Starbucks Baristas: The daily grind
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“Inside a Starbucks is the safest place you can be!” (self.starbucksbaristas)
submitted by throwaway1209340987
“Science has shown that it’s perfectly safe for Starbucks to be open.”
“According to data we have, Starbucks is the next safest place to be other than your home!”
Is anyone else tired of hearing these corporate claims repeated over and over again?
First of all, this assumes that all Starbucks locations are following the COVID-19 safety procedures 100% accurately and in a timely manner (they aren’t). This also refers to a bunch of data, that, *if* it exists, has not been made available to SSVs and baristas. If the evidence is there, why are partners still getting COVID? When they get COVID, how do we *know* they weren’t exposed at work? If it’s so safe, why are all DMs and above working from home?
It all just seems...dubious, to say the least.
How do you explain $1? Or $1? Or $1? I could go on. Having safety standards put in place doesn’t magically ensure that they are enforced, nor does it make Starbucks the safe haven they keep trying to convince us it is.
Do you feel safe in your Starbucks? What do you think about these claims?
“According to data we have, Starbucks is the next safest place to be other than your home!”
Is anyone else tired of hearing these corporate claims repeated over and over again?
First of all, this assumes that all Starbucks locations are following the COVID-19 safety procedures 100% accurately and in a timely manner (they aren’t). This also refers to a bunch of data, that, *if* it exists, has not been made available to SSVs and baristas. If the evidence is there, why are partners still getting COVID? When they get COVID, how do we *know* they weren’t exposed at work? If it’s so safe, why are all DMs and above working from home?
It all just seems...dubious, to say the least.
How do you explain $1? Or $1? Or $1? I could go on. Having safety standards put in place doesn’t magically ensure that they are enforced, nor does it make Starbucks the safe haven they keep trying to convince us it is.
Do you feel safe in your Starbucks? What do you think about these claims?
cs_phoenix 12 points 2y ago
I don’t in anyway disagree with you post (I agree with all of it!) but where have corporate made claims like the two you’ve put here. They usually just spew bullshit but this just seems like too much of a lie for corporate to pull off haha. Again, just looking for clarification I completely agree with your post. I don’t think I am safe at work.
throwaway1209340987 [OP] 5 points 2y ago
Not corporate directly, but I have had multiple SMs and DMs say those things to me! At least two of each, plus a PRM!
throwaway1209340987 [OP] 3 points 2y ago
As cs_phoenix mentioned, these are not claims corporate as a whole is making publicly. But I have had at least two different SMs, two DMs, and a PRM feed me these lines which makes me think that’s what *they* are being told. Am I the only one experiencing these kinds of claims?
Simplyroro 2 points 2y ago
My store manager hasn't used those numbers but has said the number is miniscule. Funny thing is we have had 3 SHUTDOWNS since this all started.
throwaway1209340987 [OP] 1 points 2y ago
This is exactly what I’m talking about! I’m glad I’m not the only one experiencing this! Because from other comments on this thread I was starting to feel like maybe it’s just me, despite the number of management employees who have said basically the same thing to me! I assume it’s what corporate tells them to say, but I agree! They’re just totally trying to minimize it, and it’s infuriating! Clearly the number isn’t minuscule with more than a million people that have had it at this point.
mewwissa 1 points 2y ago
Someone got COVID at the other store in my town and they shut the store down, quarantined all the staff, and had the place cleaned. At my store, a ssv got COVID so they had her quarantine, all of us that worked around her are continuing to work. We actually split our staff amongst both stores so that they could be open from 8a-6p. People are LIVID. It makes so much more sense to have ONE store open for regular hours, considering our stores are within a mile of one another. 😒
throwaway1209340987 [OP] 1 points 2y ago
That’s ridiculous!
Do you guys do block scheduling?
Do you guys do block scheduling?
Luckyduc778 -9 points 2y ago
Call me crazy, but I trust our procedures and it’s your store’s fault if they don’t follow them. I’d rather have a job and be employed so I can not be evicted. I think some of you guys can’t grasp reality.
throwaway1209340987 [OP] 5 points 2y ago
I’m glad you personally trust the procedures, but you are one of thousands of partners. Many of whom don’t share your opinion.
As to the “my store’s fault” comment, how does that help? It’s also not just “my store.” Are you telling me you’ve never been to a Starbucks and noticed at least one person not following what you know to be correct standards, whether COVID-related or not?
Also, they can afford to pay us. Sorry, but they absolutely can. Kevin Johnson *alone* could afford to pay us.
As to the “my store’s fault” comment, how does that help? It’s also not just “my store.” Are you telling me you’ve never been to a Starbucks and noticed at least one person not following what you know to be correct standards, whether COVID-related or not?
Also, they can afford to pay us. Sorry, but they absolutely can. Kevin Johnson *alone* could afford to pay us.
dodofishman 3 points 2y ago
Actually, we would just like to take action about said reality. Does that bother you?
NOTcreative- -25 points 2y ago
The closures are part of the safety measures. A partner comes in, does the check in, and check in says to send them home. They take the test and it comes back positive. They were in the store, store closes for deep cleaning for safety. Of 200,000 partners only 5 have reported contracting the virus at work, other employees who tested positive figured out it wasn’t at Starbucks through contact tracing. DMs aren’t working from home. If safety standards aren’t being followed, call your DM or ethics and compliance to report it. Partners get covid outside of work, you don’t know that, the partner does. Corporate partners are working from home because it’s much less safe to be in an office building with a thousand employees when all your work is computer work anyway.
throwaway1209340987 [OP] 19 points 2y ago
There certainly are DMs working from home. Maybe not all of them, but some.
Where is your data coming from? What is your source?
Yes, working from home is safer than working in an office with thousands of people. Staying home is also a lot safer than going into a building with a dozen or so different coworkers throughout the day and hundreds of customers.
Just because closed café seating is safeER doesn’t mean that it’s safe. Those are two different things. And, again, this is assuming that all standards are being appropriately met and followed through with, which I can guarantee that there are stores where they aren’t.
Even if *everyone* reported *every* issue they saw concerning COVID-19 standards, it’s not 100%. I know I have coworkers that are going to parties, eating at restaurants, and otherwise being irresponsible college kids. I know we all don’t always have our masks on around each other because that is unattainable when the back room is the only place to take breaks, eat, and drink. The only bathrooms for the partners to use are also the bathrooms that customers use, and so on. It’s not foolproof.
Even if your numbers are correct, 5 partners is still not 0 partners.
Where is your data coming from? What is your source?
Yes, working from home is safer than working in an office with thousands of people. Staying home is also a lot safer than going into a building with a dozen or so different coworkers throughout the day and hundreds of customers.
Just because closed café seating is safeER doesn’t mean that it’s safe. Those are two different things. And, again, this is assuming that all standards are being appropriately met and followed through with, which I can guarantee that there are stores where they aren’t.
Even if *everyone* reported *every* issue they saw concerning COVID-19 standards, it’s not 100%. I know I have coworkers that are going to parties, eating at restaurants, and otherwise being irresponsible college kids. I know we all don’t always have our masks on around each other because that is unattainable when the back room is the only place to take breaks, eat, and drink. The only bathrooms for the partners to use are also the bathrooms that customers use, and so on. It’s not foolproof.
Even if your numbers are correct, 5 partners is still not 0 partners.
Simplyroro 12 points 2y ago
I contracted covid19 at work, I went from home to work,, all my groceries and what not was delivered. Im a single parent whom then infected my kids. All of whom where at home on quarantine. Staffing shortages, block scheduling, focus on drive times, and the demands for high touch sanitization, all collide and 1 or more suffer. You must be some sort of corporate troll or truly deluded.
pml94238 9 points 2y ago
You probably work for corporate bc you sound like you’re talking out your ass
NOTcreative- 0 points 2y ago
I work for Starbucks. I’m a store manager. Yes I work for corporate not a licensed store. Baristas in corporate stores also work for corporate.
throwaway1209340987 [OP] 2 points 2y ago
Yes, but that’s not the same. Baristas work *under* corporate, SM’s and above essentially *are* corporate. The higher up the chain, the more out of touch.
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