Customer connections are STUPID. You can’t have fast times AND good connections. I made sure to share my thoughts on that survey. They need to pick one. Also my store has become super toxic. It used to be better.

I quit back in 2020 when they told partners either take a LOA, reduced hours, or quit. I chose to quit and it was one of the most liberating things I’ve ever done. I didn’t realize Starbucks was affecting me like that. The first location I worked at was amazing — super organized, great partners, lovely shift supervisors lmao. Then I transferred because I went back to college (I was hired at the start of my summer break) and that location was horrible!! It didn’t even feel like Starbucks.

Starbucks can be a really fun job depending on location/management. At my first store, we didn’t have a drive thru, dining area, or bathroom. It was so small, so the workload was minimum

Although he’s a hypocrite for doing the same, you should measure them in the shaker because the lines on the cup do not line up with the lines on the shaker, and also what’s the point of measuring it in one cup, just to pour it in the shaker, shake it, and pour it back into another cup?? It’s just adding an unnecessary step that you can skip. But also, the short hours are making me want to quit. Why I work 5 days a week and still only get like 26 hours???? Despite working a regular amount of days a week for a full time job, is fucking stupid. The constant push for “customer connections” when the customers don’t give a fuck to even respond if I greet them. And the pressure to keep drive times under a minute when our store isn’t built for the drive thru we have. The turn over rate is too high, almost everyone I worked with when I first started had quit. There’s like four of us left from before covid, and the standard has been thrown out the window since.

I just put in my 2 weeks because I got a new job after months of job hunting. I’ve only started working for the siren back in August 2021, but due to be overworked & being not respected from certain coworkers and my SM, I finally had the courage to leave. It gets to a point where you just feel like you’re not being paid enough to care.

I was a supervisor from 2001 until 2014 in California, Seattle and Portland but mostly in Seattle. SMs are notorious for singling out baristas and supervisors for petty reasons. I’ve seen it happen time and time again. Especially if a new manager takes over a store and “cleans house” which means getting rid of people they don’t like for one reason or another. It got to the point where I would strategically transfer stores to avoid terrible managers or even district managers. What finally made me quit was having a notoriously awful manager take over at the last store I was at. He started actively trying to get rid of me which I immediately saw right through so I called corporate HR just so I could tell them what I thought was happening and how he was going to try to fire me. I figured having HR involved from the beginning would help me just in case I needed to try to make my case later. Anyway…. I realized that the fight wasn’t worth it anymore and I needed to move on. Plus the passion I used to have for Starbucks -which was great at one time- had been chiseled away little by little by stupid changes and ridiculous menu items. I can’t imagine having to make some of the drinks on the menu now! Over my 13 years at Starbucks I’ve seen a lot of people quit or get fired but almost all of them end up better off. I quit and just 2mo later was making more than double what I was making at Starbucks. Starbucks doesn’t have that growth potential no matter how long you stay.

Hey I’m sorry you’re going through this, I would recommend transferring to the nearest store you can, or whichever store you feel like might be a better match for you <3 that’s just my advice if you still need the job and are having trouble at that one