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Do you all realize that this is pathetic?

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Started 2 years ago by Juliah29
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Juliah29

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So I stumble across this site. An anti-Starbucks website, neat! I figured I'd check it out to see what lovely things these cretins have to say. What I was not expecting was to discover that the majority of people posting on here are former or current partners. I have to say though, what a laugh. Really, I have been sitting here for the past hour laughing at the crap I've read on here, most of which is from current partners. I've never seen so many ungrateful cretins gathered in one place before.

If you work for Starbucks and you hate it -- you know what you do? You find a new job. Quite simple. But don't stick around with your mediocre sub-standard service, leeching off of SM's who you should be thankful for. Yes, that's right, you should be thankful that you were hired by your SM, because that very same SM? They have the power to terminate at you at any moment. So until that moments come, or until you get the guts to pack it in and leave ... get some respect and quit being ungrateful cretins. I don't think you realize the work, time, dedication and commitment it takes to be a SM, or even an ASM for that matter. None of you would be employed if it wasn't for your SM. But a lot of are. Yet you come on here and whine like babies because you're ungrateful, selfish, lazy cretins who leech off a company that does more for its partners than any other company in the tertiary sector.

If you have determined that you hate working for Starbucks, you need to review view the ethical decision-making framework and make a decision.

Posted 2 years ago #

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Just_Say_No

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Blah blah blah cretins, blah blah blah leeches, blah blah blah ungrateful, blah blah blah repeat same stuff over and over, blah blah blah I'm a koolaid drinking SM.

Whatevz dude, you say you laughed but in actuality you sound pretty ****. SM has the power to terminate at any moment huh? That sounds like someones on a power trip. But seriously the fact that you say that shows you have no respect for your employees (if you are an SM like I think) or you just lack respect for people in general. Saying people have nothing to complain about and then saying they can be fired at any moment for any reason is in itself a contradiction. Sounds like someones really mad.

Posted 2 years ago #
Just_Say_No

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If you are an SM like I guess, you are the reason people end up on sites like this. Because you are full of yourself, think you are the greatest thing since home computing, hold it over peoples heads that you have the power to fire them for anything and thinl they should be grateful to you that they can breathe. In reality an SM cannot be successful without a great team of partners and treating them like disposable dirt that should bow down to you not only makes you a terrible manager, and makes your partners resentful. It also contradicts your thing about starbucks treating its partners well, hypocrite.

Posted 2 years ago #
OnlyKnowsDecaf

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I'm quite lucky to have a wonderful Assistant Store Manager and an even better Store Manager. Even though my District Manager is a piece of ****. I completely agree with Just_Say_No. Yes, this company SEEMS to do great things for us, but there's always a God damned catch. Our old, crappy manager once wrote an entire shift up for not selling enough Via for a day even though we tried relentlessly. Why? Because she would've been in trouble with the D.M. who would've been in trouble with corporate and so on and so forth. If a customer says no, it's no. End of story. But obviously corporate doesn't buy that. We're all on here because we once gave a **** and poured our hearts out into this job. And thanks to the lack of recognition and appreciation for our hard work we've lost our spirit. It took a few years, but Howie finally noticed we stopped giving a **** which in turn hurt business and caused him to have us fill out an anonymous survey about why we think it's bull ****. I honestly don't know why many of us stay, Juliah. Maybe it's because we still hold hope the company will stop being a greedy, money-hungry corporation. Because at one time, it wasn't. Maybe because we hate it, we know we're good at it and that comforts us. At least, that's how I feel. Juliah, you're one, arrogant, piece-of-work.

I'll tell you one thing, though... It's already starting to warm up where I live and the frappuccinos are beginning to pour in. I already cannot handle the 40$ frappuccino orders through drive-thru. I don't think I can last this summer with this Frappuccino Happy Hour bull crap. I'm currently looking for a newer, better-paying, less-stressful job where I'm noticed by the company for the HUGE effort I put into it every, single day. I used to be a easy-going person, but this job has destroyed that. A job at a coffee shop has destroyed that. That's not right.

Posted 2 years ago #
Juliah29

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"full of yourself, think you are the greatest thing since home computing, hold it over peoples heads that you have the power to fire them for anything and thinl they should be grateful to you that they can breathe." -- They should be grateful that they have a job, thanks to their SM who HIRED them to begin with.

"Our old, crappy manager once wrote an entire shift up for not selling enough Via for a day even though we tried relentlessly." -- No. Your old manager did what had to be done to get the message through, especially if your store isn't making profit period. VIA was not hard to sell if you put in the effort, especially at slow times. Over 600 stores were closed in 2008 and 2009. Why do you think that is? Think about that.

"I already cannot handle the 40$ frappuccino orders through drive-thru" -- You're kidding, right? Frappuccinos are not hard to do, and if you don't like them then you shouldn't have made a choice to work at a store that sells cold blended beverages.

"less-stressful job" -- I really did laugh when I read this.

Posted 2 years ago #
VertigoSonic

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I gave up my cushy job to move back to a city that I hate because my Dad died and I couldn't stomach the fact that my Mother would be alone. And you know what I found? Not another cushy well paying job doing what I was trained to do...I found ****, and for six months I languished trying to mourn and get my head together.

Finally, I had to...repeat HAD TO take a job as a barista because there was literally nothing else around. So it's easy for you to make a judgment call and say if you don't like it then leave.

You think that's easy when there's bills to pay? ****. What if you're a student and you're only doing this so that when you finish school and graduate you can get the **** OUT of Sbux? You can't leave mid-semester, so you suck it up.

The only real reason most of us took this **** job is because we want something better and hold on to the hope that if we just hang on one more day we'll make a turn around and put this chapter of our lives behind us.

So don't stand there and look down on us because we have the guts to stand in that godforsaken trench day after day watching idiot after idiot kill themselves slowly and they tell US we're incompetent? To smile our fake plastic smile, and toe the line for a cause none of us believe in for a company that doesn't care.

And then there's you "it's not that bad" you say.

Pfeh, don't make me grimace in consternation, we've got enough on our plates as it is.

Leave...good sir...and with all due haste.

For there are a great many of us here, and we do not tolerate intruders.

THIS.
IS.
OUR.
HOUSE....

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OnlyKnowsDecaf

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"No. Your old manager did what had to be done to get the message through, especially if your store isn't making profit period. VIA was not hard to sell if you put in the effort, especially at slow times. Over 600 stores were closed in 2008 and 2009. Why do you think that is? Think about that."

Genius- Let me reiterate. If a customer says no- that's the end. What you tards don't seem to get is that's where you need to stop. 'BUT IT'S GOOD!' 'But-! But-! IT COMES IN FLAVORS NOW!' When you do that, it pisses off the customer. We're baristas that up-sell. Not salesmen that prepare beverages on the side. Plus, there is no 'slow' time for my store. We're THE busiest store in the entire city. We easily breach $7,000 a day. $8,500 around Christmas. We have a line around 2:30 in the morning. What I'm saying is that sometimes a company has to admit when something they hoped would sell, wasn't that good of an idea. The flavor Honey comes to mind... Starbucks can NEVER seem to admit when they've **** up. Instead, they force it down the D.M.'s throat with threats which causes the D.M. to shove it down the S.M.'s throat which, of course, causes the S.M. to shove it down our throats with threats of termination if we don't force customers to sample the **** out of some crap-black coffee. Via UNDERSOLD overseas. You're telling me all those Starbucks didn't 'try' hard enough? Think about THAT.

"You're kidding, right? Frappuccinos are not hard to do, and if you don't like them then you shouldn't have made a choice to work at a store that sells cold blended beverages."

Umm...When did I say frappuccinos were hard to make? No, but if you take a drink that has around eight steps, and multiply that by eight, it's not so much fun anymore, now is it? And that's one order and NOT including modifications. Maybe if the fat **** that waddle into Starbucks everyday didn't order three for themselves, it'd lessen the load. I mean, these idiots actually believe THIS is their pick-me-up! Nah, that's not fair. After all, that's the whole reason I'm employed- to serve a cup of Diabetes to people. And with labor cuts, a second bar person is an absolute joke. Nah, I get to do it all by my lonesome for below minimum wage.

"I really did laugh when I read this." - Oh, glad it's amusing to you. Further proving you don't give two **** to the people who're below you. That's why you defend Starbucks. You fit right in! :D You're just like this shift supervisor at our store. She's been a shift for so long, she'd forgotten what it's like to be a barista. So much so that our manager's been giving her more barista shifts to help her relearn how it is to be a barista. Perhaps your should talk to my manager and see if you can pick up some of those shifts. I bet you're the type of manager you has a lot of 'paperwork' to do in the back for most of her shift and therefore cannot come out onto the floor and help. Seems like my old manager and you would hit it right off. ;)

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I for one enjoy the fact that I needn't blend up a Venti 5pump Classic Cardgage Catastrophe on this one, and all that needed to be said has been already. You guys, you do excellent work.

OP? cool story bro

Posted 2 years ago #
Perfectionist

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Not too many jobs have a website dedicated to their employees hatrred of it... that is one nice thing about worki g at Starbucks :)

Posted 2 years ago #
justbeanit

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Most people here are just venting. Do you not think the barista job has stresses and annoyances? I'm sure yours does too. Still have a right to *****- we are people, most of whom I think probably work very hard but still could never be constantly smiling clopening via dispensing robots.

I am grateful to have a job. I love my store manager, and my coworkers. We are a pretty tight team and bust butt at work. Doesn't stop me from coming on here and sharing my most special experiences with the internet to let some steam go with people that a) understand and b) don't know me (or don't know they know me).

Posted 2 years ago #
becca001

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Prepared to be ripped apart. Here's some things you should know Juliah29:

1) Most importantly, no one cares. No one cares, no one cares, no one cares. You decided to come to a forum dedicated to employees of a specific company and all the grievances they have about their jobs, make an account no less (that's not pathetic in of itself?), read maybe 10/20 threads and say to yourself "Hurpdehurp, Ima school theez lozers", and THEN you make a bunch of comments that soooo many delusional, out-of-touch tw1ts like yourself have made countless number of times. A little originality please? You're boring me.

2) Quit and get a new job? Somebody slap me. Please. You must be a Mensa member or Jesus, like like the new Stephen Hawking here. Nostradamus, Aristotle, Aquinas!!! Listen to her, people. She's found the mthrfking light here. You, you my friend seriously have showed us the way. Like, I don't why I didn't think of that! Quit this job. Get new one. Brilliant. I love it. It's fabulous. HEY! Call the New York Post. Tell them that tomorrow's headline is going to be "Some shut-in from Who-Cares, USA has figured out that if you like uhh don't like your situation, you should change it n stuff"

Again, some originality please. And use your head here, woman. Don't tell us what we already know and are in the process of doing. I'm laughing now.

3) Here, let's have a seat everyone and talk about appreciation. I just wanna say that I'm indebted to my SM. Like, for real guys. She is the linchpin, the one cog holding this whole place together! I mean if she didn't have us work off the clock at least once a week, we'd never get stuff done. And if she wasn't in the backroom talking to her daughter on her Blackberry about a new puppy everyday, our sales would be hurtin'. Oh and dear Lord, if she ever closed I think she'd die because I don't think she's used to work and maybe washing a dish would kill her. I'm so grateful to her. Everytime she walks to frontline every hour to stock the pastry case and then walks back to the backroom to read magazines, my eyes swell with tears. She hired me, guys. She read from a list of company-approved questions and hired me even though I told her I hated coffee at the time and just needed a job. Because she's got a natural head for business like all SMs.

Yes, she can fire me at any time for any reason she could want and I totally wouldn't call the ACLU on her because that's her right, guys. She the SM for God's sake.

4) Do you see where I'm going here, little lady? You're time is up. You wasted a lot of time coming to a website that didn't want anything to do with you in the first place. Now, if you want to use your brain and come up with genuine, well though-out criticisms, please have at it, but so far you've just regurgitated the same BS I've heard before. I'm bored. You didn't school me or hurt my feelings. Come on.

Posted 2 years ago #
moonpie

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humans will be humans, these people have every right to express their frustrations about their job as you do about the fact that they're expressing their frustrations. try to understand their views- if indeed you are a SM or something along those lines, you can use this website to better your managing perspective, perhaps even better your work environment for your hardworking partners. take it from a struggling job-hunter: it's not so simple to just quit and work somewhere else, jobs don't come easy- i'm sure you've been there.

Posted 2 years ago #
Señor Cardgage

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It's time to derail this thread, now that I'm home from yet another delicious clopen and not struggling to post with my three year old enV, and link this. http://www.wimp.com/seriouslyjapan/

Yes. The Japanese are the mightiest trolls of them all.

Posted 2 years ago #
coffeesoldier

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ah becca will you please marry me? your a fuc king genius but according to julia were all morons so if your a moron and i think your a genius what does that make julia? wow she must be a yale graduate, did you go to yale julia? i feel so privellaged to speak with you please mention me so i can say i spoke to you because you are so smart and you accomplished so much wow a store manager of a starbucks store damn that is the greatest accomplishment since whatever, what are you pulling 50k a year wow you must be driving a camry with that? lol

Posted 2 years ago #
becca001

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Creeps, all of them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZtPhvJQ7Eo

Posted 2 years ago #
Señor Cardgage

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This makes me want to eat horrible food. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UKLncvGxQ8

This just made me pass another kidney stone. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq8xuVnB-Pk

Posted 2 years ago #
Señor Cardgage

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And now I must link the link to end all links. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnS3vzMvQAI

DUFFMAN .. CAN'T BREATHE! OH NO!

or maybe this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ofgctjaVqI

Posted 2 years ago #
moonpie

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdVTq4NWmqE heh mrow

Posted 2 years ago #
allyouneedisl0ve

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i just have to say, the fact that someone would come on a website clearly called "I Hate Starbucks" and actually try to defend starbucks...

i really have no words. are you stupid? all the haters on here will eat you alive, just like whats happening right now haha.

AHAHAHAHA becca001, you are hilarious. well said.

Posted 2 years ago #
Just_Say_No

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@Julia AKA Koolaid drinking SM with the big head: I post all that and your rebuttal is to repeat, again, that I should be grateful to my SM to giving me the job in the first place? Are you bloody serious? I feel like I am arguing with a brainwashed 4 year old.

Posted 2 years ago #
VertigoSonic

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Oh hey guys, I don't mean to be a hypocrite, but I just got a new job offer, so my latte' pourin' days be OOOVVaaaH!

Still, you have my support, and you go on decaffing the idiots and the dregs of humanity if it be the only means to retain your SANITY.

I will never walk into a Sbux by choice, and if I do, I will ask for the simplest, least vomit inducing blend of coffee in the smallest size you guys can manage, sit quietly in the corner and turn my nose up in disgust at all the vapid, shallow, self-important pompous asshairs who've forgotten what it once was to be human.

Peace out, and if you're in Calgary, lemme know, I'm always up for making new friends!

Posted 2 years ago #
Señor Cardgage

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GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR.

Now, you are in that better place I mention every so often in such wistful terms.

Posted 2 years ago #
jellyfish

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people here btch a lot, but who doesn't? nobody else understands us when we complain about rude customers and shoddy management, so it only makes sense to come to a place where other people are on the same boat and know what we're going through. not everybody has terrible experiences and not everything here is about hating the company. i'm sure if it were that easy to just get another job, no problem, we'd all jump at the chance to. but obviously, it's not.

@coffeesoldier - your idea of someone smarter than "genius" is a yale graduate? way to shoot for the mediocre. i go to an ivy league and i'm stuck at this dead-end job for the time being. and yes, i'm obviously a little bitter about it. -_-

Posted 2 years ago #
caramelhell

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ha is this guy serious? leave it to the town idiot to take pro starbucks on anti starbucks website. troll.

Posted 2 years ago #
clownfish

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vertigo im in calgary~ harooooo :)

Posted 2 years ago #
Chicken0rFish

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OP - You're the kind of manager that every single employee in your store talks **** about. I know this, because I have a manager jusssttt like you. Awful.

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clownfish

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he/she's probably a DM. :| and were all back traced!!!

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Just_Say_No

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Pffft, most DM's cannot even find their butt with their hands, much less hack a website and find people's IP addresses.

Posted 2 years ago #
12345678

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haha. I agree my DM is slightly older than dirt, I doubt she would know how to access this website let alone hack it.

Posted 2 years ago #
Juliah29

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Again, if it wasn't for DM's, would any of you be employed now? No. You would not. Stop and think about the things you're saying.

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