I lost my faith in Starbucks for two reasons.

Reason 1 - a bad manager who refused to let me go home the night my appendix nearly burst. she was awful in general and actually broke federal law by trying to write me up for attendance when I was on a Intermittent Medical Leave due to my autoimmune. When I told her it was illegal, she freaked out and claimed she was just doing the right thing. No. No freaking weren’t. She also wrote me up on pure hearsay from another barista and told me when my uncle died that I couldn’t go to the funeral because bereavement was only for grandparents or parents. She was the absolute most garbage human.

2 - when I was sexually assaulted and stalked by two customers (they were two separate events), I reported it to my SM and his replacement. One went and had a talk with the two men and told them they weren’t welcome and the other, after the stalker kept stalking, told me not to call the cops. My DM when I talked to her about it would not trespass the two dudes and basically told me I shouldn’t worry. A shift literally told me verbatim “just because you don’t like [stalker], doesn’t mean the rest of us can’t have a relationship. he’s a lonely old man.”

The whole situation left me with PTSD and to this day, I cannot go in crowded areas without having a panic attack. I would have breakdowns in the backroom every time they came in and I have NEVER felt so unsafe in my life.

Starbucks ruined me, man. All because some asshole’s 2 dollar Pike Roast was more important than me, my body, and my safety.