Thunderbolt, fuck yeah!
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Denmark
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I am worthless beyond hope. Join Date: May 2004
Location: Inner Swabia. If you have to ask twice, don't.
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Speaking of SI units, we may be on the verge of a breakthrough in the US. Significant digit illiteracy has produced, on multiple products I have seen recently, the conversion of 1 kg = 2 lb. We are so close...
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Hoonigan
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Canada
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I sometimes order a "grand late". Like rhymes with band hate.
I just like to see the reactions I get. I'm usually really nice, to a fault, but sometimes I'm in a bad mood and say it like it is. Like I ordered a drink somewhere where they fill the fountain pop for you. By the time she gave it to me the fizz had settled and it was a good 2 inches below the top of the cup. I looked at it and said "yeah, can I get that filled up please". The wife wasn't impressed, but I thought it was just the right amount of "screw you, lazy bitch" without even saying a bad word or raising my voice. Sometimes customers are so obviously stupid that it's not worth arguing with them. I had someone bounce a cheque here, then come in and bitch. They wrote it on a Tuesday, it was processed and rejected on Wednesday, and she tried to blame it on me by saying that there was money in there on Tuesday and it's not her fault if it took me a whole day to get it to the bank. WTF??!! I actually did deposit it on Tuesday, and I told her obviously it's going to take AT LEAST a day to be processed if you take a deposit to the bank at the end of the day. Her reply was "WELL NOBODY TOLD ME THAT WOULD HAPPEN!". I told her ma'am, if you don't know how simple things like banking work, I am not going to waste my time having a discussion with you. Just pay the bill. I almost fucking lost it when she pulled out her chequebook. |
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Londontown
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Not coffee-related (I tend to OD on fruit juice instead of coffee like everyone else in the studio) but three observations:
People are c**ts. Helvetica is my bitch. System: 27" iMac i7, 2TB, 8GB RAM, Mac OS X Snow Leopard |
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Banging the Bottom End
Join Date: Jun 2004
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In honor of this thread, I bought my first medium sized cup of coffee two days ago. It's the first time I can remember ever buying a medium coffee.
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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I've split off the long payment tangent to Bank transfers vs. Checks vs. Credit Cards.
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Ninja Editor
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Bay Area, CA
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Many years ago I worked for McDonalds, and for a time we sold an 'iced mocha' which was basically a coffee-chocolate flavoured shake. I had a complaint from a customer that her mocha 'tasted of coffee'. I had to explain to her that mocha is coffee. Ugh.
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Banging the Bottom End
Join Date: Jun 2004
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Minnesota
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So this is tangentially related to the topic... my girlfriend's order at Starbuck's is (wait for it) a tall soy white mocha with no whip, no foam, and stirred.
Sounds like a very long and complicated order, but she explained to me that it's really just her telling the barista how to make a mocha properly. It's a soy mocha, so it should naturally follow that she wants to avoid dairy, yet in many cases they will still ask if she wants whipped cream (or occasionally will add it without even asking!), so she has to specify anyway (she doesn't actually have to avoid dairy, she just doesn't like whipped cream). No foam is sort of a personal preference but she's also had the experience of getting way too much foam in her mocha when there should only be a thin layer on top. And stirred is just because, in many cases, the white mocha syrup doesn't get mixed in very well and causes the drink to start out too bitter and end up too sweet. Oh and I found this gem: http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/bb/topic.php?id=1027 Favorite one is the "Cappuccino with no foam with the extra space in cup instead of foam." |
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Banging the Bottom End
Join Date: Jun 2004
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I know people that use soy milk in hot drinks because they think it reacts better to the heat than milk/cream (doesn't build that milk 'skin'), but don't have a problem with whipped cream on top (because they aren't avoiding dairy, they are using the right tool for the job).
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Mr. Vieira
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
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Man, I am out of the loop on all this. Not being a coffee drinker, I've never had the experience (pleasure?) of ordering some complicated, wild-ass beverage at Starbucks. I'd sure like to!
Did you all see that Steve Martin movie "L.A. Story" from several years ago? That scene where the camera travels around their table and everyone's placing all these special orders? This was years ago, before the big coffee craze, but still funny stuff. Being L.A., I guess they were ahead of the curve on all that. Ahh...I love YouTube! |
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Hoonigan
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Canada
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oh!! we had these cheap **** (a married couple) who got three shots of espresso in an iced venti cup FILLED with ice. they would FREAK if you tried to ring it up other than anything but a triple espresso... then they would mosey on over to the condiment bar and fill their **** cups up with whole milk from the caraf. JESUS CHRIST, JUST PAY FOR THE **** ICED VENTI LATTE!!! |
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Join Date: May 2004
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Hoonigan
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Canada
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Actually, the more I read that site, the more angry I'm getting. Here I just *thought* most people working at Starbucks were cunts... now I *know* they are.
Half of the complaints aren't really a big deal if you're working there and DON'T have sand in your vagina. |
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Minnesota
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I think that link I posted is more about making fun of people for their silly requests... there are some good ones. I mean who orders a cappuccino without foam? I do think it's weird that a coffee shop wouldn't have a "medium" size, though. |
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Join Date: May 2004
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Ever try ordering a macchiato? I mean an *ACTUAL* macchiato, not the bastardization thing that Starbuck's *called* a macchiato and ruined the nomenclature for everyone?
Walking into a coffee shop, you never know if you can actually order a macchiato, or a 'dry cappuccino' or, because in Starbucks if you order a 'dry cappuccino' they STILL give you a fucking latte, you have to order a 'BONE dry cappuccino', unless of course you end up with the barista who STILL pours milk into it, in which case you jump over the counter and choke them with their own intestines. And ordering a doppio w/ a dollop of foam over the top inevitably gets you reprimanded "Sir, that's a cappuccino" "Then how come when I order a cappuccino you pour steamed milk into it?" "We don't do that." Bullllllllsheeeeeeeeeeet. |
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is the next Chiquita
Join Date: Feb 2005
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Every time Capella gets a 'medium' order, she should randomly select between small or large and adjust the price accordingly. If the customer notice, give the apropos response: "It's smaller than other coffee shops' 'medium' because our coffee is the best!" "It's larger than other coffee shops' 'medium' because we like our customer happy!" For one-time or occasional customers, they may not notice it but regulars will be wondering if their cup was all of sudden smaller/larger than yesterday... Of course, Capella ought to deny that the size was different. "It's medium, just as you asked for!" :evil: |
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Banging the Bottom End
Join Date: Jun 2004
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Well, she could say it's a coffee shop and not a fortune telling shop, get it? OK, I'm out.
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Oh dear GOD don't TEMPT me. *ahem* I would only do that to newbies who want medium, though, not regulars because the regulars know what size they want. And I know what they want. There's about 50 customers who I just see and start making their drink because I know exactly what it is. Plus I greet them by name and have it rung up and done by the time they hit the counter. I've had customers compliment me because they're happy they get such consistent, reliable service.
Today's WTF: I got a lady who wanted me to wrap her sandwich in foil. Without touching the foil. I decided that she didn't want my bare hands to touch the foil, so I put on gloves and do this, and she still sent it back because I touched it, even though my hands were gloved, with fresh gloves from the box, and... I am not a telekinetic, I cannot wrap a sandwich in foil without touching the foil. Really. Seriously. Off to do 4 more hours of this. "A blind, deaf, comatose, lobotomy patient could feel my anger!" - Darth Baras twitter ; amateur photographer ; fanfiction writer ; roleplayer and worldbuilder |
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Clayton, NC
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is the next Chiquita
Join Date: Feb 2005
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Maybe she meant that you were supposed to hand her the foil and she'd wrap the sandwich herself?
Should have just told her, "There's a great little coffee shop that lets you do this. It's called 'your kitchen'" |
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Rocket Surgeon
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: The Canadark
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OUR CAFE JUST MADE ME AN AMERICANO WITH 5 ESPRESSOS>
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I shot the sherrif.
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lol, you should have asked her to demonstrate how to wrap a sandwich in foil without touching it so you don't make the same mistake next time.
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Hoonigan
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Canada
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Tell her "I bet you $20 I can make your nose bleed without even touching you" and when she takes you up on it, punch her in the face and say "worth every penny".
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Mr. Vieira
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
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Seriously, though...how would you even do that? Use the Force?
"Sorry, ma'am...I am not a Jedi. Yet." What could that lady have possibly expected you to do? Maybe some sort of inner-wrap scenario, where, instead of touching the foil, you grab the sandwich itself - using it as some sort of bread-based glove - and grab the foil that way, with the sandwich acting as a hand barrier, and just roll it into some sort of ball until it looks "wrapped"? Or just ask. I'd be curious to hear her answer. "Can you help me out here and tell me exactly how I should go about that? No, really...I'd like to know! Because this isn't a magic-tricks-while-u-wait kinda joint. Shall I try to levitate the mustard and turn the cash register into a tiger while I'm at it?" |
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Hoonigan
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Canada
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She probably wanted it wrapped without you touching the inside of the foil while you did it. You know, the "against the sammich" side.
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Mr. Vieira
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
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I assumed that. What sandwich maker worth his/her salt would do that anyway? Not Capella!
I think this woman was out for some magic or mindpower demos. She was just trying to find a clever, non-threatening way to bring it up. |
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well, that's why I wore gloves, so only those would touch the inside. Also, all our sandwiches are wrappen in plastic, so even if my hands DID touch the foil, the foil just touches the plastic wrap. Double protected. And with gloves that's three layers of protection.
"A blind, deaf, comatose, lobotomy patient could feel my anger!" - Darth Baras twitter ; amateur photographer ; fanfiction writer ; roleplayer and worldbuilder |
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