Starbucks Baristas: The daily grind
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Family atmosphere (self.starbucksbaristas)
submitted by spookbish69
So I’m somewhat of a green bean I worked in a kiosk for about for months and I transferred to a corporate at the beginning of June. The thing I miss most about the kiosk is the family atmosphere as that’s not at all at my Starbucks. It is with all the other employees that have been there since the store opened (September of last year) or at the beginning of this year but I notice I’m specifically left out. I know they aren’t doing it on purpose but the atmosphere is what makes or breaks a job for me. My supervisor tells me not to leave the back door open when taking out the trash, yet so many other people do it and there’s not a single word said to them. One of my coworkers also left yesterday and everyone huddled in the back to say goodbye, and they had called me back I thought to include me but they just wanted me to take a picture of all of them and I wasn’t in any of them. It’s also smaller things like joking around that in left out of and I try to hard to not let it bother me but I really just want to be friends with my coworkers while I’m at least at work. I’m always the one to get warnings about this and that it what they don’t know is I just copy what they do. If I see someone do it once I think it’s okay to do at the store. I don’t know what to do anymore because I don’t want to seem like a crybaby for not being included but I think it’s the smallest things and somewhat of a necessity with the business we’re in.
FfierceLaw 5 points 1y ago
Yep, they’re being uninclusive, unkind, clueless. My suggestion is to just look for that one person with a spark of humanity, try to be helpful to everyone, greet and bid farewell to your partners just like you want them to treat you. If anyone of these schlub SSVs should happen to randomly do their job and check in on you, you could be honest and say you are feeling a little unincluded in the partner camaraderie. I don’t think it could hurt. Just practice being matter of fact about it, not weepy or dramatic (you may not need that last bit but I might)
daisy-trbl 2 points 1y ago
i definitely felt like this at the beginning of working at my store too. and obviously i don’t know your situation but i can tell you what worked for me
whenever i get to the store i make of point of waving and saying hi even if its busy (unless im dead tired) and not everyone responds (understandable) but most at least acknowledge me. whenever i leave i shout bye to everyone in the store and at first i only got 1 or 2 people saying bye now when i leave its a chorus of baristas saying bye. also just talking to people asking them about their day or life in general. these seem like small actions but to others they mean you’re open and willing to be friends.
now if you’re doing all this and you’re still not getting anything back. maybe pull someone aside and let them know how you’re feeling. they may not realize it. sometimes we form bonds with people and aren’t always aware of the way others are affected by them or perceive them.
also take note of how any other newer baristas are being treated. are people who came in at the same time as you going through the same thing? if the situation is at a point where you specifically are being intentionally excluded definitely bring it up to someone as that is most definitely not okay.
otherwise i say give it time. friendships aren’t formed overnight and keep in mind that sometimes people aren’t compatible. there are people at my store that i hang out with and others that i’m friendly with but wouldn’t consider friends and thats okay too
whenever i get to the store i make of point of waving and saying hi even if its busy (unless im dead tired) and not everyone responds (understandable) but most at least acknowledge me. whenever i leave i shout bye to everyone in the store and at first i only got 1 or 2 people saying bye now when i leave its a chorus of baristas saying bye. also just talking to people asking them about their day or life in general. these seem like small actions but to others they mean you’re open and willing to be friends.
now if you’re doing all this and you’re still not getting anything back. maybe pull someone aside and let them know how you’re feeling. they may not realize it. sometimes we form bonds with people and aren’t always aware of the way others are affected by them or perceive them.
also take note of how any other newer baristas are being treated. are people who came in at the same time as you going through the same thing? if the situation is at a point where you specifically are being intentionally excluded definitely bring it up to someone as that is most definitely not okay.
otherwise i say give it time. friendships aren’t formed overnight and keep in mind that sometimes people aren’t compatible. there are people at my store that i hang out with and others that i’m friendly with but wouldn’t consider friends and thats okay too
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