Every time someone orders a caramel ribbon crunch

congrats bb!


as a former SM, there were many times i thought, "wow. i'd rather live on the street, in a box than keep on doing this shit."
DMs/partners calling to yell at me on my DAY (single) off about stuff i can't do anything about.
customer pretending to pass out and then standing and walking out once EMTs show-up.
shift ordering 10 cases of bananas on accident.


be glad it’s over and take your time to heal<3

I once got very overwhelmed during a shift and I asked the manager if someone could cover me(I was dto) and I went to the back to take a breather. I ended up having an anxiety attack and the new asm told me I needed to get over myself and it was all in my head and I needed to get back out there because the team needed me. I quit right there on the spot.

She also texted me the next day asking if I was coming in for my shift.

my last day is next sunday. and i’m ecstatic i really learned today how much i fucking hate this job. between shitty co workers and horrible customers. i dreaded going into work daily id have no motivation to do anything on days i worked. working with negative coworkers all day ruined my mood for the rest of the day. i was there for 4 years it’s gonna be weird not serving coffee anymore but jus working at my new job for a week has significantly improved my overall mood and literal outlook on life.

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I hate my life so much because of starbucks, I’m going through the process of enlisting myself in the army. Lol

Were you a shift? I actually really like this job as a barista

Every shift. I get anxiety. I’m unhappy about walking into work. I’ve been constantly thinking about writing my two weeks, but I wanted to stay here at least a year due to having little to no work experience. However, my health shouldn’t be collateral damage for money.

I go into work on Thursday. 😪

i recently got a job as a shift manager at dunkin🫡. (haven’t started yet). more money, 40 hrs. fan fuckin tastic
. i’m getting 14 hrs at most at starbucks.

one time the manager refused to turn off mobiles and i had the sudden realization that my bf and i were going to have to do sunday bar peak entirely by ourselves. we almost walked off the floor that day.

another time i was completely alone on solo bar at night and we got wrapped on a saturday. i also almost cried that time and walked out.

one time i found out the shift on duty didn’t give my coworker a meal for her entire shift (2-10:30) and she told me this at 9:30. he went on his meal at 7 and said he would come back and she would go on her meal. i got so pissed i walked off the floor and in saw him having a nice convo with the manager sitting down and demanded she take her meal break bc she hadn’t yet. surprisingly he didn’t get in trouble! but i almost quit that day.

there’s plenty of other occurrences of when i’ve wanted to quit that are just repetitive at this point

My SM refused to turn off mobiles or even go to DT only when it was just me and the SSV closing one night. I was the only one on the floor while the SSV did the pull and we had a rush of people. The SSV called and texted our SM telling her how bad it was and she still refused to turn off mobiles and told us to just deal with it. My SSV decided to close cafe and go to DT only and marked certain ingredients as unavailable in MOP just so I could breathe. Because it was only two of us, we ended up having to stay behind an hour and a half later just to get closing tasks done. I got in my car and cried purely out of frustration. I nearly walked out, but I didn’t want to do that to the SSV. I turned in my two weeks shortly after.

Here’s my story when I almost quit on the spot. Got lucky and got to quit forreal like a week later cuz I got a new job.

It was peak, crazy busy. Like all hands on deck busy. I was on window. Man and his daughter were waiting for a black tea after they already got their other hot drink. The floor is chaos and homie and his daughter have been waiting like 2 mins for a damn black tea at that point.

Basically, no one could help me and somehow everyone must’ve forgot about the black tea so instead of looking like a dumbass tryna make conversation with this man who clearly just wanted the tea that someone forgot about, I told the customer I’ll be back with your tea, made it in like 30 seconds flat, handed it off, they’re happy, we Gucci.

My dumb ass shift who literally had a problem with every living soul in the damn Starbucks reprimanded me on the floor in front of everyone for being away from the window in the most condescending way possible. She goes: “where were you supposed to be instead of getting the black tea?”

There was a lot I could say but I needed the job. Felt satisfying to quit a week later tho and promote myself to customer. I never went back to that Starbucks again even tho I loved my coworkers cuz that shift was so terrible and I didn’t ever wanna be around her energy again.

I just can’t stand customers that get in ur face n when u yell at them it’s apparently my fault? Bro nah I am also human I will fcken yell at u again if I were to pick again

grats. I made it around june just one year in. The hour cuts and starbucks changing trans insurance pushed me over the edge. Having my boss tell me to my face that 32 hours was basically the same as 40 just sent me.

When the company sided with a sexual harasser and kept him at the store, only 'asked him' to demote to barista from SSV and never changed his schedule to avoid the GIRLS he was harassing. And then we were told to be nice to him.

When I had to work for 8 hours with heart arrhythmia and not a single person came in to help me.

When I was accused by the DM of talking about my sex life with my husband to the minor baristas. Because apparently said minor baristas said I did that.

when i reported another barista for sexually assaulting me and my SM transferred him to another store to help him keep his job.

when i was soloing during peak as a green bean and asked a shift to come help me when she was in the back. she came out, yelled at me to be faster then went back to the back to facetime her boyfriend.

when a homeless lady started smoking a cigarette in our store and said “i don’t give a shit call the cops on me” and right before they arrived she ran out.

when a customer raged at us because we didn’t have an iphone charger for him so he threw the mastrena on the ground…….

i could go on forever but leaving was the best thing i ever did

When I had a panic attack at work before 7am because we were understaffed and I was sole drive thru, grabbing my own food, and had to brew coffee because we were out of everything.

I am now looking for a new job.

I'm gonna give the tl:dr version. One manager stole 5k from me.

one physically, verbally, emotionally, sexually abused people at the store. The district manager ignored it for six months till three of us contacted a lawyer, Sbux HR, and media.

The day I got fired was for swearing. I dropped a pair of scissors and impaled my foot.

i think about quitting everytime i get a trenta drink at cold bar, idk why but it just breaks my morale LMAO

• I had a shift leader get mad at me because when she asks me to do something I said "ok give me one moment" and she yelled at me then later came to me and told me she felt like "I didn't like her or respect her as a shift". All I said was to give me a moment because I was doing something, and this happened on multiple occasions 🙃

• I was scheduled outside of my availability and went to my manager and told him about it to which he told me that I actually had open availability that day(I didn't know that because he never scheduled me for that day for almost a whole year). I then asked him if I could submit a new availability request to which he told me that he would not accept it because im about to leave for college(during this time I still had almost two months before I left). I then asked him if he could just schedule me of earlier in the day because I'm really not available but if he needs me to work i will. he then said that he doesn't make the schedule because they are automated. I then asked him what I'm suppose to do if I'm schedule for that day and I can't work it because I'm really not available and told him why I'm not available and he told me that I'll either have to find coverage, show up for the shift, or quit.

• I went to give my SM my three weeks notice because of my availability and other things came up and he blew up at me and basically told me that I was being combative, disrespectful, and unprofessional. Then preceded to tell me that it's again policy for me to give a three weeks notice and that I have to work all the shift scheduled and long story short I had to call my mom up there because the SM wouldn't let me put in my notice and was making me cry because of other things that was being said and brought up.

I'm was 17 and this was my first job so I really didn't know what else to do and my sm was almost 40.
And it's the fact that now looking back on this and everything else that has happened up there happened because I'm black and the only black person there

I transfered out of a store after just a week there…. I like where i am now. Sorry you hated it all but damn some people are hell