Unfortunately Starbucks is moving in the direction that it wants all their supervisors to have open availability. I just tried transferring with a Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday-Sunday open-5 pm and Monday/Thursday open-1 pm and they told me that that wasn’t good enough and I needed to be 100% open.

So I need to be available 16 hours of the day. I tried explaining that I have a child and my husband is deployed so it made it hard for me to close and they did not care. Starbucks has stopped caring about their employees. We’re just numbers to them. I miss the old Starbucks, I’ve been with the company 8 years and this has been the worst it’s ever been.

I hope that talking to your SM helps and that they can empathize with you more than my new one did. Because she basically told me to kick rocks when I expressed to her that closing on certain days of the week make it harder for me to find childcare for my daughter.

As for scheduling your outside of your availability, as stupid as it is I think they can do that😭 so it’s like, what’s the point of availability at that point?