According to two reports in the Starbucks subreddit, there is apparently a new TikTok trend picking up that could potentially cost employees their jobs.
Editors who identified themselves as Starbucks employees shared warnings about how TikTokers began asking for receipts after finding out that Starbucks partner numbers (employee ID numbers) were printed on top of receipts to keep track of who it was in the account for which transaction.
However, TikTok users have reported that the partner numbers can be used by Starbucks employees to get discounts, free food and drinks from employees. Both reports suggested that people took advantage of the discovery and pretended to be Starbucks partners to get only perks employees.
A Know spoke to someone who said she was an employee at a Starbucks location in Flagstaff, Ariz. Who wants to remain anonymous. They were trying to find out about the trend when a colleague of theirs saw it on TikTok. The TikTok has since been deleted.
“I have certainly noticed some people who claimed to be partners but did not work one day in their lives,” the employee told In The Know. “Corporate has a whole group [that] monitor partner numbers and if you use them too much when they are in different locations each time … they will fire you. “
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Not only is the suspected TikTok trend an attempt at personalization and theft, but employee jobs can also be a risk if TikTok users take full advantage.
“This Tik Tok challenge is real, and is designed to get us fired,” claims one of the original posts.
“Someone did this with the partner numbers of someone at my store, AT OUR STORE,” a Reddit user shared in response. “We caught them about a week later in another store in the neighborhood and tried to do the same thing.”
The Flagstaff employee said that although she heard rumors about companies making a change to the point of sale (POS) systems (the Starbucks checkout) to not print out a full partner number, her manager had not said anything since she was aware were made of the TikTok trend.
Comments on the Reddit posts pointed out that using a Sharpie on the receipt paper does not actually make the numbers readable.
When In The Know reached Starbucks about the trend, a representative responded with: “To get the partner (employee) discount, a partner must present their current Partner Card on the Point of Sale (POS) register in the participating company. store. “
But according to a 2014 post by Starbucks, the company implemented a “digital partner card” plan where employees could “opt-in” to order a physical card that would take two weeks to deliver to them. Otherwise, everything would be online and all employees in stores would need their 16-digit number.
Other posters on the Starbucks subreddit said that it is technical policy to show government ID when presenting partner numbers – although In The Know could not find this rule explicitly in the available Starbucks policies and manuals online – but that states a another problem. Trans employees may not necessarily have mentioned the same name on their driver’s license as they do under their partner number.
This is not the first time that employees of Starbucks and TikTok trends have collided.
“When [it] comes to TikTok drinks, they are the bay of my existence, ”said the employee of Flagstaff In The Know. ‘We had people in the middle of a hurry, driving through the speaker box to show us a video instead of knowing what was inside [the drink] in advance. ”
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