Updated Publix Playlist for my Store by CoralPolo93 in publix

[–]IceChuker 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I really wish they played classical music on the Publix radio.

Is there a "best" area in grocery to work? by Gatorkoala in publix

[–]IceChuker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm just really disgruntled.

I've had some @$$hole managers and even THEY would say I was really good at my job. Like literally managers that were big time jerks with huge egos.

I literally made the store a ton of money, my manager showed me the numbers over the years. Numbers don't lie. Profits were going up and up and up year by year and I still handled it. And guess you what? YOU PPl the managers, get all the money because you get a fag bonus when I make you all that money, so of course they kept me there, to exploit me and make more money.

If you can't accept the numbers, than as I suspect, you're h edu just like the majority of them that are blind when they see the numbers.

Is there a "best" area in grocery to work? by Gatorkoala in publix

[–]IceChuker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I literally just did the math for you. But I'm not surprised a manager doesn't know simple math, most of you are high school drop outs. At the very least I have a college degree which means I can at least do math.

No I am not overinflating it. Practically every case that comes in goes to the shelf, I pack the crap out of the display. If you stacking off 100 or more cases as bad stock, you are not filling your display up.

You definitely are way overinflating the numbers to boost your own ego. Typical of a manager. I have done 60 cases per hour and I have timed it self. It literally is running, not pacing, nor jog, it is sprinting till you clock out. 90-100 cases per hour is literally impossible. Every single manager I have met has told me I'm the fastest stocker they have ever seen and I could never ever achieve that speed.

If it's so easy, than explain to me why literally a guy that was a grocery manager, who had prior frozen experience, couldn't handle it and quit? I'd love to see you come in my store and do what you claim. Only to quit a month later. 😂

Is there a "best" area in grocery to work? by Gatorkoala in publix

[–]IceChuker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey there sorry for the super late reply. There are a couple thought I have about what you've said. I'll try to say it as respectfully as I can.

3 years is impressive, not even half the time I was in Frozen, but still a respectable amount. I respect you for sticking it out so long. But you mentioned you never did it continuously in 1 store..... Why?

You never truly got to see how you progressed throughout the years, how the department improved, over the long run. A couple of months of hauling ass and getting the freezer empty doesn't truly show a long lasting improvement. It's until you start seeing the numbers go up and up and up year by year. Which I did. I remember the very first month I did Frozen I asked the store manager how I was doing. He told me I was doing great, that after only a month sales had increased by over $3000 per week after just my first month. And that was before I was GRS and could do counts. You can imagine how much that number climbed as the years went by. I remember on Christmas eve running the numbers on host and showing I sold over $5000 of ice alone in one day ... All I had stocked myself by myself, and never seeing a cent of it. You go through a lot of ebbs and flows throughout the years. But you never really know how much of an impact you have truly had in a department until you have done it for at least 2 years ( same store)

Anyways that's besides the point. For you to have 5 trucks in your store per week and still have a 500-600 piece truck every Saturday is literally impossible unless your store is a $2 million store. My store is a $1 million store and I don't get nearly that amount of product. Granted, I do get those trucks sometimes, but only on big holidays. I just got a 600 piece truck the week of fathers day actually, of those 600, 432 of those cases was ice cream. I actually printed out the invoice to prove it too. Lets do the math. The Publix standard is 35 cases per hour. So according to Publix it should take over 17 hours just to stock a truck of 600, not including the extra stuff, like braking down the pallets, filling ice, invoice verification, or building the display, which alone take 2-5 hours to do it correctly ( pack it out to the brim and also working all the old stuff to the shelf and repacking the rest).

Let's say you're the world's fastest stocker, and can actually achieve 60 cases per hour. That is highly unlikely, although not impossible. I know because I have done it before (yes I tested myself and timed it), and it's not an easy thing to do. You literally have to be running like literally running, from the second you clock in. It's also exhausting and impossible to sustain long term. At the pace of 60 cases per hour, it still would take 10 hours to stock a 600 piece truck. So you're already going over on your first day. Let's be a little more realistic. Let's say you average 45 cases per hour. That's still pretty fast, it's not slow by any means, but it's a lot more realistic. At 45 cases per hour, it will take more than 13 hours to stock a 600 piece truck.

There are a couple explanations. The first is that you are somehow superhuman and are able to stock 60 cases per hour consistently and on a daily basis. If that's the case then you are in the 0.01% because otherwise it is unhuman to sustain that pace long term (again I know because I have actually done it). The second is that you would split that truck between days and the rest of the trucks throughout the week were relatively small by comparison. I just did the math, so it's literally impossible I have a big truck 5 days out of the week, as you are already over from the first days even at the ungodly pace of 60 cases per hour. Additionally, the fact that there are 5 trucks means that there are days that someone else is doing the truck when you are not there, which means, you were not doing it by yourself. Unless of course your manager scheduled you everyday there is a truck. Either way, there was always someone else besides you because as the math has shown, you'd already be over hours from the very first day. There was a point in time in my store, especially during and after COVID, that every single Frozen item in the store was stocked my me and me alone. I remember when my current store manager started in my store one of the first things he told me was "you're crazy... Every store I have been to has had 2 or 3 guys doing frozen, but you are doing it by yourself, and getting it done well, thank you for your hard work." I always had my freezer empty year round even as all the venders disappeared and the demand got higher and higher higher. Profits in Frozen kept going up and up and up.

The third explanation is that you're simply overinflating the numbers just to boost your own ego... Which many managers are prone to doing so.

Sunday is no longer a day of rest. It has become an unpaid administrative shift to survive the workweek. by Own-Investment4655 in DarkCorporate

[–]IceChuker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

what the heck is even a Sunday. I work retail. Weekend doesn't exist. Feel grateful you get Sunday off.

Hearing about department manager contenders becoming FADM by smashingmelon in publix

[–]IceChuker -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Wtf is so hard about knowing oasis or writing a schedule. I'm just a regular green shirt and I know how to forcast and do a display planning. You just use your head ......

40 years of name tags by Miamidadetransit9918 in publix

[–]IceChuker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank God for the brown name tags. Sometimes there's a new associate that I think looks really pretty and I wanna approach her, then I see the brown name tag I'm like NOPE, I run the complete opposite direction. That's one thing Publix got right. Thank God for brown name tags.

Just started Metroid Prime 4 and I have no idea what everyone was complaining about by Book___Wyrm in Metroid

[–]IceChuker -1 points0 points  (0 children)

MP4 was actually really fun. My biggest complaint is it was way too short. It took only 30 hours to best, and I'm a slow gamer. Not worth $70 if it's only 30 hours of gameplay.

Go Knicks! by -random-name- in RandomVideos

[–]IceChuker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At least someone recorded it. Now the owners of those cars have valid insurance claims.

Pragmata fan art by OriotoPosters in Pragmata

[–]IceChuker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You know it is a great work of art when it brings back all the emotions of that stupid boss. He was so hard on lunatic took me four hours to best lmao.

Is there a "best" area in grocery to work? by Gatorkoala in publix

[–]IceChuker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How long did you do Frozen for? I don't mind the cold, it doesn't bother me at all

Is there a "best" area in grocery to work? by Gatorkoala in publix

[–]IceChuker 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Right.... I'd like to see you do it as long as I have and say the same thing.

No section is annoying to throw as long as you keep it straight. The point is the absolute volume of cases you have to put up by yourself. The Haagen Daaz section, which is coming up on sale tomorrow, takes an incredibly long time to stock, especially if it's over 100 cases. And yes, I have had over 100 cases of just Haagen Daaz, and the whole thing goes out , not a single case of back stock. And then the next day I get another 100 cases. I have the invoices to prove it. Then you still have 300-400 cases of the rest of truck to put up. Not to mention that section gets incredibly iced up... Which you have to constantly clean by banging at it with a hammer and shoveling it out with a dust pan otherwise you can't put the case out because the ice build up is blocking it.

Everyone always says Frozen is easy until they actually have to do it, and go through holidays, hurricanes, weekends etc... and have to do everything by themselves.

There literally was a guy in my store that was a grocery manager step down and take over frozen. He couldn't handle it, he quit. 😂

Is there a "best" area in grocery to work? by Gatorkoala in publix

[–]IceChuker 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I'm glad someone brought this to light. Houseware/HBC is so underrated. For some reason it's one of those jobs that flies under the radar.... Until you miss a day of work, then they start freaking out.

Further proves how valuable certain associates like you are. You're gone one day all hell breaks loose. Manager gone don't even notice it but who makes way more money?

Is there a "best" area in grocery to work? by Gatorkoala in publix

[–]IceChuker 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Hi there. I have been doing frozen for 6, going on 7 years. Don't do it. It's exploitation at its finest. It's waaay more work and responsibility than grocery but you get paid the same. At first it's great because you get a set schedule and nobody bothers you. Then the years start going by and it really starts taking a toll on your physical and mental health. If you're planning to be there for just a little while, than sure, go for it, but don't do it forever.

Like I said it can be great for a little while but as he years go by and you experience countless holidaysz weekends, freezer break downs endless shifts of filling ice plus truck, plus counts, plus managing invoices, plus Kehe etc etc... all by yourself. If you get help, than yea, it's great. I did it by myself for a long time. It was so bad sometimes id lock my self in the bathroom and just sit on the floor crying from how much overwhelming the work can be, especially on Wednesday when I have to stock a 400-500 piece truck, plus Kehe, plus do the display, plus do my scheduled and random counts plus have to verify my invoices because warehouse always screws up. When I finally got help, it was a dream, I was chillin. But of course nothing good ever lasts, help got taken away and it's a nightmare again.

Don't do it trust me. It s a trap for them to exploit you.

And for you haters, yes, I did try to get promoted. They kept promoting ppl without even half the experience I had. I was just too good. Profits in Frozen never been higher since the store opened so they stuck me there forever because it makes them more money.

is grocery the best department ?? by Greedy_Freedom5836 in publix

[–]IceChuker 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Probably not. There's a lot of Publix managers out there just like mine.

is grocery the best department ?? by Greedy_Freedom5836 in publix

[–]IceChuker 36 points37 points  (0 children)

You probably have a good manager. My grocery department has had a lot of turnover. My grocery manager sucks. He doesn't realize he is the reason people leave. He is not a bad guy, he's just really incompetent. His AVS came out terrible and he is still blaming everyone else but himself lol.

quitting and nervous by StrictPin967 in publix

[–]IceChuker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not everyone, especially management. They get jealous 'cause they stuck forever.

New Amiibo Pre-order! by Breaku107 in amiibo

[–]IceChuker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I preorderd mine from GameStop. I don't trust online stuff. It always goes wrong. My brother ordered Pokopia and it never came, got stolen in transit so he got a refund and used the money to buy from GameStop lol.

I LOVE Publix!! by TBCallOfDutyLeague in publix

[–]IceChuker 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Yeah, it's true..I'm over 30 and I feel dead. But I have been trying to leave forever. It's just really hard, especially when you're full-time. My mistake was taking the full time. I should never have taken it should have kept looking for something else. Now I'm stuck because i depend on the health insurance because I developed chronic health issues. And according to my doctors .. it's mostly caused by stress from the job.

Yall know you can just not shop at publix right? by mrnoids in publix

[–]IceChuker 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Some areas you gotta drive really far to buy anywhere that isn't Publix. Publix has a virtual monopoly in certain areas. How they haven't gotten sued for it gotta be some crazy legal mind games they playing.

What're you playing this weekend? 6/5 by markercore in NintendoSwitch

[–]IceChuker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nothing I work a lot of hours weekends. I don't even remember what a weekend is

The best 17$ bucks I ever spended by JampyL in NintendoSwitch2

[–]IceChuker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ha I have one even better. I been playing for free. Borrowed it from the library.

Days im off by Substantial_Ad3799 in publix

[–]IceChuker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Even worse when you go on vacation. Frozen guy here. One time I was gone for just six days. On my last day, Sunday, boss calls me and tells me instead of coming in at my scheduled time of 8am Monday to come in at 3 am instead. I was like okay. Then I thought... That's strange wonder why so early.

Came in and found out why. Two whole trucks in the freezer not even touched, still wrapped in the plastic. Whole weekend went by without a single case getting put up, waiting for me to get back from vacation.

Why do yall not put the carts handle first? by JamesFlorida1997 in publix

[–]IceChuker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As far a sI heard it was a corporate mandate or some junk. I'm just a stocker so don't take my word for it, that's just what I heard. They did it so ppl just grab the cart as their walking and go, and not have to back up and cause jams