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Starbucks Baristas: The daily grind

Full History - 2022 - 01 - 11 - ID#s1sj4n
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“you too” (self.starbucksbaristas)
submitted by ek420g
You guys know when you open the window and you’re like, “Hey, your total is $5.25,” and they just go “I’m good, how are you?” because they auto piloted and expected you to say that? This woman today asked me for a straw for her venti vanilla sweet cream cold brew, and since we’re out of large straws, I gave her a grande straw and said “I’m sorry, but we only have the little ones,” as I handed it to her, and she just said “you too,” and left. As someone who is 5’1” (on a good day), me and my coworkers all found this pretty hilarious - though it does irk me a bit how little effort customers put into listening. Usually it’s funny, and we get laughs like these, but it’s an interesting phenomenon.
Normal_Human_4567 12 points 1y ago
To be fair, I'm a dumbass and I would do this. It doesn't mean I didn't listen, just that the words were already coming out before I even registered what you said, or I said.

It doesn't mean I'm not listening, just that I am *truly socially stupid*. I have said far too many times to customers "chanks" because I got confused between 'cheers' and 'thanks'.

ETA or they say 'thank you!' and I say 'you too!' Why am I thanking them
strawberry_sprite_ 3 points 1y ago
we used to say all sort of crazy greetings to customers and none of them were phased because they weren’t paying attention. we also will say “we will be with you on one moment” and 95% of the time they ignore that and start ordering
bmm0528 1 points 1y ago
I handed out a mobile to a person and they said thank you and I responded with "you too". To be fair we had just opened and I was still super tired. I didn't notice until my shift started laughing when the customer left and told me😬😂
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