OSHA violation, call corporate

Like our store is always hot anyways, but even customers were coming up to the register with sweat pouring down their faces and my employee was throwing up from the heat and they were like "does the hotel have a fan you can borrow? Can we prop open the doors?" Like it wasn't already 91 degrees outside. 🙃 we didn't even clean anything, we just left because of how dangerously hot it was. Even the district manager later on said protocol is to close the store and she was really trying to make us work in that.

Not my store, but I knew of one that only closed when all the fridges started failing to keep things in temp because it was so hot. I woulda walked if it was mine.

omg I would've had to leave. that's unsafe. and I can't regulate my own body temperature so

Hey. Not to be like, that person /s, but um, have you heard about Starbucks Workers United?

Yeah, my friend works at one that's had their AC out for weeks. They can't find anyone to fix it supposedly, because the AC unit is like 50 years old. I guess no one's thought to fucking replace it??

But yeah, there's AC in the lobby. For the guests. They brought in portable ACs for them, but the staff just get to suffer.

We have a regular who owns another popular franchised Resturant in town, and when our AC went out he just brought his industrial fans. It was fine because it was fixed either that same day or the next morning, but if you’re dealing with this for days then that’s ridiculous.

My store doesn't even have a thermostat to see the temperature 😐

Here’s the “official” osha guidelines(but not on an osha website)- I think it’s mainly for manufacturing jobs, but he we manufacture beverages, and it’s like an assembly line and the time constraints are Very similar!! Anyway, we would probably fall under “light work” according to most standards, but the people making those “standards” just don’t know… I would say we are closer to “moderate”…I tried to post a screen shot, but I can’t so just click the link and scroll until your see bullet points- https://www.jacksonlewis.com/publication/osha-s-heat-standard-likely-affect-indoor-manufacturing-facilities#:~:text=The%20permissible%20heat%20level%20cannot,level%20is%2080%20degrees%20Fahrenheit.

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There is no OSHA rule on temp. I am not sure there is any internal rule about it

In Florida I was working in a domino's with no ac that reached 112° and they still had us working 🥲

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I believe if it’s over 78 you aren’t supposed to work… lol