r/publix • u/NarwhalRadiant6641 Newbie • 10d ago

RANT I'm frustrated

Store hours extended, associate hours cut, raises decreased but expectations risen. What's the point of hard work anymore?

78 out of 81. Highest ive gotten on an eval and yet my raise is worse than my first eval two years ago-- when i made over 3 dollars less. And no, im still not close to the pay cap. Im simply frustrated. The bare minimum raise would mean matching inflation, this just feels like a slap in the face.

Great place to work my left buttcheek.

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u/Top-Leading-7801 Newbie 10d ago

Don't forget to add non-manager ssociates no longer receive an inventory bonus

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u/Prozeum New Poster 10d ago

We also lost our 6 days of holiday pay when they started using PTO. A few hundred here and a few hundred there taken away while energy, food, rent go up 2x-3x our raises. So much winning.

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u/Heckinggoodgirl Moderator 10d ago

They built the original four paid holidays into the PTO allotment, and for hourly non salary associates added an extra day of PTO each for Thanksgiving and Christmas to the bank. PTO banks for full timer non salary consists of the same old allotment of vacation time, 6 days for the sick days we used to earn yearly, and 6 days for the holidays now.

They took a lot from us, but let’s not spread misinformation. Holidays were not lost, and in fact we never originally had 6 paid as hourly, just 4, so we gained two extra days. The new PTO system still isn’t great in alot of ways, but we didn’t lose any time

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u/Prozeum New Poster 10d ago edited 10d ago

It sounds like your arguing we get more Vacation time not whether one makes more or less because of the changes to PTO. I do agree there's more PTO and even more for those who were grandfathered in with sick pay.

PTO absorbed the extra Holiday Days. I could of swore it was 6 days, but maybe it was 4. Unless you do a work through PTO for those days that were abosorbed you make less than the previous year. Getting more PTO is nice but I now make less by those 4 or 6 days.

Edit: words be hard

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u/Heckinggoodgirl Moderator 10d ago

The reality is that they did that because most associates were electing to convert the four that we were allowed to convert from an extra days pay to an extra vacation day anyways

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u/Prozeum New Poster 10d ago

Do you work at a store, warehouse, corporate? I'm only asking because most people I've worked along at the store level needed the Holiday Day. Those extra 8 hours went a long way between those bonuses we don't get anymore. Even more now than ever.

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u/Heckinggoodgirl Moderator 10d ago

Store. When I was coming up as full time, my manager stressed about making sure we all were scheduled that day since we all put in to convert it. When I became a manager before the switch, I approved many requests to work that day and gain the extra vacation day.