You’re the only one?? :( omg I’m so sorry, do not feel guilty at all. It’s okay to say no!!

When I was a shift, there was one time I had just opened 6 days straight and finally had a day off. I woke up at like 6:15am to my phone blowing up because the borrowed shift hadn’t shown up and the SM wasn’t answering anyone’s calls. Definitely not my responsibility but I knew if no one was there by 7am then we’d lose a ton of money on the day. I was trying to make ASM too so I didn’t even shower, just got dressed and went in. Spent 15 mins getting the safe ready, delegating the other partners to speed through the opening tasks and get coffee and pastries and everything ready and opened the store to a bunch of customers waiting and some angry as you can imagine. One of the most stressful shifts I ever had. The SM finally responded around 10am and she was in another state a couple hours away. So we recovered the morning, I stayed until SM got there, got thanked by the district manager and definitely felt like I had made major brownie points towards my ASM goal. Had a meeting scheduled with him soon after that. Then the district manager quit, my meeting with the new DM never happened and I got scheduled for another 6 opens in a row when my SM took a leave of absence.

Don’t stress yourself out, sacrificing peace of mind or anything else for your store. You sound like a phenomenal partner/shift and the store is lucky to have you. Your SM is the one that will need to promote/hire/transfer in a new shift and in my experience through 6 years and 6 stores, is the SM won’t do anything like that unless they feel the burden themselves.

TL:DR Don’t overwork yourself for your SM. It’s good to be reliable but things won’t change if they think they can just rely on you to pick up the slack

Don't. This company doesn't give a shit about you. If they lose money, they need to step it up and get another shift. You're not an SM, don't worry like one.

I’m just a barista who’s shifts keep getting progressively longer and longer. I’m starting to feel burnt out myself. And here I am hoping and praying that on Monday my SM approves my vacation time so I can go see my little sister. Who I haven’t seen in six months. It’s frustrating and it seems like the standards Starbucks has now set us up for burn out.

I'm just curious, what is an SSV? I'm about to start working there, so I don't know what all the acronyms mean yet.

Switch to a different day part if you can!! I was so burnt out on opening after 2 years I’ve been on mids for a month and I love it I feel like a barista again

fun lil update for ya’ll: I’m closing tonight and opening tomorrow and when I messaged my SM about it on Friday, they didn’t even acknowledge it. No apologies, no “oops that was a mistake let me fix it,” nothing. They’ve messaged me since then but never acknowledged my text.

I’m reaching the point of not even showing up tomorrow since I’m clearly not respected enough to warrant a response.

I feel you friend. We had a bunch of partners quit at my store too and we actually cut our hours for a few weeks until we could get some green beans trained up a little. We were only open from 6-3 for a little while. It's still really rough though and my manager just went on vacation and left me as the shift POC for the store, and now I'm stuck dealing with the mask crap and opening our lobby this week without her here.

Sorry to hear this. Seems like at this point your dm needs to start doing something.