I worked at a corporate starbucks for about a week in early 2020 right before the pandemic, did all the “training” realized how horrible it was and decided it wasn’t for me, for the obvious reasons; little pay for an absurd amount of commitment, nonstop rushes, drive thru, being throw into the job.
Flash forward about a year later and I end up back at Starbucks because I needed a job but this time at a licensed store in a university. Somehow even worse because you getting mainly the younger generation with absurd alterations and phones being shoved in your face with screenshots of tik toks, a never ending rush.
School is over for now (except some summer classes) it was mostly serving the administrators and the other dining hall employees. We’re treated as the least important and my boss’ boss asking to cut out hours but we need them it’s our livelihood, yet they come in every day demanding we know their orders and serve them immediately. But it was a lot more relaxed than the school year which I somehow managed to get through. We get to the middle of June and the university isn’t telling us when they hold events/conferences and we have 4 people working plus my GM when they come down to help (no complaints about my coworkers or GM most of the time they’re great).
the past couple weeks we’ve been slammed with a line of 200 (young crowd, ridiculous orders and tik tok drinks) every morning and they come back after lunch. There’s 5 of us. I’m the most capable of Cashiering the fastest so I take nonstop orders for two hours and after 3 days I came down with a terrible migraine that I’ve had for almost 3 weeks with no answers from doctors so it’s obviously this place. My mind and physical health are deteriorating but I need to make money until i move next month. Honestly this is just a venting rant that Starbucks has created the most demanding and entitled group of customers and I’m sick of it.
And to top it all of we make 9.75 with NO TIPS. whatsoever. there is no tip jar because it’s all meal card swipes during the year. Do I just hate myself and that’s why I put myself here?