edit: i just realized you said last april and i was here thinking youve been gone for a couple years lol. My point still stands, but im sure youre aware of a lot of this in any case 😭

i think it depends a lot on who you have managing your store ofc, but a lot of the environment has changed in the past couple years with the pandemic and a lot of other factors, including treatment from upper management due to the recent unionizations (theyre SCARED lmao!). Despite their fear of people unionizing, corporate still doesnt want to admit their workers deserve better treatment and continue to speak down to us. The customers have also gotten markedly worse since the pandemic, we were told unofficially we werent allowed to enforce the mask mandate when when it became a legal mandate in my area, and ive been told my district wasnt the only one saying this. Just all sorts of nonsense like that.

also, the prices of everything have gone up while the quality has gone way down. Supply chain issues and (from what i can gather) issues with production have left many stores out of a lot of things, or left with said things in low quality (think sauces being the wrong color and very runny sandwiches made in inconsistent sizes while also missing ingredients, being out of ground coffee or 2% or completely out of CUPS, etc etc etc)

a lot of these issues are company wide too, its been strange

if you do decide to rejoin the company, i hope you get in with a manager whos cool and a district that doesnt care only about numbers and not the well being of their own workers ! because a lot of people, esp those in my district, are very not happy

oh yeah i forgot they just introduced that effective within the next few months? or something?
so unless that manager is okay with your 18hr eligibility, I'd probably not

also i'd prob not in general. ask the baristas there, too. the manager can say one thing, but baristas will always say another