Advice first: Your skills that you've learned on this job are so goddamn valuable you dont even know. The job market is fertile and fresh, if you want to leave, there will be plenty of places that are wanting for people. Within a few days of applying i found a job that pays Wayy more. It isn't customer facing and there's no bullshit. I've just started out but fuck i love it. Did i mention its unionized? You guys deserve so much better. This company does not care about you, only their numbers. Please, if you are being mistreated here at starbucks, and you get the opportunity to, then find it in yourself to leave. You will be better off

Stand your ground no matter what, if someone is mistreating you dont fucking take it. Remember to say no and to say it with relish. Please remember, this is an entry level glorified fast food job. There's no shame to saying it and there is absolutely no shame to loving the job itself, but we must remember that's what it is. We, very often, do not get paid nearly enough to deal with the amount of entitlement starbucks breeds in its customer base. Stand up for yourself and you will be so much happier for it. The customers who lose their shit over no oatmilk or no straw acai have nothing better going on in their miserable lives. Is your dignity truly worth 15/hr? Is the wrist pain worth the drive time?

Also! for my baristas running low on funds, as this job pays a poverty wage: I mark out almond milk as 3 venti cups of cold milk (separate transactions), and the drink ingredients make for GREAT baking things. Get creative and it can help sustain you. Ive collected my food markouts to use separate ingredients to make food at home before (mix n match paninis, hot food items, etc etc). You can do it. Follow in the steps of our CEO and cheat the system a little bit. It has its rewards

We've never met but we've shared an experience together, and for that i bid you all the best

I wont lie, it was such a mix of happiness and sadness to be leaving the job, even when i've hated it for a while now. I truly love making drinks, i like the creativity and the process, it activated my chimp brain and when not incredibly stressful was incredibly enriching. And most of my coworkers i had genuine affection for and loved working with. I worked with some of the most creative and genuinely funny and kind people at my store. And for a while i felt i was truly lucky. Chisme incoming.

Then our store began to fall apart. Our SM let us down multiple times when we needed them, our main shifts were on constant power trips. The microaggressions i had to deal with became unbearable, as a trans person of color who had to work in an old money neighborhood with an increasingly less diverse team as the other poc left for better horizons. My night shift would misgender me constantly when mad at me and nothing would come of it because they are friends with the SM. There were 'chicks with dicks' jokes, jokes about women with deep voices. Once he even made fun of a small CHILD because her voice was apparently "so deep like a mans" he had to hide to laugh. The surrounding stores in our district shut down frequently, leaving us swamped most of the day with no additional support and understaffed to boot. The quality of everything from bags to lids to actual drink ingredients has gone down significantly while the prices skyrocketed. And the customers would just take it out on us day after day. People would swear and scream in my face, insulting me and being discriminatory to myself and my coworkers but never banned, even when they became verbally aggressive.

I also worked with some of the most unbearable people in this job. Hypocrites who have nothing better to do with their time than talk shit about someone half their age behind their back while they did whatever they wanted.

If you ever read this you annoying lil bestia bc i know you browse this sub: Just because youve been there for 10+ years doesnt mean you can do whatever you want and cry about it when people disagree with you. Health codes and regulations are there for a reason, usually to prevent you from catching diseases that have you shittin and vomitin for a week straight. You cannot complain and whine about us losing money while also giving your regulars free drinks and food constantly, never charging for modifications, AND giving away cups to custies. You have nothing better to do with your time than gossip because youve made starbucks your whole personality. You are not a queen because you are a shift. You constantly lie to try and make yourself look better in every situation, but no one believes you because youve pulled the same shit with everyone. You can't even handle working at a different location for, so what are your 10+ years you constantly brag about worth if you are as inflexible as you are insincere? Do you do it because its all you have? Are you mad because the rest of us have actual lives? You do not do well in hiding how insecure you are about all this. Your need to validation in everything you do causes you to explode when you dont get it. You have not matured past the age of 15 despite being, presumably, in your forties.

I am so glad to have gotten the chance to live in your mind rent free to the point where you just HAD to retaliate and explode at me at the first opportunity you got. Did i really make you so mad just because i actually followed health code and not whatever little world you have in your head? Because i was so openly willing to say no to you? Because i didnt acquiesce to your micromanaging demands? Because i have genuine friends? you a sad little critter bro. Consider introspection. Eres una chismosita terca, triste, y mas importante, tu nunca vas a tener la vida feliz que tengo porque tu no sabes como vivir

just had to get that out! Like letting out a fart i am freed!!

Seriously though, you hate it here? Please quit. There are much better things to do with your time! You could be working an office job, a warehouse job, a restaurant job, anything else. The world is ur oyster. Do not be afraid to try things in this job market and you may choose something you love endlessly without even realizing it! There is much this world has to give in its terribleness, seize it! You are wonderful!

284\*\*\*\*. I aint ever comin back! Gonna smoke a fat one now and take the next step towards happiness. Please do the same, friends. This sub has been fun, thank u