I may have just had a very bad day, but today was fall launch. For some reason my manager scheduled us to train two new baristas the same day. I am a closing shift and I have to deal with some very young and immature baristas who have zero work ethic. This has made closes difficult. I get nothing but flack from the openers about stuff not getting done, etc. I mean this really hasn't been an issue lately, because they may (i don't know what motivates these people lol) have become more reasonable about things that are out of my control, like the power going out, and then restarting so we need to resume business etc. I heard a lot from my closer that she felt unsupported today as she was training. I couldn't do anything about that I had to do the pull and I was on the floor anyway to run breaks but I know the standard for trainers is that they are to ignore the floor even if it is busy, because their main focus is to the trainee. Well I finally finished the pull at 6:30pm after one of my baristas refused to work at all or take orders which put us behind, then left early because she had cramps. This meant I closed with two other people and we stayed late till 8:30pm, when we closed at 7:00pm. I mentioned in my shift supervisor meeting that I have had trouble with the baristas staying in their roles and continuing to do tasks when not busy but all I got was to use play builder. I already do that and I tell people their roles and side tasks and am still ignored. Today our DM came in and complimented me on my orange shirt (i know wow what an honour) and she took a picture of me with a pumpkin coldbrew and told me to make sure I was checking out pumpkin cold brew sales, but before she did that my manager interjected and said that our opener already had that idea. I mean yes, she did, I wasn't going to go without saying, but to interject and say that was crazy to me. It really had nothing to do with the conversation and just pointed out that she was listening to us talking which was lowkey invasive to me in the first place, and completely disregarded that I am finally getting some recognition to being part of the team. I expect no love from this fact in this Starbucks partner community but I was an outside hire when there was only one shift and the other shifts quit. So getting some recognition after a year felt really nice. Why is my manager like this IDK. I feel seriously underappreciated and overly criticized for thing that are either out of my control, or I have no authority to enforce any disciplinary action etc. I had a barista say he was going to walk out on me yesterday and I was so tempted to say just go, because I don't need that attitude! Well thats my venti sized rant. I am going to ASU so keeping this job would be awesome. I already ranted to my coworker about this for an hour but Im still ready to talk, hence this post.