I don’t think so. Corporate is offering the cat pay and you should make your decision based on yourself only. Obviously it’s hard to feel like you’re letting down the team but, if enough people take the cat pay they’ll have to stay closed which is what is best for everyone right now.

The ethics and compliance handbook says very clearly in large bold font that retaliation is not acceptable. I hope they don't do that. On top of that anyone who is fired has an easy way out, go on a media blitz to say they were fired for encouraging their partners to stay home and be safe. That's a nightmare PR scenario that starbucks should want to avoid.

my SM told me this morning that one district by us had 9 managers tell the dm their not coming in for the next how many weeks. my store is closed cause all but 3 partners decided to take 2 weeks to the full 30 days of cat pay. my SM was telling me that shes just floating around the district helping stores till we reopen. but even shes thinking about taking a week off. i dont think any manager well get in trouble since corporate offered this up to everyone. DMs might be alittle pissed off though lol but they cant do anything about it.