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Starbucks Baristas: The daily grind

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Full History - 2021 - 04 - 27 - ID#mzosex

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people who spell their name for you when you’re taking their order have a special place in my heart (i.redd.it)

submitted by butlikeactuallybro

olivinemultichrome 164 points 2y ago

Meanwhile at my store:

“Did you want that hot or iced?”

“For Pam. That’s P-A-M”

“Ok but did you want that hot or iced?”

“No that’s all thanks!”

*facepalm*

butlikeactuallybro [OP] 67 points 2y ago

i sound weird asf when i say “hot or iced” bc people really CANT hear. i go “HAAAWWTT OORRR EYECD?”🐥

olivinemultichrome 30 points 2y ago

Even if I’m literally holding up the hot and iced cups they just look at both and go “yeah that’s good thanks” like.... make a freaking decision

butlikeactuallybro [OP] 29 points 2y ago

exactly. i’ve literally been cussed out for asking whether the customer wanted their drink (it was a caramel macchiato) hot or iced.. and for what?

olivinemultichrome 27 points 2y ago

YoU sHoUlD kNoW i WaNtEd ThAt IcEd

bryceofswadia 10 points 2y ago

the most annoying thing is when someone orders a small drink and you instinctively say “a tall [drink]” and they go “no i said a small”. like girl i onow it’s confusing pls

coffeecatmom 13 points 2y ago

THIS WAS THE FIRST NAME I WAS GONNA CALL OUT. I was about to be like yeah except when they say “PAM, P-A-M” like thank you, I’m not that dumb.

misswallflowerr 3 points 2y ago

id make it "cam" just for the hell of it lol

flavioTOBR 9 points 2y ago

So the way that we usually did at my store was just to assume that it was hot unless specified it was iced. It saved us a lot of time.

olivinemultichrome 24 points 2y ago

Our store is half tourists who want iced and half old people who want hot so it’s basically a 50/50 guess

flavioTOBR 2 points 2y ago

Lmao 💀

butlikeactuallybro [OP] 13 points 2y ago

we did this for a while, but just wasted time because people switched it up and with covid, it’s like giving away a free drink because we can’t take it back.

D73548 6 points 2y ago

Yeah we assume its hot but majority of the time its "i said iced" and then it has to be remade and that gets annoying.

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P_2_P 1 points 2y ago

I started saying, “it’s a hot one right ?” Jo 🙋🏽‍♂️🦎🔮🍑🧆
1. If it is hot they go yes.
2. If it’s iced they go actually I’ll have it ices

flavioTOBR 72 points 2y ago

The most ironic part for me is that I used to work at starbucks in a mostly white neighborhood and being a foreigner myself I’d never know how to spell simple white ppls names lmao they would get so mad

_hipster_dog_ 8 points 2y ago

I'm a white person from a mostly white neighborhood and I don't even know how to spell most white names lol

gabbysafari 33 points 2y ago

my favorite is when white people with basic names spell it out for you 😅 like thanks, i definitely didn’t know how to spell “tom” before this!

cswtf 14 points 2y ago

That’s thom to you

gabbysafari 10 points 2y ago

maybe it could be “tahm” 🤔

misswallflowerr 1 points 2y ago

tawm

BoysLock 1 points 2y ago

Eh I've misheard stuff super badly before. Especially with masks lol Tom can be super close to John

G37_is_numberletter 24 points 2y ago

“It’s Psara”

“Sarah with an H?”

“No, with a P”

“....????????”

ZacW94 9 points 2y ago

Sarap

ntsrhcyj 1 points 2y ago

Means yummy lol

misswallflowerr 2 points 2y ago

once had someone tell me its "chrystina with a k"
so i spelled it chrystinaK

Assiqtaq 11 points 2y ago

I have to spell my name or be accepting of it being not being spelled correctly. So yeah, either way is fine, just depends on how I feel that day.

FfierceLaw 11 points 2y ago

I get several “Jay”s I appreciate that

sleepyteaa 10 points 2y ago

The only people that spell their name in my experience are the ones that are super easy lmao: Sam, Paul, Mike, etc

realdognoway 7 points 2y ago

Can’t wait to meet Conchobar McGregor!

Astraterris 5 points 2y ago

I don’t ask for their name, I just say can you spell your name for me please

butlikeactuallybro [OP] 7 points 2y ago

a true intellectual

misswallflowerr 3 points 2y ago

i purposefully spell names wrong when they spell it out for me. it slightly irritates them but they get their coffee, so whats so wrong about the misspelled name?
i make it as close to their name without any of the correct vowels/ make it look weird.
(josh: jawsh, cody: koadie, elizebeth: alyzabith, amanda: uhmanduh, etc... )

butlikeactuallybro [OP] 2 points 2y ago

i will be doing this now

CasualVictim 3 points 2y ago

I don't even bother using my real name. I have a Starbucks name to make it easier.

cs_phoenix 3 points 2y ago

Needs more jpeg

kizzythaboss 1 points 2y ago

My name is Kia. Guess how many times it's either spelled wrong or pronounced wrong. 😭

vbsp13 1 points 2y ago

My coffee name is Oprah bc for some reason when I say Shanon people hear Janet???

Ohana_Coffee 1 points 2y ago

For an order I typed in brya instead of Bryan for trying to type fast while I was training, the guy didn’t get mad at me he told me that he use to work at Starbucks and understands my situation.

Wonderful_Nightmare 1 points 2y ago

Inb4 that time Travis was spelled Chavez

kxnkycxrly 1 points 2y ago

mines just Carly and idc how it’s spelled.

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