Hi, all! I've been a barista for a little over a year and a half and I'm scared for my job at the moment 🙃
One of our shifts was coerced into quitting this past Friday by our DM and LP, and my favorite shift just got fired today with the same intervention-style meeting with the same two parties present... This is after we've not had a store manager for almost 3 months until this past week; they fired our old one 2ish months ago and their replacement walked out a week later when they were going to immediately fire them as well...
I'm so angry and sad because these two shifts kept the store afloat during us literally having no real SM! Our proxy and DM spent any time in our store telling us how shitty our store is and that were the worst in our state, even though our customer surveys were always stellar and we haven't scored below a B on a health audit once since I started...
They both got fired right after the markout policy changed, and accused of stealing because of that change (even though things were done properly and these instances happened before the policy amendment). Our DM fired our old SM the same way- for something that happened before we were under their jurisdiction. I'm confused and angry and upset because both of my opening shifts are gone, and they both did THE MOST work at my store point blank period.
The newer DM already joked to our old manager about wanting to fire half the staff and close our store, now I'm paranoid he's making it happen for real.
I'm sorry I just needed to scream into the void real quick because I just hate this gross feeling...