Sat in on a manager meeting. They’re cutting labor across the board.

Yes!! I gradually went from 27h to 17h even after I opened up an additional hour of availability. And I've been a partner for over a year.

Cut me from 25 to 15 with no warning. They're about to get some strong words from me because I have bills to pay and I can't afford to work somewhere that will do that to me

Yes. I went from 28 to 9.75 hours a week with this newest schedule. I had 28 this week, then next week is 12, the week after that, I asked for the morning off so I could go to an appointment and got the whole day so I have 9.75 hours that week

i’m not too worried about having my hours cut, thankfully, but i’m a bit annoyed at the fact that i still work 4 days a week with all of them being 4-5 hour shifts. like, just cut my hours but give me less days?? i don’t wanna come in every other day and then the entire weekend for 4 hours girl… i’d rather make my time worth it by being there the entire day rather than for part of it

Same as what someone else was saying. They’re trying to cut labor across the board throughout the U.S. just because there’s a few times when too many midday people are standing around.

They haven’t even tried to address waste or ordering issues. Meanwhile, we have “record profits” quarter-to-quarter.

They view labor as a “controllable” but reducing it only means more burnout and worse experiences for the customer. They’re probably trying to slowly kick out all the seasoned partners because they’re the ones who are most likely to unionize. New people also mean lower wages.

i always wholly recommend to managers to have fewer baristas and longer shifts. It just works better if you have a skilled and commited team, theres less gaps, more evenly distributed hours and the floor stays consistent both in skill and in coverage.

i have 13 hours for the newest one, i usually get 20+ //: what’s the point of having such great benefits if we can’t even get enough hours to qualify

25 to 11 🥲 i only started in september so im a lil worried lol. and i basically have open availability

From a solid 34-38 a week to 28. Guaranteed 'at least 30' by my manager so yeah...not the worst, but not a happy camper. Shift meeting recently was all about 'making moments right for our team' and supporting the team and I'm like...how, by ensuring we struggle to pay bills and afford Christmas presents for our family? Getting to be very over it

I had 19 hours last week and for the next two weeks, I only have 12 hours for each week. 😭😭 Is this just common for the holidays?

40 to 20 with no notice.

Went from 29-28 to 21. I’m pissed

I’ve been getting 12 a week consistently for at least 2 months now. No I can’t fucking afford anything. Literal poverty wages

Yeah, we had an emergency meeting yesterday about cutting 10 hours across the board from the newest schedule and now we need to schedule 8 hours under forecasted for each day. It’s gonna be rough but hopeful that it gets better soon:/

Time to unionize

27-28 consistently weekly. then 17.

I went from 18 to 12. I'm sitting stagnant at 12.

This is a cyclical thing with the siren. (4yr partner) but I don’t think I’ve ever seen it happen at the tail end of the calendar year. Normally it’s last winter early spring we get hours slashed. This is unusually Scrooge like from the Bux.

Not just the hourly week cuts but anyone else experiencing super understaffed weekend shifts? Like it’s one thing to have only 3 ppl on a shift for a Tuesday. But we went from 12 man plays on a Saturday to 4/5 man plays🥲. AND I swear they are messing with our pos system so we can’t mark stuff out to stop mobile orders. Magically every weekend it doesn’t allow us to mark out stuff like frapp bases, refresher bases, mocha sauce

Time to unionize

My manager said it’s because they pay us more now, so they don’t want us to work as much

went from getting 30 consistently to working two days a week- 12 hours total lol

went from 25-30 to under 20… but i talked w my SM and she said she’ll give me more hours. i trust her so i hope my schedules will be ok in the future

I don’t work a ton of hours to begin with as Starbucks for me is a second job. But that has been my biggest grievance with this company. The lack of consistency of scheduling. Never working the same days week to week. Shift start and ending times always varying +/- 3 hours. It always makes it super difficult to schedule my other job and other commitments. Some weeks I have close to 20 hours, some I have 8.. and it’s just incredibly frustrating.

Time to unionize

Worked at another store this past weekend and the partners are only getting 5 hours a week.

Yes, I had 3 shifts this week and put one up to be claimed. Checked back to double check when I was working since I wasn't able to get anyone to cover and it was gone. Noticed all the other shifts that were up to be claimed were gone too. It's wild because coverage has already been so sparse since we switched to holiday hours

40 to 25 with no heads up 🙃

Nope, my manager keeps calling me on days I have off (I only work 3-4 days a week anyways) and asking me to pinch hit cuz they got slammed unexpectedly

Went from 30 to 10 :/

Im a new partner and durong training i was getting like 20 hours but now that im actually working im down to 14

thats why i left sbux, i was a full time barista then got cut to 6 hours a week out of no where and they threatened to fire me when i asked why. 0 explanation or reasoning.

Went from 27- 21 hours a week, I don't have an emergency fund anymore it all goes to bills and food

This makes me nervous. I just started to get the benefits and to return to school.

22-25 a week down to 15 .. yikes

Yup I went from 35 to 20…

25 to 14

26 to 14

I’m went from finally getting 12 hours to now getting 8 hours again, it isn’t a huge cut because I can’t work after school so I’m not shocked but it’s still a cut

I went from 21 to 15

my hours haven’t been cut that much but i also think they just got cut slightly because of my availability changing. i’m so sure she’d have me scheduled the same if i was available since we don’t have enough closers throughout the week at my store.