I totally know how you feel! I was there too, jealous of all the partners that were fortunate enough to make it out. What helped me was making a goal. I choose that if by December I don’t find another job I take the leap anyway and quit. I was able to grab another part time
Job (20hours) which made working at Starbucks less stressful for two reasons. One I was making more money with both jobs so I didn’t have to worry as much about the hours at Starbucks and two knowing that if I had one bad day I could just up and leave quit Starbucks on the spot without notice so I didn’t take the job seriously or care about any of the score cards and dt times. (I was also envious of partners that did that). It definitely was a weight off my shoulders.

Achieving the goal for December was helpful too. December is when your stocks vested and they also gave you more to accept. It was free money I didn’t want to give up, and the goal helped with that motivation. So instead of walking out with $3000 in stocks I was able to grab $5000. (These are rough numbers).

I will also add having that second job gave me second thoughts on quitting. I cared less, my mood improved and making the job more tolerable. Eventually I was offered full time and took that opportunity to leave Starbucks. And didn’t end up quitting until July of this year.

It’s been rough out here! I am a pretty even keeled, positive person at work but the combination of understaffing, too many customers because other stores in our district are closing due to understaffing, and green beans with basically no training and a serious lack of initiative/urgency are really wearing me down. I’ve worked 2 shifts in the last month that had 25 minute drive times! 25 minutes!!! It’s hard to maintain the positivity but we just got some amazing new shifts who are bringing back the positivity so I’m clinging to that.