Want to try our perfect pairings? Would like Influenza or Diarrhea on with that latte?
SB has cut their number of partners so much (optimal scheduling) that it is IMPOSSIBLE to find coverage if you are sick. Either it's someones only day off/ they will go over 40 hours or no one is available-anywhere!
YOU BETTER FIND COVERAGE OR COME IN!
How many pumps of mucus would YOU like in YOUR latte?
This is disgusting...
I have never had a job where calling out was the end of the world/ I got bitched for having the **** flu or puking.
Going to work sick
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Posted 4 years ago #
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Yea I'm sick this week myself and I'm dreading the thought of having to find coverage which by the way I don't see how that's my responsibility. So I guess I will just sneeze in every person's cup.
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Just put the tissues by the counter, blow your nose a lot and when customers ask how you are doing say "I'm so sick, but I have to work and make these drinks"-then hope someone calls HR and complains.
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it's actually the managers job to find the coverage if a partner calls out, especially if they are sick. it's in the books.
i remember having a 103 degree temperature, i was delirious, i was so dizzy i couldn't stand up and couldn't talk [my throat felt like literally 1,000 knives stabbing it at once]. OH, and i passed out at work the night before. i called in sick the next day. i could barely talk on the phone and at the same time i got a freaking GUILT TRIP for being sick! my manager didn't believe me. he freaking saw me pass out the night before from a fever!!
the rest of the week i had to come in -- and my throat was still the same way. and because i had to talk at work with my throat like that, instead of resting and staying quiet [like my doctor said to].. it took about 3 weeks to get better!
but seriously, who DOES want a mucus latte?!
i know i wouldn't want a sick barista/waiter/or whoever wherever serving me. no matter how many times you wash your hands.. sick is sick and you are spreading germs no matter what.
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Unless I was on my final warning, I'd tell then to STFU and deal with it, if I was that sick.
I think I'm lucky--our district seems to be trying to give as few hours as possible so we've got people scrambling for them. :DPosted 4 years ago # -
Apparently you can get a 'final written warning' with no previous warnings if the DM sees it fitting for the situation. Not referring to calling out but just saying this in the general sense....
It doesn't take much-trust.Posted 4 years ago # -
Hm. Never heard of that. Not surprising though, yes?
Posted 4 years ago # -
Hey if they can fire me on the spot- I can quit on the spot and stop showing up.
Not such a bad relationship if you ask me.Posted 4 years ago # -
True that. Yay at-will!
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i just got over my sickness bout about a week ago
i came to work most of that time,.....because as stated coverage is hard to findlast week, they posted those little 'storythingies' in the 'partner area',.....highlighted was a story about how its not ok to tell the customers your sick
someone asks me how i'm doin, i'm not gonna lie,....i was visibly sick, and think its a bunch of **** that i'm now being guilted for that
**** u,....i hope i get you all sick
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Here our some facts about calling in sick or working sick:
1. You CANNOT work sick it's against health code and a critical violation of the precious eco-sure audit.
2. It is your direct supervisor who must provide/find coverage for your shift, it's written in the partner handbook.
3. You must give as much notice as possible (there is no expectation of how much time written in the partner handbook. Lets say you call in 25 minutes before you shift, they have to set the expectation " Twenty-Five minutes is not enough notice" before they can write you up and they have to tell you what their expectation is.
4. If you are sick for more then one day or have a pattern of sickness they can ask for a doctors note. You can have these printed, emailed or faxed to you by almost any doctors office or nurse.
5. If you sick, your **** sick you shouldn't be working with others and infecting the whole store and your customer base. If you manager doesn't recognize how stupid they are to bring a sick partner in to work and to cause the whole staff to get ill, they're a **** retard.Posted 4 years ago # -
What erasurefan1978 is the exact truth. Any manager who tries to tell you otherwise is just being lazy. Look in the Human Resources manual, or your new hire packet. I have been at Sbux for 9 years, and have had 3 out of 4 managers do the "guilt" thing. My current manager does not make you come in if you are sick. She follows standard. I would be on the phone to OSHA or to Ecosure ASAP if someone told me I had to come in. In fact, when my kids are sick, if I cannot find coverage, I have to call in..... nothing I can do about it. But I do agree that they have made it impossible to find covereage. Everyone is so close to 40 hours and 5 days a week now.
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A few months ago I worked for 3 days in a row with a 102 degree temperature and coughing up blood. I was a SS, nobody would work for me and my SM had no mercy so I had to come to work(open). On all of the days the SM or ASM could have let me go early and simply wouldn't and treated me as if I were faking it. It was cruel and unusual. I am so glad that I no longer work for Starbucks.
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Noone should beworking around food or beverages if they are sick. The handbook actually says(unless it's been changed since June) that you must call in at least 2 hrs. before your scheduled shift and the person in cahrge (SS, SM or ASM, will attempt to cover your shift. You should not be written up unless you failed to give the required 2 hrs. notice. Most of my partners tried everything they could to cover their shifts because they knew it was almost impossible for the mgr. in charge to leave the floor during morn rush to sit in back and make phone calls. Having worked short themselves they did't want to put that on their friends. At least the team players felt that way. But then again that was the old Sbux.
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I suffer from really severe migraines and occasionally I can't make my shift. I have light, noise, and odor sensitivity and vomiting. I CAN'T DRIVE much less work! I have always tried to cover my shift but it is not always possible. I was written up for not getting coverage. They said I did not notify them soon enough (which is a lie). I WAS CALLING GOD AND ALL THE ANGELS TO GET MY SHIFT COVERED! Besides that, how are you supposed to call in before 4AM?
Posted 4 years ago # -
Call the mgr., or the opening mgr, at home. They hate it but at least you have called 2 hrs. before
Posted 4 years ago # -
I have since put all thier numbers in my phone.
Posted 4 years ago # -
It all sucks
Posted 4 years ago # -
I was really ill a while ago but dragged myself to work in a taxi with really high fever and basically sat in the back all the time because I couldn't even stand. I was scheduled for the opening and we're only ever two people for openings and closes amd I think you're not allowed to open with only one partner in the store. Is that right? If not, i will never have worries again about calling in sick when I am.
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You cant open or close alone.......
Posted 4 years ago # -
Wrong. Unless it is an emergency situation the PARTNER is responsible for covering their own shift. Why do managers getted **** when you call in??? Because most partners have a tendency to call in when they have the sniffles or a dry throat.
Posted 3 years ago # -
I had a really bad stomach virus that gave me chronic nausea (standing up almost made me barf) and jaundice (my eyes turned yellow) that lasted for a couple months. It was terrible, for the first couple days I had people covering for me because I was so sick I couldn't get up off the couch without barfing, but after a week it wasn't going away so I went into the Doc. He's the one that noticed the color of my eyes, and said we'd better test you for hepatitis. Thankfully it was just a virus, but while waiting for my test results I still had to go into work, I had no choice if I wanted to be able to pay my rent, so I could have been making lattes with a shot of hepatitis for all I and the company knew. Yeah, you could just look at me and tell I looked like death, and they had a note from my Dr saying how sick I was, but without any paid sick days, or getting paid enough to save up for them, I had no choice but to spread whatever diseases I had, and the company was much happier to have me work sick (god help it if one of middle management people had to work in a store again).
Posted 3 years ago # -
java666: Yeah, but the emergency thing is abused, by managers who don't want a partner who is truly sick to not come in, because it means they have to find coverage. So they lie to the partner and tell them it is their responsibility when it is NOT or tell them they have to come in anyway, SBux is extremely corrupt.
Posted 3 years ago # -
I have to say, calling in sick gets abused, a lot.
At my store, there's at least a partner that calls sick every week, coincidently this usually happends in a Saturday or Sunday or after any drinking related day. I'll bet next weeks check that at least two partners call in sick after Halloween, as they are supposed to work the morning shift, and they have been talking on and on about the party they are going to, and how unfair our SM is about not giving them that day off.
Posted 3 years ago # -
Just like thecoffeekitty I get killer migranes and the fact that I am taking 7 classes and opening 4 days a week makes the stress and me being more prone to them even worse. Ofcourse my shifts and SM dont care and want me to find my own coverage...next time they try to guilt me Ill tell them to show me in the handbook where it says that I have the responsibility to do that.
Posted 3 years ago # -
I worked at a chain restaurant a few years ago and it was the same thing. I was so sick and could barely talk. When I talked to my manager, she just told me I need to bring in a doctor's note and had an attitude with me. She didn't even say she hopes I feel better or anything like that. People like this are b@st@rds. All big food companies take advantage or their employees, treat them like ****, and give them hardly any pay.
Posted 3 years ago # -
I tried to call in sick Friday for a shift Saturday evening, after being sent home by my full-time employer. I was told I had to provide a doctor's note and coverage. I couldn't find coverage so I went in even though I still had a fever. I was told by a shift that it was okay that I was contagious because I was only handling the OUTSIDE of the cups. lol. srsly?
I made no effort to do my job.
I called the health department the next day.
And I quit.I know not everyone can do the last part, but if you do go in, stand there and look pathetic, use poor hygiene, tell people your symptoms, and call the health department or the business ethics line.
Posted 3 years ago # -
All I will do the next time I have a killer migrane is tell my SS or SM to review the manual where it clearly states that I'm not the one who is going to waste my time to find coverage. If I'm sick I'll be in bed recovering, they are supposed to handle all of that. Im very glad for you freshground that you finally quit. Im going to put in my 2 weeks after some docs. appointments. Sayonara!
Posted 3 years ago # -
I wish I could quit, but no one is hiring around here:(
Around mid december I was getting sick, coughing sneezing runny nose watery eyes, and u know where I was put-DT hanging out of a 12* window with wind blowing in my face. I told them I was sick and not well. They didn't put me in back to wash dishes or stock.
Next time I get sick, u bet ur chicklets I'm calling the health dept. Its not right, not to me or the customers. I don't have a personally vendetta out to infect everyone. Ugggghhh.
Posted 3 years ago # -
I got written up for having salmonella poisoning...and proof that I was at an emergency clinic. I guess they would have preferred me to puke and crap all up in people's stupid latte's. SBUX = Concentration Camp
Posted 3 years ago #
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