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Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world

Theo @lemmy.world

2mo ago

Starbucks wants a Bachelor's degree for a barista

I guess they want them to start spelling people's names correctly.

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Is this a 3rd party site? Every barista job on Starbucks' actual site says no experience or education required, so I'm pretty sure what's more infuriating is how god awful pretty much every job site has become.
- Indeed app.
  
  Indeed has been trash for years, so that tracks. That's why I've only ever used it to figure out who (maybe) has jobs open and then apply directly - they have so much bad information.
- Yeah Starbucks literally partnered with the Orion homeless youth shelter in Seattle to train teens to be baristas.
  Due to instability during their upbringing, for some of these kids just being able to show up at a certain location at a certain time is a job skill they’re lacking. Yet there’s a little half-Starbucks on site where they can learn that and more.
  
  That’s pretty cool
- Looks like Indeed.
  
  Yeah but which site?

It’s not the degree itself, it’s the debt you incurred to get it, and your consequent lack of negotiating power.
- I mean migration is a real thing, if your country is so broken and backwards that education is privately paid, might as well migrate to a better and more civilized country?
  
  Migration to Europe or Canada is essentially impossible unless you have skills that are in high demand.

Curious to know what their rationale is. You shouldn’t even need a high school diploma to serve overpriced coffee.
- It's not, this isn't from Starbucks. It's just some shitty-arse app that adds this to ~all the listings on it, probably assuming it to be the default.
- From knowing a little about recruiting, if you have a bachelor's degree and apply, they're willing to drop one of their employees who barely finished high school.
  It's not worth it to replace an underperformer with someone else who'll likely underperform. But if you can start with someone you deem "better" because they have a slightly more expensive piece of paper, it's more worth the risk.
  
  I thought conventional wisdom was always that service industry jobs don't really want people with degrees because they're more likely to find something better and jump ship quickly. "Overqualified."
- A degree signals you have a history of satisfactory performance of arbitrary tasks over a prolonged period. It can be a way to get less bad employees, though not necessarily better ones.

a bachelor of latte arts? xD
- Get out! :P

This is next level irony. A coffee shop requiring a gender studies degree.
The CHUDs would have a field day.
- Bachelorx degree lol

Doesn't Starbucks advertise a tuition benefit? Then if you already have a degree, they don't have to worry about that.

Lol, back when I worked at Starbucks, I joked that one day this exact thing would happen. That the education industrial complex would require a bachelor's degree for all jobs, as it would ensure debt and desperation in the vast majority of people who solely wish to survive.
I also claimed back then that we would all live to see the disastrous effects of climate change. No joke, people back then shook their heads and thought me nuts.
My next prediction: the majority of people who are parents today will wish they never made the decision to have kids in the next 20 years. Good luck everybody.
- That's not much of a prediction. I ask every woman I get to know if they regret having kids. If they could just go back, and not do it.
  Some feel bad about saying yes. Some feel like they're bad moms. Or bad people for wishing they never had kids.
  Some happily say "fuck these kids! Ruined my life!"
  Some think about it, and eventually say yes.
  But so far, no one has said no.
  And this is going back to the 90s.
  
  What a weird incel-energy comment to make.
  
  Why are you asking women and not parents?

I'd wager that the "not" symbol in front of it means it's not required
- No if I qualified it would say "bachelor's degree" in green. I only have associates so when they want it, it is green and says matching qualifications. If I click on the orange button, it says you may not have all the qualifications.
  On the indeed app you can filter by qualifications, so this doesn't come up.
  
  Ooh i see, my bad. This is indeed mildly infuriating.
  
  Pretty sure this is a situation where you can just lie with impunity. Is sbucks gonna call up a college and demand records of your fake degree in egyptology?
- It's saying that it doesn't match the job-seekers profile, ie seeker does not meet requirement
- No that's not how LinkedIn works. If a job lists specific qualification tags like that, it marks those tags with symbols and colors them red or green to indicate if your LinkedIn profile has those qualifications listed. Those can be education requirements, certifications, skills, etc. That tag shows that their profile doesn't have a bachelor's degree listed.

This can’t possibly be true, otherwise the college grads that work there do not understand basic English… I order a grande nitro cold brew, add a dash of sweet cream. What do they try to give me? A milk white beverage that is at least half sweet cream. WTF? I want coffee with a splash of cream, not cream with a splash of coffee… Doesn’t anyone like coffee flavored coffee anymore or is it all candy and sugar now? If they really are college grads then thank god they aren’t engineers or doctors.
- They are just terrible at paying attention to what you order.
  
  But… if OP’s assertion is true, how could they possibly obtain a degree in ANYTHING without paying attention? I mean, Mc Donalds drive through minimum wage non educated employees get my order right and these Starbucks “college grads” can’t figure it out? Well, I guess that’s why they work for Starbucks rather than their degree field?
  
  Attention span of 5 seconds
- “… coffee flavoured coffee…” is a phrase I utter quite often - nice to see someone else uses it to.

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