u/l0rdcreepypeepee

I know we arent allowed to drink anything on the floor and can only keep our drinks in the back of house, the latter of which makes sense to me for coffees, but could I get permission to do it with a fulle enclosed water bottle?

Basically im on a medication that dehydrates me faster than the average person.

Im almost exclusively kept on the warming position where the ovens can make it kinda hot, its summer, im in a very humid location, and I am alway scheduled for peak so it is too busy for anybody to step off the floor to drink water. Before starting this medication I was often coming home dehydrated, since starting I have had increasing issues directly caused by dehydration, including fainting.

I have told my store manager about this, usually shes good about working with us on these things but she said theres nothing she can do.

Im not continuing to risk my health, im sick of feeling like crap all the time. This is such a small thing with an easy and obvious solution and frankly I think the fact that we cant have water with us in the first place is genuinely cruel. I know sbux isnt then only place to do it, but I dont think anywhere should ever be refusing to let workers have access to basic necessities.

Who can I contact to just have a water bottle with me? I can absolutely have my doctor write a letter on why I need this. I have no idea how to start the medical accommodation process, no idea where to look or who to contact for info on it.

If you got out, how did you do it?

This industry is breaking my body and mind, if cant do it anymore. I have no means to get a better job, my family was too poor to send me to college as a kid and its not like being a waiter and barista and shit was ever going to allow me to afford that on my own, I cant handle that kind of debt so school has never been an option and never will be.

I know there are trade schools, im trying to find something that doesnt sound miserably boring but at this point maybe I should settle for something mind numbingly dull that I have no interest in because even if I end up unhappy with that I'll at least be able to pay my rent. As long as it doesnt end me right back up in a position of getting yelled at by entitled office grunts like I have to deal with now.

I dont even know where to apply or get started

I genuinely dont know where my skills transfer

Honestly how the actual fuck do I get out this. I feel like im actually stuck here for life like am I just supposed to bounce between different locations with toxic managers and owners who dont know what the fuck theyre doing, working with shitty highschoolers, talking to entitled assholes who dont even tip, letting peoeple treat me like shit and make my life hell and then going to the next place to do it all over again until my body is so broken that I cant anymore or I just get so tired that I kms in front of a customer (god I wish)

My miis all keep asking to live together with miis that already have roommates, so I just keep making their shared home bigger. I want them to jusy keep doing it until I hit the limit because I think its kinda funny.

I dont have a good pic but the Kawaii Kittens household contains:

Fluttershy and Ghostface (couple)

Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way

Nosferatu (grandfather to Ebony)

An OC named Francine Fritters

Hatsune Miku, who I might move out if I can get a vocaloid exclusive household started

Edit: typos 🫣 pretend you dont see the one in the title ok

Im desperate to get out of the service industry. I have my GED but no way to further my education because I cant take on the financial strain of college, and I dont have the time and energy to slowly work through a degree while working.

I am looking for advice on certifications or classes I can take to further my opportunities and get myself into just literally any stable and consistent job with medical benefits.

I desperately need to get out of this job. Over the year and a half ive been here its gone from a great job to one of the most stressful experiences of my life. I wont bother putting in a text wall about all the issues but this place is actively destroying my mental health and I am unable to keep up with any other aspect of my life at this point. I seriously cant take it anymore.

Unfortunately I was never able to take advantage of the college benefits, which is one of the reasons I got this job in the first place since I'll never be able to afford any kind of further education on my own, so I only have skills and experience in food service and retail.

People who have moved on to similar workplaces where the skills you have from food service translate over well- where did you go?

I need medical insurance, I have 5 prescriptions i need to keep up with regularly in order to remain alive and functioning as a human being and I definitely can't afford them without a good insurance plan.

I like having dental but I didnt have it before so im used to just letting my teeth be fucked up.

Ive been at my store for about a year and a half, its the longest ive kept a job and the most ive been able to get along with coworkers, and I used to be able to keep a really consistent balanced schedule that rly worked for me.

We have a DM whose been increasingly hard on us and pushing for higher results and we've been losing partners without receiving any replacements despite the fact that we all know our SM is interviewing people and passing them along foe the 2nd interview and we're constantly told we have new people coming or that we'll get transfers who are then sent to other stores in the district. The stress of being understaffed has resulted in even more people quitting (ontop of our DM firing someone without even telling the SM??) And now we're legit at skeleton crew status and I can't take it anymore, Im insanely stressed all the time, all I do outside of work is sleep and anxiously anticipate my next shift, I need to reduce my hours to focus on other aspects of my life but instead im being given more hours, I feel like im going crazy

Everyone keeps telling me to transfer and just get to a different store or district but the friends I have who do transfer aren't having much of a better time at their current locations either tbh. I feel like im just falling apart and its not going to get any better at a different store, and when we're this short staffed would they even let me transfer?

I guess the other issue is that if I get another job all I qualify for is food service and it won't offer the medical insurance that I need. Part of the whole reason I got this job was so that I could try to stay somewhere long term and take advantage of the college benefits once I had my life a little more together and move onto something better eventually but now that im at the point where I would start to do that im so busy that I dont even want to think about it

A little over a year ago, not very long after id started, our store got a new DM. Morale has been on a decline ever since. I dont want to go into tooooo big of a text wall but basically he pushes us too hard, makes changes that are an active detriment to the store, constantly criticizes us and makes everyone feel like they arent doing good enough despite the fact that our store *is* doing well and meeting all their little numbers and goals and everyone is working very hard.

We're a very high traffic store and multiple partners have left lately, nobody he interviews is good enough to hire so we're not getting enough replacements (and I know for a fact they're interviewing people, they've been interviewing people all year at this point). Partners are constantly flexing multiple positions, we dont have enough people to cover shifts if we need it, and more people keep leaving because of how much it sucks. The stress level in the store has gotten so intense its like we can barely talk about anything except how badly we all want to quit.

Ive talked with my SM about it and she even wants to transfer out of the district so that she doesn't have to deal with him anymore. I feel awful too because she's a great manager, the store was apparently doing really poorly before she showed up and by the time I got there it was just a really good vibe and things were really chill despite all of the bull that just comes with being at sbux. Shes honestly the best manager I've had and I know shes just constantly being criticized and talked down to and despite putting in so much effort and trying to make this a better place to work at in any way she can without him shutting her down.

It's not like there's a specific incident to report or anything though, so what could we actually do? If its to the point where everyone is anxious even just hearing that hes coming to the store and this many people have issues with the way he's doing his job then isnt there something we could do about it? Would a bunch of us calling ethics/compliance do anything? Im worried it would just piss him off and make things worse because I feel like sbux is probably just going to do nothing at all