147xxxx

Uhm. Okay.

Customer: uhh... do you have soy milk?
147xxxx: yupp!
Customer: is it vanilla soy milk?
147xxxx: yeah, its already a bit flavored with vanilla (shows box)
Customer: okay. I want that. Medium - cold.
147xxxx: Do you only want only soy milk? or do you want an iced coffee drink with soy milk?
Customer: What? Soy milk.
147xxxx: ... Alright. So just soy milk in this cup (holds up grande, he nods), do you want ice in it?
Customer: Uhm... YEAH.
147xxxx: Okay (moves around to register) so an iced grande soy milk is-
Customer: what? no, I want a LATTE. WITH VANILLA SOY MILK.

Someone brought their desktop computer into the store....

Things I did last night on my 2nd year...

made name tags for myself and another partner out of the coffee brew tags so people can know our...

“I knew I was going to work with you today, so on my way in I...”
— my coworker.  I love that a...

Thank god today was an easy day at work because I got no sleep the night before.  I kept tossing and...

If you start counting down the hours...

Opening shift today. Who the hell is up at this hour? I think I’m going to throw up.

This is grosser than that venti 10 pump...

147xxxx: How was the close last night?
Coworker: Ugh, terrible; we got out an hour later than we usually do.
147xxxx: what!? why?
Coworker: we didn't have a precloser and [ASSISTANT MANAGER] decided to leave at 4 instead of 9. also, we had a guy jacking off.
147xxxx: ew sick. like in the bathroom?
Coworker: like in the corner where the homeless people hang out and we can't see them.
147xxxx: WHAT?!
Coworker: yeah, he like was sitting with like just a towel over himself having a hell of a time. He was doing it for like a while until we found out
147xxxx: WAIT. WHAT?!
Coworker: yeah... the customers kept like looking over there and laughing, but no one told us
147xxxx: OH MY GOD WHAT!?!
Coworker: And when [SHIFT] came over to him to tell him to um stop, the dude was like "oh, sorry, sorry," ha like he just accidently started to do it.
147xxxx: EWWWWWHAT!?

SERIOUSLY?! DOES ANYONE PAY ATTENTION TO...

147xxxx: Aaaaalright, (oooobviously to customer #1) here is your iced tall hazelnut iced coffee, and (obviously to customer #2) heeere is your venti soy no water chai! Have a good one, you guys!
Customer #1: is this my iced coffee with hazelnut?
Customer #2: my drink - my soy chai no water? is this it?
147xxxx: ... yeah.

what I did during my starbucks...

I decided to take a week off for finals/performances and because my awesome family came into town. ...

Totally bummin.

District Manager: So you might have heard by now that your store manager was let go this morning.
147xxxx: Yeah.
DM: yeah... well, do you have any thoughts about that?
147: Well, can you tell me why he was fired?
DM: No, sorry, I can't.
147: Then, I can't fairly judge what I think about it, since there was nothing I witnessed that would be a reason to fire him.
DM: What do you mean?
147: Based on what I know, I couldn't have fired him. He was here for us, like when corporate is tell us all of these things to promote and changing their policies back and forth and cutting hours and firing baristas, he helped us made it manageable, and if we were suffering, he was too. I don't know. I feel like the company is changing, and he had that old way to working as a team that starbucks use to thrive on.
DM: So do you still like working for starbucks?
147: Well, I wouldn't stay if I didn't. So yeah, I do. It just gets frustrating because if you don't work in the stores, you have no idea what its like. Its just sad to see someone who had our backs be fired. (this was when I started to cry a bit - sheesh) ah, I'm sorry. I didn't think I would react this way; he was just a main part of our family here.
DM: Well you guys are an amazing team who are extremely close, and I just see that you and "another shift supervisor" really care about the store and the people here. I'm going to get someone in there who isn't going to ruin that and will help you more than your last store manager did.
Coincidentally, I have the majority of next week off because I have a few performances, finals, and my parents and my sister are in town. That last part is pretty exciting. Anyway, I'll be skipping the gloomy mood that will be in the store for the next week and by the time I get back there will probably be a new store manager. That will be interesting.

“Just a venti 7 pump chai 2 pump vanilla no water soy no foam...”
— customer.  and yes, i know...

“I think if I were a woman. I’d wear coffee as a perfume.”
— John Van Drute (also like to...

do you understand what tea even is? ...

Customer: (yelling to me over the handoff counter) WHAT ARE YOU PUTTING IN MY DRINK
147xxxx: uhm, what did you order?
Customer: PASSION TEA.
147: (looks at the line of tea drinks that I have to make and then at the cup markings) iced venti unsweetened passion tea?
Customer: UHG YES - WHY ARE YOU PUTTING WATER IN IT?
147: well, we make our iced teas highly concentrated, and then add water to make the drink we give to customers.
Customer: WHAT?! I DON'T WANT WATER IN MY ICED TEA.
147: I can make yours without water, but it might taste different than you're used to. Is that oka-
Customer: I DON'T WANT WATER IN MY PASSION TEA.

Last year we sold these awesome tumblers (ha, tumblers, not...