Hello everyone!
I`ve been reading here since about 1 month ago and I have to tell you: I LOVE IT!!! I mean, I love this board. I’m working for Starbucks in a European country (by the way, sorry if my English isn´t so good – I rarely write in English). I started to work there about three months ago… after two weeks I was fed up. So I found this board on the internet. And you’ll never know how much you’ve helped me. I know, I´m not alone. I know, I’m OK! I know I’m not wrong every time I think, cleaning **** (splashed all over the floor, having to pick up **** dirty underwear from the baskets and scrubbing the whole thing while trying not to breath) and then going out and being “nice†to the freaking customers and some **** SS, being ridiculously underpaid can REALLY drive you crazy. And the whole hypocrisy (“shared planet†and we-are-all-so-environmentally-conscious? HAHAHA… throwing away lots of food, LOTS of milk while other people are starving – usually in the countries that are used for the whole coffee-theater in Africa, in Asia, in South America…) I just wanted to say thank you! This is my Therapy at the moment (cannot afford another hehe). My store was not that bad (after reading your own privates “Starbucks-Experiencesâ€). My SM is mostly a nice guy. We’ve got 5 SS and no ASM. Two of the SS are OK. One is a really good one. There is a f***ing **** and the other one is a moron. These two idiots talk to you all the time as if YOU were the moron. I could barf on their faces… but almost always kept cool. The costumers are mostly nice… but I can´t stand the bitches who think they’re in TV, trying to imitate the f***ing “Sex and the city†gals ordering a Venti-sugar free- NON FAT!!NON FAT!!- vanilla-Latte with a rockslide brownie… and I hate the teeny groups screaming for Java chips frappushitties ordering and paying one at a time… and the freaking Businessmen who want you to have their drink ready before they finish telling you what they want... The other Baristas are very nice people. So, I decided to wait and I waited. And waited. And told myself all the time: THIS WON’T LAST FOREVER. You know, you’re much of a neurotic (kind of a female Jack Nicholson in “as good as it getsâ€â€¦ okay, not that bad and way cuter hehe) And you need the f***ing job, etc.etc. I tried not to think of the hypocrite Sbux policy. But I can’t. And now my two weeks are running. I still haven’t got a job but I’m positive I’ll soon find one. Sometimes I would think: hey, the other baristas are so nice, and the good boy SS, and the other nice SS, and your SM is actually a nice one, there are also funny moments… and actually it could be worse! Think of all the products they have to sell in America and we don’t have (yet) here (i.e. your freaking viviannos or whatever they’re called) but then I had a shift with one of my hated SS and on the same shift another unforgettable Sbux-experience at the toilette… and the next day wasn’t better PLUS I had to stay almost 1 hour longer because I was with the moron SS, who’s always chit-chatting with some costumers and then I had to do almost all the cleaning for closing (we are only two people for openings and two for closing, always a SS and a barista)… It all was surely a sign: I made the right decision. And if you don’t mind, I’ll keep writing here once in a while. Because I need more therapy and love having found this board!