caithream ([personal profile] caithream) wrote2009-07-17 12:41 am
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We were informed this morning at work that, haha, oh God. It won't mean much for the 95% who DON'T work at Starbucks, but. On Election Day last year the company decided to give away a tall coffee if you showed your election sticker without informing us employees weeks beforehand so we couldn't, you know, STOCK UP ON COFFEE. And coffee-like accessories. I cannot even TELL YOU how busy we were. It was a nightmare. FOR A 12 OZ CUP OF BLACK COFFEE. And then today we're told that this Tuesday, we're giving away a free pastry. I just. You've got to be fucking KIDDING ME. And then they send a memo, "Oh, don't change your pastry order! Eeeeverything is under control." FALSE. I don't care if they say they're going to autoship 20394832 tons of pastries, SOMETHING WILL GO WRONG. Pastries, for God's sake. People like food more than they like coffee. I open that morning, and I've already told my manager that I CANNOT stay any later than 10am, as I have to drive back home and kinda sorta CATCH A FLIGHT. Seriously. Disastrous. Just awesome.

And by the way, customers of Starbucks, I am not your coffee robot. I am a human being, and I like being treated as such. Buy an espresso machine if you think you can do better.

Sorry. All I've pretty much been doing is working and coming back and pretty much working the rest of the day on homework and nothing else. Still haven't got enough done before going on the trip. Summer terms are glorious for being so short but maaaan, do they cram a lot in in 6 weeks.

I DID see Harry Potter on Tuesday and I really really liked it. As an adaption maybe not so much but I dunno! There were just these little things all throughout the movie that just made me STUPID with glee! I need to reread the book again though, definitely. HAHA the part at the end with the Felix Felicis. BEST.

And oh yes, oh yessss, 4 days until the trip. I am BEYOND excited. Just gotta get through this 6 day work stretch, SIGH.

[identity profile] flusteredspeech.livejournal.com 2009-07-18 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
Oh baby, we'll meet you at the airport with a bottle of BOOZE and drunk the Starbucks woes right out of you. AND THEN WHISK YOU AWAY TO VEGAS.

[identity profile] idril-telrunya.livejournal.com 2009-07-18 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!


YOU SHOULD GET ONLINE...CUZ I LIKE SAID AND STUFF!!

[identity profile] caithream.livejournal.com 2009-07-18 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
I have been looking longingly at my bottle of Crown to just drink myself stupid, but I hear hangovers and getting up at the buttcrack just don't mix well together. :(((

<33333333 HOWEVER I WOULD SO APPRECIATE THAT I CANNOT EVEN TELL YOU. And I guess if Jared and Jensen can't be the ones to whisk me away, YOU GUYS ARE PRETTY DARN GOOD SUBSTITUTES. <3

The Icon is directed towards the fucktards at Starbucks...

[identity profile] idril-telrunya.livejournal.com 2009-07-18 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
<3333333333333

Work SUCKS. I agree. 4 days until you are here! I am super EXCITED!!! I might PEE! It is the only thing keeping me sane! Also people SUCK. Just in case you didn't know that. Hee!

ALSO!!! The 9 and the district 9 panels? Totally in the same room. Soooo we don't have to worry about missing one. I MIGHT DIE!!!

Re: The Icon is directed towards the fucktards at Starbucks...

[identity profile] caithream.livejournal.com 2009-07-18 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
UGHHH 4 days feels like FOREEEEVER. WHY SO LAME, STARBUCKS. :( You, however, have a pretty epic smoosh coming. OH YES. THERE WILL BE CHARIOTS OF FIRE MUSIC AND EVERYTHING.

OMG GLAJKGDKLDAJDS;AKJ;DLAJFSK SHUT UPPPP. Okay, THAT'S PRETTY MUCH THE GREATEST THING EVER.

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[identity profile] idril-telrunya.livejournal.com 2009-07-18 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
4 days DOES feel like forever! Especially when you have to work them all...which I do as well. Yay...or something. DUDE YES! SING CHARIOTS OF FIRE! PLEASE!!!!

I KNOW RIGHT??!?! I saw that and went SHUT YOUR FACE COMIC CON!! And they are right after another HOWEVER that will be 2 and a half hours of sitting through panels but WE WILL JUST HAVE TO BUY DEPENDS!! Or I just won't drink anything before we go in lol

[identity profile] mousewings.livejournal.com 2009-07-18 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
They had a free coffee day here too. I went by a Starbucks in downtown and it looked pretty nuts. I'd be a nightmare if they ran out of supplies. Free pastries sounds even crazier.

[identity profile] caithream.livejournal.com 2009-07-18 05:23 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, by the end of my shift we were out of half-and-half, coffee stirrers, napkins... you name it. SO awful. But I think this pastry thing is for the US only? Ah well, you guys have Tim Hortons; I think you're doing pretty well. :D
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[identity profile] caithream.livejournal.com 2009-07-20 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
Starbucks, like most corporations, THINK they have everything all wonderfully coordinated from their end. But they aren't the ones who work the floor. >:|

Ugghhh me toooo. At 9:59am I am throwing off my apron and clocking out. NO MATTER WHAT.

[identity profile] quidditchkiss.livejournal.com 2009-07-18 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
And by the way, customers of Starbucks, I am not your coffee robot. I am a human being, and I like being treated as such. Buy an espresso machine if you think you can do better.
I know you guys work your asses off, so I'm not about to put more pressure on you guys that you don't need. I SUPPORT WORKERS OF STARBUCKS.

[identity profile] caithream.livejournal.com 2009-07-20 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
<33333 You are WONDERFUL. I dunnooooo, I always feel so DUMB when I bitch about how hard I work and how it's just taken for granted when there are NURSES and FIREMEN and people who do such good with their line of work. But we DO work our asses off, and get very little to show for it. :(

[identity profile] quidditchkiss.livejournal.com 2009-07-20 11:57 am (UTC)(link)
Just because you don't have a fancy shmancy job doesn't mean you don't work hard, too!

[identity profile] hellogloworm.livejournal.com 2009-07-19 08:42 am (UTC)(link)
gahhhhh! starbucks. i'm so so glad i don't have to work that morning... but i will be putting away the 3837230420482 pastries they will autoship us.

so good luck with that.

on the coffee robot note: i had to explain to a newbie tonight that his customers don't know he's a human. it actually made his night go smoother.


heywhenareyoumakingawowcharacteriwanttohangoutwithyouallday. shh..

[identity profile] caithream.livejournal.com 2009-07-19 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
HA, yeah, actually, you know what? I had NO IDEA that it was until 10:30, nor that you had to buy a drink with it. My MOM was the one who informed me last night. AWESOME.

HAHAHA. That is AWESOME in a totally horrible way and completely true. You know how when you're on register and you greet people by saying hi, or how are you, and they just go, GIMME A GRANDE COFFEE. I just wanna keep repeating hi until they acknowledge me. OR SOMETHING.

HEEEE. WELL, I'm leaving for my trip on Tuesday and I don't get back until the 30th, so sometime after then! My roommate gave me her free 30 trial thingy, so I am ALL over that. In a completely secretive way, of course. :>

[identity profile] hellogloworm.livejournal.com 2009-07-19 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
or what's even better is when you ask them how they are and they just stare at the menu board and you have to stand there awkwardly.

have fun on your trip!!! i'll holler at you when you get back.

[identity profile] caithream.livejournal.com 2009-07-20 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
HAHA THIS IS 80% OF MY SHIFT ON REGISTER. :(

Yaaaay thanks! When do you go on yours?

[identity profile] stargazertook.livejournal.com 2009-07-19 04:34 pm (UTC)(link)
<333

Wanted to say have fun on your trip! Drink a few for me, k?

[identity profile] caithream.livejournal.com 2009-07-20 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
I WISH YOU WERE COMING WIIIITH! Except, wait, you just got back from LONDON didn't you! Oh well, one can never take too many trips, right? *CLINGS HARDCORE*

Thank god!

[identity profile] namowrednow.livejournal.com 2009-07-20 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know how I would have the strength to get out of bed let alone vote! If Starbucks wasn't giving away free pastries! And if you run out robot coffee girl, I will kill you!