I'm definitely feeling that.

My store lost about 6 seasoned partners this month alone, leaving us with just a handful with experience and bunch of newbies.

I can't fault the green beans at all, nor the folks leaving to get better jobs, but goddamn we're in for a hell of a fall launch.

Starbucks has officially solidified itself as a fast food company. Unrealistic workloads and unsustainably low wages will continue this cycle of employee turnover until there's a new way to make the executives/investors even more money.

Starbucks is dead. Now, there is only $bux.

Same. Just lost about 6 night team members due to them leaving for college (not their fault at all) but my manager knew this was coming months ago and didn’t hire anyone. So now the only original night team members left is me and one other person and the rest are still new or training. It’s been a mess these past couple of weeks and with fall launch tomorrow I’m ready to just die.

I WISH the new partners at my store would stay 2-3 months. Most leave after 2-3 weeks. I barely have a chance to learn their names before I learn that they've left

Wait your store keeps baristas for 2-3 months??? We get baristas and spend so much time and effort training them only for them to leave after 2 weeks. The “senior” partners at my store have all been here 1-2 years MAX. No one has stayed at my store for longer than 2 years before they transfer or quit lol

On another note, I’m also extremely burnt out by it all. We have a new SM who is getting our store back into shape and I talked to her about how me and several other (very strong, reliable) baristas are extremely burnt out and will likely call it quits if things don’t get better. She isn’t shocked, but it made her realize there were more problems than she realized

I was a six year partner and got out of Starbucks two years ago when myself and 2 of the other 3 shifts were talking about leaving and I was offered another job. I lost that job due to the pandemic and had the option to return to Starbucks last September but I’m so glad I didn’t. What you all are going through is just too much and you all have my sympathy.

But if anyone is in the NW suburbs of Chicago, I manage another espresso bar and may be hiring a barista for about 25 hours a week and paying more than what start shift supervisors make in Chicago. It’s definitely not a sure thing but I’d easily consider a good experienced starbucks partner

Feeling like this too. I train every person we hire and train multiple people every time because of this. I feel like I’m not doing the best I can anymore because I’m so burnt out from it. That and other partners trying to butt into my training and assert their “knowledge.” It’s becoming to be something I really dislike doing. Half of my store besides maybe 6 people have worked there for ALMOST a year and the other half have worked there for 8ish months and less. Super excited for fall.

The pay isn't worth the amount of work. Most our new baristas end up just using the job as a buffer while they keep searching for a better job.
I've been with sbux for 6 months and I'm just not scheduled enough hours with enough pay to pay my bills consistently, so I'm job hunting too.
Corporate seems fine with being a "in the mean time" employer though, so don't expect things to get better anytime soon