I feel like part of it correlates to screwing over your younger people who want hours during the summer (like high schoolers or people who can only do 20-25 hours during their classes *asu or regular*, and are expecting full time hours while home, but are then fucked over by Mary-Jane who comes back from college, expecting 30-40 hours a week for 6-12 weeks and every two weeks they’re home for spring break. At my old store, I had practically full time baristas that NEEDED 32-40 hours for their rent or other bills and these college partners had taken a large majority hours because they were home for two week blocks. I also don’t think it’s fair to other partners who are expecting a bump in hours only to get them taken by someone who pops back for two weeks during winter and spring and maybe 8-10 weeks during the summer.

If you aren’t working, then you don’t have a job. I don’t understand why this is confusing. They offer free ASU classes. You can transfer to a different store to continue your education. You can reduce your hours. You can’t simply not work and still have a job because you want to do other things instead. If you want to leave on good terms and come back, that’s an option! Starbucks loves a rehire. It’s not practical to continue to give someone a coffee markout once a week and a discount indefinitely because they chose to not work. Sorry, maybe an unpopular opinion, but this is not a reasonable request.

My theory is that after years of not caring (actually wanting ) high turnover because partners don’t put as much effort in when they stop drinking the kool-aid, suddenly we are in an environment where it’s hard to retain workers. Yeah he extra hours given (minimum 12/week) is a smokescreen to force longer availabilities and commitments. The siren finally cares about their turnover rate and it’s screwing a lot of part time baristas.

I don't think it's targeted to students, as most of them already work at stores near their schools because it makes things easier and as for high school students most of the ones hired have full availability weekends and some have 1 or 2 evenings available. I think it might just be to make scheduling easier and faster, it's easier for a SM to acomodate to time off requests or to add more labor when necessary if everyone has a bit more open availability to work with. For example, if you're a student and can only work weekends you just need to have 9 hours available for Saturday and Sunday and or 12 on Saturday 6 on Sunday. You won't necessarily get scheduled all those hours, your SM just has more flexibility to work with. In my case, I'm going from open availability to being able to work 2 or 3 days and I was looking to at least get 12 hours, I'll probably have 4-5 hr availability for an evening, and 6-7hr availability on weekends. If I can't handle it, I'll probably only open my availability for weekends for the 18 hrs, they obviously can't schedule me the 18 but I'll have the availability.

Currently a full time college student, who is willing/wants to work 12-18ish hours a week, but just found out that I must have 20 hrs availability. Which I do not have because I have to go to class and study for those classes + complete assignments and participate in organizations and clubs. Plus, I don't want to put all my possible "free time" up as available time to work, because I don't want to have to worry about possibly being scheduled at any of the times I'm not in a class/meeting. I want to have as much consistency in my work schedule to make sure I can plan ahead as much as possible, but putting up all my possible available time in order to reach that 20 hour availability minimum makes that difficult. I'm upset because it seems like I'm increasingly expected to put Starbucks over school (and my career), which I can't do but I also can't not work. Would like to say I'm not naive. I'm NOT surprised, but def disappointed.

It sucks. I’m in the same situation. I can’t work but also don’t want to go through the trouble of being rehired so I might just put my apron down for good :(

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