I'll be honest. I actually liked my job for a while but the past 4 months of so have been increasingly worse. It would've been my year anniversary of Starbucks, and while it still is, I'm currently on leave. I don't really want to quit as I think I'll go back once I feel I've recovered a bit.

I'll admit Its not entirely Starbucks causing my mental health to decline, but I consider it a major factor. I go into work and it's chaos every time. Apparently someone (or multiple people) call out almost every day and while I hate it I'm not even sure I blame them anymore. There's always some major event going on and every person who likes Starbucks within a 15 mile radius decides they want 10 drinks with 10 customizations each. And no, I dont blame them, despite how annoyed I can be. I blame all the bad scheduling, refusal to hire new people (despite firing several employees, including a major shift lead, and several people quitting). I blame the lack of training. I was barely trained because "only one store employee is trained to train and doesn't do it" and I basically learned by trial by fire, as did everyone else. The last person who was hired told me nobody showed him anything and he received no training. In fact, I took time out of my shifts despite not even being there a year to show him what was in certain drinks. Keep in mind he'd been there for MONTHS and still hadn't been shown the most basic stuff. So only the veterans can bar at this point, everyone else takes turn playing hot potato on drive thru and register until every person who can bar needs a 15. Then for 15-30 minutes it's hell because you're so backed up. I'm not sure other baristas from other areas experienced this but it genuinely is awful at my store.

I'm almost done getting my leave approved and I'll be off a month. I have to get a doctors note I'm pretty sure, or at least I will to play it safe. I'll give it another shot when I get back in a month but if I start loosing it again I think I'll quit. I like being a barista, I like working with customers, my coworkers are great. I just hate Starbucks

This all culminated after I had a complete mental breakdown at work. I actually went in with a good mood and just couldn't do it at all a few hours in. I left early with shift approval and basically said I can't come back for a while, and I'll get a psychiatrist to back me. I feel bad because I'm scheduled for a while but I value my mental health more than the 1/10 drink ticket that popped out peak rush