We're not REQUIRED to work either actually

It’s all about your availability and the business needs of the store. A lot of managers I know try to give full time partners one weekend day off, but usually part timers or students tend to work both weekend days because that’s where you’ll get more hours. You can talk to your manager about changing your availability to only have one weekend day but know that if it affects the business needs (i.e. if they now have to hire another person who can fill those weekend gaps) it could be denied or your hours could be affected.

There’s no policy about which days you have to work or have off. Plenty of people who ONLY work the weekends. If it’s an issue for you to work both days, you’re free to change your availability or just talk to your SM that you would appreciate having one of the 2 days off every week

Don’t bring it up to manager. Just submit a new availability and when they ask why, say something like “I got a second job and can’t work weekends”

Yeah I don’t work any weekends. If u have open availability I can see why u are scheduled. Does it bother u that u are scheduled?

This is the weirdest nonexistent rule I’ve ever heard of in this sub and that’s saying a shit ton. Just set your availability when you want to work bro 😂

Change your availability -
Request specific days off in advance (ie every third Saturday) -
Look it up in your HUB -
Don’t go by what other partners tell you if you don’t think it’s correct, maybe they don’t really know -
Talk to your SM

If you want weekends off, just change your availability. 🤷🏼‍♀️ you might lose hours tho. Maybe offer to switch with some people as well?

Store Managers set those requirements.

I worked basically every Saturday and Sunday for two years w Starbucks. I asked if I could have saturdays off since my SM needed me on sundays as a morning ssv and she basically told me no. Corporate doesn’t have any scheduling requirements, it’s down to each stores specific needs.

Maybe it’s because most SMs won’t accept an availability that doesn’t have at least 1 weekend day? There is no actual rule to weekends though.

I ask for every other weekend day off so for instance I had Saturday off this week, so I’ll have Sunday off next week. Weekends at Starbucks suck, and For a bit at my old store the only SSV working weekends was me and the morning chick. After a month of that, they are lucky they get one weekend day out of me lol

I don't think Starbucks has any guarantees or rules like that for scheduling.

Though at union grocery licensed locations, there are negotiated contracts that have concrete rules to allow better scheduling, which the employer must follow. Things like having one preferred day off per employee (like could be always Saturdays, but it's still subject to manager approval for which day that is, not everyone can pick the same day, obvi), or (a newer contract inclusion)selecting from available shifts based on seniority, and other things like overtime for part of your shift if 2 shifts are less than 10 hours apart,etc. Business needs and assigning unclaimed shifts still allow management to adjust and finalize the schedule as needed, but gives some collaboration and control to employees. But sometimes lower seniority employees end up pushed around more and with less hours (Though then maybe it will incentivize people to come in when others call out, --instead of issues of everyone saying no,
that I've heard about-- as they build seniority).

i work 3 days a week. then again, i guess im a high schooler. lol

So technically not required to work any. You just have to change your availability. Keep in mind, though, this will probably reduce your hours and they can deny availability requests.