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: | seattle barista 00860 |
| Date: | Nov 14 2002 06:20 AM |
| hey, in shift kings defense, he is right.. That’s what a cappuccino consists of half milk and half foam... But there are many other reasons to hate starbucks. |
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| Name: | star child 00859 |
| Date: | Nov 14 2002 01:49 AM |
| Hi Shift King. I'm glad you know how to do your job so well. Looks like your a fierce Barista. In my district we call people like you "Bitter jaded Starbucks blood"
And by the way if you have to make a drink six times before its what the customer wanted then you have to turn around and look at yourself. come on. Imagine that Venti Latte woman thinking to herself, "what is this stupid guy doing? Has he thought of just asking me what I want? Nope instead he's assuming it. Does that ever work? Uhh, no not really.
If I were your manager, I would document your behaviour, classify it as having the inability or desire to adhear to the company's guiding principle that states "Create enthusiastically satisfied customers all of the time"
Any following instances of similar nature will be documented and followed with appropriate corrective action including termination.
Thank you for your time. |
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| Name: | JaneInTheAnsible 00858 |
| Date: | Nov 13 2002 01:45 PM |
| Love your site!
I've had a deep and sincere hatred for the corporate juggernaut that is Starbucks for many, many years. They recently opened a store in my city, and tried to get the city to sign something that blocked other coffee shops from opening within a certain radius of their store. Our local independently-owned coffeeshop is now in the process of opening a bigger shop, with a drive-through window, in the same shopping center. I'm sure they'll try to take legal action, if they haven't already. If they're "so good" as their brainwashed drone employees claim, why can't they handle competition? Baristas, my ass...nazis is more like it! |
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| Name: | seattlbarista 00857 |
| Date: | Nov 13 2002 01:20 PM |
| you wanna hear some messed up crap? theres a street in a suburb of seattle that has a starbucks on every corner of this 4 way stop. 4! AHHHH! i hatestarbucks and the people that shope there regularly so much. thank god for this site. |
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| Name: | Warren 00856 |
| Date: | Nov 13 2002 01:16 PM |
| Hey Jason - I've read your entry, and agree with you on your overall premise. Like it says on the top of the page, people are just adding their $0.02...You mentioned you're doing research on Starbucks for your MBA, as well as asking the question, why people are wasting their time here. I think the answer to that is simply, people are exercising freedom of speech - which is still allowed for the time being in the United States and abroad. Personally, I'm amused at MANY (not all) people who pursue MBA's thinking that'll be their ticket to success. I use my MBA diploma to set my coffee on - that was the cold reality of what an MBA in Business got me - I was lucky enough to excel at other things I truely love - which involve and encourage freedom of speech. Corporate America (which it sounds like your future MBA will lead you to) doesn't exactly encourage freedom of speech and is full of politically correct double speak (refer to your copy of George Orwell's "1984" - I did a thesis on it when I was getting my PhD.). You may appreciate sites like this after you get some experience under your belt after using your future MBA. Freedom of speech is not underrated. It really is that easy! |
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| Name: | seattlebarista 00855 |
| Date: | Nov 13 2002 01:09 PM |
| so yeah, starbucks can ea a fat one. I worked a a bakery/coffee shop in seattle, every day id have to put up with thier bullcrap. im sure you guys know, but the starbucks here upped thier sizes and got rid of the shorts, and renamed all the sizes. Which is bull, cause consequently, we had to reorder ficken craploads of cups, so we wouldnt hear the customer complain that our tll was a short... god i hate starbucks.. i know it sounds trivial, but it realy adds up and pisses me off. the fact that they overroast thier beans, and have a machine steam thier milk, and pull thier shot for them (whatever happend to the funnel effect?). I know sattle is to blame for starbucks, but there really is better coffee in seattle than that. |
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| Name: | Gina 00854 |
| Date: | Nov 13 2002 12:53 PM |
| Starbucks is overpriced and overhyped. I have found a coffee shop in Fall City, WA. where the coffee is 100 times better than Starbucks. Their coffee isn't bitter, burned or too strong. Fall City Espresso, with their Pioneer coffee, is so smooth and velvety. If you are in the area, take I-90 east out of Seattle, take the Fall City exit and follow the beautiful country road to some really great coffee. I didn't like Starbucks coffee very much but it's because of Fall City Espresso that I can't drink it anymore. You'll see when you try it, too! |
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| Name: | Jason 00853 |
| Date: | Nov 13 2002 12:24 PM |
| Very interesting site you got here. For what it's worth, I happened upon this site while doing marketing research on Starbucks for my MBA and I've only read the first page of responses. Personally, I don't even drink coffee, but if I did I certainly wouldn't pay Starbuck's prices for it. However, there obviously are lots of people out there who do and it is their right to spend their money to spend however they see fit, even if we don't agree with it. I guess many of you wouldn't start a multi-million dollar business and get rich if you had the chance?
Anyways, my question is: Why are you people wasting your time here? You're only "preaching to the choir" and aren't really having any effect on the company so many of you contend to hate. If you don't like the prices or service, go somewhere else. If you don't like working there, go work somewhere else. If you don't like working there but really need the benefits, then suck it up and do what you have to do until something better comes along - that's what your parents and grandparents did growing up. You are free to change your situation. It really is that easy! |
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| Name: | ShiftKing 00852 |
| Date: | Nov 13 2002 11:43 AM |
| Hey David, you freaking moron: A CAPPUCCINO IS HALF-FOAM AND HALF-MILK!!!! Know what you're ordering. If you don't order the right thing, how can you complain that you got the wrong thing!?!?! You wanted a latte!!!! READ THE MENU! |
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| Name: | kate 00851 |
| Date: | Nov 13 2002 05:50 AM |
| While in Wisconsin this summer, I visited a local coffee roaster called Alterra coffee. Great tasting roast. Awesome staff. Incredible offerings of organic coffee. When I returned to my Palm Springs home, I realized that Starbucks sucked. I actually went without my daily one cup of coffee (ouch....the headache of the withdrawl) while I waited for my mail-order shipment of Milwaukee's Alterra coffee. I order from a great selection of FairTrade and other co-operative growers.
If you want to quit Starbuck's, try Alterra Coffee Roasters options. OM SHANTI.....peace |
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| Name: | shitfuks 00850 |
| Date: | Nov 12 2002 09:34 PM |
| i stole a mug...... very liberating |
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| Name: | shitfuks 00849 |
| Date: | Nov 12 2002 09:34 PM |
| i stole a mug...... very liberating |
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| Name: | Warren 00848 |
| Date: | Nov 12 2002 02:13 PM |
| I have a huge bee-aaatch about the Hercules, CA location of Starbucks. I go to that location quite often because it's so damn close to my house. Sadly, I'm probably what you would call a regular, and the manager treats me like a friggin' tramp! Yes I do play in a San Francisco band, have earrings, shaved head and long gotee, however my hygiene and manners are impeccable. At this point, I have to admit, I go there now just to make the manager George tense. It's funny and sad at the same time how people judge a book by the cover. You'd think that "regular customers" would be appreciated just because they throw money on the counter consistantly. And George (the manager of the Hercules, CA location) in case you read this, if I saw you in need on the side of the road because your fancy black Navigator broke down - I would pick you up and help you - because you are a part of my community, and it is what a "real" person would do....oh yeah, that'd be me driving the big, new, white, paid for Mercedes Benz. |
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| Name: | a person that likes coffee and cares about stuff 00847 |
| Date: | Nov 12 2002 01:25 PM |
| I don't understand why people are here sticking up for starbucks. Sure, I can see that if you work there it's paying your phone bill but don't come here saying it makes good coffee or that it cares about you! If I was working in a starbucks that wasn't making enough profit, I would simply be fired. And that would be that. As for the coffee, please!! I work for an independent coffee place in London and sell coffee all day. We buy our beans from organic coffee co-operatives and roast our own beans, and we still are cheaper than starbucks. And our coffee is properly made, none of this shiny machine, venti latte rubbish. Have you ever had a starbucks espresso and compared it to ours? Its like Lambrusco to Cristal! Enjoy your coffee and think how lucky you are in your venti latte world! |
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| Name: | agrivated barista 00846 |
| Date: | Nov 12 2002 10:09 AM |
| i hate working for starbucks for 2 reasons, 1 the shifts and managers sit in the backroom and smoke stoges alll damn day , the district managers always wanna "communicate" with the little people and why are we getting pastry snapshots ?? the pastry case is filled with pastrys who cares if its not in the right order????. . . . 2 the fraking pain in the ars customers , hey get a damn life and stop complaining that ur latte is too foamy make it urself ..... |
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| Name: | David 00845 |
| Date: | Nov 12 2002 04:40 AM |
| I entered Starbucks this morning and ordered a Venti Cappuchino... don't ask me why, I just wanted a nice hot coffee. What bullshit! The Venti is suppose to be the largest size. I sat down and started to tilt it back and back and back, finally I reached the liquid. Any other coffee shop would put, maybe 1/2 " of foam at the top... this Freakin' cup was 1/2 foam. I took it up and complained and the guy behind the counter shrugged and said that's just the way we make it here.
NO MORE, I AM SICK OF BEING RIPPED OFF, I AM NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE, I AM MORE LIKELY TO ENTER THE MISS AMERICA PAGENT THAN EVER ENTER THE DOORS OF ANOTHER STARBUCKS AGAIN!!!!!! GREEDY BASTARDS. |
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| Name: | Mitchell LaKind 00844 |
| Date: | Nov 11 2002 11:11 PM |
| My wife and I moved into one of the growing outlying areas of Phoenix 3 years ago in hope of moving away from the urban sprawl. Soon after, as we expected, stores began to pop up and take over the many acres of farm land and dairies. We expected this, and welcomed the slow growth since the closest gas stations and super markets were 3 miles away.
Then came the Coffee Plantation. Finally, a place to go in the cool winter morning or evenings where one could sit back with a hot cup of coffee and escape some of reality. Now they had all the same fru fru drinks that Starbucks had, but the coffee was good, the clientel were not snobby and the atmosphere was relaxing.
Several months ago, the growth opened up a new set of stip malls called the Ocotillo Lakes. Upscale dining and shopping and of course, Starbucks.
The clientel of the Plantation soon began to move over to the overpriced drinks of Starbucks. Even the regulars who had their pictures on the wall sucumbed to pressure to be seen at Starbucks. One morning, on the way to work, I went to get my morning cup of joe only to find that the outside furniture was now neatly stacked up inside. The notices on the door said that due to financial reasons, the Coffee Plantation was shut down.
Now with no other place to go, not even a Circle K, whose regular coffee is just as good as Starbucks, I switched over. I hated myself, although my friends went too, for helping this company remain profitable. Then I wondered what I was spending. So, I checked my online bank statement and was amazed to see that I was spending just as much for regular coffee day to day as I spent on lunch.
Last week was my last week going there. Even my neighbor was spending $13.00 per day for he and his wife to go. Now, we wake up a little earlier and brew it ourselves, standing outside chatting while the kids prepare for school.
I believe in a free market society, and that Starbucks had a right to move in. But damn them for putting another out of business just because of their name. The coffee is not THAT good to begin with.
Support your local franchise mom and pop owned coffee houses!! Do not let a Starbuck move and and shut down the place that brings you closer to your community, disrupts your daily routine or your wallet!!
Thanks |
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| Name: | Rainbow Bubbles 00843 |
| Date: | Nov 11 2002 10:15 PM |
| As a manager, I often like to sit in the back room doing "paper work," But really i'm just holding the arrow key down on the keyboard so the curser look all trippy like. |
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| Name: | Liberator 00842 |
| Date: | Nov 11 2002 08:58 PM |
| One simple way to bring down the "Pig of Coffee" is to discourage the patrons. Whenever you see a prick yuppie running for the doors of your neighborhood Starf*ck's do as I do, KEY THEIR CAR! This serves mulitple functions: Keeps the pricks away from supporting a sh*tbag corporation, avenges the same asses that you just know would cut you off in traffic while sipping on their pri*k-jizz, and let's other drivers know what kind of assh*le is nearby when they see the carnage of the paint. Besides, now your supporting the local body shops! ;) |
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| Name: | LitleOrphan 00841 |
| Date: | Nov 11 2002 06:47 PM |
| So....this is my first visit to this site and, as a Starbucks employee, it think this is AWESOME!!!!!! I've been working at Starbucks for almost 2 years and I can say that I have never hated coffee or humanity more! The coffee is awful, it's over-priced, and almost ever customer that comes into that place is rich, uptight, ignorant, and lazy! The only reason anyone buys that coffee is because of the cup. After so many commercials and movie appearances every stuck-up socialite in town wants to be seen holding that damn Starbucks cup. Just keep believing that good taste and realism will survive. That some day this fad will fade and Starbucks will become another Pet Rock in the dregs of history. |
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| Name: | Christi Bentley 00840 |
| Date: | Nov 09 2002 09:17 AM |
| Okay, it seems I have found this site a little late but in case anyone still views it, i'd like to put my two cents in. First off, to the tomato-ee starbucks employee, I don't recommend calling people immature unless you know how to properly spell it. But that's irrelevant, you WORK for Starbucks, just why in the heck should we trust/listen to you? Oh yeah, 'lots of people would be out jobs if it was not for Starbucks' - true, true...but a lot of people would have been out of jobs if it weren't for HITLER AND THE NATZIS. Kevourkian (sp?) would be out of a job if it weren't for depression. Are we now going to praise and promote depression and suicide? You don't understand why we spend time complaining? DITTO. Shut up if you're gonna complain about complaining. I'm not for hating things but this site really does present a good point. Starbucks, buying up entire strip malls so that they can weed out competition' it's just typical. But it's the "American Way" it seems. I live in a small suburb of Dallas - this place is hardly a dot on the map and yet we have 3 STARBUCKS and building.... Behold the power of capitalism. *sarcasm* whoo hoo. :I ...Like your site. :) |
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| Name: | Christi Bentley 00839 |
| Date: | Nov 09 2002 09:15 AM |
| Okay, it seems I have found this site a little late but in case anyone still views it, i'd like to put my two cents in. First off, to the tomato-ee starbucks employee, I don't recommend calling people immature unless you know how to properly spell it. But that's irrelevant, you WORK for Starbucks, just why in the heck should we trust/listen to you? Oh yeah, 'lots of people would be out jobs if it was not for Starbucks' - true, true...but a lot of people would have been out of jobs if it weren't for HITLER AND THE NATZIS. Kevourkian (sp?) would be out of a job if it weren't for depression. Are we now going to praise and promote depression and suicide? You don't understand why we spend time complaining? DITTO. Shut up if you're gonna complain about complaining. I'm not for hating things but this site really does present a good point. Starbucks, buying up entire strip malls so that they can weed out competition' it's just typical. But it's the "American Way" it seems. I live in a small suburb of Dallas - this place is hardly a dot on the map and yet we have 3 STARBUCKS and building.... Behold the power of capitalism. *sarcasm* whoo hoo. :I ...Like your site. :) |
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| Name: | Fired Barista 00838 |
| Date: | Nov 08 2002 10:15 PM |
| I didn't hate Starbucks in the beginning. I loved the job and the benefits. The store that I worked at in my final journey just got a new manager, and he didn't like me. He fired me for doing what he told us to do. Way to stand behind your barista Starbucks. |
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| Name: | Delila Soloyal 00837 |
| Date: | Nov 08 2002 03:20 PM |
| Video killed the radio star; Starf***'s killed my mom and pop. They also had me living with the java man. I almost did him in. Lets legalize weed. At least that is a marketable commodity. |
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| Name: | Rich 00836 |
| Date: | Nov 08 2002 12:31 PM |
| What a pathetic life the person before me must have lead. Just where have you been mate? Starbucks, MacDonalds, KFC, Kabul, err.. did i mention Starbucks? Anyway jsut a brief note to say that you now can't walk more than 5 minutes anywhere in central London without seeing one of those glorious green smiling circles. You never know when you're going to need to spend £2 on a can of Elderflower and Beetroot Crush, or £1 on a chocolate coin... or not. |
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