I am a Barista and I think it takes no brain power to do the job I do. We are all like androids moving along not even really understanding why we are doing the things we do. Does anybody else feel this way?
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Posted 11 months ago #
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I don't think it takes brain power, but it definitely takes something. I'd definitely say it takes confidence and self assurance. If you don't think or act like you know what you're doing, you're probably going to look like a bumbling idiot.
Posted 11 months ago # -
I used to think the same thing. I have never found this job difficult or mentally taxing in any way. I picked it all up very quickly. In the past (at another coffeehouse), I even lied about having pretty extensive experience. In reality I had made coffee for under 6 months... but I told them I had YEARS of experience lol. And they were convinced. :)
However... I have actually worked with some people who aren't capable of doing this job. It's incredible. I don't even understand. Especially at Starbucks... I figured any trained monkey could do our job. But I've been proven wrong... and driven to the end of my patience and sanity trying to help these completely hopeless new hires.
Posted 11 months ago # -
"and driven to the end of my patience and sanity trying to help these completely hopeless new hires."
Yeah, I'm one of those people. I have no idea why, but there are times when I've felt I just can't do anything right and just don't "get it" despite their being NOTHING TO GET. Tbh, it's extremely frustrating to be on this side of the coin, because I am trying, even if it looks like I have the IQ of a dimwit.
Posted 10 months ago # -
You are well ahead of them if you are able to tell me what "pike" is, or... tell me the difference between soy milk and dairy milk... or, why you can't just ring up random items instead of what customers order... or the importance of writing down modifiers... or, writing down orders full stop, not just pressing buttons on the register and assuming I have psychically intuited what customers are ordering. Or, most importantly, if you are able to retain ANY information that you are told.
"Pike is the coffee. The customer wants just coffee. Regular coffee. The coffee right there. Just get a cup of coffee. Coffee. Coffee!"
"...I don't know what that is."
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Posted 10 months ago # -
@Unsweetened: Thank you for the ego boost. I feel less dimwitted at the moment. Also, I am laughing so hard tears are coming out of my eyes.
"Assuming I have physically intuited what customers are ordering."
DEAD.Posted 10 months ago # -
I can just hear it now:
"But what do you mean a cup of coffee?! We don't have measuring cups!"
Posted 10 months ago # -
I agree and disagree. I think that the job itself does not. I often feel stressed, though, from my environment and who I am.
Being a perfectionist around dimwitted management sucks.
Posted 10 months ago # -
I think the very worst thing for me isn't how much I do, how hard I have to work, or what horseshit I have to deal with on a daily basis. It's when my hardest working coworkers are also the lowest paid.
It just breaks my heart and I don't really have words for it.
Posted 10 months ago #
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