I’ve flat out refused to train any more. Not I’m this environment for shit pay.

You’re not failing them. Corporate is by not allowing the time or labor to train them, and in general. I’ve had seasoned partners leave because it’s become too stressful.

The weight is not on your shoulders for them not being able to handle the current stress.

I have been the only active trainer at my store since last December. We've been "understaffed" since then. Back then, we were just 1 or 2 baristas short. Covid, college kids leaving, and just a handful of others who left for unrelated reasons ... we're now about 12 baristas short from being considered adequately staffed. I have trained 25+ people in the last 10 months. People end up not liking the job, transferring to another store, can't handle/don't like the stress, etc.
Lately our store has started to hit it's breaking point. My manager gets in trouble weekly because she is scheduling 3 partners more a day than she is supposed to be, and that still leaves us without a CS for most of the day, or someone soloing DTO/DTR with 18+ cars in line. Shifts have started bickering back and forth and letting their drama completely take over, to the point when I trained someone last week, on her third day she asked, "Is it always like this here? Are they always arguing like this? Because I've been here three days for training and it's even making me uncomfortable." Like ... what am I supposed to respond to that? I had a discussion with my SM and expressed how difficult it's been lately, especially because part of training is welcoming them to the store and getting them comfortable with everything/everyone. It's at a point where it's hard to do this when the arguing/stress/impossible expectations overwhelm me, so how am I supposed to convince someone else this is somewhere they want to work?
All of my shifts are usually pretty great, except for one, but it's always been manageable issues. I assume the stress of covid, lack of scheduling, increasing demanding expectations from corporate, and wayyyyy higher costumer traffic than normal is what's put everybody on edge. But damn, it is HARD to convince someone right now that there is a valid reason they should stay at this job.
What is most frustrating, I'm supposed to be promoted to SSV as soon as we have a good, normal amount of baristas. Our DM doesn't want us to carve in the time for me to promote until we can get our staffing issue under control. I feel like I'm going to be stuck in a perpetual training loop forever.

Have all the green beans been getting their 20+ hours of training? Bad training always leads to losing partners. At our store our new partners complete their barista basics over 2 weeks so they are not overloaded with information. Then their first shift on their own they are scheduled 4 noncoverage hours after peak to just practice making drinks so they build confidence.

I just got trained, at a different store than I actually work at. Have only had one shift at my home store after 10 days of 4 to 5 hour shifts for “training”. I just applied to a few other jobs because the myth of Starbucks is a flat out lie. I was told it’s ok to make mistakes, but when I make a mistake, the person I go to for help looks at me like I shoved a shit sandwich under their nose. They get very irritated and sigh, then reluctantly press all kinds of buttons, throw away the drink, ect and make me feel like shit. I don’t need this crap, nor does anyone else on the planet. Can’t wait to leave. I’m older and I know what a great person and employee I am. It’s just too stressful.

Only recently got ‘promoted’(it’s technically a promotion, right?) to trainer and I’ve already trained one person and am finishing the training with the other. It gets better! My first trainee got kinda screwed over cuz we lost a day of training since my shift decided to put us on main bar for bar training during a rush, but I managed to show him a more detailed rundown of bar on the day after. Second trainee’s bar day went according to plan, but I got to show him more support stuff than my first trainee. It gets better with each trainee cuz you’re learning too, in a way! Keep your head up!

Ive hated it lately. It’s impossible to train someone on bar when I am the only bar person. So many times I’ve been like hold on let me catch up and then I’ll explain. One of them got it down pretty quickly but the other was so overwhelmed and frankly I feel bad for them.

I essentially have 3 8 hour days to train someone and it’s just impossible. I feel like I’m just throwing them to the wolves. My precious little babies.