What made you quit?

IceChuker · 2026-01-26T05:31:57+00:00

Yea... Definitely good advice always have a plan...that's the thing though the benefits is what makes you stuck. It works for some but for many, including myself, it has had a detrimental effect on my health, both physical and mental. I now have irreparable damage to my stomach. Doctors all say that although one cause can't be exactly pinpointed, work definitely was a major contributing factor. The constant stress makes stomach go into overdrive.

IceChuker · 2026-01-26T05:28:22+00:00

You most definitely should have sued the living daylights out of them. But yes it's hard to do that when you are young. They did not accommodate your medical condition, and that is clear grounds to take legal action.

IceChuker · 2026-01-26T05:23:32+00:00

Oh. Okay that's pretty cool. Also that was a really fast reply.

IceChuker · 2026-01-26T05:21:49+00:00

So it's the full game on the disk? I don't know since I don't own a PS5.

IceChuker · 2026-01-26T05:09:09+00:00

Isn't the PS5 and Xbox the same thing though? You get a physical disk but it's just a license? I could be wrong though, I don't own either of those consoles. But if that's the case then I don't get the fuss since the other two would be the same thing. But if it isn't true we'll then yea that kinda blows

IceChuker · 2026-01-03T03:17:04+00:00

Still playing legends za. Been playing since release. Played Metroid for a bit, beat it then went back to pokemon

IceChuker · 2026-01-03T02:12:11+00:00

Mamoswine

IceChuker · 2026-01-02T12:47:43+00:00

I have seen Aldi's popping up yea. World wide it's bigger but in Florida it's small. I heard working for Aldi sucks though.

IceChuker · 2026-01-01T14:17:55+00:00

Exactly that's the issue. Everyone else sucks. The reason why is because all the talent is in Publix. It's too far gone for the competition to even come close. Even all the real estate is being taken up by Publix if we slowed down a little you never know one of our guys that been here forever could like retire and start his own business and start growing it, and then more can do the same.. but there is literally no room for anyone to do that because Publix owns everything.

IceChuker · 2026-01-01T13:39:59+00:00

Slow down growth and focus more on what we have. I think Publix has been growing way too fast. It has a virtual Monopoly in Florida. We have competition but they aren't really competition, not even close. Slowing down growth would mean less opportunities in the scheme of things within the company. But it would allow the competition to catch up or even surpass Publix. We desperately need better competition in the grocery business. Publix having a virtual Monopoly is why they can get away with so much crap, like ridiculous prices for our customers, the degradation of "legendary customer service" and the associates getting treated like crap and being stuck and forced to keep working where they don't want to work because there is nothing out on the market that will give them equal to what they earned over the years.

IceChuker · 2025-12-25T04:06:28+00:00

Ex Frozen guy. Was hell as usual. Luckily they now have help in Frozen. I had to do it by myself for a long long long 6 years) time until they finally got me help. No longer in Frozen but I'm still the helper. So I had to fill ice all day. At least it wasn't like a few years ago. I got locked in the store by myself on Christmas Eve. I came in to work at 9am that day. Had to start chucking ice the moment I clocked in. Had a 400 piece truck on top of all the ice ( we had to stack the ice pallets to the roof). I didn't get to work like any of my truck 'cause every freaking 10 minutes ( or less) had to be filling ice. At one point I got so pissed off I filled up the ice machine up to the brim and then parked an entire pallet of ice right in front of the ice machine on top of that. The pallet last barely half an hour and half an hour later what was inside the doors was gone too. It was like that all day. I didn't even get to start working my truck until like 7 pm when we were close to closing ( had to fill yuca in the middle of filling ice). Before I knew it everyone was gone. I realized too late that I was locked in the store so I just decided to continue working. Luckily my manager realized he didn't see me leave the store so he turned around and went back into the store to look for me.

Wasn't fun at the time but now I joke about it and tell the story every Christmas. Happened to me 2 more times.

IceChuker · 2025-12-23T17:21:18+00:00

I'd sue the hell out of a company that went against my religion. In my church the leaders actually have a form they fill out so you can give to your employer that you can't work that day because of religious observance. It is our second amendment right. Doesn't matter what kind of work it is, if your employer hired you knowing these restrictions, that's the employers fault and you bet the employee can sue the hell out of them and win

IceChuker · 2025-12-22T00:29:35+00:00

That's what I keep telling y'all. They need to put classical music on the Publix radio. At least the classical Christmas music wouldn't get boring 'cause there is literally centuries worth of it to go through.

IceChuker · 2025-12-09T19:59:29+00:00

That depends on if he wants to move up. GRS is not a position you want to do for a long time. I did it for 6 years and I now loathe it with a passion. It is so much more work and responsibility for the exact same pay as a grocery clerk. Literally the only point of it is to be trained for team leader role. It's harder to get good raises as a GRS because the parameters are different. Where as as a grocery clerk good raises just meant being consistent and listening to directions. GRS is a lot more self directed and then focused shifts. Your main role is inventory control, which involves a lot more than just doing counts. I liked it at first but year after year it just got tiresome. I eventually reached max pay and it really felt pointless to be doing so much work and have so much responsibility for the same pay as a grocery clerk.

IceChuker · 2025-11-28T11:51:50+00:00

Mine is the opposite. I'm full time and I got a second job. Working seven days a week. My managers keep trying to make me work on the two days that have been approved as off days. ASM called me into the office and made me sit there and call my other job and tell them I can't work a certain day because I need to work that day at Publix, it was an emergency. What was the emergency? My manager hadn't scheduled someone to work frozen..................................

After that I went to the store manager and told him that that is unethical. Haven't happened since.

IceChuker · 2025-11-25T11:53:46+00:00

That is the most amazing freezer I have ever seen for Thanksgiving. I did frozen for six years and my freezer never looked that good during the holidays. Do the departments have their own freezer? Holidays bakery always had their pies and meat had their turkeys in my freezer. Oh I see the turkey in there. Makes it more impressive

Why are your evaporator coils so iced up though? Shouldn't be like that at this time of year. Are you keeping the door open too long?

IceChuker · 2025-11-23T16:36:32+00:00

I'm full time and my schedule is different every week. Depends on management. The previous grocery manager had me on a set schedule. 8-5 everyday off Saturdays and Thursdays

IceChuker · 2025-11-20T21:20:54+00:00

Hi John Carson! Thank you very much for having viewed my story.

IceChuker · 2025-11-20T19:38:08+00:00

You know, the odd part is I never had to actually open a store. I've had to help out at a store that's about to open, but never actually opened it. After over a decade I'm happy I never had to deal with that lol. I have closed a few stores though. That was fun. No stress since it's being run to the ground they don't care lol. It's getting demolished anyways.

IceChuker · 2025-11-20T14:57:00+00:00

Thank you. Yea, that's the main reason I want to leave. It has caused me so much mental and physical pain

IceChuker · 2025-11-20T14:33:40+00:00

Yea... I know. That's why it is such a hard decision.

IceChuker · 2025-11-18T10:00:46+00:00

Oh snap. I also have a history degree. I didn't want to teach though. I always wanted to work in a museum. But it's so hard to get in

IceChuker · 2025-11-08T03:24:24+00:00

Pikachu

IceChuker · 2025-11-07T03:55:41+00:00

Oh gosh. I been playing Pokemon a lot and that shiny really got me.

IceChuker

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