So for some context, I'm a closer, and rarely work morning shifts. That being said, today I worked a morning shift for the first time in a solid month. Even though I hardly ever work with any of the openers/morning partners I really enjoy being around them. But there is this one partner who works a lot in the morning that I just CAN NOT STAND. Let's call her, Skylar (not even close to her real name LMFAO). Skylar isn't a new partner, in fact, she's been working at Starbucks for a solid year and a half. That being said she recently transferred to my store, about 2-3 months ago. At first, we wore pretty cool with each other, and would almost never but heads. But man did that change in a week of me working with her, as she was originally scheduled during mids since, that's when we are typically at our slowest and this way she could get used to the layout of the store and get to know where everything is without being rushed. Well, within that first week or two of constantly working with her, her attitude changed dramatically. Maybe not to other partners but definitely towards me. Now I'm not the oldest partner, but I'm also not a complete green bean, I know what I'm doing and this isn't my first rodeo with a transferred partner or working a shift in general. Very quickly Skylar, started talking to me in a demeaning way, talking down to me on a regular basis, nitpick every single thing I did, and most importantly, treat me as inferior and try to guide me through absolutely everything as if I didn't know what I was doing. For me personally, I have a huge problem with people talking down to me (which I'm actively trying to improve on so that it's not so big of an issue). That being said, the amount and frequency in which she would do all of the things I just listed does nothing but increase all the time. Which is a problem because I'm an extremely calm person, and really the only way to "trigger" me to get angry is doing such a thing.

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Which brings me to the main reason I'm writing this. All this has gotten to me, and quite frankly pisses me off even just thinking about it, especially cause I AM THE ONLY ONE SHE DOES THIS TO nor can I find a reason for her acting like this. But what really gets my blood boiling is when she nitpicks EVERY. SINGLE. THING. I. DO. LITERALLY EVERYTHING. I go to warming to warm up a sandwich, and lightly click the tongs out of habit while I wait for the oven to finish...

Her: "You shouldn't be clicking the tongs so hard cause it can chip the metal and break them".

We get a rush and I have a line of ice teas to make starting with a green tea, so I grab the only green tea pitcher (which just happens to be full and the backup) I can see since the main one is hiding somewhere and I have to make these drinks...

Her: \*Engages snobby voice\*

Her: "Why is this almost full pitcher sitting up by the rest of the main teas when the other one isn't even empty?"

Me: "Why does this even matter, I couldn't find the other one cause someone misplaced it and we're in a rush?"

She got pissed at this. She started responding but I didn't listen and completely blocked it out, cause at this point in my shift, she already irritated me to the point where I was legitimately contemplating walking off the floor and telling the shift I was taking my lunch early. Like I was steaming to the point where the SLIGHTEST inconvenience would set me off. All I could think to myself was: "We're literally in a rush, are behind af on drinks since no one was prepared for this, and you're over here complaining because I used the backup for the green tea cause I couldn't find the main one. Why tf does this even matter? All the green teas are identical, completely "clean", and are going in the same place, WHY TF DOES THIS MATTER??? The last thing I'm concerned about right now is which pitcher of green tea I'm using, so long as it's the normal product and is in the general vicinity of me. "

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But that's not all! She literally was "washing dishes" for the past hour when this happened. And NO BS literally only got 3 dishes done. Not sure about your guy's store but at my store we have a giant black tray behind the counter where the person on the bar can put empty or dirty dishes in, instead of walking all the way to the back of the store to put them in the dish pit. She took this tray, and never returned it. I had dirty dishes piling up by the front register, and when we became slow tried to take them to the dish pit and get the tray back. So do you know what she does when I go back there?

She says: "Uh you need to stay planted and let me know when you need dishes takin away because you're not on CS, I am."

So I say: "Well if you weren't hiding in the back taking forever to do dishes and actually did you're job and approached me so I could "stay planted" and tell you what I need SINCE YOU'RE ON CS this wouldn't be an issue now would it?"

Keep in mind the only people that have headsets on at this time is the shift and the person on DTO. The shift was in the back, and the person on DTO was dealing with customers. And she has been pulling this kind of stuff the entire time she was here, and it was really pissing me off.

So I continued telling Skylar: "You need chill out and not be so fucking stuck up on policies, since what's written in the books is completely different from reality and what we actually need/do. You realize I am not the only person that occasionally doesn't follow policy right? The entire store is running this way, EVEN THE SM IS LIKE THIS I was trained by the same people who partially trained you and showed you around the store, WHO WOULD DO THE EXACT SAME THING I'M DOING IN THIS SITUATION, SINCE YOU'RE NOT DOING YOUR ONLY JOB. So let me get this tray so that the store is esthetically clean to the customers and so we don't have a bunch of dirty dishes piling up behind the counter which can cause a safety issue."

Then I took the tray and walked away. She wasn't happy about this, obviously. And I understand what the policies say, but come on let's be realistic here, what policies say needs to happen 5/10 times don't actually happen. We are understaffed and you're not doing what the "policies" say you're supposed to be doing, you haven't even done a lobby sweep the entire time you've been here, nor have you brewed fresh coffee. So I don't want to hear this "stay planted" bullshit when A) I need to pick up the slack for the shit you haven't done, and B) you're not even the shift, I don't have to take orders from you to begin with, you're on the same level as me, we're supposed to be a team. You're the only person here that's not doing what they were told to and causing issues. I shouldn't have to be hostile towards you to get my point across because you're so hung up on official "policies".

Again, don't get me wrong the policies in place are important, they're the backbone of the store, but come on I can not stand when people are so "by the book" but can't actually do their job properly, when they're preaching it to other partners. Whether there's a bunch of dishes in the back or not, you can't/don't need to spend an hour just to finish 3 dishes and ignore/neglect you're respectabilities on CS, the CS cycle is a thing for a reason. So in conclusion, I really don't like my coworker, she pisses me off so much, and I could totally understand if the previous store she worked at didn't really like her.

End Rant

If you read the entire thing, thank you for listening to me rant, I just had to get this off my chest lol