How much do we have to clean, seriously? We are on our hands and knees cleaning floor drains with chemicals that only God knows whats inside them. We clean the toilets, we clean the mop sink, we clean the wet floor sign, and we clean the floors. Scrubbing and lifting heavy mats, every single day. Would someone clean the floors of their kitchen at home EVERY F-ING DAY? Seriously! I HATE STARBUCKS!!!!!
Enough With The Cleaning
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Posted 4 years ago #
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I agree hate them. Currrently looking for new employment.
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I know at least 2 people who do mop their kitchen floors nearly every day. They have toddlers who make nearly as much mess as 3 shifts of hard pressed baristas do. Although nothing could make as much mess as the oiks we get as customers. Plus working in a pigpen is disgusting and makes the job even more depressing!
But I hear your pain Sbuxjanitor. Sounds like you close a lot - and if you work at a store where noone cleans as they go closing sucks!
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My ASM cleans everything. She always dismantles pumps and machines and takes things out of their containers during rushes.
A good throw in the "sanitizer"-the slimy **** water hot water, is good enough for me.
**** it-a wet rag.but seriously. there is no need to scrub everything down with a toothbrush.
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On old manager of mine(whose worked like a chicken with its head cut off) would walk of the floor to dust **** in the middle of rushes
ya know
to make **** look nice
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I know I hate starbucks' cleaning habits at my store they seem to be more worried with how the store looks then actually taking care of customers. I have an ASM that would rather fix the pastry case while there is a rush going on right in front of her and even though she is standing in front of the pastry case will make customers wait to get their pastries. Then they always give us the excuse that we're going to get a visit from the DM or some other a#$hole who never shows up
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one of our old asm's used to wander off in the middle of rushes too. She was an idiot! She seriously couldn't even keep coffee brewed.
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we clean so often..and yet missed the maggots in the ice bucket.
this is the ice bucket we use at the barPosted 4 years ago # -
one time we found maggots underneath one of the mats
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EEEEEWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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McDonalds does it. Burger King does it. Every other Food Service Establishment that I know of, cleans their own ****.
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.
Then maybe you'll appreciate a deck brush, some Spirit and hot water. Ungrateful little ****.
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.
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.
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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!
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!
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I agree with you NYCSHIFTISTA, 100%!
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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.
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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...
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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...
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!)
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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.
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Okay, lemme just say this:
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 & maintain our homes, too? What's the big deal?Posted 4 years ago # -
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.
Not to mention that nobody bar me and one other closer double bag the garbage.
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!
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!
Posted 4 years ago # -
what a bunch of ungrateful whiny bitches. quit if you don't like to work. be thankful you have a job...
Posted 2 years ago # -
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.
Posted 2 years ago # -
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.
Posted 2 years ago # -
He needed to save Athena.
Posted 2 years ago # -
Of course its so obvious!
Posted 2 years ago # -
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.
Who is Athena?
True, some, if not all of the original posters may not be with us anymore, but the post still is.
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...
Posted 2 years ago # -
**eye roll**
You guys deal with this one.
Posted 2 years ago #
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