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Starbucks Employee Breaks Down In Tears After They’re Scheduled To Work 8 Hours
Recently, a Starbucks barista shared a video of themselves having a meltdown and it has become the center of attention on the internet.
The clip shows the employee sharing their thoughts on management and rude customers, but it was what the person said about their schedule that divided the online crowd.
The barista — who is also a student — said that a 25-hour week and 8-hour shifts during the weekend were too much for them to handle.
Immediately, one group of Twitter users started calling them soft and spoiled, while the other defended them saying that worker exploitation has many faces.
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In a now-viral video, they complained mostly about the schedule and management
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And highlighted the need to unionize
Getting a degree in the US is expensive. Even the locals underestimate its cost. According to the 2021 Fidelity Investments survey College Savings & Student Debt, 38% of high school students and 1 in 4 parents believe that attending one year of college will set you back $5,000 or less, but this number is way smaller than what they’re likely to pay at public and private four-year colleges. (In addition to tuition and fees, students must also pay other expenses such as housing, food, and books, which can run into thousands of dollars a year.)
Of course, it depends on what college you go to. The average cost of tuition and fees to attend a ranked public in-state college is about 74% less than the average sticker price at a private college ($39,723). But that’s still $10,423 for the 2022-2023 year. And the average cost for out-of-state students at public colleges comes to $22,953 for the same year.
So it should come as no surprise that many, just like the person who made this video, have to work if they want to graduate. In 2020, the percentage of full-time undergraduate students who were employed was 40 percent (additionally, the share of part-time undergraduates who were employed was 74 percent).
But that usually gets you only that far. In fact, there are 42.8 million borrowers who have federal student loan debt and the average balance is $37,787 (although the total average balance (including private loan debt) may be as high as $40,780).
Student loan debt in the United States totals $1.745 trillion.
As the student loan forgiveness plan is making headlines, many Americans are praising the government for granting relief. However, drained by years of financial crises, many more are still devastatingly unable to afford to pay for gas and buy essentials, let alone afford repayments of a five-figure debt.
After surveying 2,000 Americans, the team at ELVTR, an online education platform, told Bored Panda in a statement that this is how people in the country are impacted by their student debt:
- 63% are still struggling with federal loan payments despite a forgiveness plan;
- 60% of educated Americans earn less than some of their friends without a degree;
- 32% had to delay starting a family because of student debt, and 53% could not afford to travel;
- 36% regret taking a loan, while 77% regret their higher ed choices.
The results are staggering. Roman Peskin, CEO of ELVTR, said: “The United States higher education system is broken following decades of decline. Students give up years of their life and enormous sums of money in pursuit of the American Dream: a well-paid job, and the means to enjoy life and live comfortably. It turns out that those desires remain merely a dream for the vast majority of graduates. They end up learning an assortment of potentially useful skills and subjects, yet master none… and at a significant cost to their financial and mental health. With the cost of college rising faster than inflation, the situation is only getting worse. Loan forgiveness, while a great initiative, is really just a Band-Aid — before we dress the wound, we need to stitch it up first.”
So while everyone is entitled to their own opinion about the way this particular person is handling the pressure, I hope we all can agree that looking down the line and seeing such hardship can put an enormous amount of stress on you.
At first, the barista received a fair share of support
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Lately, Starbucks employees have been really vocal about their jobs. Earlier this month, for example, workers at over 100 locations went on strike in the next stage of the chain’s union effort. The walkouts coincided with Starbucks’ Red Cup Day, one of the company’s busiest days of the year.
CNN reported that over 2,000 employees took part. The union said it was striking to protest the retaliation taken against union supporters nationwide. It was also protesting what it characterizes as the company’s refusal to bargain with the union on a first labor deal.
There are 264 stores that have voted in favor of union representation, but no contracts have yet been negotiated even at stores that voted nearly a year ago.
“This is to show them we’re not playing around,” said Tyler Keeling, a 26-year-old union supporter who has worked at a Starbucks in Lakewood, California — near Los Angeles — for the last six years. “We’re done with their anti-union retaliation and them walking away from bargaining.”
In the past, the company has denied it has retaliated against any employee for their support of the union, and it has blamed the union for the lack of progress at the negotiating table. Starbucks has defended the firings of union supporters that have taken place as proper enforcement of rules that apply to all of its employees, who it refers to as “partners.”
But the National Labor Relations Board — which oversees union representation votes — filed in federal court for a national cease and desist order to prevent Starbucks from retaliating against union supporters.
The NLRB filing said that there had been a “number and pattern of Starbucks’ unfair labor practices … particularly discharges” against union supporters at its stores.
But as time went by, they got plenty of negative reactions and people started having heated arguments about today’s state of customer service
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Debbie 2 years ago
8 hour shift is not too long, but if it are 8 hours shifts while being continuously understaffed and yelled at, then the shifts are hard. The duration of the shift isn't the problem - the lack of other employees and lack of manners of customers, lack of authority to be able to put up a sign "We're busy, wait time is longer" that is what makes this not a good working condition. Also to study 40+hrs and work more then 24hrs in one week is a lot imo. Either there is hardly time to study or hardly time to live. Bottom line of this post imo: It's not the duration of the shift. It's the conditions of the shift.
chrissy goodman 2 years ago
i stopped going to starbucks not only cuz prices r ridiculous but bc of some of the customers. every time ive ever gone in a starbucks there is always a couple ppl online who complain the staff is too slow, their name was spelled wrong, food wasnt warmed up enough etc. one time wen i was on line someone even criticized the cashier for having blue hair and a tattoo on her arm saying how someone like her shouldnt work their and it makes the place look bad. i have an anxeity disorder just being around ppl like that causes me anxeity so if i really want starbucks i go to one with a drive thru. i think starbucks just attracts a certain type of crowd. im not saying everyone is like that but it definitely attracts those who r.
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waddles 2 years ago
say it with me: just because your life is worse does not mean their life isn’t bad
Mary Bank 2 years ago (edited)
YES, this young man's rough time doesn't mean you can belittle him because you were in the military or are an overworked nurse. WTF is wrong with people that they have to make it about them all the time? TO CLARIFY - this young man is over worked and I am sure grossly underpaid with no support from his managment, you can see just how tired and broken he is, and then instead of WAVES of support and understanding (service jobs SUCK and covid made them worse not better) people are telling him to 'adult' and man up. It's gross. Be supportive, be kind or just keep it to yourself if you can't.
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N Miller 2 years ago
So - an 8hr shift is not long, even on your feet, I was doing 10hrs every Saturday in retail at 16. However, if it's 8hrs on both Saturday AND Sunday, as well as hours worked during the week AND studying full time - then it becomes a lot. It becomes too much. It's about perspective. And that's without the disrespect of the customers etc. (Three hours of disrespect is two hours and 59.5 minutes too long). So yeah - the clickbait headline of "Tears because they're scheduled to work for 8 hours" is going to come across as GenZ bashing. The deep dive into the story tells more of the truth. And I bet most of the comments didn't make it that far.
tl gmc 2 years ago
Before working my now comfortable desk job, I had worked retail and in food service. Food service is the most difficult, but this is normal and not unreasonable shifts
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Carol Emory 2 years ago (edited)
I worked part-time while attending classes full-time. It is hard because, regardless of the schedule, you still need time to study and keep up with your classes. These days, most professors act like their class is the only class you're taking so they load you up with assignments. For every hour of class, you spend 4 hours doing outside homework. That being said, the problem here isn't with Starbucks and being unionized, it's with the managers and their lack of being able to support their crew. Saturdays and Sundays are brutal at Starbucks and the local Starbucks here shut down their mobile orders about mid morning to be able to keep up. Instead of crying in the bathroom and posting it online, contact the District Manager for Starbucks and let them know what's going on. Four people cannot handle a busy coffee shop on the weekend. Your manager needs retraining or replacing.
CatWoman312 2 years ago
Here I am at work on my break which is part of my 8 hour shift. I work 40 hours a week, 8 hours everyday I work. This is embarrassing. I’ve heard Z’s are lazy and entitled, but I usually blame the older people hating on the youth. However this reeks of laziness and entitlement.
Unfamiliar Tortoise 2 years ago
Every Gen Zer who is hired where I work last maybe a week, two at best. They just can't handle actually working, actually doing things.
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just me 2 years ago
This is the problem with today's youth. Their nervous breakdowns are public so people s**t on them. We had our nervous breakdowns in private so we could stuff it all back down and laugh about it later as we died a little inside. 8 hours isn't bad. 8 hours, understaffed, no management, c**p customers, with another 8 hours tomorrow? That sucks.
Khaos Childe 2 years ago
I stopped going to school after secondary, but last I checked, the courses and workload for a higher education doesnt get less and would probably increase drastically. I cant imagine its easy juggling that with work, abusive customers, and unhelpful management.
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Praecordia 2 years ago
He just sounds like he needs a different job. Maybe service industry is too stressful. I prefer being on my feet for 8hrs rather then sitting at a desk. Maybe he would prefer the desk. 6hr work day would be nice tho but 8 hrs isn’t bad. I worked 14-16hr days when I worked in Hospitality 6 days a week, 80hr weeks. You have no time for anything. Now that was terrible.
Margie Lundeford 2 years ago
Thank you! There are other PT work options besides Starbucks. Do a podcast, clerk at 7-11, stock shelves, clean an office… just find something that gets you through school and isn’t always awful.
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Samantha Campbell 2 years ago
It's not the job. It's the disrespect and audacity of overentitled actions of consumers towards any employee at any establishment that isn't personally connected back to them.
Veronica Vatter 2 years ago
It's 8 hrs twice a week. I work full time and am a full time student. I work a seasonal job too part of the year. Suck it up buttercup. It's just for now, not forever. There are worse places than Starbucks to work
Cas NA 2 years ago
Congratulations, buttercup, on burning your candle at both ends. As someone who did that and is now in her 30s, you’re hurting yourself in the long run.
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𝕜𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕟ᴛʜᴇ𝕜𝕚𝕕𝕕 2 years ago (edited)
I'm not saying this kids pathetic because "I had to go through hell so you should too". No. I'm saying this kids pathetic because he's crying three hours into his shift for the job he applied to, no one forced him, and then when he got misgendered, rather than saying "actually I'm a he", and moving on, he ran into a supply closet and cried to TikTok.
de cara 2 years ago
Ahh yes the good ol "no one FORCED this kid to work a job he clearly hates!! he just happens to live in society that requires you to work constantly so you can afford to live and has massive student loan debt on top of it, and as a student likely doesnt have many- if any- other options to apply for and keep himself fed. BuT nO oNe PuT a GuN tO hIs HeAd!!!!" b******t excuse for s******g on kids because your life is so s****y and pathetic that you can't bring yourself to muster up any amount of common sense or empathy. Not even going to try to explain how stressful and potentially dangerous it is to correct someone who goes out of there way to misgender someone with a full beard and mustache (who likely also has a name tag with his preferred masculine name on it), because you're clearly a lazy transphobe who isn't worth the effort.
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Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
Mixed feelings. I worked eight-hour days while in school, etc., but my job was union. Part of me wants to say, "Grow up, buttercup", but part of me wants to yell, "UNIONIZE!" and charge corporate headquarters waving an AFL-CIO recruitment poster. Sadly, we don't have a quantifiable scale for injury due to jacka**es in the workplace and sore feet. So my end answer is: Kid needs a hug and the store needs a better manager and the system needs to stop pushing us out of education if we're not already well-off.
J D 2 years ago (edited)
8 hours is not a bad shift. The work environment is what makes it bad. I've worked customer service and it's extremely difficult to handle the moods when the place is busy and people expect fast service. However, full time student and 25 hours a week with weekends being 8 hour shift is very much doable. He's lucky he only needs 25 hours a week to get by. And if he feels it's too much he is not good with time management.( As a Full-time student I worked a full-time job at a store. I've been there) it's not a system problem it's a people problem. If customers weren't a**holes those jobs wouldn't be too difficult even being understaffed. I was understaffed most of the time. The only time I hated being understaffed was when store was busy because customers would complain and be moody over longer check out.
Tracy Wallick 2 years ago
I'm in the military, and it REALLY pisses me off when I see veterans or other military folks acting like we're the only ones who have a hard job. Anyone who thinks OP needs to suck it up has never worked in the service/food industry, and probably never went to school full time while also spending their weekends working. Then on top of that, they have to also complete schoolwork, study for tests, manage a household of their own, worry about making enough money to pay the bills... Yeah, that s**t is soul-crushing.
K ML 2 years ago
With military and health care as hard as I imagine those jobs can be at the end of the day you're considered a hero. Work in food/retail you are considered a servant and treated as such
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Jamie Mayfield 2 years ago
Working fast food was the worst experience of my life. I have worked construction, farm, and office jobs and all of them were a million times better than dealing with customers. I don't get the complaint about an 8 hour day or working 25 hours a week, even while in school full-time it isn't hard to keep up with that schedule. Really it is just the rude customers who are throwing fits while you are short staffed. They can see you are behind and they still give you a hard time. You ignore it day after day, but one day you are going to break over it and go storming to the back. Really not getting the hours argument, that is more than reasonable, but I get hating customers with every fiber of your being. You could double my salary now and I would still not work fast food.
Shane S 2 years ago
I can’t take anyone seriously that breaks down crying in a public social video. I think you’ll look back and cringe that you decided to do that. In regards to the content, just sounds like the job isnt for you. Being a student and working is hard. Find someone who will work with your scheduling needs.
Miles Hawthorne 2 years ago
No service job will work with your needs. If someone chooses to share their emotions in a video and isn't embarrassed by it, that's their business. You go ahead and do what you want and don't be critical because you feel embarrassed when people share their feelings. Also, STFU Boomer.
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Lord Mysticlaw 2 years ago
I was fully prepared to be outraged that someone thinks working for 8 hours is too much. BUT 8 hours a day is a full time job. If you are a student and you want to work a part-time job, it's not fair for an employer to make you work full-time hours. Surely if you work a part-time job, you get to choose how many hours you want to work and you get paid per hour. All these people having their tantrums about working 45+ hours per week are probably working a full-time job and being paid a monthly salary.
Bloobee bloobee bloo bloo bloo 2 years ago
He’s not working full time. He says he only works 24 hours a week. It’s only 2 days, on the weekend, that he has to work 8 hours. His other 2 shifts are only 4 hours. This kid needs to grow up. An 8 hour shift still leaves him plenty of time to study and hang out with friends
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GirlFriday 2 years ago
This is one of the reasons (the other being bad, overpriced coffee) that I don't go to Starbucks. The employees at Starbucks are abused by the management and especially the customers. Regardless of anything going on outside of work, no one should have to come to a job and be abused by entitled, self-righteous, small-minded customers for hours on end. I have two former Starbucks employees on my team now. They are dedicated workers who sometimes are shocked when I say things like, "Make sure you log every hour you work. No one works for free," and "Hey, that call was rough. If you need to walk (our office slang for taking a break), go walk." I swear they are both traumatized from working at Starbucks and being treated like human beings almost scares them.
Bob Cakin 2 years ago (edited)
F*****g lord... these people saying the FULL TIME STUDENT IN COLLEGE is lazy are all so out of touch. Do they not know how much time out of a week being a full time student takes up? Doing 25 hour work weeks on top of being a full time student can easilly exceed doing more than 50 hours of total work a week! It's likely they may be pulling more than 60 hours of work total. And being an employee at Starbucks is not an easy job physically either. That's 8 hours of standing! They don't get to do their jobs sitting down! Also, why are all these people's reaction "My life sucks so everyone elses' life should suck too!". Come on guys! If this worker can successfully make their life not suck as much through unionization... that will likely encourage the unionization of YOUR industry which will make YOUR life not suck so much! It's called worker solidarity! Embrace it!
Britt 2 years ago
Why are people comparing? America is BROKEN. I'm in healthcare, we work 12hr shifts that easily turn into 16+ hrs and I still think this employee is working too long and too hard! Being understaffed is the worst and being constantly yelled at and condescended to is unacceptable. We need to do better. Europe is researching 4-day, 30hr work weeks and results are showing more productivity and happier employees. Nobody should be working 12 or 16hr shifts. The people telling this employee to be quiet because they work more: you should not be working 12-16hr shifts in the first place! Studies show the number of mistakes go up after 10 hrs. This is dangerous! When will people wake up?
Kathy Davis 2 years ago
Service industry does not give structures breaks. Sometimes not even a five minute break is possible. Customers can be abusive. Eight hour, constant standing and moving on concrete floors, lifting, twisting. My body is tore up. All is for very low pay. People say get a better job. The truth is someone has to do it. We have to pretend to be happy the whole time. Please show some mercy.
Maxigrod 2 years ago
I really don't understand the mentality of the people commenting on this post. That man it's complaining about a company that doesn't allow unions, wich will protect his right of a decent work environment, but no, here (and in the coments from the op), we have a lot of people saying you have to grown up, i have a sh*tty job with no respect for my time and capacity so everyone must experience the same. Also, i guess millenials and gen z must appear from thing air, because no one remeber that they being raised by the same generation that complaint about them. By the way I'm no millenial or gen z, but i get that thing that are bad can and must be improve.
Mad McQueen 2 years ago
Customer service is a bit different. If you go into a store and see they are short staffed be nice. Yea someone on a 3rd 16 hour shift might have it bad but they also get breaks and helped out. 4 people to run a store is stupid. Who goes on the bank run? Who cleans? Who restocks? Who but only the four there. Take a break? That's only 3 on the floor. Be. Nice. Yeah it's only a coffee to you but to those working it's their job. Be freaking nice.
WonderWoman 2 years ago
Starbucks should be scheduling enough people to cover their shifts. IF they don't, the employees should just close the doors, it would be the last time they did that. BUT, this employee breaking down because they had to work in shi**y circumstances is rather pathetic. Sure, it stinks, but, to make a tiktok about it? and expect people to feel all the feels that says more about them than it does about Starbucks.
Victoria McClain 2 years ago
I was a nurse for 40 years. 12 to 16 hour shifts on your feet most of the time. Understaffed and undervalued at times and dealing with angry, difficult people often. Health care workers are victims of violence 5x at the rate of US workers. I've been bit, hit, kicked, pinched and verbally abused. The pandemic made it even worse. I cried many times on the way home or even to work. I went back to school during my career for 4 years carrying 9-12 units while working 3-4 shifts a week...it was brutal but temporary. Hold on to that thought, it is worth the struggle. Yes, it shouldn't be that hard, but it is. We have it hard but it is so much better here than in so many other countries. You have a bad manager...maybe time to look for another barista job in a different place where the manager is kind and does his/her job. Good luck and hang in there.
Susan Betz 2 years ago
I went to school full time and worked 25 hours per week in my 20s when I was in college. I did that for three years until I got sick with Epstein-Barr and had long mono - I was sick for 3 years. Unable to pull a schedule like that anymore, it took me three more years to finish college. 30 years later I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (which is now thought to be caused by mono). I've learned the hard way that it's not a flex to work to the point of illness. I applaud Gen Z for standing up and saying "enough".
Dirt is Dast. 2 years ago
Work sucks, it's life. He can feel how he wants. For me it's the crying on camera. WTF? By all means cry get it out your system. Vent to a friend or co-workers but stop the stupid attention seeking & validation from online strangers you weirdo. Who says I'm about to cry... Let me get the camera ready, I hope the lighting & angles are right lol.
de cara 2 years ago
Yeah, God forbid anyone want to use social media for attention. You know, social media. Famously known for everyone on it keeping to themselves and leading quiet, private lives. And it's not like the person in the video could be trying to, idk, incite changes in their workplace and society at large by bringing their mistreatment to the public eye or anything. I really, really hope you post this exact comment to every single social media post you come across bc otherwise you'd come off as extremely disingenuous lol
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I get the complaints about unfair and punative scheduling, but the rest sound like every job I've had while working full time and going to school full time. I get that it sucks, and if they can get a union over this go for, but I don't really have much sympathy over being busy and working a normal shift. That just reeks of entitlement.
Piggy Tee 2 years ago
Welcome to the real world. He seriously must be super spoiled. Eight working hours is standard for most jobs. As for standing up the whole day: tough luck. A lot of people do that; shop assistants, security guards, clerks, fast food employees... the list is long. If you complain about this after a few hours you obviously shouldn't have this job. You signed a contract, deal with it. I hope they fire you.
Anika Yip 1 year ago
He is also a full time student. It’s not the 8hrs, it’s the multiple 8hr shifts on top of a full week’s worth of schoolwork (class and homework and studying) + being disrespected the whole time
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Tim 2 years ago (edited)
The necessity to work so many hours while attending college full-time is the issue here. These work-worshipping people get, like sexually aroused when they hear someone talk about working ridiculous amounts of hours or something. Like: "I work 80 hours a week on a light week." *audible moaning and unzipping of pants* Universities cost too much and jobs pay too little.
Jaime Gooding 2 years ago
So who should be feeding and clothing him at his big age? No one should work so much they don't have time to live but 24 hours a week? He'll be ok or he can quit.
Load More Replies... Furious George 2 years ago
As someone who has worked a lot of different jobs, I can tell you that working at a desk as a software developer is NOT the same as when I was a batista or working in retail. When I get stressed out now I take a break, or leave for the day because I'm salaried and I can do that. Working as a batista means running constantly, accidentally burning yourself like 10 times a day, getting yelled at by managers because they are having a bad day, and trying to walk the line between being nice enough to customers that they don't get s****y with you, but not so nice that they hold up the line and/or ask you out. For the record, I also had my own business and worked 6-7 days a week, at least 12 hours a day on average. I wouldn't wish that schedule on anyone and I would still do it 1,000 times before working retail again. Just because I've worked to the bone forever doesn't mean that I should have had to, or that other people should now. Other countries are doing better, we should listen.
Aballi 2 years ago
Ugh. I have pretty severe mental illness and when I'm in an episode, I have no energy or motivation to do anything. My dad (who has always been healthy as a horse, physically and mentally, and is one of the few people I know that has never experienced trauma) likes to remind me that at my age, he was raising two kids, working full time, and going to pre med school. Like, congratulations? That has absolutely nothing to do with me and my experience...!!
Nicholas McCoy 2 years ago
What I find totally out of line, inappropriate, and horrifying is this: what about the other 3 employees who had to pick up the slack while that entitled brat ran to the back to whine, b*tch, moan and complain on the internet? No, none of you thought about them. They already have it hard enough, and a team member they should be able to trust just up and disappeared. I've been there. I know service industry sucks. I thought it sucked when a team member took off when I had to deal with it. But this is worse. If I was those other 3 employees, I'd be absolutely livid that people were backing the f*cker who left them high and dry just to go get attention on the internet. You all need to stop enabling this c**p.
Marquis Woods 2 years ago
Only thing this comment section has shown me is that a lot of supposed wise elders lack reading comprehension and empathy. Also the word(its not one) boomer lives in yall heads rent free.
NynaNinja 2 years ago
This comment section has some of the dumbest people I've ever seen. It's split between people who just read the title and immediately came down to the comments and those who read enough to realize he was trans (even though he is very passing and they would not have known otherwise) and then immediately came down to the commentsー and to think they're the ones calling *him* lazy! I'm surprised at how many people lack empathy, all while claiming that kid is a narcissistー incredible!
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Anyone who has not worked a retail or food service job, please sit down... 😖😖🤔🤔
Sandie Kisting 2 years ago
And yet not many have stated the obvious... Maybe this person has an underlying medical condition and he knows his limits as to what he needs to stay healthy both physically and mentally.Also why do we think it's okay for an employer to abuse the c**p out of us and then target somebody who stands up for what they believe in.That's what's wrong with this country. Everybody views mental illness as a weakness when in fact it is a strength.People with mental illness know what their max capacity is on their life and how they handle that so that they can function as responsible adults.We are too quick to judge everybody about everything and we don't even look in a mirror at ourselves.Why should any student of any age have to be on a 40-hour work week because management is lazy or doesn't want to have the responsibility of being the manager.If you truly have an effective manager, you will never have an employee call in and you will never have an unhappy workplace. I have been both.
David Wise 2 years ago
8 hour shifts are quite normal in the working world. I've done restaurant work, and it can be quite tough. However, if you can't take the conditions, get a different job. Do something to solve your problem, take charge of your life. I work on my feet 40+ hours per week in 40-120°f, working on industrial machinery. It can be hard and sometimes frustrating, but I do like it. I enjoy the challenge. I worked many jobs before I found one that was right for me. I'd find a new job and tell Starbucks to f*** off.
Joseph Holtom 2 years ago
This is a joke right? 8 hours?!?! Try working at Applebees while going to college full time & picking up any extra shifts so every weekend you are pulling doubles! Oh, by the way, I am a raging homo, I don't see what sexuality has to do with anything regarding a whole 8 hour shift....I'm certainly not against unions at all but you just seem like you wanna whine & feel sorry for yourself,.... right now, especially right now, there plenty of jobs available (I will admit I don't know if there are in your area) but come on - you will face much worse hardships after you graduate....unless you drop out & the reason is an 8 hour workday....
Dianna Mallar 2 years ago (edited)
My problem with this kid is that while he is in the back crying into his phone, his co workers are now trying to get caught up and get everything done while being down two people instead of just the one that called out. I can only imagine how his coworkers feel about this. I've worked food service for 20 years, retail for 10 years before that and it's brutal at times and some people just aren't cut out for it (and there is absolutely nothing wrong if you aren't. Sitting at a desk for 8 hours would drive me bonkers, we all have our individual strengths.) But you don't leave your co workers in the lurch like this. Stuff the emotions, go home, and hit a punching bag, put up a picture of your boss and throw darts at it. Find some way to drain the emotions after work.
Nicholas McCoy 2 years ago
Thank you! I was just thinking "what about the other workers?" Glad someone else had the same thought.
Load More Replies... Mickey Keys 2 years ago
I'm a college student who also works. I'm also disabled but I get stuff done. If you're not happy with your job, there are plenty of different options. I avoid working at restaurants because some people are crazy or rude. If you have a hobby, find a job that you can apply for part-time. Even though I have cerebral palsy and muscular dystrophy, I stand on my feet for nearly 8 hours except for lunch. Plus working in the food industry is rough but some small stores usually have 3-4 people, sometimes 2. This is my experience with smaller stores.
John Birkner 2 years ago
You hear that fellow trades guys?? If their power goes out let's go cry. If their AC goes out, sorry it's been 4 hours. Your fn anything breaks...Jesus jobs suck. Point blank. That is why we get paid for our time. Be fortunate to have one, good golly not everyone deserves one.
Jonathan Nichols 2 years ago (edited)
I can definitely understand that this person doesn't deserve to be bullied, everybody has times when they hate their jobs/life. But also, unskilled physical labor can't be made easy...Like,there is no way to make it less demanding without massively increasing the cost of the end product OR making the job redundant and replaceable by a robot OR simpler than anything, just get replaced by someone more capable than you. It sucks that a company has the resources to just turnover people they believe underperform, but is there really another viable system? Are you owed undying loyalty from a company cause you want to work for them 10 hours a week for minimum wage when other, more able people exist?
luis torres 2 years ago
I totally understand where he is coming from. An 8 hour day of being understaffed and full of customers is the same as working 16 hours. Long hard days where you are made to feel like a slave to the company and customers
A Random Anvil 2 years ago
It's not about someone being wimpy and crying about a little bit of work. It's a full time student who works (I don't think I could have done that when I was a full-time student!), being told they got time off just to be made to work on their time off. That's wrong. I've worked 12 hour shifts 7 days a week, every day of the year. No vacation. It can be rough. I can sympathize.
Violet Jensen 2 years ago
8 hours is long when, you know, you set a max of like 6 hours for your shifts and you’re STILL IN SCHOOL
Jason Dave 2 years ago
So…. You’re making a video complaining about being overworked (while on shift and presumably being paid) and having to work an 8 hour shift (pretty standard since the 1960’s) while the other baristas have to work even harder taking up your slack while you’re making a video complaining about being over overworked Do I have this right? Sounds like this job isn’t right for you. Maybe being a pet or babysitter is more your speed. Or cotton ball softness analyzer? Perhaps snowflake temperature measurer? I’d like an Americano with a double shot of children’s tears please. Oh, can you make it with entitlement too, please?
Ryan Brooks 2 years ago
Damn good point. The coworkers have to pick up his slack. Probably not their first time.
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Pacer Three 2 years ago
you need to quit. if you can't take it, then it is not worth it. and the customers don't deserve it either. put someone out there who has a feel for the job. it is not you, sir. customer service is not your bag.
Meami 2 years ago
There is a lot of whining going on. I waited table when I was in college and I always had 8 hr shifts on the weekends. And we were understaffed and people got impatient. Working with the public sucks and when your on your feet for 8+ hours, your back and feet ache. I’m sure this guy is not planning on working at Starbucks as a permanent career. It would be nice if college was affordable (in the US) but it’s not so we have to work.
Nancy Rolfe-Proctor 2 years ago
Does this worker really want to post this for his manager to see, any future employer to see, a post the will live on forever? It's the thing to do to garner sympathy but it also shows how you handle inter office relationships. Do you really think that shaming your manager so very publically, whether earned or not, is the best way to handle this? With so many job openings wouldn't have been better to get another job elsewhere rather than show to the world you break down under pressure and your way to handle situations is to cry on a self made video.
Bill Webb 2 years ago
Sigh. If you dont like or cant handle your job then quit. Stop complaining. Crying...seriously?! A beard doesnt make you a man, my late grandmother had one of those. Men dont cry over silly things like having to work a difficult 8 hour shift while being understaffed. I worked in food service when I was younger. Yes its tough at times, but I have never seen a grown man cry in the back. If you would like to be identified and treated like a man, then act like one.
Shinx lei 2 years ago
People suck and people are going to continue to suck. Sure get a union buts that's not gonna change people calling off, their attitudes, or the other bs of customer service. I know it's hard times but if they're that stressed they need a new job and it is that simple because jobs on par with Starbucks are a dime a dozen but treat their employees better. Working and school is stressful even if you didn't have to work to pay for school you have to work for literally everything else so there's really no avoiding that stress. Work towards that union but it will only change so much and because it's a corporation they always figure out how to screw you anyway.
John Lutes 2 years ago
Please, you don't know the meaning of "understaffed". I'm an EMT in a county of 1 million, an athletic trainer to a high school of over 400, and a full-time teacher. I'm out numbered 75 to 1 on a good day. Bad days, 2000 to 1. Long days? Eight hours of driving after my 24 hour shift spent running calls on cry babies like you. And you know what? I'm happy. I have a great wife and a great life. I find joy in serving people, even cry babies, every day. I've worked retail for little pay. And then I worked to get past it. I've had over two dozen jobs. But I've also been jobless. What did I do? I worked harder and smarter and I got through it.
Jason Lindbeck 2 years ago
I'm sympathetic to this guy's plight - he's part time, weekends are the only periods where he should be getting at least a part of the day to decompress after a week's worth of work and school. He absolutely should have more agency in his own scheduling limits. The eight hour workday thing is a little silly, but only if you're looking at it out of context. Having said that, there ARE some serious issues with how personally he's taking a number of the other aspects of working with the public. I AM neurodivergent, and even I will flat out deny someone else "accomodations" based on their divergency. If you have a genuine diagnosis? Sure, I'll work with you. If you took a quiz on FB? Get the fk out. People don't get to assign their own labels and expect everyone else to bend over for them.
Bobbi Ashley 2 years ago
I can't even buy a job right now. In 2011 me and my husband decided to have a child and let me stay home, well I had twins. He got sick in Aug, misdiagnosed and had pneumonia 4 months ago. He almost died. He is now on home health. And my kids are not going to have a Christmas this year. My kids didn't shed a tear, they both almost at the same time say, "we're just happy to have our Dad here for Christmas" and that was that. I'm sure I will find a job soon, that is 8 hours a day. But, people should be thankful for what they have. Everyone has had bad things happen. And the sun don't always shine.
three norns 2 years ago
Ppl be all flexing "well, i work 70 hours a week in construction" and "I'm in the middle of my third straight shift as a nurse" Point being: YOU'RE NOT IN SCHOOL! when is this person supposed to get his studying and homework done if his crappy employer forces him to work every minute he's not actually sitting in class and her needs them job to get through a week!? As for you, Mr "I work 70 hours", I call that absolutely adorable - I wish my life was that easy because I own my own business. I start work at 6am and I'm lucky if I get home by 10 and then I have to do the paperwork which takes me until 1 or 2 in the morning That's seven days a week so you do the math Now that I've seen your flex and dropped it in the toilet, I'm saying this guy is absolutely right to be distressed because - for all your idiots who missed the point - his main job is to pass the classes *he pays to attend*, not to fill the pockets of a clearly incompetent management.
TRose 2 years ago
This kid needs a reality check! 8hrs is a normal shift!!! Lots of ppl work 10,12+hrs a day. I worked at Tim Hortins when I was 16-18yrs old. I went to alternative high school and would work 4hr before school 2x a wk, 6hrs after school &8hrs Fri,Sat&Sun. Get it together & stop crying in your coffee.
Brittany Copeland 2 years ago
Meanwhile, virtually every restaurant in the country has average shift hours of 8 hrs or more?? This is life, this is adulthood. In high school and college I worked full time in food service. I handled it. I know countless others that handled it. If a high-school student can handle it, why can't a grown(?) man? Honestly it just sounds to me like this dude can't deal with the industry. Because honestly 8 hrs isn't that bad, even if it's open to close. Also, where is this location that is only open 8 hrs on the weekend???
YazB 2 years ago (edited)
I hope that crying it out helped him. Sometimes you need a good breakdown to clear your head and get back in the game! But it's kind of hard to know if this was done for sympathy, for likes, or for both. 🤔 I still can't fathom crying in front of a mirror doing an ugly cry and know thousands are looking at me doing it...😬. I do sympathize with him and then I don't. I, too attended school full time and held down a Walgeeens job at full time hours. I was hired as a part timer, but I literally was clocking in 39.5hrs 😕 with no benefits! Yeah you need breaks, and that's why you call out for hangout time with friends, because a paper is due, or because you need me time. I stuck around my job because of the friendships I made with my colleagues and managers and the paycheck was great - even at the low minimum wage rate of $7.25 an hour. Bottom line is you do what you have to do knowing full and well that it isn't where you'll end up. You get in, and get out! Don't let a job break you!
BoredSilly 2 years ago
I mean, working in a factory is worse than retail. You get the back breaking work, (standing all day, running around, getting dirty, bending, lifting, ect) and also the rude attitude from co-workers and management that you would get from customers. They are 8/hr+ shifts and most places mandate the weekends and holidays unless you use a vacation to get out of them. That's even if you have the seniority to do that. The fighting, yelling, snitching, arguing all happens every day. Factory workers are the people that keep the world moving. Some places make a lot of money, most don't. Even if the work is hard. I once worked at a job that was $7.25/hr 10 hr days and we got 2 breaks, 10 & 20 min. I quit cuz it wasn't worth it. Fact is, you made the choice to work at a place like that, knowing what it's like, so suck it up or leave. Don't waste time crying and complaining about it. Sometimes people just want to make it harder on themselves on purpose and then play the victim.
Michelle Wilhelm 2 years ago
It's the whining for me- I've got NOTHING nice to say. OP need to grow up and realize life is hard; it's even hardER when you whine and cry bc someone fail to recognize that 'full beard' of LITERAL peach fuzz or a mgr flexes their mgr-ial auth TO work when/how they want- failing to realize they've paid THEIR dues, it's YOUR turn, op!! You can't handle the job?! Find one you can but keep in mind: you obvs dont have the PRIVILEGE of not working (apparently) and so THUS, you must work like EVBODY else. THIS is what happens when EVBODY is told they are special, that EVONE is special. You are NOT special, ain't nothing special ABT you!! You are regular, you need to do regular ppl ish to survive, life is NOT a insta post, ain't no hashtag for the mundane EVday BS!! OP need to do what all the other snowflakes hit in the face (HARD) w reality= deal w it. What happened to adversity building character?! NOTHING!! it still DO, we don't often GET to see it tho, bc we coddle and shelter these kids
Michelle Wilhelm 2 years ago
in an effort to make their lives suck less than ours do/did. But that's NOT how it works!! Life IS hard. Ain't no way around it, ain't no cheat code, ain't no mods 🤷 they GOTTA go thru it; we are doing these kids/this gen a DISservice by not prepping them FOR this hard @$$ life! Let them struggle
Load More Replies... GMc 2 years ago
Hmmm when I started at University in the late 80s I was taking 5-6 full time courses (5-7 hour per week of class time per course), working 4-5 hours per day weekdays and 10-12 hours per day Sat / Sun, plus the occasional night class at a local college for training for the job I was working at. I assumed 80-100 hour weeks were normal for university students. A classmate at the time had it even worse. His parents moved to my country when he was a kid. Between his normal job, school and the family business (which he didn't get paid for as he was expected to work), he has been doing 80-100 hour weeks since Jr. high (grade 8). Things are different now society wise, but sometimes you just have to suck it up and power through. When it comes to customers remember the old adage: easier to beg for forgiveness then ask for permission. Just take control of the situation and deal with it.
Lace Neil 2 years ago
Where I work, we're short staffed at the moment. Last week, I worked an eight hour shift on the cigarette kiosk on my own. Not only did I have a zillion customers to serve, but a delivery to put away. I buckled down and dealt with it. Oh, and I'm autistic with severe anxiety and depression. I managed to work my shift without being a drama queen.
Randy Perez 2 years ago (edited)
It's not only 8 hours, it's 8 hours with Starbucks customers. Their pathetically overly complex orders, ignorant of the menu orders, rushed orders because theyre late but still HAD to have their 'bucks... It's 8 hours of majority vile people. This is more of a break down of having to deal with people that weren't smacked as children versus standing at a machine working for 8 hours where your body is tired but not your emotions.
Jessica Avery 2 years ago
So they're hiding and crying about unfair work conditions, leaving the other 3 people even MORE short-staffed and stressed, complaining about crappy management and 8 hour shifts (which I worked 5 days a week going to school btw in retail) which exists in every job everywhere... I feel worse for their coworkers honestly, for having to put up with them on top of it all. Suck it up, stop being a little crybaby, and if you find it THAT BAD, change careers/jobs. It's what I did when I felt like my job was taking advantage of me this year
de cara 2 years ago
What a sad sorry life you must live that you feel the need to project this hard.
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Gloria Hamel 2 years ago
I worked for the power company, they work 40 hours week basic shift. Usually more when the power goes out. I seen 80 hours a week, this is a union job. You start as a 4 year apprentice which you study on your own time. I’m now retired. My daughter goes to school full time and also works in the food industry. She has a son which I help out with. Maybe if this kid can’t work this many hours, he to stand up to his boss let know how many hours he can work
Bubbles and sparks 2 years ago
I think there's a lot more going on with this guy then just feeling overwhelmed by the circumstances of his job. Yes, he got misgendered which sucks. Every kid however should learn that life is about balance and if you don't like the current job, then move on. No one is going to give you money on a silver platter because life is hard at the moment. My generation and those before me know that working comes with life if you wanted to achieve something. This generation... Even my son thinks there are a lot of snowflakes. But it's not even just their fault, their parents failed them big time by not teaching them... I hope this kid finds a job less stressful and that those rude customers shut the F up, they are doing the best they can and deserve your respect for taking all that fancy schmancy cr@p orders that doesn't even resemble coffee anymore. Good luck kid!
まるこ ピエルルディ 2 years ago
Being a 90s kid I grew up to know my own hardships, my parents didn't do the best raising me but they did what they could, they were always working trying 2 make a better world for me 2 live in, I did cry alot, but it's part of growing up. I had my struggles, and yes I believe I had it hard too, sometimes I think harder than my parents, but times were different for them as they were for my generation. I work with the current generation and I don't think bad parenting is the issue. Today most people see social media as a way out to vent something whether it's good or bad. I personally don't think it's healthy to rely on but, from what I've learned most people do it in hopes that someone else will do something about it. Imagine having your bag stolen when your walking down the street and yelling "somebody help". Are you just going to sit there and wait for help or are you going to go do it yourself. I do feel bad for this kid but i do try 2 help them because I once was the same.
Joseph Holtom 2 years ago
BTW- I'm in no way intentionally belittling this guy. I totally get work can be exhausting but sometimes life sucks. I'm sure he works hard in school & his job but sometimes ya gotta roll with the punches.... life's not here to hand you everything on a silver platter
James Bailey 2 years ago
There are no federal standards for meal breaks, breaks, and down time for most jobs. Most people confuse break standards with entitlements granted to state and federal employees. They don't apply to minimum wage private employment. This creature is throwing a hissy fit out of relative deprivation however. I used to love having college students managing pizza delivery. I would bend over backward to accommodate their school schedules. I also explained to them I didn't care about their social lives. This little crybaby is about to screw over its three co-workers because it senses it has a little power to be disruptive by walking out. The working conditions façade is just pathetic. Middle-level management has no leadership skills. Boo-hoo. You'd do the same thing in their position. It has no virtue to signal.
Upil 2 years ago
I worked on a national tv once, we had to do shooting session from 9 am to 6 am the next day. I know working on your foot for 8 hours straight is awfull, but i learned the hard way that you always has an option to quit the job. The company doesnt owe you to keep you in, and you always have a chance to work for other company. If you need it, keep the job and the pressure, dont like it? Walk out and find somewhere suits you. And believe me, no place will suits you the way you want.
Kassie 2 years ago
I once worked new years eve at Walgreens with only two people. Nowhere else was opened and the manager on shift spent 75% of the night sitting on his a*s, while I was bombarded with dozens of drunk people wanting mixers for there alcohol. Then when I needed the manager he wouldn't respond. I was exhausted and we were swamped and I was basically alone for 9 hours. Didn't sit down once. Did I complain? No, I did my job and came back the next day.
Jody Whitmarsh 2 years ago
Starbucks is run for Karens and Kevins by Karens and Kevins. The company creates such a toxic environment for the whole planet
K- THULU 2 years ago
Not the whole planet... Mainly the US, in Australia we get a decent minimum wage even for part time and casuals, plus a living wage for students....
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Joe calbery 2 years ago
This kid is too much. Go ahead and cry, scream, jump up and down, whatever will relieve the stress, but then get back at it. The biggest shock this kid will get is realizing the world doesn't give a s**t. I assume this kid went to Tik Tok seeking sympathy. Why is it, whenever these kids break down into a blubbering mess, they reach for the phone to post it on social media? I will repeat, "NOBODY gives a s**t". EVERYONE has there problems, we don't need yours as well.
Cheryl Christine 2 years ago
So i'ved worked in the service industry, I've worked in a factory, I've went to college when I had two children, and I am in health care. I can honestly say there is good and bad in all of it. And at every stage of my life there were people who were worse off than me. And at every stage there were peoe who thought their problems were the worst. Ive been married, divorced, raised children to adult hood. Had cancer. Survived that. Lost friends and family. I am not always happy and I do like to vent. I've had lots of days off and lots of long shifts. I've had customers and coworkers that have loved me and hated me. But the good out weighs the bad. The best advice I ever received was, "You're going to have to work all your life, so learn to like it." That helps.
𝕜𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕟ᴛʜᴇ𝕜𝕚𝕕𝕕 2 years ago
This person clearly doesn't know what a union does. I'm a union steward at my job and there's nothing in his video that was anything a union could help with.
Michele Lein 2 years ago
I get where this young man is coming from, but I can't count the number of times I was crying at work, before work, and after work because working in retail at a superstore (not Walmart), in the apparel department really sucks. That was 20 some years ago when it was 'come in, work 8 hours until 10pm, be back at 7am, and be nice to incredibly rude customers and difficult co-workers, and do any stupid, pointlessly inane task your manager tells you to, or else'. I do, however, agree that it would have been just too much handling school and working that type of job as well. But then again, when i had my daughter and was a single mom working 6 to 8 hour shifts on 5 hours or less sleep every night, it was just about the same thing. I feel that a change in working world conditions and expectations is long overdue. France has had a 4 day work week for a long time, and employees have certain expectations of time for personal, family and friend activities.
Piggy Tee 2 years ago
So... he's a full time student so he can only work weekends. This he complains about because weekends 'should be for resting'. So... he's basically crying about the fact that he has to work??
Seb Benson 2 years ago
Tell everyone that you simply don't get the point, without telling everyone that you simply don't get the point.
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Sunny Day 2 years ago
Dang, Snowflake, whatrya going to do when summer comes? Newsflash - no one likes their job. If you get lucky, you'll tolerate it. But we do it anyway because we like to eat and maintain a roof over our heads. As for the manager - they are salaried. They get paid the same no matter how many hours they work. While you are literally crying over being scheduled 25 hours a week, your manager is putting in 60-70 hours a week - but getting paid for 40. So if they managed to get 2 days off in a row - good for them.
Marsha Chace 2 years ago
I was a single mom of a teenager and a toddler, was a full time college student with a full time job. We do what we must to survive. I understand you have mental issues, maybe customer service isn't for you. But other than that, find a different line of work or grow up.
ginny weasley 2 years ago
You know, I had it hard so you can suck it up is a terrible attitude
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Dylan Movchan 2 years ago
Yea it reads as clickbait but going to school and working is different. I'd say look into changing to part time school and maintain the same work schedule to balance things out or at least look at how you could change it up. 8hrs work isn't bad but poor management and school on top of it all makes for a rough life.
cranberry cola 2 years ago
If retail workers where allowed to physically retaliate to these s****y customers, i have a feeling caregiving would get quite the body boost
Lyyyy 2 years ago
WTF is that mentality? ”I do 100 hours a week without complaining, so quit your whining, you sissy!” Is this a competition to see who is the most useful tool in the toolbox? One-upping each other to see who works the most? I can’t even find words… I come from a different culture, where I didn’t need to pay tuition to go to uni, I didn’t need to work during school year to support myself. Now I work approximately 40 hours a week and my working conditions are fine. I got paid parental leave for a year when I had a child. And still occasionally I get frustrated or stressed over something that happened at work.
James McIntosh 2 years ago
A big part of it is this person approach in their video, this is clearly them mid melt down which doesn't win over anyone's favors. People bring up the issue with 8+ hour work days a lot when discussing unions or other systemic issues all the time and very few people bat an eye because it's brought up by people who've worked this type of shift and see it's issues and want to take on the thinking behind it. That's not what we're watching, we're watching someone very new to the work force having a tough time at work (something all young people go through a live through). In past we would handle this on our own privately, but this was filmed and sent out so the world could watch them impulsively film themselves complaining. If this individual decided to hold it together till after work, do a little research, and come back and clear valid points about the problems with long work shifts than I bet you there would be a vastly different response than the one they got for crying online
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Kennedy Kargeaux 2 years ago
I worked 2 jobs in high school. I worked 45 hours a week on top of school from 8am-1pm .... while supporting my brothers & taking over all of the bills on our home because my mother was a low life drug addict... not saying that everyone should have to be "tortured" & not be upset... but babe... check your privilege. It was my dream to go to college.. still is. I got into a pre law program in Louisiana & couldn't go because I couldn't afford to nor could I leave my brothers hanging.... you're lucky you're able to go to school. Like... wtf? This kid really complaining about his own privilege. I worked at Starbucks in the loop in Chicago... 8 hours was a standard shift. I agree that Starbucks should unionize. Every corporation or company should be. They are understaffed. But like... you obviously don't "NEED" your job if you can just quit that easy.... like... stop crying & go back to work! Maybe that's why ppl are pissed. You're not actually working.
Kennedy Kargeaux 2 years ago
To be clear. I am a recovering addict myself. I am not trying to be a d**k about addiction. But to literally screw over your kids, steal from them & to rob them of their childhood all so you can party while they have to work 2 jobs & sell weed just to make ends meet... you're a fucken low life.
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Salty Wild Hair 2 years ago
Anyone given the thought that this was a union promo?? Always a skeptic, I think I will help support this overworked person by making my coffee at home.
Darren Kornowske 2 years ago
I'm a farmer and went to college full time. This guy has no work ethic and my guess is he's scared of pancake syrup. There are no days off as a farmer cows have to be milked couple times every day,and cleaned, and fed, along with other field chores. Have the SISSY come over for a week and he'll be crying for his rude customer and short 8 hour shifts back. God gave you balls figure that out become a actual man then face life as He designed you to be and suddenly you figure it out and things are temporary here and exciting to live for!
Benita Valdez 2 years ago
I was a waitress and now I work a desk job. I'd take 18 straight desk hours over 8 restaurant hours any day. That's a mentally exhausting weekend; nevermind the physical exhaustion. It's easy to judge and say negative when you never did the work and just assume you working more hours equates to working harder. But it doesn't at all and his complaint is so valid especially when you consider the nasty shìt customers hurl at you and then they look down on you like you're not even a real person with a real job.
Celtic Pirate Queen 2 years ago (edited)
This person has no business being in the adult world. You are a crybaby and, quite frankly, a bit of a p*ssy. Find another job that caters to your lifestyle a bit better. And in the meantime SHUT THE F*CK UP.
K S 2 years ago
If this is too hard then he should quit. No one is making him stay. If he thinks 8 hrs is too long try working 10 hrs on your feet with people saying worse things to you (yes in the food industry). I know ppl who work 3-10s and go to school full time in university. They all say the same thing, they don’t need to work but they like their lifestyle. You want the lifestyle work for it. He don’t like that job, quit. Go find another one. The fact that he’s crying over it makes me laugh. Try working through the pandemic with the all the entitled Karen’s and Kyle’s… that’s 100x worse.
Havok211 2 years ago
This is just absolutely pathetic. First of all of your posting a video of yourself crying like that then your doing it for the attention. I worked in some form of food service or customer service almost my entire adult life and I know it sucks, but if you can't handle an 8 hour standard work shift then you need to toughen up cuz it's not gonna get any easier for most people in the world. This job is also a choice that you made, it's not being forced upon you, so probably best you find something a little more suited to your soft and sheltered lifestyle. Should probably steer clear of the internet too, people aren't too nice there either.
Kaylah Lewis 2 years ago
I worked full time while going to school and I can tell you, F**K THAT! It's awful. You feel depressed, tired, you're burning the candlestick on both ends, and it's hard to retain anything. You have to do double the work at both your job and school because you're so exhausted, you're stupid. People think it's easy to keep up with because "they work hard everyday," but it's different knowing that even when you're done with work, you still have a long day ahead of you. There is no relaxation ever. That stress really can break you down.
Alicia Neblett 2 years ago
I'm from a generation that people complain about,so before you do hear me out please.None of us,in any generation need to belittle the other,know why?Cuz we all have faced enormous problems/challenges within our own generations.Its true that looks are decieving.Work has changed,the pay rate,the long or short hours.But what's changed the most are human beings.I retired after being in customer service,andi have never seen humans act so ugly.Lets start there...having to deal with nasty customers,angry customers,lying customers day after day,will make you cry.So if we would not be so rude,angry, especially when you see the help is working as fast,hard as they can:put yoself in their shoes.Weve become worse than our animals.Even they try to help other species.So let's stop bashing other generations.All have had their share of just stuff happening,diff is this time a sickness is In volved along with the other problems,which makes stresses thru the roof.Give yoselves a solid.
Ashlie Platt 2 years ago
I'm sorry your going thru that. I understand your frustration. Everyone that's on here talking about they have no sympathy or they work 50+ hours. Are you working part time and going to school full time and on top of that dealing with bullied (mis gendered) something can break a person and not faze the next. My advice just quit. Just brush your shoulders off put a smile on your face and say F**K THIS JOB and walk out. You will find another job and f**k what other people think. People love hurting other people it's what this world has turned into. It's sad
Teddy 2 years ago
I make $30/hr to work three 12s as a nanny for two infants from different families who keep different schedules. Some days I eat breakfast at 7 in the car on my way to work and lunch at 4 with a fussy baby in my lap and the only "break" I get is when I'm in the bathroom. I come home pretty tired. (Babies are more work than you think, especially when you have two of them and you're actively working on their development and creating activities and trying to put them in the best possible situations to create neurological growth to benefit them the rest of their lives.) If you offered me $40/hr to go work at McDonald's, and nothing changed except the hourly wage, I would not do it. I worked at McDonald's for three days and I couldn't handle it, so I quit. You would have to offer me $80/hr and no more than 20 hours a week for me to even consider working fast food again. Stocking at a grocery store, on the other hand, I would do for $20/hr if they let me wear earbuds.
Gee_The _All_ Father 2 years ago (edited)
I dont understand if he cant take it why dont he just find another job, im pretty sure when he applied he probably put open availability on his application and is now regretting it but if its so terrible go find an job that only needs you 10-15 hours a week or just stay at home because im sure 25 hours a week couldnt be paying for much and not run to social media for sympathy because thats all this is, there's plenty of 20+ somethings working and going to school and yes it is hard but thats life and i dont feel sorry for him and for those that do...send him money so he wont have to work, other then that its just another kid whining on social media for ppls validation
Aisling Raye 2 years ago
Here's the thing. They have a big point to make about wages and working conditions. I was in school full time while pulling 14 hour shifts. I still don't know how I survived that sh!t. What I do know is that just because I suffered through it, it doesn't make it right for anyone else to have to do the same. My problem with the video is abandoning coworkers to cry in the closet, leaving them even more stressed out and with even more work to do. Crying on a TikTok about being overworked and understaffed while actively contributing to the exact thing you are crying about isn't going to help anyone. Cry in your shower like the rest of us lol. When you're done go raise hell :)
arnis pocs 2 years ago
This is an entitled baby who didn't get enough participant trophies. You make me sick.
Rob Melrose 2 years ago
My friend works 60 hours a week working two jobs, tending bar and working in a kitchen. Never one complaint, just an occasional sigh of exhaustion.
pemdas927 2 years ago
Prior military here. 8 hours on your feet is nothing, with the right pair of footwear. Also I went to school full time and worked at a gas station 40 hours a week. This was in the Chicago suburbs and w/ Jr. in office. Gas prices were approaching $4.00 per gallon at my store. The most I worked w/ was one other cashier and maybe the boss. I caught a lot of hell from a lot of people as if I had any control over prices. We were corporately owned. I had to pay rent, because the school I went to didn't offer housing, utilities and phone bill. I studied btn. customers. And I did it all w/ a smile on my face because I knew I was bettering myself and I had the mettle to do it. So, yeah, suck it up buttercup.
Balthazar Lionheart 2 years ago
I understand that working in the food industry can be really stressful, but going to cry in the middle of your shift puts more stress on your co-workers because they have to also take on your job, which is not fair to them. Sometimes you just have to power through and deal with it, as difficult as it may be.
Luna Tiki 2 years ago
Come on. I've worked in retail for over 30 years. An 8 hour shift is vacation! During the holidays we work 12 shifts starting in October. Too many people? What did you have a line of like 3 people? Try a line of 30 fat women holding piles of clothes and all wanting to use expired coupons. That shits scary.
Jun Burgin 2 years ago
I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music. - John Adams We should not be perpetuating the idea that every generation has to follow in their predecessors footsteps.
Darryl McGuire 2 years ago
Simply find a better low end job get out of food and customer relation Industries. Learn a skill set while going to school be it repairs, construction, land management for cities. With the exception of construction all have pretty stable hours and will work with students. Also you will pick up skill sets you can use throughout life so at the market ever falls through and you lose your degree job you always have something to fall back on win win. Because no matter how you look at it even if everything started today to change the market it won't be changed in time to help you so help yourself instead.
randy HSPPR 2 years ago
No one is forcing u to work there while being a full time student. Find another employer who may be willing to do better job accommodating u.
E.g. Hoffman 2 years ago
I'm a boomer. And while I worked 30+ hours a week retail while attending classes full time in a rigorous major; I was fortunate to have bosses and ownership who actively worked to accommodate my needs. I had a mother who could not afford to contribute financially but would help in other ways. Too many corporations are only concerned with maximizing their profits, and overlook their workers and customers.
Cara G 2 years ago
In food service, 8 hours IS A DOUBLE SHIFT. Anyone saying otherwise has clearly never waited a table, bussed dirty dishes, balanced a steaming hot tray of 4 dinners on their shoulder, skidded into the kitchen on a grease-covered floor, wiped down every last trash can inside and out... Not to mention that humans turn into absolute garbage when being waited on so there's the abuse. And this young man is neurodivergent, a FT student, working two doubles in a row on the weekend when he should be resting and doing school work WITH NO MANAGER IN THE STORE. Anyone who wants to weirdly flex their 60 hr/wk desk job that destroyed their 2 marriages, while consuming a pint of Tito's a day and claiming to be "just fine" can FOH.
Nicholas McCoy 2 years ago
So what? You're playing to HER neurosis and psychosis. Don't pretend SHE is a hero. I've done worse, and not complained. I went to college, and when I wasn't studying, I was working. You act like those of us who criticize HER are clueless. We're not. Also, SHE abandoned 3 other workers to have that tantrum. Did you consider that?
Load More Replies... K ML 2 years ago
Not all 8hr shifts are equal. In my opinion unless you have worked in food service or retail you can't fathom how soul crushing it can be. I have worked 10-12 hr shifts at a busy understaffed Dunkin with no gm. Did I survive? Sure. Would I do it again if I could help it? Hell no.
Kevin Cappo 2 years ago
at our factory the parents work 6 ten hour days then still have to parent. zero sympathy for someone complaining about two 8 hour days.
Shania Taylor 2 years ago
The shifts are hard but that's life if you want to get anywhere in life u can't survive in life without a job or money you will have nothing! I'll be dammed if I sit on a f*****g corner asking for other people's money because it's too hard for me to work an 8 hour shift. Boo hoo suck it up get your emotions in check it won't be understaffed forever but if u can't work an 8 hour shift than. Maybe it will be understaffed forever cause lazy a*s people don't want to work 😕
Daniel Smith 2 years ago
Does working 8 hours a day suck? Yes, even more so when you are understaffed. But you don't go and hid in the bathroom crying about it while your coworkers are out there working. What you do is put on your best fake smile and do the damn job, that you signed up for.
Hazel Bonilla 2 years ago
So quit...go get another gig? You seem very fragile to be in this type of situation. Advertise yourself for babysitting or something. In other words, you seem to need a therapist. You've decided to transition, but you must know what comes with it bcos people are cruel. So work on a solution instead of wallowing in the problem.
Keena Cauthen 2 years ago
He says he works 25 hrs a week, with 16 of those being Sat and Sunday... so the rest of the week while he's in classes he gets an additional 9 hrs of work (9 hrs over 5 days)... that seems reasonable. Cut out working both Sat and/or Sun and he would be complaining not enough hours on his schedule or too many hours on nights/ days he has classes. If it's not the hours he's expected to work but the fact they're "understaffed", then I'd suggest he get the word out that they need more employees. But 4-5 folks working a coffee place seems reasonable, especially since there is only so much room and machines. Having 25 folks working but only 2 coffee machines and a couple of microwaves in a small cramped space isn't going to help. If it's the attitude of the customers... again this falls to a generational thing, because younger generations are rude, don't wanna wait, are entitled, and so they mouth off because how dare they have to wait! That is a society thing, not a company thing.
Magpie 2 years ago
Older generations are the rude a******s, who make entitled demands, have no patience, and are overly comfortable demeaning and abusing staff. (I'm in an older generation so no bias here). Additionally, between school, coursework and his job, he is certainly working more than 50 hours a week. A 12-credit schedule is full-time because classes plus studying plus coursework equals 36-hours per week. And this kid is working 7 days a week. Not having one full day to relax, clean your apartment, do laundry, have a hobby, hang out with friends is absolute b******t and unhealthy. Add in the fact that he's on his feet the entire shift, they're short-staffed, they're busy, and customers (especially the older ones) are complete c***s, it is no surprise that this kid is breaking down. He's also neurodivergent, which is often accompanied by anxiety and/depression. He's asking for compassion but getting abused. There's no honor in being happy to work the shittiest hours/jobs without complaint.
Load More Replies... AvolitionMC 2 years ago
This guy is lame. Get a different job and stop whining about it. God it's not that hard. Saying your neodivergent doesn't matter.. sorry but grow up. Advocate for yourself at your job, or leave. I'm a full time student who also works 8hs in a stressful environment but I'm not crying on camera. Grow up and grow a pair.
Britni Bates 2 years ago
The power of being at "at will" employee is that you can quit your job for any reason, guilt-free. Nobody is forcing you to work there. If you are unhappy working at Starbucks because management is shtty and neglectful, LEAVE. There are retail environments that exist that actually have decent management styles. (I work for one and I love it!) Eight hours only feels like too long if you don't love your job.🤷🏼 The country literally fought for a 40 hour work week to have balance between work-life and home life. This person works little over half that and can't handle it. Classic case of "give a mouse a cookie". Not happy with your working conditions? Guess what! LEAVE. You have NO obligation to work there. I was raised to know how to take care of myself by cooking, cleaning, handywork. Guess what. I do the same thing for my job in retail/restaurant. I was also raised to "kill 'em with kindness". Makes my job easy because it feels good to turn someone's day around positively.
Traci Barnes 2 years ago
The food service industry is hard. I’ve been there. But if people feel this strongly about it, there are thousands of other jobs. I work full time 40-50 hrs a week as a nurse and go to school full time for my masters. I love my job. But we work 13-14 hours every shift. We don’t sit down at all. Sometime we don’t get lunch breaks or bathroom breaks. We get yelled at for so much that is out of our control by patients, doctors, and management. Hospitals are short staffed in every department. So we have to take extra patients which poses safety issues. But if we quit, what will happen to those patients? Life is hard. Sometimes it is overwhelming. But it seems there are many answers to his dilema and crying on social media is it.
Meghan Prestidge 2 years ago
My son is 19 been with Chipotle for 3 years. 2 of which as a high school student working up to 30 hour a week and maintaining a full course load. Now full time working over 55+ hours a week! He is Gen Z and works as hard as any other generation- it comes down to setting the example. Everyone in our house works 2 jobs! Put your perspective in a different place- 8 hours is a day at an amusement park. Rude customers can be effectively put in their place with kindness . Just let it roll off- this isn’t your life’s work. Keeping customers informed of why things are slow usually keeps the nastiness at bay. Make it light - throw your manager under the bus- whatever it takes to take the heat off. Now you have to decide what you are capable of. Yes, you can leave, but sometimes it’s the tough hardish jobs that show us what/how much we can take.
John Edwards 2 years ago
Work ethic is a real thing. Jobs like this train you for better jobs to come. It also teaches you to be a better person and builds character. Remember also that these unfriendly difficult customers are in part people of this persons own generation who tend to be rude, difficult and self absorbed.
Christian Fuller 2 years ago
When I first read the headline, I thought they were crying because they had been cut down to 8 hours a week on the schedule, and weren't able to make ends meet because of it. That's also far too common in the service industry. Not that this situation is any better - two 8 hour shifts on a weekend, when there should be at least double the staff, after a full work week's worth of university, plus night shifts, is pure burn out fuel.
Grace McCadden 2 years ago
I feel for you…. I do. I worked retail and food industry during school and yes they get as many weekend hours out of you as they can. A very wise older lady I worked with came to me when I had just been verbally abused by a customer her words stuck with me to this day… it won’t sound like much but if you really take it to heart… it may help you too. “If they have time to shop… they have time to wait.” You want a $9 cup of coffee with all of the extras- that takes time. Ask yourself- do they want this fast or do they want it right? Don’t let the Aholes get to you. Unfortunately, some people thrive on your pain and frustration… don’t give them the satisfaction.
Lilianna Grant 2 years ago
My hubs was in a union apprenticeship went to school 40 hours some times 60 hours a week and was doing school courses full time... Like for real if the job is too tough find a new one. But if you put your available all day sat and sun don't be put out cause you were scheduled that time to work. Agree it's not fair the manage4 didn't come in that needs to be something taken up with his boss, but seriously lots of people do this and are just fine.
Ryan Brooks 2 years ago
"He's" crying about an 8 hour work day. That's the NORM in a lot of places. Sure, it might not always be easy (it IS work), but c'mon, man. I'm sure there's someone else out there who'd love to work the hours this person is bitching about and crying over.
Ce Chaney 2 years ago
I take issue with the people telling him to suck it up. He didn't disclose his college work load. The pressure to study and complete assignments on time is very hard. His main job should be his school work. Not everyone is fortunate to not need to work. Also, many parents and high schools do not properly prepare kids for the real world, so you must not blame them for being spoiled. Almost every retail job where you have direct contact with the public is tough. Employees come with the intent to do a good job, but are subjected to people who are rude, nasty, clueless, thoughtless and so demeaning to the staff. If anything is wrong they jump to considering the worker as stupid or dumb. Every job has it's challenges, few are as abusive as the public is to retail workers. Now, everyone is shorthanded and the workload is overwhelming. I hope the guy at the Starbucks gets a resolution that works out for him. Use the experience to grow as a person but never giving up on his goal.
Kim Burke 2 years ago
I cannot understand why in todays labour market, kids get so worked up like this when they don’t like their job. If this job doesn’t work for you, go get a different job! Everybody is hiring! My 14 & 15 year old kids just got jobs at a retail sporting goods chain and they love their jobs. Food service is a difficult industry to work in. Terrible hours, not great pay, chronically understaffed…It’s not for everybody.
AR 2 years ago
It’s hilarious seeing everyone focusing on the 8 hour shift and missing the whole point of the rant. But go ahead and keep playing the martyr. “i WoRk 16 hOuR sHiFtS aFtEr WaLkInG uPhIlL fOr 70 YeArS!” Ever stop to ask why Karen? Instead of doing exactly what your boss wants you to do in blaming other workers for companies’ s****y policies?
Bone Dome Martin 2 years ago
Soft wittle pansy wuss! God I hate starshits and the garbage of humanity who work there!
Charles Rogers 2 years ago
Unionize thinking at it's core: I shouldn't have to work so much, I need a union.
DeAndrea Murphy 2 years ago
Umm excuse me Sir normal shifts are 8 hours. You are literally crying tears. Really dude. Everybody wants life to be easy. Reality check you get what you work for. You want to be mediocre then do that but do it quietly. I was a full time student working 32 hrs a week with a child at home. Didn't cry on MySpace not once. I'm typing this from my second job(MH residence) after working my stressful city job 9 to 5. Literally pulling 80hrs a week. Not one tear. Instead of whining I put together a plan so that I will not be clocking in as a worker but a boss in the next 5yrs. 16 hrs a week isn't a abuse it's a job. Word of advice you can not quit just because it's hard. That's for the weak. Man up.
lc Delgado 2 years ago
try working 16 hour day in texas in July in 103 degree heat on the blacktop 6 days straight.
John B 2 years ago (edited)
Good God. Did anyone count how many "me's" and "I's" there were in there? Narcissism at its finest. Nobody is saying don't get upset if things aren't right. They are saying "get off your a*s and do something about it instead of bleating about it" Personally? I would have either targeted the manager job or looked for another job with a better fitting environment, or just sucked it up until the right alternative appeared. This over-the-top drama accomplishes absolutely nothing except maybe to identify this employee as completely helpless and a whiner.
de cara 2 years ago
And yet he managed to spark a conversation about labour and work/life/school balance that your methods apparently never did. Interesting that his "bleating" accomplished so much more than you ever have with anything you've ever done with your miserable little life, huh?
Load More Replies... Jack Dill 2 years ago (edited)
I worked bar and tables in my early 20s. I'd work 8+ hr server shifts regularly (5pm to 2am) constantly on my feet. Sat Sun I'd work actual doubles (11am to 2am) on the bar at times. Saved up money to backpack through Europe, came back and saved a little ($15000) for university. Still had to borrow maybe $20000. Graduated (while working PT in restaurants) and paid it back by my early 30s. That's not bragging because any could do the same and a lot of people have done a LOT more. It's not always easy but it's not as hard as other people's lives in parts of the world or our own ancestors decades ago. Service industry isn't for everyone, that's for sure. If customers are rude, that's about them, not you, so don't let it affect you. You're really busy and people have to wait? So what?? To hell with them! You don't deserve to be treated that way? What's "deserve" got to do with anything in life? IMO, it's about your mindset. Your Starbucks job and it's customers should be at the bottom of the list of "Things that are worth stressing about".
Shane S 2 years ago
I mean, kinda offensive to say to a trans person. I get the sentiment but maybe use a different metaphor than a “set”.
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Michael King 2 years ago
Why can't we find the middle ground? His manager was s****y for abandoning him and customers shouldn't be allowed to verbally abuse service workers. (I worked retail all through college these are basic truths in these kinds of jobs) Buuuuut this kid is also being a baby. If it's a 1 time thing then get through the day and think of how full that tip jar is gonna be. If it's a regular thing then quit and find a slightly less crappy part time job. There's a lot of people who worked way harder in college and were better off for it. You're not doing rocket science it's mixing drinks and anyone can do it so you don't have a lot of leverage.
JM98 2 years ago
Lots of comments from Gen X (raises hand) and Millenials complaining about the kids. Take a hard look at your own generation because you raised these kids to be this way. The helicopter parents, the Karen moms setting the example, the parents going to job interviews with their kids, and general over protection to let kids grow up and experience hardship. Our generations created this mess (not only environmentally, but socially) and now we play the grumpy old person. In this instance, my opinion is that the kid shouldn't work at Starbucks and expect them to bend over backwards to accommodate AND it sounds like the management also sucks. It's not just the kid, it's the management. We so easily forget that earlier generations also think the generations after them are too lazy, including Boomers, Gen X, and Millenials. So yeah, you did have it easier than previous generations.
Shane S 2 years ago
Also, I’m cis so I will NOT speak for the trans community but does a mustache and beard always mean you use he/him pronouns? I won’t apologize for the customers being jerks but I don’t think anyone is supposed to automatically know your pronouns unless you tell them. If he corrected them and they still used “she/her” then that’s really messed up.
Nicholas McCoy 2 years ago
Follow the science. XX = female, XY = male. Don't go along with that woke garbage, my guy. I've been an ally to the community, and they don't respect us. Better to not respect them when it's not reciprocated.
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LordSiravant 2 years ago
Unsurprisingly, the vast majority of negative commentators are boomers and Magaheads who are incapable of empathy anyway, so to hell with what they think. They're probably feeling even less sympathetic because he's trans. Work culture in our country is toxic and exploitative, and just because you MIGHT have had it harder doesn't make it right. You want us to grow up? We already did. Way earlier than we should have had to. And you're part of the problem.
simply.Taz 2 years ago
PLEASE......don't lump the negative comments to just specific groups. BTW, I don't fall under any of these categories. These posters just want to be negative and it doesn't matter what decades they were porn in, or, their political beliefs. They're just straight up, ÀSSHOLES!!
Load More Replies... Unfamiliar Tortoise 2 years ago (edited)
Holy mother of f**k...um, kid? I work 8 hours a day, 5 days a week minimum. Sometimes I pull in overtime, sometimes 6 days or a full week if the need arises, same as my coworkers, same as my boss, as understaffed as you are but we make it work. And WE'RE A UNION GIG. You clearly have no idea what a union is for; they fight for your rights, but they will NOT coddle you and give you an easy way out. Life sucks, kid. Understand that and get over you child-like tantrums. Or just die.
ginny weasley 2 years ago
I genuinely think you are unhinged, telling someone to suck it up or die
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arcane_gamer (they/them) 2 years ago
he's complaining for why? he actually has to work a grown-up shift?
Poeha 2 years ago
No the customers are. I wouldn't let my son work there if I can sit on my lazy a*s behind a laptop and make some maps for more money. Let em go make their own coffee if they can't act normal.
Load More Replies... Samantha Campbell 2 years ago
I empathize he's having a bad day-but no. I worked at a steakhouse with a.woman in 2009 who was a full time student at UWF studying marine biology and worked 20 hrs on Saturday and Sunday. She made her money working back to back 10hr shifts and did a normal 'school wk'
Kaa 2 years ago
Yeah, she made her money because she had to. I guess. Not because she wanted to spend her weekends working.
Load More Replies... Samantha Campbell 2 years ago
No. This is so dumb. There are so many good days in this line of work and honestly after 13 yrs doing events and odd jobs between volunteering and interning for my career, I don't have sympathy
Rune Rosen (they/them) 2 years ago (edited)
Your career, your choice. Volunteering is not mandated of you, YOU volunteer yourself to help out other organizations. Internships can also pay money, not always, but sometimes. Honestly, 13 years does NOT sound like food industry, retail, or stripping where people are DEGRADED, UNDERPAID, MISTREATED, and DISCRIMINATED. I, a teenager, can say this much to you: after working jobs in food industry, retail (seasonal photography), housekeeping, and childcare, I have seen enough to know the problem here. Neurodivergents like myself process things differently, see the world differently, and often have mental illness(es)/disorder(s) which are recognized as disabilities. Feeding into toxic workplace behavior as you are now is not helping anyone. My generation is genuinely trying to change things, but if you are so blinded by your own experiences, that you fail to see how we can improve the world, then ultimately, no one can help you. PS: No one asked for your sympathy.
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blatherskitenoir 10 months ago
Too many people view managers who don't recall the minute picadillos of their individual lives when coming up with the shift schedule as malicious. It's not. It's a combination of forgetfulness, hope, and need. They simply don't remember that Cindy can only do half days the week of the full moon, or when mid terms and classes are for the 15 separate people they're trying to fit like wonky Tetris pieces, they need to fill the gaps on the schedule so that understaffing situations like this one don't happen, and they hope you'll show up and do that. You just need to remind them and stick to your guns. They're trying to make their life easier, you're trying to make your life easier, it's natural. You should also advocate for yourself by (calmly!) pointing out when the online orders need to be shut off, or having a conversation about how the weekends are bonkers and really need at least five people. Filming yourself melting down helps no one and makes things worse.
alan chau 1 year ago
He’s only working 24 hours a week! If you want to make money, you have to work the hours. You won’t magically get paid. This is not a union issue.. I’m sure you get all your proper breaks, compensate you properly, and they schedule your hours around your school. I hate to see you when you have to work a 40 hour work week. Looking forward to your video then how you really break down. Suck it up and Grow up kid!
Carla Olavarría 2 years ago
Omg! I started reading the comments and thought I was crazy or souless for disagree with this guy, but now I see I’m not the only one. 8 hours is a standard shift. You know, people in healthcare (ER, ICU, etc) usually work 12 hours shifts, sometimes 24 hours, many times understaffed asswell, and in very harder conditions than a coffee house. Please get real! Please get
Nathanaël Verdonck 2 years ago
This is making me feel very divided. Because yes, i've worked in a starbucks, 38 hours a week, so sometimes you have multiple 8 hours days in a row. And it's no deskjob, it's the exact same company, exact same job, yeah some of those days you kinda have to be running all day long.. Now i don't want to be a d**k, and i want to be understanding as i can, i live in Belgium, in Europe and when i hear about work conditions in the states, yeah it kinda scares me, like if i was American, i would've ended up on the streets a long time ago, 100% sure. But then again, i've had busy weeks at the bucks where pretty much everyday is non stop working the whole day long and you find a way to manage. I'm not gonna say suck it up because that doesn't help at all, but try to find the fun in it, i know a lot of people won't agree but you can find the fun of things in everything. Pff i have to do my taxes, no i GET to do them! Woohoo doing some math exercises are fun!
Nathanaël Verdonck 2 years ago
Again, fully able to agree that work conditions in Belgium are just better, but i've done multiple 8 hours days in a row, standing up, running around, getting yelled at by karens and hoodlums who don't want to leave our terrace, being understaffed also, often. I'll admit i didn't study BUT i wrote music for the two bands i was in, we obvs had rehearsals a lot, plus you have to do a lot of self study on your instrument so i had at least the same 40 hours extra on top of my job. It really is not that hard. And i'm no boomer or whatever, i'm only 27 and i've always considered myself to be pretty lazy in general. Like i quit the bucks to become a full time street artist, cause i have to work less for the same amount of money, so yeah, laziness played a big part in that decision. Just my two cents.
Load More Replies... Nathanaël Verdonck 2 years ago
This is making me feel very divided. Because yes, i've worked in a starbucks, 38 hours a week, so sometimes you have multiple 8 hours days in a row. And it's no deskjob, it's the exact same company, exact same job, yeah some of those days you kinda have to be running all day long.. Now i don't want to be a d**k, and i want to be understanding as i can, i live in Belgium, in Europe and when i hear about work conditions in the states, yeah it kinda scares me, like if i was American, i would've ended up on the streets a long time ago, 100% sure. But then again, i've had busy weeks at the bucks where pretty much everyday is non stop working the whole day long and you find a way to manage. I'm not gonna say suck it up because that doesn't help at all, but try to find the fun in it, i know a lot of people won't agree but you can find the fun of things in everything. Pff i have to do my taxes, no i GET to do them! Woohoo doing some math exercises are fun! Sbx can be so fun when it's busy!!
Chris Sprucefield 2 years ago
Don't sign up for it if you can't do it, but welcome to actual life realities if you do... and stop whining about it, as 8h a day is a normal workday...
Peter Hall 2 years ago
I made a meme about this I cut out and pasted Emperor Kusco's face after he had been turned into a llama over this person's and honestly it's striking how much resemblance there still is. I basically made them look look like a Llama and there's no difference in the expression
ViFi 2 years ago
my mom is a doctor and regularly works 18 hour shifts. so does my dad. so does my aunt. so does my mother's best friend. my friend who's only 15 works!! she works 7 hour shifts! i mean, for gods sake, i work 9 hour workdays sometimes! (16F) and yet I know that none of us, not a single one, would act like those people being rude and negative are acting. My 15 year old friend works a starbucks, its hard work. I work a target, it's work. my parents, aunt, and unrelated aunt work incredibly hard. that does not mean his work is any less belittling or hard.
Margie Lundeford 2 years ago
He’s not the first college student who has to work his way through. And he won’t be the last. Wishing him the fortitude, endurance, and tenacity it takes to get through the day.
Jade Ember 2 years ago
All the people saying 'I worked 16 hours a day and only slept four hours a night, and I turned out just fine!' are the same people who say 'My parents smacked me around and I turned out just fine!' Did you, though? Does wanting other people to suffer because you suffered sound fine to you?
Nikki Nik 2 years ago
Everyone has their own tolerance to pain as well as STRESS.This boy has reached his breaking point. That's ok. We all do. Sometimes over things that have nothing to do with what we are actually venting about. I worked in retail for 30 years. It is difficult but I loved it. Someday I cried. I yelled. I fought over scheduling. I fought with management for support. I worked 15 of those years at Home Drpot and Lowes. We all have bad days. We all need support from time to time. Gen Z or not!! We all have different tolerance levels. I have an 18 year old son who is on the spectrum. Yes I believe in mental illness. He cannot work more than 2 to 3 hours. An 8 hour shift would put me in a grave. Just understand as you write your comments, this boy is NOT you and you are NOT him.
Josh Briggs 2 years ago
Jesus Christ. What has happened to the world? You would die in the military. Soft egg!
dahnb 2000 2 years ago
This story starts with a tweet from actual Nazi Seb Gorka. Bored Panda take this story DOWN!
Elizabeth Raymond 2 years ago
I'm here to tell ya, I spent most of my adult life working 2 restaurant/retail jobs raising 3 kids by myself. I also did this at 42 while going back to college to try to make it better....Facts: beyond an uncertain age, that college degree made no difference except that I had a small (very small) leveraging tool of the fact I had a college degree meant I was respected a tiny bit better as having accomplishing something most of my bosses didn't. But most of the customers on a stressed day would say to me that if I don't like my job I should have went to college. Or if they didn't like the service, it's my fault, even though after having been off for a rare 3 days off in a row, I come back from work to my ENTIRE shift of employees having been fired, and it's Friday, first of the month holiday weekend. And my entire shift of unruly but trained emp. had been replaced with not just people new to the co. , but new to JOBS, all age 16-18, and it's all of THEIR very FIRST day. Customers suck!
Elizabeth Raymond 2 years ago
And customers are incredibly stupid. When anyone is messing with your food, that goes into your mouth/body, you are a dam*n fool to be rude and hateful to them. Just saying. Haven't you ever seen that movie, the waiter? I have witnessed some reprehensible acts done to rude customers, and I can say. However unsanitary these acts were, the ones who got it REALLY deserved it., but what I NEVER have seen, is a manager who gets punished for taking the weekend off. Or treating their employees as "less than". My first time working at McDonald's, I was hired in the door as a certified swing manager. Basically a fancy word for shift manager. I was told all the red shirt people were like the peasants, and all the blue shirts were like royalty. I decided that day to not be that way. I've had bad employees and good ones. None of them deserved to be over worked and under paid, or having bad managers. And NONE OF UUS DESERVE TO BE TREATED BAD BY CUSTOMERS. working only at McDonald's,
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belladonna nightshade 2 years ago
F*****g little girl needs to buck the F**K up! Quit being a sissy!! She's pretending to be a man, then BE A MAN, not a f*****g little B***H!!! Men don't sit and sob and whine like that, that's what GIRLS do. How do I know? Because I'm a f*****g GIRL and we're stupid and emotional and MEN are not!! Men are LOGICAL AND CALCULATING. Shave ur fkn face and STFU!!!🤬🤬🤬👎
Sanchi 2 years ago
That is sexist. It increases the gender assumptions and stereotypes. Stop discriminating on race
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Cathy Carey 2 years ago
8 hours is too long for people to work; 6 hours should be the norm. People will be more productive AND happy.
Raymond Tiago 2 years ago
People whine too much. I was a cook I'm the military standing on my feet all day. I know it's not hard. But it builds character. Man the f**k up and work hard so you can quit and never look back. That will be so satisfying instead of locking yourself in the bathroom crying like a little b***h
IHaveAClub 2 years ago
As a Truck Driver who has been at it for over 25 years. I have no sympathy for those who whine and cry "I'm a victim!! Life is unfair!!" Etc. Life IS hard!! Life IS unfair!! Only the strong survive it. Unless you're a parasite....living off the hard work of others. This Soy Boi needs to grow up and grow a pair. I'm nearly 63, I work my tail off for 8+ hours regularly, occasionally 12 hours and 16 hours a day when necessary. I have zero sympathy for this weak, pathetic excuse of a male. After my generation is dead and gone, unless things change drastically, Soy Boi's generation will get trampled by the rest of the world. While he sits on the floor continuing to whine and cry. One last thing. Years ago I saw a bumper sticker that said "To those that think the World owes them a living, the World says I was here first".
Ronda Phillips 2 years ago
Having worked retail 35 years I can sympathize. 8 hours may not seem long but the working conditions make it seem like forever. It boils down to the management not taking responsibility for their store or caring for the employees. As a store manager I never put my staff in a position I myself would not do. I cleaned toilets too. Customers are not easy to deal with. You can have 100 customers but that one nasty person can ruin an entire shift. We need to learn patience and kindness on the whole. A lot of fast food and retail stores are very short staffed. They are overworked, underpaid, and expendable according to the companies they work for. But, their backs are what profits are built on. Take better care of your employees and you wouldn't have to worry about Union talk.
Jaime Gooding 2 years ago
Just quit already. Yes, 8 hours is a long time to be somewhere so go somewhere else. Don't like the customers, don't work in customer service. People are paying 6-7 dollars for coffee so yes they want it right. If it takes a while to get the orders out just make sure they're right. We see you're short staffed. Employers aren't going to pay 20-30 $ an hour and hire 20 employees on the same shift. They're trying to maximize their profits. If they can make the same amount of money with minimal staff that's exactly what they're gonna do. It's no secret.
Shayne O'Neill 2 years ago
We're bullying kids who aren't coping with combining full time study with full time work now? Yay the internet.
Nicholas McCoy 2 years ago
No, we're calling out a grown woman who suffers from delusions and a sense of entitlement. 👍
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Emma Perkins 2 years ago
Wow, clickbait that purposefully gets people to argue over something that's not even the issue. Thanks bored panda!
Julie MommaWolf 2 years ago
Yeah yeah yeah. Been there, done that STILL doing it. The barista IS NOT the problem, other than an 8 hour shift is normal. The problem is CUSTOMERS. They think the person on the other side of the counter is their servant. They feel entitled and can say what ever they want. Insults fly. And yes words do hurt. No one and I mean NO ONE has been taught manners. Age is not a factor. We have become a world full of Karen’s.
3D pyromaniac 2 years ago
This b***h wouldn't last half an hour in a machine shop
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Pariah Mouse 2 years ago
And can I say, the way BP edited c**p makes it look like a far dirtier word... Whatever, BP. We have more to worry about than some quasi curse words...
Elena Doyle 2 years ago
I’m sorry, but this person is ridiculous. My mother had to work a lot longer than 8 hours a day. She stared really early and ended really late. She worked at a dealership, and while pregnant with me. She walked in with morning sickness almost every day, trying hard not to throw up. I’m sure she wanted to cry sometimes but she wasn’t going around going “poor me” and trying to get pity from people. She got the job done. It is not that hard to put pastries in bags and make Frappuccinos. I get it, sometimes things don’t go our way and we are upset about it. But what a lot of people do not understand is that sometimes things are not fair. Life is not fair. Stop acting like you are the victim. Get over it and get on with it.
Annie Steele 2 years ago
I can't remember the last time I only worked 8 hours ... most days are 12 to 14 hours, 7 days available, clients pay my salary, I work for them ...
Tasha 2 years ago
I usually don’t comment on these blogs but it is sad to hear that he is upset because the business is short staffed and no help. Unfortunately it’s like that now in many jobs, so no matter if it’s retail or hospitality or a desk job short staff is short staffed and the work load is going to be given to someone and that may be you. Choices are to find something else or don’t work, it’s not that you have to be there, we all still have a choice. I was a single mom worked retail 40+ hours and did school BS and my Masters full time. I made a choice to do it because I wanted to complete goals set for myself and to show my daughter that you can do anything you put your heart and mind too. No one can stop you but you. I am still in retail managing now, I like people, the interaction, if I didn’t I would have left the field. Do I trip out about customers and how they treat my team and me sometimes yes, it’s sad, truly, but in the end I chose where I am.
Margrete Sonnenberg 2 years ago (edited)
I remember a quote that youtuber said "Everyone should work a retail job once." I did and it was hard to make sure every order went to the right person. It was just me and one other guy in the concession stand. It was sometimes harder when the person your with sneaks off somewhere.
Moose Gomer 2 years ago
I do kind of understand I work retail between 8 and 10 hrs 5 days a week split days off and a couple 12 hr shifts here and there yes at times it's tough especially dealing with customers. Being in college I can imagine how difficult it is , I'm unable to do that myself I have a family that needs me to work so I can't take time out for schooling. But unfortunately this is part of being an adult I do have sympathy for you and you don't deserve the hate from Gen z's (they're just mad because they realized they got gipped) however you'll not find much work with less hours definitely not in retail and food service where it's already tough to get willing sustainable employees
Zuccini Yaga 2 years ago
All of these boomers and hustler saying "I work blah-blah and I'm not complaining, snowflake!" That's not the point. Either you SHOULD be fighting to be treated like a real flesh-and-blood human worker, Or you're not in school. College is a full-time job in promise of a better career (that often doesn't happen). As someone who hAs a degree, has been fired from a career position, and have been coasting around to find jobs in this "unemployment crisis," I can tell you that no one wants to pay for your qualifications. They want you to be a full-time drone, doing 60 hours worth of work in a 40 hour week. The boomers put up with it, (hell, even the Millennials are trying to make it work!) But now that is Zoomers are trying to stand up for basic human rights, (in a less-extreme way than other civil rights movements in the past), the boomers want to call us snowflakes? Ok. Instead we'll start a riot so y'all can call us 'unruly' and blame it on our "violent videogames."
Candice Blanton 2 years ago
I'm sorry this kid is overwhelmed. But this what happens when you become an adult. And it is only going to get harder. You know that 15.00 dollar an hour minimum wage everybody cried for, well this is reality when you get it. What is this kid going to do when he graduates college and is expected to work 40 hour work weeks? This is every day life for people who want to eat and live in something besides a tent. Might as well get used to it. I went to college full time, worked the ER on third as a lpn and took care of my mom who had Alzheimer's at the time. And got my RN in a year instead of two. Oh, btw, I am autistic. You do what you have to.
Alicia White 2 years ago
As a full time college student and someone working 20 hrs a week being a wife and pet parent, honestly I can see how this would be frustrating. People who work 16 hr shifts, yeah that sucks, but you made your choice to go to nursing school etc knowing its a s****y career where you get treated like s**t. This kid is trying to put themselves through school which should be the priority AND its almost finals week. Theres context here and people are being a$$holes just because their experience is different than this persons.
Esther Sorenson 2 years ago (edited)
When I was a college student, I worked as a waitress - 25 hours per week on top of going to class and studying full time (expectation is to spend 60+ hours on school. For that kid, that’s 60 + 25 = 85+ hours per week). My longest shifts were on the weekends. We ALWAYS had a manager on the floor to handle any customer complaint and rude behavior. We were supported by management. This kid is angry, because there’s not enough staff hired to handle the load AND the manager took themselves off the schedule on the weekend. How could there not be a manager on the floor?! That to me sounds like a liability issue. Why be a manager of a food industry if you refuse to work weekends?! Getting back to my experience, working 25 hours and being a full time college student resulted in my grades suffering and not having enough time to read everything assigned. Regarding nurses working 14 hour shifts, does your work week total 85+ hours of work?!
Dana Ondráčková 2 years ago
I feel both sides. I dont wanna write a whole essay why yes or not, but I feel that many people used to be this overwhelmed before but they didnt had or still dont have social média to complain about it so seeing everything now on the online media is the diference
$cagsy 2 years ago
I was ready to ridicule this person like so many others have done. Eight hours isn't much these days and doesn't compare to the sweatshop conditions in far away countries. But this person has said that they are 'neurodivergent' which means that their brain function is not typical. This could mean that they are autistic, dyslexic or dyspraxic, for example. Additionally, this worker is trans, which, on it's own, must be very difficult for them, particularly when being misgendered. So if you look at the facts, you may reach a vastly different conclusion. 'Young, autistic, transgender student worker struggles with 8-hour shifts' is the accurate headline and it makes me feel so much more sympathetic towards this person. But that doesn't drive web traffic, does it BP? How can so many hate a person who is neurodivergent and trans but puts themself out there anyway to earn a living and better themself? It would be easy for them to hide. They don't. And they get bullied for it. Enough.
James McIntosh 2 years ago
This has to be a joke....8 hours is a basic shift.. I've been working 6-8 hour shifts since I started working at 16....
Somalin Tea 2 years ago
8 hour shifts aren’t long but being in college is a full time job with no breaks if you work. People don’t seem to realise going to college is less and less affordable and how mentally draining working food service is. While 40 hours a week isn’t what this person is working, people arent realising the other 6 hours a day of classes and studying on top of work.
terry opila 2 years ago
So, 2 8 hour shifts and then only 9 hours the rest of the week... Sounds like a pretty gravy schedule to me. You're a student working in retail/service... Did you think you'd have weekends off? If you don't like it, use it as motivation to graduate.
Jeffrey Keffer 2 years ago
Try owning your own business I am self employeed no employees. When I sleep I make no money, but I enjoy every second of when I am awake the Hustle is life I work outside I mine precious metals, gemstones and semi precious gemstones its dangerous dirty cold hot wet and dry ... And best of all I dont work for the man ( although Uncle Sam takes a big bite ) I worked Union ... Go ahead Unionize then not only does the tax man take a cut but so does the Union . Everybody thinks the Union is the answer and it is if you get to sit in the Union office and push paper because they make a whole Heck ( dumb censor ship) of a lot more than you will.
Satesh Charran 2 years ago
I worked a retail job as a cashier 8 hours on my feet and 498 customers for the day. They took me off before 500 dam them to hell.
Kamis Dewey 2 years ago
When I was in college a part time job was sitting around at Blockbuster or working nights at a burger joint to serve the 4 people who might go there during your 4 hour shift. It was better to get a job as a teaching assistant, so I worked for the computer science department where we got paid (good money, for a student) to run a few lab help sessions and make sure kids understand the concepts. Easy peasy MINIMUM WAGE TYPE STUFF. Running a busy understaffed Starbucks for a weekend with no manager for c**p wages while going to school full time? I um, no. That’s all the stress and no compensation to show for it. Entry level/minimum wage jobs are NOT comparable to military or healthcare jobs. Those are career tracks you get compensated for. Not part time student jobs Do you even remember how much the full time college workload SUCKED?! Kudos to this student for taking on a job!!
Bored Pangolin 2 years ago
I feel like most of the criticism is people humble bragging "Well I..." and that's about it. I don't disagree with it seeming an over the top reaction to an 8 hour shift, I also don't disagree that it's harder than it sounds between retail and Karens. But I think all the "I work 80 hours a week, uphill both ways with no shoes, through the snow" make my eyes roll way harder. When your gut reaction to something is to immediately compare it to yourself - your choices, your lifestyle, your physical and mental health - as though you are the holy grail standard of how everyone should be then I think you're doing empathy and critical thinking wrong. I'm gonna guess these are the same people that tell a one-legged person they're lazy for posting how exhausted they are after a one hour hike.
J Silverman 2 years ago
Would you like a tissue for your issue? Crying because you have to work 8 hours? Ok, you're entitled, but to all of you who are upset that not everyone is gushing with sympathy, get a life. We are entitled to our opinions. If you don't want to hear it, then don't put it out there, snowflakes! GOSH, I hope the guys who fix the power lines in horrible snow storms don't decide to cry and quit, half way through their 20 hour shift! Or the firefighters working the wild fires or truck drivers getting the goods delivered and the list goes on and on. Oh and thank you for giving me a clear example of what is wrong in America today, I will definitely share!
de cara 2 years ago
God you're pathetic. Could you be projecting any harder, you massive f*****g baby? But please do go on s******g and pissing yourself in public because you can't handle the very idea that people might experience life differently than you do. Really makes you seem like a balanced, level headed person lmao
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Aaron Matye 2 years ago
I understand both sides of the argument. I would do just about anything to go back down to 8hr days, but the argument the OP was making is mostly on the lack of management, and I totally agree there. Plus, being a full-time student and working is really hard, but again, it is TEMPORARY. It certainly is bad on both sides, but I'm more with the OP on this one.
Michele Lein 2 years ago
About the misgendering: a lot of people who don't speak English as their first language have trouble with personal pronouns. I can't say the number of times I've heard people, especially of Hispanic descent, get others pronouns mixed up. Even friends who knew me well. Maybe these customers did not speak English as a first language. One time when I was working in the apparel department of a superstore (not Wal-Mart), a mom and her maybe 4 year old child walked by, and the kid asked his mom 'Mommy, was that a man or a woman?' I was devastated. I wasn't the 'gorgeous' type of woman, but not ugly or un-feminine either. I remember that day was not my best. I was tired, and a single mom of an under one year old, and some days I just didn't have the energy to get all "done-up" for work. It had been a "dress down" kind of day for me. I was still overweight with pregnancy pounds, but I always wore makeup and dressed nicely, even on bad days, so I don't know why the child was confused.
Bloobee bloobee bloo bloo bloo 2 years ago
For someone who has a full moustache and beard he really is a baby. Only 2 days that he has work 8 hours?? What does he think he’s gonna do when graduates college and has a “real” job? He’s probably going into a field where he can sit at home on his computer for 4 hours while claiming he’s working and getting paid for 8. I work with high school students who have no problem working 12+ hour shifts on their feet in an extremely fast paced, never stopping fast food industry. God I hate adult zoomers! Terrible work ethic
Shane S 2 years ago
Whoa man/woman, don’t insult everyone who works from home. The same person who works at home and only does 4 hours of work would still be in the office doing only 4 hours of work. A slacker is a slacker.
Load More Replies... Amy S 2 years ago
I can't get over the people in the comments saying they work 70-80 hours per week, when do you live your life? Between work, commute, sleep and all the things you need to do to be able to work (e.g. laundry) there can't be much time left?! Bragging that you have no life isn't really a flex.
Mark Alibozek 2 years ago
I may get flack from this but I think sometimes when people don't go through real hardship they aren't able to stop and consider that what's going on isn't as bad as it seems. The reason I say this is because I have and it makes the difficulties I go through now no problem. For instance when I was a teenager starting at 14 years old I worked on a farm. At times I had to work at least 14 hour's a day 7 days a week for months at a time. In three months that's 8,820 hours of work without a day off. At minimum I had 7-8 hours a day with the possibility of one day off a week. That's in whatever weather there was 100 degrees in summer to -40 degrees in winter. Now when things get tough. I know it could be worse and it's really no big deal.
Edith Rubalcava 2 years ago
How do we progress if we don't want things to be better for the incoming generation? We have forgotten the deal that if you work hard, you will be rewarded. Now it's Work hard because I worked harder than you? I'm no psychologist, but negative reinforcement never works long-term. That dog will always carry anger, resentment, and spite.
Stump Rumpersonne 2 years ago
Ahhh yes, one or even a few people in a referenced population does something stupid and now it's everyone in that population. Replace kids with an ethnicity for funsies. You may not think you're a bigot but thinking like one is far too common.
Chris Eaton (AwfulKerfuffle) 2 years ago
This is pathetic, end of story. He just wants to sit around and live easy while other people have it worse. Crying isn't how we change the system or make things better. People like this, will never make a difference.
3D pyromaniac 2 years ago (edited)
Boo f*****g hoo... Try working 10+ hours a day, 6 days a week, on your f****n feet running between multiple machines, dealing with normal customers, and the f*****g c***s that like to be called "engineers"... That is my CHOSEN lifestyle running my own machine shop. Is it exhausting? Yes. Do I near a point of considering going postal? Every f*****g time an engineer comes in. Is the money good? Ehhh. Is it a job that would impress a woman? Few are thrilled when they hear I do manufacturing, so I'd say not really. Why do I choose to do it for 60 hours a week? I enjoy the fact that I'm making things, the work gives my existence a reason, and at the end of my day I can sit down and know that I made something that will last.
Ellie Zee 2 years ago
"She's clearly incompetent...i have a mustache and beard!" Oh so we can assume gender based on physical characteristics again?
Nicholas McCoy 2 years ago
We can assume gender based on genetics. You know, science? The science you woke people claim to respect? Yeah, that. The one that says XX = female, XY = Male. Don't trust the science only when it suits you.
Load More Replies... Pariah Mouse 2 years ago
Just because you are suffering working endless hours for nothing more than survival, that doesn't make it the way it should be, NO ONE should have to do something unpleasant and sometimes insufferable simply to afford to exist- as a matter of fact, why should we have to AFFORD to exist, why can't we just exist? If you want more, okay, but the basics shouldn't break your back to attain- and just because you shove your suffering down deep and "do your crying over a drink" (that's called alcoholism, bruh, and it's not a good thing...), that doesn't mean everyone should. As a matter of fact, NO ONE should have to live this way if they don't want to. And guess what? NOBODY wants to, it's just the world, and because no one fights to change it because they are too busy sh*tting on people who just want a decent quality of life, it stays this way, and people say "that's just the real world". Well, we need to f*cking change the "real world", then. Not c**p on the folks who want more out of life.
Craig Hoosier 2 years ago
What a bunch of 🐱's....this generation lazy asf, seems the more as rime passes, men are turning into women, most of time just mentally....what is in yalls diets? Sure isn't testosterone
Chuck Page 2 years ago
This is why the USA will soon be a annex of China…. Want, want , want… on their terms. Work less and your entitled to more money… we as a f CD II try will go down toilet quickly with the younger generation thought process. Suck it up!!
Kate Schenk 2 years ago
Not happy? Go work somewhere else. There are jobs galore out there. Nobody is MAKING you work there. Sounds like you hate the job and the manager too. QUIT!!
Peter Hall 2 years ago
On the one hand Service Jobs like that suck, and I totally agree that it's not fair that The Manager can decide not to come in when regular employees can't. They need to lead by example. On the other hand there are plenty of people working harder jobs, doing longer hours, juggling crazy schedules, and they don't publicly break down like this for all to see. And boo f*****g hoo, people misgendered you by using male pronouns because you look like a male and probably are a biological male. A pathetic weak man, but you're still a man get over yourself!
Darren Begin 2 years ago
A bunch of mamby pamby jack wagons. I don't understand people today. Life is hard, you gotta work hard. People have been doing it thousands of years, and we have it better now than any other time in history. Something has to happen to toughen up our youth soon, or society is gonna crumble
JDMC123 2 years ago
I'm 14, in high school, and working. I get up to 30 hours a week and it's not that bad. This guy is overreacting
de cara 2 years ago
My dude being in high school and being a full time college student are massively different. you likely also still live with your parents and have all your meals made for you and your laundry/cleaning done for you. You have less work to do at school and at home, of COURSE you don't think it's that bad. I am begging you, please, to one day grow up and understand that no everyone has the same experience as you and that the universe does not revolve around you. ffs
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Mystery Egg 2 years ago
Boohoo. Such a weak generation. I used to do 12-15 hour shifts on the weekends as a waitress when I was in college. Every weekend, finishing at 3am. Get a grip and a work ethic.
Sanchi 2 years ago
The generation is weak because your generation made it weak. Ffs, just because you can do stuff doesn’t give you the right to bully others and bring others down.
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Christine Noren-Gentry 2 years ago
If you're listed as a PT employee then when your shedules are posted, speak up. State... yea won't be here on the weekend. And don't bloody go but whining and crying on tic toc??? Dude YOU'RE now in an adult world. I'm 60,a recent widow, was in early retirement and I had to go back to corp America. And I'm in sales, also on my feet. In July I worked 30 days straight. 2 weeks ago 57.5 hrs in 1week. What are you being paid? And you get tips? JHRC!! FACT: "It's a cold ol'hard world out there. You better toughen up baby or you'll be eaten alive". The works to much, find other work. Continue your studies, that's priority but crying to the world about it...what's that done for you? Mgmt threatens as I've had done to me over the years... my response was "I was looking for a job, when I found this one." They will either see your value or you need to find other work. Now everybody knows your business. Who's gonna hire you now??
Matthew Simonds 2 years ago
Boo hoo a whole 8 hours two days a week. I pushed to get 8 hours 5 days a week working retail, as a department lead to make more money. I've worked overtime. I work holidays. I took a whole 7 days of vacation this whole year. Gen Z are weak cry babies. They don't work willingly or efficiently when they are at work. (I have to pick up their slack) and call out all the time when because they "aren't sure if they are sick or not, but might possibly be" because they got a sniffle. Suck it up butter cups.
LeaAnn Paulsen 2 years ago
Being in any kind of service industry right now, you are anyone’s punching bag. It doesn’t matter what you are doing. You could be giving out free cars to people and they would yell at you because they don’t like the color. Or the line was too long. People are all a*s holes these days. I’m guilty of it sometimes myself. We all lack patience, sympathy, and compassion at times. This poor person is transitioning and going to school full time and working 8 hour days on they’re days off. All while dealing with people who are wanting their “fix”. They deserve a little melt down in the back room!
Chuck Freiman 2 years ago
Watching the video I just wanted to slap the poo out of this whiny little beyotch
Eric Tenson 2 years ago
The most pathetic thing I have read all day. Wow only in the US does this happen
David Johnson 2 years ago
Your man enough now to grow a mustache your man enough to work a standard shift. There's someone eles im sure that would be happy to take your place. 16 - 22 dollars an hour to make drinks is a privilege.
Heather Ruiz 2 years ago
Lmfao seriously omfg 8 hrs of work in one day what will you do!?!? I hope this is a joke. Most people work 40 hrs or more per week ... At that age I was going to school and working 2 part time jobs one night shift one day shift...grow up and man up life only gets harder!
Savannah Stout 2 years ago
Hahaha 8 hours???? That's a normal shift is it not? Wtf I'm 29 years old...I've worked my fair square of jobs..I don't think I've ever and I mean ever had a job that wasn't 8 hours plus a day..what is he complaining for... does he not need money? hes not even working 40 hrs a week. Everyone is a bunch of ninnies
Someone Important 2 years ago
I blame the parents. Seriously, the entire rest of the world with few exceptions works AT LEAST 8 hours a day, and GASP, at least 5 days a week. The horror..
Kate Jones 2 years ago
Look, I get that we shouldn't continue with a system that doesn't work simply because ‘it's not fair to make it better since I didn't get that.' I’m all for cancelling student debt, lowering taxes, improving our working conditions, etc. But there's an audacity to the argument that I think is what offends so many people and that's the problem. Not all, but MANY of the people making the argument are often benefitting from someone else taking the burden off of them by doing exactly what they complain about. His story tells me he probably has a parent(s) who is paying for the rent/mortgage, groceries, heat, air, electricity, etc. So there’s an audacity of complaining to those people who have been doing it for years, to those of us who learned how to cope with our issues in the world we live in. To those who in some cases have been doing it FOR YOU. (1)
Kate Jones 2 years ago (edited)
To talk about how ‘traumatized’ you are because you had to do what the rest of us do every day is like a slap in the face to those who are doing way more than you on a regular basis. It’s like people who join protests for human rights while filming it with an iphone and wearing sneakers sewn by children- who don’t see the irony in that. Would it be great to live in a world where we’ve developed a system where no one has to work more than someone else and everyone got free health care and life was better for everyone? Of course. But we aren’t there yet. It’s complicated. Everyone wants cheaper goods. Everyone wants to be paid more. It’s complicated to try and find a system that incorporates both of those things. So in the meantime, he’s got to suck it up like the rest of us and try to find a way to live in the world the way it is. People defending him and being easier on him is really setting him up for a long hard life. (2)
Load More Replies... JMil 2 years ago
I'm with those calling him out for being entitled and pathetic. I worked near full-time in the restaurant industry and faced abuse (31 hours so the company didn't have to give me full-time benefits (32 hours in California)) and went to school full-time. I put in my dues and am now reaping the rewards. Should life in the US be easier and is there much room for improvement? Yes. Is making videos crying about it after a few hours of work sad? Yes. I'm not usually on the side of the argument "my life was hard so buck up", but this crosses the line.
Claire Trautmann 2 years ago (edited)
Sorry no sympathy from me. Go to college full time, and work a 40 hour week in retail. Don't get a day off from work from Thanksgiving to Christmas Eve. Then come whine to Mme about working 25 hours.
Evelyn Witt 2 years ago
I know someone that was a full-time college student, works a 40-hour work week, and was married with a child. Now how this person goes on about how having two 8-hour shifts during the weekend is too much plus being a full-time student, they need to look at other people who are working the full-time job going to school full time and have kids to boot. They make it work! And then throwing in little bits and this and that to make the whole matter seem worse has nothing to do with the scheduling and the management. And life was never fair to start with.
Sanchi 2 years ago
I know some one who stopped segregation. Now people complain about the gov rather than leading a revolution. He made it work! And then throwing in posts against the gov to make the whole matter seem worse has nothing to do with gov and politics. And life was never fair to start with.
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Deathtotheleftdeathtozoomers 2 years ago
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Deathtotheleftdeathtozoomers 2 years ago
DEATH TO GEN Z DEATH TO THE LEFT GEN Z ARE FILTH AND VERMIN millennials MILLENNIALS ARE SICK DISGUSTING HALF FORMED MEN WITH DAMAGED BRAINS FROM THE DAY THEY ARE BORN. DEATH TO THE LEFT DEATH TO GEN Z DEATH TO MILLENNIALS
Chad 2 years ago
Millineals are sick desiseed f*****g trash that should not have been allowed to breed. They should have been subject to eugenics and their breeding should have been controlled the way it is in china. The government should decide which millennials get to pass on their genes after extensive testing. Millennial dna is actually diseased. Mostly due to stds and the boomer parents drinking and doing drugs while pregnant. As well as a mass resurfacing incest in the early 00s. The majority of millineals where born with brain abnormality's. But they where not diagnosed and millennials where free to live as normal people. As such their children the zoomers are parasites with no ablity to function in the world. They are sad pathathic creatures that should be euthanized. Only the best dna should have been allowed to be passed on.
Nicholas McCoy 2 years ago
Just gonna point out Gen X produced Millennials. Then lower end Gen X and upper end Millennial produced Zoomers (like this kid in the story)
Load More Replies... Chad 2 years ago
Leftists are f*****g terroists. Zoomers are society's f*****g garbage and should be shot dead. Millennials should have been sbject to eugenics and their breading controled by the goverment. Only the best genes should have been allowed to pass them on. Millineals are human f*****g garbage. Zoomers are f*****g terroists. All of them need to die. The millennial genoration is the worst generation that has ever exsited in the hystory of socity. Their parasitc spawn are worse. Death to the millennial death to the left. Death to the millennial death to the left. Death to the millennial death to the left euthanize the zoomers the n******s and their parrasitc genes.
Marian Moore 2 years ago
When my daughter was going to college, she carried a full load each semester, plus worked more than 40 hrs. a week and carried a 4.0 grade. She had her own apt and paid for all of it. Not once did she complain. She paid all her student loans off by making payments and now she makes 6 figures for all her hard work. I am very proud of her.
Sanchi 2 years ago
Typical boomer/gen x/ millennial complaining of the generation they raised. God your generation is pathetic. This is what happens when you complain about everything and everyone and not be shown any kindness or respect. Life is f*****g hard, be grateful you aren’t suffering in Africa you little brat (also no offense to other people of those generations unless you agree with lost cosmos)
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Debbie 2 years ago
8 hour shift is not too long, but if it are 8 hours shifts while being continuously understaffed and yelled at, then the shifts are hard. The duration of the shift isn't the problem - the lack of other employees and lack of manners of customers, lack of authority to be able to put up a sign "We're busy, wait time is longer" that is what makes this not a good working condition. Also to study 40+hrs and work more then 24hrs in one week is a lot imo. Either there is hardly time to study or hardly time to live. Bottom line of this post imo: It's not the duration of the shift. It's the conditions of the shift.
chrissy goodman 2 years ago
i stopped going to starbucks not only cuz prices r ridiculous but bc of some of the customers. every time ive ever gone in a starbucks there is always a couple ppl online who complain the staff is too slow, their name was spelled wrong, food wasnt warmed up enough etc. one time wen i was on line someone even criticized the cashier for having blue hair and a tattoo on her arm saying how someone like her shouldnt work their and it makes the place look bad. i have an anxeity disorder just being around ppl like that causes me anxeity so if i really want starbucks i go to one with a drive thru. i think starbucks just attracts a certain type of crowd. im not saying everyone is like that but it definitely attracts those who r.
Load More Replies... waddles 2 years ago
say it with me: just because your life is worse does not mean their life isn’t bad
Mary Bank 2 years ago (edited)
YES, this young man's rough time doesn't mean you can belittle him because you were in the military or are an overworked nurse. WTF is wrong with people that they have to make it about them all the time? TO CLARIFY - this young man is over worked and I am sure grossly underpaid with no support from his managment, you can see just how tired and broken he is, and then instead of WAVES of support and understanding (service jobs SUCK and covid made them worse not better) people are telling him to 'adult' and man up. It's gross. Be supportive, be kind or just keep it to yourself if you can't.
Load More Replies... N Miller 2 years ago
So - an 8hr shift is not long, even on your feet, I was doing 10hrs every Saturday in retail at 16. However, if it's 8hrs on both Saturday AND Sunday, as well as hours worked during the week AND studying full time - then it becomes a lot. It becomes too much. It's about perspective. And that's without the disrespect of the customers etc. (Three hours of disrespect is two hours and 59.5 minutes too long). So yeah - the clickbait headline of "Tears because they're scheduled to work for 8 hours" is going to come across as GenZ bashing. The deep dive into the story tells more of the truth. And I bet most of the comments didn't make it that far.
tl gmc 2 years ago
Before working my now comfortable desk job, I had worked retail and in food service. Food service is the most difficult, but this is normal and not unreasonable shifts
Load More Replies... Carol Emory 2 years ago (edited)
I worked part-time while attending classes full-time. It is hard because, regardless of the schedule, you still need time to study and keep up with your classes. These days, most professors act like their class is the only class you're taking so they load you up with assignments. For every hour of class, you spend 4 hours doing outside homework. That being said, the problem here isn't with Starbucks and being unionized, it's with the managers and their lack of being able to support their crew. Saturdays and Sundays are brutal at Starbucks and the local Starbucks here shut down their mobile orders about mid morning to be able to keep up. Instead of crying in the bathroom and posting it online, contact the District Manager for Starbucks and let them know what's going on. Four people cannot handle a busy coffee shop on the weekend. Your manager needs retraining or replacing.
CatWoman312 2 years ago
Here I am at work on my break which is part of my 8 hour shift. I work 40 hours a week, 8 hours everyday I work. This is embarrassing. I’ve heard Z’s are lazy and entitled, but I usually blame the older people hating on the youth. However this reeks of laziness and entitlement.
Unfamiliar Tortoise 2 years ago
Every Gen Zer who is hired where I work last maybe a week, two at best. They just can't handle actually working, actually doing things.
Load More Replies... just me 2 years ago
This is the problem with today's youth. Their nervous breakdowns are public so people s**t on them. We had our nervous breakdowns in private so we could stuff it all back down and laugh about it later as we died a little inside. 8 hours isn't bad. 8 hours, understaffed, no management, c**p customers, with another 8 hours tomorrow? That sucks.
Khaos Childe 2 years ago
I stopped going to school after secondary, but last I checked, the courses and workload for a higher education doesnt get less and would probably increase drastically. I cant imagine its easy juggling that with work, abusive customers, and unhelpful management.
Load More Replies... Praecordia 2 years ago
He just sounds like he needs a different job. Maybe service industry is too stressful. I prefer being on my feet for 8hrs rather then sitting at a desk. Maybe he would prefer the desk. 6hr work day would be nice tho but 8 hrs isn’t bad. I worked 14-16hr days when I worked in Hospitality 6 days a week, 80hr weeks. You have no time for anything. Now that was terrible.
Margie Lundeford 2 years ago
Thank you! There are other PT work options besides Starbucks. Do a podcast, clerk at 7-11, stock shelves, clean an office… just find something that gets you through school and isn’t always awful.
Load More Replies... Samantha Campbell 2 years ago
It's not the job. It's the disrespect and audacity of overentitled actions of consumers towards any employee at any establishment that isn't personally connected back to them.
Veronica Vatter 2 years ago
It's 8 hrs twice a week. I work full time and am a full time student. I work a seasonal job too part of the year. Suck it up buttercup. It's just for now, not forever. There are worse places than Starbucks to work
Cas NA 2 years ago
Congratulations, buttercup, on burning your candle at both ends. As someone who did that and is now in her 30s, you’re hurting yourself in the long run.
Load More Replies... 𝕜𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕟ᴛʜᴇ𝕜𝕚𝕕𝕕 2 years ago (edited)
I'm not saying this kids pathetic because "I had to go through hell so you should too". No. I'm saying this kids pathetic because he's crying three hours into his shift for the job he applied to, no one forced him, and then when he got misgendered, rather than saying "actually I'm a he", and moving on, he ran into a supply closet and cried to TikTok.
de cara 2 years ago
Ahh yes the good ol "no one FORCED this kid to work a job he clearly hates!! he just happens to live in society that requires you to work constantly so you can afford to live and has massive student loan debt on top of it, and as a student likely doesnt have many- if any- other options to apply for and keep himself fed. BuT nO oNe PuT a GuN tO hIs HeAd!!!!" b******t excuse for s******g on kids because your life is so s****y and pathetic that you can't bring yourself to muster up any amount of common sense or empathy. Not even going to try to explain how stressful and potentially dangerous it is to correct someone who goes out of there way to misgender someone with a full beard and mustache (who likely also has a name tag with his preferred masculine name on it), because you're clearly a lazy transphobe who isn't worth the effort.
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
Mixed feelings. I worked eight-hour days while in school, etc., but my job was union. Part of me wants to say, "Grow up, buttercup", but part of me wants to yell, "UNIONIZE!" and charge corporate headquarters waving an AFL-CIO recruitment poster. Sadly, we don't have a quantifiable scale for injury due to jacka**es in the workplace and sore feet. So my end answer is: Kid needs a hug and the store needs a better manager and the system needs to stop pushing us out of education if we're not already well-off.
J D 2 years ago (edited)
8 hours is not a bad shift. The work environment is what makes it bad. I've worked customer service and it's extremely difficult to handle the moods when the place is busy and people expect fast service. However, full time student and 25 hours a week with weekends being 8 hour shift is very much doable. He's lucky he only needs 25 hours a week to get by. And if he feels it's too much he is not good with time management.( As a Full-time student I worked a full-time job at a store. I've been there) it's not a system problem it's a people problem. If customers weren't a**holes those jobs wouldn't be too difficult even being understaffed. I was understaffed most of the time. The only time I hated being understaffed was when store was busy because customers would complain and be moody over longer check out.
Tracy Wallick 2 years ago
I'm in the military, and it REALLY pisses me off when I see veterans or other military folks acting like we're the only ones who have a hard job. Anyone who thinks OP needs to suck it up has never worked in the service/food industry, and probably never went to school full time while also spending their weekends working. Then on top of that, they have to also complete schoolwork, study for tests, manage a household of their own, worry about making enough money to pay the bills... Yeah, that s**t is soul-crushing.
K ML 2 years ago
With military and health care as hard as I imagine those jobs can be at the end of the day you're considered a hero. Work in food/retail you are considered a servant and treated as such
Load More Replies... Jamie Mayfield 2 years ago
Working fast food was the worst experience of my life. I have worked construction, farm, and office jobs and all of them were a million times better than dealing with customers. I don't get the complaint about an 8 hour day or working 25 hours a week, even while in school full-time it isn't hard to keep up with that schedule. Really it is just the rude customers who are throwing fits while you are short staffed. They can see you are behind and they still give you a hard time. You ignore it day after day, but one day you are going to break over it and go storming to the back. Really not getting the hours argument, that is more than reasonable, but I get hating customers with every fiber of your being. You could double my salary now and I would still not work fast food.
Shane S 2 years ago
I can’t take anyone seriously that breaks down crying in a public social video. I think you’ll look back and cringe that you decided to do that. In regards to the content, just sounds like the job isnt for you. Being a student and working is hard. Find someone who will work with your scheduling needs.
Miles Hawthorne 2 years ago
No service job will work with your needs. If someone chooses to share their emotions in a video and isn't embarrassed by it, that's their business. You go ahead and do what you want and don't be critical because you feel embarrassed when people share their feelings. Also, STFU Boomer.
Load More Replies... Lord Mysticlaw 2 years ago
I was fully prepared to be outraged that someone thinks working for 8 hours is too much. BUT 8 hours a day is a full time job. If you are a student and you want to work a part-time job, it's not fair for an employer to make you work full-time hours. Surely if you work a part-time job, you get to choose how many hours you want to work and you get paid per hour. All these people having their tantrums about working 45+ hours per week are probably working a full-time job and being paid a monthly salary.
Bloobee bloobee bloo bloo bloo 2 years ago
He’s not working full time. He says he only works 24 hours a week. It’s only 2 days, on the weekend, that he has to work 8 hours. His other 2 shifts are only 4 hours. This kid needs to grow up. An 8 hour shift still leaves him plenty of time to study and hang out with friends
Load More Replies... GirlFriday 2 years ago
This is one of the reasons (the other being bad, overpriced coffee) that I don't go to Starbucks. The employees at Starbucks are abused by the management and especially the customers. Regardless of anything going on outside of work, no one should have to come to a job and be abused by entitled, self-righteous, small-minded customers for hours on end. I have two former Starbucks employees on my team now. They are dedicated workers who sometimes are shocked when I say things like, "Make sure you log every hour you work. No one works for free," and "Hey, that call was rough. If you need to walk (our office slang for taking a break), go walk." I swear they are both traumatized from working at Starbucks and being treated like human beings almost scares them.
Bob Cakin 2 years ago (edited)
F*****g lord... these people saying the FULL TIME STUDENT IN COLLEGE is lazy are all so out of touch. Do they not know how much time out of a week being a full time student takes up? Doing 25 hour work weeks on top of being a full time student can easilly exceed doing more than 50 hours of total work a week! It's likely they may be pulling more than 60 hours of work total. And being an employee at Starbucks is not an easy job physically either. That's 8 hours of standing! They don't get to do their jobs sitting down! Also, why are all these people's reaction "My life sucks so everyone elses' life should suck too!". Come on guys! If this worker can successfully make their life not suck as much through unionization... that will likely encourage the unionization of YOUR industry which will make YOUR life not suck so much! It's called worker solidarity! Embrace it!
Britt 2 years ago
Why are people comparing? America is BROKEN. I'm in healthcare, we work 12hr shifts that easily turn into 16+ hrs and I still think this employee is working too long and too hard! Being understaffed is the worst and being constantly yelled at and condescended to is unacceptable. We need to do better. Europe is researching 4-day, 30hr work weeks and results are showing more productivity and happier employees. Nobody should be working 12 or 16hr shifts. The people telling this employee to be quiet because they work more: you should not be working 12-16hr shifts in the first place! Studies show the number of mistakes go up after 10 hrs. This is dangerous! When will people wake up?
Kathy Davis 2 years ago
Service industry does not give structures breaks. Sometimes not even a five minute break is possible. Customers can be abusive. Eight hour, constant standing and moving on concrete floors, lifting, twisting. My body is tore up. All is for very low pay. People say get a better job. The truth is someone has to do it. We have to pretend to be happy the whole time. Please show some mercy.
Maxigrod 2 years ago
I really don't understand the mentality of the people commenting on this post. That man it's complaining about a company that doesn't allow unions, wich will protect his right of a decent work environment, but no, here (and in the coments from the op), we have a lot of people saying you have to grown up, i have a sh*tty job with no respect for my time and capacity so everyone must experience the same. Also, i guess millenials and gen z must appear from thing air, because no one remeber that they being raised by the same generation that complaint about them. By the way I'm no millenial or gen z, but i get that thing that are bad can and must be improve.
Mad McQueen 2 years ago
Customer service is a bit different. If you go into a store and see they are short staffed be nice. Yea someone on a 3rd 16 hour shift might have it bad but they also get breaks and helped out. 4 people to run a store is stupid. Who goes on the bank run? Who cleans? Who restocks? Who but only the four there. Take a break? That's only 3 on the floor. Be. Nice. Yeah it's only a coffee to you but to those working it's their job. Be freaking nice.
WonderWoman 2 years ago
Starbucks should be scheduling enough people to cover their shifts. IF they don't, the employees should just close the doors, it would be the last time they did that. BUT, this employee breaking down because they had to work in shi**y circumstances is rather pathetic. Sure, it stinks, but, to make a tiktok about it? and expect people to feel all the feels that says more about them than it does about Starbucks.
Victoria McClain 2 years ago
I was a nurse for 40 years. 12 to 16 hour shifts on your feet most of the time. Understaffed and undervalued at times and dealing with angry, difficult people often. Health care workers are victims of violence 5x at the rate of US workers. I've been bit, hit, kicked, pinched and verbally abused. The pandemic made it even worse. I cried many times on the way home or even to work. I went back to school during my career for 4 years carrying 9-12 units while working 3-4 shifts a week...it was brutal but temporary. Hold on to that thought, it is worth the struggle. Yes, it shouldn't be that hard, but it is. We have it hard but it is so much better here than in so many other countries. You have a bad manager...maybe time to look for another barista job in a different place where the manager is kind and does his/her job. Good luck and hang in there.
Susan Betz 2 years ago
I went to school full time and worked 25 hours per week in my 20s when I was in college. I did that for three years until I got sick with Epstein-Barr and had long mono - I was sick for 3 years. Unable to pull a schedule like that anymore, it took me three more years to finish college. 30 years later I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (which is now thought to be caused by mono). I've learned the hard way that it's not a flex to work to the point of illness. I applaud Gen Z for standing up and saying "enough".
Dirt is Dast. 2 years ago
Work sucks, it's life. He can feel how he wants. For me it's the crying on camera. WTF? By all means cry get it out your system. Vent to a friend or co-workers but stop the stupid attention seeking & validation from online strangers you weirdo. Who says I'm about to cry... Let me get the camera ready, I hope the lighting & angles are right lol.
de cara 2 years ago
Yeah, God forbid anyone want to use social media for attention. You know, social media. Famously known for everyone on it keeping to themselves and leading quiet, private lives. And it's not like the person in the video could be trying to, idk, incite changes in their workplace and society at large by bringing their mistreatment to the public eye or anything. I really, really hope you post this exact comment to every single social media post you come across bc otherwise you'd come off as extremely disingenuous lol
Load More Replies... Angersly 2 years ago
I get the complaints about unfair and punative scheduling, but the rest sound like every job I've had while working full time and going to school full time. I get that it sucks, and if they can get a union over this go for, but I don't really have much sympathy over being busy and working a normal shift. That just reeks of entitlement.
Piggy Tee 2 years ago
Welcome to the real world. He seriously must be super spoiled. Eight working hours is standard for most jobs. As for standing up the whole day: tough luck. A lot of people do that; shop assistants, security guards, clerks, fast food employees... the list is long. If you complain about this after a few hours you obviously shouldn't have this job. You signed a contract, deal with it. I hope they fire you.
Anika Yip 1 year ago
He is also a full time student. It’s not the 8hrs, it’s the multiple 8hr shifts on top of a full week’s worth of schoolwork (class and homework and studying) + being disrespected the whole time
Load More Replies... Tim 2 years ago (edited)
The necessity to work so many hours while attending college full-time is the issue here. These work-worshipping people get, like sexually aroused when they hear someone talk about working ridiculous amounts of hours or something. Like: "I work 80 hours a week on a light week." *audible moaning and unzipping of pants* Universities cost too much and jobs pay too little.
Jaime Gooding 2 years ago
So who should be feeding and clothing him at his big age? No one should work so much they don't have time to live but 24 hours a week? He'll be ok or he can quit.
Load More Replies... Furious George 2 years ago
As someone who has worked a lot of different jobs, I can tell you that working at a desk as a software developer is NOT the same as when I was a batista or working in retail. When I get stressed out now I take a break, or leave for the day because I'm salaried and I can do that. Working as a batista means running constantly, accidentally burning yourself like 10 times a day, getting yelled at by managers because they are having a bad day, and trying to walk the line between being nice enough to customers that they don't get s****y with you, but not so nice that they hold up the line and/or ask you out. For the record, I also had my own business and worked 6-7 days a week, at least 12 hours a day on average. I wouldn't wish that schedule on anyone and I would still do it 1,000 times before working retail again. Just because I've worked to the bone forever doesn't mean that I should have had to, or that other people should now. Other countries are doing better, we should listen.
Aballi 2 years ago
Ugh. I have pretty severe mental illness and when I'm in an episode, I have no energy or motivation to do anything. My dad (who has always been healthy as a horse, physically and mentally, and is one of the few people I know that has never experienced trauma) likes to remind me that at my age, he was raising two kids, working full time, and going to pre med school. Like, congratulations? That has absolutely nothing to do with me and my experience...!!
Nicholas McCoy 2 years ago
What I find totally out of line, inappropriate, and horrifying is this: what about the other 3 employees who had to pick up the slack while that entitled brat ran to the back to whine, b*tch, moan and complain on the internet? No, none of you thought about them. They already have it hard enough, and a team member they should be able to trust just up and disappeared. I've been there. I know service industry sucks. I thought it sucked when a team member took off when I had to deal with it. But this is worse. If I was those other 3 employees, I'd be absolutely livid that people were backing the f*cker who left them high and dry just to go get attention on the internet. You all need to stop enabling this c**p.
Marquis Woods 2 years ago
Only thing this comment section has shown me is that a lot of supposed wise elders lack reading comprehension and empathy. Also the word(its not one) boomer lives in yall heads rent free.
NynaNinja 2 years ago
This comment section has some of the dumbest people I've ever seen. It's split between people who just read the title and immediately came down to the comments and those who read enough to realize he was trans (even though he is very passing and they would not have known otherwise) and then immediately came down to the commentsー and to think they're the ones calling *him* lazy! I'm surprised at how many people lack empathy, all while claiming that kid is a narcissistー incredible!
Load More Replies... Pat Turner 2 years ago
Anyone who has not worked a retail or food service job, please sit down... 😖😖🤔🤔
Sandie Kisting 2 years ago
And yet not many have stated the obvious... Maybe this person has an underlying medical condition and he knows his limits as to what he needs to stay healthy both physically and mentally.Also why do we think it's okay for an employer to abuse the c**p out of us and then target somebody who stands up for what they believe in.That's what's wrong with this country. Everybody views mental illness as a weakness when in fact it is a strength.People with mental illness know what their max capacity is on their life and how they handle that so that they can function as responsible adults.We are too quick to judge everybody about everything and we don't even look in a mirror at ourselves.Why should any student of any age have to be on a 40-hour work week because management is lazy or doesn't want to have the responsibility of being the manager.If you truly have an effective manager, you will never have an employee call in and you will never have an unhappy workplace. I have been both.
David Wise 2 years ago
8 hour shifts are quite normal in the working world. I've done restaurant work, and it can be quite tough. However, if you can't take the conditions, get a different job. Do something to solve your problem, take charge of your life. I work on my feet 40+ hours per week in 40-120°f, working on industrial machinery. It can be hard and sometimes frustrating, but I do like it. I enjoy the challenge. I worked many jobs before I found one that was right for me. I'd find a new job and tell Starbucks to f*** off.
Joseph Holtom 2 years ago
This is a joke right? 8 hours?!?! Try working at Applebees while going to college full time & picking up any extra shifts so every weekend you are pulling doubles! Oh, by the way, I am a raging homo, I don't see what sexuality has to do with anything regarding a whole 8 hour shift....I'm certainly not against unions at all but you just seem like you wanna whine & feel sorry for yourself,.... right now, especially right now, there plenty of jobs available (I will admit I don't know if there are in your area) but come on - you will face much worse hardships after you graduate....unless you drop out & the reason is an 8 hour workday....
Dianna Mallar 2 years ago (edited)
My problem with this kid is that while he is in the back crying into his phone, his co workers are now trying to get caught up and get everything done while being down two people instead of just the one that called out. I can only imagine how his coworkers feel about this. I've worked food service for 20 years, retail for 10 years before that and it's brutal at times and some people just aren't cut out for it (and there is absolutely nothing wrong if you aren't. Sitting at a desk for 8 hours would drive me bonkers, we all have our individual strengths.) But you don't leave your co workers in the lurch like this. Stuff the emotions, go home, and hit a punching bag, put up a picture of your boss and throw darts at it. Find some way to drain the emotions after work.
Nicholas McCoy 2 years ago
Thank you! I was just thinking "what about the other workers?" Glad someone else had the same thought.
Load More Replies... Mickey Keys 2 years ago
I'm a college student who also works. I'm also disabled but I get stuff done. If you're not happy with your job, there are plenty of different options. I avoid working at restaurants because some people are crazy or rude. If you have a hobby, find a job that you can apply for part-time. Even though I have cerebral palsy and muscular dystrophy, I stand on my feet for nearly 8 hours except for lunch. Plus working in the food industry is rough but some small stores usually have 3-4 people, sometimes 2. This is my experience with smaller stores.
John Birkner 2 years ago
You hear that fellow trades guys?? If their power goes out let's go cry. If their AC goes out, sorry it's been 4 hours. Your fn anything breaks...Jesus jobs suck. Point blank. That is why we get paid for our time. Be fortunate to have one, good golly not everyone deserves one.
Jonathan Nichols 2 years ago (edited)
I can definitely understand that this person doesn't deserve to be bullied, everybody has times when they hate their jobs/life. But also, unskilled physical labor can't be made easy...Like,there is no way to make it less demanding without massively increasing the cost of the end product OR making the job redundant and replaceable by a robot OR simpler than anything, just get replaced by someone more capable than you. It sucks that a company has the resources to just turnover people they believe underperform, but is there really another viable system? Are you owed undying loyalty from a company cause you want to work for them 10 hours a week for minimum wage when other, more able people exist?
luis torres 2 years ago
I totally understand where he is coming from. An 8 hour day of being understaffed and full of customers is the same as working 16 hours. Long hard days where you are made to feel like a slave to the company and customers
A Random Anvil 2 years ago
It's not about someone being wimpy and crying about a little bit of work. It's a full time student who works (I don't think I could have done that when I was a full-time student!), being told they got time off just to be made to work on their time off. That's wrong. I've worked 12 hour shifts 7 days a week, every day of the year. No vacation. It can be rough. I can sympathize.
Violet Jensen 2 years ago
8 hours is long when, you know, you set a max of like 6 hours for your shifts and you’re STILL IN SCHOOL
Jason Dave 2 years ago
So…. You’re making a video complaining about being overworked (while on shift and presumably being paid) and having to work an 8 hour shift (pretty standard since the 1960’s) while the other baristas have to work even harder taking up your slack while you’re making a video complaining about being over overworked Do I have this right? Sounds like this job isn’t right for you. Maybe being a pet or babysitter is more your speed. Or cotton ball softness analyzer? Perhaps snowflake temperature measurer? I’d like an Americano with a double shot of children’s tears please. Oh, can you make it with entitlement too, please?
Ryan Brooks 2 years ago
Damn good point. The coworkers have to pick up his slack. Probably not their first time.
Load More Replies... Pacer Three 2 years ago
you need to quit. if you can't take it, then it is not worth it. and the customers don't deserve it either. put someone out there who has a feel for the job. it is not you, sir. customer service is not your bag.
Meami 2 years ago
There is a lot of whining going on. I waited table when I was in college and I always had 8 hr shifts on the weekends. And we were understaffed and people got impatient. Working with the public sucks and when your on your feet for 8+ hours, your back and feet ache. I’m sure this guy is not planning on working at Starbucks as a permanent career. It would be nice if college was affordable (in the US) but it’s not so we have to work.
Nancy Rolfe-Proctor 2 years ago
Does this worker really want to post this for his manager to see, any future employer to see, a post the will live on forever? It's the thing to do to garner sympathy but it also shows how you handle inter office relationships. Do you really think that shaming your manager so very publically, whether earned or not, is the best way to handle this? With so many job openings wouldn't have been better to get another job elsewhere rather than show to the world you break down under pressure and your way to handle situations is to cry on a self made video.
Bill Webb 2 years ago
Sigh. If you dont like or cant handle your job then quit. Stop complaining. Crying...seriously?! A beard doesnt make you a man, my late grandmother had one of those. Men dont cry over silly things like having to work a difficult 8 hour shift while being understaffed. I worked in food service when I was younger. Yes its tough at times, but I have never seen a grown man cry in the back. If you would like to be identified and treated like a man, then act like one.
Shinx lei 2 years ago
People suck and people are going to continue to suck. Sure get a union buts that's not gonna change people calling off, their attitudes, or the other bs of customer service. I know it's hard times but if they're that stressed they need a new job and it is that simple because jobs on par with Starbucks are a dime a dozen but treat their employees better. Working and school is stressful even if you didn't have to work to pay for school you have to work for literally everything else so there's really no avoiding that stress. Work towards that union but it will only change so much and because it's a corporation they always figure out how to screw you anyway.
John Lutes 2 years ago
Please, you don't know the meaning of "understaffed". I'm an EMT in a county of 1 million, an athletic trainer to a high school of over 400, and a full-time teacher. I'm out numbered 75 to 1 on a good day. Bad days, 2000 to 1. Long days? Eight hours of driving after my 24 hour shift spent running calls on cry babies like you. And you know what? I'm happy. I have a great wife and a great life. I find joy in serving people, even cry babies, every day. I've worked retail for little pay. And then I worked to get past it. I've had over two dozen jobs. But I've also been jobless. What did I do? I worked harder and smarter and I got through it.
Jason Lindbeck 2 years ago
I'm sympathetic to this guy's plight - he's part time, weekends are the only periods where he should be getting at least a part of the day to decompress after a week's worth of work and school. He absolutely should have more agency in his own scheduling limits. The eight hour workday thing is a little silly, but only if you're looking at it out of context. Having said that, there ARE some serious issues with how personally he's taking a number of the other aspects of working with the public. I AM neurodivergent, and even I will flat out deny someone else "accomodations" based on their divergency. If you have a genuine diagnosis? Sure, I'll work with you. If you took a quiz on FB? Get the fk out. People don't get to assign their own labels and expect everyone else to bend over for them.
Bobbi Ashley 2 years ago
I can't even buy a job right now. In 2011 me and my husband decided to have a child and let me stay home, well I had twins. He got sick in Aug, misdiagnosed and had pneumonia 4 months ago. He almost died. He is now on home health. And my kids are not going to have a Christmas this year. My kids didn't shed a tear, they both almost at the same time say, "we're just happy to have our Dad here for Christmas" and that was that. I'm sure I will find a job soon, that is 8 hours a day. But, people should be thankful for what they have. Everyone has had bad things happen. And the sun don't always shine.
three norns 2 years ago
Ppl be all flexing "well, i work 70 hours a week in construction" and "I'm in the middle of my third straight shift as a nurse" Point being: YOU'RE NOT IN SCHOOL! when is this person supposed to get his studying and homework done if his crappy employer forces him to work every minute he's not actually sitting in class and her needs them job to get through a week!? As for you, Mr "I work 70 hours", I call that absolutely adorable - I wish my life was that easy because I own my own business. I start work at 6am and I'm lucky if I get home by 10 and then I have to do the paperwork which takes me until 1 or 2 in the morning That's seven days a week so you do the math Now that I've seen your flex and dropped it in the toilet, I'm saying this guy is absolutely right to be distressed because - for all your idiots who missed the point - his main job is to pass the classes *he pays to attend*, not to fill the pockets of a clearly incompetent management.
TRose 2 years ago
This kid needs a reality check! 8hrs is a normal shift!!! Lots of ppl work 10,12+hrs a day. I worked at Tim Hortins when I was 16-18yrs old. I went to alternative high school and would work 4hr before school 2x a wk, 6hrs after school &8hrs Fri,Sat&Sun. Get it together & stop crying in your coffee.
Brittany Copeland 2 years ago
Meanwhile, virtually every restaurant in the country has average shift hours of 8 hrs or more?? This is life, this is adulthood. In high school and college I worked full time in food service. I handled it. I know countless others that handled it. If a high-school student can handle it, why can't a grown(?) man? Honestly it just sounds to me like this dude can't deal with the industry. Because honestly 8 hrs isn't that bad, even if it's open to close. Also, where is this location that is only open 8 hrs on the weekend???
YazB 2 years ago (edited)
I hope that crying it out helped him. Sometimes you need a good breakdown to clear your head and get back in the game! But it's kind of hard to know if this was done for sympathy, for likes, or for both. 🤔 I still can't fathom crying in front of a mirror doing an ugly cry and know thousands are looking at me doing it...😬. I do sympathize with him and then I don't. I, too attended school full time and held down a Walgeeens job at full time hours. I was hired as a part timer, but I literally was clocking in 39.5hrs 😕 with no benefits! Yeah you need breaks, and that's why you call out for hangout time with friends, because a paper is due, or because you need me time. I stuck around my job because of the friendships I made with my colleagues and managers and the paycheck was great - even at the low minimum wage rate of $7.25 an hour. Bottom line is you do what you have to do knowing full and well that it isn't where you'll end up. You get in, and get out! Don't let a job break you!
BoredSilly 2 years ago
I mean, working in a factory is worse than retail. You get the back breaking work, (standing all day, running around, getting dirty, bending, lifting, ect) and also the rude attitude from co-workers and management that you would get from customers. They are 8/hr+ shifts and most places mandate the weekends and holidays unless you use a vacation to get out of them. That's even if you have the seniority to do that. The fighting, yelling, snitching, arguing all happens every day. Factory workers are the people that keep the world moving. Some places make a lot of money, most don't. Even if the work is hard. I once worked at a job that was $7.25/hr 10 hr days and we got 2 breaks, 10 & 20 min. I quit cuz it wasn't worth it. Fact is, you made the choice to work at a place like that, knowing what it's like, so suck it up or leave. Don't waste time crying and complaining about it. Sometimes people just want to make it harder on themselves on purpose and then play the victim.
Michelle Wilhelm 2 years ago
It's the whining for me- I've got NOTHING nice to say. OP need to grow up and realize life is hard; it's even hardER when you whine and cry bc someone fail to recognize that 'full beard' of LITERAL peach fuzz or a mgr flexes their mgr-ial auth TO work when/how they want- failing to realize they've paid THEIR dues, it's YOUR turn, op!! You can't handle the job?! Find one you can but keep in mind: you obvs dont have the PRIVILEGE of not working (apparently) and so THUS, you must work like EVBODY else. THIS is what happens when EVBODY is told they are special, that EVONE is special. You are NOT special, ain't nothing special ABT you!! You are regular, you need to do regular ppl ish to survive, life is NOT a insta post, ain't no hashtag for the mundane EVday BS!! OP need to do what all the other snowflakes hit in the face (HARD) w reality= deal w it. What happened to adversity building character?! NOTHING!! it still DO, we don't often GET to see it tho, bc we coddle and shelter these kids
Michelle Wilhelm 2 years ago
in an effort to make their lives suck less than ours do/did. But that's NOT how it works!! Life IS hard. Ain't no way around it, ain't no cheat code, ain't no mods 🤷 they GOTTA go thru it; we are doing these kids/this gen a DISservice by not prepping them FOR this hard @$$ life! Let them struggle
Load More Replies... GMc 2 years ago
Hmmm when I started at University in the late 80s I was taking 5-6 full time courses (5-7 hour per week of class time per course), working 4-5 hours per day weekdays and 10-12 hours per day Sat / Sun, plus the occasional night class at a local college for training for the job I was working at. I assumed 80-100 hour weeks were normal for university students. A classmate at the time had it even worse. His parents moved to my country when he was a kid. Between his normal job, school and the family business (which he didn't get paid for as he was expected to work), he has been doing 80-100 hour weeks since Jr. high (grade 8). Things are different now society wise, but sometimes you just have to suck it up and power through. When it comes to customers remember the old adage: easier to beg for forgiveness then ask for permission. Just take control of the situation and deal with it.
Lace Neil 2 years ago
Where I work, we're short staffed at the moment. Last week, I worked an eight hour shift on the cigarette kiosk on my own. Not only did I have a zillion customers to serve, but a delivery to put away. I buckled down and dealt with it. Oh, and I'm autistic with severe anxiety and depression. I managed to work my shift without being a drama queen.
Randy Perez 2 years ago (edited)
It's not only 8 hours, it's 8 hours with Starbucks customers. Their pathetically overly complex orders, ignorant of the menu orders, rushed orders because theyre late but still HAD to have their 'bucks... It's 8 hours of majority vile people. This is more of a break down of having to deal with people that weren't smacked as children versus standing at a machine working for 8 hours where your body is tired but not your emotions.
Jessica Avery 2 years ago
So they're hiding and crying about unfair work conditions, leaving the other 3 people even MORE short-staffed and stressed, complaining about crappy management and 8 hour shifts (which I worked 5 days a week going to school btw in retail) which exists in every job everywhere... I feel worse for their coworkers honestly, for having to put up with them on top of it all. Suck it up, stop being a little crybaby, and if you find it THAT BAD, change careers/jobs. It's what I did when I felt like my job was taking advantage of me this year
de cara 2 years ago
What a sad sorry life you must live that you feel the need to project this hard.
Load More Replies... Gloria Hamel 2 years ago
I worked for the power company, they work 40 hours week basic shift. Usually more when the power goes out. I seen 80 hours a week, this is a union job. You start as a 4 year apprentice which you study on your own time. I’m now retired. My daughter goes to school full time and also works in the food industry. She has a son which I help out with. Maybe if this kid can’t work this many hours, he to stand up to his boss let know how many hours he can work
Bubbles and sparks 2 years ago
I think there's a lot more going on with this guy then just feeling overwhelmed by the circumstances of his job. Yes, he got misgendered which sucks. Every kid however should learn that life is about balance and if you don't like the current job, then move on. No one is going to give you money on a silver platter because life is hard at the moment. My generation and those before me know that working comes with life if you wanted to achieve something. This generation... Even my son thinks there are a lot of snowflakes. But it's not even just their fault, their parents failed them big time by not teaching them... I hope this kid finds a job less stressful and that those rude customers shut the F up, they are doing the best they can and deserve your respect for taking all that fancy schmancy cr@p orders that doesn't even resemble coffee anymore. Good luck kid!
まるこ ピエルルディ 2 years ago
Being a 90s kid I grew up to know my own hardships, my parents didn't do the best raising me but they did what they could, they were always working trying 2 make a better world for me 2 live in, I did cry alot, but it's part of growing up. I had my struggles, and yes I believe I had it hard too, sometimes I think harder than my parents, but times were different for them as they were for my generation. I work with the current generation and I don't think bad parenting is the issue. Today most people see social media as a way out to vent something whether it's good or bad. I personally don't think it's healthy to rely on but, from what I've learned most people do it in hopes that someone else will do something about it. Imagine having your bag stolen when your walking down the street and yelling "somebody help". Are you just going to sit there and wait for help or are you going to go do it yourself. I do feel bad for this kid but i do try 2 help them because I once was the same.
Joseph Holtom 2 years ago
BTW- I'm in no way intentionally belittling this guy. I totally get work can be exhausting but sometimes life sucks. I'm sure he works hard in school & his job but sometimes ya gotta roll with the punches.... life's not here to hand you everything on a silver platter
James Bailey 2 years ago
There are no federal standards for meal breaks, breaks, and down time for most jobs. Most people confuse break standards with entitlements granted to state and federal employees. They don't apply to minimum wage private employment. This creature is throwing a hissy fit out of relative deprivation however. I used to love having college students managing pizza delivery. I would bend over backward to accommodate their school schedules. I also explained to them I didn't care about their social lives. This little crybaby is about to screw over its three co-workers because it senses it has a little power to be disruptive by walking out. The working conditions façade is just pathetic. Middle-level management has no leadership skills. Boo-hoo. You'd do the same thing in their position. It has no virtue to signal.
Upil 2 years ago
I worked on a national tv once, we had to do shooting session from 9 am to 6 am the next day. I know working on your foot for 8 hours straight is awfull, but i learned the hard way that you always has an option to quit the job. The company doesnt owe you to keep you in, and you always have a chance to work for other company. If you need it, keep the job and the pressure, dont like it? Walk out and find somewhere suits you. And believe me, no place will suits you the way you want.
Kassie 2 years ago
I once worked new years eve at Walgreens with only two people. Nowhere else was opened and the manager on shift spent 75% of the night sitting on his a*s, while I was bombarded with dozens of drunk people wanting mixers for there alcohol. Then when I needed the manager he wouldn't respond. I was exhausted and we were swamped and I was basically alone for 9 hours. Didn't sit down once. Did I complain? No, I did my job and came back the next day.
Jody Whitmarsh 2 years ago
Starbucks is run for Karens and Kevins by Karens and Kevins. The company creates such a toxic environment for the whole planet
K- THULU 2 years ago
Not the whole planet... Mainly the US, in Australia we get a decent minimum wage even for part time and casuals, plus a living wage for students....
Load More Replies... Joe calbery 2 years ago
This kid is too much. Go ahead and cry, scream, jump up and down, whatever will relieve the stress, but then get back at it. The biggest shock this kid will get is realizing the world doesn't give a s**t. I assume this kid went to Tik Tok seeking sympathy. Why is it, whenever these kids break down into a blubbering mess, they reach for the phone to post it on social media? I will repeat, "NOBODY gives a s**t". EVERYONE has there problems, we don't need yours as well.
Cheryl Christine 2 years ago
So i'ved worked in the service industry, I've worked in a factory, I've went to college when I had two children, and I am in health care. I can honestly say there is good and bad in all of it. And at every stage of my life there were people who were worse off than me. And at every stage there were peoe who thought their problems were the worst. Ive been married, divorced, raised children to adult hood. Had cancer. Survived that. Lost friends and family. I am not always happy and I do like to vent. I've had lots of days off and lots of long shifts. I've had customers and coworkers that have loved me and hated me. But the good out weighs the bad. The best advice I ever received was, "You're going to have to work all your life, so learn to like it." That helps.
𝕜𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕟ᴛʜᴇ𝕜𝕚𝕕𝕕 2 years ago
This person clearly doesn't know what a union does. I'm a union steward at my job and there's nothing in his video that was anything a union could help with.
Michele Lein 2 years ago
I get where this young man is coming from, but I can't count the number of times I was crying at work, before work, and after work because working in retail at a superstore (not Walmart), in the apparel department really sucks. That was 20 some years ago when it was 'come in, work 8 hours until 10pm, be back at 7am, and be nice to incredibly rude customers and difficult co-workers, and do any stupid, pointlessly inane task your manager tells you to, or else'. I do, however, agree that it would have been just too much handling school and working that type of job as well. But then again, when i had my daughter and was a single mom working 6 to 8 hour shifts on 5 hours or less sleep every night, it was just about the same thing. I feel that a change in working world conditions and expectations is long overdue. France has had a 4 day work week for a long time, and employees have certain expectations of time for personal, family and friend activities.
Piggy Tee 2 years ago
So... he's a full time student so he can only work weekends. This he complains about because weekends 'should be for resting'. So... he's basically crying about the fact that he has to work??
Seb Benson 2 years ago
Tell everyone that you simply don't get the point, without telling everyone that you simply don't get the point.
Load More Replies... Sunny Day 2 years ago
Dang, Snowflake, whatrya going to do when summer comes? Newsflash - no one likes their job. If you get lucky, you'll tolerate it. But we do it anyway because we like to eat and maintain a roof over our heads. As for the manager - they are salaried. They get paid the same no matter how many hours they work. While you are literally crying over being scheduled 25 hours a week, your manager is putting in 60-70 hours a week - but getting paid for 40. So if they managed to get 2 days off in a row - good for them.
Marsha Chace 2 years ago
I was a single mom of a teenager and a toddler, was a full time college student with a full time job. We do what we must to survive. I understand you have mental issues, maybe customer service isn't for you. But other than that, find a different line of work or grow up.
ginny weasley 2 years ago
You know, I had it hard so you can suck it up is a terrible attitude
Load More Replies... Dylan Movchan 2 years ago
Yea it reads as clickbait but going to school and working is different. I'd say look into changing to part time school and maintain the same work schedule to balance things out or at least look at how you could change it up. 8hrs work isn't bad but poor management and school on top of it all makes for a rough life.
cranberry cola 2 years ago
If retail workers where allowed to physically retaliate to these s****y customers, i have a feeling caregiving would get quite the body boost
Lyyyy 2 years ago
WTF is that mentality? ”I do 100 hours a week without complaining, so quit your whining, you sissy!” Is this a competition to see who is the most useful tool in the toolbox? One-upping each other to see who works the most? I can’t even find words… I come from a different culture, where I didn’t need to pay tuition to go to uni, I didn’t need to work during school year to support myself. Now I work approximately 40 hours a week and my working conditions are fine. I got paid parental leave for a year when I had a child. And still occasionally I get frustrated or stressed over something that happened at work.
James McIntosh 2 years ago
A big part of it is this person approach in their video, this is clearly them mid melt down which doesn't win over anyone's favors. People bring up the issue with 8+ hour work days a lot when discussing unions or other systemic issues all the time and very few people bat an eye because it's brought up by people who've worked this type of shift and see it's issues and want to take on the thinking behind it. That's not what we're watching, we're watching someone very new to the work force having a tough time at work (something all young people go through a live through). In past we would handle this on our own privately, but this was filmed and sent out so the world could watch them impulsively film themselves complaining. If this individual decided to hold it together till after work, do a little research, and come back and clear valid points about the problems with long work shifts than I bet you there would be a vastly different response than the one they got for crying online
Load More Replies... Kennedy Kargeaux 2 years ago
I worked 2 jobs in high school. I worked 45 hours a week on top of school from 8am-1pm .... while supporting my brothers & taking over all of the bills on our home because my mother was a low life drug addict... not saying that everyone should have to be "tortured" & not be upset... but babe... check your privilege. It was my dream to go to college.. still is. I got into a pre law program in Louisiana & couldn't go because I couldn't afford to nor could I leave my brothers hanging.... you're lucky you're able to go to school. Like... wtf? This kid really complaining about his own privilege. I worked at Starbucks in the loop in Chicago... 8 hours was a standard shift. I agree that Starbucks should unionize. Every corporation or company should be. They are understaffed. But like... you obviously don't "NEED" your job if you can just quit that easy.... like... stop crying & go back to work! Maybe that's why ppl are pissed. You're not actually working.
Kennedy Kargeaux 2 years ago
To be clear. I am a recovering addict myself. I am not trying to be a d**k about addiction. But to literally screw over your kids, steal from them & to rob them of their childhood all so you can party while they have to work 2 jobs & sell weed just to make ends meet... you're a fucken low life.
Load More Replies... Salty Wild Hair 2 years ago
Anyone given the thought that this was a union promo?? Always a skeptic, I think I will help support this overworked person by making my coffee at home.
Darren Kornowske 2 years ago
I'm a farmer and went to college full time. This guy has no work ethic and my guess is he's scared of pancake syrup. There are no days off as a farmer cows have to be milked couple times every day,and cleaned, and fed, along with other field chores. Have the SISSY come over for a week and he'll be crying for his rude customer and short 8 hour shifts back. God gave you balls figure that out become a actual man then face life as He designed you to be and suddenly you figure it out and things are temporary here and exciting to live for!
Benita Valdez 2 years ago
I was a waitress and now I work a desk job. I'd take 18 straight desk hours over 8 restaurant hours any day. That's a mentally exhausting weekend; nevermind the physical exhaustion. It's easy to judge and say negative when you never did the work and just assume you working more hours equates to working harder. But it doesn't at all and his complaint is so valid especially when you consider the nasty shìt customers hurl at you and then they look down on you like you're not even a real person with a real job.
Celtic Pirate Queen 2 years ago (edited)
This person has no business being in the adult world. You are a crybaby and, quite frankly, a bit of a p*ssy. Find another job that caters to your lifestyle a bit better. And in the meantime SHUT THE F*CK UP.
K S 2 years ago
If this is too hard then he should quit. No one is making him stay. If he thinks 8 hrs is too long try working 10 hrs on your feet with people saying worse things to you (yes in the food industry). I know ppl who work 3-10s and go to school full time in university. They all say the same thing, they don’t need to work but they like their lifestyle. You want the lifestyle work for it. He don’t like that job, quit. Go find another one. The fact that he’s crying over it makes me laugh. Try working through the pandemic with the all the entitled Karen’s and Kyle’s… that’s 100x worse.
Havok211 2 years ago
This is just absolutely pathetic. First of all of your posting a video of yourself crying like that then your doing it for the attention. I worked in some form of food service or customer service almost my entire adult life and I know it sucks, but if you can't handle an 8 hour standard work shift then you need to toughen up cuz it's not gonna get any easier for most people in the world. This job is also a choice that you made, it's not being forced upon you, so probably best you find something a little more suited to your soft and sheltered lifestyle. Should probably steer clear of the internet too, people aren't too nice there either.
Kaylah Lewis 2 years ago
I worked full time while going to school and I can tell you, F**K THAT! It's awful. You feel depressed, tired, you're burning the candlestick on both ends, and it's hard to retain anything. You have to do double the work at both your job and school because you're so exhausted, you're stupid. People think it's easy to keep up with because "they work hard everyday," but it's different knowing that even when you're done with work, you still have a long day ahead of you. There is no relaxation ever. That stress really can break you down.
Alicia Neblett 2 years ago
I'm from a generation that people complain about,so before you do hear me out please.None of us,in any generation need to belittle the other,know why?Cuz we all have faced enormous problems/challenges within our own generations.Its true that looks are decieving.Work has changed,the pay rate,the long or short hours.But what's changed the most are human beings.I retired after being in customer service,andi have never seen humans act so ugly.Lets start there...having to deal with nasty customers,angry customers,lying customers day after day,will make you cry.So if we would not be so rude,angry, especially when you see the help is working as fast,hard as they can:put yoself in their shoes.Weve become worse than our animals.Even they try to help other species.So let's stop bashing other generations.All have had their share of just stuff happening,diff is this time a sickness is In volved along with the other problems,which makes stresses thru the roof.Give yoselves a solid.
Ashlie Platt 2 years ago
I'm sorry your going thru that. I understand your frustration. Everyone that's on here talking about they have no sympathy or they work 50+ hours. Are you working part time and going to school full time and on top of that dealing with bullied (mis gendered) something can break a person and not faze the next. My advice just quit. Just brush your shoulders off put a smile on your face and say F**K THIS JOB and walk out. You will find another job and f**k what other people think. People love hurting other people it's what this world has turned into. It's sad
Teddy 2 years ago
I make $30/hr to work three 12s as a nanny for two infants from different families who keep different schedules. Some days I eat breakfast at 7 in the car on my way to work and lunch at 4 with a fussy baby in my lap and the only "break" I get is when I'm in the bathroom. I come home pretty tired. (Babies are more work than you think, especially when you have two of them and you're actively working on their development and creating activities and trying to put them in the best possible situations to create neurological growth to benefit them the rest of their lives.) If you offered me $40/hr to go work at McDonald's, and nothing changed except the hourly wage, I would not do it. I worked at McDonald's for three days and I couldn't handle it, so I quit. You would have to offer me $80/hr and no more than 20 hours a week for me to even consider working fast food again. Stocking at a grocery store, on the other hand, I would do for $20/hr if they let me wear earbuds.
Gee_The _All_ Father 2 years ago (edited)
I dont understand if he cant take it why dont he just find another job, im pretty sure when he applied he probably put open availability on his application and is now regretting it but if its so terrible go find an job that only needs you 10-15 hours a week or just stay at home because im sure 25 hours a week couldnt be paying for much and not run to social media for sympathy because thats all this is, there's plenty of 20+ somethings working and going to school and yes it is hard but thats life and i dont feel sorry for him and for those that do...send him money so he wont have to work, other then that its just another kid whining on social media for ppls validation
Aisling Raye 2 years ago
Here's the thing. They have a big point to make about wages and working conditions. I was in school full time while pulling 14 hour shifts. I still don't know how I survived that sh!t. What I do know is that just because I suffered through it, it doesn't make it right for anyone else to have to do the same. My problem with the video is abandoning coworkers to cry in the closet, leaving them even more stressed out and with even more work to do. Crying on a TikTok about being overworked and understaffed while actively contributing to the exact thing you are crying about isn't going to help anyone. Cry in your shower like the rest of us lol. When you're done go raise hell :)
arnis pocs 2 years ago
This is an entitled baby who didn't get enough participant trophies. You make me sick.
Rob Melrose 2 years ago
My friend works 60 hours a week working two jobs, tending bar and working in a kitchen. Never one complaint, just an occasional sigh of exhaustion.
pemdas927 2 years ago
Prior military here. 8 hours on your feet is nothing, with the right pair of footwear. Also I went to school full time and worked at a gas station 40 hours a week. This was in the Chicago suburbs and w/ Jr. in office. Gas prices were approaching $4.00 per gallon at my store. The most I worked w/ was one other cashier and maybe the boss. I caught a lot of hell from a lot of people as if I had any control over prices. We were corporately owned. I had to pay rent, because the school I went to didn't offer housing, utilities and phone bill. I studied btn. customers. And I did it all w/ a smile on my face because I knew I was bettering myself and I had the mettle to do it. So, yeah, suck it up buttercup.
Balthazar Lionheart 2 years ago
I understand that working in the food industry can be really stressful, but going to cry in the middle of your shift puts more stress on your co-workers because they have to also take on your job, which is not fair to them. Sometimes you just have to power through and deal with it, as difficult as it may be.
Luna Tiki 2 years ago
Come on. I've worked in retail for over 30 years. An 8 hour shift is vacation! During the holidays we work 12 shifts starting in October. Too many people? What did you have a line of like 3 people? Try a line of 30 fat women holding piles of clothes and all wanting to use expired coupons. That shits scary.
Jun Burgin 2 years ago
I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music. - John Adams We should not be perpetuating the idea that every generation has to follow in their predecessors footsteps.
Darryl McGuire 2 years ago
Simply find a better low end job get out of food and customer relation Industries. Learn a skill set while going to school be it repairs, construction, land management for cities. With the exception of construction all have pretty stable hours and will work with students. Also you will pick up skill sets you can use throughout life so at the market ever falls through and you lose your degree job you always have something to fall back on win win. Because no matter how you look at it even if everything started today to change the market it won't be changed in time to help you so help yourself instead.
randy HSPPR 2 years ago
No one is forcing u to work there while being a full time student. Find another employer who may be willing to do better job accommodating u.
E.g. Hoffman 2 years ago
I'm a boomer. And while I worked 30+ hours a week retail while attending classes full time in a rigorous major; I was fortunate to have bosses and ownership who actively worked to accommodate my needs. I had a mother who could not afford to contribute financially but would help in other ways. Too many corporations are only concerned with maximizing their profits, and overlook their workers and customers.
Cara G 2 years ago
In food service, 8 hours IS A DOUBLE SHIFT. Anyone saying otherwise has clearly never waited a table, bussed dirty dishes, balanced a steaming hot tray of 4 dinners on their shoulder, skidded into the kitchen on a grease-covered floor, wiped down every last trash can inside and out... Not to mention that humans turn into absolute garbage when being waited on so there's the abuse. And this young man is neurodivergent, a FT student, working two doubles in a row on the weekend when he should be resting and doing school work WITH NO MANAGER IN THE STORE. Anyone who wants to weirdly flex their 60 hr/wk desk job that destroyed their 2 marriages, while consuming a pint of Tito's a day and claiming to be "just fine" can FOH.
Nicholas McCoy 2 years ago
So what? You're playing to HER neurosis and psychosis. Don't pretend SHE is a hero. I've done worse, and not complained. I went to college, and when I wasn't studying, I was working. You act like those of us who criticize HER are clueless. We're not. Also, SHE abandoned 3 other workers to have that tantrum. Did you consider that?
Load More Replies... K ML 2 years ago
Not all 8hr shifts are equal. In my opinion unless you have worked in food service or retail you can't fathom how soul crushing it can be. I have worked 10-12 hr shifts at a busy understaffed Dunkin with no gm. Did I survive? Sure. Would I do it again if I could help it? Hell no.
Kevin Cappo 2 years ago
at our factory the parents work 6 ten hour days then still have to parent. zero sympathy for someone complaining about two 8 hour days.
Shania Taylor 2 years ago
The shifts are hard but that's life if you want to get anywhere in life u can't survive in life without a job or money you will have nothing! I'll be dammed if I sit on a f*****g corner asking for other people's money because it's too hard for me to work an 8 hour shift. Boo hoo suck it up get your emotions in check it won't be understaffed forever but if u can't work an 8 hour shift than. Maybe it will be understaffed forever cause lazy a*s people don't want to work 😕
Daniel Smith 2 years ago
Does working 8 hours a day suck? Yes, even more so when you are understaffed. But you don't go and hid in the bathroom crying about it while your coworkers are out there working. What you do is put on your best fake smile and do the damn job, that you signed up for.
Hazel Bonilla 2 years ago
So quit...go get another gig? You seem very fragile to be in this type of situation. Advertise yourself for babysitting or something. In other words, you seem to need a therapist. You've decided to transition, but you must know what comes with it bcos people are cruel. So work on a solution instead of wallowing in the problem.
Keena Cauthen 2 years ago
He says he works 25 hrs a week, with 16 of those being Sat and Sunday... so the rest of the week while he's in classes he gets an additional 9 hrs of work (9 hrs over 5 days)... that seems reasonable. Cut out working both Sat and/or Sun and he would be complaining not enough hours on his schedule or too many hours on nights/ days he has classes. If it's not the hours he's expected to work but the fact they're "understaffed", then I'd suggest he get the word out that they need more employees. But 4-5 folks working a coffee place seems reasonable, especially since there is only so much room and machines. Having 25 folks working but only 2 coffee machines and a couple of microwaves in a small cramped space isn't going to help. If it's the attitude of the customers... again this falls to a generational thing, because younger generations are rude, don't wanna wait, are entitled, and so they mouth off because how dare they have to wait! That is a society thing, not a company thing.
Magpie 2 years ago
Older generations are the rude a******s, who make entitled demands, have no patience, and are overly comfortable demeaning and abusing staff. (I'm in an older generation so no bias here). Additionally, between school, coursework and his job, he is certainly working more than 50 hours a week. A 12-credit schedule is full-time because classes plus studying plus coursework equals 36-hours per week. And this kid is working 7 days a week. Not having one full day to relax, clean your apartment, do laundry, have a hobby, hang out with friends is absolute b******t and unhealthy. Add in the fact that he's on his feet the entire shift, they're short-staffed, they're busy, and customers (especially the older ones) are complete c***s, it is no surprise that this kid is breaking down. He's also neurodivergent, which is often accompanied by anxiety and/depression. He's asking for compassion but getting abused. There's no honor in being happy to work the shittiest hours/jobs without complaint.
Load More Replies... AvolitionMC 2 years ago
This guy is lame. Get a different job and stop whining about it. God it's not that hard. Saying your neodivergent doesn't matter.. sorry but grow up. Advocate for yourself at your job, or leave. I'm a full time student who also works 8hs in a stressful environment but I'm not crying on camera. Grow up and grow a pair.
Britni Bates 2 years ago
The power of being at "at will" employee is that you can quit your job for any reason, guilt-free. Nobody is forcing you to work there. If you are unhappy working at Starbucks because management is shtty and neglectful, LEAVE. There are retail environments that exist that actually have decent management styles. (I work for one and I love it!) Eight hours only feels like too long if you don't love your job.🤷🏼 The country literally fought for a 40 hour work week to have balance between work-life and home life. This person works little over half that and can't handle it. Classic case of "give a mouse a cookie". Not happy with your working conditions? Guess what! LEAVE. You have NO obligation to work there. I was raised to know how to take care of myself by cooking, cleaning, handywork. Guess what. I do the same thing for my job in retail/restaurant. I was also raised to "kill 'em with kindness". Makes my job easy because it feels good to turn someone's day around positively.
Traci Barnes 2 years ago
The food service industry is hard. I’ve been there. But if people feel this strongly about it, there are thousands of other jobs. I work full time 40-50 hrs a week as a nurse and go to school full time for my masters. I love my job. But we work 13-14 hours every shift. We don’t sit down at all. Sometime we don’t get lunch breaks or bathroom breaks. We get yelled at for so much that is out of our control by patients, doctors, and management. Hospitals are short staffed in every department. So we have to take extra patients which poses safety issues. But if we quit, what will happen to those patients? Life is hard. Sometimes it is overwhelming. But it seems there are many answers to his dilema and crying on social media is it.
Meghan Prestidge 2 years ago
My son is 19 been with Chipotle for 3 years. 2 of which as a high school student working up to 30 hour a week and maintaining a full course load. Now full time working over 55+ hours a week! He is Gen Z and works as hard as any other generation- it comes down to setting the example. Everyone in our house works 2 jobs! Put your perspective in a different place- 8 hours is a day at an amusement park. Rude customers can be effectively put in their place with kindness . Just let it roll off- this isn’t your life’s work. Keeping customers informed of why things are slow usually keeps the nastiness at bay. Make it light - throw your manager under the bus- whatever it takes to take the heat off. Now you have to decide what you are capable of. Yes, you can leave, but sometimes it’s the tough hardish jobs that show us what/how much we can take.
John Edwards 2 years ago
Work ethic is a real thing. Jobs like this train you for better jobs to come. It also teaches you to be a better person and builds character. Remember also that these unfriendly difficult customers are in part people of this persons own generation who tend to be rude, difficult and self absorbed.
Christian Fuller 2 years ago
When I first read the headline, I thought they were crying because they had been cut down to 8 hours a week on the schedule, and weren't able to make ends meet because of it. That's also far too common in the service industry. Not that this situation is any better - two 8 hour shifts on a weekend, when there should be at least double the staff, after a full work week's worth of university, plus night shifts, is pure burn out fuel.
Grace McCadden 2 years ago
I feel for you…. I do. I worked retail and food industry during school and yes they get as many weekend hours out of you as they can. A very wise older lady I worked with came to me when I had just been verbally abused by a customer her words stuck with me to this day… it won’t sound like much but if you really take it to heart… it may help you too. “If they have time to shop… they have time to wait.” You want a $9 cup of coffee with all of the extras- that takes time. Ask yourself- do they want this fast or do they want it right? Don’t let the Aholes get to you. Unfortunately, some people thrive on your pain and frustration… don’t give them the satisfaction.
Lilianna Grant 2 years ago
My hubs was in a union apprenticeship went to school 40 hours some times 60 hours a week and was doing school courses full time... Like for real if the job is too tough find a new one. But if you put your available all day sat and sun don't be put out cause you were scheduled that time to work. Agree it's not fair the manage4 didn't come in that needs to be something taken up with his boss, but seriously lots of people do this and are just fine.
Ryan Brooks 2 years ago
"He's" crying about an 8 hour work day. That's the NORM in a lot of places. Sure, it might not always be easy (it IS work), but c'mon, man. I'm sure there's someone else out there who'd love to work the hours this person is bitching about and crying over.
Ce Chaney 2 years ago
I take issue with the people telling him to suck it up. He didn't disclose his college work load. The pressure to study and complete assignments on time is very hard. His main job should be his school work. Not everyone is fortunate to not need to work. Also, many parents and high schools do not properly prepare kids for the real world, so you must not blame them for being spoiled. Almost every retail job where you have direct contact with the public is tough. Employees come with the intent to do a good job, but are subjected to people who are rude, nasty, clueless, thoughtless and so demeaning to the staff. If anything is wrong they jump to considering the worker as stupid or dumb. Every job has it's challenges, few are as abusive as the public is to retail workers. Now, everyone is shorthanded and the workload is overwhelming. I hope the guy at the Starbucks gets a resolution that works out for him. Use the experience to grow as a person but never giving up on his goal.
Kim Burke 2 years ago
I cannot understand why in todays labour market, kids get so worked up like this when they don’t like their job. If this job doesn’t work for you, go get a different job! Everybody is hiring! My 14 & 15 year old kids just got jobs at a retail sporting goods chain and they love their jobs. Food service is a difficult industry to work in. Terrible hours, not great pay, chronically understaffed…It’s not for everybody.
AR 2 years ago
It’s hilarious seeing everyone focusing on the 8 hour shift and missing the whole point of the rant. But go ahead and keep playing the martyr. “i WoRk 16 hOuR sHiFtS aFtEr WaLkInG uPhIlL fOr 70 YeArS!” Ever stop to ask why Karen? Instead of doing exactly what your boss wants you to do in blaming other workers for companies’ s****y policies?
Bone Dome Martin 2 years ago
Soft wittle pansy wuss! God I hate starshits and the garbage of humanity who work there!
Charles Rogers 2 years ago
Unionize thinking at it's core: I shouldn't have to work so much, I need a union.
DeAndrea Murphy 2 years ago
Umm excuse me Sir normal shifts are 8 hours. You are literally crying tears. Really dude. Everybody wants life to be easy. Reality check you get what you work for. You want to be mediocre then do that but do it quietly. I was a full time student working 32 hrs a week with a child at home. Didn't cry on MySpace not once. I'm typing this from my second job(MH residence) after working my stressful city job 9 to 5. Literally pulling 80hrs a week. Not one tear. Instead of whining I put together a plan so that I will not be clocking in as a worker but a boss in the next 5yrs. 16 hrs a week isn't a abuse it's a job. Word of advice you can not quit just because it's hard. That's for the weak. Man up.
lc Delgado 2 years ago
try working 16 hour day in texas in July in 103 degree heat on the blacktop 6 days straight.
John B 2 years ago (edited)
Good God. Did anyone count how many "me's" and "I's" there were in there? Narcissism at its finest. Nobody is saying don't get upset if things aren't right. They are saying "get off your a*s and do something about it instead of bleating about it" Personally? I would have either targeted the manager job or looked for another job with a better fitting environment, or just sucked it up until the right alternative appeared. This over-the-top drama accomplishes absolutely nothing except maybe to identify this employee as completely helpless and a whiner.
de cara 2 years ago
And yet he managed to spark a conversation about labour and work/life/school balance that your methods apparently never did. Interesting that his "bleating" accomplished so much more than you ever have with anything you've ever done with your miserable little life, huh?
Load More Replies... Jack Dill 2 years ago (edited)
I worked bar and tables in my early 20s. I'd work 8+ hr server shifts regularly (5pm to 2am) constantly on my feet. Sat Sun I'd work actual doubles (11am to 2am) on the bar at times. Saved up money to backpack through Europe, came back and saved a little ($15000) for university. Still had to borrow maybe $20000. Graduated (while working PT in restaurants) and paid it back by my early 30s. That's not bragging because any could do the same and a lot of people have done a LOT more. It's not always easy but it's not as hard as other people's lives in parts of the world or our own ancestors decades ago. Service industry isn't for everyone, that's for sure. If customers are rude, that's about them, not you, so don't let it affect you. You're really busy and people have to wait? So what?? To hell with them! You don't deserve to be treated that way? What's "deserve" got to do with anything in life? IMO, it's about your mindset. Your Starbucks job and it's customers should be at the bottom of the list of "Things that are worth stressing about".
Shane S 2 years ago
I mean, kinda offensive to say to a trans person. I get the sentiment but maybe use a different metaphor than a “set”.
Load More Replies... Michael King 2 years ago
Why can't we find the middle ground? His manager was s****y for abandoning him and customers shouldn't be allowed to verbally abuse service workers. (I worked retail all through college these are basic truths in these kinds of jobs) Buuuuut this kid is also being a baby. If it's a 1 time thing then get through the day and think of how full that tip jar is gonna be. If it's a regular thing then quit and find a slightly less crappy part time job. There's a lot of people who worked way harder in college and were better off for it. You're not doing rocket science it's mixing drinks and anyone can do it so you don't have a lot of leverage.
JM98 2 years ago
Lots of comments from Gen X (raises hand) and Millenials complaining about the kids. Take a hard look at your own generation because you raised these kids to be this way. The helicopter parents, the Karen moms setting the example, the parents going to job interviews with their kids, and general over protection to let kids grow up and experience hardship. Our generations created this mess (not only environmentally, but socially) and now we play the grumpy old person. In this instance, my opinion is that the kid shouldn't work at Starbucks and expect them to bend over backwards to accommodate AND it sounds like the management also sucks. It's not just the kid, it's the management. We so easily forget that earlier generations also think the generations after them are too lazy, including Boomers, Gen X, and Millenials. So yeah, you did have it easier than previous generations.
Shane S 2 years ago
Also, I’m cis so I will NOT speak for the trans community but does a mustache and beard always mean you use he/him pronouns? I won’t apologize for the customers being jerks but I don’t think anyone is supposed to automatically know your pronouns unless you tell them. If he corrected them and they still used “she/her” then that’s really messed up.
Nicholas McCoy 2 years ago
Follow the science. XX = female, XY = male. Don't go along with that woke garbage, my guy. I've been an ally to the community, and they don't respect us. Better to not respect them when it's not reciprocated.
Load More Replies... LordSiravant 2 years ago
Unsurprisingly, the vast majority of negative commentators are boomers and Magaheads who are incapable of empathy anyway, so to hell with what they think. They're probably feeling even less sympathetic because he's trans. Work culture in our country is toxic and exploitative, and just because you MIGHT have had it harder doesn't make it right. You want us to grow up? We already did. Way earlier than we should have had to. And you're part of the problem.
simply.Taz 2 years ago
PLEASE......don't lump the negative comments to just specific groups. BTW, I don't fall under any of these categories. These posters just want to be negative and it doesn't matter what decades they were porn in, or, their political beliefs. They're just straight up, ÀSSHOLES!!
Load More Replies... Unfamiliar Tortoise 2 years ago (edited)
Holy mother of f**k...um, kid? I work 8 hours a day, 5 days a week minimum. Sometimes I pull in overtime, sometimes 6 days or a full week if the need arises, same as my coworkers, same as my boss, as understaffed as you are but we make it work. And WE'RE A UNION GIG. You clearly have no idea what a union is for; they fight for your rights, but they will NOT coddle you and give you an easy way out. Life sucks, kid. Understand that and get over you child-like tantrums. Or just die.
ginny weasley 2 years ago
I genuinely think you are unhinged, telling someone to suck it up or die
Load More Replies... arcane_gamer (they/them) 2 years ago
he's complaining for why? he actually has to work a grown-up shift?
Poeha 2 years ago
No the customers are. I wouldn't let my son work there if I can sit on my lazy a*s behind a laptop and make some maps for more money. Let em go make their own coffee if they can't act normal.
Load More Replies... Samantha Campbell 2 years ago
I empathize he's having a bad day-but no. I worked at a steakhouse with a.woman in 2009 who was a full time student at UWF studying marine biology and worked 20 hrs on Saturday and Sunday. She made her money working back to back 10hr shifts and did a normal 'school wk'
Kaa 2 years ago
Yeah, she made her money because she had to. I guess. Not because she wanted to spend her weekends working.
Load More Replies... Samantha Campbell 2 years ago
No. This is so dumb. There are so many good days in this line of work and honestly after 13 yrs doing events and odd jobs between volunteering and interning for my career, I don't have sympathy
Rune Rosen (they/them) 2 years ago (edited)
Your career, your choice. Volunteering is not mandated of you, YOU volunteer yourself to help out other organizations. Internships can also pay money, not always, but sometimes. Honestly, 13 years does NOT sound like food industry, retail, or stripping where people are DEGRADED, UNDERPAID, MISTREATED, and DISCRIMINATED. I, a teenager, can say this much to you: after working jobs in food industry, retail (seasonal photography), housekeeping, and childcare, I have seen enough to know the problem here. Neurodivergents like myself process things differently, see the world differently, and often have mental illness(es)/disorder(s) which are recognized as disabilities. Feeding into toxic workplace behavior as you are now is not helping anyone. My generation is genuinely trying to change things, but if you are so blinded by your own experiences, that you fail to see how we can improve the world, then ultimately, no one can help you. PS: No one asked for your sympathy.
Load More Replies... blatherskitenoir 10 months ago
Too many people view managers who don't recall the minute picadillos of their individual lives when coming up with the shift schedule as malicious. It's not. It's a combination of forgetfulness, hope, and need. They simply don't remember that Cindy can only do half days the week of the full moon, or when mid terms and classes are for the 15 separate people they're trying to fit like wonky Tetris pieces, they need to fill the gaps on the schedule so that understaffing situations like this one don't happen, and they hope you'll show up and do that. You just need to remind them and stick to your guns. They're trying to make their life easier, you're trying to make your life easier, it's natural. You should also advocate for yourself by (calmly!) pointing out when the online orders need to be shut off, or having a conversation about how the weekends are bonkers and really need at least five people. Filming yourself melting down helps no one and makes things worse.
alan chau 1 year ago
He’s only working 24 hours a week! If you want to make money, you have to work the hours. You won’t magically get paid. This is not a union issue.. I’m sure you get all your proper breaks, compensate you properly, and they schedule your hours around your school. I hate to see you when you have to work a 40 hour work week. Looking forward to your video then how you really break down. Suck it up and Grow up kid!
Carla Olavarría 2 years ago
Omg! I started reading the comments and thought I was crazy or souless for disagree with this guy, but now I see I’m not the only one. 8 hours is a standard shift. You know, people in healthcare (ER, ICU, etc) usually work 12 hours shifts, sometimes 24 hours, many times understaffed asswell, and in very harder conditions than a coffee house. Please get real! Please get
Nathanaël Verdonck 2 years ago
This is making me feel very divided. Because yes, i've worked in a starbucks, 38 hours a week, so sometimes you have multiple 8 hours days in a row. And it's no deskjob, it's the exact same company, exact same job, yeah some of those days you kinda have to be running all day long.. Now i don't want to be a d**k, and i want to be understanding as i can, i live in Belgium, in Europe and when i hear about work conditions in the states, yeah it kinda scares me, like if i was American, i would've ended up on the streets a long time ago, 100% sure. But then again, i've had busy weeks at the bucks where pretty much everyday is non stop working the whole day long and you find a way to manage. I'm not gonna say suck it up because that doesn't help at all, but try to find the fun in it, i know a lot of people won't agree but you can find the fun of things in everything. Pff i have to do my taxes, no i GET to do them! Woohoo doing some math exercises are fun!
Nathanaël Verdonck 2 years ago
Again, fully able to agree that work conditions in Belgium are just better, but i've done multiple 8 hours days in a row, standing up, running around, getting yelled at by karens and hoodlums who don't want to leave our terrace, being understaffed also, often. I'll admit i didn't study BUT i wrote music for the two bands i was in, we obvs had rehearsals a lot, plus you have to do a lot of self study on your instrument so i had at least the same 40 hours extra on top of my job. It really is not that hard. And i'm no boomer or whatever, i'm only 27 and i've always considered myself to be pretty lazy in general. Like i quit the bucks to become a full time street artist, cause i have to work less for the same amount of money, so yeah, laziness played a big part in that decision. Just my two cents.
Load More Replies... Nathanaël Verdonck 2 years ago
This is making me feel very divided. Because yes, i've worked in a starbucks, 38 hours a week, so sometimes you have multiple 8 hours days in a row. And it's no deskjob, it's the exact same company, exact same job, yeah some of those days you kinda have to be running all day long.. Now i don't want to be a d**k, and i want to be understanding as i can, i live in Belgium, in Europe and when i hear about work conditions in the states, yeah it kinda scares me, like if i was American, i would've ended up on the streets a long time ago, 100% sure. But then again, i've had busy weeks at the bucks where pretty much everyday is non stop working the whole day long and you find a way to manage. I'm not gonna say suck it up because that doesn't help at all, but try to find the fun in it, i know a lot of people won't agree but you can find the fun of things in everything. Pff i have to do my taxes, no i GET to do them! Woohoo doing some math exercises are fun! Sbx can be so fun when it's busy!!
Chris Sprucefield 2 years ago
Don't sign up for it if you can't do it, but welcome to actual life realities if you do... and stop whining about it, as 8h a day is a normal workday...
Peter Hall 2 years ago
I made a meme about this I cut out and pasted Emperor Kusco's face after he had been turned into a llama over this person's and honestly it's striking how much resemblance there still is. I basically made them look look like a Llama and there's no difference in the expression
ViFi 2 years ago
my mom is a doctor and regularly works 18 hour shifts. so does my dad. so does my aunt. so does my mother's best friend. my friend who's only 15 works!! she works 7 hour shifts! i mean, for gods sake, i work 9 hour workdays sometimes! (16F) and yet I know that none of us, not a single one, would act like those people being rude and negative are acting. My 15 year old friend works a starbucks, its hard work. I work a target, it's work. my parents, aunt, and unrelated aunt work incredibly hard. that does not mean his work is any less belittling or hard.
Margie Lundeford 2 years ago
He’s not the first college student who has to work his way through. And he won’t be the last. Wishing him the fortitude, endurance, and tenacity it takes to get through the day.
Jade Ember 2 years ago
All the people saying 'I worked 16 hours a day and only slept four hours a night, and I turned out just fine!' are the same people who say 'My parents smacked me around and I turned out just fine!' Did you, though? Does wanting other people to suffer because you suffered sound fine to you?
Nikki Nik 2 years ago
Everyone has their own tolerance to pain as well as STRESS.This boy has reached his breaking point. That's ok. We all do. Sometimes over things that have nothing to do with what we are actually venting about. I worked in retail for 30 years. It is difficult but I loved it. Someday I cried. I yelled. I fought over scheduling. I fought with management for support. I worked 15 of those years at Home Drpot and Lowes. We all have bad days. We all need support from time to time. Gen Z or not!! We all have different tolerance levels. I have an 18 year old son who is on the spectrum. Yes I believe in mental illness. He cannot work more than 2 to 3 hours. An 8 hour shift would put me in a grave. Just understand as you write your comments, this boy is NOT you and you are NOT him.
Josh Briggs 2 years ago
Jesus Christ. What has happened to the world? You would die in the military. Soft egg!
dahnb 2000 2 years ago
This story starts with a tweet from actual Nazi Seb Gorka. Bored Panda take this story DOWN!
Elizabeth Raymond 2 years ago
I'm here to tell ya, I spent most of my adult life working 2 restaurant/retail jobs raising 3 kids by myself. I also did this at 42 while going back to college to try to make it better....Facts: beyond an uncertain age, that college degree made no difference except that I had a small (very small) leveraging tool of the fact I had a college degree meant I was respected a tiny bit better as having accomplishing something most of my bosses didn't. But most of the customers on a stressed day would say to me that if I don't like my job I should have went to college. Or if they didn't like the service, it's my fault, even though after having been off for a rare 3 days off in a row, I come back from work to my ENTIRE shift of employees having been fired, and it's Friday, first of the month holiday weekend. And my entire shift of unruly but trained emp. had been replaced with not just people new to the co. , but new to JOBS, all age 16-18, and it's all of THEIR very FIRST day. Customers suck!
Elizabeth Raymond 2 years ago
And customers are incredibly stupid. When anyone is messing with your food, that goes into your mouth/body, you are a dam*n fool to be rude and hateful to them. Just saying. Haven't you ever seen that movie, the waiter? I have witnessed some reprehensible acts done to rude customers, and I can say. However unsanitary these acts were, the ones who got it REALLY deserved it., but what I NEVER have seen, is a manager who gets punished for taking the weekend off. Or treating their employees as "less than". My first time working at McDonald's, I was hired in the door as a certified swing manager. Basically a fancy word for shift manager. I was told all the red shirt people were like the peasants, and all the blue shirts were like royalty. I decided that day to not be that way. I've had bad employees and good ones. None of them deserved to be over worked and under paid, or having bad managers. And NONE OF UUS DESERVE TO BE TREATED BAD BY CUSTOMERS. working only at McDonald's,
Load More Replies... belladonna nightshade 2 years ago
F*****g little girl needs to buck the F**K up! Quit being a sissy!! She's pretending to be a man, then BE A MAN, not a f*****g little B***H!!! Men don't sit and sob and whine like that, that's what GIRLS do. How do I know? Because I'm a f*****g GIRL and we're stupid and emotional and MEN are not!! Men are LOGICAL AND CALCULATING. Shave ur fkn face and STFU!!!🤬🤬🤬👎
Sanchi 2 years ago
That is sexist. It increases the gender assumptions and stereotypes. Stop discriminating on race
Load More Replies... Cathy Carey 2 years ago
8 hours is too long for people to work; 6 hours should be the norm. People will be more productive AND happy.
Raymond Tiago 2 years ago
People whine too much. I was a cook I'm the military standing on my feet all day. I know it's not hard. But it builds character. Man the f**k up and work hard so you can quit and never look back. That will be so satisfying instead of locking yourself in the bathroom crying like a little b***h
IHaveAClub 2 years ago
As a Truck Driver who has been at it for over 25 years. I have no sympathy for those who whine and cry "I'm a victim!! Life is unfair!!" Etc. Life IS hard!! Life IS unfair!! Only the strong survive it. Unless you're a parasite....living off the hard work of others. This Soy Boi needs to grow up and grow a pair. I'm nearly 63, I work my tail off for 8+ hours regularly, occasionally 12 hours and 16 hours a day when necessary. I have zero sympathy for this weak, pathetic excuse of a male. After my generation is dead and gone, unless things change drastically, Soy Boi's generation will get trampled by the rest of the world. While he sits on the floor continuing to whine and cry. One last thing. Years ago I saw a bumper sticker that said "To those that think the World owes them a living, the World says I was here first".
Ronda Phillips 2 years ago
Having worked retail 35 years I can sympathize. 8 hours may not seem long but the working conditions make it seem like forever. It boils down to the management not taking responsibility for their store or caring for the employees. As a store manager I never put my staff in a position I myself would not do. I cleaned toilets too. Customers are not easy to deal with. You can have 100 customers but that one nasty person can ruin an entire shift. We need to learn patience and kindness on the whole. A lot of fast food and retail stores are very short staffed. They are overworked, underpaid, and expendable according to the companies they work for. But, their backs are what profits are built on. Take better care of your employees and you wouldn't have to worry about Union talk.
Jaime Gooding 2 years ago
Just quit already. Yes, 8 hours is a long time to be somewhere so go somewhere else. Don't like the customers, don't work in customer service. People are paying 6-7 dollars for coffee so yes they want it right. If it takes a while to get the orders out just make sure they're right. We see you're short staffed. Employers aren't going to pay 20-30 $ an hour and hire 20 employees on the same shift. They're trying to maximize their profits. If they can make the same amount of money with minimal staff that's exactly what they're gonna do. It's no secret.
Shayne O'Neill 2 years ago
We're bullying kids who aren't coping with combining full time study with full time work now? Yay the internet.
Nicholas McCoy 2 years ago
No, we're calling out a grown woman who suffers from delusions and a sense of entitlement. 👍
Load More Replies... Emma Perkins 2 years ago
Wow, clickbait that purposefully gets people to argue over something that's not even the issue. Thanks bored panda!
Julie MommaWolf 2 years ago
Yeah yeah yeah. Been there, done that STILL doing it. The barista IS NOT the problem, other than an 8 hour shift is normal. The problem is CUSTOMERS. They think the person on the other side of the counter is their servant. They feel entitled and can say what ever they want. Insults fly. And yes words do hurt. No one and I mean NO ONE has been taught manners. Age is not a factor. We have become a world full of Karen’s.
3D pyromaniac 2 years ago
This b***h wouldn't last half an hour in a machine shop
Load More Replies... Pariah Mouse 2 years ago
And can I say, the way BP edited c**p makes it look like a far dirtier word... Whatever, BP. We have more to worry about than some quasi curse words...
Elena Doyle 2 years ago
I’m sorry, but this person is ridiculous. My mother had to work a lot longer than 8 hours a day. She stared really early and ended really late. She worked at a dealership, and while pregnant with me. She walked in with morning sickness almost every day, trying hard not to throw up. I’m sure she wanted to cry sometimes but she wasn’t going around going “poor me” and trying to get pity from people. She got the job done. It is not that hard to put pastries in bags and make Frappuccinos. I get it, sometimes things don’t go our way and we are upset about it. But what a lot of people do not understand is that sometimes things are not fair. Life is not fair. Stop acting like you are the victim. Get over it and get on with it.
Annie Steele 2 years ago
I can't remember the last time I only worked 8 hours ... most days are 12 to 14 hours, 7 days available, clients pay my salary, I work for them ...
Tasha 2 years ago
I usually don’t comment on these blogs but it is sad to hear that he is upset because the business is short staffed and no help. Unfortunately it’s like that now in many jobs, so no matter if it’s retail or hospitality or a desk job short staff is short staffed and the work load is going to be given to someone and that may be you. Choices are to find something else or don’t work, it’s not that you have to be there, we all still have a choice. I was a single mom worked retail 40+ hours and did school BS and my Masters full time. I made a choice to do it because I wanted to complete goals set for myself and to show my daughter that you can do anything you put your heart and mind too. No one can stop you but you. I am still in retail managing now, I like people, the interaction, if I didn’t I would have left the field. Do I trip out about customers and how they treat my team and me sometimes yes, it’s sad, truly, but in the end I chose where I am.
Margrete Sonnenberg 2 years ago (edited)
I remember a quote that youtuber said "Everyone should work a retail job once." I did and it was hard to make sure every order went to the right person. It was just me and one other guy in the concession stand. It was sometimes harder when the person your with sneaks off somewhere.
Moose Gomer 2 years ago
I do kind of understand I work retail between 8 and 10 hrs 5 days a week split days off and a couple 12 hr shifts here and there yes at times it's tough especially dealing with customers. Being in college I can imagine how difficult it is , I'm unable to do that myself I have a family that needs me to work so I can't take time out for schooling. But unfortunately this is part of being an adult I do have sympathy for you and you don't deserve the hate from Gen z's (they're just mad because they realized they got gipped) however you'll not find much work with less hours definitely not in retail and food service where it's already tough to get willing sustainable employees
Zuccini Yaga 2 years ago
All of these boomers and hustler saying "I work blah-blah and I'm not complaining, snowflake!" That's not the point. Either you SHOULD be fighting to be treated like a real flesh-and-blood human worker, Or you're not in school. College is a full-time job in promise of a better career (that often doesn't happen). As someone who hAs a degree, has been fired from a career position, and have been coasting around to find jobs in this "unemployment crisis," I can tell you that no one wants to pay for your qualifications. They want you to be a full-time drone, doing 60 hours worth of work in a 40 hour week. The boomers put up with it, (hell, even the Millennials are trying to make it work!) But now that is Zoomers are trying to stand up for basic human rights, (in a less-extreme way than other civil rights movements in the past), the boomers want to call us snowflakes? Ok. Instead we'll start a riot so y'all can call us 'unruly' and blame it on our "violent videogames."
Candice Blanton 2 years ago
I'm sorry this kid is overwhelmed. But this what happens when you become an adult. And it is only going to get harder. You know that 15.00 dollar an hour minimum wage everybody cried for, well this is reality when you get it. What is this kid going to do when he graduates college and is expected to work 40 hour work weeks? This is every day life for people who want to eat and live in something besides a tent. Might as well get used to it. I went to college full time, worked the ER on third as a lpn and took care of my mom who had Alzheimer's at the time. And got my RN in a year instead of two. Oh, btw, I am autistic. You do what you have to.
Alicia White 2 years ago
As a full time college student and someone working 20 hrs a week being a wife and pet parent, honestly I can see how this would be frustrating. People who work 16 hr shifts, yeah that sucks, but you made your choice to go to nursing school etc knowing its a s****y career where you get treated like s**t. This kid is trying to put themselves through school which should be the priority AND its almost finals week. Theres context here and people are being a$$holes just because their experience is different than this persons.
Esther Sorenson 2 years ago (edited)
When I was a college student, I worked as a waitress - 25 hours per week on top of going to class and studying full time (expectation is to spend 60+ hours on school. For that kid, that’s 60 + 25 = 85+ hours per week). My longest shifts were on the weekends. We ALWAYS had a manager on the floor to handle any customer complaint and rude behavior. We were supported by management. This kid is angry, because there’s not enough staff hired to handle the load AND the manager took themselves off the schedule on the weekend. How could there not be a manager on the floor?! That to me sounds like a liability issue. Why be a manager of a food industry if you refuse to work weekends?! Getting back to my experience, working 25 hours and being a full time college student resulted in my grades suffering and not having enough time to read everything assigned. Regarding nurses working 14 hour shifts, does your work week total 85+ hours of work?!
Dana Ondráčková 2 years ago
I feel both sides. I dont wanna write a whole essay why yes or not, but I feel that many people used to be this overwhelmed before but they didnt had or still dont have social média to complain about it so seeing everything now on the online media is the diference
$cagsy 2 years ago
I was ready to ridicule this person like so many others have done. Eight hours isn't much these days and doesn't compare to the sweatshop conditions in far away countries. But this person has said that they are 'neurodivergent' which means that their brain function is not typical. This could mean that they are autistic, dyslexic or dyspraxic, for example. Additionally, this worker is trans, which, on it's own, must be very difficult for them, particularly when being misgendered. So if you look at the facts, you may reach a vastly different conclusion. 'Young, autistic, transgender student worker struggles with 8-hour shifts' is the accurate headline and it makes me feel so much more sympathetic towards this person. But that doesn't drive web traffic, does it BP? How can so many hate a person who is neurodivergent and trans but puts themself out there anyway to earn a living and better themself? It would be easy for them to hide. They don't. And they get bullied for it. Enough.
James McIntosh 2 years ago
This has to be a joke....8 hours is a basic shift.. I've been working 6-8 hour shifts since I started working at 16....
Somalin Tea 2 years ago
8 hour shifts aren’t long but being in college is a full time job with no breaks if you work. People don’t seem to realise going to college is less and less affordable and how mentally draining working food service is. While 40 hours a week isn’t what this person is working, people arent realising the other 6 hours a day of classes and studying on top of work.
terry opila 2 years ago
So, 2 8 hour shifts and then only 9 hours the rest of the week... Sounds like a pretty gravy schedule to me. You're a student working in retail/service... Did you think you'd have weekends off? If you don't like it, use it as motivation to graduate.
Jeffrey Keffer 2 years ago
Try owning your own business I am self employeed no employees. When I sleep I make no money, but I enjoy every second of when I am awake the Hustle is life I work outside I mine precious metals, gemstones and semi precious gemstones its dangerous dirty cold hot wet and dry ... And best of all I dont work for the man ( although Uncle Sam takes a big bite ) I worked Union ... Go ahead Unionize then not only does the tax man take a cut but so does the Union . Everybody thinks the Union is the answer and it is if you get to sit in the Union office and push paper because they make a whole Heck ( dumb censor ship) of a lot more than you will.
Satesh Charran 2 years ago
I worked a retail job as a cashier 8 hours on my feet and 498 customers for the day. They took me off before 500 dam them to hell.
Kamis Dewey 2 years ago
When I was in college a part time job was sitting around at Blockbuster or working nights at a burger joint to serve the 4 people who might go there during your 4 hour shift. It was better to get a job as a teaching assistant, so I worked for the computer science department where we got paid (good money, for a student) to run a few lab help sessions and make sure kids understand the concepts. Easy peasy MINIMUM WAGE TYPE STUFF. Running a busy understaffed Starbucks for a weekend with no manager for c**p wages while going to school full time? I um, no. That’s all the stress and no compensation to show for it. Entry level/minimum wage jobs are NOT comparable to military or healthcare jobs. Those are career tracks you get compensated for. Not part time student jobs Do you even remember how much the full time college workload SUCKED?! Kudos to this student for taking on a job!!
Bored Pangolin 2 years ago
I feel like most of the criticism is people humble bragging "Well I..." and that's about it. I don't disagree with it seeming an over the top reaction to an 8 hour shift, I also don't disagree that it's harder than it sounds between retail and Karens. But I think all the "I work 80 hours a week, uphill both ways with no shoes, through the snow" make my eyes roll way harder. When your gut reaction to something is to immediately compare it to yourself - your choices, your lifestyle, your physical and mental health - as though you are the holy grail standard of how everyone should be then I think you're doing empathy and critical thinking wrong. I'm gonna guess these are the same people that tell a one-legged person they're lazy for posting how exhausted they are after a one hour hike.
J Silverman 2 years ago
Would you like a tissue for your issue? Crying because you have to work 8 hours? Ok, you're entitled, but to all of you who are upset that not everyone is gushing with sympathy, get a life. We are entitled to our opinions. If you don't want to hear it, then don't put it out there, snowflakes! GOSH, I hope the guys who fix the power lines in horrible snow storms don't decide to cry and quit, half way through their 20 hour shift! Or the firefighters working the wild fires or truck drivers getting the goods delivered and the list goes on and on. Oh and thank you for giving me a clear example of what is wrong in America today, I will definitely share!
de cara 2 years ago
God you're pathetic. Could you be projecting any harder, you massive f*****g baby? But please do go on s******g and pissing yourself in public because you can't handle the very idea that people might experience life differently than you do. Really makes you seem like a balanced, level headed person lmao
Load More Replies... Aaron Matye 2 years ago
I understand both sides of the argument. I would do just about anything to go back down to 8hr days, but the argument the OP was making is mostly on the lack of management, and I totally agree there. Plus, being a full-time student and working is really hard, but again, it is TEMPORARY. It certainly is bad on both sides, but I'm more with the OP on this one.
Michele Lein 2 years ago
About the misgendering: a lot of people who don't speak English as their first language have trouble with personal pronouns. I can't say the number of times I've heard people, especially of Hispanic descent, get others pronouns mixed up. Even friends who knew me well. Maybe these customers did not speak English as a first language. One time when I was working in the apparel department of a superstore (not Wal-Mart), a mom and her maybe 4 year old child walked by, and the kid asked his mom 'Mommy, was that a man or a woman?' I was devastated. I wasn't the 'gorgeous' type of woman, but not ugly or un-feminine either. I remember that day was not my best. I was tired, and a single mom of an under one year old, and some days I just didn't have the energy to get all "done-up" for work. It had been a "dress down" kind of day for me. I was still overweight with pregnancy pounds, but I always wore makeup and dressed nicely, even on bad days, so I don't know why the child was confused.
Bloobee bloobee bloo bloo bloo 2 years ago
For someone who has a full moustache and beard he really is a baby. Only 2 days that he has work 8 hours?? What does he think he’s gonna do when graduates college and has a “real” job? He’s probably going into a field where he can sit at home on his computer for 4 hours while claiming he’s working and getting paid for 8. I work with high school students who have no problem working 12+ hour shifts on their feet in an extremely fast paced, never stopping fast food industry. God I hate adult zoomers! Terrible work ethic
Shane S 2 years ago
Whoa man/woman, don’t insult everyone who works from home. The same person who works at home and only does 4 hours of work would still be in the office doing only 4 hours of work. A slacker is a slacker.
Load More Replies... Amy S 2 years ago
I can't get over the people in the comments saying they work 70-80 hours per week, when do you live your life? Between work, commute, sleep and all the things you need to do to be able to work (e.g. laundry) there can't be much time left?! Bragging that you have no life isn't really a flex.
Mark Alibozek 2 years ago
I may get flack from this but I think sometimes when people don't go through real hardship they aren't able to stop and consider that what's going on isn't as bad as it seems. The reason I say this is because I have and it makes the difficulties I go through now no problem. For instance when I was a teenager starting at 14 years old I worked on a farm. At times I had to work at least 14 hour's a day 7 days a week for months at a time. In three months that's 8,820 hours of work without a day off. At minimum I had 7-8 hours a day with the possibility of one day off a week. That's in whatever weather there was 100 degrees in summer to -40 degrees in winter. Now when things get tough. I know it could be worse and it's really no big deal.
Edith Rubalcava 2 years ago
How do we progress if we don't want things to be better for the incoming generation? We have forgotten the deal that if you work hard, you will be rewarded. Now it's Work hard because I worked harder than you? I'm no psychologist, but negative reinforcement never works long-term. That dog will always carry anger, resentment, and spite.
Stump Rumpersonne 2 years ago
Ahhh yes, one or even a few people in a referenced population does something stupid and now it's everyone in that population. Replace kids with an ethnicity for funsies. You may not think you're a bigot but thinking like one is far too common.
Chris Eaton (AwfulKerfuffle) 2 years ago
This is pathetic, end of story. He just wants to sit around and live easy while other people have it worse. Crying isn't how we change the system or make things better. People like this, will never make a difference.
3D pyromaniac 2 years ago (edited)
Boo f*****g hoo... Try working 10+ hours a day, 6 days a week, on your f****n feet running between multiple machines, dealing with normal customers, and the f*****g c***s that like to be called "engineers"... That is my CHOSEN lifestyle running my own machine shop. Is it exhausting? Yes. Do I near a point of considering going postal? Every f*****g time an engineer comes in. Is the money good? Ehhh. Is it a job that would impress a woman? Few are thrilled when they hear I do manufacturing, so I'd say not really. Why do I choose to do it for 60 hours a week? I enjoy the fact that I'm making things, the work gives my existence a reason, and at the end of my day I can sit down and know that I made something that will last.
Ellie Zee 2 years ago
"She's clearly incompetent...i have a mustache and beard!" Oh so we can assume gender based on physical characteristics again?
Nicholas McCoy 2 years ago
We can assume gender based on genetics. You know, science? The science you woke people claim to respect? Yeah, that. The one that says XX = female, XY = Male. Don't trust the science only when it suits you.
Load More Replies... Pariah Mouse 2 years ago
Just because you are suffering working endless hours for nothing more than survival, that doesn't make it the way it should be, NO ONE should have to do something unpleasant and sometimes insufferable simply to afford to exist- as a matter of fact, why should we have to AFFORD to exist, why can't we just exist? If you want more, okay, but the basics shouldn't break your back to attain- and just because you shove your suffering down deep and "do your crying over a drink" (that's called alcoholism, bruh, and it's not a good thing...), that doesn't mean everyone should. As a matter of fact, NO ONE should have to live this way if they don't want to. And guess what? NOBODY wants to, it's just the world, and because no one fights to change it because they are too busy sh*tting on people who just want a decent quality of life, it stays this way, and people say "that's just the real world". Well, we need to f*cking change the "real world", then. Not c**p on the folks who want more out of life.
Craig Hoosier 2 years ago
What a bunch of 🐱's....this generation lazy asf, seems the more as rime passes, men are turning into women, most of time just mentally....what is in yalls diets? Sure isn't testosterone
Chuck Page 2 years ago
This is why the USA will soon be a annex of China…. Want, want , want… on their terms. Work less and your entitled to more money… we as a f CD II try will go down toilet quickly with the younger generation thought process. Suck it up!!
Kate Schenk 2 years ago
Not happy? Go work somewhere else. There are jobs galore out there. Nobody is MAKING you work there. Sounds like you hate the job and the manager too. QUIT!!
Peter Hall 2 years ago
On the one hand Service Jobs like that suck, and I totally agree that it's not fair that The Manager can decide not to come in when regular employees can't. They need to lead by example. On the other hand there are plenty of people working harder jobs, doing longer hours, juggling crazy schedules, and they don't publicly break down like this for all to see. And boo f*****g hoo, people misgendered you by using male pronouns because you look like a male and probably are a biological male. A pathetic weak man, but you're still a man get over yourself!
Darren Begin 2 years ago
A bunch of mamby pamby jack wagons. I don't understand people today. Life is hard, you gotta work hard. People have been doing it thousands of years, and we have it better now than any other time in history. Something has to happen to toughen up our youth soon, or society is gonna crumble
JDMC123 2 years ago
I'm 14, in high school, and working. I get up to 30 hours a week and it's not that bad. This guy is overreacting
de cara 2 years ago
My dude being in high school and being a full time college student are massively different. you likely also still live with your parents and have all your meals made for you and your laundry/cleaning done for you. You have less work to do at school and at home, of COURSE you don't think it's that bad. I am begging you, please, to one day grow up and understand that no everyone has the same experience as you and that the universe does not revolve around you. ffs
Load More Replies... Mystery Egg 2 years ago
Boohoo. Such a weak generation. I used to do 12-15 hour shifts on the weekends as a waitress when I was in college. Every weekend, finishing at 3am. Get a grip and a work ethic.
Sanchi 2 years ago
The generation is weak because your generation made it weak. Ffs, just because you can do stuff doesn’t give you the right to bully others and bring others down.
Load More Replies... Christine Noren-Gentry 2 years ago
If you're listed as a PT employee then when your shedules are posted, speak up. State... yea won't be here on the weekend. And don't bloody go but whining and crying on tic toc??? Dude YOU'RE now in an adult world. I'm 60,a recent widow, was in early retirement and I had to go back to corp America. And I'm in sales, also on my feet. In July I worked 30 days straight. 2 weeks ago 57.5 hrs in 1week. What are you being paid? And you get tips? JHRC!! FACT: "It's a cold ol'hard world out there. You better toughen up baby or you'll be eaten alive". The works to much, find other work. Continue your studies, that's priority but crying to the world about it...what's that done for you? Mgmt threatens as I've had done to me over the years... my response was "I was looking for a job, when I found this one." They will either see your value or you need to find other work. Now everybody knows your business. Who's gonna hire you now??
Matthew Simonds 2 years ago
Boo hoo a whole 8 hours two days a week. I pushed to get 8 hours 5 days a week working retail, as a department lead to make more money. I've worked overtime. I work holidays. I took a whole 7 days of vacation this whole year. Gen Z are weak cry babies. They don't work willingly or efficiently when they are at work. (I have to pick up their slack) and call out all the time when because they "aren't sure if they are sick or not, but might possibly be" because they got a sniffle. Suck it up butter cups.
LeaAnn Paulsen 2 years ago
Being in any kind of service industry right now, you are anyone’s punching bag. It doesn’t matter what you are doing. You could be giving out free cars to people and they would yell at you because they don’t like the color. Or the line was too long. People are all a*s holes these days. I’m guilty of it sometimes myself. We all lack patience, sympathy, and compassion at times. This poor person is transitioning and going to school full time and working 8 hour days on they’re days off. All while dealing with people who are wanting their “fix”. They deserve a little melt down in the back room!
Chuck Freiman 2 years ago
Watching the video I just wanted to slap the poo out of this whiny little beyotch
Eric Tenson 2 years ago
The most pathetic thing I have read all day. Wow only in the US does this happen
David Johnson 2 years ago
Your man enough now to grow a mustache your man enough to work a standard shift. There's someone eles im sure that would be happy to take your place. 16 - 22 dollars an hour to make drinks is a privilege.
Heather Ruiz 2 years ago
Lmfao seriously omfg 8 hrs of work in one day what will you do!?!? I hope this is a joke. Most people work 40 hrs or more per week ... At that age I was going to school and working 2 part time jobs one night shift one day shift...grow up and man up life only gets harder!
Savannah Stout 2 years ago
Hahaha 8 hours???? That's a normal shift is it not? Wtf I'm 29 years old...I've worked my fair square of jobs..I don't think I've ever and I mean ever had a job that wasn't 8 hours plus a day..what is he complaining for... does he not need money? hes not even working 40 hrs a week. Everyone is a bunch of ninnies
Someone Important 2 years ago
I blame the parents. Seriously, the entire rest of the world with few exceptions works AT LEAST 8 hours a day, and GASP, at least 5 days a week. The horror..
Kate Jones 2 years ago
Look, I get that we shouldn't continue with a system that doesn't work simply because ‘it's not fair to make it better since I didn't get that.' I’m all for cancelling student debt, lowering taxes, improving our working conditions, etc. But there's an audacity to the argument that I think is what offends so many people and that's the problem. Not all, but MANY of the people making the argument are often benefitting from someone else taking the burden off of them by doing exactly what they complain about. His story tells me he probably has a parent(s) who is paying for the rent/mortgage, groceries, heat, air, electricity, etc. So there’s an audacity of complaining to those people who have been doing it for years, to those of us who learned how to cope with our issues in the world we live in. To those who in some cases have been doing it FOR YOU. (1)
Kate Jones 2 years ago (edited)
To talk about how ‘traumatized’ you are because you had to do what the rest of us do every day is like a slap in the face to those who are doing way more than you on a regular basis. It’s like people who join protests for human rights while filming it with an iphone and wearing sneakers sewn by children- who don’t see the irony in that. Would it be great to live in a world where we’ve developed a system where no one has to work more than someone else and everyone got free health care and life was better for everyone? Of course. But we aren’t there yet. It’s complicated. Everyone wants cheaper goods. Everyone wants to be paid more. It’s complicated to try and find a system that incorporates both of those things. So in the meantime, he’s got to suck it up like the rest of us and try to find a way to live in the world the way it is. People defending him and being easier on him is really setting him up for a long hard life. (2)
Load More Replies... JMil 2 years ago
I'm with those calling him out for being entitled and pathetic. I worked near full-time in the restaurant industry and faced abuse (31 hours so the company didn't have to give me full-time benefits (32 hours in California)) and went to school full-time. I put in my dues and am now reaping the rewards. Should life in the US be easier and is there much room for improvement? Yes. Is making videos crying about it after a few hours of work sad? Yes. I'm not usually on the side of the argument "my life was hard so buck up", but this crosses the line.
Claire Trautmann 2 years ago (edited)
Sorry no sympathy from me. Go to college full time, and work a 40 hour week in retail. Don't get a day off from work from Thanksgiving to Christmas Eve. Then come whine to Mme about working 25 hours.
Evelyn Witt 2 years ago
I know someone that was a full-time college student, works a 40-hour work week, and was married with a child. Now how this person goes on about how having two 8-hour shifts during the weekend is too much plus being a full-time student, they need to look at other people who are working the full-time job going to school full time and have kids to boot. They make it work! And then throwing in little bits and this and that to make the whole matter seem worse has nothing to do with the scheduling and the management. And life was never fair to start with.
Sanchi 2 years ago
I know some one who stopped segregation. Now people complain about the gov rather than leading a revolution. He made it work! And then throwing in posts against the gov to make the whole matter seem worse has nothing to do with gov and politics. And life was never fair to start with.
Load More Replies... Deathtotheleftdeathtozoomers 2 years ago
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Deathtotheleftdeathtozoomers 2 years ago
DEATH TO GEN Z DEATH TO THE LEFT GEN Z ARE FILTH AND VERMIN millennials MILLENNIALS ARE SICK DISGUSTING HALF FORMED MEN WITH DAMAGED BRAINS FROM THE DAY THEY ARE BORN. DEATH TO THE LEFT DEATH TO GEN Z DEATH TO MILLENNIALS
Chad 2 years ago
Millineals are sick desiseed f*****g trash that should not have been allowed to breed. They should have been subject to eugenics and their breeding should have been controlled the way it is in china. The government should decide which millennials get to pass on their genes after extensive testing. Millennial dna is actually diseased. Mostly due to stds and the boomer parents drinking and doing drugs while pregnant. As well as a mass resurfacing incest in the early 00s. The majority of millineals where born with brain abnormality's. But they where not diagnosed and millennials where free to live as normal people. As such their children the zoomers are parasites with no ablity to function in the world. They are sad pathathic creatures that should be euthanized. Only the best dna should have been allowed to be passed on.
Nicholas McCoy 2 years ago
Just gonna point out Gen X produced Millennials. Then lower end Gen X and upper end Millennial produced Zoomers (like this kid in the story)
Load More Replies... Chad 2 years ago
Leftists are f*****g terroists. Zoomers are society's f*****g garbage and should be shot dead. Millennials should have been sbject to eugenics and their breading controled by the goverment. Only the best genes should have been allowed to pass them on. Millineals are human f*****g garbage. Zoomers are f*****g terroists. All of them need to die. The millennial genoration is the worst generation that has ever exsited in the hystory of socity. Their parasitc spawn are worse. Death to the millennial death to the left. Death to the millennial death to the left. Death to the millennial death to the left euthanize the zoomers the n******s and their parrasitc genes.
Marian Moore 2 years ago
When my daughter was going to college, she carried a full load each semester, plus worked more than 40 hrs. a week and carried a 4.0 grade. She had her own apt and paid for all of it. Not once did she complain. She paid all her student loans off by making payments and now she makes 6 figures for all her hard work. I am very proud of her.
Sanchi 2 years ago
Typical boomer/gen x/ millennial complaining of the generation they raised. God your generation is pathetic. This is what happens when you complain about everything and everyone and not be shown any kindness or respect. Life is f*****g hard, be grateful you aren’t suffering in Africa you little brat (also no offense to other people of those generations unless you agree with lost cosmos)
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