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Holiday sign up sheet (self.starbucksbaristas)
submitted by saltywonton
Hi fellow baristas,
So my manager didn’t put up the thanksgiving sign up sheet and went off of availability. He did put up the Christmas sign up sheets but didn’t put up the new year sign up sheet. I put up the new year sheets and he tore them down and said he’s going to go with availability. Can anyone tell me if this is enough to call our DM and communicate this issue? Please help
So my manager didn’t put up the thanksgiving sign up sheet and went off of availability. He did put up the Christmas sign up sheets but didn’t put up the new year sign up sheet. I put up the new year sheets and he tore them down and said he’s going to go with availability. Can anyone tell me if this is enough to call our DM and communicate this issue? Please help
lechatsombre 58 points 1y ago
The sign up sheets are more of a courtesy than a requirement. When not enough people volunteer for the day managers have to go off availability. We’re still open on holidays which means we still have to staff the store. So even if you don’t volunteer to work someone has to be there sadly. It sucks but I worked holidays the last three years because no one ever volunteered and a bunch of people requested holidays off ahead of time. I wised up and put in a time off request for Christmas now.
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djholls 1 points 1y ago
Ur so lucky lol
dthomp0806 2 points 1y ago
Christmas is volunteer only. If you don't volunteer, they cannot schedule you. That's for all corporate stores. Unless they changed the policy this year.
persona-2 2 points 1y ago
I asked my SM the other day. That’s not a real policy. If your scheduled you work. It’s kinda crappy.
dthomp0806 2 points 1y ago
It is a real policy. Just call corporate and ask. Unless it has been changed this year. I'm on a leave of absence right now, so I'm a little out of the loop. If they don't get enough volunteers, they try to find people from other stores. If no one volunteers, your store will be closed. I've had multiple managers try and tell people different. They are wrong, or otherwise hoping people won't question it so the store stays open.
Ristrettooo 32 points 1y ago
That’s normal; Christmas is typically the only holiday that’s volunteer-only. At retail and food service jobs in general it’s understood that you’ll be available to work holidays unless you have time off approved in advance
Scuffleshuffle 11 points 1y ago
I believe Christmas is the only volunteer only. I have seen several managers do different ways to schedule holidays.
One did first couple requests off get it and did the rest based on a availability...others have done sign up sheets with baristas marking which holiday was a priority.
One did first couple requests off get it and did the rest based on a availability...others have done sign up sheets with baristas marking which holiday was a priority.
saltywonton [OP] 6 points 1y ago
Last two years my manager had sign up sheets for thanksgiving, Christmas, Christmas Eve, new year and New Year’s Eve. Every store I’ve worked at had a sign up sheet for all 5 of these holiday days.
Scuffleshuffle 8 points 1y ago
Could be the staffing shortage has put your manager into crunch mode and that's the reason for the change.
saltywonton [OP] -1 points 1y ago
Not because of that. Every store in our district had the sign up sheets for every holiday up since October despite staff shortages.
empidge 3 points 1y ago
dude i wish my store did that, i requested time off (literally in june) for new year’s eve and new year’s day bc i was gonna be in another state, was scheduled for both days and i went out of town anyway and was written up when i got back. i figured that would be what happened but i had those plans and paid for my hotel the day i requested off
vandilor 2 points 1y ago
wow that sounds awful. our store is actually going to be closed on thanksgiving and christmas which i’m so grateful for. i hope your sm gets some backfire for being so shitty
ItzBoogieMan 2 points 1y ago
I got scheduled outside my availability too but I’m trynna quit b4 that bs comes lmao
New_Consequence_5184 -1 points 1y ago
Our manager only did Thanksgiving, Christmas eve, and Christmas day. There's no official policy on sign-ups, but it sounds like your manager just doesn't want to do the work of scheduling those specific days instead of inputting the normal algorithm.
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