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Starbucks Baristas: The daily grind

Full History - 2020 - 05 - 23 - ID#gp9mfg
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How I be feeling recently (i.redd.it)
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paintthatface 119 points 3y ago
Opening up cafes and then not supplying enough labor for a POS partner, THEN actually reducing labor. I cannot with starbucks right now.
marsrants 51 points 3y ago
We need 4 partners minimum! Starbucks: best I could do is 3 and cut hours!
trillvert 2 points 3y ago
Lol they're saying we get two and I have about a third of my normal hours
RegularFrappuccino 24 points 3y ago
Our sm. We need to open because we need jobs and more money.

Two seconds later. We won’t see hardly anyone in the cafe so it’s safe.
mathdaddy69 16 points 3y ago
I’m at a café store and apparently customers aren’t being required to wear masks!
C10ckw0rks 14 points 3y ago
Because the number of being hurt over telling customers to wear masks is so damn high right now we’ve been instructed to not argue with them for our safety over it.
lobotomydreams 3 points 3y ago
i'm sorry go back i need an explanation- partners are being physically attacked just for telling customers to wear masks?????
C10ckw0rks 3 points 3y ago
No I mean at other non-starbucks establishments.
lobotomydreams 5 points 3y ago
still stupid fucking crazy
hopelovepeace33 2 points 3y ago
Not at Starbucks but there are places of business where they ask customers to wear mask & they are cause verbal & physical altercations. Also there was a security guard who was shot & killed at one of the Dollar store chains because he refused to let someone into the store without having a mask on.
lobotomydreams 1 points 3y ago
this is why i abandoned my dream of being a nurse to become a vet
LotsofLuck89 1 points 3y ago
McDonalds workers were shot after asking a customer to leave because they didn’t wear a mask https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/06/us/mcdonalds-employees-shot-coronavirus/index.html
JCaligirl420 1 points 3y ago
This is in the great state of OK where I happen to live 😢 I handed the card reader out the window and this man said I hope I have it and am spreading it around. Wtf is wrong with people. My fingers are torn up, and not only from the sanitizer for cleaning, but from picking because my anxiety is through the roof!
cilantroprince 3 points 3y ago
in my state wearing a mask in public is required or a $1,000 fine, does yours have a similar rule?
Keeponrocking613 3 points 3y ago
What does your state say.or county?

I don't think most stores are requiring it (yet get ready to deal with awkwardness when other customer rightfully get upset) but if your area has a law about it then that takes priority
mathdaddy69 2 points 3y ago
my county is allowing in-person retail, but we are also required to wear masks still. i’m not sure if this is just something that is happening in my district or not
Keeponrocking613 1 points 3y ago
Do you require customers to wear masks or just employees or is it just heavily suggested?
StubbledCRT1 14 points 3y ago
My store (which is suppose to open June 2ish) is also suppose to have a greeter at the door for spacing and line control with these cut hours as well
Keeponrocking613 6 points 3y ago
We opened early with just curbside and reduced hours (whatever..) but then extended hours and now extended hours more AND allowing people in for grab n go. I don't know why we are operating similar way before covid when we don't have the same staff AND we need an extra person as door person.
hopelovepeace33 2 points 3y ago
EXACTLY! I’m so fucking pissed off about this but sadly there’s nothing I or partners can do.
BeardiesRule112 2 points 3y ago
Opening up cafes with the flimsy ass plexiglass they sent us... honestly I thought they were kidding when I first saw it. Apparently we aren’t getting plexiglass for the DT though even though they publicly stated they would do that.
SuckaCakePop 2 points 3y ago
For real. I'm so frustrated. I'm at a high volume DT store right off the interstate, next to a hospital and a mall, so we are always poppin' even with Covid affecting the business. Today was my second close with the Cafe open and two less people than were originally in my block. So four of us on the floor with the breaks that have to be given. I feel like I can't take care of my partners anymore and we're all stressed. My shift duties fall to the side when all we're trying to do is stay caught up with business. Then we're there up to an hour past we are supposed to be because there's no time to clean anything while we're open. Our labor doesn't make sense to me anymore and I feel like I can't do my basic job requirements in the time given. I either have to sacrifice the customer experience to get things done or sacrifice my partner experience to take care of the customers and that doesn't seem fair to me.

It makes me feel a little better that we are all kind of struggling with that and it isn't just something I'm doing wrong. But, it also really upsets me.
narviat 2 points 3y ago
perhaps you can reach out to your district manager about this?
SuckaCakePop 2 points 3y ago
I will try that, but according to my manager that's who's telling him that we don't need more people. I do get the reasons from a business perspective but it doesn't make it less frustrating when the Chic Fil A across the street can have a person to solely stand outside a drive thru and print receipts for people and I have four people working at capacity all day haha.
Mitch_Wallberg 1 points 3y ago
Here, have some HEADSPACE
Gingersnap5322 1 points 3y ago
It’s just a useful as newspapers in our stores
funnyfukkinfiend 1 points 3y ago
So I'm in at a cafe store annnnnd we already opened 😅😅
Mobile order pick up and they can order at POS again
Honestly it's so weird and yes the mask thing is probably going to be an issue as it was for me yesterday 🙃
Theotar 1 points 3y ago
The CEO gotta make them millions.
hopelovepeace33 2 points 3y ago
God forbid they don’t get that extra beach house in the Hampton’s for the summer.
jordan_leigh 1 points 3y ago
A-freaking-men
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