My store manager was insisting today that the new target exclusive cake pop merch launches tomorrow on Oct 6th? She wouldn't listen to us when we told her *all* of our sirens eye stuff says Oct 13th
Basically just the title, I'm just looking for clarification on if there's some news our kiosk missed or if my store manager is just straight up wrong???
For context:
She asked one of my coworkers last minute to come into work early tomorrow on the 6th to help with the launch and has already shifted his schedule for it.
My other coworker went to the back room and told her outright *every* communication we have from Starbucks about it says Oct 13th, but she wouldn't listen to him and just "no it's actually the 6th now" or something like that.
We reprinted out the weekly update pages, we triple checked all of our sirens eye stuff, we checked the app and Starbucks website, we looked for news of the launch being rolled up a week and we can't find *anything* saying it launches on the 6th.
She's not exactly a "great" manager and generally shows a very "neglectful" attitude towards the kiosk. Giraffe level oversight is her superpower, but she's also very slow to admit when she's wrong. She typically gets defensive and pushes back harder if people critique her or her behavior.
Im worried that she's wrong and that we'll get in serious trouble with corporate if we sell the merch this early, but I'm also worried that if we point to the evidence and say "NO, sorry but you're wrong!" She'll just get angry at us for being "disrespectful" and punish us with write ups or whatever.... So I thought it might be worth leaving a post up here and seeing if anyone has heard anything about the launch being moved to the 6th??? Or if maybe my manager is in fact just wrong this time?