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Anonymous

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I only buy coffee and water at Starbucks when I absolutely have no other option and critically need them, typically that's airports. I absolutely despise the experience. The very moment I am asked for my name, I turn evil. I don't want to be bothered to make up one. I don't want to give mine to some barrista who couldn't care less. I absolutely despise it. I respond with No Name. Then they get on the defensive. It's a horrible idea asking for name. Horrible and invasive.

I hate that Starbucks sell giant stupid water bottles at airports. And ONLY giant stupid water bottles. Why the he'll do I need a bottle larger than my hand luggage? Idiots.

I hate the food they sell. Never buy it. Gross fattening greasy sugary nasty things that look disgusting. I once was forced to buy a sandwich. One could commit murder with it. Lastly, I once bought a croissant. Giant one. The only one they had. It was dry and old. Gross.

Just a horrible place, bad company, bad idea. Hate it

Posted 1 year ago #
Dry Sharpie

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lol. I'm that barista you treat like sh!t on the other side of the counter. I could care less what name you give me, but you better pick up that $5 drink I made for you when I call that name.

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CoffeeAssassin

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i'm fairly sure there are other places where you can get equally overpriced, smaller bottles of water and other crappy food besides starbucks.

if you don't like how it's run, don't bother to keep coming back and torturing the partners with your nonsense and drivel about how invasive it is to give your name (or a made-up name) to the register barista so your drink doesn't get mixed up with some other equally-duckbutted customer.

:/

lots of waaaaaaaah

Posted 1 year ago #
Dry Sharpie

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The Ethos water bottles aren't that large in my store. With NYC tax, it's a whopping $2.17.

Starbucks specialize in coffee, not food. Almost all of our pastry case products complement the coffee or tea you'd be buying with it. The panini and bistro boxes are for the lazy people who can't be bothered to buy real lunch elsewhere.

$1.95 for a chocolate chunk cookie? Large but still a rip-off in my opinion. Especially the $2.25 brownie.

You can't judge every Starbucks store based on one incident at a particular one. I'd guarantee you that my store would provide a wholly different and better "Starbucks experience" but with your bias and attitude Elora_z78, I'd rather not serve you.

Posted 1 year ago #
sbucksminion

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I don't understand how asking you for your name is invasive.. It's going to save us time in the long run when you get your right drink.. rather than having the person in front of you walk off with it and us having to remake it.

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IjustworkHere

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but yet you continue to go there?

Posted 1 year ago #
FUsbux

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Wow you are one of those that loves to **** and moan about the stupidest sh!t but continue to come back! Shut up and go somewhere else or give a fake name you dumba$$!!!

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...and I'm an airport Starbucks barista lol.

In my airport, nearly the only thing you're going to find is one type of water. And it's going to be Aquafina. And you're going to pay out of your *ss for it. The price is regulated, and the vendor is set in stone. For everyone. F***ing deal. You'll live. Ask the flight attendant for water if you don't like it.

I don't have the answers... but I can speculate. It's an absolute b*tch getting any product into an aiport. Everything (EVERYTHING!) has to go through security. Everyone has to be cleared and approved. It's difficult. It's expensive. I'm sure, for everyone's sake, it's less of a nightmare to have just that one type of water.

I didn't choose it. I don't set the prices. I didn't make any of the food. I didn't force you to buy it or anything. But with that attitude of yours I'd probably give you decaf. ;)

Posted 1 year ago #
thinkdeep

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This woman is the worst kind of person. The person who constantly bitc.hes, complains, and moans about how they were FORCED to go to SBUX, FORCED to buy our (s.hitty) coffee, FORCED to buy our food.

Just. Stop. Coming. You hate us. We hate you.

Sounds like this person is to lazy to walk down the hallway to another food shop. This isn't a socialist country or a Pullman town. You have options readily available. But you're as dense as a thick layer of asphalt, and probably as bright as one too.

Congrats. You probably also signed the petition to ban and destroy all di-hydrogen oxide on the planet.

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Buxmeister

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Every now and then we get some half wit who thinks I hate starbucks is a consumer feedback site of sorts.

So, Elora, thank you so much for reaffirming why so many of us hate our jobs and the unsavory bunch of douchenozzles we serve. Kill yourself.

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Anonymous

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Don't wanna be asked your name? Hate our food? Go to dunkin donuts.

P.S. They sell overpriced bottled water and stale pastries there, too.

Posted 1 year ago #
eyeadapt

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I know her name now. Muahahahahhahahahaha. /will write Elora_z78 on the cup of any **** who says 'No name' when I ask for it.

Posted 1 year ago #
Dry Sharpie

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rofl, there'd be like 12 different Elora_z78(s) at my store everyday. :T

Posted 1 year ago #
MobilizedPartner

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Lol, you better let her know Dry Sharpie. We're not asking for a social. Get the stick out your ****.

It's not that serious lady.

To her credit, I know some people are just... I don't know, weird, and aren't comfortable with giving out their name - fine. But she already knows what it is when she goes to a store, her complaints have no merit. She doesn't want to be bothered to make up a name? She just wants everything her way! I feel bad for any baristas that deal with her, she sounds like an entitled ****.

Don't like our food, don't buy it. Why even continue going to Starbucks??

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eyeadapt

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I personally hate asking people for their names. Mostly only because a lot of my customers are hispanic, and I can't understand their accents, or I straight up don't know what the **** their name is.
I had a racism incident the other night, but no one noticed and nothing came of it.
Asked this guy his name.
Thought he said Perro. Wrote it down, then was like. Who would name their kid dog????
And just wrote Alberto on the cup.
A minute later I felt really bad cause it was a racist assumption that Perro sounded like Alberto. :|

Posted 1 year ago #
FUsbux

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I used to get a ton of asian and middle eastern customers who I could hardly understand yet alone spell their name. Thats the only time i hated asking. at my current job, i sometimes have to check peoples iD and put their name in the computer. I had an asian man recently and i accidentally put his last name as his first name because I couldnt tell which was which. Felt like an idiot.

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DecafAirport

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I'm so happy we don't have to take names but if we did and something like this happened I think I would just say Grande blah blah blah blah Mocha for No Name! No Name? No Name? Your drink is ready No Name.

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12345678

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@elora: you are the worst kind of person. just give your name it's not that serious, it's just so you don't grab the wrong drink at the bar because and then **** at us cause your drink is wrong (because clearly you are the only customer in the store who's drink matters, so the drink at the hand off plane myst be yours)

"I have a grande latte for thunderc unt at the bar"

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thatasiankidwhomeveryoneloves

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LOL @ the love in this topic. Let's not all pounce on her at once...

Posted 1 year ago #
mrindieday

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Baristas must think you're such a ****. You're not special. Give out your name.

Posted 1 year ago #
DTQueen

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Ουτις would be a much better name because then it's an Odyssey reference.

Posted 1 year ago #
eyeadapt

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She doesn't want to give us her name because she is on the run from the feds, and well, everyone knows starbucks is THE biggest company EVAR, so giving it your name, then being written on the cup, it sends an automatic notice to the government of that persons location at the time being. She can't be giving her real name if she wants to not be charged for her possession of international hallucinegenic narcotics that she was selling to children in the forms of lollipops for nothing more than their lunch money, all of which she used to buy her venti non fat vanilla late.

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This_is_nonfat_right

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you're probably the idiot that came into my store and ordered a hot venti chai tea latte, but somehow took a tall mocha frap. i hate everyone.

Posted 1 year ago #
thinkdeep

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@This_is_nonfat_right You must be new here. Decaff everyone. Oh, and at the start of your bar shift, instantly pull a decaf doppio and let it "age" for hours till exactly the right person comes along...

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This_is_nonfat_right

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hahah i've been with the company for three years. but i have not aged a shot yet.

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Dry Sharpie

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Sometimes I accidentally pull an extra double shot, and I save some leftover soy foam for my own personal doppio EM. Then I get a rush of drinks and my short cup sits on the counter for an hour.

My coworkers then see my unmarked short cup and assume I'm going to hand it off to the next rude customer.

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I always keep a couple old decaf shots at the ready. Teehee.

A few weeks ago, I had some REALLY ancient decaf shots sitting around and an equally old and mysterious pitcher of milk... my coworker knew what it was for... he was on register, and I wasn't paying attention to the customers honestly...

...suddenly he comes over to make this woman's drink, and I was like, "Uhhh... I can get it" but he gives me this sideways glance and marks the pitcher with his pen. I took that to mean he wanted me to use it... so she totally got the oldest milk/shots I've ever served anyone. And I didn't even know why lol. It was busy and I forgot to ask him about it...

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thatasiankidwhomeveryoneloves

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You know, customers can hate Starbucks too. This site isn't just for baristas.

Yes, OP probably reminds you all of your stereotypical, entitled, nightmare of a customer, but if you reread her post she doesn't really have anything against the people serving her.

And we already know that writing names isn't the best system, the expediter hears the names wrong, then writes them wrong, then calls them out wrong. It's like a game of telephone, except yelling across a bustling coffee shop. The whole process can add a half minute (at least) to the waiting time, and STILL some dipsh!t clients pick up the wrong drinks. I've never thought of it as being invasive, but I can definitely see how someone can take it that way.

We know the food sucks (although I'm a fan of the roasted tomato mozzarella and shortbread cookies). We know we charge high prices for inferior products. So really, most of us agree with the OP.

We have a common enemy, Starbucks, so, geez, play nice and leave Elora_z78 alone...

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Dry Sharpie

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@thatasiankidwhomeveryoneloves

I absolutely despise the experience. The very moment I am asked for my name, I turn evil. I don't want to be bothered to make up one. I don't want to give mine to some barrista who couldn't care less. I absolutely despise it. I respond with No Name. Then they get on the defensive.

To whom does she turn evil, if not the barista who's taking her order? Face it, she's the stereotypical entitled nightmare of a customer.

I couldn't care less if she thinks I couldn't care less about her real name.

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purplemenace5252

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You would think these people would poke around the site for a minute and a half and realize that virtually none of the people here are customers. Hence the subforum "I hate the customers."

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