Be nice to your baristas

obligatory shut up and give me my coffee post.
lol i have to say most of what star bucks serves is not coffee to paraphase
dennis leary i want "coffee flavored coffee" "regular" as we say in philly a lil sugar a splash of cream, done.hell i can drink it black too.not downing anyone who works at starbucks. But if it takes more than 30 secs <other than brewing time> to make a cup of coffee ITS NOT COFFEE!!!! starbucks serves imo hot milkshakes where coffee is an ingredient dont belive me? look up the fat content of some of the stuff starbucks serves.

http://www.nbc10.com/health/7099455/detail.html

now give me a large regular
 
Who else loves it when a person asks you "do you take money?"

Bermuda is a prety small island/country. essentially it's like a slightly larget island sized "small town" in America where everyone knows everyone to give ya the idea of how fast news spreads around and how much of an impact everything has on everyone.
A 14 year old girl was raped and murdered last saturday. The entire COUNTRY is in a bad mood. The FRONT PAGE ARTICLE of the newspaper next to the lady has her picture on it. So of course this stupid American lady decides to ask me "Do you have any books on Bermuda murders?" That's what we call being an insensitive bitch.
 
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"If a person in line cant decide what it is they want in the half hour it took to get up to the counter i should be allowed to kill them." Dr. Cox

but i hear you. i work at a Buffalo Wild Wings that shares a parking lot with a movie theater. yesterday i had this table of people come in to our restaurant and get moody with the waitress/bartender cause they were gonna be late for their movie.

We're thinking why the hell would you come to a restaurant when your movie is gonna start soon. they took like 3 bits of their food, payed (no tip), and left. one guy later came back asking if we had boxed up his food for him. he told his asshole friends to let us know he was going to return but they didn't. people that get all pissy with us for things that are their fault gets on our nerves.

Huh, the Bdubs by my work is attached to the movie theater I work near. And I get those people that are going to a movie and are in a rush but half the time they never say anything and right at the end of the meal they're like "Oh and by the way, we're in a hurry to see a movie" shit. Absolutely hate it. That and we get Bdubs overflow for sports games. Like if they get full and are on a wait of like 15 people they come to Bostons Pizza (or BP to you Canadians out there) and think they can get in right away when we have a wait and get bitchy about it. >_<

Oh and that was really sweet what you did for your waitress at Pizza Hut. I wish people like that would come and tip me like that when I've had a really shitty night. XD
 
So of course this stupid American lady decides to ask me "Do you have any books on Bermuda murders?" That's what we call being an insensitive bitch.

i'm so sorry, i apologize for the stupidity of bad american tourists, seriously. i hate that alot of the people who can afford to travel etc are the people who give americans a bad rep!
srsly, do ppl just not think about what they're saying or doing?
 
I had no idea what a barista was until I read the op. I've learned something. Thank you.
 
I work at a Chinese restuarant..and the most annoying thing ever is taking orders over the phone. I pick up the phone and say "hello", but I get interrupted and people start giving me their orders before I have time to find a pen to write stuff down.

Also I hate it when I'm taking their order over the phone..and I have some people waiting in line at the restaurant, and the person over the phone asks "Ok so whats the total on that?
"I don't know it off of the top of my head"

Some expect me to just magically know the prices of all the food. I don't take a menu home to study it, and to be honost I don't even know what half of the food is..and whats in it lol.

Also another pet peeve of working at the restuarent..is when we are getting ready to close at 9. At 9pm we start cleaning up and close the buffet. Then some couple decide they want to eat. So I have to stop what I'm doing cause I'm usually vaccuming, and help these people. -.-
 
Oh and that was really sweet what you did for your waitress at Pizza Hut. I wish people like that would come and tip me like that when I've had a really shitty night. XD

i've been in her shoes may times. i have a feeling that tip was probably more then anyone had given her all day combined given Buffalo's people. I hate this place.
 
I had no idea what a barista was until I read the op. I've learned something. Thank you.


xDxDxD
i'm glad i could help enlighten you. i guess i just assume everybody knows nowadays. in my town it's like... if you don't go to starbucks you're not acceptable in society, so i really need to remember my audience haha.

ps, i'm sure i'll have more rants, cause i'm opening tomorrow! yayy!! 5 AM shift!!!

/fails.
 
You chose to work in a position, a costumer service position, where you know that said costumers are notorious douche bags, then proceed to piss and moan that said costumers are douche bags? That's just... staggering.

On a side note, I hate boxes, the color brown, and shorts. I think I'll go apply for a position at UPS. Wish me luck!
 
I had no idea what a barista was until I read the op. I've learned something. Thank you.

i think it's a bullshit word starbucks made up to sound even more pretentious--

like mac stores calling employees "geniuses".

:crazy:
 
I am so glad that I'm not in the service industry. I miss some of my coworkers and some of the regulars but not asshole customers. Unfortunately most of those jobs are necessary and fit into your schedule when you are going to high school or college. I always found it funny when you had an asshole customer and the people that they were with would rag on them and tell them how stupid they were acting. I had customer who was bitching because her salad was served on a different shaped plate than another table (it was busy and people liked breaking plates for some reason) so her daughters kept looking at me like they felt so bad about it. I felt bad for them if that's all it takes to get their mom mad.

I also hated the guys who seemed to think that since you were waiting on them and nice to them that you wanted to date them. I had one guy tell me all of the sexual things that he wanted to do to me. It happened that my boyfriend at the time was at the table right by him. It was interesting. XD I understand that sometimes the waitress will go out with you but I think most people here could tell whether or not a girl was really interested in them.
 
i think it's a bullshit word starbucks made up to sound even more pretentious--

like mac stores calling employees "geniuses".

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Italian

Noun

barista m. (plural baristi) barista f. (plural bariste)

1. barman (male), barmaid (female), bartender (US)

most of the strange words at starbucks are italian in origin, or at least based off of it. "frappe" (add an accent ague on the e) is an italian word that refers to blended drinks, plus add cappuccino and you get frappuccino! our sizes are structured more like Euro sizes to. but i understand that most people don't care to observe the world references around them, since most ppl are just so damn egocentric that they think if it's not american it belongs elsewhere (insert banjo music)

do some research next time before hurling insults, k? :3
 
do some research next time before hurling insults, k? :3

I could kinda see where you got huffy about Myrrh (not knowing him and all), but I don't understand getting all bent out of shape about Tristam's comment (especially given the tone of this other posts in this thread). He was just making commentary on how pretentious the company itself is in a joking manner. Tristam is a smart fellow, and telling him to do research is probably not the best way to make friends or get sympathy for your poor customer experiences.

Kinda makes it come off, to me anyway, that you are a really defensive person and maybe you are presumptive and defensive like that with customers and that is why you have such a hard time with them.
 
I could kinda see where you got huffy about Myrrh (not knowing him and all), but I don't understand getting all bent out of shape about Tristam's comment (especially given the tone of this other posts in this thread). He was just making commentary on how pretentious the company itself is in a joking manner. Tristam is a smart fellow, and telling him to do research is probably not the best way to make friends or get sympathy for your poor customer experiences.

Kinda makes it come off, to me anyway, that you are a really defensive person and maybe you are presumptive and defensive like that with customers and that is why you have such a hard time with them.

i could just have only been on the forum for like... a week? xD i'm afraid i haven't forumed in a while so i'm out of practice reading ppl's sarcasm on posts :P SORRY TRISTAM!

ya, the starbucks corporate can be really pretentious and it sucks lol. even to it's employees!
argh. sorry again ^_^;;
 
i could just have only been on the forum for like... a week? xD i'm afraid i haven't forumed in a while so i'm out of practice reading ppl's sarcasm on posts :P SORRY TRISTAM!

ya, the starbucks corporate can be really pretentious and it sucks lol. even to it's employees!
argh. sorry again ^_^;;

Yeah don't worry about Tristam. I'm his wife and when he says stuff like he has in this thread he's just joking. He worked in restaurants for like 7 years and I worked in restaurants for 10 years so we know how you feel about customers. It is hard to tell when someone is joking on a forum sometimes. Don't worry he shouldn't be offended. If he is I can kick his butt. ;)
 
I'm very displeased at the lack of service this thread has.
 
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A friend of mine told me Subway employees are hired as "Sandwich Artists".
 
I had one guy tell me all of the sexual things that he wanted to do to me. It happened that my boyfriend at the time was at the table right by him. It was interesting. XD I understand that sometimes the waitress will go out with you but I think most people here could tell whether or not a girl was really interested in them.

I thought I was the boyfriend at the time >.> Because I remember you telling me about an incident just like this once that occurred while I *wasn't* eating there.

Before me probably?

Italian

Noun

barista m. (plural baristi) barista f. (plural bariste)

1. barman (male), barmaid (female), bartender (US)

most of the strange words at starbucks are italian in origin, or at least based off of it. "frappe" (add an accent ague on the e) is an italian word that refers to blended drinks, plus add cappuccino and you get frappuccino! our sizes are structured more like Euro sizes to. but i understand that most people don't care to observe the world references around them, since most ppl are just so damn egocentric that they think if it's not american it belongs elsewhere (insert banjo music)

do some research next time before hurling insults, k? :3

Frappe - from frapper, in the Original French.

Frapper (v.) - to hit, or strike. (in the context of coffee, to "beat the drink until blended")

Instances used: Force de Frappe -- the French Military "Strike Force"

Don't make me frappé you all across the RSI boards :O

Unless...

I could kinda see where you got huffy about Myrrh (not knowing him and all), but I don't understand getting all bent out of shape about Tristam's comment (especially given the tone of this other posts in this thread). He was just making commentary on how pretentious the company itself is in a joking manner. Tristam is a smart fellow, and telling him to do research is probably not the best way to make friends or get sympathy for your poor customer experiences.

Kinda makes it come off, to me anyway, that you are a really defensive person and maybe you are presumptive and defensive like that with customers and that is why you have such a hard time with them.

Oh wait.

i could just have only been on the forum for like... a week? xD i'm afraid i haven't forumed in a while so i'm out of practice reading ppl's sarcasm on posts :P SORRY TRISTAM!

ya, the starbucks corporate can be really pretentious and it sucks lol. even to it's employees!
argh. sorry again ^_^;;

Oops. 'sallright, we don't hafta fight now.

Yeah don't worry about Tristam. I'm his wife and when he says stuff like he has in this thread he's just joking. He worked in restaurants for like 7 years and I worked in restaurants for 10 years so we know how you feel about customers. It is hard to tell when someone is joking on a forum sometimes. Don't worry he shouldn't be offended. If he is I can kick his butt. ;)

*pffaaaahahahahaha* I love you baby :D

You can call me all the bad names you want. I know you want me.

lol asspickle.



Ninjalot edit -- Yeah, I was joking about Starbucks "creating" the word "barista" -- much as anyone thinks that Christmas or Valentine's Day were made up by department stores to boost sales.

However, I do find Starbucks (the entity itself, and *some* of its employees, but not all) to be highly pretentious, and when I'm feeling particularly hoity-toity I'll go drink me some Venti caffé mocha, and order it as an "extra large".

On the other hand, I DO find the Apple Corporation and all its associated employees to be the highest level of pretension (I luff you Lucki if you're watching this!!)
 
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