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PEACE OUT STARBUCKS! The summer after my freshman year of...

Aug 24th

You know when you’re a high school senior and the last time you do any event no matter how...

Aug 23rd

I'm going to be returning to New York in...

Sooo I’m just throwing this out there: if someone wants to hire me or help me get hired that...

Aug 22nd

IS THIS SOME KIND OF A JOKE? IT SHOULD...

Yesterday, I was double baring with a new partner.  It was maybe his 4th shift on bar, and a few of...

Aug 22nd

After 2 years of all of those customers...

(Five minutes before this conversation, we ran out of iced grande/venti flat lids, so we had to give out dome lids instead. No joke every customer who got an iced grande/venti drink had asked for a flat lid instead of the one I gave them. I had been nice and smiled saying that I was sorry to inconvenience them SO MUCH by giving them a dome lid. After the 245924th customer asking for a "normal" lid I was pretty sick of explaining that we didn't have flat lids to fit their drink... and that the iced tall lids they're pointing at wouldn't fit either.)
147xxxx: Alright, here's your iced grande iced coffee
Customer: Uhmm... Can I have a flat top?
147xxxx: ... I would have given you one but we ran out. We only have iced grande/venti dome lids.
Customer: Oh... (looks at the stack of iced tall flat lids, frowns, and then looks at me) You ran out? what's that?
147xxxx: This? ...THIS is an iced tall lid. It won't fit, but here you can have this lid as well.
Customer: oh... sorry to have questioned you.
"SORRY TO HAVE QUESTIONED YOU" brilliant.

Aug 22nd

“Oooh, we got a beverage bandit up in here this morning”
— my coworker referring to this...

Aug 20th

On Monday and Tuesday I worked an eight...

The new baristas will be good; they’re both eager to learn and are willing to do the cleaning...

Aug 20th

“You know, whenever I get drinks for everyone, they always...”
— An awesome customer (triple...

Aug 19th

“Do you want your whip cream?”
— Me on register. I meant to ask...

Aug 18th

How do these people function in the...

Customer: Can I have a uh.. shaken... tea lemonade?
Coworker: Sure - what kind of tea would you like?
Customer: grande.
Coworker: ...okay well what kind of tea do you want in your tea lemonade - passion, green, or black?
Customer: uhmm shaken tea... lemonade.
Coworker: right... a shaken tea lemonade is half lemonade and half tea so what kind of tea would you like in it - passion, green, or black?
Customer: oh... wait what kinds are there?

Aug 17th

So since I’m leaving the country in less than two...

Aug 16th

Listen

This is an excerpt from my Czech audio lessons. I unfortunately missed the next minute or so...

Aug 15th

Dear offices, please stop sending the...

In the afternoons we sometimes get a few drink orders.  I guess at 3 o’clock everyone...

Aug 14th

This is why I don't like to pick up the...

147xxxx: Hi, thanks for calling Starbucks *street*&*otherstreet*, how can I help you?
Caller: HEYYUHHHH WHEN DO YOU GUYS CLOSE?!
147xxxx: in ten minutes.
Caller: TEN MINUTES!?
147xxxx: yeah.
Caller: OKAYUHHHHHHH CAN YOU MAKE ME A DOUBLE ESPRESSO?!
147xxxx: ... if you come in before we're closed - yes
Caller: ALRIGHTWELLLLLL I'M COMING DOWN RIGHT NOW FOR ACROSS THE STREET SO I'LL COME IN TO PICK UP MY DOUBLE ESPRESSO
147xxxx: ...okay and I'll be waiting right here to ring you up - SEE YOU IN A JIFFY *click*
Sorry but when I have 10 minutes left of my crazy busy 8 hour shift, I'm just not. in. the. mood.

Aug 12th

"Oh, Saturday night? I can't. Yeah,...

Yesterday my coworker commented on the Aretha playing in our store saying that it was so his song. ...

Aug 11th

Listen up, dude with nice hair and a...

you are charming no one. love 147xxxx p.s. do you only wear muscle shirts When we’re...

Aug 11th

I just make the coffee not the cookies

147xxxx: Hey what can I get for you today?
customer: how fresh are the uhm... cinnamon swirl coffee cakes?
147xxxx: Well we got them in this morning, and we just opened up what they were packed in a bit ago
customer: ...but... how fresh are they?
147xxxx: uhm... really fresh? ha, sorry. We got them in today and they're still very soft
customer: well... don't you make them in the morning?
147xxxx: excuse me?
customer: Don't you make your pastries in the morning?
147xxxx: Like... us personally in the store?
customer: yeah
147xxxx: NO haha sorry, but no, they're shipped from bakeries
customer: ... oh... really? I had no idea
SERIOUSLY?! You really thought that we made them ourselves? Weren't you surprised that where ever you go in the whole world, we were able to make the lemon loaves look and taste exactly the same?

Aug 10th

Dear Coworker,

I love that you are super friendly with customers.  Its really great that you know their names and...

Aug 9th

Regardless of how much it stings, I will...

Aug 8th

“This is your first time in starbucks?! Well well well we...”
— My coworker when a giggly...

Aug 8th

So yesterday morning at 4:30AM, I’m walking my 2 minute walk to the subway station, and I see...

Aug 6th

I guess you are what you drink

147xxxx: tall black eye-
Tall Black Guy: EXCUSE ME?!?
147: uhm... a tall coffee with 2 shots of espresso in it... a um tall black eye?
TBG: OOOH oh okay ha sorry

Aug 6th

Dear 147xxxx,

My co worker and I both found your blog and we always wish our customers were more entertaining like...

Aug 5th

“Can I get an old doughnut?”
— A borrowed partner asking...

Aug 4th

I'M AN IDIOT WHEN I WORK IN THE...

Everyone told me I’d get used to it, but I just can’t really function at 6 in the...

Aug 4th

artpixie: Celebrity Crimes on vi.sualize.us Couldn’t...

Aug 3rd

Sometimes I wish I could take pictures...

I’d really love documentation of these awesome two ladies who come on a daily basis....

Aug 3rd