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anonymous_froggy

Should I transfer stores? (Associate)

QUESTION

Long post

Hey! I don't know if this is the right sub but I figured I'd post it here anyways.

A little bit of backstory:

I (16 f) started working at Publix part time in April. I pretty much always close. I get around 20-28 hours a week. My store isn't in a great area. I have chronic health issues and I've called out 4 times since I started working due to it. I've had to call out twice due to throwing up, another from extreme cramping and falling with my vision going black, and once more due to falling at the store during my shift while being extremely hot and my vision blacking out.

I haven't figured out what's wrong with me yet, but I go to see a cardiologist, GI doctor, ENT, and obgyn soon.

My managers seem to be fine with it and they seem to be worried about me and haven't reduced my hours at all because of it.

Issues I'm having:

My store is about 20 minutes from my house and there's a Publix 5 minutes from me in a much better area.

One of my managers (not one of the main managers)(30-38ish M) has supposedly hit on and asked out two or more minors. I don't know if it's true or not, but he acts really strange and calls me honey and sweetheart which I haven't heard him do to anyone else. He's also asked how old I am and just kind of smiled to himself when I said I was 16 and he said "oh that's good" which I thought was weird. To clarify he did not stop calling me sweetheart and honey after this. He knew I was a minor from the start but he thought I was 17. He also always manages to find me and come out of nowhere, starting random conversations, not workplace conversations, the kinds of conversations you'd have with friends.

One of my coworkers (17 F) has a really bad feeling about him and a customer (that was on the phone) came up to my coworker and asked if the manager also freaked her out. She said yes, and the customer walked away. The next day the manager came up to my coworker and confronted her about it, asking why she would say that about him. Apparently the lady was his friend and he had called her and asked her to ask my coworker about what she thought about him.

I personally thought this was really weird because why would a 30-38 year old man care so much about a 17 year old girls opinion on him. He never told any of the other managers.

A different coworker (22? M) consistently tries to hit on me in the break room and it's just uncomfortable.

I've also had a customer try and ask me out in Spanish which was difficult because I only speak English and he only spoke Spanish.

I do know that I am going to be asked out or hit on and that it's inevitable but it doesn't feel right that a coworker and a manager both are also doing this.

A few of my female coworkers came up to me one night and told me that a 50ish year old man had been watching me for an hour or two in the store. They said that no one ever saw him leave the parking lot and that someone has to walk me to my car. No one ended up walking me to my car so I texted my mom and waited for her to pull right up to the doors to leave.

My department manager let me out of the store one night and there was a man just standing by the door with no lights so I barely saw him, by the time I'd turned around to try and get back inside or tell my manager, my manager had already left. I texted him once I was in my car and he said that he saw the man but didn't seem to care about the man being there at all. Again maybe it's just me, but I would've felt much better if he would've watched me walk out and not just immediately leave.

One of my friends that quit had a homeless man stalk her at the store for 2 months and when she told the managers, they didn't care and told her to ignore it.

All of my female coworkers around my age also get a weird vibe from him and feel uncomfortable around him.

The reason I haven't told my general manager:

He gets along super well with the problematic manager and he ignored my friend when she had similar issues, I also don't feel comfortable going to him since I've never really talked to him and I only just started working there so I'm scared they're going to think I'm just trying to start problems.

Am I being dramatic or is this enough to justify a transfer to the store by my house? If it is, would it be considered an emergency transfer since it's kind of about safety?

TL:DR

One manager supposedly asking out minors and seems to be hitting on me, a different coworker asking me out, men watching me and not being seen leave and then no one walking me out. Justified to transfer stores?

Posted Jul 18, 2026, 3:28 AM UTC

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