welp, I got coached for being sick and having to call out, even though I followed protocol from the Starbucks guidelines page- and my manager tried to give me a corrective action form and tried to gaslight me by saying “oh this isn’t a corrective action form” when the paper literally said “corrective action” up on-top

I quit and feel respected and appreciated at new job 👏🏼

omg i had no idea we were supposed to clock out before marking out stuff to eat/drink for breaks, ive been here a month and i always clock out when i sit down and have everything with me lol

I usually give my team a five minute warning before their break so they can put their order in-especially if they only get a 10 and I know they are trying to eat. It is hard when people don’t start their break when I expect them to. It throws off every one else’s break. It’s a fine balance.

Recently a client was laying into me with complaints and issues that had nothing to do with me, and I just calmly dealt with it. Coworkers came up to me afterwards asking if I was okay, and I responded, "Yeah, that was nothing compared to the daily abuse from customers at Starbucks."

When i didn’t have to grovel for a day off for a medical appointment, and instead got immediate approval of my request. Oh and also when i realized in can just. Get up from my spot and go to the restroom

When a truck leaked diesel in our drive and the smell was so bad it was making me sick. As the ssv I called corporate who told us to get out of the building stop taking orders and call 911 while they called hazmat. My SM cancelled hazmat because she said it was too expensive and had the other employees clean it up with floor cleaner and reopen the store. I ended up with plurisy because of it. I left instead of cleaning and ended up in the emergency room the next day not being able to breathe

TW/CT: depression/self harm

i was working six day weeks, 40 hours a week, busted my ass for my store, i was constantly bullied by another shift supervisor and sexually harassed by my manager, which led to really bad depression and i ended up self harming really bad at work. then they FIRED ME two months later after literally winning POQ. i reported everything to ethics and they didn’t do much. this company is gross and doesn’t treat their employees with any care or respect. especially the DM’s but that’s just my opinion. extreme story i know, but them firing me was a blessing in disguise because now i have a really good job with people who are nice and actually respect and care about me

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I work full time in an office now. I had to take my cat to the vet to be euthanized today and because she's been so sick I've been in late a few times. I apologized profusely to my boss for missing so much work and he told me thanks for keeping the office in my thoughts but that I didn't need to apologize, just take whatever time I need.

I could barely call in sick at my Starbucks store and they paid me half what I make now. I had to start telling them that I was throwing up any time I needed to be off on short notice or they'd act like I was personally ruining everything by having human needs (and make no mistake, they still did, just behind my back).

Start job hunting, babes. It gets better.

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we dont have to start our breaks until we get our food and drink BUT that’s store to store and whatever the manager decides on THE THING THAT MESSED ME UP THE MOST SO FAR WHILE INTERVIEWING FOR OTHER POSITIONS IS ive been asked “what’s a time you faced an ethical dilemma between yourself and a supervisor and how did you resolve it” ONLY STORIES I COULD THINK OF WHERE STARBUCKS

Getting only a 10 minutes break instead of a 15 minute one as compared to literally every other job in the past. And every manager is different with when you're supposed to get your food for that

When I found out that, despite being keyholders and the ones in charge most of the time, shift supervisors only have as much or as little authority as upper management allows them on any given day. And God forbid you should make a decision without their approval even when that decision is related to the health and stability of the store

When I wanted to be a trainer and got constantly picked over for cute young bubbly girls. Was at a time I took a chance on a major career change to get another degree and was only available for nights work. Mid-age male, previous teacher with years of experience, now with a company where I’m a preferred trainer with safety critical challenges. Making x10 more too.

I sometimes met my old manager and coworkers passing by my old store. I like to remind the manager that she deemed me not able to teach making coffee. Silliness.

I work in a family local coffee shop. I used to try to be fast and make drinks out in less than a minute and my bosses would wonder why I’m rushing. When you work or go to a smaller more traditional/authentic coffee shop, it takes about 2-3 minutes to make one latte. My bosses would always reassure me that I should take my time. “This isn’t starbucks, don’t stress about time. It’s about the quality of the latte” as they would say. Customers would be patient anyway and it always made me feel better. Everyday I go to work, during rushes I would always tell myself “don’t stress, take your time, they’ll wait.”

Another thing is, when I worked at starbucks I would always get written up for not connecting with every single customer. Here at our cafe, while we do love having conversations with our customers, not all of them like to converse with you. They’re just there for their coffee and leave, but they always come back the next day. I just love and appreciate that I can work a good balance in the cafe that I work in now and not having starbucks down my throat about making drinks in 30 seconds and connecting with every customer.

I got written up for being late; despite telling my shift, manager and assistant manager I would be late- and trying to find coverage for that time - but i was 30 minutes away when my new job ended at the time my starbucks shift started

I rage quit a few weeks back. The sheer weight that lifted off my shoulders when i turned in my 2 weeks is telling. Im still in the group chat and literally 6 people left within a month. Its falling apart dude. And the fact that i laughed when i read that is also telling of how awful that job made me feel. An interviewer asked why i left and was appalled at some of the things starbucks is doing to us. Refreshing for someone to actually be shocked by it rather than talk to partners who are all numb to it by now

at a new job, i was given leave when a loved one died and was not questioned about every part of the ceremony to be sure i wasn't lying about it (at sbux, i had only called out once before this for being in the hospital)

I just recently resigned and I feel so much better not working for the Foods Industry anymore. My first and only Starbucks store that I worked at was nothing but a bunch of people gossiping about fellow partners. Absolute extreme was that they constantly rat everything out to the SM just to earn favoritism points.

So glad I left because the hours were not stable, felt like an expendable and was bullied because I was a green bean who cannot remember the drinks and wasn't even allowed to use the iPad to learn the drinks post-training.

My barista trainer tried her hardest and did a great job training me but urgh! This ONE SSV was so annoying and prepared a deck of drinks on us cards because she anticipated me screwing up. What did I do? I straight up resigned the moment I landed my current job as a Swiss Watch Specialist at a Luxury Jewelry Shop. Trust me on this but, I feel so much better working in that environment much more because I have passion for it and so does my clients.

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the milk pitchers destroyed my right wrist/thumb.

I just started work at this new office building and anytime I have to call out because of health related issues (I'm still suffering from Long Covid as one of the first contractors of it pre vaccine periods), my boss is extrely understanding and once even told me to take more time to recover if I need it. I didn't even have to explicitly deeply explain what was wrong with me to be allowed to do so. He even mentioned something about being alright with mental health days.

Shocking contrast to missing a shift at Starbucks and the manager cutting your hours as a result, or trying to change availability to line up with the new job and having the manager wordlessly no explanation cancel the change request not once but TWICE??? I'm sorry ma'am but this job pays better and if I'm scheduled a shift overlapping with it because you refused my availability change I'm putting that shit up immediately 🤣

To argue that most people who take their lunch breaks at other jobs definitely have to wait on their break for their food. You work in an office? You clock out and then go get your food and wait for it. Not sure why thats so controversial. I just oder my stuff and enjoy my break, and halfway through go walk to pick it up. No point in waiting around wasting my break when I know I can just come pick it up part way through.