Yuppp. I’m on my way out I’m tired of Starbucks bullshit

To my understanding, January-early March is a slow season due to everybody being broke after the holidays and wanting to cut back on unnecessary spending as a New Years resolution. Which for us means less hours especially during January (unless you work at the busiest store). It sucks major ass for us that have been barely scraping by with few hours we’ve been getting the past two months. And no, you’re not overreacting.

i’m coming up on my fourth week and i am already getting burnt out 🥰🥰🥰

This is the kind of thing you'll be dealing with at any big corporation because they only value their employees as a landscaping company would value a shovel. If it's not profitable for them, they won't give you hours because you're not a person to them. You're just an asset and they don't care if you can survive on the wages they provide. They simply need a machine that can deal with waves of karens and and not spill product so they can keep that bottom line as high as possible. If you died, the business would chug on as though you never existed. Stop giving your life (of which you only get one) to a company who wouldn't give you a single dime if the law didn't force them to pay wages. You're more valuable than that, despite what your hours or paychecks reflect.

If you think Starbucks gives a fuck about you, research what happened last year when Starbucks employees tried to unionize in different cities around the United States.

Value yourself because they don't and aren't going to.

They told me last year in March that hours are always cut that time of year. I still haven’t returned to precut hours. I was 35-40 hours a week, now it’s finally up to 16.5. I struggled for several months at 5-10, kept taking any available shifts to try to make some kind of money.

It’s all Starbucks unfortunately! 😭
Try reaching out at other sbux near you, if there are any, and leave them your phone number in case they beed a shift covered.

They're trying to get as many people to quit as possible and/or intentionally cutting hours so that partners aren't benefits eligible. The benefits cost the company more than your pay does, so if you aren't benefits eligible, it saves the company a shit ton of money. They're doing it on purpose. The only way to beat it at this point is to pick up as many hours as possible.

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It’s normal this time of the year and it will happen again. You joined at a time when hours were high, partners were probably in school so not working as many hours as they usually do. It fluctuates all the time. I was unpleasantly surprised to learn this, but also learned it’s a bit of a roller coaster, annually. I started with 20 hours (the min to enjoy many of the benefits) as I wanted to work part time with benefits.

All of a sudden, a few months in, I was being scheduled 25, 28, then 30+(because I have open availability) . I enjoyed the extra pay, so I accepted the extra hours, but it was also hard with fewer partners on the floor.

Then a new batch of hires started and the scholars came back during their break, so we had more bodies on the floor, so my hours reduced (still 20+). Because I had more experience by then, and was therefore more ‘valuable’ I got more hours.

When the new hires weren’t getting a lot of hours and complaining about it, I let them know that those of us who have been there longer had our hours reduced because of all the green beans. As I said, it’s a bit of a roller coaster, so hours will go up, then come down, then up again. If you’re flexible with your availability, it works in your favour.

Have you considered applying to be a shift?

Get a different job.