Not to mention night shifts have like 100* the responsibilities while rarely getting to do the more enjoyable task.

usually peak isn’t until 8-9, you literally have so much down time in the morning for the first hour with a small amount of customers.

as an every night closer.... morning crew yall ugly

I feel so attacked right now.

I feel like how busy opening is depends heeeavily on your store. Before the coronavirus, we opened at 4 am. Because we were a busy location, we had 8-9 trays of food to day dot. Any preps that weren’t done at night had to be done during open. There’s a Safeway in our complex, so we’d have six customers everyday immediately at open. Sometimes we’d have a beat of 10-15 minutes where it was calm before our third person came in, but other than that we were always dealing with customers or working on mobile orders.

That being said, now opening is a breeze since business is down. So I can see how at other locations this would 100% apply all the time lol. I would also never dog on the closing shift... having closed quite a few times, I still vastly prefer to open.

That sucks. I’ve worked both open and close and it seems like we are pretty good at getting a lot of the tasking done.

Yesterday i learned one of my coworkers never made a toddy before bc she always leaves before 11 and I’m stunned.

Closing rly out here being the backbone of the store with no recognition from SM’s/ASM’s bc they all work earlier day parts lmao 😭

As a barista and a cook this hits home soooooo much.

ok TRUE

the cereal is BEYOND ACCURATE for me. i always bring my breakfast with me to work. get there early to get my opening stuff done. and then chug my espresso and eat my breakfast bar. the reason i love opening, it’s lazy quiet time and i can just do my thing.

Dude I’m stressed af as the opener. I have to set up all the product for everyone for the DAY. If I do not fill the mocha drizzle bottles with mocha that expires the next morning, they sit in the bar all day.

I have come back on my days (yes, more than one) off to a mocha drizzle bottle that I personally had filled.

(My closers have recently started doing whips for me and I love them with my whole heart)

My old store was SO BUSY first thing in the morning, and generally steady to slow from like 10AM-4, DEADDDDDD from 4 to close, with sometimes a little blip around 5:30. Opening was tough, especially if the close the night before was bad.

Mannn lol. I worked as a barista while pregnant and was a closer five days a week by mysellllllf at a kiosk. I got written up because after working my ass off and getting on my hands and knees scrubbing things at 8 months pregnant, I “forgot” a spot an opener started crying about it. Like literally crying because he thought I didn’t wash the fridge door. And I told him that if he’s crying about that then he has a lot more things wrong with him

I’ve done morning and mid shift at Starbucks, but I’ve closed all the time at a different job...and closers have it the worst. Closing absolutely sucks, and closers mainly get the blame.

This is so true 😂

Bruuuuh. Everyone knocking morning crew and talking about all this free time we get is obviously not from a busy store cause from (preCOVID) 5a until 10a our store is steadily busy not to mention our main peaks from 6:30-10a.

BUT I close some nights, too, and I for sure hate it just due to all the shit work I have to do while closing. So I get both parts but morning will always have my heart.

i work both shifts and they know to not complain to me because i know how both shifts go

Meh. I worked all dayparts. A communicative team that holds everyone accountable doesn't have this problem.

And then I've worked stores like this. where night crew didn't do shit, or midday didn't do shit,or the morning crew didn't do shit.

AMEN. I’m so glad other stores struggle with this too. A while ago I went in to get a coffee before classes the morning after I closed and got cornered for not sweeping well enough. They’ve always got something to say I’m tired

I think that the work for night shifts is just more gruelling compared to morning. I consistently get mixed shifts (I basically ask to be put where I can be) and so this means i get a combo of morning swing and close shifts.

Morning is hard work. Theres been more then a few times where I would get overwhelmed with the sheer quantity of customers/food needed warmed/drinks to make. We also need to finish whatever wasnt able to be finished if it was an extremely hard close the night before, rotate/prep everything else. Yes there are some easier days but it doesnt happen as often as I think all primarily closers imagine.

Closing is a different *Kind* of work. You have to scrub, wipe down, make sure everything is done and as soon as you think you are done- wait youve forgotten something else. Its harder on the body physically.

I think closers feel so undervalued because the type of work is shifted so drastically from open to close. I can appreciate them both.

being both an opener and closer i feel this

I only ever opened in my time with Starbucks before the pandemic. Don’t have anything against closing, they just need my hours in the morning more. Recently my store has been closing at 2pm.... and I’ve had to close multiple times now! I really commend all of you closers because there is sooo much to remember to do and keep track of and my brain can’t handle it. I just let my shift direct my every task honestly lol

What gets me is the music playing at close! We always take over the radio after we close and play our own music haha

listen i get y’all are angry with the company itself, but why are we fighting each other lmao. closing and opening are both difficult, there’s soooo much more to do in the mornings than out a sign down that says open.

Not quite. Opening is usually a rush to get everything brewed and ready by yourself. I mean not anymore due to the new scheduling for Covid but usually it’s impossible to get coffee, ice coffee, and teas all set up with just two people.

As an opener this is so true, i hardly do shit in the mornings, typically go on youTube and make a drink here and there