Also my coworkers who agree with them (like actually agree wholeheartedly and not just entertaining them for the sake of an easy interaction) who say “Oh I suck it up and work and I don’t complain, I’m fine” - girl, you radiate pure misery. We are not okay.

I was so excited to go back go work after 4 years as a stay at home mom. I'm only 2 weeks into working for Starbucks now and seriously rethinking my decision. It hurts to hear people say - what they think is supportive, "thank you for showing up today."

Ugh. We're not working because we want to, asshole. I don't want to catch COVID from your stupid maskless self. Starbucks literally took away my right to refuse service to you. Go fuck yourself. Hard.

Today a barista from another store who was working at ours joked about how he wanted to quit the other day. I said, "We've all wanted to quit." That's just the reality of working at Starbucks at the moment. I had to go to Walmart this morning at 6:00 a.m. (apparently, that's when they open) to buy whole milk, 2% milk, and nonfat milk. We literally had one gallon of nonfat milk, and that was it.

I like to tell them that no, we’re not understaffed, it’s just taking a minute because there are literally 40 people in the cafe and the drive through line is into the street. Why they chose to join that line is not my problem. (We are a little bit understaffed but fuck them)

We have plenty of people on staff, it's just that corporate will only allow managers to schedule skeleton crews. Sales are up, but somehow we never "earn labor". I don't know a single person who quit so that they can collect government checks. Don't blame the working class, it's corporate greed that's the real problem here.

If the minimum wage rose alongside inflation and the cost of living then this whole unemployment thing wouldn’t be a problem.

And yeah I like nice customers but I don’t want to be thanked for showing up for less than desirable pay, especially if they understand that pay to be less than desirable.

"It's not a labor shortage. It's a wage shortage."


or

"customers have gotten so much more abusive since the start of the pandemic, I don't blame people for cutting their living expenses so they don't have to deal with toxic workplaces."


They'll probably just nod their heads, absorb *none of what you said* and move on to wait for their drink.

i’m so over comments like these I actually do tell them lol, I tell them how short we are and how tired I am, so I don’t blame people for not wanting to slave away to a corporation lol i’ve also told my management that they don’t pay me enough for my rent (thankfully my bf and I are able to pay it together) so no wonder they have a hard time hiring people, they usually don’t respond 😂😂

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I agree with both. People sitting on unemployment is only going to cause more damage long term, and a lot of businesses are struggling because they aren't able to staff. Now \*some\* businesses I can also agree need to pay more. There is obviously a problem if people make more money off unemployment than if they are working. So something needs to be done on the government to business side for the smaller ones that can't afford to pay more in wage, and the larger ones that can afford it need to stop being stingy and pay better. I was making 10/hr at a grocery store I worked at, and in ways I liked the job, but it just wasn't work the physical stress it put me through. There was recent rage too that the store decided to pay nearly 1 mill for a advertisement during a football game instead of back to employees who are struggling. Right now I make nearly $10 more an hour and its not as much physical stress.