[vent]

I’m a SS and I am so sick of being told to “coach” our partners about dress code when what they are wearing is BARELY out of dress code. One of my baristas was wearing black jeans with a thin red stripe down the leg. It was about an inch thick and was like embroidered on. Anyway, my SM coached her about it, and then proceeded to tell me that I need to get better about coaching our baristas about dress code. This happens all the time at our store.

There are also some things that are obviously out of dress code, like white or grey shoes, or shirts with an accent color outside of the scheme, that I think is so stupid to enforce. The baristas are wearing nonslip shoes! Who cares if they are white! Or they’re shirt has pink sleeves but is otherwise in dress code, why am I going to “coach” them about it. I just feel like it’s a waste of my time when my SM should be emphasizing coaching about more important things like shaking drinks or FIFO.

I would honestly rather sbux change the rules to be more lenient (remember when they just did that and nothing changed? 🙄) or create a very strict uniform that’s black pants, black branded polo, and nonslip shoes. It’s just so frustrating when the company wants to pretend to be fun and hip but also has the worst color palette and stupidest rules. I’m also sick of nitpicking our partners constantly about tiny details on their clothes that are “out of dresscode”.