I have never worked at starbucks, or as I have put it "Never worn a green apron" as much as I hate starbucks I am pretty desperate for employment & need a paycheck any where I can get it. I have above & beyond experience working in cafes & making coffee. Apparently my experience is intimidating to who ever does the hiring. Yes I have previous management experience, but I can't even get a simple barista position. They probably fear me taking their job from them, doing the job 110% better at the same time. Would you rather have someone who doesn't know the difference between their A-hole & a hole in the ground or someone that knows what the eff they are doing!
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Posted 11 months ago #
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I feel like you are fairly cocky about your experience. Maybe your availability isn't right, you have a lot of typos on your app, etc. I've listened to my manager weed out applications. She's hired a lot of people with previous cafe experience. They've been some of the most frustrating partners because they have habits from their previous stores that they refuse to break because they think they do it all better. Humble yourself, check your application for errors, have open availability and go into the store to talk to the SM.
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I have always put I have open availability. I have also said on several occasions during an interview & not just at starbucks I know every where does things different & I can easily adapt to that & do things the way the company wants. But I have been told that I have way too much experience which to me is just dumb
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There is such a thing as overqualified. It sucks when you do quite simply just want the job at hand, but they may see a manager applying for a lowly slave job and not want to run the risk of a) a power struggle or b) not adapting. Make sure you mention your desire to adapt to the starbucks way on your app. I'd emphasize customer service and not coffee experience. Making coffee isn't hard, its a skill that can be taught, dealing with a-holes is something you either can or cannot do. Starbucks looks for long term partners and its very sensible for them to see and overqualified individual and imagine you will jump ship the minute something better comes along.
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I once had an older lady come in & say she didn't want the barista to write on the cup with a sharpie because the fumes will creep up & leak inside to the cup. Plus her order was half caff, blah blah blah. I was training the barista that took the order to become a shift supervisor by the way haha! I told her about 20 mins before all this happened "You are in charge right now so you can prove yourself" In line I had several patient, daily customers waiting who ofcourse sided with us because this lady is a hypochondriac to the extreme.
Source: your post on EVIL OLD LADIES
You are either lying about applying for a job at Starbucks, or lying about your experience. Either way, you're a liar.
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@Dry Sharpie
How'd you come to that conclusion? The way I see it is that he had prior work experience in cafe management/barista in a place other than starbucks, and now he is trying to land a non-management position with them simply because he can't find a management position somewhere and/or times are tough.
Could be wrong though.
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"Would you rather have someone who doesn't know the difference between their A-hole & a hole in the ground or someone that knows what the eff they are doing!"
I would rather hire someone and train them from the ground up rather than retraining them and breaking old habits.
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@ Dry Sharpie: Wow! REALLY!? You do realize there are other places that serve coffee other than starbucks. Other places experience the same A-hole coffee snobs too. Try not being so narrow minded.
Posted 11 months ago # -
^ someone's mad
I'm sure there's other coffee shops you can apply to.. I'm sure your city has EBT or something as well to alleviate the unemployment.
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Whereas I'd rather transfer in someone I knew was a battle-hardened veteran.
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I had previous coffee and restaurant management experience when I was hired and I got the job, no problem. Depends on your manager, I guess.
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Customer who is almost there everyday sucking up the electricity & FREE WiFi for hours, occasionally orders a drink, always complains about the WiFi not working. Come up and asks for a cup of water. I take a cup & start filling it from the tap... He says "I don't want tap water that's the equivalent to toilet water" My response was "I'm not gonna hand you a BOTTLE of water for free, you asked for a CUP of water & if you would like I can arrange for you to have some toilet water just give me 5 seconds. Plus you ALWAYS complain about the WiFi not working... well you get what you pay for!"
My narrow mind helps me in tight spots.
How many coffee shops call their employees baristas and their managers shift supervisors? Use sharpies to write on cups? Free power usage? Free WiFi? Hand out cups of water? Sell bottles of water? Get customers who ask for Half-caff?
The simplest explanation is usually the right one.
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Occam's Razor FTW
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