All of you managers, how do you handle a unionized store and call outs?
You can only write up employees if they miss 25% of their scheduled shifts.
That’s a crap ton. That’s more than twice a week.
So me as a manager gets absolutely wrecked. I gotta go in to cover ALL of those shifts.
You can’t do ANYTHING to union employees. They game the system big time. They’re protected by ABA laws. Freaking anxiety is an ABA law…
“My head hurts” “I don’t wanna come in today” “I got a party to go to” “my foot itches”
Don’t hit me with the “You’re a manager you signed up for this, you know what you’re getting.”
Yeah, but that’s not good enough. That’s the biggest cop out I’ve ever heard for such an overlooked and problematic position that is a Starbucks manager. If that were the case NOBODY would be a manager.
How the hell do YOU as a manager run a successful store when Starbucks enables its baristas, ASMs, and SS’s to call out as much as 25% of their shifts per period!!!!!!
Do you understand that EVERY DAY you have people calling out of your store. Every. Single. Day.
You have people that just suck at their jobs. They’re lazy, they don’t do anything, they don’t know how to do anything.
And managers HAVE TO FILL IN THAT GAP. We have to come to work cause someone calls out, we have to work the floor and pick up all the slack.
I am so mad at how Starbucks enables all of these positions and absolutely wrecks managers.
There is no way you can run a successful store. Absolutely no way unless you live in an area that doesn’t have young, dumb, entitled workers and customers.
I don’t believe any of you managers run a successful store and you’re probably just as stressed if not worse than me.
Because EVERYONE calls out, EVERYONE wants to unionize, and EVERYONE games the system.
Managers CANNOT game the system. You do everything at our expense.
EVERYTHING is at our expense. Your choices and your decisions to call out and be lazy directly force me to come in and pick up the slack.
I should be able to fire you on the spot for that.