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Starbucks Baristas: The daily grind

Full History - 2022 - 07 - 27 - ID#w9dlzy
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Starbucks or Fear Factor? (i.redd.it)
submitted by whispermaw
whispermaw [OP] 39 points 11m ago
those are maggots :)

disclaimer: this is outside trash
Binx_da_gay_cat 13 points 11m ago
I wear combat boots to work (so they feel), so i would likely scrape them off and stomp them. But only cause we have bad enough fly problems and that close to the door would be bad.
StormTheParade 9 points 11m ago
Have y'all been throwing away a fuck ton of sammies?

only time i've seen a bin full of maggots like this is when someone threw away a bunch of meat - not at Starbucks, it was a personal bin (not mine tho thank fuck).

Harder to do with starbucks but once its empty you just hose it down and let it dry, it *should* be okay after that. Problem is, Starbucks doesn't usually have garden hoses outside and the thought of someone bringing that back inside got me kinda nauseous ngl lmao
whispermaw [OP] 8 points 11m ago
yeah so we toss the pastry case every night. and people (customers) will dump their personal trash.. (i.e. half empty lattes) in our bins. that in addition to the heat and humidity of our location…. perfect lil breeding ground. The secondary problem is now we don’t wanna put bags in the bins… so the birds are breaking into the bags and throwing trash EVERYWHERE. it’s super fun. everything is super fun.
StormTheParade 3 points 11m ago
Yep, I was lucky when I was a barista, my Starbs in Texas was in a shopping center so we had a massive dumpster. If there were ever creepy crawlies in it, I never knew.

Genuinely cannot imagine leaving a regular bin like this out in this nasty heat, full of pastries and sandwiches and stuff. I mean the smell alone must be awful even without the bugs... yikes.
Lauri925 2 points 11m ago
We have a padlock on our trash can so customers can't throw random stuff in the outside can. Everything we put in it is on a bag and it has stopped being as gross.
ItsAWildFelix 13 points 11m ago
respectfully I would cry.
whispermaw [OP] 11 points 11m ago
the yelp i let out was inhuman
ItsAWildFelix 3 points 11m ago
I believe it 😭 I’m so sorry
darkwolf523 1 points 11m ago
black bolt is that you?
mr305mr_mrworldwide 10 points 11m ago
is that a cockroach on the left 🙃
whispermaw [OP] 4 points 11m ago
yep
mr305mr_mrworldwide 8 points 11m ago
aww hell no i'm clocking out 6 hours early never to be heard of again
bogodee 2 points 11m ago
It’s alright cuz he’s been there, done that
mallh0e 3 points 11m ago
For my own emotional well-being, I’m telling myself this is rice and going about my day
prinpink 2 points 11m ago
i could not be paid to do that holy shit
what did you do 😭😭😭😭
darkwolf523 1 points 11m ago
Nope. flies, ants i can deal with. Maggots? Nah I’ll clock out. Bye
-Zispy 1 points 11m ago
Dude ours was way worse than this. We share with a poke place and they toss their trash without even looking and there’s always raw fish, noodles, rice and chopsticks all over the floor and you can’t even walk to the dumpster after a while. There were hundreds of flies and I can’t even imagine the maggots
Necessary_Low939 1 points 11m ago
Lord have mercy in ur soul.
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