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These jokes are getting old

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Started 10 months ago by ryuness
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ryuness

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Anything involving blonde roast and a joke involving my height and hair color is sending me over the edge these days. I'm usually a nice person, but... now, I'm usually just a total **** about it and stare at them blankly until they leave.

Someone this week just had to be 'an original, though.' APPARENTLY, I am not a 'tall blonde' as the usual goes. No, now I'm a 'grande blonde.' And APPARENTLY, I didn't 'get the joke' (because I'm BLONDE, right?) while I was in the middle of speaking to another customer, to which I bluntly replied, 'NOPE, I DO!' to the lame-joke-customer's face with as annoyed of a tone as I could muster.

Can I file for Blonde Harassment with Starbucks?
Like totally please dude, y'know? ~.~

Anyone else suffer from these terrible, terrible things on a daily/weekly basis?

Posted 10 months ago #

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Vaneera-rattay

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If this is your biggest gripe with the SBux experience, be thankful.

Posted 10 months ago #
ryuness

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Oh, I wish, darling.
Just a tip of the ice berg: A few weeks, I got seriously injured as a borrowed partner and had to go to the hospital to have a scan, and had to go home early for about a week due to a mild concussion. 'cause not following HEAVY OBJECT STORAGE SAFETY POLICIES IS FUN! And that's not me complaining, haha.

Not that I want you guys to feel sorry for me or anything. Returning to our regularly scheduled programming...

'If you aren't a stupid blonde already, with god as our witness, Starbucks will make you into one!' <_<

Feel free to post any other hair color annoyances/experiences that occur to you guys while 'working the bar.' :F

Posted 10 months ago #
Kevbotron

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@Ryuness: fyi, we have quite a few blondes at my store. So using this joke on them now xD

Anyways, I have a regular who used to be my little league coach. Oh boy. Every single new partner we've hired in the last oh... 4 months? Has to hear about how I never used to hit a ball back in little league. :P

Posted 10 months ago #
lilfish

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There's an older gentleman at our store who gave me the nickname "Red." It started out harmless but progressively got more awkward. Today he asked if I was looking for a sugar daddy.. I walked away while my SS took over ringing him up.
I'm sorry, I know I'm supposed to be nice to everyone, but he makes me uncomfortable!

Posted 10 months ago #
ryuness

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@Kevbotron - *salute* Glad to be of service in tough lovin'! I think we're both getting very tired of bad jokes, though... haha. Welp, I guess, what can you do, eh?

@fireredbarista - It's always the creepy older ones that think they're funny with some perverted remark, eh? Freaking creepers. I think the fact that they think of it, whether they are serious or not, is indicative of their thought stream. I think you can actually ask that guy to leave on the basis of sexual harassment if he doesn't stop after you ask him to. Maybe we need to either get more **** off, or act like a 5 year old and yell...

"*GASP* SIR, THAT'S REALLY INAPPROPRIATE!"

Posted 10 months ago #
Randy G.

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Kevbotron.. easy solution for you. Next time he tells the story, pick up a bat and hit a couple of his balls out of the park...

"Going... going... GONE! That ball is OUT OF HERE!"

"You can say that again, Chet. That ball won't be of any use to anyone around here for a while."

"Next in line, please."

Posted 10 months ago #
Vaneera-rattay

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We tease our customers. If some says, "I'll take uhhhhhh." We'll say we don't have that. "Can I get a frappe." We say, "Sure. McDonalds is just two blocks east." They ask for XXXXXXXXCR, we call out a venti diabetes at the handoff.

Posted 10 months ago #
OrangeBlossom

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I used to LOVE dying my hair red. At my old store, whenever the colour started to fade out and my hair looked light brown again, some customers would joke "ooh your soul is coming back". That isn't even kind of funny....

Posted 10 months ago #
lilfish

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Ryuness- the man is probably old enough to be my grandfather, and I'm not 18 yet.. makes me so uncomfortable.

Posted 10 months ago #
KDH

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We have a tall partner with red hair, so we make the joke: "I can't get you a tall blonde, but I CAN get you a tall redhead!" BLAHAHAHAHA

Posted 10 months ago #
Dry Sharpie

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@fireredbarista: WHY HELLO THERE :3

Posted 10 months ago #
ryuness

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@fireredbrista - Even better. "As long as you don't mind the one-way express ticket to jail, 'pops.'"

@OrangeBlossom - Oh, man. I wish I could respond to them with something like, "Nah. It's just a bit cooler than usual - we're processing extra souls today." or "Really? Maybe God will finally answer my prayers today." <_< I'd probably just end up staring at them blankly with a smile, though. I feel like my inner rage would get me into too much trouble.

Posted 10 months ago #
sublimeculture

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You know what I ****' hate? When teenagers come in and decide to be "cool" when we ask for their names. They go, "Voldemort", or "Sweeney Todd", or "Darth Vader". I don't even find it funny anymore. It actually got to the point where whenever some of my friends did that, I wrote offensive terms where their name is supposed to be.

Tall blonde jokes... They're not so often at our Starbucks, but there are the tall dark, because of colored folks. It's retarded.

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