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Starbucks Baristas: The daily grind

Full History - 2021 - 01 - 16 - ID#kyxzul
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Pumping chai/frap roast into a tall cup (i.redd.it)
submitted by katstes
NoodlesMan1231 36 points 2y ago
The pain😢
katstes [OP] 62 points 2y ago
when the hand wash timer goes off and you have to wash up to your elbows just to get rid of all the syrup on your forearms 🤥
sammieduck69420 29 points 2y ago
i would always have dried syrups on my arms and it would look like a weird skin disease 😬
420catloveredm 32 points 2y ago
I had a coworker ask me if I had psoriasis. Nah. That was just dried classic syrup on a black person. Lmao.
ih8yogurt 9 points 2y ago
Meanwhile I’m pale af and frapp roast actually stains my skin for a few days.
aubriesage 13 points 2y ago
i was just thinking about that today!! i was handing off cafe drinks and noticed the dried syrup on my hands. i was hoping no one would notice & think i had a skin disease 😅
NoodlesMan1231 7 points 2y ago
All for that starbucks grind😃
sammieduck69420 34 points 2y ago
ya mean any cup****
katstes [OP] 7 points 2y ago
Valid
GhosttMutt 31 points 2y ago
I'm allergic to Chai and this really hits different 😭😭😭
xalaskarose 16 points 2y ago
The pitcher rinser too. I’ll accidentally, somehow, either drop a pitcher in the sink while trying to wash it but my hand pushes the little trigger in on the rinser and then water sprays everywhere. Sometimes customers stand near our Frappuccino station, to watch us work ig or be “observant,” and I always want to be like, “just a warning, you’re in the splash zone.”
katstes [OP] 4 points 2y ago
welcome to the ***splash zone***
moon_light523 3 points 2y ago
The amount of times I’ve sprayed myself or the ceiling with water because of that thing is astronomical 😂
alcohoseok 2 points 2y ago
splash zone is a great name for it. i wear glasses so every time that happens i’ll be running around just seeing life in small dots and especially during peak when i can’t even take time to wipe them off
stevebuckyy 2 points 2y ago
sometimes when i'm filling up a water i specifically put the ice first so it'll hit it and spray everywhere... because people are standing RIGHT there next to the handoff and it's annoying.

they've never gotten angry at me and always acknowledge they were too close but. oops lmao
bigghostb00ty 16 points 2y ago
I dropped a bottle of vanilla tonight at the start of my shift and it exploded on me. My whole pants were crusty alllll night 🙃
bumpinpumpkin468 16 points 2y ago
I got chai in my eye while pumping it once
katstes [OP] 20 points 2y ago
My favorite is during peak on bar and i’m pumping chai and can feel it spray across my face but i don’t have time to stop and wipe it off so it just looks like weird freckles
Ai_Takahashi 6 points 2y ago
Did that today
RetroNotRetro 11 points 2y ago
If you pump it into the sides of the cup rather than directly into the bottom, it reduces splashback significantly! This goes for any syrup, and it goes without saying that chai is probably gonna splash a little regardless, but less is better than more lol
katstes [OP] 8 points 2y ago
I always try to but sometimes i’ll make a white mocha and then a chai and i’m still in the mindset of manhandling the pump :/
RetroNotRetro -4 points 2y ago
Not sure what to tell you there other than to train yourself to adjust to your situation more quickly
zoooooobee 5 points 2y ago
My favorite is when someone puts the white mocha pump on the chai:/ I had chai in my hair all night last night.
hidood101 5 points 2y ago
i just say theyre free freckles
Sissy-Bee 3 points 2y ago
I play. The guessing game on whether it's chai or just a freckle lol (my arms are covered in freckles) I'm often wrong on my geuss 🤣
mikel_bo_bikel 2 points 2y ago
push the pump down really slowly and pump down the side of the cup ☺️☺️
notdomonique 2 points 2y ago
Why does Chai and Froast pump out so aggressively 😭
sillypinoy 1 points 2y ago
For us it's the mocha. It gets everywhere no matter the size of the cup.
pugslostinstars 1 points 2y ago
I would also like to suggest checking the pumps/collars bc a lot of time the frap roast or chai will pump super aggressively bc it’s in a mechanism meant to pump something thiccccc like white mocha
alcohoseok 1 points 2y ago
i remember in my training days it was my first day solo on cold bar and i looked at myself in the mirror and saw mocha and frap roast splattered all over my face🤪
jules14866 1 points 2y ago
Yes!! Or when you’re filling the tea pitchers with water and skim the pitcher rinser and get a nice shower
Caffeinated_Zombie14 1 points 2y ago
Yes!! Just washed off the layer on my arms of a frap roast, chai, mocha and random syrups mixture after 5.75 hrs of nonstop craziness. To which I mainly was on cold bar. Was actually happy to have the short shift today! With stores shut down around us, we set a new record for sales at noonish. Honestly, not the kind of records I want to be setting right now.
moon_light523 1 points 2y ago
The first day I ever tried to wear a white shirt was also when I was put into cold bar...needless to say I don’t plan to wear white shirts anymore 😂
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