i know they definitely can sense it and i hate when people try to make conversation when i’m getting food somewhere and assume most of them would too bc most of them pull up on their phones or with someone else, so what’s the big deal of making small conversation being polite and getting them what they’re there for?? i’ve tried to have better conversations and end up stumbling over my words and receiving awkward laughs and smiles i don’t wanna feel like a dumbass at work that’s embarassing lol. i’m glad you’re able to manage your anxiety that’s awesome! i’m in dbt for the borderline and my therapist tells me to validate my feelings but remind myself it’s just coffee but it’s hard to do that when the people around me treat it like it’s the olympics and not just coffee. i guess it’s just not the job for me lol

The gaslighting is unreal. Everything is put back on us. I just got my first write-up after 3.5 years of busting my ass. I was made to feel as tho my mistreatment is because I don’t advocate for myself. Like really?! The write-up was in direct contradiction to their own explanations of policy 6 months ago. In January, I was in trouble for guiding people to answer the COVID coach in such a way that would take the questions very literally and people would get sent home. I was told pre-existing conditions don’t count and only new symptoms/unusual should be reported. Well, now, 6 months later, I came in a day after having a migraine. (Keep in mind, my migraines have made me puke since I was a young child.) I answered the coach that I had no symptoms of food poisoning, because a migraine isn’t food poisoning. So by their own logic, puking from it wasn’t a new or unusual symptom for me. Right??? Wrong. I was written up for falsifying a legal document. I was completely gaslit every step of the way, when I had a very emotional reaction to the write-up. So I’m out.

The manipulation from District Management is un-fucking-believable. Everything is our fault, and our responsibility. We have to foster a positive work environment, support our partners, develop meaningful connections with guests, and maintain trusting, open communication with everyone. If we don’t feel celebrated in any of our wins? Our fault. If we don’t feel like we have open communication with our SM? Our fault. If we don’t feel like we’re being supported? Our fault. It’s all ours to fix and they never take responsibility or even acknowledge the struggle. So yeah.
Fuck Starbucks.

wait... what?

on the phone with ethics right now they’re still talking about me at the store but i have two witnesses who heard and saw them watching my tik toks about my mental health making fun of them when i left including my store manager and a customer noticed

yes i have both and im in sober living, i have a lot of tools to help right now it’s not easy still but i’m working hard to get better

good for u im glad you got accommodations and im sorry it was so hard for you to i understand. and frrrr dude like it’s so frustrating

Real reading comprehension would be understanding that using “I mean” in that context is a way of contradicting someone, especially since you followed it with a correction of something they said. You were expressing doubt that they were treated unjustly, and pretending otherwise is just obtuse.

Why else would your very first words to a distraught person explaining their plight be to correct them over a tiny detail? Either you have zero tact whatsoever, or you're trying to poke holes in their story. Either way it's very shitty behavior.