Turns out that the cyber warriors / Starbucks baristas who have discovered my blog this week have come out swinging against Creative. Let's review the comments made by these bravest of the brave (esp. those that remain "Anonymous") and see whether or not I have cause to tremble.
(SPOILER ALERT: I don't ;)
In order of intelligence:
From Anonymous:
Let me ask: do you even have a life outside posting complaints about Starbucks and tips on how to cheat the system? If you hate Starbucks so much, why not visit all these mom and pop cafes you talk so much about. We don't want your patronage, really. We'd rather not hear your constant complaining. If our managers tell us we shouldn't be ringing items separately, then we will not. You can bitch and moan as much as you want, but in the end, I'd just suggest buying your own espresso machine so we don't have to hear from you again.
My reply: Read the blog post "Inauguration". I don't hate Starbucks, but I hate your pricing, and I will, without apology or a hint of regret, continue to post ways to "cheat" the system. Don't like it? Too bad. Tell someone who cares.
Do I have a life? I do. But I'm not required to justify that statement to an anonymous poster.
From Anonymous:
Its customers like you that I hope wont come back, so good if you don't like us you cheap prick.
Yeah, um, read the blog post "Inauguration".
From Anonymous:
I'm laughing at how ignorant you are. Get a life.
Get a life... OK. This is coming from someone who posts anonymously to a blog (and likely a billion times to an online forum), but can't provide a cogent argument about why I should get a life.
Perhaps it takes these commenters a very long time to string together a big-boy words with two syllables and then put them into a paragraph to post in a comment.
But for me, this blog only takes up 20, maybe 25 min. per week of my time. The rest of my time is filled up with other activities not related to my blog (except when I'm at the local Starbucks, getting two stars for two transactions!!! :)
From Dry Sharpie:
Kill yourself.
Apparently, this comment was well liked by a poster on I Hate Starbucks.
Huh. I guess two words is about as far as some people's attention spans will go.
Just so you know, I'd rather not "kill" myself. My bosses like me, so they'd need to run a competition to re-hire for my position, and that can take up to 24 mos. in the federal government. Also, I like my wife, loved ones, friends, Star Trek stuff, working out, soccer (Go Caps), Krav Maga, reading, walking my dog, etc.
Here's the final word to all these comments. I'm not gonna waste precious time replying to anonymous losers.
To my readers: did you notice how these commenters were enraged simply because I was encouraging the consumer to save money at Starbucks? I wasn't encouraging uncouth behavior to the partners, nor anything dishonest. Starbucks simply breeds an attitude of entitlement that is all to common to the average worker nowadays. Except, perhaps, for the partner who served me in Portland.
2 comments:
just so you know regarding using the milk carafes for your lattes, they dont get changed as often as they should so you might want to be careful fyi
I know!! :-( some Baristas intentionally leave the bad milk out to try and "punish" guys like me. I always check the temperature of the milk, and if it is warm, I send it back! :-)
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