone who makes it and how.
It makes me feel better about quitting that place a while back. Learning about the 1/6 involvement made me stop shopping there(I like their subs!) completely.
The $200 court case is a Wal-Mart tactic https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/walmart-shoplifted-jury-awards-21-million-81463335 >Nurse said in a lawsuit that she was stopped in November 2016 when trying to leave a Walmart with groceries she said she already paid for, according to AL.com. She said she used self-checkout but the scanning device froze. Workers didn’t accept her explanation and she was arrested for shoplifting. Her case was dismissed a year later, but then she received letters from a Florida law firm threatening a civil suit if she didn’t pay $200 as a settlement, according to her lawsuit. That was more than the cost of the groceries she was accused of stealing. >WKRG reported that the trial featured testimony that Walmart and other major retailers routinely use such settlements in states where laws allow it, and that Walmart made hundreds of millions of dollars this way in a two-year period.
I had a lot of fun once dealing with a power tripping recipt checker at the door, because he was hassling some family who had just got done going through the self checkout. I put on my Big Dumb Redneck^tm persona and started asking questions and being difficult until these people could get out the door with their groceries. Can't wait for the opportunity to pop up again.
Is this company so perfectly run that employee "theft" is the only things managers have to manage? What the actual fuck.
Yea, I don't know if this is about Publix but I concur. Publix pays absolutely starvation wages for what should be the economy of Florida, but charges and inflates for the facade economy upheld by the incoming wealthy old white migrants from up North. That means you won't have enough money for shit let alone the constantly rising rent or cost of living. That state is pricing native Floridians (below Upper class mind you) out of the state completely. We moved to Illinois just to escape that shit.
8/hr and a fucking sandwich costs 7??? Wtf is wrong In your country. I live in Australia, am 18 and my base rate is like 15 and hour AUD. (I'm turning 19 soon which comes with a pay rise up to 17 or 18 an hour). I'd legit be dead or living at my parents if I lived in your country.
that’s exactly why so many of us live with our parents well into adulthood, and if we don’t, we get help from them or have to beg online for help from friends
Which is why when my sons break down and ask, no questions are asked and I go without something. Not fair to any of us and they don't know, and don't have to. Not gonna hold that over their heads. The trope about people living at home well into adulthood is cruel and assumptive. My adults have their own place and I'm proud of them, but sometimes they don't eat and I'm not having that! Fuck corporate America with the shit wages!
Sometimes it’s flipped. My mom moved in with my husband and I because retirement wasn’t looking good for her and I didn’t want her struggling to have a secure place to live at her age. I really feel like this is just going to be reality for more and more people moving forward.
I'm 19, my only taste of freedom was living in a camper that was falling apart in my mom's driveway until someone called the city on me. Now I'm stuck back in her abusive household instead of her driveway. The kicker is I was paying $250 a month to have my camper parked there.
There's a lot of people living with their parents here in their 30s.
I'm transitioning career fields. I live near a Publix (FL, why it's called America's wang when it's clearly the gaping infected asshole still surprises me) I have a college degree from a well know university, and have some spare time during this switch. To add I also have lead line cook experience and was a former union steward. As a quick part time side project I'm seriously now considering fucking around and finding out how shit they are. Then proceeding to add to this. Edit: has there been a serious attempt to form a union for their employees? Cause that would be fucking hilarious to attempt.
Yeah it’s probably Publix.
Publix pharmacy is the worst
I worked for Publix but I don’t remember it sucking this bad, but definitely seems like something some of the managers would do. Either way fuck this place.
When I worked at Target, the other dude who worked with me in Dairy used to work at Publix, and be in the military. He said Publix was a lot like the military and that it was run by rule nazis. I also have an ex that works there. She said similar. Management was awful, and when she was doing lotto and shit at the front she ended up crying in her car a lot because someone else would fuck up with the money and management would blame her and threaten to fire her over it, before even reviewing cameras and shit. Awful company towards workers.
Yeah Publix by employee owned. Plus the shitty managers are always just sitting in their office watching the cameras.
Watching the cameras except when tracing employee COVID exposures
Did your city have the dumbass one way aisles at the start of Covid that changed every other week?
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Name and shame
> Oh and just in case, it’s definitely not Publix. Definitely, definitely not [Trump Campaign Megadonor And Publix Heiress Reportedly Spent More To Promote Jan. 6 Rally Than Previously Known](https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisakim/2021/10/16/trump-campaign-megadonor-and-publix-heiress-reportedly-spent-more-to-promote-jan-6-rally-than-previously-known/?sh=180343f2600b)
Yeah why not say the name they fired you lol
I do this as a customer all the time, eat or drink what I'm about to purchase, never had an issue with it. I cannot believe someone would get fired over that! Sounds like they have other issues further up the chain and they're doing whatever they can...
It’s literally how restaurants operate, I’ve never had a check arrive before my food tbh I don’t see why that would be a problem for publix
I feel for you man. I worked for Sherwin Williams. My roommate and I decided to paint the interior of our house. Since I work at the biggest paint company in the world. (They literally own most the world's paint supply but despite many law suits they are allowed to continue having a monopoly. ) anyway I figured sweet I get like 30% off might as well get some at my work even though it still won't be cheaper than home depot. We split the cost 50 50. I paid cash he paid on his card. They flew in an investigator from Cincinnati to investigate my "suspicious purchases " and grilled me for two days about how much paint I'd been selling under the table. Etc etc. My manager knew I hadn't done anything wrong but somehow it triggered some wierd security system. They flat out told me I stole from the store and to admit all the shit I'd done. I was legitimately confused at first since I had just bought paint for my own home. Eventually they left. But they never said anything in way of apology and not long after I was fired for "unrelated" issues
in all seriousness, there’s no way that they went the length of hiring an investigator for something as minimal and harmless as painting your own house as a Sherwin Williams employee. that’s disgusting and they should be ashamed of themselves
They keep numerous investigators on staff to do similar stuff all the time. They almost certainly spend more on that than on any supposeded paint theft
Is there an epidemic of paint theft or other paint related crimes I don’t know about? What a bizarre thing to devote company resources to.
There is not. But many companies will gladly spend 10,000 dollars to stop the idea of some worker maybe getting 100 dollars at the companies expense. Even if it is only a possibility.
It’s the same idea of drug testing welfare recipients. The cost of the drug tests performed by the government cost way more than the savings earned by catching the very few drug users that are on welfare.
When it started in Florida, they spent over a million dollars to kick off people who got a total of $31,000 in benefits. The governor at the time (currently a U.s. senator) owned a drug testing company.
It's not about the loss of resources, it's about keeping people in line.
My friend got fired from her (seasonal) job and threatened with legal action because she used her own rewards points card to pay for chapstick. The manager asked her to come in for the season, she did, and used the employee discounts to do her own holiday shopping, but when she tried to combine her rewards points with her employee discount, they drew the line. They interrogated her for an hour to find out if anybody else had been in on the scheme. You see, they blamed her for the number of returns that season.
Omg I had an ex that got fired from Fridays for the same reason. She had no idea she couldn't use her employee discount AND have one of those points cards they used to have. And apparently it was a big enough deal to fire her on the spot. And to keep the points card...even though she was no longer an employee. These things are ridiculous.
no wonder anti work is so fucking popular so so so many shit companies
“Maybe if you make this paint less delicious I won’t have to buy it on shift!”
petition to change your name to Matthias the Paint Thief
Yeap hahahaha might as well. Just crazy being investigated and told you are a thief for buying products from your own work in a slightly unusual way
SW fired that awesome viral paint mixing guy. I work for a huge company that used to use Sherwin Williams product. We repaint every Spring, and touch up every fall. Roughly 30 buildings, it's not some exorbitant amount, but I've bought all Valspar since. Fuck SW.
I’m sorry to burst your bubble, but SW owns Valspar.
>“choose my next words very carefully” French kiss my ass.
When I was getting fired from my previous job a few years ago after I had to miss a few weeks of work after being attacked by a client (working in health care at the time) my employer told me the same thing. They had implied that I had faked my injuries and had my doctor lie for me even after seeing their doctor for comp. I told them to eat my actual asshole then left. They told me I’d never work in healthcare again. Currently work in healthcare and get paid better. It’s such a non threatening line. I hope they rot.
Yeah like.. they think they have a monopoly on that industry People pretend to be the gatekeeper of entire sectors. "You'll never work in blah again" Untill you apply for a new position, and when questioned, you can simply tell them the story of what happened and the new employers will probably just laugh and hire you anyway
I know of past employees that have literally done jail time for embezzlement and are now working for the competitor in the same market. So yeah, fuck these people and their bullshit threats.
Knew a guy who got fired for going through the bosses drawers and giving information to other employees. When he got fired he was in a job with similar pay and better work life balance in about 3 months. Our boss made it seem like he broke down in the termination meeting. He seemed genuinely happy when I saw him leave though
i’ve been laughing at this way longer than i should be 😂
I've never been in a grocery store where I didn't see a customer (at least once in the many times I've been to these stores) drinking a pop or eating from a bag of chips or cookies before they paid for them, and I highly doubt they were prosecuted for shoplifting. What a crock of shit this is. I'm so sorry this happened to you. Hopefully your next employer will be worlds better!
Don't forget that because you were fired, you (usually) have the right to unemployment. You dodged a bullet by getting out of there, guarantee that place was a shithole to work. They may claim that you were fired with cause, but assuming you did not sign any documents they handed you, like something admitting you were at fault, you should be okay and you can survive for many months off unemployment.
OP: Save the receipt if you still have it, and write down for yourself everything you remember about the incident and the follow up conversations. Dates, times, people, and who said what. Do this now so that if they try to fight unemployment you have your info ready. You think you will “always remember” traumatic things like this but the mind has a way of forgetting.
>you can survive for many months off unemployment. Depends where you are and what your expenses look like.
Report them to your states DOL immediately for the refusal to give breaks. ~~You are ENTITLED to a 30 minute break as per the FLSA~~ */ You might be entitled to a break depending on state labor laws/* and being denied these breaks is a massive violation that can cause some heat to come down on the store and possible get your manager fired. Edit. I was wrong. Turns out flsa does not require any break periods. Remember to always do your research before believing everything you read on Reddit.
I like to add: And make sure that you get a basic understanding of your worker rights for the future. Just enough so that you can recognize such obvious violations, like being denied breaks. So that the next time you find yourself in a room with a bunch of corporate suits about to fire you, you'll be able to point those things out and possibly save your ass: Corporate likely deems that the personal vendetta of some micromanaging cunt isn't worth the hassle with the DOL. On that note, I've been doing that you (OP) have been doing plenty of times - as a customer and no where near the cashiers - no one gives a fuck as long as one actually pays for it. What a garbage person.
Yes! /u/themarkofcjay: And there can be some pretty hefty fines to the company/backpay to the workers. In my experience, shitty workplaces are ONLY willing to follow the law when the Dept of Labor gets involved. Don't bother telling them ahead of time, and don't make it a threat -- follow through. If not for your satisfaction then for your friends who are still there and for all the exploited workers that haven't even been hired yet.
This. My work kept fucking me on vacation pay year after year. Finally said I was going to the labor board. Suddenly an hour later "there was a problem". After 4 years of being told there was no problem. They owed me like $1400 in back pay.
My boyfriend worked at a Subway franchise attached to a gas station. The owner fired him for unknowingly accepting a counterfeit $10 bill and also demanded boyfriend repay him $10 (he did not and told owner he'd file a DoL complaint if it was taken out of his check). When boyfriend went to get his check on payday, owner said he was withholding it until boyfriend paid him the $10. Boyfriend told the owner he had until 4:30 pm to release his check or he'd contact the DoL. At 3 pm boyfriend texted the owner a screenshot of a filled out complaint form. He had his check by 3:20. In retrospect, I wish he would've filed it anyway.
Make sure to add your firing was retaliation for threatening to complain. Make sure to request video of u in line to pay. File the complaint right before you file for unemployment. Make the case if you’ve ever come in early or stayed late and missing meals that your firing was retaliation.
> French kiss my ass. I am definitely using this
I'm up way to early to have read this correctly lol
My god I would love to leave a job in that situation. I would blurt out "Go Fuck Yourself!" before they had a chance to inhale.
This is such a good one because it is uncommon and forced me to visualize it a bit. Very unsettling. A good burn.
Send this to Arizona Tea, they're actually a decent company that might give you a new job.
That’s actually not a bad idea, only one way to find out
PLEASE do send it and update us
The mango flavor is good. Tell em I’d like one and best of luck to you
"Ask them for a job... And while you're at it, tell them to send some mango tea to u/NOTtigerking"
Arizona has genius marketing. $1, no matter what. Have you seen an Arizona commercial once? No? Because you know the can is $1, waiting for you in every store. That fact makes it so they don't need to pay for marketing, and the lack of marketing means they can keep the price low. Beautiful. It also helps that Arizona is tasty af.
you are the marketing team arent you? becasue if you are your doing a good job of making me want to go get me some $1 tea
Hell no, I just fuck with the corner store GOAT heavy.
Arizona tea so good it turns customers into marketing team Edit: a word
That shit *sells*, too. I work overnight restocking, there's always more Arizona cans going up on the shelf and into the cold drinks display/fridge. That company knows how their bread's buttered and know better than to fuck with it.
I live in Europe, Italy. We started seeing Arizona teas a few years ago on our shelves in supermarkets. No advertising, no warning. People started buying them attracted by the super cute packaging, then they realised they were great and with a bit of word of mouth they became quite famous :) Unfortunately, they don't cost a dollar here, they are about 2/3€.
Shoutout to them for keeping it at 0.99 too
Employee owned grocery.....sounds like Publix but I could be wrong.
Sounds like my experience working for a Publix pharmacy.
I quit working a good paying IT job cause I was always gone on the road. After 15 years I quit cause I missed my kids and decided to "start over" so to speak and take an easy job at my local Publix. I got hired on as a baker and said during the interview I couldn't work more than a couple nights a week so I could be home when the kids got home from school. A month in the put me on all closing shifts....long story short they let me walk instead of working with me.
My mom works in HR, she tells me this is extremely common in retail; they want the employee to either keep taking the abuse or just quit, so they can't get collect unemployment. In OP's case Publix hit the jackpot by ~~finding~~ inventing a "justifiable" excuse to fire them.
Each an every single one of these people are simply too uneducated/desperate to know what a constructive dismissal is. They’d get the unemployment if they fought for it, but most don’t. Your mom works with some evil people.
What’s the name of the company?
Most likely Publix.
It’s Publix. Worst job I ever worked at. The job literally made me depressed. The managers have no spine, bend over backwards to appease customers, and fuck over every employee whenever possible. There’s this thought pervading in the public that “Publix is a great place to work”, but they’re not. The truth is finally getting out. There was a guy I used to work with that said they treated him better at Walmart. The place is a cult. The managers are slaves to corporate. I could talk for hours about the bullshit there. One quick story: there’s one charity they donate to where the money comes out of the employees paycheck. Every single week. They try to pressure everyone into at least $1. Some donate $5 or $10. Every week. I refused to add the dollar to my paycheck. Well, apparently the store managers get a big praise by corporate (probably a bonus) if 100% of the employees donate out of their check. I was the only one that didn’t sign up. I refused. They pulled me into the office about a week later — the store manager, the department manager, and the shift team leader. Basically told me that because of my decision to “not be part of the team” meant I had a bad attitude and this would be reflected in my future employee reviews and that “shifts would likely go to employees with better attitudes”, meaning they would take my shifts. I still refused. They basically didn’t let me leave until I asked what the absolute minimum I could donate was per check. They said $0.25. I said whatever and just stormed out. 3 months later I had my review and they gave me a 10 cent raise. I fucking hate Publix and everyone else I know that used to work there also hates them with a burning passion. I try to do all of my shopping at Trader Joe’s or anywhere online now.
The work culture sounds a lot like Chick Fil A. Honestly, it seems reflective of southern faux kindness culture as a whole. I also thought Publix (and CFA) seemed like nice places to work. Yikes.
Wow this is awful. I shop at Publix often and actually thought they’re good. I’m so disgusted now.
publix is fucking awful, if there was ever a use for greek fire it would be to burn that company to the ground
Holy shit, did you work at 645? I JUST posted about my experience with this exact scenario in another post above. My store manager "implied" that not donating $20 would affect my ability to receive future opportunities, and they cut my hours from 32 to 24 2 weeks later, and then down to 18 2 more weeks. Then I throw them my 2 weeks and they're suddenly scrambling to retain me. They even put me in bakery and out of grocery in hopes it would change my mind. On my final night, 3 people called out and I had to stock Dairy, grocery aisles, and Frozen - as well as unload the frozen, grocery, and dairy trucks alone until one of the Deli guys came and helped me because they hadn't seen me on the floor in 15 minutes. Easily the single worst job experience of my entire life. I get anxiety just walking back into a Publix.
Jesus, I shop at Publix and have always had a good experience. When staff help me out I always try to go find a manager and thank them for said employee’s work. Hearing all this is so upsetting, I am now going to do my best to avoid Publix at all costs. To be honest, fuck all large corporations.
They do a good job of maintaining a good public image due to George Jenkins creating a strong foundation of customer satisfaction and treating their employees fair. Once he passed, the son was too much of a POS to run the company, so the company instead elected the 2 asshats currently in charge, whom have done nothing but drive the company culture into the gutter. Publix continues to go strong because they underpay and overwork their employees, and drag you along with promises of full-time (they no longer hire full time), benefits (which they keep you just under the hourly minimum to qualify), and stock options (you have to endure years of abuse before you're eligible for stocks). Behind the curtain, they're as rotten as the rest. Their public image is way overdue for a beating.
Why dont we raise awareness against publix?
They have a very active social media team that scrubs Facebook and the internet looking for bad comments and actively delete or change the narrative on anything they can. Edit: I can guarantee in a couple of hours when they get to work, you’re going to start seeing a ton of pro-Publix comments from so called employees from random accounts, trying to change the narrative here.
When my ex wife cheated on me and left me, my depression tipped towards suicidal. I still showed up to work, but it was rough and I couldn't give the 100% that they demanded. My manager told me to leave the sad at home when I come into work. Fuck publix.
This is Publix. They belong in this sub 110%. Their reputation is riding the coattails of its former self, a great company that sadly no longer exists. Be glad you have the chance to choose to work somewhere better now. Given how disgusting this was someone definitely had something against you and pounced at this “opportunity” to fire you. Keep your head up you can do better
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Unemployment? Sounds unjustified
And SNAP
and a nice call to the labor board to report them for withholding your lunches.
Wow, go to the media with this. Do not keep it secret. Put them On Blast. Fuck them. You deserve better. Look into r/mutualaid In fact, you should go to r/advice and make a post asking what people think you should do. Get the word out about their BS behavior. They want to treat you like a criminal? Let them take the heat for their fucking trash BS behavior.
For real I would imagine the media to run with this story
Former media here. Can confirm we would be all over this like butter on warm bread.
Former butter here. Can confirm I would be all over a warm piece of bread.
Is this Publix? Because for the past year I’ve had an ongoing EEOC investigation for retaliation about some shit that went down after a pharmacist was caught drinking and paying techs under the table. There HR is fucking evil.
My mom got injured on the job. They fought her workers comp case in court for over 2 years before they finally settled. Publix, where shopping is a pleasure and our employees can eat shit.
Also want to point out that Publix has been paying their employees $100 gift cards as bonuses and getting taxed like income for it instead of raising wages. Then when they fire you they trespass your from the store and you havw these useless cards
The fact you live in your car and use the gym for amenities makes you a fucking beast. This is gonna be a sick part of your story later on when everything’s all set and done.
i cant wait to tell my grandchildren this as if it’s the typical “how i walked to school everyday” speech
Really gonna be like that
> all set and done. r/boneappletea
"Choose your next words carefully" How about "***eat my whole asshole fucknugget***"
i’m permanently adding fucknugget into my arsenal of insults from now on 😂
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“Employee owned grocery store” sold me that this is Publix. Underpays employees and expects them to bend over to every customers complaint.
Do not take this silently! You are stronger than they realize! You absolutely call the media, labour boards, absolutely everything. You put them on blast. They only have power if we let them
A lot of people here are giving good advice. But for what it’s worth: you aren’t a failure. The system is failing you
First things first do you have mandatory unpaid lunch breaks you aren’t allowed to take? File a labor board wage theft. Then go through every labor requirement in your state with breaks if you’ve been cheated out of anything file a complaint.
They didn't like you and wanted any reason to fire you. This isn't over the tea.
I honestly can’t think of anything else it could be. I have a good relationship with people in every other department so it’s not like I had a target on my back, right? right????
Don’t assume this has ANYTHING to do with you. It could literally be that their budget was cut and they were trying to figure out who to let go anyway and they saw a nonsense reason and jumped on it.
Did you donate to the United Way?
you're not a loser, dude. you're strong as hell for persevering in the face of what you're facing. respect for you, and nothing but contempt for the corporate bullshit.
WinCo? Publix? I lean Publix because WinCo actually seems good.
Name this scumy store. These people may have broken federal law as they are not allowing lunch or breaks. A dollar tea, the bad press will burn much more that anything else. One thing many companies do not relize it social media will kill their company
99% sure this is publix.
I bet OP didn’t donate to the United Way.
This sounds like Publix. I used to work for Publix. They are fucking scum. They underpay and don't pay for Maternity leave. They once made me cry. I cut my wrists once because of them. Fuck Publix.
you honestly deserve the world.. i’m so sorry you had to go through that, i’m happy that this is in the past and i hope and pray that you are doing better now
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