Before I quit I would do anything to avoid being put anywhere *but* bar, I loved it.

i would beg to be on bar everyday 😭😭 lmfao

I like bar but I’m a fucking wizard on warming. When I was an opener I was put on warming 4 out of my 5 shifts each week and loved it.

Favorite to least favorite. Bar, Warming, DTO, Cafe/CS, Window. I really, really hate window. I can’t stand forcing customer connections. 😫

The only positions I hate are cold bar and CS. Put me literally anywhere else

Love bar, would rather die screaming than be on POS, personally.

same. i struggle so much on hot bar. i actually weep for joy if they put me ANYWHERE else. i can’t steam milk for shit.

As long as I’m not taking orders I’m okay with anything

As someone who is ALWAYS on bar, I mean ALWAYS, I’d love to do something else.

I will avoid POS if I can. But most SSVs put us there because they hate it too. Warming is okay, cold bar is give or take. Frap City? I will do it but I hate it. Bar? I don't mind it but have to be in the right mood.

Put me anywhere but drive. I can handle it but the people and the amount of stupid that comes through my store’s drive they is insane.

It's DTO for me.

Some days I literally would rather get shot down than be on bar, and I’m not exaggerating. But also sometimes I just want to do bar. Really depends on how busy it was the day before or if I even have been on bar lately. 🤷🏻‍♂️ My favorite position is front and warming though.

I wish I were fast enough on bar that it's a problem for me. I'll get there, but all the way I'll make bevs to standard. No making a refresher/lemonade in the cup with no shaking or passing off caramel Frappuccino as both coffee and caramel to customers in the same car, I witnessed my SSV and partner do both last Saturday during an understaffed peak.

i used to be the only person at my store who could SOLO DTO and DTR. then my new shift felt bad for me and now i’m a bar wh*re

We’ve had a drive-thru store nearby close multiple times because they’re understaffed and all the mobile traffic has been redirected to us. I’m pretty new at my store but I’m probably the only noob who’s been put on bar at peak. A few days ago we literally had a crowd of customers in the lobby with me on hand-off bar, were out of the #1 drink people order at our store (cold brew) and they were still able to order it on the app, tons of people wanted refunds and we were having to make iced coffee nonstop as a substitute. I think my shift supervisor also underestimated how much milk we needed and we literally ran out of 2% and heavy cream and a bunch of other stuff. There were some people waiting 10-20 minutes for their drink and it was extremely stressful having to apologize to every customer for the wait times but I mean, what else was there to do? I think to be able to handle bar you have to realize that all you can do is focus on the drinks in front of you and be able to do that well. It is kind of hard to do that when things are so heavily customized or every other drink requires foam, but you have to persist through that anxiety of certain drinks taking you longer and just apologize and let customers know you’re working on their order. I’ve only worked for Starbucks for a month but I would say the bar is my favorite position (during non-peak times) because it’s the most creative one! I love crafting the drinks because I enjoy a lot of them myself. Pretty much every other role is supportive, POS is more about communication and I feel that I understand the menu well at this point, along with how to enter things so my baristas can understand what a customer wants if it’s something specific, and I understand brewing cadence, so I would not mind being there during peak or otherwise. Warming and mobile are nice also, I was there today because one of my shift supervisors is good about taking me off when she notices things getting hectic. We don’t ever really have a CS at our store but I’d say that might be my least favorite position unless my SSV is just telling me what to do; i.e. I feel pretty aimless in that position, but it’s probably just because I haven’t been at Starbucks that long, so it’s harder for me to recognize what we need most in any given situation without someone pointing it out to me. I want to be great at every role because I want to not feel stressed at work and I want to be a good teammate to my coworkers, but I’d love to be spectacular on the bar because that’s where I find myself feeling the most creative.

I love CS and Reg. I don’t HATE bar, my store is just super busy and it’s stressful af especially because I usually have to solo bar.

Facts!! I hate bar so much!!

this but dto

Anything but customer support pls god

i LOVE bar. cold bar specifically. i’m always on cold bar <3 now window on the other hand? ask me to go there and i automatically want to walk out

I would rather sell my soul than to be put on CS. it makes the time crawl by so slowly, and it is absolutely miserable. At least on bar it feels like time goes by quickly. I am an opener though, so that probably has a lot to do with it. We are almost always slammed, so the orders just roll in. I tend to thrive under stress, I guess.

It’s doing the dishes for me v.v

Did bar for 4 months straight and it burnt me out for life because everyone else thought they didn’t have to help me because they weren’t assigned there, so they’d just play on their phones instead. I only really get put on bar like once every month or two now.

Back when we still had happy hours, I volunteered to work it for extra help and then the SSV put me on bar solo and sent the other bar/cold bar people home early. Then they got mad because I was mad at them for taking advantage of me when I gave up my time off to help. They complained about me to my SM and my SM had my back. I never worked a happy hour after that either.

I love it? I only hate it when I'm solo doing the drive stickers at a peak, but if it's not crazy busy it's so fun. The only position I hate is being Customer Support and I slightly dislike being at the window but overall I'm ok with it

Nah I love bar, something about making lattes in silence

I preferred it, especially DT bar. My shift always went by super fast and I usually only had to talk to coworkers or the occasional customer.
If I went back to any kind of job in food and beverage, it would have to be in a kitchen or something.

Slap me on DT please. I can run it singlehandedly. Just don’t make me bar during a rush because I get overwhelmed there. And I dislike CS because I despise cleaning up after others and I’m a closer so it’s the garbage no other day parts wanted to do.

I hate cs. Please literally anything else please. Dt bar or dtr are my favorite. Support if I am calling the play.

I will clean the whole store before taking Bar

Me, but with drive thru. I literally only want to do bar

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My favourite position at work is DTO from home lol 😆

I worked there for three months and never got to try bar 😂

I despise cold bar. I will run the entire front (hot bars, oven and cafe) over doing cold bar

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I will do anything to avoid pos concierge or warming. CS is my favourite as I’m a closer and bar would be my second favourite

I’m usually okay on Bar 2, but I cannot handle Bar 1. Luckily I’m never placed there when it’s actually busy—during nights sometimes I solo bar but it’s not crazy. Favorite to least favorite is DTO, DTR, Bar 2, Warming, CS, and then Front/Bar 1 are pretty much on the same level lol

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