Starbucks Baristas: The daily grind
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ok? get your ass in the store and be the closer🥰 (i.redd.it)
submitted by serialsquisher
TheSwimmingBrain 192 points 2y ago
Hate this behavior. We work the hours we're scheduled. Keep your backbone and don't bend over for them when they pressure you. It's bullying in adult format.
serialsquisher [OP] 129 points 2y ago
i really needed to hear that tonight. i was starting to feel guilty but i deserve my rest. i get treated like garbage on the days i AM scheduled, so why would i choose to take extra hours??
TheSwimmingBrain 45 points 2y ago
Not every store is toxic. If you're not happy don't sacrifice your mental health to keep the job in the place you're at. I was ready to quit my first store too, but I transfered a year or two ago and it's like a completely new work environment.
serialsquisher [OP] 26 points 2y ago
i’m trying to get transferred, but i work in a store inside of a grocery chain and they make it nearly impossible. trying to stick it out so i can start at a stand-alone on my college campus in august
NyanBecca 2 points 2y ago
Maybe talk to your DM? I’m not sure what kind of support they would offer but in my experience they are usually very helpful and if needed can get you transferred sooner than the 60 days. Especially if you mention toxic work environment. I hope that was helpful in some way and good luck on your transfer!
lea-oppalove 1 points 2y ago
I really hope you can successfully transfer soon. This kind of treatment is unacceptable, completely unprofessional and you deserve better!
CS3883 12 points 2y ago
Yeah I agree. It sucks because I understand that when someone calls off you need to find coverage (I'm a shift so I get to be the one dealing with call offs) but I also totally get not wanting to pick up a shift. It's just annoying because our SM acts like everyone is selfish if they won't pick up, but what do you expect dude? We don't get paid a lot anyways and personally if I am expecting to have so and so day off then I don't want to cancel my plans of sitting around doing nothing lol.
the42ndfl00r 9 points 2y ago
The SM is always capable of covering a shift. They just never seem to.
Rukeriusu 85 points 2y ago
God I remember being called to come in to do a closing shift. It was one of those licensed starbucks where some places weren't 24/7 open. I had told my manager and head manager that I was taking off for a week off to visit someone two states over. It was like a 7 or 8 hour drive for me.
Around that time before I had left, we had got a new manager and I never got to formally meet her myself. But she ended up getting my contact info and called me up to ask if I could be her closer. She was pretty insistent that I would come in otherwise she'd write me up. Guess nobody told her that I had notified management that I was approved for taking a week off.
Around that time before I had left, we had got a new manager and I never got to formally meet her myself. But she ended up getting my contact info and called me up to ask if I could be her closer. She was pretty insistent that I would come in otherwise she'd write me up. Guess nobody told her that I had notified management that I was approved for taking a week off.
serialsquisher [OP] 59 points 2y ago
i would’ve told her to chew broken glass
LatteMaster 48 points 2y ago
How hard is it to call other stores for coverage, I smell laziness from a mile away.
serialsquisher [OP] 23 points 2y ago
exactly. you get it
hecaete47 20 points 2y ago
Ugh this!!
My store is a drive-thru store struggling with intense understaffing. I'm in a major city where many Starbucks cafe-only locations are still running VERY limited hours because, although covid restrictions have begun to lift, the office employees and students (classes were virtual this semester) giving business to the cafe stores are non-existent.
I GUARANTEE there are partners who would love to pick up hours at my store.
So why the hell can't my SM contact any other stores?
My store is a drive-thru store struggling with intense understaffing. I'm in a major city where many Starbucks cafe-only locations are still running VERY limited hours because, although covid restrictions have begun to lift, the office employees and students (classes were virtual this semester) giving business to the cafe stores are non-existent.
I GUARANTEE there are partners who would love to pick up hours at my store.
So why the hell can't my SM contact any other stores?
AUserNameThatsTaken1 27 points 2y ago
You don’t owe anymore hours than what your scheduled
whycantibeamermaid 22 points 2y ago
Bruh, I literally threw up at work and text my manager and she was like “I’ve been drinking all day sooooo I guess just close the store if you can’t stay.”
Da fuck.
Da fuck.
Malevolent_barnacle 2 points 2y ago
Hey now. SM is a person too, and if they're schlitzed they probably aren't in a position to be helpful anyways lol
whycantibeamermaid 1 points 2y ago
True. But when you only have one shift supervisor who was out sick the day before and you tell them that you’re there to support them if they need anything, maybe don’t get plastered?
Like, as a supervisor I do most of my manager’s job already without getting paid for it.
It would be nice to actually have support when I’m told I will because I’m ill.
But I’m realizing this is just an ongoing theme with this company in particular. At least when I was a server nobody “pretended” like they really cared about their employees.
Like, as a supervisor I do most of my manager’s job already without getting paid for it.
It would be nice to actually have support when I’m told I will because I’m ill.
But I’m realizing this is just an ongoing theme with this company in particular. At least when I was a server nobody “pretended” like they really cared about their employees.
Falcon10301 15 points 2y ago
Good for you for standing up for yourself and your own time. You do not get paid to be their 24/7 on-call servant
HippieinBlack 12 points 2y ago
What a savage
Kitty_Queenx 6 points 2y ago
Yes ! Good job! You don't have the explain anything at any job. If you're being asked to do something outside of your hours all you need to say is no. You don't have to give a reason, nothing. If they wanted you to work so badly they should have at least offered to trade a shift with you, but they didn't even do that !
kokomo214 6 points 2y ago
I’d tell them to kick rocks
serialsquisher [OP] 6 points 2y ago
i thought about that
DreyaNova 4 points 2y ago
Should have replied. “Wow that sucks, good luck though!”
dayahorne 1 points 2y ago
Same shit happened to me. I just worked 6 days in a row, 5 being closing shifts, and then our manager called in sick and and need a opener and they texted me asking if I call close.
HELLO NO HONEY, I am off and then I go on vacation.
So no I will not be closing.
HELLO NO HONEY, I am off and then I go on vacation.
So no I will not be closing.
julieCivil 1 points 2y ago
No means NO, Starbucks!
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