Happened to me too. Couldn’t stomach (literally) showing up. I’m leaving now because the stress was too much on my body.

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If you can get look at by a doctor for anxiety. I worked for starbucks and had similar issues when I was constantly being understaffed, but had increased customer count.
Starbucks asks employees to consistently be at 100%, but it fails due to lack of sufficient staffing. Management then slaps you with how could you have done this better, when in reality, it was never the employee that was the problem.

I have PTSD and an anxiety disorder. One of the ways these manifested was through vomiting at least 4 times a day for over six months. It took losing seven teeth to acid damage to decide that I needed to do something about it and find a therapist. I'm still seeing her because between my abusive childhood and the bux, there was a LOT of damage done to my psyche and my body.

Good luck.

I miss Howard.

Stress is a natural response to potentially harmful/aversive stimuli in our environment. However, there is a very fine line between a healthy/unhealthy amount of stress. Exposure to unhealthy amounts of stress for long periods of time can really fuck with your immune system, depressing(slowing) it. Take a couple days off if you can and enjoy them, take care of yourself bro ❤️

It's for sure a thing.

I've been suffering from *severe* nausea and vomiting for 5 years. It comes on immediately and gets so bad that I'll vomit up to 50 times a day, no joke. Though I often have to force myself to vomit when there's nothing in my stomach just to relieve the insane nausea. Every time I experience it it lasts 5-9 days. All day long. At first it just happened once. Then once more 13 months later. Then 4 months later. And the last two years it would happen every other month. Around year 2 I read about Canabinoid Hypermesis Syndome which can cause these exact symptoms in long term smokers so I saw a GI Dr who recommended I get a scope done (after many er visits and a couple CT scans which showed no apparent causation) to make sure it it wasn't anything intestinal or whatnot. He didn't find anything of that nature either so he surmised it was the CHS so I stopped smoking for nearly 2 years - still suffered from bi-monthly, bouts. I finally found a GP that I liked and trusted and after many 6 week-apart visits and blood tests, she said she thinks its likely stress related, but particularly *work* stress. (Even though I had one long term job when it started,, another 1+ long job in the middle and another 1+ job [Sbux] by the time I started seeing her). She said she's had a surprising amount of patients who've experience similar symptoms which either lessened or alleviated all together once they left their jobs and that unhealthy workplaces can take a shockingly serious toll on our bodies, much more than most would ever think. And even though I wasn't *fully* convinced that this, albeit abusive af, job was the cause, I ended up leaving sbux anyway because it became *that* toxic and unbearable. My last day was nearly 3 months ago and I've only experienced these symptoms once but they only lasted 4 days. There have been 2 other times where I've felt it coming on and vomited once or twice, but both times it went away with an hour or two.

The very first time it happened though, I had this bizarre intuition to get in the shower. This greatly alleviated the symptoms for a few hours (doesn't sound like much but again, the initial experience [and 99% of every experience that followed] lasted about 7 days, so it was enough to keep me from literally wanting to kill myself). So every single other time I felt this way, I'd get in the shower (and turn the water as hot as I could stand, which is all the way hot for me. And it'd usually run cold before it helped as much as it had the potential to). And I'd be back in the shower every 20 minutes, or however long it would take the water heater to get back up. So like 30 showers a day. But eventually, they pretty much stopped helping (though I'd always get back in over and over again in hopes that it would help again). **So I definitely suggest you try that**. I remember reading that hot water on the back of the neck significantly relieves nausea because that's where the body's nausea "pressure point", if you will, is located.

**And in case you smoke/intake weed**, I'd definitely consider refraining for a few months, depending on how often you experience this nausea. Part of why CHS is so hard to diagnose is because weed has a half life of about 2 months, meaning that's how long it stays in your system. So when I first heard about CHS (and how almost all known sufferer's of it will take hot showers to relieve their symptoms, coincidentally), I stopped smoking but still experienced the usual symptoms after like 3 weeks, so I figured welp, guess that's not it. Only later did I learn that the symptoms of the syndrome almost always takes a considerable amount of time to appear, as opposed to like right after/soon after one intakes weed because the long term use and the half life sort of push the symptoms back a little. And although CHS was only discovered within the last few years (and that it's either rare/greatlyundiagnosed), many think that CHS can be much more prominent in weed users who live in places that weed growth and distribution is legal, due to the fertilizers used.

So think about those things if you use mj, or if you experience on a steady basis (even if it's just like one day a week or something). And remember that we often take on a lot more stress than our bodies and mind can handle because life in general (and capitalism, of course) has conditioned us to think that extreme stress is normal and should be expected throughout every aspect of life.

Hope things get better!

every time my manager is around during peak i get the same way. she's trying to be helpful but just gets in everyone's way and slows us down. take care of yourself!!

I have been going through this exact same thing!! Thing is, im in no position to quit so i just talked to my SM about getting lighter hours and now im back to how my hours used to be thankfully :/

i just got prescribed an antidepressant today and i wish i could say starbucks hasn’t majorly contributed to my need for one but.....we all know that’s a lie!!! i need to either transfer or quit asap. glad you’re on your way out!!

i used to throw up before starting my shifts when i was very new because i didn’t know how to do anything because training is garbage and i was always so scared. It happens less now but i definitely still get stress nausea. I read you put your two weeks in and i’m proud of you for putting yourself first. i wish you the best!

Yes. Going into my shift I feel so anxious, and the long DT line that I have to pass doesn't help. Once I get in the store is understaffed, full with people, and has nothing with the shortages. When I get on bar I get super dizzy, overwhelmed, and dehydrated. I never really throw up, but I do get sick from the stress

Look into working at a licensed store. They pay better and the work is easier since they're not as busy.

Stress usually makes me nauseous, I carry nauzeme chewables with me to school and work just incase I start getting too stressed

i threw up like 2 weeks ago actually