Starbucks Baristas: The daily grind
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venti (?) rant: covid (and more) edition (self.starbucksbaristas)
submitted by vicesvegetarian
I don’t know if I’m doing this right, but I’ve been following this sub for a while and I decided finally that I need support and advice from other partners.
I was hired in August, have been around here for around 2 months. I’m a senior in hs and work 5 days a week around. I like this job, but there’s a lot. With covid and everything else, my anxiety has been through the roof, and working mainly peak has lead me to have daily panic attacks in the back on my tens (to the point where i’ve considered inpatient treatment), but when I have brought it up to my SM, she has just told me to calm down. Other partners are quitting, and right now I’m one of the oldest at my store. A morning partner I normally work with always yells at me during to whole shift too so that doesn’t really help either.
Now to top it off with covid, both parents are getting tested and my SM is being really weird about it. A few weeks in when I started I had to call out due to a stomach flu, and I was told to take the 10 day isolation and get paid. Today I texted her with a heads up that they were getting tested since I was working tomorrow morning (before their results would’ve come back) and I didnt know what she wanted me to do. She texted back really annoyed and said I would have to take 14 day unpaid self isolation even if their results came back negative, which doesn’t make sense (to me at least) as to why I would have to isolate if their results are negative.
I have genuinely thought about quitting now knowing how Starbucks treats their employees, but I honestly don’t know.
Again, I’m sorry if it seems like I’m complaining, I just really needed to vent somewhere and this seemed the best option.
tldr; stressed partner irritated about covid and confused whether i want to put up with this more than i have to.
I was hired in August, have been around here for around 2 months. I’m a senior in hs and work 5 days a week around. I like this job, but there’s a lot. With covid and everything else, my anxiety has been through the roof, and working mainly peak has lead me to have daily panic attacks in the back on my tens (to the point where i’ve considered inpatient treatment), but when I have brought it up to my SM, she has just told me to calm down. Other partners are quitting, and right now I’m one of the oldest at my store. A morning partner I normally work with always yells at me during to whole shift too so that doesn’t really help either.
Now to top it off with covid, both parents are getting tested and my SM is being really weird about it. A few weeks in when I started I had to call out due to a stomach flu, and I was told to take the 10 day isolation and get paid. Today I texted her with a heads up that they were getting tested since I was working tomorrow morning (before their results would’ve come back) and I didnt know what she wanted me to do. She texted back really annoyed and said I would have to take 14 day unpaid self isolation even if their results came back negative, which doesn’t make sense (to me at least) as to why I would have to isolate if their results are negative.
I have genuinely thought about quitting now knowing how Starbucks treats their employees, but I honestly don’t know.
Again, I’m sorry if it seems like I’m complaining, I just really needed to vent somewhere and this seemed the best option.
tldr; stressed partner irritated about covid and confused whether i want to put up with this more than i have to.
[deleted] 1 points 2y ago
Do you want to work without isolating? The COVID coach doesn’t require you to isolate unless you’ve been in direct, prolonged contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID. You technically don’t have to isolate until one or both your parents test positive.
Do you want to wait for the test results and return to work if they’re negative? You should reach out to PRC. I don’t know what policies they have in place now, but I know at one point we were allowed to return to work before the 14 days if we could produce 2 negative COVID tests 72 hours apart.
Do you want to take the full 2 weeks and be paid? Once again, you should reach out to PRC. If your manager is requiring you isolate, you should be elligible to receive the second paid quarantine. Otherwise, you should look into your states unemployment requirements. I don’t believe that your age should stop you from being elligible to collect unemployment for the 2 weeks you’re being required to isolate for.
Your manager is not the last word on any of this. You have options!
Do you want to wait for the test results and return to work if they’re negative? You should reach out to PRC. I don’t know what policies they have in place now, but I know at one point we were allowed to return to work before the 14 days if we could produce 2 negative COVID tests 72 hours apart.
Do you want to take the full 2 weeks and be paid? Once again, you should reach out to PRC. If your manager is requiring you isolate, you should be elligible to receive the second paid quarantine. Otherwise, you should look into your states unemployment requirements. I don’t believe that your age should stop you from being elligible to collect unemployment for the 2 weeks you’re being required to isolate for.
Your manager is not the last word on any of this. You have options!
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