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Shit Only Baristas Will Understand

If you’ve worked in the land of coffee, you’ll know how we feel. It’s a lonely world full of scowling zombies who haven’t had their fix, nicknaming the regulars and being grateful for people with manners. The fresh smell of coffee gets old real fast and all your left with is stained hands and sore feet. Baristas unite, you’re essentially supplying people with one of the only legal drugs left in the world. Go us!

The sick feeling you get when your alarm going off in what feels like the dead of the night and having to drag yourself out of bed and out the door while it’s still dark.

Alarm

Your friends whatsapp group starting to come alive 4 hours after you have because their jobs start at civilised hours.

Opening up the coffee shop with whoever is scheduled on with you and having a mutual understanding that there is no conversation before the coffee machine is turned on, functioning and you’ve both had your ‘hit’.

Having to clean the milk fridge is gag inducing.

How difficult it is to maintain your manners when someone orders while their on their phone.

The fact that most of your regulars have secret nicknames with your co-workers like ‘soy cap guy’ and ‘bitchy flat white’ (Actual nicknames)

“For here or to go?” is something that rolls off your tongue quicker than your name now.

During quiet times you’ve experimented by putting a chocolate bar IN a croissant and then toasting it, only for a customer to come up while your mouth is full and you can’t fully enjoy your majestic creation.

Being able to put on your own iPod playlist makes the day so.much.better.

You value the people who are patient and considerate more than they will ever know.

You are guilty of giving that total bitch “fat” instead of “non fat” because fuck her.

There are some customers that no matter how many times they tell you, you will just never remember their name and you feel really bad about it.

There is no better feeling then getting home after your early shift and having the majority of the day left to do whatever you want while your friends are still in work for at least another 3 hours.

The walk to work while the sun is rising and the world is still asleep can sometimes be incredible and you wonder why you’d do anything else.

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5 Starbucks Customers That I Seriously Don’t Understand (By A Barista)

 

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1. The woman who orders a Grande latte in a Venti cup

Um, are you trying to make people think that you spent more money on coffee than you actually did? PLEASE tell me you won’t need that much room for milk or cream! Then why bother ordering coffee? This is just one ordering technique that always earns an eye roll from me.

2. The man who orders his coffee at EXACTLY 172 degrees

Let’s be serious for a second, how the hell do you know how hot your coffee is? My mouth tells me probably 4 temperatures, ranging from scalding hot, to damn that’s toasty, to luke warm, to did you make this last night? Are you going to pull a thermometer out of your pocket to double check the heat level? Even worse, when the person sends it back, I just want to say ok, No coffee for you!

3. Miss “I’ll have a skinny mocha with soy milk , extra whip cream please!”

Do you realize that the calories you eliminated by choosing sugar free syrup and soy milk are added back at least four fold with your fluffy topping? I mean seriously, you could have the exquisite cheesecake brownie for the calories in the whip cream that’s just going to melt into your drink. Move along princess.

4. Three shots of espresso man

First and foremost, please note, it’s called ESPRESSO! NOT eXpresso! Now that we’ve cleared that up, I always give this guy that curious puppy head tilt. I just want to go ask him if he’s trying to stop his heart right then and there. Even better is the guy who asks for the three shots of espresso with whip. I then wish I had a defibrillator in my purse.

5. The workout clothing clad “ Venti ice water please!”

You have just earned my death stare and delayed eye roll. Why in the world do you need to come to Starbucks for WATER? They sell water everywhere, and there’s this nifty thing in every sink in your house that produces it too! I know, I just helped you learn something, it’s crazy! Even worse, the bottled water buyer at Starbucks. Yes a whole 5 cents of your $3.50 bottle of water goes to help children get clean water, God forbid they fork over 10 cents. It’s not as if they’re a huge corporation. Go drink from the hose dear.

 

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