You work a $9/hr job (that is, a dollar above minimum wage).

You have a new manager.

Schedules are posted at least a week or two in advance.

You properly scheduled time off a month and a half ago in order to accomodate an important and mandatory non-work event.

It is one of your days you booked off. You go into work to check your schedule ahead of time, and discover you are working TODAY.

You warn your supervisor that you may be a little late due to important non-work event, also today, but assure them you will be there.

You get in trouble, and are told it's YOUR responsibility to ensure that scheduling (the manager's job) is done correctly.

BS?

I think so.

* * *

Admittedly, I probably should have checked further ahead of time to ensure that my days off made it into the schedule, because the manager is new. However, is it MY responsibility as a just-above-minimum-wage-worker to routinely check that the manager's work (who gets paid the equivalent of 3-6 times more, depending) is done correctly?

I think that while I may have been able to prevent a scheduling conflict if I had been more attentive, it is not necessarily then MY responsibility - ie. it should not be MY fault because the MANAGER can't do his/her job properly.

A note of warning: don't work for Starbucks. They're a good company that tries to care about its employees, and they offer a lot of great benefits. However, they pull BS like this all the bloody time. It's YOUR responsibility to check up on your manager. It's YOUR responsibility to be a happy, cheerful person, even when you're not working (I actually got in trouble on my review for this one, too). It's YOUR responsibility to care about the company and be knowledgeable, even if you're not being paid for it.

I believe in doing my job, and doing it well. I even believe in sometimes doing thankless duties that are not necessarily part of my job description, that are not something I'm paid for. However, I also believe in not being taken advantage of, and not being EXPECTED to go above and beyond what I'm being paid for.

I should not be expected, as a $9/hr employee, to care as if I'm being paid $20-50/hr. I bloody HATE that.

I wouldn't mind so much if this BS wasn't so much an integral part of Starbucks and happening ALL THE TIME... but, well, what can I do other than quit?

End rant.














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