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Starbucks Baristas: The daily grind

Full History - 2020 - 08 - 18 - ID#ic512w
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You tell us that you don’t have $ to spend on labour. But you think a garbage tamper for every store is needed. What a joke!!! (i.redd.it)
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submitizenkane 99 points 2y ago
Well then you can use the garbage tamper as a cane!! Thanks for thinking of us, corporate!
GhostRecon1845 18 points 2y ago
Learn to lift bro /s
dancing_durian 9 points 2y ago
Lift with your butt! I know that’s technically not right but I like to annoy my one partner by saying that.
Critical50 108 points 2y ago
Maybe if they had hollow plastic models made of all their food items for us to stick in the display case instead of every single store throwing out a ton of food every single day..
OneRoseDark 33 points 2y ago
But then they wouldn't get to brag about how much food they donate! /s
Unipanther368 15 points 2y ago
But because of covid, all the food in the case is getting thrown out anyway!
alycrawford42- 14 points 2y ago
You guys donate the food from the case?? Ours gets thrown out. Every last thing
OneRoseDark 6 points 2y ago
I think it's only in some areas. We have orange plastic bags that all the expired food goes in at the end of the day, and there's a truck that goes around and picks them up after close from all the stores in the area.
OneRoseDark 1 points 2y ago
At least in my area we're donating it again. We stopped for a couple months but when they decided we could put out the paninis for people to hand us again (!!!) they also decided to donate the case setup again.
Unipanther368 1 points 2y ago
Paninis? Sorry for my lack of knowledge -- I work in a kiosk so we have less food, etc. available than a corporate store
BeardiesRule112 65 points 2y ago
“Not much money left” after they bought back their own stocks 🙀
cs_phoenix 23 points 2y ago
I mean don’t get me wrong here I am definitely on your side but to be fair, sending one of these to stores is so dramatically cheaper than an increase in labor across the board.
GhostRecon1845 6 points 2y ago
Truth. It prob only cost a couple of million whereas increasing labor would be 100’s of millions
Lilium816 4 points 2y ago
Happy cake day!
cs_phoenix 5 points 2y ago
Oh shit I didn’t even realize! Thank you!
MrRisstopher 21 points 2y ago
From what a heard a partner was pushing down the trash with their hands and got pricked by a dirty needle someone left in the can. So I understand where the company is coming from sending out these trash stampers.
Mariiriini 8 points 2y ago
Yeah,we've almost gotten pricked by glass/needles/whatever enough times, but lobby garbages get "full" quick as heck. We just used a venti cup tho... I do like the concept, but I wish they'd care more about basic things to improve partner's well being like pay or hours.
Gorbon11 14 points 2y ago
Plunger 2
crzyshiba 11 points 2y ago
Is this for the Karen’s who refuse to wear a mask? Lol I will slowly push you out the door 6 Ft please
yikes153 10 points 2y ago
It’s funny cause with only 2 people I don’t have enough time to do the trashes throughout the day. We just do a giant run at the end of the night. So thanks for the useless item!
chuhai-drinker 9 points 2y ago
I definitely thought that was some kind of weird plunger when I saw it in back of house. No one told me that we got these.
colonade17 8 points 2y ago
Hey, be nice, we just voted to make that garbage tamper POQ.
BeardiesRule112 3 points 2y ago
I vote to make it CEO, it’s more stand up than the garbage that’s there now
dfarner 8 points 2y ago
I mean to be fair those trash bags get awfully full really fast. It is nice to be able to use them a little longer
xEman26x 12 points 2y ago
Until you have to shake the bag out the trash can
Mariiriini 8 points 2y ago
pssst, theoretically not allowed, but a tiny hole punched into the side as low as you can make it will 100% make it easier to pull out the trash. the problem is it creates a vacuum when garbage is pressed against the sides.
Unipanther368 3 points 2y ago
Oooooohhhhhhh, pro life tip right here
annaeclipsing 6 points 2y ago
Idc about how much less money this stupid stick costs lmao they can still afford to give us a raise regardless..
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Lilium816 6 points 2y ago
It was in the weekly update lul
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445143 5 points 2y ago
You use them to push overflowing garbage down in the bins
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Gingersnap5322 5 points 2y ago
I don’t wanna be this person but I fucking love this thing. I named mine Mjolnir and I take my anger from customers on it
elcoffeeboi19 5 points 2y ago
Another reason why I’m leaving the company :) they can afford trash smooshers but can’t pay me when someone has a headache and forces me to go home 🙃
Gingersnap616 5 points 2y ago
First night I saw it and thought it was someones large garbage that needed to be thrown away. Almost did too..
FunSizeChun 3 points 2y ago
Not to mention they just had to make an instruction video to tell us how to use it
phaniep4ck 2 points 2y ago
I like the trash stick 🥺👉👈

eta: but I’d like a living salary *more*
cocochigogo 2 points 2y ago
Yeah, money is there to buy this, stupid new sticker machines and order waaaaaaaay too much food.
Alefur 2 points 2y ago
I almost immediately hurt myself with one of these dumb things.
absinthesf 1 points 2y ago
garbage smoosher lol.
unpackedbaggage 1 points 2y ago
Kinda fun to get all your aggression out- my store manager
canidieyet_ 1 points 2y ago
I just started working at Starbucks and I genuinely thought they were using an actual plunger for the trash. At a second glance I realized what it was
hufflepuffisonfleek 1 points 2y ago
Thanks for this innovation corporate, cuz my hands are useless...even tho I’ve legit been using my hands to push down the trash since day one.... now I have to go to the back to find the trash tamper in order to push down the trash which will essentially do the same thing as my hands... so I will still be changing the trash as often as usual. You really didn’t think this through did you......
Unipanther368 1 points 2y ago
Oooooohhhhhhh yumm
NotEvenOrganic_ 1 points 2y ago
and making and advertising more canned grocery store products while they should be using that money to give its employees a raise.
busymom35 1 points 2y ago
Just got ours the other day!
dustinb99 1 points 2y ago
My store calls it the trash plunger
whatismineisyours 1 points 2y ago
We should challenge each other to jousts. Winner gets working machines from the other’s store.
Psychedelic_Doughnut 1 points 2y ago
Penny Wise, Dollar Foolish
epixgamer64 1 points 2y ago
I have one of those in my house.. oh wait it’s a plunger. Couldn’t tell the difference.
StienXx 1 points 2y ago
Wait is that what thats called ? I saw it yesterday and was so lost
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gjroberts93 1 points 2y ago
Is that what that is supposed to be?
cs_phoenix 3 points 2y ago
Yup
NOTcreative- -6 points 2y ago
A $1 an hour raise for all partners would be $220,000 per hour or say 8,000,000 a week. These tampers probably cost $2 for every store that’s $20,000. Would you rather they invest the $20,000 for a raise? Fractions of a penny. But this will make the job easier and require trashes changed less often.
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