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Starbucks Baristas: The daily grind

Full History - 2020 - 06 - 07 - ID#gyj5iw
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I don’t know how much more I can take[grande rant] (self.starbucksbaristas)
submitted by Mb8sudcl
This may be long and I am so sorry In advance. We have been closed since the pandemic. Our store opens tomorrow. However we can’t get anything over 20 hours because of the pandemic and lack of sales. Mind you any information Starbucks released I had to call my boss to confirm because there was no communication. I was told I had until today on Monday to choose preferences 1,2,or3. He knows that I pay my bills on my own and 20 hours isn’t enough and right now my bills are stacking. I told him Monday I was taking option 2 and I went ahead and filed unemployment. I got accepted for unemployment so I let him know. Boss doesn’t call me until today and then tells me I can’t take option 2 until the 15th of this month. He then tells me TODAY he has to schedule me tomorrow and the rest of this week. And I’m now stressed because I am on unemployment and I don’t think I can work the rest of the week because it will kick me off of unemployment. I relay that and it’s ignored and I won’t be guaranteed enough hours to survive. I don’t want to leave the company but I feel so lost. I was told I would be promoted and that hasn’t happened because of COVID and I completely understand that as it was relayed that we can’t promote at this time. But I am in need of a full time job at least. I can’t help but feeling frustrated at the situation when I felt like we weren’t communicated with properly because my boss always told each employee different and conflicting information especially about when we reopened(I’ve received three different dates from my boss), forgot to pay us because of negligence, and expects a lot out of the baristas but less of the shifts. I’ve always basically ran the whole store by myself when working with certain shifts and they still have a job. When I open I have to wait 15-30 minutes past time to be there a lot of the time because management isn’t there on time. I recently graduated college and I wanted to save up to pay for graduate school in a couple of years but I’m starting to think that it’s time for me to go. And I do believe that some stores are just better equipped but I do believe that I have to leave because it’s not necessarily a place I can continue working and grow bitter towards my job. I never want to become that kind of person. Again I’m sorry if this is long. I don’t want to come off like I’m being someone who complains.
jdsalingersdog 4 points 3y ago
Hi! I'm so sorry to hear you're dealing with this. It has been stressful to manage. If 20 hrs is less than your average weekly hours pre-Covid (actually your 2019 tax year) you should still be able to receive unemployment/partial unemployment, which should include the extra 600$/week. Much of this depends on your state.
I'm not super Starbucks-culture but I believe there are partner resources available to us to help answer questions on this. Search through the hub. I hope someone else answers w more on that.
All the best to you.
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