No lmfao it’s cathartic. I love watching them get mad when the drive they voice says we’re closed.

It's the best. Used to work at a paint retailer and our hours were 10-2 on Sundays, it was so great seeing people try to pry our sliding doors open before 10am and after 2pm. Like dude the lights are off. What really put the icing on the cake was our store was in a very affluent, "old money" demographic type area so seeing these entitled 1%ers throw a fit was what kept me going at that job...

Gold star for creating your own third place 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I love after close when people come through drive and still try and order but we get to ignore them. amazing. aaaamazing.

or- on snow days, in a usually warm area, when people drive up to a totally dark store surprised that hours are going to be different. I got to watch baffled people pull away waiting for a manager to open the store.

So yes, I'd do the same thing. I'd bring snacks.

LOL, beautiful. Just beautiful.

No. I used to leave my headset on after closing just so I could listen to people pull up to the speaker box and yell into it like idiots, asking if we were still open. It brought me joy.

if that makes you a bad person, then that mean i am too bc i do the exact same thing. it’s the best medicine after a bad shift

Me every Sunday morning before we open at 9am. We open at 6am during the week and people think we do Sunday too.

No this is the #1 best thing about being a closer

Thanksgiving week, the store I worked at was only open 5:30 to 12. One day my boyfriend and his mom were waiting for me to get off so we could go to lunch, and they sat there and counted how many people stopped, read the sign, and still jiggled the door. Not to mention, the same day a women tried to open the front door, then the side door, and then walked into our drive through and knocked on our window saying she had a mobile order. We hadn't had mobile orders on that entire week...

Thats the best part of closing.

In time like these take solace where you find it.

Lol nope. If I was your coworker, I'd pop some popcorn and park right next to you.

Happiness, like energy, is a commodity that can neither be created nor destroyed, only transferred from one form to another. When people can't order at your store they transfer their happiness to you.

No! Doing things like this is the spice of life! I don’t work at Starbucks anymore but at my bar we sit in the back at 3 am and watch people on the cameras look into the clearly closed bar.

My store closes early and I love ignoring people trying to get in. We’ve been closing early for months and people are still surprised. I don’t get how people look up our phone number to ask hours but don’t just look at our listed hours online.

we’re open 8-2 right now. to be honest, the most scrumptious feeling in the world is when I’m counting down the drawer and someone yanks on the locked door and I get to look up and smile and wave at them.
it’s just *chefs kiss* delicious.

lmao i thought i was wrong for stuff like this too. i like it when we close early cause then some people come and try and get in, then they also make the effort to call the store. though some people i wouldn’t mind serving too

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There’s a recorded voice for y’all when you close? We have cars sit there until I wait 30 sec and tell ‘em ‘we closed bro’.

Im waiting for the day someone walks smack into the door. Most of our customers are great its just that 1% who act like an $8 coffee beverage entitles them to be obnoxious to the people making and serving it.

No I loved when I worked at the drive thru and the voice would come on saying we were closed. Id leave my headset on while doing closing stuff just to hear peoples reactions

My store is in a mall, and people still walk through even thought the mall and my store has closed. When we’re closing, we have no barriers so customers can still come up to us. I love telling them that we’re closed and no to ice waters or anything else. They fight with us and I do not ease up. WE ARE CLOSED.

Love this for you

When I would close more I did this often, it’s hilarious watching people stomp off angrily. My favorite was the time a woman was banging on our cafe window because she wanted espresso beans…we’re a 3 minute walk from a Safeway

It’s one of the only joys we get at work lol

no it’s hilarious lmao when we close early we all watch from the inside and laugh

Not at all, may I even recommend sitting in the cafe instead of your car so you can get a better look at their faces. Nothing beats the joy of watching someone knock on the locked door or walk around to try to see if the other door is open. My last shift after working at the bux for 15+ years was a week ago and watching people not be able to get is literally the only thing I miss.

lol my store is open from 6-12 for the same reasons & while we’re closing the store i love watching people trying to come in & getting pissed off when they finally realize that we’re closed

We're experiencing snow storms here and after being empty for almost an hour, our manager said we could close early (around 6pm when we usually close at 7). We turn off the lights and after 20 minutes of cleaning, a group of grumpy middle aged women tried to come in and I got to tell them we closed early. Luckily they were decent about it, but I love telling people we're closed!

Nope

oh good im so glad to hear this because i’ve accidentally done this a couple times and have felt really embarrassed . Glad you could enjoy. Starbucks has always been important to our family we have always moved a lot and have felt that starbucks was a place where you felt a sense of community and the baristas would learn our names also we would be able to tip. Sadly this has all eroded in the last two years….. I rarely go anymore the last time i went i was comforting the single employee that was scheduled alone all day…… starbucks has been driven into the ground it underpays its employees they are overworked. It’s done and i’m so down about it.