Pissed off a lady today at drive thru(self.starbucksbaristas)
submitted by Newbarista-nerd
Lady was giving me attitude at drive thru order , it was already a flipping zoo inside the store. Non-stop lineup. She asked for a pup cup last minute and I said no we’re out of whip cream. She peaks through the window and said , “no you’re not - what’s that over there”. I said no those are empty & she drove right off 😂 I’m new and already fed up with peoples sh*t .
Any funny stories you have denying customers?
Hoax_Pudding_Cup330 points8m ago
I love when customers think they know stock better than employees. Like ma'am, the brownie in the case does not count, no I don't have more cups in the back, and no, I'm not "hiding" the French Roast Vias.
linseeded114 points8m ago
We ran out of grande cold cups one day and people got mad that their drinks were being made in venti cups but not filled to the top. One guy was like “why didn’t you just make me a venti then?” 😐😑
AssignmentBitter570137 points8m ago
Oh thank you for reminding me I’m gonna need to go to the register to refund to buy a venti 😂. My store ran out of grande cups a couple times and because we had a bunch of newer people at that point we were telling people we were only making tall and Venti I’m not doing the grande and putting it into a bigger cup
smc64221 points8m ago
What an arsehole
canidieyet_15 points8m ago
i kept reading that as “french toast vias” and i’d give anything for that tbh
transpterodactyl8 points8m ago
"Why does my sticker say 'in a venti cup'?" We have to account for inventory ma'am pls
StuffiesAndBeatSaber5 points8m ago
Someone wanted to buy our espresso beans today. My coworker asked me if we had any so I went to go check because we just did the holiday set up so I knew there had to be some in the back.
Then he insisted that the espresso beans in our prepackaged bag weren't the same ones we use on our bar and he wanted the ones on bar... might as well say our pike place beans aren't the same as the brew we sell.. what do we know we just work here.
AssignmentBitter57011 points8m ago
You guys have brownies?? We haven’t gotten them in months
headsinavicee256 points8m ago
Last week I had a woman come in around 5pm asking for blonde. Our newest hire who is the sweetest high school student told her we didn't have any on, and asked me for help. So i asked if she had a few minutes to wait and I could put some on, or offered to make a blonde americano. She didn't want to wait and didn't want an Americano. So she left. An hour later comes back, looks me dead in the eye and goes "I came in earlier and they told me to come back 20 minutes later for blonde roast" I was like I guess I'm they and we still don't have it on because you said you didn't want it. She got mad and left again. CAME IN THE NEXT DAY AT THE SAME TIME. IT WAS ME AND THE SAME BARISTA. SHE ASKED FOR IT AGAIN. SO I made her pike because I wasn't about to fight over this whole thing again. She had the audacity to say she wanted a latte, not a coffee. So I made her go pay for a latte. I guess as soon as I walked off the floor she approached my barista and said that next time she needs to talk to the manager and I'm truly waiting for this to happen again and her be very disappointed when I'm the manager.
linseeded77 points8m ago
Pleaaaaase keep me updated on this omfg
RyusuiJL14 points8m ago
Oh god yes. Please!
smc6429 points8m ago
And me too!
Responsible_Snow710910 points8m ago
Lmao same, me too! This is beautiful
GoldennTrash16 points8m ago
i am so fucking weak that’s hilarious. u guys have *got* to be getting a kick outta this
headsinavicee13 points8m ago
She came in a third day in a row, saw me at POS and ordered an oat bar hahahaha. I'm hoping she becomes a regular out of this somehow
GoldennTrash3 points8m ago
that would probably be the best case scenario lol
Humancinnabon8 points8m ago
How are people not embarrassed?!
Cust_service_voice4 points8m ago
Disliked her dumb butt so much I almost downvoted the comment forgetting it was you just telling us what she said 😂
TemporaryBonus1078141 points8m ago
A lady asked to order 5 more drinks and food at the drive thru window. I told her no and she threw her drink at me. I also had another lady get in the drive thru 1 minute after she put a mobile order in. She then got mad when her 7 drinks weren’t ready right away. She then mobile ordered a sandwich AT THE WINDOW.
WateredDownLemonade96 points8m ago
MOBILE ORDERED AT THE WINDOW??? LMAO GIRL NO
TemporaryBonus107858 points8m ago
I literally stood and looked at her with a blank face. She could have asked me at the window and I would have let her (it wasn’t super busy at the moment).
WateredDownLemonade28 points8m ago
You're so sweet for having said yes even after the attitude :') Starbucks employees really have patience for some clowns.
neighborhoodswamphag15 points8m ago
I have made someone pay when they order extra stuff at the window but I tell them to pull around and park and we’ll bring it out because people behind them are waiting for their order. Most are reasonable and park. But I did have one woman park her car in drive thru because we told her she couldn’t pick up river eats through the drive thru. She came in and tried to fight with one of the shifts. We called the cops got her banned and complained to Uber eats. Apparently was complained on a lot. Now she can’t Uber food anymore.
linseeded92 points8m ago
I actually just act stupid when people say medicine ball and make them describe it to me because I’m so sick of it, medicine ball people are the rudest and half the time literally come thru with covid or some shit. Then I act all like ohhhhh you mean the honey citrus mint. One day I did this (I said “sorry we don’t have anything by that name on our menu”) and the lady at the speaker box got LIVID. So pissed about “it’s on the menu and has been for years blah blah” that I had to have my shift do hand off 😬 learned my lesson that was not worth it.
RyusuiJL40 points8m ago
Screw that. I would have pulled up the Store Resources app for the core beverages and shown her at the window that there's nothing called a "medicine ball", so I have no idea what she's asking for.
linseeded58 points8m ago
They get so mad. One time I was like “well we can’t call it that because it has nothing medicinal in it” the customer at the box replied in an extremely hoarse voice “well last time I had covid I drank it and it practically cured me”. 😬 I was like okay where’s the hand sanitizer bc this chick is 10000% sick.
Popular-Ad-29546 points8m ago
I just had covid for the first time, and I 100% think I got it from people coming to Starbucks for a “Medicine ball” when they are sick.
linseeded4 points8m ago
They literally don’t think of us as human since it’s a drive thru. Hate that for you
beeeeefsquatch3 points8m ago
I just passive aggressively say “the HONEY CITRUS MINT TEA?” any time they say medicine ball because they’re not gonna get it even if I corrected them directly. Definitely got Covid from last honey citrus season 🙄 when I have the time or someone asks if I like it or whatever, I explain it’s not actually healthy for you because of all the sugar in the honey blend syrup and lemonade, and the tea is gonna have minimal effects because it isn’t steeped properly in the water and it’s chock full of preservatives. The fruit in the peach tranquility is coated in sugar lol
hmarie071680 points8m ago
So, a few months ago, we had a woman who would order and drink and then come back the next day saying her drink from the day before was wrong. She’d want either a refund or a free remake.
Well, eventually, my shift supervisor just finally told her, “Ma’am, I can’t refund you or give you a remake unless you bring me the drink that was made incorrect.” This woman was LIVID and demanded to know my SSV’s name and the corporate number. She gladly told her, and we haven’t seen this woman since.
FearlessSentence966729 points8m ago
we had someone like this, we started just having her try it before she left so the next day when she tried it someone who was there the day before could go “oh, you tried it yesterday remember ? we offered to remake it for you if it was wrong and you said it was fine”
Deep_Mission_49986 points8m ago
That’s what I do when they do these sorts of things.
galaxia_v125 points8m ago
oh hey someone came in to a store i was covering at with a three day old flat white and no receipt expecting a refund. smelled so terrible.
_lanalana_9 points8m ago
One time a lady brought in a full latte from 2 weeks prior! She had kept it in her car the whole time too so it was extra rancid for us lmao
garnetsngrit68 points8m ago
One time my store was out of venti cold lids for a few days, so we were using the dome lids instead - which is not even an inconvenience to anybody, like who cares - and this girl questioned why the dome lid, I politely explained we were out, and then as soon as I walked away the dumbass started reaching for the cold lids by handoff and I looked back and I was like ….that’s not going to fit…. And she gave me a look like *i* was the idiot and grabbed a trenta one and you’ll never guess what happened…. It didn’t fit. I just wanted to be like girl what am I gaining from keeping a lid from you like come on
geekgurl8131 points8m ago
Yes we are hoarding lids in the back to ruin your day, Becky 🫠
kingkira12360 points8m ago
I was ringing up a pack of gift cards but the outside barcode wasn't working so I explained I'd have to open the pack up. She got upset and asked a for different partner to help as I was the shift on duty who's had the most seniority. But what do I know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
k1k1john15 points8m ago
I can never get those gift card packs to work!
AltoUltra6 points8m ago
scan them before hitting the gift card button!
verdeuce-8 points8m ago
Seems like you don’t know that you have to scan the code first and then it prompts you for how much to load each card with
kingkira1235 points8m ago
I was scanning it first and everything and the dang sucker still wasn't working
edreesmiraki39 points8m ago
a customer got tight that we didnt have change and that i was giving her 20 cents in pennies, i asked her if she still wanted it and she rolled her eyes and said yes. before that she tried to haggle about the fee we have for extra frap roast when shes been here before and has been told the fee many times. she then comes in the next day and the day after trying to get free extra frap roast and i just looked at her like 😐 i wouldve given it to her if she hadnt walked up to register and acted like a rat in the first place 🤷♂️
esotericmegillah36 points8m ago
My friend would give people decaf if they were assholes
jordan_leigh16 points8m ago
I know there’s whip cream in those completely opaque metal canisters that you absolutely cannot see through!!!!
Hazel_is_Trans15 points8m ago
Welcome to the club
AlectoBlood439 points8m ago
" No pumpkin spice, no brown sugar, no apple brown sugar, no raspberry, no cinnamon dolce, and no toasted vanilla." Dead silence on the other end of the speaker then they drive off. Of course, now everything's back in stock but it was still funny being able to say we were out of all those syrups.
SydShark8 points8m ago
I had a guy today in the drive through get mad and haggle me because I couldn’t give him change for his $100 bill and he had to pay with a debit card. I tried to explain that we don’t keep large bills on hand in our tills for safety reasons and he kept giving me attitude over it and scows from his wife. Like sir there is a bank right next door I’m not giving you $93 back in change.
still_orbiting5 points8m ago
I like to tell them I could POSSIBLY break it if they don’t mind getting a few rolls of quarters back. Usually stops em.
[deleted]3 points8m ago
One of my shifts will say “there’s a bank down the road if that’s what you’re looking for” at anyone who tries to give us a $100.
Dependent_Class82096 points8m ago
Lady came in asking for mini ham and cheese toasties. Explained that if there were none on display then unfortunately we didn’t have any in stock. She proceeded to insist that I check out the back, even though I told her our fridges out the back were empty and all that we had available was what was on display.
Also had another lady come in on a separate occasion asking for a ham and cheese toastie. Explained that we were all out and suggested other toasties that we had available. She asked me why I couldn’t make a fresh one for her, and couldn’t understand that we didn’t make our food fresh on site daily and that it was all delivered to us pre-packaged and pre-made🤦🏻♀️
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iiiimagery-26 points8m ago
Got so confused when I saw you copy and paste this exact same post on the other subreddit.
Newbarista-nerd [OP]8 points8m ago
Reddit doesn’t allow me to just share my posts to different pages so I manually have to copy and paste it now /:
iiiimagery3 points8m ago
Idk why everyone's down voting me I was just commenting on how I saw it twice 😅 I get it
Comfortable-Plane944-147 points8m ago
… just give her the pup cup? Easiest shit ever
Newbarista-nerd [OP]115 points8m ago
Honestly we were literally all out of whip cream and I wasn’t sure if those cans were still empty or not so I just said nah . No need for your crap attitude though lol
Pickle-Chunk98 points8m ago
Did you not read the comment? They don’t have whipped cream.
kittykattt357 points8m ago
Some people really can’t read 🥲
ezranilla45 points8m ago
Hi. My name is Jared. I'm 19. and I never fucking learned how to read
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