I live in NY. I live in Westchester County. They’re just NOW doing this... it’s too late for this area. If the want to flatten the curve here it means closing this location. Otherwise- it’s peeing on an inferno. I worked in a lab for 11 years before moving to this state. I was on my hospitals Ebola Response Team during Ebola. I worked in Research for 7 years working with infectious diseases, including HIV, Hepatitis, CMV, and a multitude of other pathogens that are quite gross. After moving found out they decided AGAINST accepting my out of state license to be transferred in. (Hence why I’m at Starbucks) my partner makes a lot more money than I do- again why I ended up moving. We bought a house here. The standard precaution on a hospital is airborne pathogen precautions for this. I know because the hospital I worked at called and asked me to come back and help with their response. My answer was unfortunately, I can’t. There are a multitude of reasons why I can’t. Regardless, if you’re within six feet on someone, touch something someone else touch, don’t know the correct procedure to don/doff you recently made or acquired masks- you’re looking at further risk of infecting yourself or someone else. Not for nothing, but partners struggle to handle basic QASA standards much less something this. There’s no guidance from corporate regarding how masks should be utilized. If you’re allowed to wear your mask in the bathroom or not. Do you need a fresh mask after returning from the restroom. Nor do they have guidance with eye contact. OSHA says employers should be discouraging shared workspaces and work items like keyboards/pens/etc- yet we share all of those items in addition to iPads, pitchers, blenders, shakers, espresso machines, grinders, all lot of which can’t be dipped in sanitizer/easily frequently sanitized in a food safe manner. There’s also the issue of shared headsets with nothing more than a San-wipe the does a small portion of the job IF they’re allowed the proper contact times.... which almost never happens. Why we don’t have UV sanitizing cabinets idk- they’re not prohibitively expensive when one costs about the same as one headset. Regardless, my statement was supposed to be making light of a pretty sad situation. But take it as you will. The point of the matter is- coffee filters are NOT suggested by the CDC nor OSHA for a lot of reasons. If sediment from cold brew can visible be see in the bottom of cold brew why would you consider it even slightly safe to breath through during your shift? I assure you, the particle size is a lot smaller than cold brew sediment.

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Starbucks doesn't give a shit about their partners, don't kid yourself.

We have had several in our state test positive

I know of at least 2 partners that have tested positive in my state and before you ask, my source is my sm and my dm

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Okay so you dont want to take leave but what if you got other people sick? Theres no way of knowing if you could have it or be a carrier of it. Its not about how long youve been with the company or your loyalty to you manager. Theyre a manager, its their responsibility. Of course its nice to help out, but sometimes less is more.

you are drama though. TAKE PAID LEAVE

Love where your mind is at, your team is lucky to have you! After all this you should talk to your SM about development opportunities. We need more people like you in leadership roles. You’ll remember who stuck around and your leadership team will remember how you stuck around!

It's basically the average of your hours for four weeks before everything started.

What are you being told that differs from that??

Yea I would still get paid 30ish hours which isn’t bad. Yea I may talk to him tomorrow and let him know to keep it a secret I 100% do not want to tell anyone.