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Full History - 2019 - 09 - 13 - ID#d3xzx0
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a karen tried to take our tips (self.starbucksbaristas)
submitted by j4c13_b
okay so this middle aged white mom comes in,, i greet her,, she orders,, everything is fine and dandy. her total comes out to like $7.68 or something and she hands me $7,, before reaching into our unlabeled tip jar to get change. i give her a look like "????" and she's like "??????" and eventually she's like "ohhh thats a tip jar" like bitch ? what else would it be ? she eventually found another dollar bill and we completed the transaction,, i was polite to her and everything. a few minutes later i was thinking about this altercation and i guess i had a weird expression on my face bc one of my partners was like "omg whats up ?" over the headset. and i was like "oh this lady thought our tip jar was just a take a penny thing or something idk" and my coworker says kinda loudly "she didn't realize there were literally $10 bills in the jar ???" and i guess the karen heard and knew what was being discussed. so i guess she reported it to our shift and we gave her a recovery card,, and it was fine. i do feel genuinely bad,, like hell if she really didn't have the change i would have covered her 68 cents or whatever. i was just in a really awkward position bc i don't see how in what universe would it be okay to take money out of what is clearly a tip jar ?
swansonknope 25 points 3y ago
Gave her a recovery card?! Ugh. Reward stupidity.
METAXILLUS 18 points 3y ago
Once a teen owed like ten cents in drive and she legit asked me if I had ten cents.

I just kinda stared at her like, wait, who are you?
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motelkitty 10 points 3y ago
ill never get over how everyone describes these types of customers as “karen” it’s so funny to me. she dead ass was also the “can i speak to your manager” type as well LMFAOOOOO
voxinx 9 points 3y ago
If someone takes too long to dig around in their purse/pocket and they were nice to me, I could care less about the change. But once you’re rude, you bet your ass I’m gonna count every single cent before giving you your triple non fat half breve no foam latte with nutmeg on top.
baengali 1 points 3y ago
doesn’t your till come up short tho! ?
voxinx 1 points 3y ago
Constantly but my store sucks and never does anything about any drawer being short. We constantly will have opener drawers still in at 9pm or tills just sitting around.
baengali 3 points 3y ago
oof. living on the edge i see
darkwolf523 4 points 3y ago
What? That’s not how recovery cards work. *visible confusion*
j4c13_b [OP] 1 points 3y ago
elaborate please ! i know they're supposed to be used if we like mess up the drink or something ? but i'd like to know the standard on that for future reference
darkwolf523 3 points 3y ago
I mean that’s how I use them really. If either the cashier rang up the wrong drink or another barista made it wrong.
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