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Starbucks Baristas: The daily grind

Full History - 2022 - 05 - 26 - ID#uy7lel
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starbucks dreams (self.starbucksbaristas)
submitted by wormybabybabu
Y'all I just had a dream that some lady bersted the barista on POS saying that she wanted a steamed mango dragonfruit refresher with 4 shots of ristretto with vsccf and caramel drizz and the barista said sorry we cant steam our refreshers and then this maniac ssv wa slike actually you can steam those just not the iced teas... So I made a venti *steamed* mango dragonfruit w/ quad ristretto, vsccf, and caramel drizzle and the customer was like this is delicious thank you bye


Anyone else have absolutely criminal starbucks dreams?
throwaway2825272 67 points 1y ago
what did i just read
uwumoment 38 points 1y ago
not criminal dreams but just stressful ones. always right before i work morning shifts which are the worst. i can never hear my alarm if all i’m worrying about is that im 40 mins behind on mobile in my head and im the only one in the store 😩
wormybabybabu [OP] 15 points 1y ago
Yikes I get similar ones too but lately its been just insane dreams of me making monstrosities
[deleted] 22 points 1y ago
You obviously don’t smoke enough weed
wormybabybabu [OP] 12 points 1y ago
Quit smoking weed a year ago
[deleted] 12 points 1y ago
I couldn’t while I was still at the bux. But when I was the real king toker I didn’t dream. I do now that it’s sometimes thing.
wormybabybabu [OP] 13 points 1y ago
Bro I have no idea how im still at 'bux n not ripping tokes on my breaks
[deleted] 5 points 1y ago
It’s better for your health boy to smoke anything In the long run.

My moniker should read “Unskilled Buddhist” these days lmao

But on that train of thought I seriously believe the best path is to be influenced by nothing if you possibly can. Weed makes you something that’s not you and that’s fine. But the you that doesn’t need that at all is probably cooler

Edit: I type like a Neanderthal
SamusCroft 3 points 1y ago
Why couldn’t you when you worked at Starbucks?
[deleted] 4 points 1y ago
So I’m introverted by nature, People literally drain me. I started at the bux for ASU and while I was enrolled that was all well good and worth it. But then I had a kid and a post pardom mother that demanded my time and energy (Rightly so)


Anyways, I would smoke because it dampened that effect on my because I wasn’t truly present for all the half assed staged interactions that litter ally ate at my soul every second of every day I got put on drive through.
Then the miss management and constant call outs started so no position was safe for your sanity. But it got to the point where I realized all these things and that I should probably slow down a bit.
When I did and I was sober at Starbucks I started raging a path against management, realized I wasn’t getting paid enough to do that and found a better job doing at home calls in my pjs.

People can degrade me all they want on the phone in my pjs lmfao
TheWheelZee 12 points 1y ago
🤮
tscribblesss_ 11 points 1y ago
I literally had a Starbucks nightmare last night…. We were closing and then the alarms started going off because people got in the store. There was around 50+ people inside and outside our store and no one was listening to get out because were closed. Everyone was so mad and telling us to make them drinks. Even after I explained to people that our machines were broken down we can’t make anything they were yelling. Why does Starbucks have to give me stress nightmares all the time :/
wormybabybabu [OP] 6 points 1y ago
I felt that.
KidKonundrum 10 points 1y ago
We once got someone asking for a matcha tea latte…

MADE WITH WATER!

After we told her we can’t steam water she told us and I quote: “just make my fucking drink!”
Gone_Overboard1632 9 points 1y ago
Too realistic, you must have been awake.
KidKonundrum 6 points 1y ago
Sadly I was.
CatbellyDeathtrap 7 points 1y ago
That’s just a hot matcha tea. Traditionally it’s whisked into water but I don’t see why you couldn’t steam it. It’s not gonna hurt the steam wand.
wormybabybabu [OP] 4 points 1y ago
I'm not really sure what I'd do there tbh
aspiringgrandpa 3 points 1y ago
omg we had to steam water for someone’s “extra extra hot” americano… like tf
ilovelimes333 6 points 1y ago
BRO i had a dream like last month, i was in the back room and someone knocked on the door. My coworker told me not to open it, but i opened it immediately. & it was just a homeless man staring at me in the eyes with a knife in his hand pointing it at me😀 then i tried to hit it off his hand but just ended up breaking it in half? lmao.
wormybabybabu [OP] 3 points 1y ago
Damn that's next level
Gone_Overboard1632 5 points 1y ago
Have lots of dreams where people are telling me to make things that just sounds gross. I usually half wake up from them like "ah tis but a dream" and then go bck to sleep just to go back to the same dream.

The other night I had one that we had to do whatever the customer wanted, it was a new policy. And these two guys asked me to make soup for them, so I took a bunch of sandwich meat and tea and salt packets and put them in the oatmeal bowl and topped it up with water. They gave me a potato to put into it too. Idk that was kind of weird.
Responsible_Snow7109 3 points 1y ago
>The other night I had one that we had to do whatever the customer wanted, it was a new policy.

Lmao u sure that wasnt real life? Doesnt seem too far off from realty😂
dayahorne 1 points 1y ago
Sounds like you fell asleep watching chopped and then went to work.
VintageD3vil 3 points 1y ago
We were really slow the other day and steamed a dragon drink. It tastes like a war crime if anyone was curious
wormybabybabu [OP] 3 points 1y ago
🤮
Kayp22296 2 points 1y ago
I had a nightmare after I started that directly involved the ovens beeping and an urn that was brewing just brewing onto the floor while I was running the floor solo for some reason 🙃🙃🙃
Wonderful-Put-5972 2 points 1y ago
I would have followed her to see where she threw it out!
iiiimagery 2 points 1y ago
My meds make me always have vivid dreams relating to whatever was on my mind/I did that day so pretty much everyday I work and get slightly stressed out I dream about weird scenarios. Too many to count, and it's honestly exhausting to dream abt work the entire night just to go again
Better_Dust_2364 2 points 1y ago
Wait we can’t steam the refreshers? I feel stupid asking, but why?
wormybabybabu [OP] 4 points 1y ago
You can steam them, just in my dream the POS barista was like "no wtf" and the shift was like "do it its fine". The iced teas tho... Don't steam those
alexkerie 1 points 1y ago
one time, my general manager drank steamed passion tango tea and when one customer saw me give it to her, she tried to order the same thing. one of the partners told her that we can’t do that and the lady said “i just seen that one give someone that drink” and it was so awkward because my friend had then said “well… that’s my manager”
wormybabybabu [OP] 1 points 1y ago
Umm I'm like 90% sure teas shouldn't be steamed. I'm gunna try and find the standard when I go in tomorrow
Edit: the way I get my passion tea hot is half a cup of passion, half a cup of hot water no ice no liquid cane
alexkerie 3 points 1y ago
oh 100% they’re not supposed to. and my manager knew it too, but she just wanted it for herself. she even told us that if any other person asks, to not do it.
LilacFlores 1 points 1y ago
Why can’t we? Is there a bad reaction?
sydbey_ 2 points 1y ago
i mean we have a regular that orders her “usual” which is a steamed strawberry refresher with extra berries and no water
wormybabybabu [OP] 4 points 1y ago
That's criminal
mrsastro 1 points 1y ago
I got Covid and had epic Starbucks dreams. The best two:

Starbucks added fried chicken tenders to the menu. We made them on the Mastrena machines, steaming the oil and then adding the chicken. We were getting burned, customers were getting splattered with hot oil, and it was a very popular item that slowed us down, so we had lines around the store going in concentric circles.

Another time I dreamed there was an Internet rumor that the cure for Covid was “tears tea,” made like a HCMT, but sub the steamed tears of Covid survivors for the hot water. Everyone who had survived Covid had to come in early for their shifts to cry. Our break room was showing “Where the Red Ferm Grows” on a little tv in back and had all kinds of “sad magazines” (hey, in my dream, this was a thing — like porn mags only these magazines were to make you cry). The tears were shed into cubes, then dated and refrigerated, as the Health Dept demands (in my dream).

I started working at Starbucks in early Dec 2021, and hooo boy was I in for an experience. I had to learn fast because I was one of the few who didn’t have Covid in Dec-Jan. Then, after everyone else was doing better, I got Covid in Feb 2022 and had these dreams. I have asthma and autoimmune issues, so when my manager said to come back to work after five days and I was wayyyy too sick to do that, all of my dreams centered around my job at Starbucks. Good times. 😅
nickintheback08 1 points 1y ago
I have dreams that my alarm goes off and I get ready for work then I wake up to my actual alarm and hate the world
ironic_nic 1 points 1y ago
I keep having dreams of me accidentally taking a headset home
Have_Donut 1 points 1y ago
Wutdefuq?
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