Same thing just happened at our store, no notice. I’m especially pissed off because we just hired 6 new people to supplement our already understaffed shifts and I look at the schedule today and my consistent 32 hours a week have been cut to 20... kind of confusing and we’ve stayed open through covid and even had record sales. Our manager is having one on one conversations with everyone in the store this week and from talking to others it sounds like the options will be accepting cut hours, taking paid leave, or a severance package... totally sucks

I was told by a shift today that there is going to be an info drop soon that will contain three options.

1) stay a partner and working at the reduced hours and get used to the large cuts.

2) take a voluntary leave of absence in which we can file unemployment.

3) cut ties with the company on good footing.

It makes me wonder how much the shareholders are hurting when these options are presented.

I went from working 35 a week to 14. My insurance alone is 104 dollars a paycheck for everything.

I’m literally crying driving home from my shift

It’s about to get worse.....

Starbucks can preach Third Place all it wants but this is such a load of bullshit. And I don't want to hear any bootlicking nonsense about protecting the company's bottom line, this goes against EVERYTHING they promised us.

Check your state's partial unemployment. Many are giving it because of loss of hours due to the pandemic.