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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Isn’t the fraud?
guy has probably been drinking a lot of phlegm
Aholes like this ruin it for everybody.
Starbucks coffee sucks and they’re owned by commies!
A NATURAL born democrat!!
It was it twin. Actually, one of his 364 twins, all with different birthdays!
Dude.
Further tidbit: He wants it rung up that way so he just has to pay $3.00 for a drink that really should be around $6.50 if it was rung up correctly as an Iced Quad Venti Vanilla White Mocha with heavy cream instead of milk.
So...hold the line, ring it up correctly, and tell him it's not eligible for his scam.
Story lifted from http://kitchenette.jezebel.com/stories-of-horrible-restaurant-customers-part-1-1724487937 which has numerous such bad-customer stories.
Even aside from the obvious fraud going on, what an a**hole. If he really wants to run this scam to get a free coffee every day, then at the very least, just get a plain coffee or something else simple. Don’t be a jerk to the people behind the counter.
But I guess that’s too much to ask of the type of person who would come up with this scam in the first place...
He needs for someone to pull him out of line, beat the crap out of him and after everyone applauds, no one saw what happened except the jerk fell face first into the Anya CD’s.
Sounds to me like a disgruntled former employee, who knows exactly how to twist the knife and make the beta males at Starbucks squirm the most.
Probably.
In a better world, though, he wouldn’t be prosecuted.
In a better world, Brad’s manager would take this asshole to the restroom for some wall-to-wall counseling.
And nobody saw nuffin’ ...
I dislike Starbucks on all levels, so it is hard for me to sympathize with them.
The guy running the scam is a jerk, and I don’t have any enthusiasm for him. I detest people like him.
One might say he is gaming the system, and it is fair. I say he isn’t, an lied to get his free stuff.
I could see someone asking me: “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.
As much as I detest Starbucks, I despise this grifter. I hate people like him.
All they have to do is ask for his driver licence and check his birthday.
I just saved them $2366.
You’re welcome.
If this is true, the guy is mentally ill. Get a life...get medications to help you.
I have no sympathy for Starbucks or anyone who pays $7 for coffee.
I’m guessing this is a made-up story. It makes the attempt to sound authentic by adding in bits like the first name of the barista, but no actual verifiable info.
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