Starbucks Baristas: The daily grind
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we’re severely understaffed—there’s only four of us running a $10k/wk kiosk and this morning in our tired haze my barista asked me, “what happens if you warm a cake pop??”—we were dying of laughter for 10 straight minutes at 6am (reddit.com)
submitted by n2bxl
diphenhydranautical 53 points 10m ago
i hate clopening…i have two jobs so i usually work in the morning then close at my second job (usually til 10:30-11) and have to get up at THREE the next morning to get to starbs in time 🥰
n2bxl [OP] 14 points 10m ago
uyyy at the point i just wouldn’t bother going to sleep at all LMAO
diphenhydranautical 14 points 10m ago
thankfully im a bar partner so i can just zone out and make my drinkiez and not have to think
New2Nash1977 2 points 10m ago
This may be a dumb question, but I’ve never heard the term bar partner before. What does it mean?
diphenhydranautical 1 points 10m ago
not a dumb question! 95% of the time i’m working i’m on bar 😊
smoolbeean 35 points 10m ago
this is what i look like when my shift lead asks me if im feeling good and ready to work my 8hr shift
mewwissa 17 points 10m ago
That poor owl looks traumatized 😆
olivinemultichrome 25 points 10m ago
Someone finally harassed the duo lingo owl as much as he harasses others
Aliciarox11189 6 points 10m ago
He's seen things
Assiqtaq 14 points 10m ago
Our old manager (supervisor with a fancy title, if I'm being honest) used to put frozen cake pops on top of the coffee brewer when we got low. They didn't get the brown crispy, but basically otherwise looked like this.
Kiosk solidarity, we had five and I have been pushing to get a sixth for a year. They didn't want to. Not the manager, so I knew they didn't have to listen to me at all, but five is too few, seven is too many and no one ends up getting hours. Six helps, we aren't over worked, still get breaks, and calling in sick doesn't kill everyone else.
Kiosk solidarity, we had five and I have been pushing to get a sixth for a year. They didn't want to. Not the manager, so I knew they didn't have to listen to me at all, but five is too few, seven is too many and no one ends up getting hours. Six helps, we aren't over worked, still get breaks, and calling in sick doesn't kill everyone else.
200371982 9 points 10m ago
I manage a kiosk and I have to fight tooth and nail to get my (Kroger) SM to hire baristas for me. Needless to say I am very close with the head of HR 🫣
n2bxl [OP] 5 points 10m ago
lack of applications aside, my bosses encouraged me to “make it work” with just 5 baristas, but when everyone kept accumulating overtime (making my Starbucks the department with the highest amount of overtime hours) they figured “ah! i think they need a little more help to get everything done!”
jupiter_bug 6 points 10m ago
What was the consistency of the inside of the cake pop?
n2bxl [OP] 5 points 10m ago
it was super mushy, not half bad if you can stomach how weird the texture of the icing was
mrcupcake18 4 points 10m ago
Omg wicked witch of the waste from Howls Moving Castle in cake pop form! 😂😂
n2bxl [OP] 1 points 10m ago
this made me actually LOL
Responsible_Snow7109 3 points 10m ago
Lmao what is with mutilation of mr owl? What has he done except exist? 😭
jazzysoranio 2 points 10m ago
“I’m okay. I’m fine. 😳”
sir_ramen 2 points 10m ago
*"Please, kill me."*
-The barista probably
-The barista probably
caligirlthrowaway104 2 points 10m ago
I can really relate to this feeling
MessatineSnows 1 points 10m ago
🫠
giveurballsahug 1 points 10m ago
me after peak
EliMinivan 1 points 10m ago
Same situation for my Safeway kiosk, 3 of us ATM with 2 cross trained checkers (both of whom are planning on leaving this month). We're gonna have to close early today and the store manager says we might get fined $5000 for it
n2bxl [OP] 1 points 10m ago
excuse me, *fined?* We never got fined when we had to close early??
EliMinivan 2 points 10m ago
Idk man It might be different for licensed stores, because my kiosk is owned by Safeway not Starbucks.
n2bxl [OP] 1 points 10m ago
and i oo- you learn something new every day haha
n2bxl [OP] 1 points 10m ago
We’re under the Albertsons division, but I guess different DMs have different methods
EliMinivan 1 points 10m ago
Safeway is owned by Albertsons, maybe she is lying.
BothWeb1004 1 points 10m ago
Yeah, no.
EliMinivan 1 points 10m ago
Never work for Safeway, it's awful 😅
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