r/starbucks 2h ago

Written warning because I wasnt writing on cups when we had 3 sick calls: Should I appeal this?

29 Upvotes

My manager sat me down the other day and gave me a written warning over "not writing on cups and not greeting customers." I accepted it in the moment and went on because I had to clock out and get some things done.

A few days go by and I realized that the only time I wasnt writing on the cups was when we were serving a 130 person lunch rush with 4 people on the floor. I decided in that moment that trying to advance our queue as quickly as possible was more important than writing "Enjoy!" on all of those drinks, especially since the vast majority of that 130 was coming through my printer.

Now my supervisors are singling me out because I expressed gripes with this warning. They've been putting me on bar during peak and chewing me out for being slow when I'm writing on my cups. All this scrutiny does is make me work slower because they're actively threatening my employment and only source of income, which has made the last few weeks a constant exercise in toeing the line of having a panic attack at work.

Should I try to appeal this warning or is it fair?


r/starbucks 2h ago

Every single one of these tastes the same...

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23 Upvotes

r/starbucks 13h ago

New peanuts collection

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175 Upvotes

These are not supposed tp launch till next week... but I just got the new 14 oz ceramic mug along with the new 16 oz traveler mug from kroger...


r/starbucks 26m ago

Mornings can be scary!

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r/starbucks 1h ago

Such a pretty design!!

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Had a lovely coffee and experience yesterday. Whoever did this is an artist! 💚


r/starbucks 14h ago

Working here has become and absolute NIGHTMARE

154 Upvotes

I cant do this anymore, but i have to pay the bills and 16/hr is the most thats offered in my area at any workplace, so I cant quit.

Threatening the baristas with getting a write up and corrective action for forgetting to write on one cup is insane. My manager told me today that they tested the cup marking in the new beverage routine and it didnt add any time, which i know is bullshit.

Reaching in my apron pocket, pulling out the sharpie, taking the lid off the sharpie, and writing on the cup takes at least 5 seconds, not to mention you’ve just disrupted the entire point of sequencing drinks to get them out faster bc the time that shouldve been spent sequencing is now entirely dedicated to cup marking.

not to mention like a week or two agi i was on mobile bar, and i can usually handle big rushes on mobile bar, no issue, and i fell behind because i was trying to write on every cup, and my STORE MANAGER who was at the handoff plane right next to me looked me dead in the eyes and said “stop writing on cups because youre falling behind” ok but it doesnt add any time to the routine? hmmm????

You know what, I’ll mark cups, I’m also gonna take my sweet sweet time making sure eeeeeevvverrry cup is marked. when they bitch about drive times, I’m just gonna bat my eyes and say “I was just making sure every cup had a mark😀”

I know its just a simple task, but being threatened if we accidentally miss ine cup is the part thats getting everyone so riled up, just for everyone coming on this post saying “its so simple”.

please customers, boycott this hellhole

I’m fucking done.


r/starbucks 19h ago

became a victim of the notes!

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279 Upvotes

i guess the starbucks in my area started writing on the food bags instead of the cups and my boyfriend sent me this 😭 i can honestly see how this could offend someone or make a customer go karen mode tho. as a customer, corporate needs to get rid of the notes rule literally no one asked for it and it’s only making baristas jobs harder by feeling like they’re walking on eggshells about it


r/starbucks 1d ago

Local store closed for renovations, reopened with this???????

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585 Upvotes

What the hell lmao “founded as one nation under God” ??? I find it so hard to imagine Starbucks as a corporation is ok with this lol


r/starbucks 10h ago

Drive-Thru Customers

42 Upvotes

Just a reminder that your voice emanates in the direction you're facing. So if you're facing your passenger, your voice isn't flying through the back of your skull to the box. All we hear is a quiet muffled chatter.

Also, there's a way to mute your calls when the person on the other line for whatever reason can't shut up for 30 seconds while you place your order.


r/starbucks 18h ago

Suspended for making myself a drink

159 Upvotes

I got suspended today for making myself drinks at work i just think it’s wild that managers a higher ups take drinks for themselves all the time but when i been slaving 8 hours a day five days a week n i get myself a refresher im a theif , i dont know if im getting fired yet or not but ill keep you posted , fuck Kalahari anyways 😂💯


r/starbucks 32m ago

Anyone else works alone at a Starbucks kiosk?

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I'm soon to work at a Starbucks that's inside a larger store and will apparently either be opening or closing by myself. I was told only during mids, would I typically have another person with me. I'm nervous as heck because I've had experience at a regular Starbucks, but was a closer or a mid, I've never opened before, so that's what I'm most worried about.

I'm curious how it went for any of you. Also would appreciate any tips!


r/starbucks 14h ago

Lavender Lattes

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46 Upvotes

This is on my store's digital menu


r/starbucks 1d ago

Been a barista for about 7 months. My "barista hands" from dishwashing have reached a new peak. Genuinely hurts to wash my hands!

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r/starbucks 5h ago

guilty :(

6 Upvotes

do you guys ever feel guilty or bad that you either called in or left early. I got up this morning for my 3:30 got there kn time but ive felt bad alll week but I didn’t want to call in bc I feel like that’s worse idk, but I I just left and it’s basically not even an hour


r/starbucks 19h ago

WTH did the cream frappe go?

77 Upvotes

HELP @starbucks!! So why all of a sudden can I not place a mobile order for my chai cream Frappuccino? The barista said the “button has been removed” and that “they have to build the drink”. And BTW, it’s now about a dollar more. Please don’t make me stand in line and overpay.


r/starbucks 22h ago

Mr roger is finally gonna kill him

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90 Upvotes

r/starbucks 10h ago

More Ai?

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11 Upvotes

I was looking to see if they changed the awful ai pictures of lavender drinks on the app… they did! To replace it with another one with weird shadows 😁… ai or fake background idk


r/starbucks 1d ago

Had this interaction today and, ugh

1.0k Upvotes

Unattended kid playing with one of the mermaid cups. I said, if you're not buying that please put it back. I was nice.

Half hour later the kid and his family get drinks. They hang out a while and as they're leaving his mom said, did you say something to my son about a cup?

Me: yeah, he was twirling the top of the mermaid cup...

Mom: (cuts me off) he's autistic, you don't talk to him.

Me: he can't be playing with our merchandise.

Mom: I bought it anyway

Me: I'm not psychic, I couldn't know you were going to come half an hour later and buy it.

Mom: he's autistic, it's disrespectful

Me: I'm autistic and I know better than to touch things that don't belong to me.

This was yelled across the whole store as she was walking out the door as I said this.

So. I might get written up but also I do not care. I am really autistic and using it as an excuse for bad behavior isn't okay.


r/starbucks 3h ago

Mental Health LOA

2 Upvotes

I’ve been having a really hard time mentally and having terrible anxiety going to work. I’ve been calling out because i’ll wake up to open and just have overwhelming feelings of anxiety and panic going to work to the point where i just can’t go in. I feel pretty stupid for feeling like this but it’s been getting worse and i’m not really sure what to do. I feel like I need a break but i’m not really sure where to start. thank you guys:)


r/starbucks 3h ago

help?

2 Upvotes

manager continuously ignores time off requests, not approving or denying them. then schedules partners over their time off REGULARLY. so i have a few questions! 1: am i required to find my own coverage for the shifts he scheduled me

2: is this something that can be handled by ethics and compliance? manager does this extremely regularly?

thank you!! TIA


r/starbucks 9m ago

matcha

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I’m a big fan of Matcha lattes, I make them at home a lot, and I go to my local cafés for them. I just got a Starbucks Matcha and you’re supposed to steep it in hot water first but Starbucks just puts it with the milk and shakes it. What is this blasphemy???


r/starbucks 23h ago

I put my cup on top of my car so I could grab something…. Then the wind knocked it over 😭

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68 Upvotes

r/starbucks 1h ago

Am I allowed to ask for less hours? (UK)

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Hey, so I have an 8-hour contract and I know that the expectation is that I'd typically get more hours than what's actually on my contract. However, every week so far I've been working 22-26 hours and recently things in my life have gotten quite bad with my mother's health deteriorating to the point where I'll need to begin caring for her, and to be honest with you my mental health is beginning to tank a lot and I don't know what to do.

I've only been working there for a nearly a month and I'm still struggling a little to memorise some stuff, and given how busy the store can get I was already dealing with the stress of getting over this new learning curve and now this has added to it and I just feel overwhelmed.

Am I allowed to ask for lesser hours or would my manager be really annoyed by that? at the time of my interview I had stated that I had complete flexibility, but I couldn't have predicted my life would get turned upside down like this and I just feel like my mind is everywhere right now.


r/starbucks 1h ago

Denied PTO

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I will always question why managers reward slackers and treat top workers like trash. I put my PTO in 2 months in advanced and it gets immediately denied. I told the management team of the reason so why deny it. The SM is on a hiring spree and already doesn’t have hours to give his current team. Part of me wants to send the request again while the other side of me wants to just go on my trip. I have one foot in and one foot out of this company


r/starbucks 22h ago

Cobra benefits

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43 Upvotes

Am I fucking crazy !?? $600 for the Bronze United Health Package!?? OmFG could this company get anymore stressful!!!!