You guys are making me sound well behaved. Wow.
I could write a LONG list, but I would say the worst is that I just really don't care about any of the rules, or about getting caught doing anything. I take revenge all the time and will even give regular to people who want decaf.
I just don't care, I leave with half the rtde case at the end of the night.
yesterday I was really **** off so I was in the back room washing dishes and I accidentally knocked over a stack of 8 "for here" mugs....except it wasn't an accident :]
Hahaha, oh man, if I drop anything, food, cups/lids blenders/pitchers it gets picked right back up and not washed.
Poke holes into straws...it's the funniest thing to see someone trying to drinking their nasty iced drink
this thread makes me laugh everytime i read it.
^^^ for real. i think ive read it 3 times. makes me feel like such a good person. the most i do is put back fallen lids, dishes, etc. decaf shots for people, and just random acts of rebellion and spite
Geeez,
Ya'll make me feel like a ****. Especially you guys **** all your managers, and outright jacking Starbucks. I thought I was such a **** for being a **** to customers. Aside from stink palming this old guy's drink once, and barely following any rules, I'm a **** model employee compared to some of you misfits. Once some dude threatened me when we were closing on a Saturday night. He got all **** cause we were about to close and he wanted a drink. I told him we just dumped the coffee, etc, etc. I'm paraphrasing but he basically said I was a f'n liar and he knew who I was and he was gonna bring some of his boys down to whoop my ****. I laughed and told him he and his friends needed to get some **** and stop **** me. The manager on duty wanted to call the police, but I explicitly told her, whatever you do don't call the police, they're not gonna do anything, I'll handle it. When it was time to go, I had a tray full of 4 steaming venti cups of hot water just in case. Of course he **** out cause lets face it, he's a Starbucks customer. So, just giving the people **** back is about it. Sadly I have long way to go to catch up with you **** ;-)
When I would close, I would finish early, not clock out, go to the bar right next door, hang out for an hour, come back in the store and clock out drunk. So we essentially got paid overtime to drink.
Another was take some strong medicinal brownies and work.
I spit into someones drink one time because he was complaining to my manager about my co-worker.
Reading all of these before I go into work makes my day....
There was a semi-regular customer I REALLY hated, and she was absolutely tearing apart the new barista on till. When she demanded her usual Venti nonfat Caramel Macchiato with Extra whip and a Chocolate Chip cookie, I 'kindly' offered to grab the cookie for her, knowing it was the last plate. In the process - "Oopsie Daisy!", there goes the entire plate of cookies on the floor.
"Sorry, we're all out!"
yesterday was my last day. i poured peppermint into everything. all the syrups, chai, wm, coffee base, frap bases, i mean everything. and i also mixed in a bunch of matcha to the mocha.
lol, that's great!!!! i hate peppermint, it's so strong. and i wonder what everyone's mochas are gonna taste like with that nasty matcha **** in it?! hahaha!
I was super bored one day and I tried every syrup, sauce and powder in one cup. The matcha and peppermint overpowered everything. They're in for a treat.
hmm... i wonder what a couple of thawed out bananas would do in the bean hopper... pulling a few banana shots on a close.
i don't think i could do that though, it would probably destroy a $12k espresso machine.
becca, i tried all the syrups and stuff one day too. my manager said i could have two extra breaks for whenever, and we were so slow. so i did it ha.
i was late one morning, so i got out of that instead of the extra breaks. some good bargaining.
Certainly not the craziest, but definetly one of the dumbest things I've done...
I had been working at Sbux for like, a few months maybe? This was when we first got Banannas for the stupid Vivannos. So, one day another Barista and I decided we wanted Bananna Lattes. You guessed it. We tried to steam a Bananna...
We blended it into pure liquid first, then tried to steam it with some milk. It started scorching, curdling and turning brown. It smelled AWFUL. We had to throw the pitcher away. The steam wand we used was clogged for three days. My manager got SO ANGRY! She never found out it was us. We laughed alot about it. It was awesome :)
At my old store, my manager was getting annoyed that we were clocking out really early at the end of closing shifts. Her response was that we should do deep cleaning instead of clocking out early. Please... So we would finish our tasks and smoke joints in the bathroom until 10:45.
Lets see...
-I decaf and use tar, black shots.
-I take expired breakfast sandwiches, pastries and R.T.E./R.T.D. food.
-My saliva has ended up in a number of drinks of real, REAL ****-customers.
-I'll pour a full bullet of espresso beans into the Mastrena and use my bare hands to sift the beans around. (In front of the customers.)
-I transfer sandwiches from the wrapper to the oven-paper with my bare hands.
-The only time I ever really wash my hands is when I return from the bathroom.
-I blend drinks together.
-If the customer is an **** and had ordered decaf, I give them regular.
-I resteam the same milk over and over and over and over again in the same unrinsed pitcher. The only time I use another pitcher is when it's soy.
-Right before I put a loaf cake into a pastry bag, I lightly squeeze it with my bare fingers to make sure it's not stale for the customer so I don't have to hear bitching.
-I've accidentally sprayed a little bit of Spirit into a customer's drink and let it go. I've also dropped a milk cap into a Caramel Macchiato and sent it out.
-I **** a shift. She also sucked my **** in the parking lot before my shift. A week later, I had a threesome with her and another coworker.
-I set the coffee timers for two hours when it's slow.
-I secretly filmed my b!tchy, old manager due to her obvious eating problem so I could show all my friends what a beast she was.
-I clean the toilets by running the mop over them.
-I drop countless amounts of drinks into the ice bin and still use the ice for other beverages.
-Latte doesn't have enough milk and I don't have any steamed? It gets hot water.
-The woman demanded I remake her Macchiato because she found a black fuzz near the mouth piece. I walked away, scooted the fuzz INTO the mouth piece, and returned the drink to her.
-I've given out ice waters knowing the ice bin was filled with those little, wooden remnants that come from the sleeves that had blown in there one, windy day.
-Made out with a coworker in the back room.
-Constantly dropping things like tongs, caramel bottles, etc. and still using them without sanitation.
-Jam my fingers into the cup of the **** who always says, 'And keep your fingers out of my cup. I don't want any diseases you have.'
-It's 2:30p.m. "I want BOLD!" You get Pike with an add shot.
-It's 2:30p.m. "I want DECAF!" You get a decaf Americano.
-I wipe down the entire Mastrena INCLUDING the steam wand with hours-old, cold, dark sanitizer.
use someone as a proxy when selling sbux stuff that isn't paid for or sellable,they have a whole dept. dedicated to finding partners selling sbux product online. you've been warned
^keep them coming I love this thread
those stupid **** bananas get soggy as **** and i happened to drop one on the ground once... oh oops, look around, nobody there.. pick it up and put it right back in the pitcher. 5 second rule.
whenenver i steam soy i never have enough so i always scoop on like 3 inches of foam and once somebody from another starbucks ordered some complicated as **** drink with soy and she watched me make it.. oops sorry you **** maybe next time make it easier for us and i wont give you half a cup of foam.
I haven't done anything too terrible because my coworkers are so amazing that usually when customers are total **** heads we just make fun of them in the back room. But some of these things I do regularly and didn't even think they were bad.
-I definitely clean the entire bathroom with the mop. **** no I am not touching that **** disgusting toilet, not with some of the things I've seen in that bathroom. Human waste all over the floor, hypodermic needles, condoms, soiled underwear, I'm just waiting for the day I find someone's regurgitated gall bladder in the toilet. No one at my work will use the restroom- if we need a bathroom break, our shifts let us go next door. I also wipe the walls down with the mop. While wearing gloves.
-The beans in my bean hopper are usually half decaf anyway. I can't seem to pour decaf into the little cup without spilling half of it out.
-I don't think I've emptied a shuttle to brew fresh coffee in about seven months.
- I will not even go into the havoc I wreak on the BRR.
- Everything I make from two P.M. onward expires at close the next day.
- If someone is rude to me, I can brush it off. But if someone is rude to my coworker at the register, who I can hear trying to be as sweet and helpful as possible, they are getting a scorching hot cup of burned milk and expired decaf shots.
- We run out of milk at our store almost every night. If you come in past 4 p.m., your "2%" latte is either half half-and-half and half nonfat, or half whole milk half nonfat, or entirely nonfat, whichever is more convenient for me. Hell, sometimes it's all whole milk, I don't give a ****.
- I don't even know what I'm brewing half the time when I close. Pike, bold, it's entirely the same- and not one person has ever complained about their oh-so-selective taste buds not getting the right flavor.
-Once when a customer was really annoying me, I told them a long, elaborate story about how my boyfriend is a Latin King who just got out of prison for assault. In actuality, he's a white boy from Santa Cruz.
-If you, you disgusting, dirty old man, give me even the tiniest hint of a lecherous glance. If you ask me for my number AGAIN. If you touch me for any reason. If you make comments about my body or the way I look, complimentary or otherwise, you get coffee from the pervert shuttle. That is the shuttle that I leave with just a few ounces of coffee in it from five hours ago just for you.
I miss the opera playlist. Before closing I would blast it and turn the air conditioner on to get everyone to leave.
When someone asks if I can turn the music down because they're trying to work I crank it as loud as it can go before turning it down. Woopsies, wrong way.
Someone asks if I can turn the air/heat on or off, I pretend to walk over and adjust it and give them a thumbs up. But sorry, I'm the one bustin' my **** and I will program the thermostat to a setting that is comfortable for me. If it's busy I just tell the customer corporate controls the climate of all their stores and there's no way to adjust it from individual stores.
We sharpened stir sticks into pointy stakes and taped them along all our plexis so customers wouldn't get grabby with our lids.
WHEN I WAS AT MY OLD STORE ON MY LAST DAY BEFORE I TRANSFERED TO ANOTHER BUX. I WAS OFFERED TO HAVE SEX BY ONE OF MY CO WORKERS IN THE BACK ROOM. IT WAS A SUNDAY NIGHT AND WE HAD ABOUT FOUR PEOPLE WORKING THERE THAT NIGHT. IT WAS PRETTY DEAD AND I DIDN'T CARE. I TOLD EVERYONE I WAS MAKING A PHONE CALL TO CORPORATE AND NOT TO BE DISTURBED. 20 MINUTES LATER..... YOU DO THE MATH
I also tell every customer that inquires about the gingerbread loaf that there are 56 grams of sugar in each slice. I don't want to end up having to carry customers drinks out to their tables because their feet have fallen off from diabetes.
SAME THING AS NONFAT NO WHIP... BUT CAN YOU TAKE THE TOP OFF THE CARMEL DRIZZLE BOTTLE AND POUR SOME ON THE BOTTOM, THE SIDES, THE TOP.....OH JUST POUR IT DOWN MY THROAT
I guess to have sex in it one would have to have a back room bigger than the Keebler Elves' glove box, which we don't...
It'd also require a coworker you'd want to get near enough, too. And I don't mean like, standing uncomfortably close. I'm talkin' Herpway to the Danger Zone, here, Goose.
I wasn't too crazy but my store was a licensed one so we seemed to get away with more things
-my MANAGER would insist on brewing decaf pike if we were out of regular pike
-i'd use the same pitcher with the same milk getting resteamed
-took a ton of pastries or expired anything home all the time, same with most other people who worked there
-we'd keep certain pastries out for way longer than they should have been.. example: CUPCAKES! we'd keep them out for a week or until we sold them (days upon days), and no customer ever complained. makes you wonder what's in those cupcakes
-i stole A LOT. my manager doesn't know how to manage payroll at all, everyone always had so many missing hours and he'd show up to work half the time. so I thought it'd be nice to compensate for my slavery by just regularly taking all sorts of wonderful things. Beans, teas, bags upon bags of matcha powder, things like tins of mints, gum, chocolate bars, bottled beverages (especially tons of all those smoothies and juices), bags of ice coffee, even new cleaning supplies or garbage bags. I never stole money though, starbucks junk is just easier to get away with since we never properly kept track of what we had. this really makes me sound like a cheap bum but i'm a college student, I gotta survive somehow. ;)
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