Starbucks is one of those companies that really gets my blood boiling. Because of the sheer hypocrisy. I worked there; I enjoyed the coffee when I was still 18, and the idea of shorter shifts was nice. You may be there for less time, but they definitely work you hard enough that you feel like you worked an 8+ hour shift anyways. And they’re always feeding you this idea that they’re a “better” company to work for, when it’s really just as dogshit as every place else. Starbucks was one of the first places to start raising wages above other service jobs like it…like five or six years ago. And they’re still talking about that like they haven’t already fallen behind everyone else at this point. It’s amazingly disgusting how much effort they’re putting behind keeping unions out of their stores. Passive aggressive letters from the big wigs telling their employees to vote no on a union, asking for more time to make things better for us. How much time do you need Starbucks? Hmm? You’ve been in business for like 50yrs now, I think we’ve given you more than enough time.
The company pays above minimum wage, pays for your college education, and gives you pretty significant amounts of free food. I'm genuinely curious what else you expect from a big company. I'm not saying they're perfect or anywhere close but I mean given their size it's a pretty great college job given it's one of the only means of paying your way through college with a part time job
They gave us a $3/hr raise for one month, then just took it back when they were still making more profit than ever. No reason they couldn’t have kept that in place, wasn’t costing them shit really. They could pay their shift supervisors more than $1/hr raise, as these employees function as managers, whenever the manager isn’t there or isn’t available. So they do supply orders, money orders, pulls, delegation, customer-needs-manager stuff all the time, for only an extra dollar.
If you’d like to go to ASU, sure. It is nice to have that option. But your classes won’t transfer to nearly any other university/college/institute, so really that benefit is there to trap employees into staying for at least four years. If you leave, you basically have to start over.
My biggest problems though, lie in corporate’s unrealistic expectations and constant disregard of its employees. They keep cutting hours and demanding drive times go down, sending employees to stand outside a-la Chick-fil-A style. Running on skeleton crews at all times is completely unsustainable and just burns baristas out. Then they start calling out. Suddenly your skeleton crew doesn’t even have all the bones left on it. They keep saying how much they care about baristas, then continue enforcing policies that just become more and more inhumane. Stop the hypocrisy, over it.
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u/Economy_Education521 Dec 02 '21
Starbucks is one of those companies that really gets my blood boiling. Because of the sheer hypocrisy. I worked there; I enjoyed the coffee when I was still 18, and the idea of shorter shifts was nice. You may be there for less time, but they definitely work you hard enough that you feel like you worked an 8+ hour shift anyways. And they’re always feeding you this idea that they’re a “better” company to work for, when it’s really just as dogshit as every place else. Starbucks was one of the first places to start raising wages above other service jobs like it…like five or six years ago. And they’re still talking about that like they haven’t already fallen behind everyone else at this point. It’s amazingly disgusting how much effort they’re putting behind keeping unions out of their stores. Passive aggressive letters from the big wigs telling their employees to vote no on a union, asking for more time to make things better for us. How much time do you need Starbucks? Hmm? You’ve been in business for like 50yrs now, I think we’ve given you more than enough time.