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Starbucks Baristas: The daily grind

Full History - 2022 - 12 - 23 - ID#ztji52
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I've been out of Starbucks for 6 months and here's my overview (self.starbucksbaristas)
submitted by Dantheman9990
I left Starbucks in July and I just want to say Starbucks took everything from me and spit me out. I struggle with ADHD and I have a hard time focussing, but I always tried my hardest. At my store there are a lot of partners that are uncomfortable with doing DTO, which is fine but I was doing it every single shift. Also, during mid-day DTO would also do DTR and Ovens (which ovens are the complete opposite side of the store) and we would have one person on bar, so sometimes I would have to help bar as well. For a few months this was fine, but after a while doing this every day it started to take a toll on my mental health. When I would get home I would be so mentally exhausted, when people would talk to me I would be very forgetful and just not present. I expressed this to my store manager that I was starting to get burnt out and she told me she was gonna start hiring more people to give us more help ( which never happened.) My last straw was when it would be three of us on the floor, 15 minute wait times in the drive thru, indoor line to the door, and mobile orders pilling up, and when we called our store manager to turn the mobile orders off she told us no. This was a common thing at my store, but after that day I stopped showing up to work. To me, it felt so unfair that I was giving my all for 2 years, giving up my mental health for a store manager who could not give two shits about me. I felt so guilty for my fellow partners but my mental health couldn't do it anymore. I recently have just started getting better, I had to see a therapist to help with my focus and mental health but I'm finally myself again.
arctic-lyra 4 points 6m ago
i never worked in a dt store but i used to always be on mobile bar until i started voicing it to my ssvs, they cared enough to not put me on mobile bar when it’s possible.

i don’t blame you at all, you had every right to not come back. i’ve been there so many times and the only thing holding me back from leaving was the fact that i don’t have a backup job and i’m using starbucks for my bachelors degree.

my sm can’t turn off mobile orders without explicit permission from our dm, it’s irritating but it’s how it is. i just bite my tongue and try my best to get things done, customers can wait and i’ll explain to them what happened.

proud of you for leaving!!
i-am-not-sure-yet 2 points 6m ago
I'm new but I feel you. I deal with BPD and the previous jobs I've just left or forced to get fired because of various reasons like gate keeping . I'm trans and a different job the manager would keep using wrong pronouns and kept just saying sorry . She had it out for me. Also had a trainer gate keeping me to. I felt like an outcast . It was the worse 6 months of my life .
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