I have only been an employee at Starbucks since mid April and they asked in my interview about my availability when school starts up again, so they know this will be coming. I am just wondering how many hours I need to work and be available to remain an employee. I will be starting my senior year and with school and my choir and theatre activities I will only be available after 6pm weekdays (store closers get out at 9) and weekends. Although my weekend availability will be spotty because I do have occasional Saturday rehearsals for theatre as well as competitions and such for choir. I'd prefer to remain an employee but I'm worried about fitting into their schedule. Any advice? They knew when they hired me that my availability would be almost nothing when school came around again. I do enjoy working there so far and don't really care about how many hours they give me, I just want to know if I can restrict my availability this much or if I should put in my 2 weeks notice just before school starts.
Advice on availability changes?
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Posted 11 months ago #
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shifts are a minimum of four hours so that rules out weekdays. the minimum for part time hours is like 15/16. i'd say you're probably out of luck.
Posted 11 months ago # -
"shifts are a minimum of four hours"
Why don't you tell that to my **** head store manager who scheduled a bunch of two hour shifts.
Posted 11 months ago # -
alright so in my experience, the shortest shift you get is four hours.
if you have a **** head SM like chaitea you can get two hour shifts, which might work for you i guess
there's no legal minimum for shift length, at least not that i can find. my advice is ask your SM about it. maybe you can do three hour shifts? maybe not?Posted 11 months ago # -
I've seen baristas that regularly have 8-12 hours so there's no minimum amount of hours in order to stay employed. There is, however, a rule that you have to be available 150% of the hours you want (if you want 8 hours a week, you have to be available for 12). There is also a requirement that you have to be available for a certain percentage of your store's operating hours, but I don't know that number off the top of my head.
Most managers in my experience (chaitea's being a notable exception) schedule four hour shifts as the minimum length and don't seem to take kindly to baristas wanting to work shorter shifts than that.
Posted 11 months ago # -
Don't push yourself, darling. You're still in high school. That comes first.
Write a pretty notice and hand it to them as soon as possible for whatever date you have in mind. You only have to give the two weeks notice, but they'd probably appreciate it if they had a little more time to work with.
Posted 11 months ago # -
I'd leave on good terms and then come back in the spring or after senior year. If you give enough notice and make a good impression on your SM, you should be able to come back for next summer.
Posted 11 months ago # -
Not to highjack the thread, but do you guys tink its better to hand in a notice or speak to your sm first. Not leaving starbucks yet, but dropping my other part time job. I've always spoken in person with my managers first and am now wondering if it would be more professional to write a notice? I'd be giving them about a month's notice either way.
Posted 11 months ago # -
Both at the same time.
Posted 11 months ago # -
One of the baristas at my store had just 8-12 hours weekly.
Posted 10 months ago #
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