So I’ve been a Starbucks indentured servant (to access the academic benefits) for almost 3 years now. I am a shift supervisor and we recently took on a new store manager in training who has no Starbucks experience of any kind. I understand he’s trying to do whats best for himself and his career, but having feign patience through gritted teeth while I explain the basics of my “unskilled labors” feels outside of the scope of my responsibilities. Furthermore, the training is uncompensated and feels like such a waste of time. I should not be responsible for babysitting an adult male who will be my boss in the future in any minimum wage capacity. Either I’m incompetent unskilled labor orIm capable of training my bosses which means I should be compensated accordingly. The pluralism is mindbogglingly childish. So I implore whomever it may concern: what the actual fuck, Starbucks?
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jul/09/us-starbucks-workers-fired-union-organizing Starbucks is openly and actively engaging in bad faith anti-union tactics. The story above is one of many. We should rally to the aid of our Starbucks siblings in the same way we assisted when Kellogg's was trying to break its workers' strike. To that end, starting 8/1: Stop shopping at Starbucks; Stop buying Starbucks products; If you own shares of Starbucks, sell; and Spread the word; share posts of how Starbucks is abusing its employees and violating labor law. Spread the word of the plan now. We want to see Starbucks' revenue and stocks plunge at the start of august. The boycott continues until: 1. Unionized stores which were closed are reopened; 2. Unionized employees who were fired or let go since the start of the year are reinstated; and 3. Howard Schultz apologizes for his anti-union stances and admits the important role which unions can play in…
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Triggered and Exhausted
I feel triggered and exhausted by my employer. I'm an addiction therapist for an inpatient 30 day program. This facility is under a year old. I'm the short amount of time I've worked here I've seen many reg flags that heeds warning this will be another stereotypical addiction facility in Louisiana. Being acquaintances with the owner doesn't help either. I was hired under the guise that this is a “positive and community driven facility.” I explained to them I have hard work/life boundaries and that family comes first. I explained to them I will leave work by no later than 4:15pm daily. I get to work at 7am daily. This was agreed upon between all parties. However, I didn't get thus in writing. Since then the expectation is and has been set by other therapists with no boundaries to stay late daily, to be available on teams 24/7, and now…
Our upper management says that we all should take our breaks and wants our boss to go in and change all of our time punches to show that we took a break even if we didn't so that they don't have to pay us for that time.
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truth to be told tho
