I have been a partner since June of 2019, made shift in May of last year, after my store reopened from the pandemic. There's several reasons I have left, and I'm mostly glad to be leaving. I do love my coworkers, and they are probably the only part I will really miss.

Of course, for my final day closing tonight everything went wrong. The opener was able to count the freezer, and I got the count done at a reasonable time. Due to coverage and the store situation, I was unable to start the pull until I was just over 2 hours out from closing. The sticker gun labels are out, so it took quite a while to date stuff after. Took about 40 minutes to do it, and in that half hour, my two baristas managed 17 transactions.

Before I started the pull, the three of us were managing two back to back 24 transaction halves. We ran out of venti cups, and about an hour later ran out of trenta lids, so we had to send someone to get trentas to get us through the 5 hours we had left before the delivery overnight. This is of course on top of all the other things we are out of, most notably being the strawberry inclusions, raspberry syrup, coffee cake, and brownies. Naturally, the power briefly went out as well, literally about a second or less, but it reset the headsets.

We added at least 2.5 hours of labor between me, my precloser and my closer. It's certainly not normal, and we could have stayed another 30 minutes each to get everything done, but there's only so much you can do. We got just over 7k in sales, which is getting to be a normal amount, and honestly we could have done much more if we didn't waste extra time explaining when we were out of stuff, and actually making the sales of things we were out of.

My SM is decent, and compared to some stores, I don't have much to complain about. Between the shortages, low labor, and thriving job market though, it just didn't make sense to stay. I found a job in my field, and was able to make it work. In my area, I even make 19.69 as a shift, and my new job starts at 19. Almost no benefits, but still worth the reduced stress.

Starbucks is still making money, and will still be profitable for a little bit, but the job market right now coupled with all the terrible conditions makes it the perfect time to jump somewhere better. I don't think it'll be sustainable in the next 6 months if the inventory issues remain for too much longer.