Tell them you'll be adding the time that they're talking to you to your break if they keep doing it.

Starbucks is also the only place I've ever heard of only giving "10's" instead of "15's". Someone call me out if I'm out of touch, but 10 minutes is a joke.

I do go sit in my car. It’s actually nice. I enjoy the peace and quiet in my car

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My nice SM has been letting us take breaks in the cafe even though it's closed to customers. It's great, our little BOH is cramped and busy

I take every single break in my car. I also do not use the bathroom on my breaks very often, only on the floor (if it's not crazy busy) pee on starbucks time my friend

I’ve been hanging outside at the tables for my half since the weather’s been warming up. Soaking some vitamin d while refreshing has been helping me out lately if that helps 🙂

I'm afraid that if I take my 30s in my car, I'm going to drive home and neve come back cos somedays be like that 😂😂😂

now how do i make my sm stop talking to me on my breaks

When I was a shift I would tell the partner to take their ten and when they get back to do x y z. If your shift can’t plan ten minutes in advance then they are kinda weaaak

I pop in my earbuds and will look someone dead in their eyes and ignore them. You have the rest of my shift to talk to me. Unless something behind me is on fire, leave me alone.

I used to sit in my car because even getting away from other employees and sitting out in the cafe, I would have customers try and talk to me or constantly asking me for the code or to unlock the bathroom. IM ON A BREAK LEAVE ME ALONE.

I tell them that I won’t remember anything since my brain turns off during my breaks. And it seems to work with most of them.

But seriously, they could write down their message and leave a note for you to read when your break is over.

I tell my people to go on their 10’s and immediately will tell them where they need to be afterwards. Not while they’re in the middle of their 10’s

When I talk to a partner about what role I’ll be asking them to go to, I’ll start off with an apology for interrupting, then brief talk, then tell them to take a couple more minutes on their break. I know their time is valuable and they need all the decompression they can get.

i ALWAYS go to my car during my breaks

I strongly dislike when I arrive early and my ssv wants to tell me how bad of a shift they’ve had and how tough the night is going to be.

I’m always nodding to the story but in my head I’m like “why the fuck am I clocking in? Just walk out. You don’t even enjoy this. Just go”.

Or they’re telling me their game plan for the evening. I’ve started saying “I’m not on” or “dang. Let me clock in first”.

i've gotten into the habit of sitting in my car for both 10s and lunches. i don't wanna think about work plus i usually have reading to do for school. i used to bust my ass & now take breaks because my coworkers were more important to me than a break but now i realize i deserve it

Bring a big pair of headphones and face away from any direction where someone could wave at you. It's what I do and I don't get bothered.

I sit in my car that way not a single person can bother me or ask me questions, i’ve done this for all my jobs!

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Thankfully my coworkers don’t bother me, but most of the time I go sit in the grass next to our store (urban sprawl)

I like to sit at our outside tables and put my headphones in. If they try and talk to me I just point to my headphones.

I sit in my car. Every time.

Or even just sit outside. I just go sit on the curb

This is why i sit outside on our patio

Absolutely do, and if someone asks why then straight up tell them that's why.

Or, interrupt them when they talk to you and remind them you're on a break. Be rude about it if you got to but nice when you're back on the clock and it'll get the point across. Might have to for it for a week though

not to mention being asked to report your tips on your ten like w h a t

Right?! My manager will start chatting with me about whatever, not realizing I'm on my break. I don't want to be rude to her--I really like her--but I'm also thinking to myself, "I have got to pee so badly, and my SS is expecting me back at work in ten minutes."

You've definitely got the right idea to start taking your breaks where your SSV's can't easily reach you. When COVID started, it was impossible to do that because the door to the stores were kept locked. But now it's easy again to go outside, go to your car, go wherever you need to go to get your mental break. I personally don't mind much at all being told where I'll be after my break, but you're right that you deserve to be treated like you're not at work when you're on your break. That's the definition of a break. Even worse than that is when I used to hang out in the cafe having breakfast or whatever, as a customer, not on my shift, and my manager or an SSV would ask me if I wanted to clock in early. Has happened tons of times. Made me want to stop going to my store before my shift. (As if it's my problem they're so fucking understaffed.)

I'll tell you a funny story about that really quickly. One time I went to my store to eat breakfast. I like to have a cup of coffee, actually have time to enjoy it, write in my journal, etc., etc. Anyway, the particular barista taking my order decided to enforce the thirty-minute rule on me. (It was likely because she was trying to become an SSV.) I decided not to get anything to eat or drink. Since there were only two people working in the store at the time, the SSV asked me if I wanted to clock in early. I did my people-pleasing thing and said yes, having not eaten anything that day. It turned out it \*was\* within thirty minutes before my shift. I didn't get to eat until much later that day.

This is where I love my kiosk.. I can take multiple breaks really if its dead, not only that but Im usually not bugged by whoever Im workin with lol!