If I bothered to answer, mine would just look like "bcs I'm not getting a pay increase since you've capped it, which tells precisely what you think of hourly wage earners"

Plus our leaders are working from home while we are all out in a pandemic. 10% doesn’t cover the risk we are all taking. I’m just one manager but trust me, I feel you all. Even when I was a barista and ssv, I couldn’t believe how little I was paid for how hard I worked. Even now, I am in a major city, my highest paid SSVs makes $2 less than me (if my salary converted to hourly) and would make more than me in a week if she got OT. You guys aren’t the only ones also feeling frustrated.

I work 36-38 hours/per week (and I live in Arkansas, very VERY low cost of living) and I still can’t afford to live in a 2 bedroom apartment and pay for WiFi, water, and electricity by myself. No human working full time should have to rely on a roommate to be able to comfortably live. I plan to go to nursing school in January, so that means even less hours (I tried asu, it wasn’t for me or my major). I don’t want to live frivolously, I just want to be able to pay my bills and buy groceries once every two weeks

Yeah sounds about right. Then pushing out a memo about planning on raising pay to $15/hour for all...Only issue is that “plan” takes until 2023, and by that time, taking inflation into account, they can basically pay you exactly what they pay you now. You’d be hard pressed to find a corporation that deceives the public about how shitty they really treat their employees. Maybe Amazon, but regardless, Starbucks doesn’t care about paying us. What I imagine is that they hope that most of the unhappy baristas will find a new job before 2023 as to stop putting up with this bullshit.

Oh man, this question infuriated me. Leaders don't understand my life. No previous generation has had to live like mine, and I guarantee the people making these decisions are not 25.

Ahhhhh my answer to this was a lot of yelling.

You make $12/hour? I make less than that...

Just doing it for the free iPad 😅

Yeah, I wrote something similar. I said something point-blank like: "$9.90 is not close to a living wage." I also write that I don't feel safe at work because duh.

As a former 175er, I gotta say I feel like Sbux is actively trying to push out all the seasoned partners, whether it be with the unfair pay (making the same amount as a new hire after you’ve been there for so many years) or just straight up not giving a shit about how they feel. When I left, it was right after the one other long time partners in our store had also quit, and our SM one day had made this offhand comment about how the “vet employees” always have the most to say and corporate is getting tired of it.

It felt so good putting my two weeks notice in right before the holidays 😊

On Investor Day they made major announcements to raise the stock price its all about corporate gains. They said they are opening 20,000 more stores, I’m like good luck getting baristas to work at said stores.

I make 10/hr and the partners I trained a couple months ago make 10.50/hr. And this “raise” where I am supposedly getting a higher percentage than said new partners is false. They’re just bumping everyone up to the new starting wage and then giving them a 5% raise. So I’m getting bumped to 10.50 and then getting a 5% raise. Because I don’t even make the starting pay. So, I’ve worked with the company for 2 years and make the same amount as all of the other baristas in my store who have all worked there for over 6 months shorter than I have (and most have worked there for only 1 year)...

Truth is that corporate doesn't care what you type in because they flat out just don't care. They want to seem like they care, but only as far as asking you that question. They will put on whatever charade they need to to look good to the public and keep up appearances but beyond that, not one fuck is given. The root of it all is $$$. Corporate still makes money hand over fist and stock prices continue to rise, ultimately making shareholders happy.

Honestly I’ve gotten a side gig with Shipt because I’m not expecting Starbucks to do anything any time soon. Every survey though I ask them to allow tips of card purchases

Do you happen to have a link to the survey? I'd like to write a love letter to them as well.

The thing that really irritates me the most about all of this is that corporate is working from home. That does not show at all that they care about the partners.

I feel for you. My raise was practically taken away from me! I was making $9/hr before the supposed 10%

Apparently my district increased their starting pay to $10, and so my raise was basically erased. When I said we should keep our raise, my SM said she would talk to the DM (aka nothing is going to change)

I saw in the news Starbucks minimum wage is going to be increased to $15 an hour within the next 2-3 years

I feel for each of you because I saw a very similar issue with a very large private employer while at your career stages, and then saw it again with Amazon. You are correct, that corporate finance has slotted in what they view as appropriate pay and planned acceptable partner turnover. They aren't going to change.

I appreciate the sacrifices each of you have made, ESPECIALLY NOW. Though I can only make a difference in my local stores and market, I salute each of you this holiday season, and as a non-Starbucks employee, THANK YOU. There are people out here who want to do what they can to help and support you.

I dont even quality for the pay increase since i started after august.