Starbucks Baristas: The daily grind
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Starbucks Priorities (self.starbucksbaristas)
submitted by Siren_Song252
Starbucks Corporation: Hosts a conference costing MILLIONS for their managers.
Also Starbucks Corporation: We are cutting labor for the busiest, most stressful time of the year. Deal with it.
Cool. Dope. This is fine.
Also Starbucks Corporation: We are cutting labor for the busiest, most stressful time of the year. Deal with it.
Cool. Dope. This is fine.
Unicorngrey 15 points 3y ago
Also let’s give the CEO a $50 million bonus. Can’t wait to start my new job at Dutch brothers soon!
crzyshiba 3 points 3y ago
Let’s see how they like it if customers take a day from not buying starbucks.,,, and support baristas to get more staffing
NOTcreative- -13 points 3y ago
They’re not cutting labor; they’re just getting managers to not overspend on labor like they have been. There was a huge drop off in customer occasions about 4 weeks ago. Before that we were doing over projected so we were over scheduling but earning it. Then the drop off happened an we were over staffed and not earning it for 3 weeks.
The conference cost about $3 million. Which is equal to 1/2 an hour of labor for every single partner over the year. The bonus paid to the CEO divided amongst partners and added to their checks? About $1.60 more per week. Or about 1/4 an hour of labor per partner per week. Starbucks pays about $72 million dollars a day on labor, or $26.2 billion a year. That’s if the average operating hours of stores are 12 hours (most are open more) and factoring am average of $10 an hour (I think the average is higher) not including managers. Also excluding the money they spend on benefits and bean stocks.
The conference cost about $3 million. Which is equal to 1/2 an hour of labor for every single partner over the year. The bonus paid to the CEO divided amongst partners and added to their checks? About $1.60 more per week. Or about 1/4 an hour of labor per partner per week. Starbucks pays about $72 million dollars a day on labor, or $26.2 billion a year. That’s if the average operating hours of stores are 12 hours (most are open more) and factoring am average of $10 an hour (I think the average is higher) not including managers. Also excluding the money they spend on benefits and bean stocks.
decemberisforcynics 11 points 3y ago
No, they're cutting labour. We scheduled to 0.0 hrs, meaning we used all that we are allowed because we are a high volume, high profit location and we deserve the labour. Then they said, cut 20-30 of those same hours. We had to tell partners NOT to come into work because we could no longer afford them to be there.
We also stopped any training of new baristas and stopped hiring new people, even though we just lost two supervisors. Anyone who just got interviewed is being called back to say we are no longer hiring.
It sucks but I am thankful my manager is fighting for us. She refused to let our District Manager take away our hours for the week of Christmas. In her words, "I am not doing that to my baristas during the holidays. That's not right."
We also stopped any training of new baristas and stopped hiring new people, even though we just lost two supervisors. Anyone who just got interviewed is being called back to say we are no longer hiring.
It sucks but I am thankful my manager is fighting for us. She refused to let our District Manager take away our hours for the week of Christmas. In her words, "I am not doing that to my baristas during the holidays. That's not right."
NOTcreative- 0 points 3y ago
Then your store is doing incredibly more business than years prior and your manager isn’t scheduling accordingly. If they overstaff and earn it no one is batting an eye. DMs and RDs will overlook over staffing if it’s being earned.
NOTcreative- -7 points 3y ago
Ask your manager if they could explain labor to you. Ask to see a weekly labor recap and compare forecasted hours vs. scheduled hours vs. actual hours vs. earned hours. If the scheduled is under the forecasted by much (it shouldn’t be) that’s your manager cutting labor. BUT if they scheduled under forecast, but it is still equal to earned hours, you’re not short staffed. Everyone in my region is just asked to schedule to forecast, not understaff, because for weeks everyone was scheduling over forecast.
beanTHEbarista 7 points 3y ago
You do realize that the labor standard set in the software “forecasting “ is generally not enough . It isn’t some magic number that means you have enough people , it is an objective allowance of hours that is set for maximum profit . Other restaurants allocate significantly more labor and are still profitable af .... stop being condescending also .
NOTcreative- 0 points 3y ago
Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn’t. When it isn’t we earn the labor for next time.
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