December 2019 I quit Starbucks due to a lack of acknowledgement and understanding of mental health at my location, as well as the unwillingness to let people call in sick. For the most part however, I LOVED working at Starbucks. It is the best job I’ve ever had and the people I worked with (minus most shift supervisors) were some of the kindest, funniest people I’ve met. Making drinks was my favourite thing to do and I miss it everyday. I really want this position at Starbucks again, just at a different location.

Basically, I was at Starbucks for 9 months before I quit, I didn’t even leave a 2 weeks notice. I had had enough with the management and the shift supervisors and the way they handled anxiety, anxiety attacks and panic attacks. There were a couple of baristas that felt the same way as me and were disappointed with the way things were handled.

One time towards the end, I was severely mistreated while having a panic attack. I excused myself a bit into my shift and started to have a one, just out of nowhere. They don’t happen often at all, maybe once every 6 months and this one happened to be at work.

She was practically yelling at me, while I’m hyperventilating and crying in my car.

“You’re leaving us short”
“When are you going to stop?”
“You’re going to be written up.”

I could not respond at this point and was unable to work for the rest of the night. My manager made excuses for the shift supervisors behaviour.

Another issue was that they didn’t let people call in sick. They literally just said “no” or made you feel extremely bad for feeling unwell. Most partners had an issue with this.

The panic attack moment was the tipping point for me. There had been times in the past that made me feel uncomfortable regarding lack of awareness or acceptance, but I could not handle this event. Being made feel guilty for having a mental disorder is never ok. That’s when I gave my letter of resignation, a week later, effective immediately. I regret that decision, but the amount of anxiety working with those shift supervisors and my manager was too great for me to handle at the time. I should’ve went through the system and transferred, or at least given my 2 weeks, but I didn’t.

Now, after applying online, dropping off my resume in store and sending my resume to the personal email of the manager at this new location in a different city, I have gotten myself somewhat of an interview. Though he called it a “meeting,” so it may just be more of a talk of why I left my last location. I’m honestly not sure. All I know Is that I want to work at this new location soooo bad. It’s 30 seconds from my new place, it doesn’t have a drive thru and the people there seem extremely nice and outgoing. I miss making Starbucks drinks a ton and I still know what goes into each one.

I’m looking for advice, hopefully from a shift supervisor or somebody who has been working at Starbucks for a while. Any advice is appreciated though. How do I get this job? How do I explain why I left my old location? What do need to say and what do I need to leave out. I really don’t want to blow this.

Thank you for reading and helping me out with this.