#1 2010-08-19 22:17:15
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#2 2010-08-19 23:36:40
The professor is an idiot and possibly suffers from early Alzheimer’s. There is no excuse for abusing a low level worker because their employer has stupid policies. A person who does this shows they have no class, even if they have a doctorate. The bottom level person has to uphold company policy, no matter what they may think. In the case of Starbucks there are two correct ways to protest their linguistic preciousness: buy your coffee elsewhere or protest to upper management. If you are dealing with a company where the low level employee isn't allowed to provide the assistance or adjustment you want, then the proper course of action is to politely request to speak to someone higher up. It is always wrong to behave in an abusive manner towards a low level employee who is being polite to you.
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#3 2010-08-20 01:26:33
Come on, she's just saying what we're all thinking.
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#4 2010-08-20 08:21:46
She just loves to pay $4.00 for the privilege of being offended. It's probably the only thing in her cold, lonely day that gets her heart rate up.
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#5 2010-08-20 10:42:53
GooberMcNutly wrote:
She just loves to pay $4.00 for the privilege of being offended. It's probably the only thing in her cold, lonely day that gets her heart rate up.
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#6 2010-08-20 11:42:55
choad wrote:
GooberMcNutly wrote:
She just loves to pay $4.00 for the privilege of being offended. It's probably the only thing in her cold, lonely day that gets her heart rate up.
Whoa. The CIA finally did it.
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#7 2010-08-20 11:58:57
Dmtdust wrote:
Whoa. The CIA finally did it.
Start stepping on onions, you never know who you'll irritate.
Actually, I do know and frequently update the list to multiple undisclosed locations. Might as well haunt them when I'm gone, too.
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#8 2010-08-20 12:25:19
Just because your paranoid...
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#9 2010-08-20 19:50:49
I remain mystified why anybody would drink that awful slop, much less at those ridiculous prices--and a bagel? I don't even want to know what they charge for a bagel.
McDonald's coffee is way better.
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#10 2010-08-20 20:16:07
Several years ago I met a potential client at a Starbucks. I ordered a small hot chocolate as I am not a coffee drinker. When the clerk, I know, wrong terminology, told me "That will be $4.28" I almost shit myself and then told her she could keep her 50 cents worth of hot chocolate. I left with her yelling "Who's going to pay for this sir? The hot chocolate next door at McDonald's was 75 cents or a dollar. It tasted like hot chocolate to me, so I was fine with it. I even enjoyed it in one of Starbucks chairs outside the store. I have never visited a Starbucks since and do not plan to anytime soon.
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#11 2010-08-20 20:24:20
As I live on the west coast and work wall st hours I am forced to buy coffee from any shop that is open at 5am; the Starbucks outside of the Boeing gates got far too much of my money.
But as revenge I refuse to speak their lingo; I always order a medium americano; mostly 'cause I find their drip coffee to be only slightly worse than their espresso. And please don't try to order a capaccino - you'll just get a latte.
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#12 2010-08-20 20:31:10
George Orr wrote:
McDonald's coffee is way better.
Oh George. We've had our differences before, but now I think I'm going to have to break up with you.
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#13 2010-08-20 21:05:47
opsec wrote:
George Orr wrote:
McDonald's coffee is way better.
Oh George. We've had our differences before, but now I think I'm going to have to break up with you.
When's the last time you tried it? They changed their coffee a few years ago, and it's seriously decent. If I need coffee and I'm not in or near my own house, I look for a McD's.
Starbuck's coffee tastes like re-heated stewed auto parts.
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#14 2010-08-20 21:29:26
George Orr wrote:
When's the last time you tried it?.
I'll admit it's been many years, but can you blame me? McD's coffee was liquid aversion therapy. I heard a vicious rumor that they put chicory in it [shudder].
George Orr wrote:
Starbuck's coffee tastes like re-heated stewed auto parts.
I'm no fan of Starbuck's overpriced swill either. I'm almost always disappointed with coffee ordered out. I'm not a coffee snob, I drink the cheapest espresso I can find ($4 a lb.), but I make it by the cup, add whiskey, raw sugar and heavy whipping cream and drink it immediately.
You see now why it can never work for us.
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#15 2010-08-20 23:21:53
Starbucks Sucks. Really.
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#16 2010-08-20 23:42:50
Okay... my first real job was as a Barista in an old Beatnik Coffee/Music Club. It took an hour to heat up that old Flying Eagle. I had to know how to make 12 different coffee drinks, and it was an unforgiving crowd...
Although Portland has an abundance of coffee shops, the majority IMNSHO SUCK. It's all fast food equiv as far as I can see, except for a couple of actual Italian and Greek/Turkish places in town.
The coffee now days is generally over roasted, the baristas aren't, and the whole coffee routine is done.
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#18 2010-08-21 00:31:26
An old fav...
...although the original is always best...
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#19 2010-08-21 01:12:00
choad wrote:
GooberMcNutly wrote:
She just loves to pay $4.00 for the privilege of being offended. It's probably the only thing in her cold, lonely day that gets her heart rate up.
This gal kind of reminds me of the woman who babysits my cat when I'm out of town. She takes on every city and state government she can and has been run out of two different towns in my area. She took on the Sheriff's dept. in Hot Springs, SD for maiming and killing people's pets over noise complaints, took on the Sturgis, SD police dept. for racial profiling and is now defending a tree in her own front yard. http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/articl … 002e0.html She sees a wrong and when she tries to make it right they always end up arresting her. I disagree with her on a lot of things philosophically, but she sure knows how to pick fights with the right people... She also spoils my cat.
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