Report: Starbucks "staffing crisis" at the Store Manager level in the DC area

A Starbucks Gossip reader writes: "Apparently there is such a staffing crisis at the SM (Store Manager) level in the DC area that several SMs in the Mid-Atlantic are being recruited to travel down to DC, all expenses paid, for a period of two months to help run the stores until ASMs and RMTs are ready to assume those positions. One of the SMs I know is going." Anyone know about this...