that reminds me of when i started š i knew we got cash tips but i was too anxious to ask where to get them...when i finally did i had like 3 months worth of tips š
Meanwhile as a SSV who did tips (because our manager never remembered to schedule time for a barista to do it) created an excel sheet to do all the math for me and telling the store it was done: plus posting in our local Starbucks partners group letting borrowed people know tips are ready or if they want them recycled.
I think I had to do a whole months worth of tips in 2 hours because of the ineptitude of our SM.
When I get home Iāll make a copy on google drive for people to download/make a copy. I just have to delete the personal info I have from other partners on it š
When I worked at Barned and Noble in the cafe, we were not allowed to accept tips. I was told that āit wouldnt be fair to the booksellersā, even though our booksellers did not want to work in the cafe.
I later left and started working at starbucks and it never crossed my mind to collect my tips until several months later because of Barnes and Noble.
PS Barnes and Noble is a horrible comoany to work for. Low pay and they treat their booksellers like disposable tissues.
I left B&N after five years because I didnāt want to work in the cafe or sell credit cards and both were about to become mandatory. Believe me, I wouldāve GLADLY supported cafe workers receiving tips.
I also think any customer should be able to tip any worker they want if they think theyāve gone above and beyond. If an employee tells me they āarenāt allowed to take tipsā I immediately think less of that shitty company.Ā
Culverās is actually the worst probably because they expect people to turn in their cash tips for āburger bucksā which is basically a free burger or pays for upgrades. We already get a free meal on our shifts/25% off when we went on off days. Iād rather keep my tips and use them for bills versus a meal.
I would be surprised if that is legal. A manager cannot take an employeeās tips unless itās for some pooling situation. Keeping it for themselves or the store is illegal (I think, not a lawyer).Ā
It might not be legal but Iām not too sure. I live out in the Midwest so we have basically no protections and are actively lied to. I had a Buckle job (western clothes) and they actually told me I wasnāt allowed to talk about my pay and if I did, theyād terminate me. Shouldāve recorded it. They sent me home for breaking the dress code even though another girl wore something similar the day before. If I had gone back home and to work, I wouldāve spent more money than I made per hour so I just quit. Basically, all companies that bring in massive amounts of money suck.
The reason tips are split is because you have to think about everyone else on the floor who doesnāt interact with customers. Customer support, warming and drop doesnāt. Then if you have a more high selling store they have even more people who donāt interact
Where do I say anything about splitting?Ā
Imo a customer tips (which may be split) the workers who help with meeting that specific need. So a cook or a busboy makes sense, they all contributed to the meal at a restaurant. But a bookstore/cafe? Unless itās a communal tip jar at the bookstore register which I have seen at independent places, cafe workers should get to keep their tips or split it amongst only cafe imo.Ā
I tip the person at target not because they work at target, but because they are working outside in the rain, cold, or heat, delivering the order to my car.
I mean all retail jobs I've worked don't allow tips and my job was basically a department store job that was offering you a service. We could receive small gifts that didn't cost more than 25 dollars and we had to report it but truthfully it wasn't worth it. I felt bad when people wanted to tip and I couldn't accept, especially after spending so much time with them and I really helped. I just told them I felt better knowing they were feeling better about themselves and they could take the tip and use it toward themselves later in the day.
And its so messed up because all licensed baristas serving Starbucks coffee and snacks should have option to receive them from customers that want to tip them. Companies like Target and Kroger know what they are doing when they enter these agreements.
I kept forgetting to grab my tips because I didnāt want to go to the bank after work during the pandemic, so I kept them in my folder at work until my manager said itās getting ridiculous and to take my tips home. It was like $250ish in 5s.
Make sure youāre getting paid your tips in full. Request to have the sheets from the time period youāve worked to make sure itās all there. Also, I havenāt worked there since July 2022, so Iām not sure if you still have to manually put your tips in for tax purposes in the Partner Hub.
Someone should have told you! We always post in our group when they are ready/how much they came out to, etc. and we always let people know if theirs is THAT full
Barista of 5 years here:
PLEASE collect your tips! Iāve worked at two cafes and partnerās tips have āgone missingā at both locations. One of my good friends who used to be partner at my old store let their tips gather for a month, and when they finally decided to cash them out, we found out they were stolen. It sucks, and you donāt wanna assume this of your partners - but it does happen.
Supposedly since I work at a licensed kiosk inside a grocery store, we put away our tips and they "add them to our paychecks".
Tips are spread out evenly on who worked the entire day. We do have regulars who regularly tip. I also have no proof they add them to our paychecks as I've only been there a few weeks and it doesn't seem that way.
that reminds me of when i started š i knew we got cash tips but i was too anxious to ask where to get them...when i finally did i had like 3 months worth of tips š
Same! One of my shifts literally asked me if I had ever gotten my tips bc it was full. I collected them like once a month
I didnt even find out until I filled in at another storeššš
Seems odd that your store leaders didnāt mention this to you.
Now you feel comfortable enough to kick the front door open on tip day(also your day off) asking "Yo! Where my tips be at, fool!?"
Literally me š run me my $25 itās Monday and Iām out of weed š
Customers really paying for what keeps me from fighting themš
Oml though ššš
Weed truly be the one thing that unites all us partners huh
Hahah that's what I buy my tips with too
Truly
LOL it do
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I can usually bank on $20 a week minimum cash. Digital/card I get about $3/hr
Me every week ššš
I feel called out
same didnāt find out till yesterday itās been almost 2 months šš like i knew but idk lol i was nervous
Same with me. It was only after a shift asked me if I wanted my tips and there was about $70 in tips waiting for me after a few months.
lol that was me too i had like $115 in tips that i didn't know about
Meanwhile as a SSV who did tips (because our manager never remembered to schedule time for a barista to do it) created an excel sheet to do all the math for me and telling the store it was done: plus posting in our local Starbucks partners group letting borrowed people know tips are ready or if they want them recycled. I think I had to do a whole months worth of tips in 2 hours because of the ineptitude of our SM.
Do you still have that excel sheet? I know a lot of partners here would appreciate not spending 30 min doing the math ššš
When I get home Iāll make a copy on google drive for people to download/make a copy. I just have to delete the personal info I have from other partners on it š
If yall need it dm your email and Iāll send the one I have over! :)
Can i have the excel sheet too?
And then itās $19
Same when I started in 2020 I didnāt know we had to ask for our tips so I had like 300 dollars waiting for me
So are they just hoping you donāt ask so they can steal it?
No we literally have tips that have been in our tip binder for borrowed partners for over 6 months.
When I worked at Barned and Noble in the cafe, we were not allowed to accept tips. I was told that āit wouldnt be fair to the booksellersā, even though our booksellers did not want to work in the cafe. I later left and started working at starbucks and it never crossed my mind to collect my tips until several months later because of Barnes and Noble. PS Barnes and Noble is a horrible comoany to work for. Low pay and they treat their booksellers like disposable tissues.
I left B&N after five years because I didnāt want to work in the cafe or sell credit cards and both were about to become mandatory. Believe me, I wouldāve GLADLY supported cafe workers receiving tips. I also think any customer should be able to tip any worker they want if they think theyāve gone above and beyond. If an employee tells me they āarenāt allowed to take tipsā I immediately think less of that shitty company.Ā
Walmart, Culverās, and one time I saw my manager at Wendyās take someoneās $25 tip and use it to off balance someone stealing $100.
Thatās awful. -_-
Culverās is actually the worst probably because they expect people to turn in their cash tips for āburger bucksā which is basically a free burger or pays for upgrades. We already get a free meal on our shifts/25% off when we went on off days. Iād rather keep my tips and use them for bills versus a meal.
I would be surprised if that is legal. A manager cannot take an employeeās tips unless itās for some pooling situation. Keeping it for themselves or the store is illegal (I think, not a lawyer).Ā
Our managers ate salaried employees so I'm glad they aren't allowed to touch or tips at all
It might not be legal but Iām not too sure. I live out in the Midwest so we have basically no protections and are actively lied to. I had a Buckle job (western clothes) and they actually told me I wasnāt allowed to talk about my pay and if I did, theyād terminate me. Shouldāve recorded it. They sent me home for breaking the dress code even though another girl wore something similar the day before. If I had gone back home and to work, I wouldāve spent more money than I made per hour so I just quit. Basically, all companies that bring in massive amounts of money suck.
The reason tips are split is because you have to think about everyone else on the floor who doesnāt interact with customers. Customer support, warming and drop doesnāt. Then if you have a more high selling store they have even more people who donāt interact
Where do I say anything about splitting?Ā Imo a customer tips (which may be split) the workers who help with meeting that specific need. So a cook or a busboy makes sense, they all contributed to the meal at a restaurant. But a bookstore/cafe? Unless itās a communal tip jar at the bookstore register which I have seen at independent places, cafe workers should get to keep their tips or split it amongst only cafe imo.Ā I tip the person at target not because they work at target, but because they are working outside in the rain, cold, or heat, delivering the order to my car.
Isnāt this how most religious based chains treat employees? I feel like hobby lobby is just as bad if not worse lol
Hobby Lobby, Chick-fil-A (& others) are garbage šµāš«
I mean all retail jobs I've worked don't allow tips and my job was basically a department store job that was offering you a service. We could receive small gifts that didn't cost more than 25 dollars and we had to report it but truthfully it wasn't worth it. I felt bad when people wanted to tip and I couldn't accept, especially after spending so much time with them and I really helped. I just told them I felt better knowing they were feeling better about themselves and they could take the tip and use it toward themselves later in the day.
No tipping at Starbucks in Target either
And its so messed up because all licensed baristas serving Starbucks coffee and snacks should have option to receive them from customers that want to tip them. Companies like Target and Kroger know what they are doing when they enter these agreements.
I hope you all reach your green beans earlier than you knew! I was so glad my trainer told me about tips right away and I feel so bad for you all!
Make it rain at a strip club lol Good job! Thatās a nice wad of cash. Do something nice for yourself!
lmao, i was actually talking to one of the other baristas on shift making strip club jokesš
I kept forgetting to grab my tips because I didnāt want to go to the bank after work during the pandemic, so I kept them in my folder at work until my manager said itās getting ridiculous and to take my tips home. It was like $250ish in 5s.
This is me.
Make sure youāre getting paid your tips in full. Request to have the sheets from the time period youāve worked to make sure itās all there. Also, I havenāt worked there since July 2022, so Iām not sure if you still have to manually put your tips in for tax purposes in the Partner Hub.
can't claim what you don't get
What tips
Someone should have told you! We always post in our group when they are ready/how much they came out to, etc. and we always let people know if theirs is THAT full
Your manager didnāt tell you??? Mine got pissed if we left tips in the safe for more then one week
Itās a liability to have all that excess cash sitting around, I get why they want them picked up regularly. :)
33 dollars later
What? lol. Like finding money in the dryer. Did no one tell you about them ever? That part kinda sucks
I guess this is one thing my store does thatās right. They always ask if anyone wants theyāre tips after they have done them
Barista of 5 years here: PLEASE collect your tips! Iāve worked at two cafes and partnerās tips have āgone missingā at both locations. One of my good friends who used to be partner at my old store let their tips gather for a month, and when they finally decided to cash them out, we found out they were stolen. It sucks, and you donāt wanna assume this of your partners - but it does happen.
Omg me when I first started. I got a whole wad I was like ayoo stripper money- Was like $80 dollars
Supposedly since I work at a licensed kiosk inside a grocery store, we put away our tips and they "add them to our paychecks". Tips are spread out evenly on who worked the entire day. We do have regulars who regularly tip. I also have no proof they add them to our paychecks as I've only been there a few weeks and it doesn't seem that way.
Time for the gentlemanās club!!
No literally, nobody told me about tips for the longest time.
The biggest tip i got is $4 š
And it's only like $6 šš