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.