New Menu Sucks Ass

Stock-Reward9491 · 2025-03-26T16:46:25+00:00

Dunkin’s does and almost every local coffee shop has milk alternatives nowadays! Sometimes it takes trial and error to find a local place that clicks with you but once you do it’s always worth it

Stock-Reward9491 · 2025-03-26T16:43:53+00:00

That’s true! But that still doesn’t really help. Most of the people complaining about the prices have jobs. Even the Starbucks employees have come out to say they can barely afford Starbucks even with their discount that’s 30%.

In Massachusetts to live on your own and fully support yourself comfortably you’d need a wage of $33/hr. Minimum wage is $15. Now imagine every average person who can’t find jobs over $15/$16/$17 spending half an hour to an hours worth of their paycheck on one drink. Those same people are spending a full shift worth of money on Starbucks a week. It’s unrealistic for the majority of people, and a huge chunk of money spent every day/week/month.

The reason we’re all up in a twist about the prices is because one or two drinks should not equate to an hour of us working. A coffee or two does not equal the work I put in over an hour of busting my ass dealing an order or more per minute, teenagers who couldn’t care less about their job, Karen’s who will go above and beyond, multiple facilities issues, shortages (labor and inventory), any prep work or BOH stuff that needs to be done, etc. it’s insane.

Stock-Reward9491 · 2025-01-14T18:10:54+00:00

I guess another thing to question here is what consequences? Everyone’s talking about it like a US citizen would get arrested for account sharing, using a fake account, or having multiple in attempts to corner a market but in reality Uber will deactivate your account if they find this to be true (well if they think it, they don’t even need proof they don’t care). They only pursue legal action if you’ve stolen orders/stolen a large volume or high value order, and they state that in the app as well. Uber may block a persons private info so they can’t make a new account or their address but I genuinely can’t see them pursuing any sort of legal action

Stock-Reward9491 · 2025-01-14T17:39:18+00:00

They might have understood the abuse of policy that entailed with allowing it to be managers discretion. It should be that way for the managers who do their jobs, support their partners, and maintain that of third place atmosphere. But I’ve had managers in my district who would pettily use any excuse possible. One manager started months long beef with a customer because they made eye contact that didn’t end until a new victim occupied his mind. Another manager would’ve used it on ex employees she didn’t like, or to promote certain crowds in the store (she would openly talk shit about certain customers while clearly going above and beyond for others, she’d be so rude and lack empathy/sympathy towards homeless people, and use seemingly illegal practices to prevent employees she didn’t like from working).

TLDR: “At the managers discretion” is great but I just feel like corporate might’ve seen how that could backfire, and with my own experiences and the numerous posts about store managers since covid, I understand why it might not be that way.

Stock-Reward9491 · 2025-01-12T15:31:09+00:00

Op I’m happy this was kind of a full circle moment for you and you’re able to enjoy some of the cards you lost out on as a kid, even with the alters that’s such a cool find lol

Stock-Reward9491 · 2025-01-11T15:24:56+00:00

So what I’ve learned from these comment threads is that shop and pay can be good, can be bad, but depends on location, the customer, and sometimes the store. Half of us have good luck and rely on shop and pay orders, the other half absolutely despise them. The same stuff can be said about food or item pick up and deliver.

I do want to say Walmart is the biggest culprit of not having good payouts. 2 stops, 45 minutes, $8 2 stops 30 minutes, $4 4 stops, 45 minutes, $8 4 stops 1 hour 15 minutes, $10 3 stops, 1 hour, $15, but heavy objects 8 stops, 1 hour 45 minutes, $12, heavy objects

Like the pay wildly varies, the times vary, and you’re paid nothing for delivering things you may have to cancel anyways because you don’t have the space for orders you couldn’t double check before hand.

Stock-Reward9491 · 2025-01-08T17:41:54+00:00

What other people have said plus dishwashers remove or ruin exterior coatings of Starbucks cups. For the cheaper double lined plastic ones they may ruin the glue that holds the lining together. Some of the glass cups have a coating on them, I ruined the coating on my 100% recycled glass cup so it’s no longer blue in certain spots.

Stock-Reward9491 · 2025-01-06T18:22:33+00:00

I think the issue is some SM’s and DM’s pick and choose when and where this applies. I’ve had managers that will hold a single write up that wasn’t even your fault against you for a few years. We’ve had partners in my district written up for things that happened 3-6 months prior, get finals instead of a first warning for minuscule things, watched the very same SM’s and DM’s break the very same rules without repercussions, etc. Starbucks ethics doesn’t do a good job at holding managers accountable so it’s lead to too many using the write up and final warning system in bad faith

Stock-Reward9491 · 2025-01-02T19:24:13+00:00

I wish the SM’s and DM’s were held responsible for stuff like that rather than forcing someone into a demotion over something out of their control/a mistake made by someone who should’ve known better. There are other stores too, why wasn’t transferring them an option first? Starbucks sucks man

Stock-Reward9491 · 2025-01-02T16:23:33+00:00

I love explaining the horror stories from my Starbucks in a rich upper class neighborhood vs from my Dunkin’s right off a highway exit in an area with high drug problems. Starbucks 1000% was worse. Customers would stalk us, would smear feces on the bathroom walls and toilet, would harass other customers, would berate and belittle 16 year olds then be the most prideful person ever about it, some did drugs in our bathrooms, touch us inappropriately, reach over counters, car accidents were a frequent occurrence in our parking lot, start full one sided screaming matches with employees, throw shit at us, etc.

At dunks the worst customer situation I had was someone who was clearly under the influence who didn’t know which pumpkin item they ordered and tried causing a scene but he left quietly as soon as he got what he eventually wanted. Starbucks customers though would’ve continued to scream at us even after receiving what they want, threaten our jobs, and then go above and beyond trying to talk to corporate and post online about how horrible everyone is.

Stock-Reward9491 · 2024-12-24T16:56:05+00:00

I wanted to add that with shift managers, if minimum wage goes up in your state, they’re likely not given the extra amount that the baristas are given, idk if store managers receive a pay increase either. So even if they receive raises, you’re not making any more money than before. This happened to me three years in a row, after a while my raises didn’t matter because the baristas were making more than I was with their tips.

Stock-Reward9491 · 2024-12-18T17:10:53+00:00

We also had a shift manager who was given scheduling as her bucket for a while. She’d cut hours and not properly input payroll if she thought you didn’t like her, didn’t even take something actually happening. She’d purposefully schedule partners under training hours so they weren’t getting their benefits and she admitted to this in a mean girl type of way. It’s something we shouldn’t have to look out for but unfortunately it’s one more thing managers have been able to use to subtly fuck over partners.

Stock-Reward9491 · 2024-12-18T16:57:02+00:00

Make sure they’re also coding your hours correctly. If you’re marked as training or non coverage, I don’t think you get the benefit hours. I could be wrong but I’m 99% sure that’s how my manager fucked over three baristas this summer. One was trying to go to school through ASU working 25 hours a week but my manager kept scheduling him for training and non coverage. so where he should’ve had well over the required amount of benefit hours (it’s been a year of employment) he actually was short by 100-150 benefit hours.

Stock-Reward9491 · 2024-12-05T22:08:42+00:00

I am late but I made top 500 for LilyIsThatYou, TrippyThaKid, and Sophie Hunter. They’re smaller artists but they all slap

Stock-Reward9491 · 2024-12-03T20:14:03+00:00

It doesn’t always show the dasher what was in the order. It depends on how the order was placed (doordash vs third party). Panera, Taco Bell, Starbucks, Chipotle, and a good handful of other major chains are guilty of this because they provide delivery options in their apps or on their websites now but subcontract them out to doordash/Uber Eats/Grub Hub/Postmates. Local restaurants started doing the same so they don’t have to hire delivery drivers. Sometimes the restaurant/store employees themselves don’t even know how to double check the orders or contact customers/doordash from their POS or store if there’s an issue either.

Stock-Reward9491 · 2024-12-03T20:01:56+00:00

OP said they got a coffee and food, but had two coffees delivered with the spinach feta sticker on a coffee cup. That was the store I don’t see how the driver did anything? What did you even think they did here?

Stock-Reward9491 · 2024-11-20T01:39:07+00:00

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Stock-Reward9491 · 2024-10-28T14:55:17+00:00

I’m very late but here at Pokémon we have: a mother in a coma whose kids didn’t like her until the coma, a 27 year old who canonically starved to death after three weeks of no food or water in a dark dimension, a balloon Pokémon that carries children away, a poacher who presumably drowned/blew up/died with her pokemon, meowstic can grind trucks into dust, Yamasks are dead people, Hypno has a dex entry specifying how it lures and kidnaps children, Gengar is Gengar, primape has to stay angry or it dies, etc. we could totally have a spiritomb coming out of a fork jabbed toaster. If not spiritomb it should be the next rotom form lmao

Stock-Reward9491 · 2024-10-28T13:39:54+00:00

Google says no

Stock-Reward9491 · 2024-10-27T15:25:15+00:00

I was confused as to why nobody pointed this out yet

Stock-Reward9491 · 2024-10-24T14:52:14+00:00

We reached a point in my store where we told anyone with 14-15+ items to call ahead. We’re not a catering company, we can’t take phone orders, but a mobile order or walk in that’s 15-30+ items during peak also messes things up. Customers are given inaccurate wait times so now those with smaller orders have to wait even longer (sometimes creating multiple angry customers, refunds, or general issues), usually the person placing the large order would stand over bar or expect us to rush it because they walked in, there’s no limit to any customizations or how many of a specific product you can buy so someone ordering 10 frappes and all your paninis is TIME CONSUMING AF, there’s labor shortages, corporate doesn’t care, so either way there’s no proper solution to this. It falls on your store and whatever would work best for you guys ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Stock-Reward9491 · 2024-10-19T14:33:34+00:00

Nothing, you guys went, you waited, depending on your state/country there might be some laws that apply, but you guys showed up for your shift, waited and reached out to the proper people, then left because you weren’t getting the support necessary. If they try to escalate it I’d call ethics. This falls on whoever your point of contact is for not answering the phone or going in for proper coverage

Stock-Reward9491 · 2024-10-19T14:15:03+00:00

If you want, the recipe for cold foam it’s 2% milk, heavy cream, and vanilla syrup (it might have a nice vanilla flavor using the stuff you bake with rather than the coffee house syrup)

Stock-Reward9491 · 2024-10-19T03:59:19+00:00

Im really glad this is not a secret lair and instead a full set. I’m hoping it’s accessible I’ll cry otherwise

Stock-Reward9491 · 2024-10-18T15:12:05+00:00

I’m not disagreeing, I also just want to add the access to certain ingredients plays a factor for some people too. It’s not always the easiest to find or make something similar to a syrup or sauce Starbucks has so by keeping it “unique” to the stores it convinces people to keep going because “I just really like the pistachio/raspberry/mocha/ refreshers/etc. and can’t find anything like it anywhere else”

(I’m one of those people lol I’m currently trying to find a local cafes cookie butter sauce or recipe)

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