So to preface this. I've been at Starbucks for like 3 months now (I'm a 301) so I'm not seasoned but I'm also not hopeless. This one partner has been with Starbucks for maybe 6 months to a year and considers himself to be "seasoned". Well he's an arrogant, entitled teenager (he's like 18 or 19). Now I don't have an issue with most seasoned partners telling me what to do - cuz I find that they're generally right plus most of them tell us to do things in a generally kind manner. My issue is how he tells me (and other green beans) to do things. He'll literally demand or snap at us.

Yesterday, I'm stuck as DTR and he's DTO. I'm trying to reach past him and around him to grab drinks and food. He's like a solid post in front of the screen and insists on looking at each label and then slowly passing it towards me... that's of course when he isn't halfway across the store doing who knows what or messing with the bar partners or trying to talk to customers over the syrups. Well a mobile order comes through and he grabs the items and sits them down by the register next to me... all except one lowly food item... which was missed. Well I hand out all the items (minus the food item previously mentioned) and the mobile order leaves. Then he finds said food item and is immediately like "hey [my name] forgot to hand this out!" really loudly. Well hey guess what - it happens.

And at another point I was pulling people forward and two cars both got the same thing in a row... well one of them was done in time but the other wasn't. Well he immediately leapt to conclusions and was like "[my name] passed out the wrong drink!" Like full yelling it... with the window open and customers just staring at us. And I'm like "no... no I didn't? This drink is for that car" while pointing at the specific car that was parked outside. At one point yesterday (this is important) I was also restocking vanilla... we have a ton of cabinets so we have been keeping syrup bottles stocked on the floor for easy access during peak. Well I knew that the vanilla on the actual floor was older than the vanilla in the back so I was transporting the newer vanilla up to the front to replace the older vanilla that would be actually used by the bar partners. Wasn't done yet, but a bar partner asked me to grab ice for them so I moved to the back to grab ice, just leaving the vanilla on the counter since we have room for it and it'd be like 3 minutes.

Well sound carries really well in my store... even when I'm in the back and someone is in the front... and he spots the vanilla sitting on the counter and loudly says "oh. She brought up vanilla from the back but didn't bother putting the pumps on. That's cool. You know sometimes I wonder about some people". So I had that rumbling around my head all day, night, and today. So yesterday I was fed up with him cuz it went on all day - I got blamed for everything and he could do no wrong, as well as that sarcastic comment rumbling around in my head.

Today (note I still have the vanilla incident rumbling around in my brain). He's again working DTO but I'm thankfully on front/warming aka far away from him... as well as running items out to cars to keep window times low. Well I'm also restocking things (milks, cups, lids, ice, etc) in between front customers and warming. So I'm restocking, basically making a mental checklist, when he's suddenly like "that car!" And I'm like "what?" And he's just pointing outside and I'm like "what are you talking about?! Use your words...?" And he's getting huffy with me and just talking about a car. And I'm like "dude I don't have a headset on... I do not know what you're talking about" (I had figured out that he was wanting me to run something out but I didn't know *what* to run out). Another barista is like "the caramel and coffee frappuccinos" cuz they realized I was getting annoyed with the entitled barista not using the actual words needed.

So I run it out cuz it's my job and I'll do my job when someone actually tells me the info that I need to know but at this point I'm so annoyed by this entitled barista that I'm just not wanting to even interact with him cuz he's so entitled and can do no wrong and tries to pin everything wrong on the newer baristas. He's also arrogant and self-centered and constantly references his mother and how important she is (she works at a local university and i guess makes a lot of money). He also always comments on how the outfits he wears are like $500+ each or similar.

So tell me. Am I wrong for being annoyed at this barista? I just... now later today (after some reflection) I feel bad for being snappy and short with him (he is a teenager after all) but ffs. I'm not a mind reader nor am I his personal scapegoat... nor are any of the other baristas. I'm trying to get over it cuz it's not conducive to working with him plus there's no point in being annoyed/angry but he just rubs me the wrong way... especially when he acts like that all the time.

TDLR: entitled barista makes everything seem like someone else's fault as well as is generally obnoxious and rude to newer baristas.