I can relate. Every time I come in for a close, the store is in shambles and it’s like, I know mornings are busy, but y’all can’t just hand off and leave us with an absolute mess and then complain about the close the next day. I’m so exhausted from closes feeling like mission impossible that I don’t even really care anymore.

Tell him to work a closing shift and see what it’s like :) Forreal though they love to tell us we’re overreacting when we’re upset about crappy closing is, but that’s because they don’t know what it’s like. Mornings/mids can leave the store however they want, we’re expected to make everything perfect and clean and fix all of the damage from that day, but it’s just not realistic with a smaller team and a bunch of customers. How the hell can we restock *everything* when no dishes have been done so there’s no way to make back ups and there’s a skeleton crew so we’re having to do everything yet somehow find time to restock the store.

i’ve tried to talk to my coworkers about it a bit and most of them don’t seem interested in it at all, or will straight up repeat stuff that corporate has sent out about it verbatim. it’s been awhile since i tried to talk to anyone about it though, and we’ve had a lot of overturn recently, so i wonder if newer employees would be more open to it. all the new people are younger and i guess you could say progressive, i think they might be more open to it than our store would have been a few months ago. we do have a lot of overturn though, we’re right between two major universities, so a lot of my coworkers don’t stick around very long or this isn’t their “home” store.

weirdly enough, i think having a manager we all really get along with and respect might be something in the way of unionizing. i think a lot of people would say that we just don’t need it, you know? definitely not a lot of thinking ahead with that reasoning, but that seems to be the consensus.

i have a small handful of coworkers who i know would be pro union, but i’m not sure what % of us it would be. we also just got a new DM who sucks nads, and he’s been in the store a lot and actually listening in on our conversations, so i’m not comfortable talking about it at work like i used to be (our old DM was there maybe once every two months, new DM used to be the SM for another nearby store so he’s trying very hard to “be involved” in all the stores in the district now). we’re in a “right to work” state and in the south, so i feel like most of my coworkers have never been in a union and don’t actually know very much about them. no other stores nearby have started the union process either, so it’s hard to imagine what it would look like.

i’m gonna keep talking to people about it outside of work, and try to get a better sense of who is definitely for it, who’s on the fence, and who would for sure vote against. i also need to learn more about the process overall. i don’t expect to be at starbucks for much longer, and it’s not my main income right now, so idk if i am the best person to lead the charge, so to speak. we have a few partners who have been there a long time, one at least 10 years, so i would like to gauge their feelings about it, given that they’ve seen all the turnover and various maneuvers this company has made over the years.

congratulations to you guys for getting her done though! that’s really awesome, i’ve been so happy to see so many stores unionizing successfully. it’s honestly crazy how much has been done in just a year, and i hope i can be part of that change soon as well.

I haven’t had a CS in position for what seems like forever. It’s always just Go Mode.