most mornings I have to mentally prepare myself to deal with whatever drama or negativity my ssv brings every shift, it’s actually incredibly draining to my mental health having to deal with her moods

I get annoyed when partners who are younger than me but have worked at Starbucks longer act clueless like they have no idea what to be doing if we happen to catch downtime. Or having to explain to an almost 8 year partner what the number on the top of the stickers mean, like being able to tell if you’re missing food or drink items from a mobile order.

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Oh for sure. I got real pissed at a newer partner whose real young the other day when she got pissy at me bc I asked her to top a cold brew with foam for a customer who had been waiting awhile. She accused me of trying to push her around and I was like yo this guy has been waiting awhile and I’ve watched you handing out drinks that were ordered after his

I just hate when they're on their phones and won't do the job thats... well, their job

Nah. Most of mine are young enough to technically be my kids but I like kids, including teenagers. And it makes me feel young again, sends me back to the early days of my first couple of jobs in my teens and 20’s. It helps that mine always try to include me in their chats, and even invite me to parties they know I’m too old to attend. They’re sweet. 😂

I have a similar issue. I'm nearly 30 and like 75% of my coworkers are under 20. We're in a small town, so most of them went to high school together and they bring that same energy to work. Depending on the mix of them, it's fine. But there are days where it'll be a ssv who's 19 and two coworkers who are 18 and 17 and it turns into a cliquey, small town high school gossip hour and its exhausting

My coworkers make me feel old with how annoying they are with phones, i’m the youngest employee there, but even I know it’s obnoxious to sit on your phone on snapchat or bereal or whatever just being useless.

My only pet peeve is that there’s lacking communication and they do not listen when you’re telling them something. Like my ringer is on bar yet I’ve told her three times she needs to ring and she’s legit saying “Just a minute” so now o have to stop my inventory count or counting a till to ring up customers or my warming partner has to step in instead and then they get backed up because my ringing partner wasn’t listening.

At my first store, there were several coworkers I could not stand. One came in hungover quite often or would be in a bad mood and expect everyone to do things for him or accept his bad attitude because he was on his “meriod” (tf). He also sneezed on me twice and never apologized. My SM was also terrible, and he would fight with other partners all the time. Some partners would no show all the time or be late or just not care. So some partners were great and others were meh/bad.

At my second store, I loved ALL of it coworkers! Well, except one. He was awkward and didn’t get social cues, forcibly hugged me several times and would self-diagnose himself with everything (autism, ADHD, MPD, BPD….) and expect us all to accommodate him.

sometimes its just a certain mix of people, like they are great and strong partners but when they work together all productivity falls and its really frustrating that things aren’t getting done when they should. they would rather talk than help customers and if i correct anything it comes off as nagging but no one else is saying anything. today was one of those days and i had the opportunity to leave early (if only a half hr) and i took it. im about to go destress with sims 😌

I don’t work at starbucks anymore for this reason! Most of my coworkers were pretty cool, But this one dude didn’t pay attention to any of his training. One day i called him out on something i noticed he always did, He filled the sweet cream to the 400 line when making foam :/// like your wasting up to 3 servings!! When i told him he was wasting a lot of product, that we all make, He called me rude.

Most of mine were all great. One was a drama Queen but she was a high schooler and I worked openings so barely ever saw her. One of my SSVs used to constantly tell me he hated ‘babysitting’ when they’d put him on nights because the teenagers drove him nuts.