Exactly. It’s not that people don’t want to work, it’s that people are tired of being taken advantage of

Sounds like they are trying to find a way to close the store (inability to get/keep staff).

Oh. We most certainly do. 😭

Exactly!

I mean…you can’t have limited availability and also lots of hours. You do see how that’s a contradiction right? lol

So it's a bit of a wierd situation because the company advertises that it has flexible scheduling which means they automatically should be working with the partner to find scheduling that fits both the partner and Starbucks. There's also the fact that when partners get hired on they talk over availability with the hiring manager and if the hiring manager agrees with the partner's availability they hire them on, and don't hire them if they don't agree. With the current partners, the manager has already agreed to their availability so it's really shady for the manager to then decide no it's not okay and try to force the partner into a different availability.

I wanna say it's a breach of contract but I'm not 100% sure on that.

They don’t pay me enough to have across the board availability. Although, I am usually open to come in when needed, it’s never unreasonable for a person to set boundaries on their time. We only get one life and I certainly don’t want to waste it being beholden to the whims of Starbucks when Starbucks won’t even pay me more than 12/hr and expects me to have 45s drive thru times.

This one is in a college town so I think it’s important for them to note school comes first.
I go to a fairly large university and in my junior and senior years, there were 1-2 offerings of each class I had to take in order to graduate. So I had to plan around those classes for work. It often resulted in forcing me to wake up at 3:30 am to go open, and drive straight to class exhausted, or forced me to close which I was involved in student govt. and other important activities for an entry level resume so closing wasnt an option. That may just be me, but I mean i’m sure some people are working on resume builders and only have a few options for a class. I had my once weekly 8 am to 11 am then 2-5 which kinda put me in the position of needing to take that day off. I always give 1 day on the weekends but also, these kids are college students. Not always easy to switch up your sleeping schedule to go to bed at 10pm to get up in time for opening on a Friday night when kids are blaring music 2 dorms down. The business isn’t “beholden” to it but they also knew what they were signing up for when they hired on probably at least 10 college students. Of course, not trying to come off rude. Just coming from a current college kid working for the Siren that it can be difficult. Especially depending on how your manager schedules- I have had some managers that only schedule you if you can work 8 hour shifts and some that schedule in 4, 5, and 6 hour increments with shifts sometimes getting the 8 hour shifts. And maybe sometimes a barista will get thrown an 8 hour shift here and there or even as little as a 3 hour shift non-coverage if they really need hours and a truck is coming. If this store in particular schedules mainly 8 hour shifts in a college town that’s their own problem.

I am very jealous of your college if you're able to simply pick your classes to be whenever you want. Some of my major classes were only available for one time slot. A lot, actually.

There is supposed to be 8 hrs between shifts, so depending on store's operating hours, there might not be 8 hrs between.
My SM tries not to schedule clopens, but occasionally there's just no one else avaible.

I’m a clopener. Close three days a week, open two. It’s not fun, but the money is pretty sweet.

After working many different jobs over the years with "flexible scheduling," this is the best way to keep people from calling out, too. It's not uncommon for people to call out for a closing shift on a Saturday if they don't usually work that shift. Ditto for the opening half of a clopen. Give people consistency and they'll be more consistent.