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Starbucks Baristas: The daily grind

Full History - 2020 - 08 - 03 - ID#i37vl4
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Is it even worth it??? (self.starbucksbaristas)
submitted by trippygrl8823
For the last few months starting from December I’ve vocalized wanting to train and move up because I do love the company just my stores a mess. My manager kept telling me how I had to meet with someone to interview to be a trainer and that was fine but every time I asked he kept stalling so when we had this AMAZING asm I was telling her how training would be something I’d love. That same day she unlocked my modules to become a certified barista trainer. In March a lot of partners in my district took their leave, so out of no where my manager didn’t even give me any type of help or even a notice that I had to train someone and expanded my shifts to working practically all day to cram in a random training because the original girl got sick(no biggie) but of course I was nervous and didn’t know where to even start more of feeling I didn’t have support or help. I ended up training 6 partners or so week after week ...they all did amazing! More recently I asked my boss about a transfer HE offered told me basically oh the timing isn’t right no problem. Then when we had our convo on what option I was choosing he OFFERED two other stores looking for shift leads i told him well the one location is a little too far but I’d see how the drive felt before I left that day I asked are you sure I have a spot at either store he said yes. The drive was out of my way so I texted him the other store would be a better option and his response was oh are you sure you can’t make the drive? He then told me that the other store didn’t have the spot. Brings us to this last month I notified him that my availability would be changing due to I picked up a second job never responded so I’ve been killing myself to go to both jobs because of scheduling I’ve had an hour free between both jobs. I requested a transfer so I’d atleast be closer to school told me he’d call me and talk to the other manager and let me know I told him I was just looking to move as a barista just to make commute easy. I texted him he said how he forgot and sorry that I fell through the cracks and that we can talk tomorrow. I bust my ass at my store. I feel like I’m being gaslighted and just don’t know if I want to stay with the company anymore.
Lilium816 1 points 2y ago
Transfers are strange. If a store isn't hiring it likely won't take transfers. On the surface transfers look great because it's like you can "shop" for whichever location you want. Unfortunately, that's not really the case. For a transfer to go through the SM's of the two stores have to do a fair amount of communication and even if your destination store is hiring, the SM has the freedom to simply deny the transfer.

SMs have a lot on thier plate right now, lots of meetings and conference calls they have to handle on top of constantly micro managing the schedules. Be patient and keep asking.

Also, I'd really recommend not transferring into a store to *become* an SSV. Older partners at stores don't take to well to having a new face show up and tell them what to do.
trippygrl8823 [OP] 1 points 2y ago
Thank you I know Sorry just a frustrating thing my sm actually said to be moved up I’d have to transfer because their wouldn’t be respect with the people I’ve worked with so maybe just different stores in different areas have a different protocol - he did tell me when I requested the transfer that same thing though how it’s a lot of moving people around to make sure stores are 👌🏽 so that’s not my main issue just feels like I can’t get a straight answer on what’s going on
Lilium816 2 points 2y ago
I understand that. Just be patient and continue to ask questions.
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