Oh I got you. I worked for the siren for almost 3 years, was an SSV for about 6 months. I worked during the height of the pandemic and it was the absolute worst. In that short span, I saw two managers get fired, our whole crew get replaced at least 3 times over, a new DM, an ASM demoted, and several training managers. We never had solid management, we never had good communication, it was always a shit show. I had finally given a two weeks notice and decided to leave, and I truly had every intention of working those last two weeks. BUT…since we had no manager, they let an ASM from a store an hour and a half away be our “stand in.” She was…a moron. Only been working for the company for a couple of years, lazy, completely not appropriate for the job, especially taking on a struggling store like ours. (Mind you, my store was one of the busiest in the region). I was the opening SSV, and almost every single person on every shift I worked was brand new, and poorly trained. There were constant issues with most of these partners, and a few of them I truly just wanted fired because they couldn’t even follow simple dress code rules, phone policies, or show up on time, much less actually perform their job well. The final straw was when Stand In scheduled me to open with just ONE other person (we had always had one SSV and 2 other partners to open the store) who was new and hadn’t shown up to work in over a week. I let Stand In know that I had tried to reach out to this partner multiple times and was left on read, and we had already suffered a few other shifts from her not showing up, so her schedule was NOT going to work. It was for a busy Saturday also. Her exact words to me were “well, if she doesn’t show up, just call me. But keep in mind I live an hour and a half away.” UHHHHH? OK????? Well, I showed up at 4:30, homegirl wasn’t there, I called ASM multiple times to wake her up, and she instructed me to go into the building by myself and stay on the phone with her to count the safe. She fully expected me to do this against policy, put my safety at risk, and then open the store by myself. It was one of the worst shifts of my life. Customers were so angry and rude. The next day, for my next shift, I decided that was it. I’m not showing up, and I instructed my morning crew to either not show up or show up and “wait” for me for 30 minutes and then leave. Which they did!!! We had found something in policy that if a manager hadn’t shown up to open the store within 30 minutes, they could leave and not be expected to come back. Stand In asked everyone to come back at 11am to open the store late and a few complied…but I made sure to hit Starbucks where it hurts, their profits. They didn’t open until after 10am for like three or four days in a row, which is after peak. I’m glad I did it, I felt like I staged a strike almost. No one could even justifiably talk shit about me either, because their treatment of me was so absurd and awful. Either way, I’D DO IT AGAIN 10/10.

one legend I worked with before moving stores pulled a scheme that was perfection.


had put in their two weeks - then the last week there; took shifts from people they didn't like, or with shifts they didn't care for.


girl who was always shitty about having to close every Friday with the dickhole ssv no one liked. They took her shift. Saturday, closing with the same ssv but the nice girl there had wanted go out of town to visit family. Took that shift from her. Sunday, opening, New kid wanted the weekend off, but had to work it - wasn't looking forward to working the church crowd AND with the manager (who would never normally work Sunday, but since no one else would AND it'd be full of capable workers now) decided to take the shift.


cashed out all of their stocks, vacation (before sick time happened) and had another job already lined up.


straight up didn't show up. Fucked over all of them. Mean girl who hated to close fridays HAD to come in. saturday the only person who could cover was the nice girl - but, she was already out of town so she didn't come in. the manager had to do the shift... a clo-pen. and sunday was a person down for the church rush since the new kid was out of town doing some stupid new kid shit I already forgot about.


"They" just dicked them over, and still showed up the next friday for their tips giving ZERO fucks on the dirty looks.


They said to me after: "they (the shitty manager, ssv, and barista) ruined almost a year of my life, if they had to just deal with one shitty weekend, they got off easy."

I was a partner for 11 years from 2007 through 2018, (143....). I worked roughly 30-35 hours/week for about the first 7 years and then dropped to 15ish in year 8 and 9 when I got another job. In the last two years I alternated hours/week. One week did 8 and the next did 12 to help out with morning rushes at the request of my manager who was more than willing to keep me on. I didn't mind the cash as extra spending money.

The store I worked out was a local neighborhood store that served 4 different neighborhoods, two churches, a high school, and a middle school. Majority of our customers were regulars and I knew a lot of them very well. Towards the end of my time we transferred in a shift lead who thought she was Miss Starbucks herself. She thought she was a gift to our store and tried to control everything.

I would come in on an early AM shift after working til 1 AM the night before at my other job and most of the time I would bar the rushes. A few times I would ask to start on register so I could wake up and get in a flow and out of spite, she said no every time. She would have me bar the rush, do the drains, do the mats, run the trash. Whatever, I don't care makes the time go by fast. If a customer would talk to me she would jump into the conversation or would tell me okay enough talking I need you to do this...and then as I walked away would try to carry a conversation with that same customer. Long story short, she didn't like me and was jealous of the connections I had with customers and the support I had from my manager and the DM.

Fast forward to my last day; I"m scheduled for a 5 hour shift so that required a 30 minute lunch. She said she would send me home shortly before my shift ends so I didn't have to take a lunch; but still having me work damn near 5 hours. Time comes for me to do a spin so I do it and I start taking to a customer. She walks out into the lobby grabs the rag from me and tells me to stop talking and go run the trash, do the mats, etc. All with 30 minutes left in my Starbucks career at this point...well I start the mats but another customer starts talking to me; I notice I'm like 10 minutes away at this point from hitting a meal break and CA says they have to pay me out an extra hour on that (not sure if its company policy or state). As I'm finishing up this conversation; I decide I'll run the trash but I'm gonna take my sweet time. You best believe I hit my meal break violation; did not do the mats, but did do the trash. ON top of that, came back in and had another 5 minute conversation with a customer saying good bye etc etc etc before clocking out. As I come out of the back she looks at me and goes, "you could have at least done the mats for us...thanks for nothing." I looked at her and said, "looks like you got them from here on out. And thanks for the meal break violation!"

​

TL:DR: Got fed up of petty, jealous shift leads after 11 year Sbux career. Got sweet petty revenge on my last day by not doing the mats, telling said shift she has it from here, and thanks for the meal break violation"

Partner left an upper decker in the bathroom. Not condoning it but participating in the conversation😂

So I had an incredible store manager. Actually cared about her people stood up for them etc. the powers above made her life miserable and she had no life outside of the job, so! When she finally left, 16 of the 30 employees at the store resigned same day. Store was a SHITSTORM.

Only one I’m hmm about is the heavy cream cause you torturing EVERYONE in that place lmao 😂

When I gave my notice it was timed so that my last day was the Wednesday for thanksgiving. They begged me to stay for the Black Friday weekend. I said I would if they matched the 1,500.00 sign on bonus I was offered at the new job(blatant lie btw lol.)

We had a middle-aged partner walk off the floor during morning peak because he was “done with being rushed on warming.” And as he left, he threw a sausage sandwich in the ground and gave us all the middle finger as he left. It was WILD! I’m so glad I was there that day!

Probably me.

I was hired to work the 10-6 shift, which was perfect because it was a tricky commute for me to get into work. My manager started scheduling me on the open shift about 2 months in to my employment, which resulted in me being late numerous times.

One morning in the middle of a snowstorm, I showed up about 15 minutes late to open, and she yelled at me “Are you ever going to come into work on time?!”

I replied… “Yeah… probably not.” Then just went back home and back to bed.

It felt glorious and now I’m addicted to quitting shitty jobs.

Please tell me you did all this in areas without cameras cause that would be really bad if you didn’t 🥲

YES I never thought I’d be able to share! I worked at one of the busiest stores in our town from about 2016-2019. It also happened to be super abusive— like, as in they have had a partner recently…. take their stress into their own hands within the last 2 years (I don’t want to upset anyone but hopefully you can connect the dots).
My old store manager used to push me while in the DT window, I was verbally abused multiple times a shift and was worked like an animal with no proper training. Had to learn it all myself.
But one of the only good people there was my best friend and shift manager, and we may or may not have led a mass exodus of about 5-7 people. No notice, just said fuck you and never came back.

I took it upon myself to send my boss “gotta blast🚀” with a picture of Jimmy Neutron and then blocked the number.

AND THEN, during COVID I lost my other job and was so desperate that I tried to reapply to a store in my city (silly idea) and basically found out I’m blacklisted from ever working for the company again because I…. sent a Jimmy Neutron meme

Edit: okay I mean I was probably blacklisted for leaving without notice but I like to believe it was because of Jimmy motherfucking Neutron

these aren't petty revenge... lmao

Damn 👀. When I got fired due to the same reason I just stole a bunch of stuff that it was coming outta my bag. That shift didn’t say anything but chuckled

This chick at a neighboring store was hired as a store manager after learning she ran a political campaign at some point. While she was a store manager she was going to ASU on the starbucks program.

the day the reimbursement hit her bank account she quit on the spot and the dm had to scramble to find somebody to run the store 😭

I poked holes in all the coffee travelers

I was quite mild in comparison, I "right now recovery-ed" drinks without a second thought during my last few weeks. And then since I knew the IMS password, I ordered a whole set of chalk markers for my remaining barista friends. They were over the moon, and I'm like I don't care. The manager was into chalk art at the time, so it wasn't a huge deal I don't think, besides blowing the store budget I guess.

Mine isn’t that great, but I was promised I would be SSV, which is something I had wanted for a long time, but I had to be a trainer in order to get promoted. Another store was opening up in the district and I was given 3-5 people at once all at different stages of their training. I was finally promoted but after I was out with strep throat. I was added to the group messaging and saw they were talking shit that I didn’t deserve to be promoted. I was solely accused of making all the new people bad at their job (I could only train them from 6p-10p so they didn’t learn from anyone else how to manage peak times on SATURDAYS). I learned at my previous locations how to do shift stuff and the proper times they are to be done. At this place they did NOT follow that. They would pull pastries for next day immediately after morning peak but not count or write down their pull or anything, so I would spend a longer time doing that at night. They would only schedule me the new people and I couldn’t train them anymore as I was now the shift and my SM had the nerve to tell me it was my fault the times at night were so bad. They bullied the 2 ASMs so badly they were placed in other stores. They refused to put truck away during the day leaving it for my night crew to do, even though the SM and 4 other SSVs were the ones scheduled during the day (she did this to make their times seem great in morning peak). So I finally just mentally and physically broke down. I stopped doing the extra load. I put in my 2 weeks, stopped counting the food items that were pulled in the morning. Told the new people to basically do what they want because I did not give a crap anymore. I got strep again my final week and was so happy to call out. My SM texted in our group a picture of a mobile order that had an Asian name and she said “the Covid has come to our store!” I was able to go my final day and I literally took my sweet ass time in the back room doing the food pull. She was the worst SM I ever had. I hated it there by the end and literally had zero fucks left.

[deleted]