http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/topic.php?id=308 I Hate Starbucks » Topic: Enough With The Cleaning en-US Sat, 25 May 2013 22:01:28 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/search.php http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/topic.php?id=308&page=2#post-27354 Sun, 06 Feb 2011 23:04:46 +0000 EspressoSlinger 27354@http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/ <p>I hate Starbucks just as much as anyone, but I'm glad I have a job too.<br /> Starbucks is definitely my least favorite job I've had so far, but it pays more than...well, holding the couch down or soemthing. :p </p> http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/topic.php?id=308&page=2#post-27286 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 01:07:30 +0000 CocoRosie 27286@http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/ <p>And yet, Parabola, I'm pretty positive that there are days that you would love to just rant and rave about how much you hate something that happened where ever you work. It's human nature. We complain about stuff that bugs us, so what? Get off your high horse and go where someone gives a rat's a$$ what you're thinking, mmmmmmkay? </p> <p>We're all thankful that we have jobs, right? But I'd far rather be working somewhere where I don't have to clean up after other people. Too bad I don't have the money to finish school yet, and can't get a job in my chosen field. Starbucks isn't the greatest, but it gives insurance where most jobs like it would just say, "F OFF WE DON"T CARE BLAH BLAH BLAH RAGE."</p> <p>Also, I don't mind cleaning the bathrooms...ours are always a lot cleaner than you'd think, so it's really easy. </p> http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/topic.php?id=308&page=2#post-27284 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 00:50:47 +0000 coffeesoldier 27284@http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/ <p>thats you parabola you dont speak for the rest of us so stfu nobody cares what your thankful for. </p> http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/topic.php?id=308&page=2#post-27279 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 23:21:39 +0000 youloose 27279@http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/ <p>i'm thankful to be working and that I have a job... </p> http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/topic.php?id=308&page=2#post-27278 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 23:05:28 +0000 Justordercoffee 27278@http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/ <p>Health inspector is good enough for every other business in the country. Why not Starbucks? If you are going to make us deep clean like you do, please give us a few more labor hours. Scrub the drains, help a customer, clean the tiles, make a drink, rebrew coffee, clean the ceiling, wash some--wait, no, rebrew coffee, now wash those dishes, mop up that mess, clean the toilets...good lord, what the hell?!!, rinse, repeat </p> http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/topic.php?id=308&page=2#post-27275 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 20:30:28 +0000 EspressoSlinger 27275@http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/ <p>Yes, the cleaning is very tedious, but in an odd way it makes sense that we do so much of it. I mean with all the dairy and all the hands touching things...it sort of makes sense.</p> <p>//my two cents. </p> http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/topic.php?id=308&page=2#post-27272 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:32:26 +0000 Señor Cardgage 27272@http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/ <p>Athena is the Greek goddess of stfu and make me a turkey pot pie, parabola. Now get in the kitchen. </p> http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/topic.php?id=308&page=2#post-27269 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 12:42:57 +0000 crappuccino84 27269@http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/ <p>So on the topic of chemicals... Has anyone ever asked to see the MSDS sheets on spirit and the other cleaning products that we use. Like the sanitizer for one. That stuff always makes my lungs burn... It is one of our rights to see these things and maybe demand proper cleaning gloves in our stores... I mentioned something to my manager about OSHA/MSDS sheets in relation to the fact that we have no proper cleaning gloves, and guess what they appeared on the next order.<br /> Cleaning sucks but there is no way around it. I myself love any chance to get off the floor and a way from the idiot co workers and customers... </p> http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/topic.php?id=308&page=2#post-27264 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 21:23:16 +0000 Jett 27264@http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/ <p>Thank you for not accusing me of trolling, seriously. :) </p> http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/topic.php?id=308#post-27258 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 13:38:02 +0000 becca001 27258@http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/ <p>**eye roll**</p> <p>You guys deal with this one. </p> http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/topic.php?id=308#post-27254 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 13:09:18 +0000 youloose 27254@http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/ <p>I caught the post through a search. Not sure what words i typed for the search. The title caught my eye, and here we are...ha ha.</p> <p>Who is Athena?</p> <p>True, some, if not all of the original posters may not be with us anymore, but the post still is. </p> <p>I'm just saying that all the whiny little complainers need to shut the eff up and be thankful they have a job. Get the eff to work or get in the unemployment line. A lot can be said for an honest days work. These terds don't know the meaning of personal integrity. Spoiled little chumps... </p> http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/topic.php?id=308#post-27240 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 03:36:01 +0000 Just_Say_No 27240@http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/ <p>Of course its so obvious! </p> http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/topic.php?id=308#post-27239 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 03:35:04 +0000 Señor Cardgage 27239@http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/ <p>He needed to save Athena. </p> http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/topic.php?id=308#post-27237 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 03:31:21 +0000 Just_Say_No 27237@http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/ <p>Parabola, I'm confused, why did you ressurect this 2 year old thread? I'm pretty sure none of the original commenters of it even post here anymore. </p> http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/topic.php?id=308#post-27233 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 03:09:54 +0000 MochaJoe 27233@http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/ <p>Misfit, is that you? Can't quit, need money for food, shelter. I like to work, but I don't like being treated like a slave. Be grateful I have a job? You're kind of all over the place here. I think you understand that the economy still sucks and it's difficult. </p> http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/topic.php?id=308#post-27231 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 02:58:45 +0000 youloose 27231@http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/ <p>what a bunch of ungrateful whiny bitches. quit if you don't like to work. be thankful you have a job... </p> http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/topic.php?id=308#post-3819 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:34:03 +0000 FarFlung 3819@http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/ <p>Oh let me see - at home if I go insane enough to clean the outside wheelie bin I don't have to stand round in wet smelly clothes for 4 hours if the water splashes back all over me when I empty the damn thing out.</p> <p>Not to mention that nobody bar me and one other closer double bag the garbage.</p> <p>But then I just worked a clo-pen and got it from both ends. The only upside to a clo-pen is that the store *is* spandy when i get in and every damn thing has been restocked!</p> <p>That said I think my SM is PMS-ing or something. When I left she was crawling round with a bottle of Spirit and a brush scrubbing under the mop sink! But then she is borderline OCD about the cleaning at the best of times! </p> http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/topic.php?id=308#post-3804 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:47:31 +0000 DARKROAST 3804@http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/ <p>Okay, lemme just say this:<br /> If your store is a high volume store, there is a position available called a bus boy/girl. Their sole responsibility is to clean, i.e. Lobby spins, dishes, etc. Otherwise, you're stuck. To the malcontent: I know it's a **** to clean up after others, but you knew what you were gettin into when you signed your papers, homies. Anyways, don't we all have to clean &#38; maintain our homes, too? What's the big deal? </p> http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/topic.php?id=308#post-3752 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:17:39 +0000 jobbamison 3752@http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/ <p>SbuxPartner...I feel you are like a brother/sister to me. I preclose ALL THE TIME too. I know what it's like. I work like a dog. I work so hard that it makes everyone around me look like a chump. That's not because I want them to look like chumps, it's because I am simply doing the tasks that I've been assigned. The hours are good as a precloser, but somehow, we get stuck with all the hard work. Plus, when I'm at the end of my shift and the malcontent ghetto-**** closer comes in, she always complains about something that isn't done. Like, "all deese dayum dishes!" "It's messy!" Oh, really, are you a little cranky? Did you just wake up from your afternoon nap? Closers have it easy. A few customers walk in every now and then, but they have way more time to do the chores they need to do around the farm. Reason being, all the high maintenance soccer moms are now at home drinking gin with their non-responsive husbands and no longer need our fine beverages. </p> http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/topic.php?id=308#post-3644 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 06:34:26 +0000 FarFlung 3644@http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/ <p>Actually here the shifties are rostered the worst jobs at least on closing including cleaning the toilets! That said when I was running shifts at my old stores I did the scummy jobs on princple - so that I could ask the other partners to do jobs and they knew I wasn't dodging anything. Oh except the partner we all called "princess" her I would try and get to do scummy jobs! But she defined cleaning down the blenders as "scummy" so...</p> <p>While there are some shifties and ASMs who try to get an easy ride some of us have too much professional pride to do a half arsed job! (Though I am kind of sick of my manager holding me responsible for shifty jobs when she refuses to finish my last 2 chapters of my work book so I can work close as well as open! I should have got everything signed off before I transferred but at the time not getting beaten up by the creepy guy who was follonwing me to work at 5:30am seemed more important!) </p> http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/topic.php?id=308#post-3640 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 03:56:22 +0000 nomorefbux 3640@http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/ <p>My old DM basically told the ASM and SM that they didn't have do deck brush or really clean... and really...they still can't run a shift... </p> http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/topic.php?id=308#post-3638 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 02:16:13 +0000 jobbamison 3638@http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/ <p>Those of us who DO clean drains and everything else know that it sucks. If you're a shift, like NYCSHIFTISTA, and you, like her, readily admit that you "don't scrub anything, really," while telling others of us that "hey, it's now so bad, you could be cleaning up pork **** at McDondalds." then you deserve simply to keep your fool mouth shut. baristas at starbucks to all the hard work, we're the true field hands, and everyone who works at sbux knows that i speak the truth. i've seen baristas become shifts and then get an obvious case of what i've come to call "shiftitis." watch out folks, it's contagious as HELL. </p> http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/topic.php?id=308#post-3571 Sat, 12 Jul 2008 06:22:06 +0000 IloveSBUX 3571@http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/ <p>I agree with you NYCSHIFTISTA, 100%! </p> http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/topic.php?id=308#post-3507 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:53:53 +0000 FarFlung 3507@http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/ <p>I'd still like to be able to have someone come in and steam clean the carpets occasionally. No matter how fast you are with the broom or the vacumn once custard is walked in nothing else will lift it!</p> <p>Also would it kill them to repaint occasionally? The store I am at is like 7 years old and has never been repainted. Every other place around us has changed hands at least once in that time and/or had a full renovation. We look so down at heel and you can scrub till you are blue in the face and the paint work still looks dirty! </p> http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/topic.php?id=308#post-3506 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:29:08 +0000 nycshiftista 3506@http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/ <p>McDonalds does it. Burger King does it. Every other Food Service Establishment that I know of, cleans their own ****.</p> <p>Most of the Baristas in this company have this "I'm too good for this ****" entitlement that you really need to kill. If you can't get down in the nitty gritty just like every other working class citizen, when 90% of the Food Service world makes LESS than YOU do, then you really SHOULD quit and find a new job.</p> <p>Then maybe you'll appreciate a deck brush, some Spirit and hot water. Ungrateful little ****.</p> <p>And don't get it twisted. I hate cleaning. Very **** much. But I do it because I know if they hire an outside cleaning crew to clean our store (something we can do damn **** fine ourselves) then that's going to mean a pay cut plus people getting in our way to clean **** at different parts of the day, plus working in a disgustingly messy environment until they get there.</p> <p>What's the point, seriously? You'd rather deal with all of that than clean out a drain? It's not even that difficult. I don't scrub anything, really. You take the pasty spirit, pour it on whatever you need to clean, let it sit for 5-10 minutes, then come back and wipe it off with a little elbow grease. If it don't come off, then you either have some seriously disgusting build-up that's nobody's fault but your own (you and your baristas, that is) or it's not coming off, period. </p> http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/topic.php?id=308#post-3494 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:49:45 +0000 lolabarista 3494@http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/ <p>fivestar, you really hit the nail on the head with this one. There is no reason why all stores can't have a cleaning service to do proper cleaning. At the end of the night, all you want to do is go home, not be worried about cleaning perfection so the am shift doesn't throw a hissy fit! And this also pertains to the am and mids. If we had a separate cleaning staff to do lobby slides, floor sweeping, toilet patrol, etc. the stores would stay much cleaner. There IS a provision within the hiring classifications for such a person(s). The company could then hire individuals who might not qualify to be hired as a full-fledged barista, but who would be just as important in the stores. This would alleviate undue pressure on people who are coming to the end of an 8 or 9 hour shift. </p> http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/topic.php?id=308#post-3493 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:21:03 +0000 fivestarservice 3493@http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/ <p>The store I worked in was disgustingly filthy; there is absolutely no excuse for anything in a food-related retail store to be dirty. It truly amazed me that the store manager would find fault with something simple and irrelevant and not bother with elemental store/facility cleanliness and proper food handling procedures. Everyone's comments should really be focussed on Starbucks actually hiring an outside cleaning service to perform janitorial services; as a barista you are trained to make coffee drinks, not clean and flush toilets. </p> http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/topic.php?id=308#post-3433 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:41:10 +0000 lolabarista 3433@http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/ <p>This is a reply to sbuxjanitor and anyone else who has had to breathe the toxic fumes emitted by all the chemicals we're expected to use in the stores. OSHA needs to know. It's one thing that really needs to change. Whole Foods has found a way to keep its stores clean without using the chemicals, so it can be done. </p> http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/topic.php?id=308#post-3317 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:58:33 +0000 SbuxPartner 3317@http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/ <p>wow i totally agree with you, i pre close every single day except weekends cause i asked to work early in the day but somehow i still preclose. I have to do like everything the other baristas dont do anythign the shifts dont do anythign they say its not part of their "task" but when my manegar comes around he helps if only the shifts could follow with what he says i truly dislike starbucks it is so different behind the counter </p> http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/topic.php?id=308#post-3316 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:51:41 +0000 pink-e 3316@http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/ <p>EEEEEWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!! </p>