oh the irony of starbucks customers calling US lazy and entitled. but considering how many HCMT we’ve been selling lately it’s no wonder they don’t understand the concept of not coming into a starbucks when you’re sick

Did you comment: “we’re hiring! Apply now so you can teach us how not to be lazy!”

Thankfully there were a couple people defending us and telling people that we had a covid outbreak but those comments didn’t get much attention. OP is a regular we see every single day - he gets a venti iced mocha extra shot no whip and a bacon Gouda. We all collectively decided to decaf him for a week.

"they pay well" -some old bitch who's never worked for this type of wage since before the recession

Lol this is just how America is. So fucking sick. This literally fills me with physical rage.

These people are so fuckimg dumb. It couldn’t possibly have ANYTHING to do with that whole coranvirus thing that has been smoking forcing people to stay home for 10 days at a time.

They’re so out of touch with the service industry that they don’t even realize that we as the baristas aren’t the ones choosing to close our stores... It’s a mix of partners getting covid or other sicknesses and thus having to stay home, plus the manager’s say of whether to restrict store hours due to the understaffing from having people out sick.

Lazy baristas don’t want to make coffee and mediocre food that I could very easily and quickly make myself. Kids these days amiright /s

It's the "excellent pay" bit that bothers me the most. It's not even average these days

Who’s entitled? “it’s so hard to find good help these days, I can’t be expected to make my own coffee!”

“Sell a million dollars A-day but can’t find employees” LOL oh wait so a global corporation can’t find anyone to take that mouthwatering $8-15/hour in exchange for getting shit on by customers like you at work every day? SoOoO cOnFuSiNg

Y’all think Starbucks workers are so lazy, then you go on and work there.

Or maybe just make your damn coffee in your damn home—or does that take too much effort?

it’s always the regulars that turn sour over the smallest stuff.

Fuck our customers, I swear so many of them are entitled as hell and unappreciative. Starbucks has helped with this though by breeding the mindset that they have

i feel like corporate WANTS us to feel dehumanized at this point… was going on to my dad last week about how the company has the potential to fully staff stores but chooses not to for profit which he then brought up the CEO of Boeing (the company that builds planes for airlines) stating “profit is more important” or something along the lines of that and my mind immediately went to Sbux corporate… especially with the pandemic sbux managed to find a way to make even more money despite the economic status of the world basically it’s sad bc corporate pushes us to work harder but doesn’t come in and help us when we need it…. former CEO of Boeing would push his employees but also be there for them and work WITH them and they thrived…. Kevin Johnson wouldn’t touch the floor of any store even if it was life or death.

COVID or not, these people would never work in a place like Starbucks. They know that the environment is bad due to poor management and entitled customers. If they really want Starbucks that badly, then they can easily fill out an application and join us!

I would like to see these entitled customers juggle 2 jobs, college, and a family without complaining or calling out.

one customer left a review on my store, they were mad we were all out of our food.. as if its our fault the truck didnt come

Lazy? Yeah okay if you’re so confident in doing a better job than us, fill out a a fucking application then bitch. The people complaining about Starbucks closing are the same asshats that come to Starbucks with CoViD asking for a medicine ball.

Someone should tell them that supplemental unemployment ended months ago

To be fair sbux could probably get more employees if corporate raised salaries to 15usd already

I’m stuck at home rn with Covid and all I can think about is how guilty I feel that I’m leaving my coworkers understaffed. People like this are usually the ones who have never worked in food service/customer service in their lives

The entitlement is insane. They know they can make coffee at home right? But WE’RE lazy???

Last week I was the only SSV left because everyone was out on Covid leave. We were only open the 8 hours I was working. To everyone who was complaining, I was just honest, we have people out sick and because of Covid protocol they have to be out 10 days. So dumb that we have to feel like we need to tiptoe around the word “Covid” at work. The entire world has had to deal with this for how long already. It shouldn’t be a giant secret when we need to close early 🤦🏼‍♀️

Says the people who would rather pay for overpriced coffee and food over making the shit themselves

I love how the last comment ran straight towards the point but then still was completely wrong. Yes, those “benefits” did end, so why do you think we’re “choosing to stay home”? Tf? We’re not bitch, WE’RE SICK. Go get your medicine ball elsewhere, Karen.

"They pay well" NO, they USED to pay well. They used to pay above the pay scale for similar work, and you got tips on top of that. That is NO LONGER TRUE! I hate when people take the words that were said about a situation a few years ago and assume that has never changed. They paid above minimum when I was hired in 2007, they start you at minimum now. I assume there are areas where they pay below minimum because they can, because you get tips, though I don't actually know this for a fact. But I do know for a fact that they are now a super cheap company.

It's because of these entitled bastards, baristas are fed up and tired!

these people are sooo deluded lmfao .

They mention Missouri in the comments. Is your store, Original OP's store in Missouri as well?

( I am in SW MO, just curious).

They don’t even fucking see us as people they see us as robots like are you kidding me?? They’re all brats

“They pay well” … I remember getting paid 7 cents above minimum wage.

We're literally slaves to these people. If we drop dead from our labor, they don't care.

They call baristas lazy when they themselves can’t be bothered to take ten steps out of their car to come inside for their 50 Frappuccinos.

This is literally my location rn. We have about 5-6 with covid and opened at 7 today and closed at 230 cuz we were just that short staffed. Yesterday for us was awful. We had about 5 people on the floor and it was swamped w mobile/delivery orders

Imagine getting mad over coffee lmao

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The covid surge is affecting everyone. No one is untouched right now. I no longer work for the bux. I wanna know this Maren's real name. I'll comment publicly and put them in their place. I may even use some gender neutral pronouns and make them really clutch their pearls.

“Lazy,” bitch please, don a green apron for awhile and tell me how lazy partners truly are.

Covid broke out so much at our store that it had to close until Monday…

fuck them 😥

these people are such out of touch morons

“There’s no more federal money so I don’t get why they’re not working” it’s almost as if the narrative you’ve made up in your mind isn’t true and people actually just don’t want to continue working in shitty conditions where their health is always at risk!

I am and almost 7 year Partner and I personally am out sick with Covid (Omicron) and thought I was going to lose the love of my life because he is so much sicker tham I am. I watched him projectile vomit bright red blood. Screw these entitled, pathetic, rude assholes. Drive 2 more blocks and find another Starbucks store, you assholes.

Every time a customer complained about how few people were working and how long the wait was, I told them that we were hiring and they were free to apply. Nobody took up the offer. I guess nobody wants to work! Assholes

People like this are the reason I no longer work retail or food industry lol.

“lazy and entitled”… and i’m sure all these people look up to the “self-made” successes like Bezos and Gates. i’m done with society lol

People who literally can’t make his/her own coffee calling people who have to hustle an entire shift lazy 😀😀😀. Crazy.

My store is going down quick. We have succumbed to the fact that we’re going to get it

it’s stuff like this that makes me so angry. our company has created this level of entitlement.

Hmmm, such a hard worker couldn’t be bothered to make his own coffee? Interesting

they bitch when we close, they cry when we stay open and are slow because we’re understaffed, they send threats when we close cafe. there’s no way to win with these losers. i always see people saying ‘starbucks employees complain more than anyone else, how hard can their job be’ they’ll literally never get it until they’ve worked there

i thought the same thing before reading your title... our store has been closing at 2 all week because of covid isolation. i hate these entitled assholes

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Imagine being too dumb and angry to learn how to make your own coffee.

"And they pay well," who the fuck thinks Starbucks pays WELL???

Paying frontline workers shit wages really backfired. The only thing left for the rich to do is to raise the minimum wage and then have inflation go up even higher. Oh...wait. I think the rich will be okay. /s

The Karens and Keemstars of the world just want to complain to an audience. They don’t even care to check in on the human beings who have to decide to do what’s best for themselves or their loved ones. I would love to see them get by on Starbucks wages for a year.

Ah yes, imagine me coming into work when I had positive covid and working on bar to make your drinks 🤧 sure you'd love that 👌

Don't blot out their names

I have customers saying stuff like this to my face today at work. Its sadly very common. Most people dont give a shit about retail workers and view themselves as superior human beings and think we are robots in a way. Best advice is to try and do your best to ignore them and avoid looking at comment sections like these. Find those moments where one customer was nice to you and focus on that memory, its what helps me drown out all the bad ones lol.

Some old lady said those things to me too when she asked why our cafe wasn’t open. She was like “how come there’s not enough people? but don’t they pay well? And don’t they pay for your college? And you have benefits! Kids just don’t wanna work huh”. I just smiled and handed her drink so she could leave.

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You mean, half are out with positive COVID tests. Omicron is a cold. Possibly a bad cold for some. (A professional tennis player tested positive 210 times and had no symptoms.)

Also, see Joe Rogan’s recent interview with Dr. Robert Malone on Spotify.

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