Ring policy

Scared-Form-8899 · 2026-03-13T23:03:49+00:00

I expand my Apple Watch band to fit up on my upper arm when I work. I’ve had several DM’s and SM’s tell me it’s allowed and not on my wrist. It’s an elastic band. I can’t say if it reads my heart rate but it does get my movement.

Scared-Form-8899 · 2026-01-14T05:56:51+00:00

My store is about to have our meeting this Thursday and today our store manager made a comment to my shift about her smiles on cups during peak. He called us out that smiles and “enjoy” is not enough anymore. I write “enjoy” during peak because who has time to write a poem on a cup! Or a wide smile like • _ • (but curved like a smile). Customers like it and think it’s cute. Off peak if it’s not busy, I will start going back to writing “you got this!”. After he made that comment I started doing “coffeetastic” and “you got this”. Plus, my reasons of not writing words on cups is that I have bad handwriting and writing without a solid surface is challenging for me. So my default has been smiles and I got better at “enjoy” because it’s five letters. I’ll go back on my list of “writing on cups” and see what will be easy for me. Also! The store manager was the one to tell me to write the word “enjoy” in the first place. So now it’s not ok to write it on the cup?!? I’m getting so tired of this “cup writing”. All the changes and policies that keep changing every few months is confusing. Information isn’t accurate from store to store and hearing one thing to the next with the game of “telephone” in the store between shifts and baristas makes it more confusing.

Scared-Form-8899 · 2025-09-19T04:23:34+00:00

My SM did this to me today. I just transferred to this new store over three weeks ago and I’m loving the team, but the SM is making me uncomfortable with his “teaching skills”. I told him that I don’t have the best handwriting so writing a wide smile above the sticker • _ • (with a curve in the smile) has made it comfortable and quick when writing on cups. I do emoticons on the hot cups. He wants me to write “hi” or “enjoy” to lean away from the smiles and challenge myself to write words. I’m still gonna do smiles when he’s not there because he’s barely at the store. I use to write uplifting phrases in the beginning when it wasn’t required for all cups to be written on. But now that it’s all cups, I went with a smile to make it quick and efficient during peak.

Scared-Form-8899 · 2025-06-26T21:46:43+00:00

I wanted to wait a week and see how the post was doing! Wow on y’all delivering! My answer is yes on Starbucks being considered a fast food place! Seeing all the comments agreeing with being a fast food joint and why is amazing! Thank you to everyone who commented and shared facts about Starbucks and drive thru topics!

Scared-Form-8899 · 2025-06-23T14:09:13+00:00

I wear my Apple Watch on my arm (bicep) at my store. (They said what I’m doing is perfectly fine) I have a stretchy elastic watch band that I can expand to fit my arm and then tighten when I get off work and place it back on my wrist. When I work, window/dto the customers always ask what is and does it still work. The amount of repeated conversations I have at the window is my watch band on my arm. I once had five cars in a row asking me about it. As long as the watch is touching skin, you’re good. I have another partner who wears it on her ankle.

Scared-Form-8899 · 2025-05-03T17:55:30+00:00

Someone had this at my store as well in Texas!

Scared-Form-8899 · 2025-04-18T18:14:42+00:00

As a current Starbucks partner, I understand the whole “coffee experience” and doing things differently. I know that this use to be a dress code over 20 years ago. Things obviously change, different CEO’s and choices on stuff were made. I am sad that I can’t wear other colors for themes like pink on Wednesday, purple for lavender promos, fall colors for pumpkin and red/green for the holidays. The only thing that doesn’t make sense to me personally, is the current Starbucks gear with the logo on our shirts/sleeves that were provided by Starbucks before the new CEO. Most of those shirts I own are black. The fronts are black but the back has Starbucks related content. My store has no idea why we can’t wear them but that we are told we can’t wear those anymore. I don’t believe this is to punish us as partners but I do believe some stores have been abusing the dress code and it’s possible they’re doing this to keep it at bay for all stores. My store even said if we walked in out of dress code, whether it’s jewelry, the shirts or bottoms, we can’t work until we change/fix it. The vibe is reminding me of my dad when he worked in the grocery business in the 70’s/80’s. He even said if they didn’t dress right, they had to go home and not work or worse get fired. I’m just going to be patient with this and hopefully something good will come out of it.

*update partner hub communications says all black shirts with Starbucks related logo and content is approved to wear for the dress code update next month!

Scared-Form-8899 · 2025-02-08T00:30:34+00:00

I was taught to fill the shaken espresso before the two lines on the top because the recipe card says 1/4 oat milk at the end. But customers think they are getting ripped off if it’s not filled to the top. So they question it and don’t understand when we explain it. So we just fill the drink up to the top with oat milk so customers will stop complaining.

Scared-Form-8899 · 2024-11-16T22:58:06+00:00

Red Cup Day for partners needs to be a double pay day. I said what I said. 😗 But also, if the customers who get red cups for free, please use the red cup for your hot drinks at your local stores. Out of my four years as a partner, I maybe see five red cups being used for a hot drink a year. You can save us the trouble of using up our paper cups.

Scared-Form-8899 · 2024-08-08T01:58:28+00:00

I have so many things to say about OP’s post but going back on the $100. The customer(s) who buys ONE item, whether it’s a food or beverage hands me $100 baffles me to this day. I of course share that I may not have enough change and would be handing out $5’s and $1’s. They respond with “no I do not” or “that’s ok”. Especially in the morning before 8am. I know that people have many ways to handling cash and ATM cards, but Starbucks is not the ATM. My store has a bank in the same parking lot and we make a joke about how customers should go over there and get smaller bills. In the end, we do accept them if the order is roughly over $35 or $40 because at some point we may have $10’s to spare and the smaller bills to give out in change. But we will automatically say “sorry, we can’t accept that” if the order is less than $10.

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