Just quit because of this same reason, manager over scheduling me always to 30 hours instead of my ideal 20, is this happening a lot??

I quit for the same reason. I took ONE class over the summer when I still worked at sbux. The class only met two days a week and I told my manager I couldn’t work on those two days. Theoretically that shouldn’t have been a big deal because my store policy was that you only worked five days a week. Somehow he managed to keep scheduling me on my only two school days. So I said fuck this, this stupid fucking job isn’t going to tank my grades, and I quit

I had sort of the inverse problem. I was always asking for more hours, and only ever scheduled for 20-25. I took a second job because I couldn't afford to live on $14/hr x 20 hours/week, which limited my availability somewhat.

I asked SM at every stage of that decisionmaking to let me know if there were specific shifts or days they wanted from me, because my second job was pretty flexible re: what days I could come in and I was more than happy to make myself available if there were shifts they needed. Turns out what my SM *really* wanted was a pinch-hitter they could schedule helter-skelter, at any time of day or night (but only for 20-25 hours a week,) and sometimes at a different store if our own was over its hours for the week. I often would be told I was going to a different store with less than 10 hours before the relevant shift.

My SM legitimately had me sign one of those, I don't even remember what it's called, but essentially a notice of noncompliance, saying I had to have at least 4 days of fully-open availability to the store. (She posed this as "throwing me a bone" and said the DM wanted 5 fully-open days.) Thinking about it still makes my head spin. 5 out of 7 days on which I literally cannot schedule, cannot plan *anything* else, yet I was supposed to be OK with them telling me I'm gonna commute 60 minutes on a bus with barely any time to sleep or make arrangements? It was like being an on-call worker.

yeah, i’ve been toying with the fact of quitting since recently my manager has me working four day streaks with with one day off recently.

oh wow. im about to quit for literally this same reason i just dont know what to say to my manager yet. she always does the schedules late and in the next 3 weeks not only has she doubled my hours, she has also disregarded the time off she approved herself.

whats happening lol

My story was years ago but still similar. I had an SM who would try to schedule people outside of their availability, just to see if she could get away with it. Most people just sucked it up (despite me encouraging them to talk to the SM) and would work the shifts, but then she’d continue to schedule them however she wanted, availability be damned…

I was in law school, so I straight-up told her “you scheduled me outside my availability, so I’m telling you NOW that I will not be showing up for those shifts.”

Another girl just straight up quit. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I quit because my manager refused to let me cut back on hours. They told me to demote myself because I wanted only 4 shifts per week.

I keep saying it and it’s keeps being true: Starbucks is eating itself.

I wanted (and was promised) 20 hours a week and I’m consistently working 28-32 😭

My temporary SM is even worst. Cause with our last two SM, none of us have to do anything on the availability thing. They all know too well who will work morning and who will work night. Until the temporary one came, she fucked up with everyone schedule. She’d have like almost night team to open/ mid and then the whole morning for closing. All of us complained, she did nothing. So we all have to adjust on the schedule availability. Second thing, she will always mess up with night shift on Thursday/ Friday night or both, cause she keep scheduling TWO PEOPLE FOR CLOSING AND THE MID ALREADY LEAVE AT AROUND 6-7PM. Our shift complain to her, she just said oh so sorry and then keep copy and paste the same schedule for the next two weeks :) I really hate it now but they just raise the pay rate from 10.5 to 14+ for barista and 17 for SSV effected from today 😐 And btw, I swear I’ve never had any issue with stomach, but just a year working 35+hr/ week here (and a lot more overtime, not to mention last year I had to work 5/5 holiday and closing on those days), I’m now having serious stomach issue and been on 7 different meds, paying a lot for medical bills.

Meanwhile, I’m dealing with the opposite. I keep asking for hours, and I’m only scheduled 22-24 a week. I always ask and my manager is like “yeah ok” and then never gives me more