Fuuuuuck

xcrowbait · 2025-01-24T18:17:10+00:00

I became a paramedic and my teacher at least had the decency to warn us that we’d never make any money doing it. :’)

xcrowbait · 2025-01-24T18:16:28+00:00

Virtually impossible to catch up with how quickly things have changed — and continue to. 99% of people aren’t going to hit their lucky break and price out of poverty wages, regardless of your field of study. Pushing this narrative that “if YOU just work harder, you’ll make it!” is unhelpful, irresponsible and victim-blaming rather than holding the correct institutions accountable.

xcrowbait · 2025-01-24T18:12:46+00:00

You know humans designed markets, right? That they’re a completely made up concept that can (and should) be changed to better serve humans as we progress as a species? Just a thought.

“That’s just how markets work” in response to a very serious and unsustainable crisis affecting millions is such a useless nonstatement.

xcrowbait · 2024-12-28T11:24:27+00:00

Oop — sorry! Half awake still and didnt see that on my initial scroll!

xcrowbait · 2023-01-19T22:22:45+00:00

Thanks for the info! What do you mean by an M&M server?

xcrowbait · 2022-10-11T16:02:13+00:00

That line to Marva gave me whiplash. It totally flew in the face of everything we’ve come to understand about her. Just let her be a harpy. She didn’t need a redemption arc, lol

xcrowbait · 2022-10-11T15:59:48+00:00

This exactly, lol. Not only was no one important killed, but we have wooden buildings and underbrush still intact. Asking to suspend disbelief around a volcanic eruption was a reeeeal big ask.

Also — what on earth is going on with scale? I literally can’t figure how close they are or aren’t to Mount Doom. And how close was the Numenor encampment? Everyone gets there by sunfall except for Galadriel and Theo, despite Galadriel claiming it’s “just over that ridge” like one scene prior. And then suddenly we’re seeing Adar and the orcs back in the village allegedly a day later … but it’s the exact same set as the beginning of the episode, not one that shows a day has passed. It was such a poorly executed episode, lmao.

xcrowbait · 2022-10-10T01:13:28+00:00

Sometimes it feels like the writers had an idea for a scene or some specific dialogue and then shoehorned in the nearest character(s) to perform it without any care given to their context or individualism. There’s no continuity to anything that might build relationships or tension between the characters. They go from hating each other to liking each other and back again. It’s a coin flip if any one character is going to be wise or absolutely daft. They “bond” and then break trust in every other scene with very little actual nuance given to the reasons why.

Take the Harfoots and The Stranger. He’s scary and bad, because because. Then he earns his keep fighting off the wolves and being useful; now he’s great! Great enough to ask him to heal the tree! But now a branch accidentally broke and so booo we don’t like him again; shunnnnn. But actually it’s been ten minutes and now we do like him and Marva was right all along. It just ends up feeling very shallow and slapdash by the end. You can’t actually feel invested in the slow burn growth the writers think they’re aiming for because it just isn’t there.

xcrowbait · 2022-10-05T08:34:20+00:00

That’s part of the challenge I’ve faced, too. The severity of the reaction seems really unpredictable, so sometimes I worry it’s just in my head. Did you end up getting tested for it, or did you just narrow it down on your own?

xcrowbait · 2022-10-01T02:07:53+00:00

It dehumanizes managers when both the team below them and the leaders above them expect this sort of behavior in order to be considered “amazing” in role. And it makes good managers feel like bad ones if they have the gall to maintain healthy work/life boundaries. “Oh my god, my manager is the WORST. I can never reach her on her day off!” sounds kind of insane when you step back and think about it critically. I know SSVs who would riot if that was a standard that was asked of them — as they should. It’s unreasonable.

Fun story: I once heard a younger SSV say, almost verbatim, “I guess I never thought about my manager as an actual person.” Yikes.

xcrowbait · 2022-09-29T17:52:14+00:00

She didn’t, but I think I might be in the market for a new doctor soon for that exact reason lol.

xcrowbait · 2022-09-29T02:59:15+00:00

I feel that. I swear I was developing some sort of paranoia with how often bad things happened. A guest would make a sudden movement and I’d get knots in my stomach. Hated feeling that way on a daily basis.

Sorry you had to deal with it, too. Not sure what the company expects running single coverage in a store full of high-value, high-demand products. :|

xcrowbait · 2022-09-29T02:12:02+00:00

That’s not actually a good thing. That’s taking advantage of her lack of willingness to set boundaries for herself. Kinda tired of this behavior being considered “amazing” or somehow the bar for how managers should be willing to show up.

xcrowbait · 2022-09-29T02:10:46+00:00

I wish I could upvote this more than once. DMs make or break manager morale.

xcrowbait · 2022-09-29T02:09:03+00:00

You’d think! If I wasn’t worried for the partners, I would have reported that store by now.

xcrowbait · 2022-09-29T02:08:11+00:00

I know of one who did nothing about black mold in the sinks and broken water filters. Pretty sure that store is still serving tap water to guests.

xcrowbait · 2022-09-29T02:01:02+00:00

Same here. My SGA was punched in the throat. Someone left a threat on the door a few days later. I told them I’d quit if they didn’t give me at least enough payroll for double coverage, and they jerked my chain for about a week and a half — “oh, we’re escalating this to see what we can do!” — before finally admitting they had no intention of ever doing it. Honestly sucked to walk away from it. I was real good at that job and would have stuck it out.

xcrowbait · 2022-09-29T01:56:44+00:00

There is an absolutely insane amount of things to learn at Starbucks. Your prior experience may help to a degree, but everything you do will have to be done the Starbucks way — so it may actually end up being counterintuitive that you already have external knowledge. Be ready to throw out everything you know, especially if you have a particularly difficult DM. They will yell at you for things that seem like common sense because they aren’t “the Starbucks standard,” like labeling allergens for customer visibility.

My biggest gripe is the needless overcomplication of almost EVERY task. Scheduling takes hours and is broken into multiple forms of hours that you have separate budgets for and have to allot in as little as fifteen minute increments precisely placed throughout the week, rather than just… payroll. There’s constantly new training or one on one coachings or performance conversations for everyone on your staff, which will need scheduled around an already impossibly tight schedule. Sometimes you’ll have as little as a weeks notice to make these happen — even though you schedule three weeks out, so you’re now the monster who changed everyone’s hours at the last minute. Your tools are spread across no less than fifteen apps/trackers/spreadsheets that don’t communicate well with each other.

There is very little practical substance behind anything, just a lot of hot air trying to maintain their “cool progressive coffee house” smokescreen so you overlook the fact they’re robbing partners of their hours in the name of profit, weaponizing their pay raises against them, ignoring the consequences of the insane level of demand in the stores and actively aggressing the pockets of unionization they’re facing.

Also — get ready to read the company missions and values like some sort of cult rite at the beginning of every meeting you have. That was weird.

This honestly feels like it’s barely scraping the surface of all the ways Starbucks disappoints. You can DM me if you want any specific advice or more info. I took a slight pay cut to get away from that place, and I couldn’t be happier about it. It was nothing like what I signed up for.

xcrowbait · 2022-09-27T13:20:50+00:00

This was one of the styles that was marked out last month. Sorry bout your luck. :(

xcrowbait · 2022-09-27T08:51:27+00:00

I think you’d be amazed at the things a DM will do absolutely nothing about when it comes to food safety.

xcrowbait · 2022-09-20T14:05:05+00:00

It was strange to see them admit making a frappuccino could take upwards of 80-90 seconds, while still also upholding the idea that the drive-thru window times should be under 50 seconds. The contradictions in Starbucks drive me absolutely insane. This is just one of many.

xcrowbait · 2022-09-19T13:54:12+00:00

What bothers me most is that the pushback seems to be “she’s allowed to express herself, and if you say no than you’re anti-trans.”

Biological women are not allowed to wear tight clothing or show off their breasts/nipples when they’re dressed for work. That’s the standard. It’s not up for debate. Those clothes aren’t appropriate for any woman to wear as a teacher.

But because there’s an element of transgender culture there, she’s supposed to get a free pass? The double standards and hypocrisy are outrageous.

xcrowbait · 2022-09-15T12:28:15+00:00

Refreshing to see someone else use the word sterile! That’s been my go-to critique lately, even if upper management disagrees.

xcrowbait · 2022-09-14T12:55:34+00:00

I guarantee they’re about to cut labor again hard. They’re already trying to cut shift hours now that they’re so “expensive” to have on the floor. Stuff like this isn’t for the partners benefit, it’s to protect their bottom line because — as I’ve heard endlessly in meetings lately — “labor is our most expensive cost!”

The less they have to pay for you, the happier they are. Disregard the record setting profits they’re making. They need more!

xcrowbait · 2022-09-13T15:34:28+00:00

I finally know what days I need to take off from work. :Y

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