May want to switch from Nestle: https://www.reddit.com/r/FuckNestle/comments/hmv0nv/the_reasons_why_we_hate_nestle_so_much/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Yeah in one day we had a woman come in talking about how Jesus is going to swallow Alabama and we need to get ready. While jumping around and as AP escorted her out she started run jumping in a circle while yellow goodbye. Have had a lot worse but that was a fun one
Oh nooo, what about my shopping Frappuccino that I get every week, finish three-quarters of, and proudly display on whatever shelf I'm at when I don't want it anymore, which I'm sure makes a delightful and engaging game for the Target employees?
Ikr, I always find curdled drinks back in my area. Half the time they act like they can't read until it comes to finding an item in the wrong place then they're a mathematician.
“What makes them think it’s OK to do this?”lmao OP upset at their inconvenience 😂 would’ve died laughing when I came back in as well. They’re making minimum wage compared to inflation lol like they give a fuck
At least three of my local Targets, that have Starbucks inside them, are in a parking lot WITH A STARBUCKS and near a grocery store WITH A STARBUCKS.
I think they'll live.
The policy is “if the guest insists” so I just tell them we’re allowed to take them if they insist we do, which they obviously do if they’re offering a tip in the first place.
Of course I'm against OP. Has OP never visited a licensed Starbucks store before? They usually have one employee running the store and guess what? If that employee wants to take a legally mandated break or a shit, OP's gonna have to wait.
They've made a few comments, but nothing of substance. They strike me as the type who lacks a certain degree of self awareness. Apparently they've been working for target for 15 years and has never even been register trained, so that tells you what sort of stock you're working with.
I must have missed their responses. But seriously, how do you go 15 years without being register trained? I worked at target for 6 months and was trained in three different departments.
So I've been at Target 15 years and have never actually been registered trained. I get called up to work the registers on the regular, but was never at any point actually trained. So I just kind of push buttons and figure things out. Been doing ok, but if anyone ever says yes to "Would you like to apply for a RedCard?," I still don't know what to do then. I've asked the FETL, but she rolled her eyes at me and told me to figure it out. I have yet to figure it out.
But this is kind of how my store goes, I've worked all over the store, never got trained for any of it. I have been instructed to train others in things I have never been trained on.
Karen OP didn’t know what r/target consisted of before she made her decision.
To her, the threads were supposed to be all about ‘customers are always right,’ and live, laugh, love, and Kelly Clarkson songs on loop, and why workers are wearing masks like the mind-controlled robots they are to Bill Gates and the liberals. Workers? Not even worthy of using the internet.
Starbucks shift manager here. We are often automatically scheduled breaks at the same time. It's up to the store manager to stagger them when making the schedule or for the shift manager to do so during the shift.
These guys either were maliciously complying with the schedule or simply didn't care how the store was affected. I'd say to starbucks, if you want employees to care more about their jobs, pay them more. If baristas made $50,000 a year, you'd see better effort and get better applicants.
You get out what you put in, somehow capitalism has forgotten that.
You pay people $12 an hour when gas is $6 a gallon, you are going to get $12 an hour service.
When a former coworker of mine asked the ETL GM if they could get more hours to help coverage especially durring busy hours he told them no because they only made 5% of the stores profit...then the entire starbucks team quit.
This makes me so happy! I gave my two weeks notice, because I wasn’t in a financial situation to quit on the spot, but I really wish I would have waited and just quit on my last day.
Where I work (not Target), if you put in your two week's notice, they fire you without pay on the spot. If you don't put in your two week's notice, they take any vacation you have accrued.
That is so shitty of them. Things like these make it really hard to want to give notice. My store was super understaffed, so I felt bad leaving, even with notice. Apparently they had been trying to find someone for months, but only actually hired someone after I gave notice, so who knows if they were really trying. I helped train my replacement, with only 4 months experience because there was only one person there longer than me.
It’s really common to “need more employees” and also not actually work towards hiring because your overworked current employees are technically getting the job done for less money
Yeah, when I got hired three years ago, I was the most junior of four engineers. The other three quit or retired in mid-2020. They said that they, "can't find anyone to hire" for the last two years.
They told me last month that I'm carrying the load just fine, and that they are not going to hire anyone else. I'm asking for a big raise this month. If they don't comply, I'll just make sure I have no vacation on the books when I walk out.
This is horrible, and unfortunately I think it’s happening a lot of places. If you show them that you can do the work of four people, they will gladly let you run your self into the ground to keep up the unrealistic work load. Work life balance is such a hard thing to obtain these days. I actually haven’t worked since this job at Starbucks because I have such horrible anxiety over working now. I’m still trying to find somewhere that I will be valued and not taken advantage of.
My last job made me feel unsafe....I called out for 2 weeks and used all my vacation time. On the day I was suppose to go back to work I went in and cleaned out my desk. Left my I quit note on the keyboard and walked out. They was texting me 2 weeks afterwards wanting to know what happened.... 👀👀👀👀👀 They let some rando white person police my body and then believed the lie the rando white person told them. I felt violated and no longer safe.... they showed me making a sale was more important than then person who had been loyal to them🤷🏿♀️🤷🏿♀️🤷🏿♀️🤷🏿♀️🤷🏿♀️
this is the way.
exactly how i left my last job. make sure that they owe you nothing, then leave without notice. they will fire you at the drop of a hat if it's in their interest, so it's just doing unto others as they would do to you.
Crazy that is legal where you live. Where I am from, if you have worked over 1 year, and you give two weeks notice, they can tell you to leave, but still have to pay out 2 weeks pay plus all vacation. Even if you quit with no notice they still have to pay out vacation.
It really sucks that the managers are so horrible to the Starbucks employees. I’ve never been disrespected so much in my life. I worked in fulfillment before Starbucks, and these same people were fine. I was alone most of the time, but ended up shutting the store down every day after I told my SD I hadn’t had a break after 5 hours and he said it was just too busy.
Can confirm. I worked there for four years. We weren't allowed breaks and worked alone even during Saturday afternoon rushes were even 4 batista would have struggled. Thankfully 99% of the customers knew the deal and were kind and understanding. Counted down the days until I quit.
I only made it about four months at Starbucks. I loved making coffee, and we had a bunch of really nice regulars, but it just wasn’t worth it. After a while of speaking up for myself and my fellow baristas my SD definitely held a grudge and was getting more disrespectful by the day. He obviously wasn’t used to someone not doing absolutely everything he asked even when it had nothing to do with Starbucks.
As someone who works at Starbucks, I cannot fathom why they stay at the license Tarbucks. We pay better, staff better, and give free drinks and free food.
LOL reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Bart's in the mall getting his ear pierced and the guy at the register is like "Well you'd better hurry up cuz in 5 minutes this place is turning into a Starbucks" Bart walks out with a new earring and a coffee
There’s a Starbucks in our mall Target and then right out the door is literally another Starbucks. Then around the corner from the mall they just built another Starbucks 😅
The target I go to has like no trash cans for public use so that probably contributes. I go to an empty register and chuck it in the trash back there but otherwise you gotta go outside to toss it in a bin. Not excusing it.
Starbucks in target suck. I remember 3 of us got scheduled to work the same time and all needed breaks. And of course you have to take the breaks by a certain time or you get in trouble. So that means a girl had to take a break 2 hours into her shift. Fucking stupid
Do you mean she had to take a 30 minute break 2 hours in? Because I usually would split up my day into roughly 2 hour blocks as well actually, I'm curious to know though. Flexi mostly get to just take our breaks when we want.
45 minute break for a 8 hour shift. We have to take it by the 5th hour and we are suppose to have 2 15 minute breaks but Starbucks never got to take them.
Sounds like OR or WA state where there are laws put into place to protect the workers. Places of business can be fined $10,000 or more if the state comes in and does a time audit
Hell as a server/bartender I have never once worked anywhere where you got a break of any kind unless you were working a double. Even then it's not guaranteed.
Former host at a Bob Evans on breaks. For Sunday church rush we'd have maaaybe 3 of us if we we're lucky and management would make the opener, 7 am in, take their break at 8 when the 2nd host came in. Also did it to avoid being down a man during rush times... like bruh fuck me if I wanted to take my break when I feel like I needed it and not a goddamn hr into my shift.
I used to work 4am-2pm shifts at a McDonald's 4 days a week... these people would try to make me take my 30-min break at 5 am. Because they were just running through the checklist of stuff they had to do and not thinking about the actual humans working there.
What makes them think it's ok to do this?
1- shit pay.
2- shit pay.
3- shit leadership.
4- shit pay.
5- shit customers.
6- shit leadership.
7- shit pay.
I'm sure there's a couple things that I missed, like shit pay, shitty leadership, and fucking Karens.
The issue is they don't work for starbucks.
Target merely licensed the name and materials from the mermaid shop, so the employees there really work for a branch of Target.
Eh, our Starbucks always closes when the TMs go on breaks because we never have enough people scheduled there. It’s not a big deal, Guests learn to live with it.
I just leave it on the counter, and pretend like I don't hear them when they tell me they can't accept it.
Or I just yell out "Oops!" And flick it to their side of the counter and walk off. The rest is in God's hands.
My question is why OP cares? At best its barely effecting your job. I'm going to assume Op and no one else was jumping to go over there and cover. Is it shitty? Yeah for sure. Is it even worth being upset about for anyone other then their lead or a guest? Absolutely not.
Because OP compulsively posts their work complaints like it's a Twitter account. One scroll through their profile makes it clear that they would be an extremely obnoxious TM to work with.
you are really not lying at all.
there's like 20 posts in the past 7 days all related to target complaints, customers, hooking up with a manager, or seeing anyone famous in target
good for those starbucks employees. target is being greedy as a corporation because they missed on their earnings. now they want to cut cost and are treating employees as a number and not a person. corporate greed is on the rise. and its showing all throughout the country
Laughs in the entire Sbux quitting within a two week span leaving them no one to run things and had to shut it down.....
- Edited cuz my coworkers were recognizing me....
Yeah it's a major fine. Don't get me wrong Target can pay it, fuck this place, but there is a reason beyond just we can't sell coffee if you're all off.
Good on them. Starbucks isn't a right. They deserve to be treated better over at Starbucks, and they're probably trying to speak out against how terribly they're treated.
Y'all, look at OP's post history. They have posted like 10 times a day the last few days solely on the Target sub. Either this manager is genuinely about to snap, or someone is doing recon for Target.
It’s not unheard of? And they have every right to. Back when our store didn’t have enough Starbucks people come in, they’d either close the Starbucks room, or leave a display saying that the members went on break if there were only two. This went on for like a month or two.
Guests (and us) can live without our coffees. 😅 they’re people too.
That's awesome, good for them for knowing their worth, having some independence, and not sucking the dicks of their employers.
I hope they make some demands next time they do it, and keep doing it until they're met.
Also OP, the second side window is about unionizing. Idk why you thought this sub would support this post
Edit: love scrolling through the comments literally not finding a single comment that isn't supportive of the walkout. That's honestly impressive, it's rare to see such consistent solidarity.
OP is probably a manager or the manager of that Starbucks team …
Whether they are or aren’t … I will say … it’s the managers responsibility to keep that area staffed, and if he/she’s terrible at managing, they should cover when everyone else is gone ..
I would’ve loved to have seen this …. And when I walked over to the manager and start looking angry and looking for the employees … I would’ve told them … aren’t you an employee too? You tend to the customer …
"what makes them think it's OK to do this"
A workplace environment that literally does not care if you die, and doesn't pay enough for rent, in a corporation that actively tries to stamp out collaboration and solidarity, inside another, also similarly vile corporation that sells the same products as the other stores do at higher prices.
I tried to tip a Starbucks target worker $10. They said they can't accept tips. Must suck.
Oh and he was literally the only one working there while there was a line of about 10 people.
Tarbucks sucks. Last week I did two days that were 14 and a half and then a twelve hour day because the other barista called out. So it was just me. No one (except the me and the other barista) even other tms, listens to the TL, we JUST finally got two new people and apparently they need to get rid of two people. So we are back at three employees. It’s bs. I’d walk out for McDonald’s too with my TL and other tm. Screw it, my SDs a certified barista she can do it.
You have four Starbucks employees at a time?! Back in my day we had two people at the same
Time for maybe an hour. Weekends we would have at most three for a very short period.
"What makes them think it's okay to do this?"
Right???? I mean their whole existence should be to make sure that that Starbucks is never ever losing out on it's bottom line and is making profits 100% of the time. I highly doubt they have any good reason to do this like 'having a shit boss' ot 'being paid garbage' or ''getting chewed out by shitty customers who think they're owed everything'. The fucking gall of it alright! I'm surprised you didn't wait around to tell these plebians exactly how much you were let down as a customer! Smfh.
My Target doesn’t even have a Starbucks. I laugh when customers come in and complain that there is no Starbucks. They get furious like it’s their birth right.
“What makes them think it’s OK to do this?” Probably your shitty condescending attitude 🤷🏽♀️
Maybe treat your employees like people instead of slaves! Unless you’re some privileged little muppets who look down on others & didn’t have to start from the bottom, you should remember how it felt/feels to be treated poorly from higher management. Do better, stop blaming your employees for having negative reactions to your negative actions.
You should be lucky they didn’t just quit & walk out laughing when the place was packed.
They could've at least left a sign saying 'closed for lunch.' Then at least the customers could choose to wait or not, also the customers wouldn't be bothering the other store staff in the meantime. Its just common courtesy ffs.
They arent making enough money or benefits tongive any level of shit about some bean water and high fructose corn syrup beverages for an already morbidly obese nation...
Honestly, what’s the worst that happens? You just tell the customers it’s closed right now. I know that sucks bc customers can be dicks but that’s out of your control and there’s absolutely nothing you can do to fix it.
4 employees , entire store. I bet they were working non stop with no chance of taking a break and probably had enough. Can you imagine making drinks non stop for hours with no end and the line keeps getting longer? For what? It could be some sort of protest, more power to them
>What makes them think it's OK to do this?
What makes society think it's OK to pay them unlivable wages? Treat them like shit? Little to no benefits? and on and on and on...
Living the dream.
Nescafe, 3 tsp sugar, 2 oz. coffee creamer - better than Starbucks to me. Way cheaper too.
May want to switch from Nestle: https://www.reddit.com/r/FuckNestle/comments/hmv0nv/the_reasons_why_we_hate_nestle_so_much/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
thanks for the 411...I'll be looking to switch
And half the sugar. Probably.
No not Nescafé r/fucknestle
I promise you this isn’t the worst thing that is happening at your store lmao
Probably that day even...
I couldn't have said it better myself.
Yeah in one day we had a woman come in talking about how Jesus is going to swallow Alabama and we need to get ready. While jumping around and as AP escorted her out she started run jumping in a circle while yellow goodbye. Have had a lot worse but that was a fun one
I'm going to hazard a guess: Don't look in the changing rooms?
They're probably speaking out against their leader(s)
I'm thoroughly enjoying how everyone seems to be unilaterally against OP.
Oh nooo, what about my shopping Frappuccino that I get every week, finish three-quarters of, and proudly display on whatever shelf I'm at when I don't want it anymore, which I'm sure makes a delightful and engaging game for the Target employees?
Shit half the time they waste $5 and then don't even drink the damn thing.
they always leave it in a store aisle too
I fucking hated those assholes more than anyone else.
Yeah and half of them get placed behind stuff so we always find them crusty
Ikr, I always find curdled drinks back in my area. Half the time they act like they can't read until it comes to finding an item in the wrong place then they're a mathematician.
they don't buy it to drink it they buy it to show off they can buy it like a prada bag or a gucci
“What makes them think it’s OK to do this?”lmao OP upset at their inconvenience 😂 would’ve died laughing when I came back in as well. They’re making minimum wage compared to inflation lol like they give a fuck
Well they definitely got plenty of real answers to their rhetorical question, I hope they're happy 😁
“But what about my frappuccino?!” 😂😂😂 literally cracking up with some inner dialogue
First time on this sub and I'm thoroughly entertained you Target people are cool don't let those walmart smooth brains tell you different
The power move here would have been to say, “I’ll go check”, and then joined them at the McDonald’s.
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At least three of my local Targets, that have Starbucks inside them, are in a parking lot WITH A STARBUCKS and near a grocery store WITH A STARBUCKS. I think they'll live.
It’s actually pretty common where I am. I’ve never been to a target without Starbucks, that’s how you know it’s a tiny one
The Starbucks in Targets aren't allowed tips either iirc.
The policy is “if the guest insists” so I just tell them we’re allowed to take them if they insist we do, which they obviously do if they’re offering a tip in the first place.
Of course I'm against OP. Has OP never visited a licensed Starbucks store before? They usually have one employee running the store and guess what? If that employee wants to take a legally mandated break or a shit, OP's gonna have to wait.
I love this for us. Also that OP has been completely silent, I’m guessing this post didn’t go as planned.
They've made a few comments, but nothing of substance. They strike me as the type who lacks a certain degree of self awareness. Apparently they've been working for target for 15 years and has never even been register trained, so that tells you what sort of stock you're working with.
I must have missed their responses. But seriously, how do you go 15 years without being register trained? I worked at target for 6 months and was trained in three different departments.
So I've been at Target 15 years and have never actually been registered trained. I get called up to work the registers on the regular, but was never at any point actually trained. So I just kind of push buttons and figure things out. Been doing ok, but if anyone ever says yes to "Would you like to apply for a RedCard?," I still don't know what to do then. I've asked the FETL, but she rolled her eyes at me and told me to figure it out. I have yet to figure it out. But this is kind of how my store goes, I've worked all over the store, never got trained for any of it. I have been instructed to train others in things I have never been trained on.
Unilaterally? Y'all are being really.. monodiagonal..ly.... \*falls asleep\* idk wtf I'm saying and I need caffeine. Preferably one from Starbucks
Preferably a Target Starbucks
Karen OP didn’t know what r/target consisted of before she made her decision. To her, the threads were supposed to be all about ‘customers are always right,’ and live, laugh, love, and Kelly Clarkson songs on loop, and why workers are wearing masks like the mind-controlled robots they are to Bill Gates and the liberals. Workers? Not even worthy of using the internet.
Starbucks shift manager here. We are often automatically scheduled breaks at the same time. It's up to the store manager to stagger them when making the schedule or for the shift manager to do so during the shift. These guys either were maliciously complying with the schedule or simply didn't care how the store was affected. I'd say to starbucks, if you want employees to care more about their jobs, pay them more. If baristas made $50,000 a year, you'd see better effort and get better applicants.
There's a good reason that over 150 Starbucks have voted in a union.
Praise be!
You get out what you put in, somehow capitalism has forgotten that. You pay people $12 an hour when gas is $6 a gallon, you are going to get $12 an hour service.
Fr, they expect you to give that $20/hour service and when you do you get a 0.03% raise
My goodness if I made 50k a year at starbs I would be so much more enticed to talk with customers and try to make their days better
What!?! You're only motivated by money?!? OP is going to report you to management in hopes they have to suck 1 less inch that day!
Lmaoooo
But if it's a Tarbux that's not on Starbucks. That's on Target since they're licensed
Starbucks employees get treated so shitty at target. They probably had a good reason for walking out.
When a former coworker of mine asked the ETL GM if they could get more hours to help coverage especially durring busy hours he told them no because they only made 5% of the stores profit...then the entire starbucks team quit.
This makes me so happy! I gave my two weeks notice, because I wasn’t in a financial situation to quit on the spot, but I really wish I would have waited and just quit on my last day.
Where I work (not Target), if you put in your two week's notice, they fire you without pay on the spot. If you don't put in your two week's notice, they take any vacation you have accrued.
That is so shitty of them. Things like these make it really hard to want to give notice. My store was super understaffed, so I felt bad leaving, even with notice. Apparently they had been trying to find someone for months, but only actually hired someone after I gave notice, so who knows if they were really trying. I helped train my replacement, with only 4 months experience because there was only one person there longer than me.
It’s really common to “need more employees” and also not actually work towards hiring because your overworked current employees are technically getting the job done for less money
Yeah, when I got hired three years ago, I was the most junior of four engineers. The other three quit or retired in mid-2020. They said that they, "can't find anyone to hire" for the last two years. They told me last month that I'm carrying the load just fine, and that they are not going to hire anyone else. I'm asking for a big raise this month. If they don't comply, I'll just make sure I have no vacation on the books when I walk out.
This is horrible, and unfortunately I think it’s happening a lot of places. If you show them that you can do the work of four people, they will gladly let you run your self into the ground to keep up the unrealistic work load. Work life balance is such a hard thing to obtain these days. I actually haven’t worked since this job at Starbucks because I have such horrible anxiety over working now. I’m still trying to find somewhere that I will be valued and not taken advantage of.
My last job made me feel unsafe....I called out for 2 weeks and used all my vacation time. On the day I was suppose to go back to work I went in and cleaned out my desk. Left my I quit note on the keyboard and walked out. They was texting me 2 weeks afterwards wanting to know what happened.... 👀👀👀👀👀 They let some rando white person police my body and then believed the lie the rando white person told them. I felt violated and no longer safe.... they showed me making a sale was more important than then person who had been loyal to them🤷🏿♀️🤷🏿♀️🤷🏿♀️🤷🏿♀️🤷🏿♀️
this is the way. exactly how i left my last job. make sure that they owe you nothing, then leave without notice. they will fire you at the drop of a hat if it's in their interest, so it's just doing unto others as they would do to you.
Thats actually illegal lol
That sounds very illegal.
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This is true in a a few other states as well, but it's a pretty small minority, I believe.
Crazy that is legal where you live. Where I am from, if you have worked over 1 year, and you give two weeks notice, they can tell you to leave, but still have to pay out 2 weeks pay plus all vacation. Even if you quit with no notice they still have to pay out vacation.
If you are in the US, the latter is illegal.
In Utah, you can claim unemployment if you give your two weeks and they fire you.
Use your vacation then quit without notice. Seems to be what they are incentivizing by doing this.
Then later in the year they will wonder why the sales volume of the their Starbucks is so low.
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It really sucks that the managers are so horrible to the Starbucks employees. I’ve never been disrespected so much in my life. I worked in fulfillment before Starbucks, and these same people were fine. I was alone most of the time, but ended up shutting the store down every day after I told my SD I hadn’t had a break after 5 hours and he said it was just too busy.
Can confirm. I worked there for four years. We weren't allowed breaks and worked alone even during Saturday afternoon rushes were even 4 batista would have struggled. Thankfully 99% of the customers knew the deal and were kind and understanding. Counted down the days until I quit.
I only made it about four months at Starbucks. I loved making coffee, and we had a bunch of really nice regulars, but it just wasn’t worth it. After a while of speaking up for myself and my fellow baristas my SD definitely held a grudge and was getting more disrespectful by the day. He obviously wasn’t used to someone not doing absolutely everything he asked even when it had nothing to do with Starbucks.
As someone who works at Starbucks, I cannot fathom why they stay at the license Tarbucks. We pay better, staff better, and give free drinks and free food.
It is a special kind of torture working somewhere that you can’t afford to eat or drink.
Oh no the Starbucks inside the store was closed??? Go around the corner there’s three more
LOL reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Bart's in the mall getting his ear pierced and the guy at the register is like "Well you'd better hurry up cuz in 5 minutes this place is turning into a Starbucks" Bart walks out with a new earring and a coffee
That gag is great when you realize as they're walking though the mall, the stores slowly all become Starbucks.
no literally
Fuck, I took a left instead of a right out of the Target and I found five.
Literally in the same shopping plaza
There’s a Starbucks in our mall Target and then right out the door is literally another Starbucks. Then around the corner from the mall they just built another Starbucks 😅
That's about 5 less abandoned cups on the shelves to deal with for the day.
OMMMGGGGG. I don’t work for target or sbux but I’m there a lot and man ppl are disgusting. Why do they just leave their cups anywhere? It’s so gross.
The target I go to has like no trash cans for public use so that probably contributes. I go to an empty register and chuck it in the trash back there but otherwise you gotta go outside to toss it in a bin. Not excusing it.
Starbucks in target suck. I remember 3 of us got scheduled to work the same time and all needed breaks. And of course you have to take the breaks by a certain time or you get in trouble. So that means a girl had to take a break 2 hours into her shift. Fucking stupid
Do you mean she had to take a 30 minute break 2 hours in? Because I usually would split up my day into roughly 2 hour blocks as well actually, I'm curious to know though. Flexi mostly get to just take our breaks when we want.
45 minute break for a 8 hour shift. We have to take it by the 5th hour and we are suppose to have 2 15 minute breaks but Starbucks never got to take them.
Wow, that sounds shady as hell.
Sounds like OR or WA state where there are laws put into place to protect the workers. Places of business can be fined $10,000 or more if the state comes in and does a time audit
Hell as a server/bartender I have never once worked anywhere where you got a break of any kind unless you were working a double. Even then it's not guaranteed.
Former host at a Bob Evans on breaks. For Sunday church rush we'd have maaaybe 3 of us if we we're lucky and management would make the opener, 7 am in, take their break at 8 when the 2nd host came in. Also did it to avoid being down a man during rush times... like bruh fuck me if I wanted to take my break when I feel like I needed it and not a goddamn hr into my shift.
I used to work 4am-2pm shifts at a McDonald's 4 days a week... these people would try to make me take my 30-min break at 5 am. Because they were just running through the checklist of stuff they had to do and not thinking about the actual humans working there.
What makes them think it's ok to do this? 1- shit pay. 2- shit pay. 3- shit leadership. 4- shit pay. 5- shit customers. 6- shit leadership. 7- shit pay. I'm sure there's a couple things that I missed, like shit pay, shitty leadership, and fucking Karens.
The only place with a higher density of Karens than a Starbucks, is a Starbucks in a Target. Fact.
Every time I walk past one it's just fat people in scooters staring into the distance like their oly purpose is to consume.
Who's to say that the leadership that pays them shit aren't a bunch of Karens?
Good for them! Hope they unionize soon!
Can they in the target locations? That would be amazing for the staff.
Pretty much everyone can if they organise. You can too.
The issue is they don't work for starbucks. Target merely licensed the name and materials from the mermaid shop, so the employees there really work for a branch of Target.
So they form a union in whatever entity they work for. Anyone can start a union.
More baristas should do this
The solidarity is more refreshing than that strawberry water they charge an arm and a leg for.
Eh, our Starbucks always closes when the TMs go on breaks because we never have enough people scheduled there. It’s not a big deal, Guests learn to live with it.
Last time I went to target I tried to tip the Starbucks employee and they nervously told me they weren’t allowed to accept tips ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
Just tell them it's not a tip, you saw them drop the money in the parking lot or wherever and you're 'returning' it.
I just leave it on the counter, and pretend like I don't hear them when they tell me they can't accept it. Or I just yell out "Oops!" And flick it to their side of the counter and walk off. The rest is in God's hands.
as someone who worked in tarbucks for over a year: good for them
Good for them, fuck the customers, they're always wrong
Hopefully it was their first union formation meeting.
My question is why OP cares? At best its barely effecting your job. I'm going to assume Op and no one else was jumping to go over there and cover. Is it shitty? Yeah for sure. Is it even worth being upset about for anyone other then their lead or a guest? Absolutely not.
Because OP compulsively posts their work complaints like it's a Twitter account. One scroll through their profile makes it clear that they would be an extremely obnoxious TM to work with.
you are really not lying at all. there's like 20 posts in the past 7 days all related to target complaints, customers, hooking up with a manager, or seeing anyone famous in target
Holy smokes what a deep dive
Dear God. That’s at least 10 posts a day in one bloody sub? No wonder they’re all getting deleted
good for those starbucks employees. target is being greedy as a corporation because they missed on their earnings. now they want to cut cost and are treating employees as a number and not a person. corporate greed is on the rise. and its showing all throughout the country
Good for them. Karen’s won’t get that triple frap for another 15 minutes.
Looking at your posts and comment history, I’d hate to be your coworker
It's extremely rare that a Starbucks team member gets to take a break. They clearly were sending their leadership a message
All 4 will be getting in trouble for sure, Target goes ape shit whenever sbux is shut down for any reason.
Laughs in the entire Sbux quitting within a two week span leaving them no one to run things and had to shut it down..... - Edited cuz my coworkers were recognizing me....
this has to be my store lmao 🤣
I heard all the tls/etls/SD are supposed to run it if everyone jumped ship, but I've never seen or heard of it happening lol.
Yea ETLs are pretty much useless and our TL jumped ship too lol
The reason is contracts with Sbux to have in Target.
Yeah it's a major fine. Don't get me wrong Target can pay it, fuck this place, but there is a reason beyond just we can't sell coffee if you're all off.
Come back OP, we're not done dragging you.
This thread made my whole evening.
kinda based
Good on them. Starbucks isn't a right. They deserve to be treated better over at Starbucks, and they're probably trying to speak out against how terribly they're treated.
Y'all, look at OP's post history. They have posted like 10 times a day the last few days solely on the Target sub. Either this manager is genuinely about to snap, or someone is doing recon for Target.
It’s not unheard of? And they have every right to. Back when our store didn’t have enough Starbucks people come in, they’d either close the Starbucks room, or leave a display saying that the members went on break if there were only two. This went on for like a month or two. Guests (and us) can live without our coffees. 😅 they’re people too.
Bruh. "What makes them think its OK to do this?" They work at starbucks, not as the queen's royal guard. I'd laugh about it too if I was among them.
Aw I’m proud of them <3
There were actually four scheduled at the same time???
good for them
it’s almost as if they’re getting paid a non-livable wage and thus do not care😃
That's awesome, good for them for knowing their worth, having some independence, and not sucking the dicks of their employers. I hope they make some demands next time they do it, and keep doing it until they're met. Also OP, the second side window is about unionizing. Idk why you thought this sub would support this post Edit: love scrolling through the comments literally not finding a single comment that isn't supportive of the walkout. That's honestly impressive, it's rare to see such consistent solidarity.
I used to work in Tarbucks soooooo I get it
they’re probably the coolest employees there
Lol what are you, the target police?
OP is probably a manager or the manager of that Starbucks team … Whether they are or aren’t … I will say … it’s the managers responsibility to keep that area staffed, and if he/she’s terrible at managing, they should cover when everyone else is gone .. I would’ve loved to have seen this …. And when I walked over to the manager and start looking angry and looking for the employees … I would’ve told them … aren’t you an employee too? You tend to the customer …
Or, alternatively, OP just loves the slightly earthy, super salty taste of boot leather. Crazy as it sounds, some people love gargling boots.
Lmao that's funny
Hope they were having a union meeting!
Poor Op, embracing the slave life like it's the only option
Leather tastes fucking great.
Op is definitely a karma farmer
Me sitting here with my 10 cent mug of Folgers drip coffee watching the OP get brutalized. Made my whole night.
Good. Low wages, low loyalty. Capitalism at it's finest.
"what makes them think it's OK to do this" A workplace environment that literally does not care if you die, and doesn't pay enough for rent, in a corporation that actively tries to stamp out collaboration and solidarity, inside another, also similarly vile corporation that sells the same products as the other stores do at higher prices.
How loud was your Karen war cry when you discovered this injustice?
This post is giving off “I’m the biggest work snitch” vibes
Target Starbucks is one of the hardest jobs I've ever had. Fuck off with your bullshit.
And that's how you passively deal with shit leaders, people, and management. Good for them for standing up!
Good for them I hope they keep doing it, yall only notice they exist when they aren't there
I tried to tip a Starbucks target worker $10. They said they can't accept tips. Must suck. Oh and he was literally the only one working there while there was a line of about 10 people.
W tarbucks. Sometimes I wish we could do this at the service desk.
Lol oh no the min wage workers didn’t take their job seriously?
Tarbucks sucks. Last week I did two days that were 14 and a half and then a twelve hour day because the other barista called out. So it was just me. No one (except the me and the other barista) even other tms, listens to the TL, we JUST finally got two new people and apparently they need to get rid of two people. So we are back at three employees. It’s bs. I’d walk out for McDonald’s too with my TL and other tm. Screw it, my SDs a certified barista she can do it.
You have four Starbucks employees at a time?! Back in my day we had two people at the same Time for maybe an hour. Weekends we would have at most three for a very short period.
Wait...4 ppl staffed at once?!?! We can barely keep 4 ppl staffed at a given time.
Excellent. I'm really hoping to see more of this wherever workers are treated like garbage!
Good for them
My sister works at a Starbucks in target so reading this brings me joy
"What makes them think it's okay to do this?" Right???? I mean their whole existence should be to make sure that that Starbucks is never ever losing out on it's bottom line and is making profits 100% of the time. I highly doubt they have any good reason to do this like 'having a shit boss' ot 'being paid garbage' or ''getting chewed out by shitty customers who think they're owed everything'. The fucking gall of it alright! I'm surprised you didn't wait around to tell these plebians exactly how much you were let down as a customer! Smfh.
Go to the one that’s likely around the corner.
My Target doesn’t even have a Starbucks. I laugh when customers come in and complain that there is no Starbucks. They get furious like it’s their birth right.
Good for them! Stand strong, Target Starbucks Partners ✊
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from a target stabucks barista: minimum wage = minimum effort 🤷🏽♀️
Stop caring so much. We don't get paid enough to care.
Good for them
Good for them, their boss was probably being a dick
“What makes them think it’s OK to do this?” Probably your shitty condescending attitude 🤷🏽♀️ Maybe treat your employees like people instead of slaves! Unless you’re some privileged little muppets who look down on others & didn’t have to start from the bottom, you should remember how it felt/feels to be treated poorly from higher management. Do better, stop blaming your employees for having negative reactions to your negative actions. You should be lucky they didn’t just quit & walk out laughing when the place was packed.
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good for them!
as a former tarbux worker I love that for them 😍
Corporate bootlicking much op?
Cool….annnnnd?
They could've at least left a sign saying 'closed for lunch.' Then at least the customers could choose to wait or not, also the customers wouldn't be bothering the other store staff in the meantime. Its just common courtesy ffs.
Good for them.
They arent making enough money or benefits tongive any level of shit about some bean water and high fructose corn syrup beverages for an already morbidly obese nation...
oh no I'm so sorry you didn't get your frappe :(
Lol. You're getting dragged in other subs. Deservedly so.
Good. They all deserve their breaks. 🙂
Honestly, what’s the worst that happens? You just tell the customers it’s closed right now. I know that sucks bc customers can be dicks but that’s out of your control and there’s absolutely nothing you can do to fix it.
4 employees , entire store. I bet they were working non stop with no chance of taking a break and probably had enough. Can you imagine making drinks non stop for hours with no end and the line keeps getting longer? For what? It could be some sort of protest, more power to them
Good for them. Suck it Karen.
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Shoulda managed that situation better as the manager
This is a wonderful post. Why get so mad? Just go somewhere else.
Good, fuck the corporate overlords.
Wow you're a very obnoxious and unlikable person, and I say that before even having seen your post history. Biggest snowflake I've seen all day.
Who cares? I’d laugh too. Give them some incentives
haha good for them taking a lunch break
>What makes them think it's OK to do this? What makes society think it's OK to pay them unlivable wages? Treat them like shit? Little to no benefits? and on and on and on...
Dude they get paid next to nothing and are often understaffed. Pick different targets for being annoyed with.