Posted on 08/21/2015 9:25:25 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
A Starbucks barista named Brad describes a guy who bought 365 Starbucks gift cards and registered each of them with a different birthday so he can get a free drink every day. That's already a dick move, but the guy makes it worse by being a real jerk to the barista. When he comes in to the store he asks for a Venti cup and a marker and writes instructions on the cup before handing it back:
[He draws lines and arrows and writes all over the cup while telling me: “Two pumps of white mocha here, then add five pumps of vanilla. That should take us to this line here where you’re gonna add cold heavy cream up to this ridge here...it should be halfway between this line and this line. Make sure to add the heavy whipping cream before the espresso, it changes the taste if you do it out of order. Then add your four shots, three regular and one long shot. That long shot is important, since you guys reformulated your machines, it’s been Hell trying to get my drink right. That long shot helps balance it. Then stir it for me, Mister Brad. Now do me a favor and add ice to the top there and it’ll be easy as pie. I’m not picky so don’t worry about shaking it or anything like that.”]
A drink like this is normally $6.50, which would make it ineligible for the free birthday coffee, so he instructs the barista to ring it up as a "one quad espresso, add white mocha, sub vanilla, sub heavy cream."
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For what one pays for a cup of that stuff you should be able to do what you want like write instructions on the cup..Just don’t be rude to the server..
Probably votes democrat.
No problem at all to hate Starbucks or their products, but there are more productive ways to express those feelings than taking it out on a frontline worker who is just trying to do their job like the rest of us.
If, hypothetically, this guys end game is to hurt the bottom line of Starbucks, at least leave the baristas a nice tip because they doing extra work that is effectively running them out of a job. Be mad at the company, be mad at the leadership, but leave the workers out of it if at all possible.
” ‘But rlmorel, you believe taxpayers can and should enthusiastically exploit loop-holes in the tax code to avoid paying taxes, but you dislike this guy getting a free cup of coffee by gaming a loophole in the Starbucks system? Aren’t you being hypocritical?’
I would answer no, because I don’t believe in lying to get through a loophole in anything. If you have to lie, it is dishonesty right off the bat. If you have to lie to access a loophole, then it isn’t a loophole, it is deception and deceit.”
That and no one forces you to go to Starbucks. Taxes, on the other hand, are not optional.
What this guy is doing is more like illegals filing taxes claiming non-existent dependents to get more EIC money back than paid in.
Ok, here’s where I act like a jerk by signing onto a thread just to say, “Who cares?”
That is true, and we agree on the underlying moral aspect of it, I presume.
Or, someone could pull him out of line, cut through his face so that the other customers could remove his brain so that it could be sold to research houses, all of this while his heart was still beating.
Or is that not okay, UNLESS we are talking about doing this to babies?
I worked in a Starbucks in the late 90s, and did not ever spit into anyone’s drink, even though there were hundreds who deserved it.
There were folks who were a-holes and who justified it flippantly by saying it was because they hadn’t got their fix yet. Those folks secretly got decaf.
A coworker gave folks an extra flavor called scrotum sweat when they were uncool. Right there in front of the espresso maker.
So! How much is a gift card??
He’s probably living on the dole, anyway, just expected to carry it over to this, as well. They should make him prove he is the person on the birthday card. You’d think somebody would’ve lead him out the door by now.
I stopped at Starbucks a couple of days ago for a regular black coffee, right after having blood drawn for testing, ( no food or drink after midnight). gotta have the java. I was waiting for the coffee and was intrigued by the display of “special reserve “ coffees. I purchased a package of VIETNAM -DA LAT. My review of it...........subtle hints of det cord and and napalm. a shadow of water buffalo .................
A hint of Agent Orange bouquet.
Yup. Problem solved.
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