My store was empty today except for two people making out right in the middle of the room. They looked like they were about to drop down on the floor and go at it, but then they left.
Stop making out in my store!
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Posted 2 years ago #
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PICS OR IT DIDN'T HAPPEN. Speaking of which, we should have a gentlemen's bet to see who could post the most ridonkadonk work photo of themselves. Currently, a few exist somewhere of me as a box robot.
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I see this every now and then. We have chairs over in a corner and they like to sit together and get down. That would probably be the last thing on my mind to do in a Starbucks. I say more power to'em. I don't give a ****.
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Hmm, I had a couple like this the other day. Really nice Mexican dude (decent tipper) and his chica, who was just trying way too hard to show her excitement at celebrating payday with a couple mocha frappuccino's. I narrowly avoided being entangled in their near-critical mass on my way to temp a carafe.
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..temp a carafe? You guise on an ecosure scare or are you just THAT ANAL, GOOD BARON?!
I should start doing that. My original store used timers; this one, we just guess. I generally snag a smokebreak every two hours or so, so I always change out the carafes then, and our customers being herpaderps and always wanting smaller enlargers (but I mean, with that ole Pike's Peak action, who can blame them amirite), the half-and-half carafe's replaced usually once every half hour to 45 minutes minutes anyway.
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zomg senor photos <3
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We just use day dot stickers, busy as we are a lobby slide usually happens about every 4 hours anyway ;o
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This couple used to come into our store and make out like they were at the junior prom. Like, full on necking. We also noticed that she wore a ring and he didn't. They also brought their own food and the one time he ordered something, he yelled at the cashier. I don't see them anymore (thank god), but she comes in in the mornings and actually buys a drink.
We never have time to temp carafes. If we can get to the milk before it runs out (causing the customer to go up to the bar, wave the empty carafe in my face and say, "UM . . . I THINK YOU'RE OUT OF MILK! WHERE CAN I GET SOME MILK AROUND HERE? THIS SEEMS TO BE EMPTY!"), then we count ourselves lucky.
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You know what pisses me off on a daily basis? Regardless of where I am (bar or register) the a-hole wanting a new carafe always brings it to ME!!!! I could be mad busy on bar and the other partners are goofing off on the side and they make me stop what I'm going and get it for them. Really customer, REALLY?
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^ Effing dolts. "MORE HALF AND HALF" People don't even say please.
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We're on an extended Ecosure scare. They seem to like to hold it over our heads. Seriously, we'll start getting warnings from the DM that our audit window has rolled around, and X number of stores in our area got audited today, etc, but it always seems to take at least 6-9 months before they actually show. So the partners who do well during the "ecosure scare" have let down their guard by the time the lady in the blue shirt actually shows up. At first the more dependable folks will try to do everything by the book, then they start to question the very existence of the Ecosure lady, and decide they'll just do things the way they want, and scramble for sanitizer, towels, carafes, etc when they see her about to walk in the door. Having witnessed two audits where this approach was tried, I can assure you that it is Not A Good Idea (tm).
We did miserably on our last audit. I was at the store but off the clock. I almost felt kind of bad for the shift. She was normally a closer and had decided somewhere along the line that since she almost never works before 7pm, she just doesn't have to follow the QASA stuff. Wouldn't you know it, her first mid shift in months, Ecosure shows up. I didn't feel too bad, though, because I had spent the past few months trying to educate her on how to handle QASA, but when they showed up, all she did was panic and freeze like a deer in the headlights. That was our last audit, and we did terribly. Our DM has done her best to give us the impression they could walk in at any moment ever since.
It's not that I'm quite this anal by nature, but it's part of my job. I get really anxious about being the one on the clock when they come, even though I'm not a shift so I should be immune from any action. So the only way for me to calm down a bit is to just follow the rules to the best of my abilities, all the time (it's almost impossible to do it all perfectly, but I think I come close). I can't rely on warnings from other stores, because they've always turned out to be false positives, and I've never gotten a warning on the day they actually came.
It gets hot where I live, and on a warm day the carafes only last about 30-35 minutes. It's always funny when customers see me temping and ask what I'm doing, since they've clearly never seen it done before. When I explain the procedure, I usually get a look of disbelief.
I seriously have gotten some grey hairs over Ecosure. At least with my current approach, if we fail an audit, I can wash my hands of it (haha) knowing I did my best to help us pass. I will admit though, all the other baristas were hating me for it at one point. They came around to my way of seeing things a little after our last failed audit, but it's still a source of tension. Nowadays I just try to keep my sector policed, and let the others worry about theirs.
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The partners and shifts are my (now former) store would get all up in arms about having to actually work. We kept failing ecosure, and finally the DM sent over a different store manager to go over things with some people. He's very type A and half the staff made fun of him behind his back. Yet, they don't realize that they have it really good, and should the SM ever get fired due to ecosure and a few other things, then the new SM is going to be said "Brown noser" or someone exactly like him. And the first thing he's gonna do is fire everyone.
So, it might be a good idea to do things like clean up and sweep and check the temperature. If only just because you like having a job.
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This thread derailed, my next plan of action now that I actually woke up to a brand new day or whatevz, is to just make out with the Ecosure lady in order to pass.
My store is remarkably clean, but that's only won through blood, sweat, and tears, since nine times out of ten we're on two-part coverage. Not THE busiest location of the district, but when it comes time for sillyassed promotions like Happy Hour, treat receipts, BOGOs or anything else like any random holiday throughout the year, we get slammed. Summer, also, is slam season. Yet somehow we still do it with two-part. That probably sums up why we're so bitter and exhausted.
But back to making out. I find it wholly uncomfortable when customers make out in my store, because why should THEY get their freak on in such a place of sorrow when my only option is the girlfriend I made out of sleeve boxes, mopheads, and shop towels that lives in the mopsink. .. oh, my sweet.. and that mopsink is just so far away..
Posted 2 years ago # -
So that's where Moperella ran off too. Don't believe her sweet nothings; she's a dirty dirty girl and will mop the floor with your heart if you let her.
Posted 2 years ago # -
I don't get people who like to make out in public as it is. Sure, I've gone on dates, and we kissed right before we had to part, and yes, it was in public, but we weren't "OMG, we're in Starbucks! This frappuccino is making me SO HORNY! STICK IT IN!" (like, one time, this girl on the subway was grabbing her boyfriend's **** over his pants and stroking him. If I had been sitting next to them, I would have probably grabbed his balls and squeezed and made sure everyone on the train knew what a **** she was. Cause I'm like that. ^_^)
Posted 2 years ago # -
Thankfully, none of our seating area is in view from behind the counter, so if people are making out/painting the tables with nail polish and blood/urinating on our plush armchairs, I know nothing of it until I trudge up the stairs with rag in hand to undo the damage of the last 3 hours or so. There used to be this adorable couple that would come in every once in awhile and play WoW on their laptops together. Also pretty sure I caught them eskimo-kissing. Adorbs.
And senor, I'm on my way to ease the sorrows of your troubled, lonely heart <3
Posted 2 years ago # -
Moperella was disassembled by Cintas again. I am displeased. HOWEVER, Eskimo-kissing is just plain fun, dolly. Future reference!! ALSO SUPZ YOU SURVIVED THE FRAPPUGEDDEON (for this i am most very glad (i uh, am missing a few parts after sunday)).
Off topic here, I found some weird site where some guy who only calls himself 'Winter' for whatever silly reason has been traversing the globe visiting (or atleast taking a picture of the exterior of) every Starbucks in the nation. Mine is totes on there.
http://www.starbuckseverywhere.net is the silly site.
Posted 2 years ago # -
Under his goals section:
"having as much sex as humanly possible"lol
Posted 2 years ago # -
Truly a lofty purpose. Also visiting EVERY STARBUCKS EVAR. /sarcasm
Atleast, though, he gets to travel; since this job is so frickin' demanding of one's time I rarely get to leave Fort Foamy, especially considering how little paid vacation we get.
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lol, mine's on there too. It's an old picture from right after the store opened, perhaps a year prior to me working there. Winter looks very familiar; I have to wonder if he's been back since.
This reminds me of the partner who, for whatever reason, decided he wanted to work a shift in every State. He wrote a letter to Father Howard (this was shortly after the latter's reinstatement as Our Fearless Leader), who encouraged him to do so and put him in touch with the Right People. They chose my store to represent our State. As I recall, and this was a couple of years ago, he clocked in, was put on a register for about an hour or two, clocked out, and presumably marked another notch on whatever object he was notching.
I'm really in the dark as to these people's motivations. Oh well. Maybe I'm just a little jealous that they get to travel and see interesting places, yet squander their time at Starbucks instead of seeing the unique local sights.
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What's certain is that whenever I'm not in this hole and actually abroad, I'll completely skip over my partner discount and try to find a local coffee shop. It never fails to annoy me that there aren't any around here; Christ, I'd work at one in an instant.
Posted 2 years ago # -
http://winterene.livejournal.com/369645.html
Just gonna put that there.
Posted 2 years ago # -
Craigslist didn't eliminate adult ads. He just has to post it in the dating/hook up section and skirt around the issue of him paying for coffee services. (I know way too much about this subject. . .)
Posted 2 years ago # -
So that's the real purpose behind this guy's asinine quest. I didn't bother to read any of his personal stuff and really only looked at what stores look like in, you know, civilized countries, like England and Ireland.
I uh. .. certainly wouldn't want Pike Place poured on my tacklebox.
Posted 2 years ago # -
Oh, he's from Houston (I'm from there). That's. . . cute. Also, the whole "I've stood up against people talking bad about gays and lesbians BUT I'M NOT GAY! TOTALLY NOT GAY! I LIKE **** AND BOOB, SRSLY!!!"
Posted 2 years ago # -
. . . why is gay censored when it's capitalized?
Posted 2 years ago # -
oh, it's only the singular. Really? Are we really that asinine?
Posted 2 years ago # -
I think due to trolls of auld or just an attempt to procure a more elaborate and educated vernacular. I've been cutting back on the language myself because it's more fun to come up with pseudo-clever stuff like 'stool depository' and 'lugubrious yeomen.'
Also, posts like his right thar reek of hilarious insecurity. Not so much closet-case insecurity, but along the lines of just general 'If I don't swing around the fact that I have some hideously malformed, Geiger-like appendages and am WONT TO USE THEM, I am not truly masculine!' insecurity.
A manly man (who does manly things) does not need to spell it out for the masses in A MOST VULGAR, VILE VERBOSITY (complete with alliteration). Rather, said manly man rebuilds Moperella and takes her out to Applebee's.
Posted 2 years ago # -
senorcardgage... I thought you quit the bux.. or did you just transfer?
Posted 2 years ago # -
Nah, I haven't quit yet. Haven't found a different job yet, either, despite frantically looking, knowing the true horribleness that summer brings. Otherwise I've only transferred once, and that was years ago.
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