Starbucks is stupid. Let baristas stay late so they can clean the store or help their team. Let them earn a larger paycheck. Starbucks acts like cleanliness isn't important in a pandemic.

When it came to the hurricane, our manager and a shift supervisor got to the store 45 minutes before opening late at 9:00 a.m. I and another barista clocked in thirty minutes before opening, like usual. We were supposed to have a team of six, since there is SO MUCH WORK to do when you open your store after a temporary close (in case you're not familiar, you've got to run several cleaning cycles on the espresso machines, you've got to run brewing cycles of just hot water on the coffee brewer, make mocha, make chai syrup, make whipped cream, do all of the regular opening tasks, etc., etc.). We had a team of four since two people called out. Needless to say, we hadn't completed all those tasks by 9:00 a.m.

I really wish people would stay the fuck home like public health officials recommend. Or that Starbucks had a scant menu so no one would be enticed to come.

My first manager quit and my second manager got fired

LOL. Starbucks does NOT know how to operate its business. It's mind-boggling that Starbucks is ok with its partners catching COVID all the time. We're operating normally and are not supposed to enforce our state's mask mandate if a customer gets combative about it. Starbucks has no vaccine mandate. They don't even want us asking our coworkers if they've been vaccinated. I'm so tired and I'm a barista! As for the fake call-outs, baristas need to get fired over that shit. The barista who has COVID used to fake call out \*all the fucking time\*. Sometimes he just wouldn't show up and wouldn't call. During holiday. He still has his job. And this is the second time he has COVID. He enjoyed telling us that he's immune to COVID.