my asm told me that the reason i’m working 4 hours (four. hours) next week, is because our labor is so tight because our customer connection score of 65 and 10k daily isn’t enough to pay anyone the hours they want, even though they just hired 6 people during off season bringing our crew to about 35 people. availability wasn’t the issue, they just “didn’t want to see the same faces.” ok.

the solution, to this, is to have TWO. BARISTAS. Y’ALL. TWO. close on a SATURDAY. to save money. and when we get out 30 minutes late, it is our fault that we lost labor, and that our hours are going to continue to shrink until we “hustle.” ok. fuck it whatever.

another solution offered was to switch shifts with people to get more hours. i’ve attempted to switch a close with a 6:45 four times (without adding a lunch so there’s no issue there) and it’s only worked once. we were both fully trained, there was no reason for them to say no (we were both there for at least three hours).

ANOTHER solution offered, and the final one offered, was to call other stores for hours. when i did this on my thirty, i was reprimanded and asked if i wasn’t happy with my job if it was to the point of me going to other stores.

i need money so. bad. i don’t know what to do this sucks!!! and i LOOOVE my coworkers but my god management is making it so hard. my dm is even worse. and none of us would even bother bringing up unionizing as all of upper management is extremely conservative and would absolutely fire us for even mentioning it.