Too much work for too little pay
Pros
- Free drinks / food for break time - No barista experience required to start - Food Safety certification (free) - Negotiable schedule depending on your Manager and store manpower - Working shifts are a good workout, no need for gym membership - Still provided jobs during the pandemic (when everyone was ordering online)
Cons
- Prehistoric wage - Very very very fast paced for very very very little pay - Too much unnecessary initiatives done internally, sometimes at the expense of our free time AFTER work. - Unrealistic duration and tasks given when closing the store at the end of the day - Starbucks Coffee Master? So you get to take time off during a shift to work on your advance course while your poor colleagues have to hold the fort? - Likes to portray this indenial image of customer service and relations when in all honesty, doesn't have the luxury of manpower to promote this. Take a look at how Starbucks outside of Singapore do it! They don't run the store with only two employees working at one time. That is literally one cashier and one barista. Not to forget that they also have to handle customers' pre-orders, Grabfood, Foodpanda, Deliveroo, Starbucks Mobile Order & Pickup AND walk-in customers