This used to be a few people, every so often. Now it is all day every day. That is not okay. Yes it is perfectly normal to hit your limits once in a while, and some people are at their limits just living their life. But the idea of never having enough help, enough time, enough money, enough of any resource, is just not healthy. Nor should it be considered "normal" to be that way or feel that way.

The average experience of wage labor for the next 2 months tbh

The holiday season in particular is tough for a lot of professions. Christmas used to be my favorite but now I’m a barista and my husband is a mail carrier. We’re both going to be so burned out by actual Christmas, our poor kids. Yay capitalism tho right?

Former partner (247xxxx), I knew as soon as they rolled out the free Lyra credits that they were about to make our lives hell. I quit about a year later. Worked precovid, then during the throws of it (which was FUCKING AWFUL), then during the limbo period when nobody could figure out the rules and everyone was either taking advantage of the chaos or being manipulated/worked to death with it. I learned how Starbs really is when they made us do the sensitivity training after that event in (I think) Philadelphia where they kicked the guy out for using the bathroom or whatever…they don’t actually care about people, they just don’t want bad publicity and want to capitalize on all of these issues.

This is happening at my store too. It shouldn’t be this way, we shouldn’t have to feel this way at freaking Starbucks.

Me looking for a better job because I’m tired of some of the bs we go though (one year employee)

I bite my tongue on saying those kinds of things almost every day. Something definitely needs to change.

This is how i feel as an almost year partner but at a different location, fucking sad

7 year partner and it is cyclical this is the ebbed and flow of the company and business strategy unfortunately especially since changing hands four times since my start with Schultz, Johnson, Schultz and now the latest CEO and a pandemic- not much has changed in relation to the stress pattern at the stores. All I can say is the largest determining factors of stress load this time of year is how affective your SM and dm are, whether your store is cafe only or DT and what ratio of your staff are newer hires at this point. Other than that, labor limits handed down by corporate with a goal of making higher ups and shareholders happy along with the increase in ways to order have really burdened stores to an exponential degree this holiday season.

n that’s why i quit :|

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