Hahahaha I got 3 days. Things are changing, they’re giving more time now days, but still. This job takes about 3 months to truly acclimate to…. Good job to all of you green beans who are hanging in there, it gets better

i only got 5 days

i only got four days, and on my first day out of training my SM got mad at me for not knowing what all to do during close.

Our green beans get 3 days. It's rough, and heartbreaking to watch them struggle, especially during peak.

No amount of training will ever be enough. Starbucks requires you to know SOOO many lists upon lists upon lists of things. You will never know even half the things you’re supposed to know. And once you think you know it all you’ll find out that the first half of things you learned has already changed so now half the things that you did know correctly will now be wrong. They expect you to memorize more things for this job than you need for a three credit college course. Sadly, that’s why so many things are done wrong. People just reach a point where they give up and just do things their own way.

yall lucky. i got trained literally WEEKS before they updated it and only got five 4 hour shifts of it with a v confusing trainer lmao

The issue isn’t with training. If you run shifts with bare bones coverage everyone has to be 100% there for it to work. If we had more coverage, things could run smoothly with a little more slack.

They just made it longer, it used to be 3-5 days, now it’s about 10 days

You're right and you should say it. Even 2 weeks doesn't feel like enough.

My first real day after training I was the only one. The barista who was supposed to be working NCNS and quit that morning. Oh the joys of working at a LS.

I’m a barista trainer and the girl I just trained got a total of 8 days and we did stuff on the floor everyday. Why did you only get 5 days?!?

before starbucks i worked in fast food management positions, and from my experience the barista training is actually a lot longer than most other places. they also recently redid the training to be “more thorough”.

to paint a picture—when i was trained last december, it was at a completely different store than the one i applied to. i trained for four 5-hour shifts and one 2-hour peak, no floor practice with a trainer shadowing me, only learned how to do whips and toddies, no winter drink training even though i started in the middle of holiday launch lol. admittedly my struggle was entirely on my trainer but i also had a hard time absorbing information only from the videos with no followup practice. now i’m a barista trainer and while i think the training still has long way to go in terms of being thorough enough to fully prepare you…. it could be so much worse. the three-to-five month learning curve is real as hell, and everyone treats it as a rite of passage of sorts (barring horribly during peak with someone who seems wildly above your skill, blending cold foam on 1 multiple times a day, running around like a headless chicken on cs because you’re too scared to ask for advice are common green bean anecdotes at my store). it seems like bullshit to just say “one day it will just click” but i think that it’s true 😣

starbucks is truly unlike any job i’ve ever had, so don’t feel discouraged especially if it’s your first job. it’s so easy in concept but so so so hard in practice, because what they cannot prepare you for is how overstimulating and self-directed starbucks is day to day—you are expected to make decisions about what to do based on a running list of priorities that change every time your position does, while also remembering dates and times, while also listening to a car full of screaming babies while someone orders 8 different tall frappucinos you aren’t allowed to batch anymore……… (i digress…)

tl;dr the important thing to remember is that your partners are always there for you, or they should be. they’ve all been the noob putting hot water in an iced americano three times in a row or whiffing their café order routine until the lobby is full of mad old people waiting for their pike with cream and sugar. it happens. you will have lots of time repeating the same drink recipes until they’re muscle memory, so don’t discredit your preparedness just because of that post-training overwhelmed feeling. if you are receptive to coaching and you genuinely want to put in effort then you’ll be a great barista 🥺

My store did 2 weeks, four shifts a week

my training was literally being yelled at by an old partner and being handed the recipe book to make things. i wholeheartedly agree that it needs to be long than what it is now (as a current trainer). i try my best to cover as much as i can in such a short time but it still never feels like enough.

the new ppl at more store have trained for 3 weeks at other stores bc of the new training plan. and tbh i can see a big difference and improvement in training

y’all got 1.5 weeks?? i got a day for the online modules a day of register a day of warming and a day of bar. then they were like “alright go for it”

I had two shifts and am still suffering from insufficient training

I got two weeks between modules and actual on the job training it was about 40 hrs

It depends when you trained, the old policy was a total 20 hours including the modules and practical training on the floor. The new policy (as of 1~ month ago) it’s now 40 hours for modules and on the floor. So it’s defiantly gotten better but also don’t be afraid to ask your fellow baristas for coaching if you feel you need more help in some areas.

i had 2 days… saturday and sunday.

it used to be 4 days lmaoooo

i never really got trained

Uh… the training should be like 10 shifts…

i had like 6 or so days and i wasnt trained to do a lot of things, basically just register customer support and bar

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My training has been 2 weeks 😳😳😳

i got four full shifts. lol.

I agree. Training is a bit overly brief.

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