Starbucks Baristas: The daily grind
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Quick question for any partners (self.starbucksbaristas)
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Sammiche 7 points 2y ago
If your store is open on Christmas, then you'll need to request it off.
As for black Friday, I assume it's going to be all hands on deck unless you specifically ask for it off.
[EDIT] btw, I'm told that you get MAD TIPS on Christmas.
As for black Friday, I assume it's going to be all hands on deck unless you specifically ask for it off.
[EDIT] btw, I'm told that you get MAD TIPS on Christmas.
[deleted] [OP] 2 points 2y ago
If you normally don’t have availability on those days, then that shouldn’t matter if it’s a holiday or not.
Now, if you typically don’t work but you *want* to, you should still be allowed to sign up for them, as you’re volunteering to ignore your availability.
Now, if you typically don’t work but you *want* to, you should still be allowed to sign up for them, as you’re volunteering to ignore your availability.
rudebii 2 points 2y ago
I wouldn't necessarily make that assumption and confirm. I've heard stories (and have had to cover "no-shows") of people with specific days due to school and would get scheduled during holidays on those days and when they complained, their A/SMs would respond "you needed those days for school, but school's out for winter, so I'm scheduling on those days until Jan"
dick move IMO, but I've seen it happen.
dick move IMO, but I've seen it happen.
[deleted] [OP] 1 points 2y ago
I mean, that can be argued. Your availability is your availability. Nowhere does it state that your availability isn’t valid on holidays. If your manager schedules you outside of your approved availability, it’s not your responsibility. And they can’t particularly do anything about it.
rudebii 2 points 2y ago
I'm not saying any of that isn't true, but it was not an opinion held by some of the hell masters running stores in my old district, nor that of the top demon that was our DM.
Scheduling in the last two months of the year was always tough, we always needed more people due to so much more volume, but that's when people would start requesting time off. Pre-holiday kickoff meetings always started with a 20-minute lecture about how we're in the service industry so that meant we had to work when our customers aren't - basically being told to stuff our time off requests up our asses until after new years.
There were a few years where no one could request any time off between thanksgiving and new years day, you got to rank your preference on which holiday you got off, but no guarantees you'd get any of them off (most years I didn't, but I was with the bux before opening xmas day was a thing, so xmas eve). On those weekends, it was literally all-hands and everyone worked at least one of the two days, sometimes both days.
I came to hate the holiday season, and to this day I don't really make a big deal out of any of them and don't even look forward to them. I will stab a motherfucker that turns on xmas music in my presence unless it's like the 24th or 25th. Starbucks basically sucked all the joy out of the season for me, and it's been 20 years since I quit.
Scheduling in the last two months of the year was always tough, we always needed more people due to so much more volume, but that's when people would start requesting time off. Pre-holiday kickoff meetings always started with a 20-minute lecture about how we're in the service industry so that meant we had to work when our customers aren't - basically being told to stuff our time off requests up our asses until after new years.
There were a few years where no one could request any time off between thanksgiving and new years day, you got to rank your preference on which holiday you got off, but no guarantees you'd get any of them off (most years I didn't, but I was with the bux before opening xmas day was a thing, so xmas eve). On those weekends, it was literally all-hands and everyone worked at least one of the two days, sometimes both days.
I came to hate the holiday season, and to this day I don't really make a big deal out of any of them and don't even look forward to them. I will stab a motherfucker that turns on xmas music in my presence unless it's like the 24th or 25th. Starbucks basically sucked all the joy out of the season for me, and it's been 20 years since I quit.
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