or section. For people who truly hate this place.
We need a new forum
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Posted 9 months ago #
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partners or previous partners only as well.
Posted 9 months ago # -
It wouldn't make a difference, unfortunately. You see, when one cannot read 'hate,' and then acts surprised when people on a website are following the very title of the site that they are posting on, subsequently getting defensive instead of admitting their mistake...
...it's a good, good day to bring out the poker.
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I hate when people come on here "I applied for a job and..." or "my fav. frapechino is..." really? FVCK OFF we don't care about any of that... this SHOULD be for partners only.. no one else. But then again, it's hard to monitor that.
Amen, coffeebeanisbetter.
P.S. to people who have applied and are begging us to somehow tell you how great our jobs are... why do you think this forum exists? it exists to talk about idiots like you.
Posted 9 months ago # -
When I applied to be a moderator, I gave new forums a serious thought. My best idea was a "help new partners" sub-forum. Everything else panned out for one reason or another.
Customers and prospective baristas are still welcome here. Freedom of speech and all. If you can't deal with them online, how do you get through the day dealing with them in person?
Posted 9 months ago # -
I put urnex in their lattes.
Or... was that a rhetorical question, Sharpie?
Posted 9 months ago # -
I have never worked at a Starbucks. I come here because some of these threads are flat out hilarious. I also have started tipping more since I found these forums.
Posted 9 months ago # -
^ see, now that's a customer I like.
Posted 9 months ago # -
Before I found these forums I did not know that
#1 you guys made what you did. I always thought you guys made about 13-15 bucks an hour.#2 I did not know that you pooled and divided up your tips. You would think that the morning shift would get the lions share because of the increased amount of sales.
Posted 9 months ago # -
They collect the same amount hourly as everyone else; problem being, it's a company-wide epidemic that openers and morning shifters tend to just destroy whatever they come across, toss out some lolos and then punch out, leaving the disaster of playing catchup and trying to close the store for the rest of us.
That's a rather generalized statement, but is sadly true for a lot of us. Then again, a lot of us on here are openers and morning shifters and do our best to combat that, or at the very least set an example. It all really depends on where your strongest partners are on the schedule, which is a sad reason why I'm stuck doing morning to mids these days and breaching the gap between both shifts. My presence (along with all the bullcrap I have to do) keeps the morning going smoothly and without calamity and sets up the closers for success, so that the openers the next morning have no reason to complain and not have the store ready for handoff. It does tend to go the opposite a lot of the times, too, where the closers just lulz it up and abandon ship, leaving the openers high and dry.
I'm traditionally a closer. It works best with my natural sleeping pattern and task-oriented deadline madness is the name of my game.
And yeh. We do make peanuts. Beans if you want a pun. The hiring rate is usually maybe 25¢ above minimum wage, if even that, and those first six months tend to be the worst of the worst for most partners.
We also don't see any direct profit whatsoever from increased sales- SMs and DMs take their bonuses home with shiteating grins. What we should see however is more hours to play around with, but it makes the store look better numbers and bottomline wise if you're running any percentage below allotted labor hours. LEAN is profit, my friend. Pure uncut profit.
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(I should also mention that the more we annoy our clientele with DO YOU WANNA BUY THIS LOLOLO and the more they actually buy whatever new horror corporate has us pushing, the less they tip, which means less gas we have to get to work and less groceries in our bare fridges)
Posted 9 months ago # -
"Would you like a pastry with that?"
"Hm, sure... how about a cookie? Oh... this is the last $2 on me, I was going to leave a tip."
True story.
Posted 9 months ago # -
Yeah, when I made this topic, I was really upset about all of the things that have been going in my store. I have honestly felt as if my life had meant nothing. I have actually gotten depressed and suicidal over the way humanity has become, seeing the way customers treat each other, and how major corporations manipulate people for their own good. Everyday I went to work I felt like a part of the problem instead of part of the solution. Is that all we are good for? Frappuccinos? Is this what our lives have become? I used to feel this way, until one day it came to me; I am not the job, nor am I the Barista. I realized that by labeling myself as one "thing", I shut out all possibilities of being anything else. I am not a number! That's why I didn't go to work today, not will I go tomorrow, or the day after that. But I am going go work on Saturday, and if my SM asks me anything, I'm going go tell her nothing, because it doesn't matter. If they let me go, so be it.
Posted 9 months ago # -
Decafwarrior no job should make you feel like you want to eat a bullet. Have you thought about finding a job that better suits your mindset? Something outdoors with less people contact so you do not get reminded on a daily basis that most people suck?
What about looking for a job in a Vets office or at the local shelter. Animals are way more interesting to work with than people IMHO.
Posted 9 months ago # -
decafwarrior, we're all here for you. We were all in this same position at one point or another. I Hate Starbucks takes care of its own. If you need someone to talk to, there may be someone in IRC (click here, channel #ihatesbux) or you can always contact me at my E-mail address, located in my profile.
Posted 9 months ago # -
^ ... I uh.
Posted 9 months ago # -
Ok thanks
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