Do your fellow baristas and SS steal from your store? Everyone steals everything at my store. When one of the shifts are hungry, they go right to the RTD case and **** one of the sandwiches without paying for it or marking it out. Then if one of the baristas are hungry, they would take something from the pastry case, and eat it while serving customers. I usually get free lunches everyday, picking whatever I like. All the shifts at my store have this bad habit. Then when I usually close, I get to take home all the marked out breakfast sandwiches. I was telling one of my shifts how much I liked the white mocha...she told me before I left to go take one of the white mochas home...
Stealing?
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Man some people are going to get into trouble real soon at your store if they dont
stop it. "They" are watching everything now. You will do best not to take anything any more amd partner bev everything, cross your fingers that your new manager is cool, cuz your current one is soon to be gone if everything you say is true.At my store mostly nights and weekends people do that stuff. Our SM DOES let us take stuff just asks us to mark it out. But you know what? i dont take advantage. I dont even take the marked out stuff, i pay for all my ****. Its really hard for my SM to track what the night wknd people take since our SM is days. So now guess what? Our super awsome SM is on her way out, on her final, and these thieving **** could care less
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and you are probably one of the people that blame howard for starbucks failing.... it's the stealing that are driving the sales down.
i don't encourage stealing.. but only thing i really ever took were packets of oatmeal/dried fruit and ate them. i always payed for my bagel in the morning.. because those got sold fast. i had to be fair.
but if your closing and there are like 10 sandwiches/fruit cup left.. we were allowed to take something during our shift and mark it out after closing. mainly because there were only 2 people working, we each got a 30min meal break, and weren't allowed to leave because we couldn't leave another alone in the store.. so yeah. starbucks will pay for our meal too!
as for pasteries.. for me... if i wanted to try something i would mark it out as a sample, slice it up, and sample it to customers -- sometimes the 'customer' would be myself [well because we didn't have many at certain times of the day]. haha. but it still gave the option to share! and it was always something that would be marked out that night anyways.
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Is that all they steal at your store. I worked in a store once were barista's were taking what ever they wanted from the shelves like cups. tea pots all kinds of stuff one guy walked out with a espresso machine.I must admit that I did take an esspresso machine when my manager would not pay me for the overtime I worked I added it up and it came out to about the same price as a esspresso machine oh well.If i had been paid I was going to bring it back but she never did and I sold it.Sorry howie I gotta pay the rent some how.
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I don't steal per say...I just don't pay for ****.
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Man this sucks. We get these benefits, health insurance, markouts on tea and coffee, etcetra etcetra...yet these people think they are not getting enough from this company that they are investing their time in...it is a sad story. I really wonder what at stores numbers would look like if items were marked out correctly and everything was paid for.
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Oh be quiet. Do you really think the wages are good enough at Starbucks?
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Stealing is one thing. Marking out (and eating) something that is going to be marked out anyway is efficiency :P
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Nobody takes good sandwiches and things, that would be bad. But if something is legitimately expired/defective I'll take it. And pastries of course, what do they expect when we have to work 6+ hours without a meal break? People get hungry. But I draw the line at taking home bags full of *non expired* pastries. Like people taking home still wrapped cookies. That is stealing.
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oh yeah thats exactly how it is at my store, we all eat straight out of the pastry and RTD case on our breaks, we usually mark it all out though.
i cant remember the last time i paid for food there, i dont feel bad though because its going to get thrown out anyway, eventually, theres a girl who closes and at the end of the night usually takes a whole thing of soy, thats a bit much i guess.Posted 4 years ago # -
Never take unless it's going to get thrown away, then I consider it fair game and I will eat eat eat as much as I please, I really don't see any good reason why not.
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All of that stealing shows up on a report, somewhere. Sooner or later, someone will figure out the numbers don't match up...and the **** will it the fan. Some people will lose their jobs, others will be prosecuted.
The only other thing I'll add is in a store where partners are thieves, the problem could be so big that the store is no longer profitable, and may actually close.
And, regardless of the pay rate, stealing is not appropriate.
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Neither is paying people when they have worked overtime and it never got added to my hours.Stealing is not good I agree but hey I ask you ILOVESBUX have you really never ever had a pastry or taken a drink come on.
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Btw, as to the white mocha, your shift is kinda ridic. I mean, you could get in serious trouble for that (that will show up on a report somewhere like ILoveSBUX said) and you can "steal" white mocha without it showing up on a report anywhere, and without the company losing any money, and without you feeling bad about it at all. Here is how, if you are like my store, and most likely every store, the white mocha that was left in the dispenser has to be dumped down the sink at night, if it is going to be thrown away anyway, take that, put it in a plastic cup and take it home for your own use, since it was going to go in the trash anyway. But taking an actual white mocha bottle is just ridiculous.
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To be totally honest here and I may get some flack for saying this, Starbucks workers ARE compensated well in the world of fast food. We really dont do as much food prep as most other eating establishments and have a lot dangerous and disgusting things to handle. Starbucks sucks, dont get me wrong. It's not enough to live on for sure, but think of a job like Wendy's where they actually have to do a lot more physical labor and prep more food.
The company sucks, my managers suck, my customers at times suck, the policies suck, but really for as much as we baristas have to do its not horrible pay, compared to others.
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You know what you are talking about, I used to work for Wendys and it was far, far worse than Starbucks. I was only with Wendys for two months and it was a bloody nightmare. Worst.Job.Ever.
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I never worked there, that was just an example but I have worked at other fast food places. It sucks **** and I still have grease burns on my arms from my few weeks there. I got paid at the lowest minimum wage when it was 10 times busier every night in the drive thru than I have ever seen it at my Starbucks.
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