handle your business bb!! starbucks does not care lol the lyft benefit is basically for openers or stores that close super late. it only covers your ride if you're in a certain distance and if it's before 6am or after 6pm. been looking into it myself. it's almost no help at all 🙃 not surprised tho!! i wish you luck!!

I read on this sub that the siren has a Lyft perk of some kind? Look into that.

take the car to get fixed and get a uber?

if you have any sick time you can call off and use that so you can still get paid.

i know you need the money but i always get people to take my shifts by giving them $20-30 or more depending on the hours of the shift. always works

Courtesy vehicle maybe

Former SSV here. I will start off by saying I LOVED working for starbucks. Seeing posts like this really make me sad. I eventually had enough and left. The final straw was them making an outside hire for an ASM position they were "grooming" me for. This plus being made horrible for calling out, the customers and certainly the pay all weighed on me far too much. I wasn't happy anymore and dreaded going to work every day. I loved the people I worked with but that was the only thing I enjoyed about the job at the end.

It's not just a Starbucks problem it's a retail problem. It's like this everywhere. After working in retail for over 15 years and Starbucks 6 of those I left retail behind. I have a job that pays over two times what I was making and none of the stresses I dealt with.

I guess my point is there is life after Starbucks. I used my experience as a supervisor there and took that with me to a production supervisor position for a medical component company.

I often consider getting a part time job with Starbucks just for the experience of being there again. I don't regret my time there and think back on it fondly for the most part. I got to a point where I needed to improve my life and did. It wasn't easy and for the longest time kind of regretted leaving because the grass wasn't immediately greener.

My final point making a big change like a job isn't easy but sometimes it's necessary. You shouldn't be made to feel bad for not going in to work. Again I absolutely loved being a partner, but it was just time for a change