Has Anyone Ever Worked or Currently Works for Starbucks?

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I have never worked there, but I know a guy who is a manager. Actually, I know his wife! She said he loves it there.

Good luck with your SPED certification! I work in Spec. Ed as well and I love it. Texas has been hit hard with the budget crisis and a lot of school districts have implemented a hiring freeze. Hopefully, that will all be resolved before you finish your degree.

Since we are from the LAND OF PLENTY OF STARBUCKS...being we are home to the headquarters and all...yes, not only I have worked there. My husband, my sister and best friend, not to mention just about half my cousins work at the roaster.

My sister has been a manager for almost seven years. She took over a store up in Alaska when they moved. She is hoping to be the non-traveling DM for Alaska here soon.

My best Friend has never worked anywhere else. He started out as a Bar person. And now works in the accounting department at head quarters.
Over ten years with the company.

My hubby was an assistant manager before he was offered the job where he has been now for a while.

It is a great company to work for. The benefits are great and they are good to their people.

If you are looking for something to do part time...it is a great place to start!!!

Like mamatothreewee... Starbucks land.

How flexible it is depends on your manager (for what shifts you work / position they hire you for), but it's a punch in & punch out kind of shift job (no flexibility on hours. If you start at 3, and get there at 330... someone else doesn't get to go home.. and it's a fireable offense). So you need to make sure that your shifts line up with your classes and daycare. Again, it will ENTIRELY depend on your manager if they are willing to redo the schedule every quarter, or not, depending on when their employees classes are. (Some redo the schedule every quarter in college areas, some the schedule stays the same for YEARS they just hire different people to fill the slots).

Some stores are very high volume (the one I worked at had 3000 customers before 9am M-F, and another 5000+ over the next 12 hours), some are pretty low volume.

The jobs I've *preferred* to have in school w/kids are NOT clock in shift jobs (by and large), but EITHER more flexible admin jobs (I stuck with medadmin, both because that's what I was going to school for, and because they always need people 24/7... so night filing, surgery scheduling, appt scheduling... things where the work needs to be done, but I can do it on my own hours), or jobs where I can study during them, or jobs that are part of my degree program. So they're doing double duty.

For SPED, I would personally consider marketing yourself towards special needs families. Tutoring, therapies, etc. Many of us are MORE than thrilled to hire a student because of the reduced cost ($60 an hour, instead of $150 and hour for example), OR same cost (like tutoring) but with someone who understands the nature of our child's issues. I'd strongly recommend NOT doing childcare, but keeping it on a 1-3 hours a week kind of gig where you come and work with the child at their home. Once a parent starts depending on you for daycare it becomes a HUGE issue if you need to change your schedule, but if you did 10 week sessions, you could not only be
- paid for your time
- work in breaks during finals/your breaks
- put it on your CV

My brother-in-law worked there and loved it. That's all I have about it though.