Starbucks Worker Quits Job After Manager Asks Her To Reschedule Putting Her Dog Down

This worker didn't hesitate to put in her 2 weeks notice for this amount of disrespect.

Senad

• Published in Interesting
• August 16, 2022

This worker publicly embarrassed their employer after they were told to either find a cover for their shift or change the date when they put their beloved dog down. The worker posted their story on Reddit's r/antiwork subreddit under the username u/lailette.

The thread shows the screenshots of a conversation that took place between the worker and their manager. It shows the person's response to the manager after the worker told them they wouldn't be able to make their 5 AM shift because they had to put their dog down.

When you put some thought into it, the idea of finding your cover for a shift is super bizarre. It's a sort of practice that exists because most retailers try to save money on labor costs by never hiring enough staff for their stores.

The reasoning behind this is that if you always running your stores with a bare minimum of employees, you can never waste money by being overstaffed. The biggest problem with operating like this is that all it takes for everything to fall apart is just one sick employee or an overly busy rush.

That's why the policy about staff finding their cover exists as it delegates that responsibility to you, so if anything goes wrong the manager can just blame you. This worker finally got sick of this, and when she was disrespected by her manager who suggested that she should find a different date for putting the family dog down, she didn't hesitate to quit her job on the spot.

Make sure to scroll down to read the entire story, and see what the other users had to say about this whole situation. There's some advice about dealing with managers down there as well, and you don't want to miss that.

The message from the manager about covering those 2 hours just add to this story. Nothing worse than working those few hours that end up ruining your day off.

It's obvious that the OP deeply cared about the family's dog and there was no way she'd be able to work the next say. The manager wasn't understanding.

After 2 and a half years working for Starbucks she decided that she had enough. She wasn't asking for much, but it was still rejected.

The worker felt disrespected by this and didn't hesitate to put in her two weeks notice immediately.

She was told to spread the news to Twitter so more people can see this.

It's the right thing, but always so hard to do.

Some great advice by a Redditor.

Is this just an American thing?

Jobs that don't respect you, don't deserve you.

Bail the two weeks too, why not.

I guess this isn't the only Starbucks with bad management.

Even at PetSmart...

It just doesn't make sense.

The idea of finding your cover has always been crazy to me, and now I've seen a perfect example of why it makes no sense. It's just a way to put the responsibility on you so they can't be blamed for understaffing.

How do you feel about this situation, would you have done the same as the worker?

Senad