A lot of people in this sub would actually suck to work with.

I love making complicated drinks and I’m sure most people would if Starbucks and (some) customers cared about beverage quality over how fast we can sling drinks out the window at people

A soy mocha latte is a 3 bean soup

most of yall couldn't make an iced chai with brown sugar syrup correctly

When I’m at work I think of myself as a drug dealer since coffee is chemically a drug 😅

Sometimes I feel like I am the only barista in this sub that enjoys their job.

starbucks has made coffee WAY too complicated. complicated for us, complicated for the customers, etc etc. i can't blame any customer for not knowing what they're ordering because if you don't work here, there's no way you could fully understand the menu. WE don't even fully understand the menu. there's too many different standards for too many different things, too many items on the menu, it's just. too. much. i frequent a lot of my local coffee shops and haven't seen any kind of "3 pumps of x 4 pumps of x 2 scoops of x blended with two drizzles and cold foam" or customer freakouts on those baristas so why does it fall on us?? we're not a cafe anymore, we're fast food and that's why we get treated the way we do. working at starbucks isn't respectable through our customers eyes BECAUSE we're fast food

some of y’all about to be real mad at me but it must be said. some of you take this shit way too seriously. it’s *starbucks*. stop drinking the corporate kool-aid. look at the direction it’s taking the company.

Some of the people here would be awful to work and I would side with management in most of their cases.
My favorites are the “My manager is targeting me because I am late every day”. No, you manager is probably the only person in your life trying to hold you accountable so you can have some income.

Also, a lot of you let problems persist at your stores by not mentioning them to your SSV, SM, DM, or HR.

shots don’t die it’s a huge myth that starbucks created to make partners work faster

Starbucks standards are overly complicated and that’s why it’s so hard to train people. Too many exceptions to the rules.

There has absolutely been a corporate push to spread anti-union sentiments on this subreddit and /r/starbucks in the past few months.

That's really about it. It's just people complaining too much. Or talking bad about customers too much.

"Wow can you believe??!" This woman! Asked if she could get her cold brew hot??? What an idiot. So I said to her "Are you dumb? Cold brew is cold lmao" 🙄🙄🙄🤣🤣


You work in customer service. You have to work with customers. Not everyone knows everything about starbucks. Or even about coffee. You have to help people. That's part of what this job actually is. Helping people understand what to order. Because starbucks has a giant menu. And too many options. You have to have some kind of empathy and realize that no. Not everyone knows what they're ordering. And you can't shit on them for it. You have to help them.

That digital menu boards are all well and good until it is nearly the end of a campaign and a syrup is out of stock but you can't take it off the board so we have to spend 2 weeks explaining to customers we've run out and it won't be back because we can't get anymore but that we can't change the board (after they've shouted at us that it's on the board).

Some of y’all are treating Starbucks as a burial ground , “my life only revolves around Starbucks” and it shows .

Food service workers complaining is as American as Apple Pie. I enjoy this forum. I feel valued as a source of sagely advice (SM 54 m).

some of the drinks y’all complain about are easy to make and if the person paid for it, idc i’ll make it no matter how gross i think it is

Some people in this sub have legitimate complaints and others are whiny and entitled 😬

i think y'all too proud to be apart of starbucks. it's overall a pretty shitty company

I hate it when questions are asked on this reddit or the barista one, and they're like, "How many times should we shake a refresher? My SM says X, but I think it's just until I feel like it." And it's like, WHY ARE YOU ASKING REDDIT???? You have resources at work! For work questions! Like the store resources!!

The question I gave as an example is a stupid fake one, but they're literally like that! If you just picked up an IPad while at work and looked at it, you could solve your own question instead of running to Reddit.

Have we forgotten that Reddit isn't just our country and different countries have different standards? Reddit is not the go to place.

Law enforcement is subjected to less abuse than y’all

My hot take is that I really like my job and don’t plan on leaving until I can make a living selling my art. I’ve worked at so many places and this is the only place where I haven’t wanted to cry before clocking in every day.

But corporate is so far removed. So much further than any other company I’ve ever seen. They don’t even know what the job is. Their idea of our jobs is a fantasy.

No longer there, but I see way too many unnecessary questions about standards that are in the manual.
I only trust 2 partners to make a cappuccino. I know all y’all are burning the f out that milk.

Outside manager hiring is a terrible and demoralizing thing. So many partners are passionate and willing to rise to the occasion and they get passed over because the company thinks they’ll save more money and implement better ideas than the people who know every regular’s order. I still remember them.


Schultz and corporate in general can sit on a pole.

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People are downright mean about customer's orders sometimes. If a customer likes iced white mocha with forty pumps of extra drizzle (exaggeration), don't bully them for it. They're paying for the drink. You might not like it, or you might find it gross, but you don't need to say a person is disgusting for enjoying a drink!

I think some locations are garbage and the people who work there are assholes, you can’t dictate someone’s situation or their feelings so sayings “y’all complain to much” with no background seems highly ludicrous. I myself had a horrible experience with management and spartannash but I can’t speak for the people who have never struggled in the Starbucks industry cause that wasn’t my experience.

some people take their role way too seriously. a lot of workers are pretentious as hell because they think starbucks is above fast food. people get downvoted to hell for the smallest things ever. the owl cake pop pictures are annoying as hell. who cares about iced doppios. “the siren” is super cringe. people talking about how many calories or how much sugar is in a drink is super lame.

ITT: bootlicking the siren

Hot take on this sub, some people are way too quick to downvote someone's statement about something. Whether it's an opinion or even someone who was trained improperly people will immediately go to downvote instead of replying and correcting the person. Some people can also be way too arrogant and believe they're always right which isn't always the case

some of the people take their job too seriously here like there was a thread about getting that annoying tiktok drink guy fired. for what? making nonsense? why do you care

Some people take this job too seriously.

honey citrus mint teas are not that bad to make. tedious, sure. but y’all act like it’s the end of the world when it comes to that drink

Some of y’all complain for the smallest things & I genuinely wonder how some people act irl. Don’t work customer service I feel like that’s very simple.

i’m in two minds about this sub.

i started in April and had a TERRIBLE manager? she didn’t even acknowledge me half the time and when she did, she was outright snotty. i just didn’t let it affect me bc i adore my coworkers, and eventually that manager got replaced with our current one. he’s been at SB for 28 years and is actually really great. sure he messes up the schedule sometimes but that’s fine!

i really honestly like my job. i’ve worked in coffee for a while now and the customers can get me down a LOT, but i’m really great friends with a lot of my coworkers and i enjoy coming to work. i just became a trainer and my manager and i are working on getting me up to SSV, it’s nice to have a team that actively encourages everyone.

sure, i have days that i want to just get in my car and cry. i’m tired of being scheduled to close every single shift because we don’t have enough closers.

but my therapy is paid for, my college is paid for, i’ve made some absolutely amazing friends, and i’m working on promoting to a shift. i wouldn’t do that if i didn’t like this place!

i think i’m quite lucky because i have a really wonderful set of coworkers, that can really make or break any job

I would rather complain on the internet to strangers than to my family or coworker and drag them down. At least people know what we're talking about on here. That being said, there are days where I can't even be on this sub because I can't handle the negativity and it stresses me out before work hahaha.

My store is amazing and lovely, I read shit on here and I feel so lucky I have amazing coworkers and good manager. So, the complaining of others does make me feel better about my life lol

Strongly agree with your take

Here’s mine: working at Starbucks is not a difficult job whatsoever.

I complain a lot but it’d help if we didn’t go through 5 store managers this year

i agree with u

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