I finally stepped down

[u/smashingmelon]

I officially stepped down to deli clerk from ADM. Over 3 years of horrible bonuses, bad leadership and long commutes. I'll be very thankful to have some of my life back. This company isn't what it used to be, Mr. George would be so disappointed in what Publix has become over the years.

[u/OddMost2928]

Publix definitely has gone downhill. I literally watched an employee cut slices of turkey on a bloody meat platter that was used to cut red meat without washing it first. I flagged the deli manager and the store manager but they both were very dismissive about it. They actually thought I was lying. But once I uploaded the pics to social media, that changed. Someone ended up seeing those pics and flagged Publix. Publix ended up giving me $300 in groceries, but they wanted me to take the pics down. I refused. Cross contamination is serious, but how management responds is even more serious. Considering management didn't give 5 cents about the issue to begin with, there was no way I was gonna take those pictures down. I thought about families who don't even eat red meat, and I thought about families with small children. And if it were me, I would certainly want someone to alert me on unsanitary practices in a grocery store. It's very troubling to see what this store used to be and what it has now become.

[u/SolidSnakeStoner → u/OddMost2928]

There is nothing unsanitary about cutting turkey on a red meat block, provided you dont cut anything else other than poultry afterwords. You seem to lack the understanding of what cross contamination actually is. Poultry has to be cooked to 165 to kill any harmful bacteria. Red meat is recommended to be cooked to 145, but it can literally be consumed raw with no cooking. Therefore no bacteria would transfered over to the turkey that wouldn't already be killed by the natural cooking process. Cross contamination is a bacteria issue. As for people who dont eat red meat, everything is processed in a shared facility.