please please take your breaks. You need them, and you deserve them. People can wait for an extra couple of minutes for their ~~socially acceptable breakfast ice cream~~ coffee.

Been there. I used to be main mid SSV at my last store so not only would I have the least amount of baristas on the floor during that day part, I usually got all the green beans. So I would have to be doing extra training with them on top of keeping lines moving and doing my own work. Next to peak our mids were the busiest part of the day and I was always exhausted by the time the closer came in. I usually didn’t have a co SSV during the mid so it was very stressful. I was usually front reg/ovens/bar support all at once.

The worst part of the job can honestly be trying to be gentle and understanding with a teenager who has never worked before, doesn’t want to be there and doesn’t need to be there.

They don’t deserve me being a dick, they don’t deserve this crappy job, but holy shit it’s so much work keeping things going in spite of them. I don’t deserve it either.

I’m gonna add here that a lot of my favorite baristas are and have been teenagers. It’s just the ones who are bad are really bad because ultimately they can afford to be fired.

I was a partner for 8.5 years, shift for all of them. Worked at several stores for several managers. I cannot stress enough how much my mental health has improved since I quit early this year. It's a scary change but my quality of life has improved a shocking amount. It's not worth the stress and damage, put yourself first.

I snapped, and I learned that it sucks but it’s okay for us to do that. My snap wasn’t just me breaking down, but I mouthed off to multiple managers and that’s honestly, I think, when they got the damn hint that there needs to be some change

That’s all they want to hire.. because that’s all will put up with managements BS.

Let the store burn. Support your young coworkers as best as you can; but it is not your fault that starbucks is not preparing them, giving them the support that they (and you) need, and understaffing as a rule to increase profits over the wellbeing of their workers.

i told my asm and sm that it’s not fair to staff me with 3-4 minors on a weekend and that i deserve my 10s just as much as everyone else and i haven’t had more than 1-2 minors on my floor with only tens now

God I know this pain.

Bless them, they are trying their hardest - well, some of them.

If I had the choice to hire, it would never be minors. Most of them have a terrible work ethic and they have a limited availability.

Did I write this? Dang.

I’m over the babysitting aspect. It’s just so annoying.

There are plenty of minors for whom Starbucks is their first job and they’re good at it.

If anything, I feel like it’s usually the older workers who aren’t as good/don’t care.

Literally me yesterday.... 4 new partners during saturday peak.... 2 minors ... 😭

I work at Panera now, and the first thing I heard when I went to take a break was, managers don’t take breaks. I said the hell I don’t. And as a GM, the moment that my managers can’t walk away for 10 minutes at least twice in their shift is the day I quit my job because I suck at it.

Let me just say that the teenagers now are a lot more hardworking than the teenagers I worked with 3 years ago. Maybe just my experience though

I feel this, having to do stock count, with 2 minors that aren’t bar trained.. literally can’t leave the bar, but also have to count. Hey, why not get them to count I hear you ask? Because they are SLOW and use it as an excuse to do minimal work, and when I legally have to take them off shift by a certain time I have to pick up their slack or stuff won’t get done in time. So yeah no breaks for me either lmao.

it’s funny because my store is the opposite. we constantly have people in their 50’s-60’s training who are becoming ssvs but are asking me (18) and my other co workers who are 17 where buttons are on the pos 😭 they’ve been here for months it drives me absolutely insane

This is exactly why I quit March 2020. After 5 years of high stress, eventually breaking down every day for the last few weeks and my physical health deteriorating, I finally quit. Never looked back. A job is never worth it. You are just a number to them.

say it louder for the people in the back !!! i am so tired i almost walked out today

finally somebody said it. i usually don’t take my 30 until the 6 hour mark, sometimes even a little later because the minors can’t do anything by themselves. i never get my 10’s. none of them can run a store for even the 30 minutes that i’m on my break, i always have to come back early to help them. i just wish we had some people that i could trust with the store so i’m not burnt out after every shift. they’re my team and i’ll stand up for them against anything, i just wish they didn’t still need training wheels after 6 months.

I usually dont have problem with minors. In my experience, most minors want to do a good job because they’re afraid of criticism.

it’s the early 20s, “i’m in college so I don’t care”-types that are the ones I kirk on the most.

Those are better, too, because theyre an adult and you can RESPECTFULLY go off on them without feeling like you’re mentally stunting them or whatever.

We have partners who have been here for 2 years and still don’t know how to:

-sequence,

-not make a drink without making it look like a bukkake scene took place on cold bar

- know how to fucking mop(!?)

All the aforementioned are 20-22.


These the same people that will hound you for a 15, too 😂

I literally told a barista that “you haven’t done enough for a 15” yesterday because this mothafucka wanted to take a 15 during a 3-person play while we’re in 30+ peak.

What is wrong with your brain!

I know your pain... I have minor who is being developed , and another who is still in training... then a closer who constantly complains about her not wanting to work so many hours, but is unable to work and chat.... I take my lunch.... but I skip the other 2 breaks... the struggle is real.... I completely understand!

On top of that they don’t take coaching well some times and think you’re strict and don’t want to work with you because you ask them to do their job or stop talking and standing around. 😐

Parents need to start teaching their kids basic life skills, like how to sweep, do dishes, or change a trash can. We've had a couple, I'm surprised they managed to even make it in to work on their own.
Though kids that have a couple of younger siblings and both parents work are almost always bomb ass employees.

As a weekend only SSV, I feel you 😭

Me af bro
Or an assistant manager who doesn't do anything but bar and if I'm on bar he pushes me out 💀

fuck it. quit. let'em squeak by on newbies.

I am in a severely understaffed LS Its me and one other certified with 2 newbies, I get another tomorrow. It's crap we are set to launch mobile 10-4 I have 1 16 year old newbie, a pregnant (due November) 19 year old, and as of tomorrow I have a person with downs (she is super excited and eager). I just lost one with Autism due to telling him he needed to make drinks in order for me to keep him in the department... I am beyond burnt out, last week was 61.5 hours... thats become my new normal. I get it.... It gets better if we hold steady, and stay strong. You got this!

i think 17 should be the youngest

honestly is the 20 something that have been job hopping since high school I usually have the most problems with. almost every time I have a high schooler on my floor when I need a break, I leave them in charge until I get back. but green beans are always hard to deal with, no matter the age

Felt this in my soul.

THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT IS HAPPENING TO ME RIGHT NOW AND MY WORLD IS SPINNING

I have the same problem

Is this my manager?😂😂😂

It’s not there fault.I started working in my store when i was 18 and we have a few members younger then that now. I honestly think its quite unfair to see how much People here judging people for there age and think they can’t do anything just because there minors. There two different issues. All the minors in my stores have been the most hard working and the most willing to give up there time to help out of everyone. Yes they make mistakes sometimes but we all do, its life, not a big deal. You shouldn’t blame people for not being trained properly.its not there fault and frankly no one’s great in a new place when they start, that’s not age related. It might also help to give them responsibility instead of viewing them as children who can’t do anything.

This is probably an issue in your store due to poor training, lack of support or poor managing. It’s not your fault and it shouldn’t made your job harder but there still doing the same job as you and have the same stresses. You also shouldn’t be skipping your breaks and stressing yourself out more, this is honestly an issue between you and your manger no one else and no one else should be blamed imo anyways

like don’t get me wrong i definitely had my green bean moments when i was a minor. i used to think iced coffee was pike brewed over ice. but i was always helpful and at least cycled between getting ice, restocking cups, grabbing milks, grabbing trash, and wiping and restocking my station all within my first week.

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You know they intentionally hired minors to hedge against workplace organizing, right? Also, certain states allow them to be paid less, undermining your leverage to get a raise.

I feel you I was in the same position when I work for the bux. The year and a half I was there majority of the people they hired when they finally did hired people in our kiosk they were minors and it was their first job so no other job experience. Some didn't last long and quit after training cause it was too much for them. Some did really well and were awesome workers but then there were the others that just didn't want to work. Always wanted to be on their phone or stand around talking or even just standing there doing nothing while I was always there way after I was supposed to be off running around like a chicken with my head cut off while also rarely getting breaks. I was lucky to get a first 15 minute break which most of the time I was able to get in before rush but i almost never got a lunch, and getting a last 15 minute break never once happened. I was opener too so I had to be there at 5am and I'm a night owl so going to bed early was hard for me pretty much always was running on max 6 hours of sleep. Also because I was opener there were so many times the next shift due to come in usually at 8 but sometimes I'd get one at 7 if I was lucky or later at like 9, but if that person called out i was pretty much fucked and I'd be all by myself unable to leave the kiosk until like 11 or noon. It was exhausting it was so hard to be friendly and talkative to customers when your just running on fumes exhausted.

Time to quit.

Same friend… same

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