Starbucks Baristas: The daily grind
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Write up Question (self.starbucksbaristas)
submitted by slickbacknocap
California barista here!
I recently got a write up for working 7 days straight. is that a valid reason to get a write up? Just wondering
I recently got a write up for working 7 days straight. is that a valid reason to get a write up? Just wondering
dumbflatwhite 19 points 2y ago
i’ve worked 14 days in a row so i don’t think it’s a company policy. probably a state labor law thing (california has pretty strict laws). although idk why you, the barista, would be written up.
Kyde_Drakes 12 points 2y ago
I know California has some strict labor laws, but I fail to see how it’s your fault for working that many days when your supervisor and manager should have made sure you didn’t?
slickbacknocap [OP] 4 points 2y ago
Manager said it’s because none of it was approved. I was given a verbal warning on it last week and said okay it won’t happen again. I worked this week and was given a written correction after I had already been given the verbal last week and said okay.
Kyde_Drakes 6 points 2y ago
Were you scheduled those days in a row? Or were you covering for someone else’s shifts some of those days?
BuffyBoltonVampFlayr 3 points 2y ago
The fact that it "wasn't approved" probably makes it valid, unfortunately.
But getting a verbal warning first, followed by an actual write up *for the same initial warning* is bullshit, though I have had it done to me a couple times (in WA, not in CA), and I think that is worth looking in to.
But getting a verbal warning first, followed by an actual write up *for the same initial warning* is bullshit, though I have had it done to me a couple times (in WA, not in CA), and I think that is worth looking in to.
babbyalien 6 points 2y ago
check your labor laws. Probably not.
mstrandquist8 2 points 2y ago
Was it for going into overtime or working 7 days straight?
Bwaybelter 3 points 2y ago
I’m in Ca and have worked 10 in a row?? Not sure what’s happening here, I never was written up
mstrandquist8 2 points 2y ago
I see no reason for them to be written up. I know they highly frown upon going into overtime, so I was thinking maybe that was why? (Which would still be ridiculous and infuriating.) but for working a certain amount of days in row? Seems absurd
slickbacknocap [OP] 1 points 2y ago
It was for working 7 days straight
mstrandquist8 5 points 2y ago
Yeah, that’s a call to PRSC
_Pulltab_ 1 points 2y ago
If you’re picking up shifts it’s on you to make sure that’s approved to avoid going into overtime or, in the CA labor law cases, not working beyond 6 days straight. If you sought approval and it was granted that would be different. They still have to pay you, but they can discipline you.
Brgnbo 1 points 2y ago
I’ve definitely worked more than a week straight but I’m pretty sure my manager scheduled me that way
babyIoves -1 points 2y ago
It's illegal to work 7 days straight in California so it sounds valid
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