But I do know its an issue. Sorry Im on mobile and accidentally hit the post button. At least in my district/store its encouraged to give out free drinks to "make the moment right" for customers for many reasons. Bad managment with no backbone/energy to deal with any conflict is also a rampant I feel which is also another thing Ive noticed where drink or product isnt charged for correctly or given for free. Im not disagreeing with you but its more than partners abusing their markouts imo.

Well I wasnt talking about just using mark outs when refrencing batistas giving out free drinks.

Oh cuz we were running out of food before? Lol idk about your store but mine threw out so much shit at the end of the night. (Sassiness isn’t meant towards you, it’s towards Starbucks logic

Maybe it’s the store policy then that screws me. We can’t mark out more than two per shift, and one food item a day still isn’t enough food. But I cant expect Starbucks to feed me, that’s ridiculous, so I’m not really blaming them that much..

i’m in maryland! I was actually in Texas for my first year and a half and we got 10’s. when they told me to take a 15 on my first day in maryland I was shocked. that extra 5 minutes is definitely helpful, I have enough time to eat a snack and have a quick tall latte or something

totally unrelated cause i don’t work there anymore but Target’s Starbucks gets 15 min breaks :)

Funny thing, I was a partner five years ago, and asked my shift about this exact thing and she went “yeah they’d only know your number if they knew what that number on the receipt meant…but they’ll likely think it’s a register number or something…” I’m back to being a partner after five years away and am merely laughing that no one caught on to how “dangerous” it could be to have your ID # out in the open… was told I was “overthinking/reacting” because I had issues with people getting receipts with my # on it

But we have to ask for id or have the partner card on the app—which is not possible to steal unless they have access to your partner account.

Yeah, I know this happened but that was last year around April/may and then they changed the system to only include the last 4 on the receipt.

I try to… we have a few shifts that go by the book. Worked at a store that had a guy each day that came through for cast offs… I didn’t mind that because it was going to someone who needed it… then I found out he was feeding It to his pigs…

How is it different?

The food markout did change. That I was incorrect on.

You’re funny if you some how think we had a lot of help up here, or we have like amazing government healthcare, we don’t ooo I can go to the doctor big deal if I can’t get the medicine they prescribe, teeth busted? That comes out of your pocket, meds, physical therapy, eye doctors you pay that. Our government gave us shit the only ones who really got anything were middle class, most Starbucks workers in my area didn’t qualify for the help offered, we don’t have a union up here, we don’t some how magically have less bills like yea our average pay is more, the average rent here is over a 1000 a month, food, phone, internet all more, transportation more and you cannot have full time from Starbucks here unless you’re a shift or a manager. And as soon as you make more then 500 dollars a month there is no social safety nets left.

But sure go on about how only Americans have it hard. I really wanna hear it from the group that gets free food, and free university when they work for this company, and more. how they’re the most hard done by and the only ones who didn’t have help during covid.