Ok, a new day has dawned on IHateStarbucks.com.
I no longer want to keep hacking the old, tired php on the site, so this is what I propose. These messages will remain up for all eternity. In addition, there is a new Guest book. So if you want to share your opinons, i.e. post to the site, go here. As always, if wish to rant or rave, send me an email:
| Name: | missbbe 04929 |
| Date: | Aug 03 2005 02:48 PM |
| I am an ex-Starbucks employee of two days now, and I am a much happier and much less bizitchy person. I loved my co-workers immensely (yes, that's you exssbaristab**** and sslela, as well as the ashnizzles), but I despised my manager. He is a great person, when you're not working with him. He should be in the OCD Olympics - he'd win gold in every event. I should have read the signs about a year and two months ago when I first started and I would wake up a million times in the middle of the night, looking at my nightstand, and hoping there wouldn't be any more mochas or lattes to make. Then it got even better, when I would receive a menacing phone call at 5:30 or 6 in the morning from our manager, asking what happened during close the night before because we forgot to spit shine the drains or scrub the G.D. grout with a toothbrush. It's pretty bad when nearly every employee wishes death (or at the very least some sort debilitating disease) on our manager, who is supposed to be our ally and our cheerleader of sorts. Oh yeah, and whose bright idea was it to let our manager, the world's worst scheduler in the free world, to run the class on teaching future RMTs to schedule?????????? Apparently he thinks its okay to change employees' schedules for the next few days without even asking if they're available, and then threatening to write us up when we don't show up for a shift we never knew we had! Yeah, I love all my ex-coworkers, and you all need to get out so you can be as happy as I am now, and so we can "fraternize" without getting in trouble! YAHOO FOR THE PANTS PARTYERS!!!!!!!!!!!! YAHOO FOR ME!!!!!!! |
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| Name: | Moonie 04958 |
| Date: | Aug 03 2005 05:52 AM |
| First off, let me start by saying that I am totally and completely out of the coffee-culture loop altogether. I don't drink it (I loathe addictions and caffiene messes with me something awful) and I don't plan to start. However, I detest Starbucks something awful. You've done an excellent job outlining exactly what is wrong with the chain and parroting that strikes me as redundant- I just wanted to post here to tell you that you're absolutely right in not jumping off the Starsucks cliff. What really gets to me, though, is that the brand sneaks ridiculous amounts of sugar and caffiene into people who have no idea what they're getting into- it's incredibly frightening for me to watch teenagers that are still unable to control their own emotions sucked into the popular culture that Starbucks endorses and spat out again as jittering wrecks. The drinks they sell are sweetened to the degree where the drink appeals as a candy, a hook for unsuspecting addiction; they strike me as the equivalent of a fruity alcoholic drink made to draw in non-drinkers, or maybe cigarettes that brag about filters and purity but poison your lungs just the same. I might be going overboard, but I've gone a long time without being able to express exactly what I wanted to. In any case, thanks for the time and the means with which to express! :) |
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| Name: | Summer 04953 |
| Date: | Aug 02 2005 10:34 AM |
| I was reading a few, and again noticed that some are from starbucks employees, I too happen to be one in california. Initially starting out working for the company was great, great tips, great environment but a few months ago everything went to hell. Management changed, our DM changed, so our entire store was shifted. Vacation time I had put in for about 7 months ago, two weeks ago I was denied it, because they couldn't afford to let me go. So....leaving starbucks was the only thing to do, yet when they heard I would quit they kissed my ass. I still left. I dont know what the hype about starbucks is, they are putting the little coffee shops out of business, I drive past about 2 smaller ones everyday and NO ONE is in them, everyone is at one of the 4 starbucks on the same damn street. I used to pay about 100 a month on starbucks...I hate myself for doing that but I became involved in the hype, but no longer will I. The customers feel the need to come in to starbucks and tell their problems, their life stories, like we are their shrink. You are expected to be happy 24/7, and if you don't you get written up. What a great company that doesnt allow their employees to experiance their emotions for what they are, they are trained to feel and act. I just think, put the hole in the wall coffee shops back in business, they deserve the money more then starbucks does. |
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| Name: | anonymous 04951 |
| Date: | Aug 01 2005 07:33 PM |
| I agree with kitty's post. I've been a starbucks employee for the past 3 months, and at first they make you go through these classes, and tell you all about how wonderful the company is. I loved it so much at first, the things they were teaching us almost brought tears to my eyes, I couldn't believe how good the company was and i was going around family and friends or anyone who needed a job to apply at starbucks, bc it was the best company ever... during my first 2 months of stabucks bliss, i was offered a shift supervisor position. which is great bc technicaly, it was my first job, so it made me feel awesome. But my manager asked me like 5 times, and when it came time for me to be one (last week) he just said "ok you got the position!"... but at that point, i was so fed up with starbucks (and i have been for the past month) i didn't even care, and i was going around saying how much i can't stand sbux. I HATE having no life but sbux, they freakin own my a**. My manager keeps asking me if i'm interested in moving up in the company, and i keep saying "My life goal is to be a graphic designer, that's my passion and that's what i wanna do!" and he'll ignore my answer, and go on automated mode(as if he was a robot programed by starbucks to hypnotize their employees) and say "well you know with starbucks as an assistant manager you can make like $30,000 a year! and you get bonuses, ect" i know the whole thing by heart bc he's repeated it to me so many times. They're all so manipulative and if you try to tell them you're looking for another job, or that you don't wanna spend your whole life with sbux, they will try to make you feel bad! I despise sbux with passion. I hate having to wake up at 4am so i can be at work at 4:45 to take sh*t from spoiled customers who expect you to greet them like they're your life hero, kiss their a**, get their drinks lightning speed, and thank them for eating their sh*t, all at 5:30 am. because that's what the head quarters promote:"legendary service and speed!" wow. HOW FREAKIN IMPOSSIBLE!!!!! specially if you're trying to make 10 crappuccinos and 20 bar drinks. obivously, no one in the head quarters has ever worked retail. they're so dumb, they even make spelling mistakes on their own drink names when they write us emails. ok thanks for letting me vent, hope you enjoyed the truth! |
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| Name: | Dani McDowell 04950 |
| Date: | Aug 01 2005 03:53 PM |
| I would rather not drink coffee at all than drink Starbucks. And that, my friends, is saying something. Sure, I try to buy free trade coffee and patronize local “mom & pop” businesses over the big guys. Sure, I sympathize with the plight of the underpaid baristas and the poor Columbian farmers, but the real honest-to-goodness reason I don't buy Starbuck's is that it is BAD. It is bad coffee, friends. Their coffee tastes like it's been brewed from old, dirty, burnt butt hair. There just isn't enough milk to cover up flavor like that! Better to have gas station coffee, or even *gasp* no coffee at all. And remember, the lighter the bean, the more caffeine! |
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| Name: | George Sand 04944 |
| Date: | Jul 30 2005 06:42 PM |
| c'est drole que tu as laisse un site comme celui-ci ayant pour but a montrer ton degout pour Starbucks.. honnetement, je prefere Starbucks, seul, parce qu'il y a rien d'autre a aller pour me reposer avec un roman dans une main et une boisson dans l'autre. A Nashville, on peut aller chez Cafe Coco ou Fido's pour la meme raison, mais le cafe n'est pas comme celui de Starbucks, alors.. que faire? je le laisse a toi a repondre. |
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| Name: | natalie norton 04943 |
| Date: | Jul 30 2005 12:03 PM |
| Starbucks is fooling everyone! For start, that cup of Java, that cost you $1.75, is costing starbucks about
.a quarter. Feeling a little rip off, it gets better. I bet you will never walk into a Starbucks and not be asked
"How are you?" It is mandatory that employees must try and become personal with customers, which is
fine, however it's just a big joke. Do you really think employees care about the lady that comes in everyday
and orders her venti, decaf, double, 3 pump, nonfat, extra hot, no foam, vanilla latte? Probably not. In
reality employees are counting down how many more hours of hell there going to be there. However
if we would like to keep our $9.00 an hour job, I guess we'll keep on "acting" like we care about you! I
don't know if Starbucks is trying to fool their customers more or their employees. I worked for Starbucks,
and became injured as a result. Yea, 2/3 of your income is what you get, now if your only making $9.00
an hour that comes to about $5.00 if that hour, wow I'm sure my landlord wont mind if I give him 2/3 my
rent this month or for ever how many months I will be off. They over work there employees, have terrible
working conditions, try working on the espresso machine for 3 hours with no break. Or better yet going 5
hours without your lunch. Do you ever wonder why so many tips are given, my guess is because the customers
knows that deep down inside their pretty little heart, that Starbucks is really is a lousy company, however
they have to keep coming back for either their addiction, or because an employee there makes them feel
special by trying to get personal. My personal opinion, and please take it. Don't ever work for Starbucks,
it's well not worth it! This is the worst job, that I have ever experienced in my life. So, let me save you
the trouble. There is no time to lean in this job, or better yet have a cup of coffee for yourself. For if you
lean, you have time to CLEAN! |
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| Name: | MyFavoriteCustomer 04942 |
| Date: | Jul 29 2005 05:29 PM |
| My Favorite Customer,
This woman and her maybe 12-13 year old daughter are both about 100 lbs. over weight. Her daughter orders one of our iced-blended meals, and her mother orders a 7 pump Carmel latte ,X hot, X Carmel, X whipped cream.(supper retarded drink right?.. get this) She sends her daughter in while she is in the car and her daughter say
" Do you know my moms drink?"
I'm Thinking ? Why the _uck is this fat girl playing guessing games with me while i have a line out the door? Even though I know her moms stupid drink now, I still take her order as if it was the first time everyday.
---------------- Tina-Marie and her fat mine me---------------- |
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| Name: | Megatron 04940 |
| Date: | Jul 29 2005 02:03 AM |
| I worked at Starbucks for a little under three months and I absolutely despised it. I just did not fit into the culture at all. I've never seen so many snobs crowded in a single building before, except maybe at church. The company prides itself on hiring individuals with unique outgoing personalities, but ever since lengendary service has been top priority there has been an even bigger influx on hiring mechanical superficial dimwit types. I hated the environment, working with hypocrites, pretending to constantly smile, the tampered customers and their complex cup orders, and especially working for a large hypocritical corporation which essentially promotes deforestation and Indian slavery. I think something like 500 berries grow on a coffee plant annually, so there has to be millions of acres of coffee plantations, and I'm presuming (found a questionable article) that deforestation has doubled in the rainforests because of this. Fair Trade Market isn't that fair, but fairer than most what most corporations offer. I think ten cents per bag of Sumatra sold actually goes to the workers. Not a seasonal blend? I don't ever recall selling a single bag of Sumatra and I'm very curious as to how many Indians are trading in their ways of survival to join a corporate one. Starbucks may help build schools, but it saddens me that there is no going back for a lot of indigenous societies and Indians will continue to be exploited practically as slaves. |
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| Name: | gryphen 04922 |
| Date: | Jul 28 2005 08:57 PM |
| JC........you are exactly the type of customer who has made Starbucks a miserable place to work....Order of of the menu or stay home and make your own blended lattes. We are told by the people who have the ability to fire us not to do what you\'ve asked. It\'s not our job to fulfill your every coffee whim.... |
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| Name: | lish 04936 |
| Date: | Jul 27 2005 06:40 PM |
| eww. I hate starbucks too. Therez too many calories.
They just want people to be fat. |
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| Name: | Kitty 04923 |
| Date: | Jul 27 2005 06:22 PM |
| I think its awesome how a lot of the postings here are done by employees of starbucks!! As a former Starbuck employee in the starbucks heartland of seattle, I have learned to truly despise the company. Its true that they dont care about their employees. The managers and district managers lie and lie and make promises they dont keep. They never give anyone a straight answer and they manipulate people into becoming kiss-a**es. Its so sad. All they care about is all the money they make with frappuccinos. Screw frappuccinos. they arent even good anyway! i will never give starbucks another dime!!! They dont even have the good espresso machines anymore anyway!! I hate the way starbucks treated me and everyone i ever worked with!!!! The Siren does need to drown!!! |
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| Name: | jerry 04917 |
| Date: | Jul 27 2005 06:10 PM |
| I live in Indio CAlifornia, and a sbux opened here about 5 months ago. i was like big deal, so know we have crappy coffee too. I was shocked to learn from a nameless member of our city's planning commision that she and the commission had worked tirelessly for two years to bring a starbucks to Indio. If that was not bad enough, the city gave $300,000.00 to the billion dollar company as a gift for opening(why not give send bill gates a new copy of windows while your at it).
I thought ok so they should do well, we have enough idiots in need of proving there "coolness,'but then the press got on the bandwagon.
Our local paper has a colum called strokes and chokes. It gives "Strokes,"(props/high five/ada boy etc) to various people for various things. It sent a stroke to the city of indio for "Getting on the map with Starbucks."
well thats all for now, I will keep you updated from the Stupidest place on earth INDIO CALIFORNIA Where people line up for an hour to get a hot cup of Starbucks in 115 farenheit Plus. |
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| Name: | Christine 04921 |
| Date: | Jul 27 2005 06:07 PM |
| i live in Vancouver BC, Canada and if you are ever in town and you go for a walk down robson street you will find that there are three starbucks and a blenzs all at one interection. The funny thing is there is always a line up at each store, and it takes about 10-15 min.s just to get your drink. Starbucks is located EVERYWHERE they are in safeways they have DT's for faster service and more convence for the customer so that they don;t have to park walk into to store to buy a drink that can have more cal.s in it then a meal. Buckies has even moved on to the BC ferries.
Another thing, if you where to walk around some streets around ubc and kits you will find the streets filled with used starbucks coffee cups. Now why is this> is it because that there coffee is so frinkin hot or there frapps and other ice beverages or so sweet that you have to wait to 20 mins before they become drinkable and then three mins later they are COLD or MELTED...?
i personal have fallen starbuck, but after reading all these entries of there employee i don;t think i will ever set foot in one again.. i feel for all of you who have had to live threw hell.
my plan.. BOYCOTT buckies... if ppl in Cuba can live with out them.. so can WE |
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| Name: | theRevolutionFactory 04926 |
| Date: | Jul 27 2005 06:07 PM |
| Starbucks carpet bombs regions. Because they are a multi-celled organism, they can enter and enviornment and open stores all around an area, this eventually drives all competition in the area out of business, leaving starbucks the only coffee place around. Not all of the stores they open have to be able to survive, just enough to eliminate the competition. Its the big guy screwing over the little guy, its sad. I prefer it when things are different rather then all the same, diversity and contrast are what define life. But tell people about fair trade and shade grown coffee, i've found most people want to do good, they just dont know much about these things, so inform them. have a good day. |
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| Name: | Copenhagen Jim 04927 |
| Date: | Jul 27 2005 06:00 PM |
| Up until now there are no starbucks in Denmark, and long may it remain like that. That's not the reason I moved here but it is one of the great benefits of this wonderful country. Come visit and enjoy real coffee in real cafés. |
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| Name: | DblSht 04925 |
| Date: | Jul 27 2005 05:58 PM |
| Good News Everyone: Latest news from Starbucks is, they will now go into the poor parts of your town to bring overpriced, undrinkable coffee to those that can't afford it. How can they be so lucky??? |
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| Name: | Chuck Messer 04920 |
| Date: | Jul 27 2005 05:57 PM |
| How much for the little man can they actually be wanting 5$+ for a cup of bitter tasting liquid that tastes like it was extracted from a peice of cow dung. |
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| Name: | Sharkscove 04919 |
| Date: | Jul 27 2005 05:55 PM |
| My best friend works at starbucks but for all her complaining about the people she is working with and their stupidity, she gets great benifits and is paid alright(not great i think she should be paid more after almost two years of working there). You guys think you have it bad at your starbucks... you should visit ours. .. We got two guys that cant decide who is going to be the resident drug dealer... A couple hookers that love to come in and annoy everyone... a guy that passes out AFTER drinking his coffee everyday and snores very loudly... and if thats not enough... the constant tourists that you ahve to deal with just walking into the store can be mind numbing... M best friend has had to learn how to speak some japanese becuz of all the japanese customers...NAMA CREAMU!!!!!!!!! (whip cream for all you not in Lil' Tokoyo aka Hawaii) would would have thought that after a year of japanese that was all she needed to know!
So you all complain about you starbucks... but i am sure we have it worse! |
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| Name: | Brenda°° 04918 |
| Date: | Jul 27 2005 05:53 PM |
| I'm from Mexico and I really heat starbucks...
I don't speak very well english.. so the people that can understand me, will be agree with me.
Hace poco tiempo, cerca de 3 meses atras, en mi ciudad empezaron a derribar cierto tiempo de tiendas comerciales estrategicas... en un plaza comercial, inclusive quitaron un fuente tradicional, en otra un cafe mexicano, en otro lado un establecimiento al lado de una iglesia.
Cual fue mi sorpresa al darme cuenta que lo que construyeron en todos esos lugares eran cafes de starbucks. Si alguien dudaba de que tanto los mexicanos son influenciables, ahi esta la prueba. Estos cafes tuvieron exito al instante, por su puesto no me gusto la situacion y al investigar un poco me di cuenta de varias cosas.
En esos tres meses se abrieron establecimientos en todo el pais. El cafe es de menor calidad que el mexicano. Los empleados de las tiendas, a pesar de ser mexicanos, se sienten superiores al trabajar ahi, como si les diera mas categoria, (¡¡¡LOS EMPLEADOS!!!) y por si fuera poco la gente de mi universidad no entiende razones y solo por moda sigue llendo a esos lugares.
Tal vez parecezca extraño indignarse despues de ver a tu pais invadido por muchas mas empresas norteamericas, pero a mi esto ya me parece una exageracion. ¡¡¡EN MENOS DE TRES MESES!!! ¡¡¡VENDEN A UN PRECIO MAYOR UN PRODUCTO DEL CUAL HAY EXCELENTE COCECHA EN MEXICO!!! ¡¡¡A UN LADO DE CADA LUGAR IMPORTANTE DE MI CIUDAD YA VES UN STARBUCKS!!! |
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| Name: | biljava 04915 |
| Date: | Jul 27 2005 05:53 PM |
| The cafes are ruining the ambiance- playing only artists now featured on the CD's they peddle- what crap. Used to be so much more bohemium- oh well, they dont listen do they?! |
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| Name: | Tony 04912 |
| Date: | Jul 27 2005 05:52 PM |
| I've worked at Starbucks for a while now. My first store was awesome. It was so clean, the customers were kind and we had a group of very hard working partners. It really was the "third place" (please excuse my Starbucks vocabulary) For those of you that don't know one of Starbucks goals is to be the place where people come to relax at one point in the day.
Then I moved to a different state. All the managers sit around the whole time. Take 2 hour lunches so they can go get their hair colored, when no other partners that have been there working much longer then they have, haven't recieved anything.
The stores are dirty, the partners are WAY over worked for what they get paid. Not a day goes by that we are out of somethng. We are forced to up-sell, pastries, C D's (way over priced), brewing equipment, and the latest frappacchino all in one sentece while trying to get through a line that is out the door, full of angry middle aged nobodies, (that feel special that they have a cup with a "siren" on it).
The managers win trips, huge bonus's, and all the recognition when they haven't done CRAP. We recieve a some odd cent raise every 6 months.
I only stick with it to get through school. Starbucks used to be a great idea, but they have turned into a money making monster and at barista's 6.75 an hour expence. COME ON SCHULTZ, share the wealth. I heard you recieved a 4 million dollar BONUS this year. Starbucks is setting their selves up for failure, growing too big, and not paying enough. If they don't fix this nightmare, they will end up like BurgerKing. |
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| Name: | jerry 04914 |
| Date: | Jul 27 2005 05:51 PM |
| i once heard a barista claim that "starbucks is more fine dineing than fats food." What more needs to be said. starbucks is run by and for the retards that make up the vast majority of the world. If you can see above the common folks, you are one of the rarefew.
Let me set the record straight : Starbucks is Fast food. Why do you think they are called stores, and not Restaurants? |
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| Name: | Richard Thietje 04911 |
| Date: | Jul 27 2005 05:50 PM |
| Sleepless in Olympia
I was startled and dismayed when I was woken up by jack-hammer sounds coming through my closed window at 1am in the morning. I went outside to find out what was going on and found that the Starbucks across the street from my apartment building was having its floors redone. I whish Starbucks had remembered that after they go home for the night, the residents of downtown Olympia [more than a hundred within a few blocks] use the hours between midnight and 6am to sleep. It would have been nice to have advanced notice that a construction crew [I don’t blame them] was going to be making excessive noise from before midnight until 4am so that I could make arrangements to sleep somewhere other than my apartment for the night. I don't appreciate the inconvenience of dealing with such an abrupt and cacophonous interruption. This incident prompted me to go online and read about Starbucks' commitment to community. The corporate website says one thing, but there are many other corporate watchdog sites that say the opposite. Starbucks has just lost another customer because of its disregard for actual people in the community. Too bad too, cause I'll really need some coffee in the morning. I guess it is all about the buck and not the people who spend it, huh? |
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| Name: | Chritz 04934 |
| Date: | Jul 27 2005 05:50 PM |
| i love how people exagerate about the cost of starbucks coffee. a small cup of regualar coffee on average will cost you $1.59 and $1.80 for a large. All this $5 for a cup of coffee people are paying $5 bucks for things that have to be made at the espresso bar or blended and mixed with whatever their little hearts desire. So yes you are going to pay $5 bucks for a quad venti soy, sugar free vanalla, extra hot carmal machiatto. Dont get me wrong im all about people saying what they feel and speaking up when things arent right. This is just my point of view. Thanks |
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