What do you want from me? ... besides a free sandwich
- Customer: Do you recycle?
- Coworker: Oh no, sorry we actually don't.
- Customer: What? Why don't you? You shut down mom and pop coffee shops and charge six dollars a drink, and you don't sell fair trade coffees either.
- Coworker: Hah, well some of our coffees are fair trade, and Starbucks is actually trying to-
- Customer: Oh and you guys get benefits; guess its worth all of this for the benefits, right?
- Coworker: ah... sure.
- I walked out of the back room maybe an hour later to find this dude back up at the counter giving my coworkers a hard time once again
- Customer: Yeah I have this good friend from the Hamptons and he was a shift and he use to always give me the sandwiches and let me tell you after a day those things were DISGUSTING. (my coworker counting the safe gives a curtosey laugh) ... but you know you throw out all of those sandwiches every night, and that is FUCKED UP. Really fucked up. (after getting no reaction from us) You know, I was in the Hamptons a few weeks ago while they were closing, and I asked for a sandwich and then ended up giving me a full big bag of them, and I was all like, hey man, I just asked for one! Way to listen to your customers
- 147xxxx: ... hah... it sounds like someone is trying to get a free sandwich
- Customer: Oh, no - I already had one and (trying to be a hilarious douche) it needed more mayo, more mustard, more lettuce, better bread, and a little salt and pepper would probably make it actually taste good
- 147xxxx: (my coworker again gave a courtesy laugh, but I didn't think he was all that amusing) Ah, well there's a deli around the corner.
- Customer: Oh look at you! all gossip girl (wtf? I don't even watch that show, but I'm pretty sure I wasn't wearing a plaid skirt and headband)
- Look, I'm really sorry that because of a starbucks being present other "mom and pop" coffee places have closed down. That sucks. So yes I can probably say off the clock that it sucks, but there isn't much I can do about it. If you don't want to support Starbucks for doing this, then don't come here. Why don't you go to one of the many independent coffee shops in the city. If fair trade is an issue that you really really care about you'll be happy to know that a lot of them do only fair trade coffees. We don't yet, but we're working on it.
- And really, our drinks are rarely $6
- I would love for us to recycle, but I don't really have the power to enforce Starbucks to recycle. I've brought up this issue to my district manager, but since the building our store is in doesn't offer a place to put our recycling, we can't really do it unless we collected the bottles and did it ourselves. And city harvest used to come and pick up the sandwiches or something for the homeless, but then they stopped because they didn't think it was worth the trip to pick up 4 or 5 sandwiches. So if we wanted to, we would have to do it ourselves. So I'm sorry if this makes me a bad person, but after dealing with you stupid assholes and the homeless all night, I'm really really tired.
- And if you don't like our sandwiches, then don't buy them!
- For a guy who is all about the Hamptons, you're really fucking cheap to try to get a free $5 sandwich.
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