That's my store right now.
I'm really getting over it.
And if I didn't need the hours I would leave right now.
Anyone have any ways on how to cope with the drama **** storm that working with partners brings??
Poopie Partners & Gossipy Poopieheads
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Posted 10 months ago #
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..ignore it?
Posted 10 months ago # -
Since you can't transfer, I'd say... ignore it, like skamalicious suggested. Sing a recognizable and known tune loudly. Brag about your foam. Bring up random neutral news, like the Mars Curiosity Rover (and show said pictures off). Ask questions about the store and Starbucks policies. Talk about customers that you find attractive. Do everything and anything to both ignore what they are saying and divert the conversation. If your shifts/managers are reasonable, you can also bring it up with them and have THEM suggest a change in the conversation. Complaints and drama make customers uncomfortable, too! And say that! It will make THEM look bad.
Or you can like, sit in a corner and be miserable. Melancholia makes me happy, but I put on a face of happiness so I don't have to deal with everyone else's ****. :]
Posted 10 months ago # -
Get stoned. Problem solved.
However, your work ethic will also hit an all-time-low.
Posted 10 months ago # -
As good as that might make one feel, that is probably a really, really bad idea. It could make your standing with those coworkers, in fact, worse.
Posted 10 months ago # -
ignoring it is the best plan, i agree! and i also agree on telling your SM, unless they're involved in the drama themselves. (which i've seen an incredible amount of times)
Posted 10 months ago # -
Find a job where the majority of employees are men. = less drama for the most part.
Posted 10 months ago # -
Just kill everyone with kindness and don't talk too much about anything they could potentially gossip about. If your partners are being lazy, say something like "Oh my gosh, could you do me the hugest favor and grab me some lids?" in a really cheery tone.
Posted 10 months ago # -
Yup, just please and thank you and keep your mouth shut! Haha I am in a similar situation at my store right now, my SM is 100% involved in all the drama so she's no help as far as stopping any of it. I just keep my mouth shut at work and try to joke around when partners get too negative. Above all, don't participate in it- if someone tries to involve you in a conversation about it, just nod and smile, neither agree nor disagree with it... I've found that both agreeing and disagreeing with things that have been said have then been turned around by other partners and all of a sudden my SM is confronting me about things that never once came out of my mouth. So now I say nothing at all. It does bring down the mood at work, but just remember you're there to work, not get involved in petty drama, and you can't control what anyone else does or does not do. I like Ghoul's idea as well- if I see partners standing around gossiping I'll say, hey can you all pick a different task and do them please? Of course this works best if you're in a shift position but at the same time, it can be simpler like, hey, I'm doing *this task*, do you want to do this one?
Posted 10 months ago # -
Well I found out about the drama through a partner who told me not to tell anyone.
I don't want to make things bad for her because I tattled.
I figured I was going to ignore it/kind of troll them.
One of the people gossiping was a shift lead telling this barista that he won't let me on bar because I cut corners and make a mess and they were just saying stupid stuff. I transferred to a brand new licensed store where I came with a lot more experience than everyone where, I think a lot of them didn't like that I already knew what I was doing and trying to help them out.
I did like ghouls idea...until the kindness part. :PAnd it's not even drama, as much as it is just stupid gossip that is making me feel awkward at work. Because somehow ALL the gossip is about me.
Posted 10 months ago # -
Are you dirty on bar? Do you cut corners?
Posted 10 months ago # -
@zaneluke - I am female and I agree with you... I'm not sure that I count, though. People don't think that I'm a chick until valley girl ghetto surfer speak spews out of my mouth.
Posted 10 months ago # -
Oh eyeadapt. :(
Posted 10 months ago # -
I mean, you guys know how it is. It's hard to ALWAYS be clean on bar. No rags on counters, if there's a mini rush, there's gonna be spilled milk and crap all over the counter til you get a minute to grab a rag.
And as far as cutting corners goes, of course you make your own god damn rules up. Like I think it's easier to do this this way for me, I dgaf about **** 'repeatable routine'
**** THIS ****
And apparently they're complaining I'm never on bar, but I just go where no one wants to be because I also dgaf about where I am for the day, no one likes register, I don't mind register, so I go there to avoid conflict. Poopitydoopity.
Posted 10 months ago # -
There's this huge rumor about me that I'm lazy, so I feel you. It's followed me around to every store I've worked in (a total of 10, though only 5 of them on a regular basis). Some supervisors and a manager started talking sh-t about me when I got on their bad side... and they'll talk to everyone who I work with, or will work with. So... it's pretty awesome.
But I can laugh about it because it's not true. I don't know who they've talked to, so I just do my thing... which is being completely obsessive compulsive about cleaning, and being overzealous with restocking. So I'm pretty sure most of my coworkers realize that this rumor isn't true.
Unless I get on their bad side also... because I have an attitude problem (though I'm usually justified haha) in which case, for some reason they seem to propagate the "lazy" rumor, when really they should be telling everyone that I've got a temper. :)
Posted 10 months ago # -
Hahahaha. I mean I realized after working today it's not a big deal because in the end, gossip is gossip. These people aren't going to be going to my future employers and telling them these things. And that I have 10x more things to say about them that they do about me, and things that could honestly get them in trouble given I went to the right person. I just realize that it's unprofessional to gossip, especially in front of a person whom I know is friends (like hangs out with outside of work friends) with the person being gossiped about. I think this second run around at Starbucks has at least definitely taught me something. I feel like with each job I have had these last few years, well no. Wait. Let me take that back.
Ever since I began working at STARBUCKS, the people I have worked with have become slowly more ****.
My first Starbucks, the people were unfriendly (I was white, they were all Hispanic) to anyone that wasn't of their "kind". EVERYONE gossiped about each other, but the really cliche stuff, like oh she did this that day or he does that, not to the extent this new store is.
And now with my second Starbucks, a licensed store, how big of Egos people get working with Starbucks (When honestly, we are the bottom of the food chain in Starbucks and I would LOVE to see any of these people spend a day in a real Starbucks, sorry other licencees. :( )I totally left this page for like an hour and am now back.
Okay, so, as I was saying, I think Starbucks mostly just attracts and creates these horrible personalities. I mean the only reason I got sucked in in the first place was I needed a new job and all I have is coffee experience.
It ended up paying good so I stuck with it.AND DON'T FROWN AT MY SHARPIE!!!! I'm hopefully soon getting a much better job in the next month (I'm interviewing with places that are 10x better than Starbucks and a lot more respectful and actually jobs not just pieces of crap, I swear my life is getting better. Lololo. )
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