I'm gonna apologize in advance because this is incredibly long and all over the place....I've been a TL for 2 years..Sbux trained for 4. I am a certified AST, Coffee Master, signed off for barista championships (unfortunately Target didnt participate), won Store Team of the Quarter last quarter. 11% capture rate, been comping up sales since I've been here. Thats just so noone thinks I'm inexperienced or don't know what I'm doing. I leave my store in a month to open a brand new Flex store closer to home. This is the first flex store in my area so it is big for our district! My STL and ETL HR have known about this since around May when I went for interviews and I told them way back we needed to hire to back fill for back to school. We were already down a tm at this time but "payroll" was a problem. My sbux dm even said hiring should be top priority. My ETL HR wouldn't let me take any applicants back then and said we would come sept/aug qhen we did the whole store. I voiced my concerns and let him know Starbucks was incredibly difficult to hire for in our location and we will end up way understaffed (we were already down one) and I was told I" was overreacting". Fast forward to August..we are in Q4 here. I am down to 3 team members and 215 hours I can't fill. We are way uncompliant with Starbucks. First they tell me no OT is approved and our Target DM said to close early or cut where we can. I tell my HR team that is a compliance issue with SBUX...nothing happens. My team is stressed to the point my AST is found sobbing behind SBUX, and another seasonal tm who was with us 10yrs prior and was signed off for TL..clocks out her 3rd to last shift and tells me "It's nothing on you and I hope it doesnt ruin our relationship, but I cannot come back". I am stressed tf out and end up tearing up in my ET HRLs office..the same one who calls me TL Sensitive, that has shut the door in my face and has told me to jump off a cliff. He tells me he doesn't want HR anymore but needs the experience. I don't think there are any happy leadership in this store. I have lost my weekends off and my vacation time and I have gotten no support from my leadership team. I've been working 50 hour weeks and havent even gotten a hey thanks for doing this or anything. Our DM recommended we change our DOB sign to "We're Hiring!" Totally unbrand...but you gotta do what you gotta do &that is how bad it is. I personally made Target Starbucks Flyers to hand out, called up old team members to see if they needed some hours between there "real life" jobs and even chalked up extra signage by the doors that we are hiring, I reached out to the 3 closest stores in the district. I've written all the schedules even though it's not in my job description (Hell I dont even have access!) The one week I was doing all mass hires and wasnt in store. my hr tl tried to edit what mytime populated to add me on other mass hires and my STL got annoyed with her for touching the schedule....so I had to rewrite the schedule a week after it already posted. Again, my leadership and HR team have done NOTHING (my ETL sent one email to the district after I already reached out to half the stores). I have been caught between 2 stores now between mass hires and dealing with understaffing. I leave in a month and this still hasn't been announced to the store, the backfill they chose to fill tl is both a conflict of interest with current tms, and cannot handle guests/gets overwhelmed easily. They are well aware of some of these issues I can't get into but chose her anyways..and I'm asked to train her for a week. I told them get me tms, and I have no problem training. But I cannot set someone up for failure like that. I've been told 4x now OT is approved, OT isnt approved, OT is approved...I'm surprised none of my tms have called the hotline. I just don't know what to do at this point but let my SBUX DM know during our PPV visit. It's just hard when the ETL that's supposed to be supporting you is sitting next to you..claiming everything's fine. Any advice/opinions I'll consider anything. Everyone is telling me it's not my problem anymore and to only worry about the new store but I'm stuck here for a month! And It's not like I can walk out. I'm about to just schedule myself time off for a vacation lol