When will these people stop doing dumb things?
Yesterday, when I walked in to work, I was given the news from my team lead: she was going to be trading jobs with one of our GSTLs; she would be learning how to manage the front lanes, and he would come back to Starbucks. (Incidently, this is the same GSTL who was my team lead before I started at Starbucks.) The only reason provided to us by the ETLs is that she did her job too well at Starbucks, and they wanted to give her a challenge.
The thing about the whole thing that really stinks is that she wasn’t given an option. They didn’t ask whether she would like to leave Starbucks; rather, they told her that she would be leaving. At least when I’ve moved my workcenters, they’ve always asked… well, except for that first time when they moved me off the sales floor. Then again, if they’d asked me then, I would have said “YES PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!”. A rather moot point, I suppose.
So what does that mean for me? Well, I have spoken to the guy who’s taking over, and he has told me that he not only wants to get everyone on a set weekly schedule, but he wants to have a mid from 9-5 every day. What will probably happen is, he’ll start looking at the schedule (with 4 of us working full-time and 2 part-timer college students home for the summer) and he’ll figure out that he’s got people who want 160 hours, and he’s only got 120-130 every week to work with. Then he’ll see that he can’t do the mids he wants, so he’ll have to start comprimising, putting some mids as 10-2 and cutting back opening and closing shifts - just like Brandy has had to do since the first of the year.
Then, we’ll probably start having him look at the schedules for Guest Service, Cashier, and Cart Attendant to fill some hours with. If he starts doing that, I’ll volunteer for those shifts, especially if I know Brandy is going to be the GSTL on duty at the time. After all, she’s always been my favorite team lead (which is part of the reason I started at Starbucks in the first place), and even though Starbucks is still my favorite workcenter (for now), having her over there might make the shifts a little more bearable.