u/Flimsy_Highlight_383

Hi! I’m a fairly new partner, I’ve only been with starbucks for about a month. I have been doing really good and trying my absolute hardest, most my coworkers forget I’m new to being a barista and tell me I work like I’ve been a barista for 6 months atleast, I own up to all my mistakes and take everything as a learning moment, and I’M ALWAYS OPEN TO COACHING!! However, I recently met a partner 2 days ago and she’s been making my shifts a living hell. (For only two days even! It’s been the worst 2 days i’ve had since i worked here😭) She’s constantly micromanaging me, and I feel like it’s always in a condescending tone. If I make a small mistake, she acts like it’s such a big deal and gets pissy and when I apologize and own up to the mistakes, she responds with something strange like “yeah” in a pissy and rude tone. I understand baristas are stressed out, so I try really hard to help in ways I shine! This partner is like atleast 5 years younger than me and calls me “babe” and “hun” and coaches me for everything, even when I don’t make mistakes— and that’s fine, I love learning things— but it’s when we have 7 cars in the drive thru and I’m soloing drive and she’s just spouting information rapidly about making preps (I never asked her, and I already knew everything she was telling me) she is just really overstimulating and rude, we had some partners come from a different store and a new partner that transferred and as soon as they left on their first day, (they did amazing btw!) she started talking bad about them and how she could do better if she was a shift!! She constantly acts like she is a ssv even tho she isn’t and we get paid the same!! One of my shifts was shouting me out because I was doing so good for being new and getting better and she didn’t know I had a headset on still and responded to my shoutout w something negative about how slow I am at getting my dishes done (they weren’t even mine, and we were really busy, I was genuinely trying my best, and I told her that multiple times when she was rushing me to do the dishes) 😭 I’m not sure what to do, should I let it sit and just say something to her next time she bothers me? Or should I talk to a shift or my sm because she’s actively talking bad about people behind their backs and complaining about the work they did, or how they didn’t do something perfectly (she always brings up how she could do it better) I’m scared to confront her because she seems very self assured and afraid of criticism and I feel like she would start drama because I said anything. She seems to like to put other’s down to make herself look better. It’s miserable to be around. I just want my workplace to be positive and not hostile!! I genuinely am not trying to even bash her, I just don’t know what to do.