Corporate Sbux: 249xxxx Target Sbux: 7488xxxx

Before I begin this post I want to make it known I've held many different jobs. I've worked security, at a deli, retail, been a server, dishwasher (and a rice chef for a day), worked in two or three warehouses and at the airport marshalling aircraft. And I'm only 22.

But out of all the jobs I have to say Starbucks has been the most formative job experience simply due to the infrastructure and culture that permeates it's customers and employees on a daily basis. I was there for 8 to 9 months (short, I know, but it's the longest I've held one job) and with what I learned there, I got a job at Target Starbucks which I wouldn't have been able to tolerate if not for my corporate Starbucks experience. And I was at Target for about 8 months. Now, I'm going to whole foods to work in the allegro department making coffee.

What I want to get at, is why tolerate corporate Starbucks if they give you the skills to work some place else which values your experience, pays more, and ask you to do the same thing? Corporate Sbux in Kendall Miami: 9.20 Corporate Sbux lead in Miami: 11.20//11.50 Target Sbux in Miami: 12.00 50cents for exp (plus that dollar raise in January = 13.50) Whole foods: 15 dollars starting.

It boggles my mind to see this mentality of refusing to move forward, or settling for petty promotions infect almost all the baristas I know. At my old corp sbux their manager went on a vacation right when the pumpkin spice dropped a whole season early and left a bunch of green beans with two new shifts to fend for themselves. This happened constantly when I worked there. When I told them about whole foods or Target which will pay you more to deal with this crap, they replied with "But isn't it hard at whole foods? Aren't you alone at Target?" I've seen baristas start crying on the floor, have little mini breakdowns twice a week, I've seen mental health deteriorate, I've seen baristas fall short on many of their bills because Sbux simply doesn't pay enough, I've seen a shift deal with a severe vertigo issue and do oven at the same time (she fell over a lot). These things just didn't happen at any of the other jobs I've had. Ever. So tell me, why are you still here? Why do you put up with it?

Inb4 someone says they just can't live without their co-workers. TL;DR: do you think you're paid enough for your tears