Your store got slower with covid?

im one of those, got hired in august, and honestly am kind of scared. the hard part is i feel bad for getting overwhelmed when our lobby is busy and i feel like the seasoned partners hate me for not knowing what’s to come. sometimes we, as green beans, get really talked down upon and some people just gotta remember that they were in our position at some point too.

I am dreading when we go back to “normal” we just got a new shift from outside the company and she is struggling now after months being a shift how is she going to survive when we are back to normal?? The post covid partners that think its busy now, just wait.... When everything opens up and we can start open of inside and the schools around us (we have 3 HS just around us) comes in while we get hit by Ubereats and mobile order.. then we will definitely have some melt downs...
I just hope we got the new ovens and bars before that.

I hope they can take the heat! We’ve picked back up to pretty much normalcy and weekends are KILLING us. We’re perpetually a person short at our store too, and on top of it all we’re out of all refreshers except mango, strawberry purée, nonfat milk, and god knows what else

When I started in the mid summer, I was definitely shocked because I had no idea what it was like to work at starbucks and I was excited and nervous. Three covid closures later and I am a bit jaded but happy. One thing I will say though is that on hard days that are slammed, under staffed, and tense, I question how worth it everything is but partners who have been there since before covid tell me that this is NOT the starbucks experience. I am hoping that that is at least partly true but we shall see :/

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