facts. its like theyre teasing us 😭😭 "you wanna have a 30 so bad" YEAH I DO AND UR DANGLING IT IN MY FACE I JUST WANNA EAT MY SANDWICH AT MY OWN PACE

This is done intentionally to meet labor while having enough people on the floor for the day while still being able to give 30's out to other people without being too many people down.

Yes it's bullshit, I know, I used to often be scheduled 5.75 shifts.

This is one of the many reasons to unionize/quit. The laughable part is a lot of the people doing 5.75's are the ones doing the harder/more stressful roles.

Gonna be dead honest... I'm a 260×××× barista that lasted two years... when I started, the company was great! Loved my coworkers and the job. Now... fuck the ceo, he doesn't care about you... find a serving job. It pays more for 1000× with less work. With the profit you're pulling in there is no reason you should be paid less than 17$ an hour. So fuck corporate... yall should work as slow as you can, go on strike. You're ceo doesn't give a flying fuck about you, so you should make him give a fuck about you. Leave for a better job or ask for better pay. And your 10 min breaks?! Start the clock when you sit down with your meal. Fuck all that bullshit where it starts when the shift tells you. Stand up sbux people... you're being overworked by a shit ton

We brought this up at a shift meeting and our policy now is that we either give six hours with a meal or we give a second ten for 5.5/5.75 (if the barista wants it, some don’t). It’s definitely made our baristas happier, but I know that’s totally dependent on managers.

my favorite thing is that i’m scheduled mon-sat next week (yes, 6 days!)— every shift is 5.5 or 5.75 hours. and i know for a fact at least one of those days i’m going to get held over so long that i’ll technically need a lunch since nobody i work with has a sense of being on time. i can’t leave my shift with a bar person who has only had 1 full day of bar training (all of our night crew is very, very new) for 15-30 minutes when we’re one of the 4 busiest stores in our district.

Back in my day, they schedule baristas for 6 hours and u got PAID for 6 hours with two tens

no literally like it should be illegal

In Washington if you have to come back early from your unpaid lunch, you’re supposed to get paid for the whole thing. I have to come back so often from my lunch that I started clocking in early from it, so now we will see what happens 👀 I’m also having to report my manager from not respecting sick time written in the book.

Edit: I’m a shift, and believe in taking all advantage of my position in this company; like Im gonna milk them for all the benefits.

Wait. Yall get breaks?

they don't want to pay to have enough people there for your 30 min break only time ive seen someone get their 30 min is they were a shift

whenever i want some extra time to sit i just claim my ibs is flaring up so i can sit on the toilet 😌basically an extra 10 min break

oh weird… in ontario it’s 5+ hours needs a 30 minute. so they always schedule us for 4.75. which feels pointless to be there for less than 5 hours! it’s even worse when they do just 4 hours!

GOD MY STORE DOES THIS TO ME ALL THE TIME I HAVENT HAD A LUNCH IN MONTHS. THEY SCHEDULE ME DURING THE BUSIEST HOURS BC IM THE ONLY GODDAMN PERSON WHOS WILLING TO BE THE FRONT REGISTER AND ITS ALWAYS 5.5 OR 5.75 HOURS AND I HAVE TO DO AT LEAST TWO JOBS AT ONCE BECAUSE IDK WHAT THE SUPPORTS R DOING IN THE BACK ROOM ALL THE TIME BUT IT SURE AS HELL ISNT STOCKING ANYTHING OR WIPING THE DISGUSTING STICKY COUNTERTOPS LIKE THEYRE SUPPOSED TO!!! LIKE NO MATTER WHO THEY PUT ON SUPPORT NO ONE EVER DOES ANYTHING EXCEPT CHANGE THE COFFEE WHEN THE TIMER GOES OFF AND THEN GO SIT AROUND IN THE BACK ROOM MAKING SMALL TALK WITH THE SHIFT OR THE MANAGER OR WHOEVER :( no one ever cleans anything here… I think I’m the only person who’s EVER wiped the gross dusty ass windows at this Starbucks. New store, opened maybe a year ago, and I don’t think the drive thru counter had been cleaned at all before I took the initiative to scrub off the literal encrusted layers of syrup Smh

i work at a kiosk at an airport, like dead center of a busy airport. i usually work 7.30-8 hours a day and i only get 1 30 minute and that’s it, i rarely get to have time to recuperate

I was a shift for a while, my store always gave 2 10s if you didn’t get a half.

If you got a half you got one ten, your half, then another 10. I didn’t realize this was unique to my store.

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Utah doesn’t even require break so most jobs just don’t give them out unless they are a big company. Smh.

YES!!!! Like bruh I’m gonna be doing the job of two/three people and bust my ass way too hard, I might as well get some hours and a 30 out of it. Plus I just want to eat my egg bites and not burn tf out of my mouth

Yes this happens to me alllll the time. Plus usually I'm not even allowed to go home right when I'm done so I end up working just minutes shy of 6 hours with practically no break. Usually thrown on solo window and drive

As a shift I almost never take my 10 unless I'm feeling horrendous that day. I just think it's shitty to be in a leadership role and know your baristas r working just as hard or harder than you and then proceed to take 40-50 minutes off the floor on break

That’s weird, when I get scheduled just 5.50 hours my shifts always give me a 30 and a 10.