Starbucks Baristas: The daily grind
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I know someone at corporate must lurk here. Here is why I quit after 4 years: (self.starbucksbaristas)
submitted by Sdee1234
1) starbucks calculates labor WRONG. you are literally making your workers do the jobs of 2-3 people in order to squeeze your margins. This has BURNT US OUT. It also makes for horrible training, angry partners, and even angrier customers for the terrible service that YOU (starbucks corporate) are providing them.
2) Union busting is not cute. It just makes us hate you more. Maybe if you just did what your partners have been begging you for for YEARS then they wouldnt feel the need to unionize. You. Are. Failing. Us. Not the other way around
3) I was damn good at my job. And after 4 years, my pay rate was ONE PERCENT ABOVE BASE??? SERIOUSLY?
4) you do not give adequate time to cleaning tasks. This circles back to your labor calculator. Your stores are falling into squalor because you dont schedule cleaning.
5)your shift leads are expected to hold your stores together by their teeth while you encourage your store managers to take vacations constantly in order to protect their mental health? All I hear about is "customer experience, manager experience, and barista experience" never once did I hear anything about "shift experience". I was not aloud to call out. Seriously??
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DO. BETTER. for the sake of all the baristas who still work for you for now. Do. Better. I could go on for hours. This is not the company I signed on to work for. For the last 2 years it has felt like a sick joke. I hope all your stores unionize so they can demand what they deserve. Until then. I will only be a customer to the stores that are unionized if at all. Do. Better.
2) Union busting is not cute. It just makes us hate you more. Maybe if you just did what your partners have been begging you for for YEARS then they wouldnt feel the need to unionize. You. Are. Failing. Us. Not the other way around
3) I was damn good at my job. And after 4 years, my pay rate was ONE PERCENT ABOVE BASE??? SERIOUSLY?
4) you do not give adequate time to cleaning tasks. This circles back to your labor calculator. Your stores are falling into squalor because you dont schedule cleaning.
5)your shift leads are expected to hold your stores together by their teeth while you encourage your store managers to take vacations constantly in order to protect their mental health? All I hear about is "customer experience, manager experience, and barista experience" never once did I hear anything about "shift experience". I was not aloud to call out. Seriously??
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DO. BETTER. for the sake of all the baristas who still work for you for now. Do. Better. I could go on for hours. This is not the company I signed on to work for. For the last 2 years it has felt like a sick joke. I hope all your stores unionize so they can demand what they deserve. Until then. I will only be a customer to the stores that are unionized if at all. Do. Better.
HamiltonPolka 93 points 1y ago
I was a 6 year partner, 5 as a shift. Kept trying to move up to ASM but had 4 different district managers in 4 years so I had to keep starting over. Then I got recruited by a different company to be an assistant manager at one of their coffee shops. That ASM spot got eliminated because of Covid and I was out of work for over a year. Needed a job and had opportunity to go back to Starbucks but decided I couldn’t do that to myself. Eventually I got the Store Manager position back at the same company I left Starbucks for and couldn’t be happier. I’m always glad to hear about someone getting out of Starbucks, so congratulations! The way that company treats partners has gone drastically downhill since Howard Schultz was no longer CEO
Comfortable-Plane944 22 points 1y ago
Schultz is CEO again 😂
nikkicarter1111 30 points 1y ago
Yes, because he was a much more efficient union buster. He's better at PR than Kevin was, and he was brought back to union bust.
sheep_heavenly 51 points 1y ago
Hear hear. They keep prattling on about how it's the labor algorithm, their hands are tied, but they MADE THE ALGORITHM. FIX IT.
mewwissa 26 points 1y ago
I quit after 3 years of torture. I felt like some partners got to just show up and barely do anything, while people like me were expected to go above and beyond. I ended up FINALLY making SSV after 2 1/2 years and we ended up with no manager toward the end of my 6mos as a shift, it was so chaotic and horrible that I just stopped showing up. The “stand in manager” was an ASM that had only worked for the company for like a year and a half, and her home store/home was an hour and a half away from us. She would only schedule me ONE PERSON to open with, and it was always someone new who had no idea what they were doing. The final straw was her scheduling me with one new person on a weekend who hadn’t shown up to her shifts in over a week, and wasn’t responding to texts. She made me go into the store by myself to count the safe while she was on the phone, despite me telling her MULTIPLE times beforehand that she needed to schedule someone else to open with me that day. I shouldn’t have gone in there at all, knowing what I know now. NEVER GO INTO A STORE ALONE, ESPECIALYYYYYY TO HANDLE MONEY!!!! I should’ve turned her into corporate. I didn’t show up to my next shift after that. Every day was a complete shit show and the store was in disgusting condition.
Lost_Treat_6296 18 points 1y ago
Preach my man, you're right and valid. Get a company that appreciates your loyalty.
[deleted] 15 points 1y ago
Number 4 is probably why I lost this job with training and timing. I still do cleaning jobs but like everything outside of a Starbuck even a fast food place, is less hell bent.
I got so mad about it because I was given abuse over it when I was green bean. I am not fucking stupid I can clean and I do always clean. Its always unnecessary drama and it just lead to my stay being miserable.
Corporate job is the only thing worth trying to work for at Starbucks .
I got so mad about it because I was given abuse over it when I was green bean. I am not fucking stupid I can clean and I do always clean. Its always unnecessary drama and it just lead to my stay being miserable.
Corporate job is the only thing worth trying to work for at Starbucks .
Babs9220 14 points 1y ago
I was a shift that quit for all these reasons plus more too. Well worded.
[deleted] 11 points 1y ago
i am a ssv of six months. partner of four years. i was scheduled as coverage on a day against my availability and had gotten the whole shift covered a week in advance because it was the last chance i had to mediate my relationship with my father and convince him to leave me in the will. I got a text a day before the shift telling me that my manager could not approve my coverage because the store would open. i told her that i needed the coverage and the day off because i might not see my dad again afterwards. she told me that ‘we always have to be ready to be key’ and i was subtly reminded that i had a write up over two years ago and if i called off i would be on last warning. i came in and lost my inheritance and was written off of the deed of the house i’m currently living in. he could kick me out at any time. i am still furious
krym32zamoon 8 points 1y ago
Write ups don't even last 2 years. They don't count after 6 months I believe. So she really shouldn't be able to hold an over 2 year write up against you. Also her entire attitude towards you on this is disgusting. You need coverage. That is a family emergency. How dare anyone even think of telling you no. I'm so so sorry this shit show happened to you.
bisexualgirlboss 8 points 1y ago
Couldn’t agree more for all of this! the way managers see the job and how they are ON the job is so much different than for baristas and shifts. I’m glad you left that environment and hope you only get everything you want out of life <3
SubstantialTree7 5 points 1y ago
THIS!! Had 5 people on the floor for most of peak today (I work in a high volume DT store and we normally have at least 7 for peak) and from open until 7 I was DTO/DTR and solo bar, but somehow yesterday we had 12 people on the floor?? That wasn’t good either cos the floor was hella overpacked and I was literally on the verge of a panic attack because there was no room for anything. Like WTF.
itsnnotdamiann 4 points 1y ago
This one right here, I usually never work mornings but one of the partners at my store got sick and called out. Since I know and am friends with that partner I decided to take their shift to help out but what I didn't know is that we have 2-3 peaks in a 4 hour timeframe from 8am-12pm and I usually clock in at 12pm. Keeping in mind that the store I work at is also a HV store with a drive thru I was never on one task for more than a half hour before being switched to another area of the store, I was even put outside with the tablet POS to do DTO for 2 hours while switching between that and green sweep for the first half hour in Florida post rain humidity. I was made to take my break less than an hour after I clocked in and I'm a MINOR. 4 out of the 7 people on shift this morning were minors. I can't even get time off next weekend because the SM makes the schedules 3 weeks in advance and I only just found out about a date change for a senior class trip.
sero5074 4 points 1y ago
I quit after 6 months because I’m not gonna let some stupid ass fast food coffee chain dictate my sanity.
FfierceLaw 4 points 1y ago
Yep, they’re here. A couple were telling me that partners can be written up for taking shifts through the app for a partner who needs some time off.
DragonS0l 1 points 1y ago
I'm honestly so sick of it. I give my all everyday at Starbucks. I work hard and have trained several new partners and they're all doing well. Then I apply to become a shift and our new manager denies it. Why? Because I called out once in my entire time there. Then he said I probably wasn't a good choice because of that. Even though all the other shifts vouched for me and said I would be great. Now I'm just spiteful and want to see this unionization go through because he desperately doesn't want that.
Cocosmil3 1 points 1y ago
I work at a retirement facility that does similar practices. They have gotten in trouble with labor laws before. We are supposed to have two 10 minute breaks and a half hour lunch. The schedule and tasks to accomplish makes that difficult. Management runs ragged. Turnover is high. Pay is low. I took the job because I had been raising my daughter so my skills were only okay. It's 2 miles from my house. It's not worth having a low paying service job and have a 45-hour commute as well. I always wonder where the good jobs are.
Tired-n-Disappointed -24 points 1y ago
I'm sorry to say, but the unions will be taken down. Not from outside, but from the inside like termites boring into wood.
Even the ones unionized will have their teeth taken away ASAP.
Even the ones unionized will have their teeth taken away ASAP.
nikkicarter1111 9 points 1y ago
Lmao OK corporate
Tired-n-Disappointed -2 points 1y ago
Oh no no I'm not Starbucks Corporate. I'm just the one they call in to fix unions
nikkicarter1111 2 points 1y ago
"Fix" unions how?
nikkicarter1111 3 points 1y ago
As you are a person that apparently owns a company but is also "VC in charge of Healthcare in developing countries", owns 60+ acres of land, as well as repeatedly claiming to make far more than anyone you're talking to on the internet at the time, I'm not particularly surprised to hear that you aren't a fan of unions. Absolutely baffled how you're making the claim that Starbucks calls you in to fix unions tho
Difficult-Resist3780 4 points 1y ago
Is that what happened to you when you didnt lick the boot clean?
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