Starbucks Baristas: The daily grind
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Question about scheduling (self.starbucksbaristas)
submitted by iiwinterkittenii
The quick context is I’m a supervisor and have been for two years and have gone through several store managers in my time and we got our most recent store manager 4 months ago and in that time I’ve been told it would be okay for me to get a consistent schedule by: him, the store manager before him (transferred out) another store manager helping with scheduling and our district manager
I have well not gotten any form of that in the last 4 months, rarely do I ever have two weeks of similar scheduling.
Other information here, sometimes I open sometimes I close, sometimes I’m a mid I don’t work the same days or the same times and none of this is really by choice I’d rather just be on one shift or at the very least the same time every week. I also work a second job which I schedule myself for but well it’s hard to get a consistent schedule for that if I can’t with starbucks
Is there a good way to approach this?
I have well not gotten any form of that in the last 4 months, rarely do I ever have two weeks of similar scheduling.
Other information here, sometimes I open sometimes I close, sometimes I’m a mid I don’t work the same days or the same times and none of this is really by choice I’d rather just be on one shift or at the very least the same time every week. I also work a second job which I schedule myself for but well it’s hard to get a consistent schedule for that if I can’t with starbucks
Is there a good way to approach this?
OneRoseDark 2 points 9m ago
I just set my availability to be what I would like scheduled. (After first clearing it with the SM so we could account for any overlap with other SSV availability.)
When I was hired I was available 8am-close on weekdays only. This meant I was always scheduled for mids or closes.
When one of the other SSVs had ongoing medical treatments on weekends, I volunteered to switch up my off days. I set my availability to be 8am-close Mon-Thu and all day Sunday. I worked 4 closes, had Fri/Sat off, and opened Sunday.
Then one of our openers quit and I moved into the gap. Changed availability again. Then it was open-3pm Sun-Thu, so I worked mornings or some early mids.
Now it's open availability for development purposes, but i suspect I won't last long with open availability. It's too exhausting to never have 2 days off together.
When I was hired I was available 8am-close on weekdays only. This meant I was always scheduled for mids or closes.
When one of the other SSVs had ongoing medical treatments on weekends, I volunteered to switch up my off days. I set my availability to be 8am-close Mon-Thu and all day Sunday. I worked 4 closes, had Fri/Sat off, and opened Sunday.
Then one of our openers quit and I moved into the gap. Changed availability again. Then it was open-3pm Sun-Thu, so I worked mornings or some early mids.
Now it's open availability for development purposes, but i suspect I won't last long with open availability. It's too exhausting to never have 2 days off together.
yolksyfolksy 2 points 9m ago
i feel like a good way to go about this is to as transparent as possible with your sm. of course im not sure how he is but making him aware of what you have going on outside of starbucks is important. it is great that you are flexible and able to work any time of day but expressing how the inconsistency isn’t conducive to what you want and have asked might be the start of necessary work-life balance. also, how many other shifts does your store have and do they also have inconsistent schedules? at my store, me and one other ssv will alternate opening and early mids, we have two more that do the same for closing/late mids and then we have two other strictly mid shifts
iiwinterkittenii [OP] 2 points 9m ago
I’m very sorry for the wall any and all advice is appreciated
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