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Well, today was my first day working at Starbucks. I had no idea it was going to be so fast-paced. I had to make frappachino after frappachino after frappachino..... FOR...E...VER! And since it was summer, nobody ordered anything else.
Customer: "I want a tall mocha..." *I thought: please not a frappachino.... "frappachino." grrr
And then I got to make whipped cream. Which was actually pretty easy. You just put in some heavy whipping cream with some vanilla syrup. Then you screw the cap on and instert the CO2 cartrige.
That was where I got laughed at. The top rubber seal happened to fall out of the top before I screwed it on, so when I inserted the C02 far enough in to where it punctured...
Let's just say my face was white and leave it at that.
Which just made my nickname "Mayonnaise" stick that much more.
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You are serving people huge amounts of caffiene and are wondering why they are hyper and making you run everywhere?
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Nick, Are they tipping you the extra change like they are supposed to, according to the Tipping Guide?
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quote: Nick, was there someone there to help you with the whipped-cream-removal? Nice female colleague, perhaps?
Well actually, there is a cute girl that works there that I knew from high school, but she wasn't working yesterday morning. Posts: 4229 | Registered: Dec 2002
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I'll have a venti Chocolate Brownie Frap. With two extra shots, please. If I am ever looking for a new job, the first place I'm applying is Starbucks. Great bennies there.
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I don't know what to think about Starbucks. After seeing firsthand the working and living conditions of the Guatemalan coffee plantation workers and the Honduran coffee processing plant workers, I can't think very highly of any coffee company that does business there.
On the other hand, I have heard whispers that Starbucks is actually taking steps to improve said working and living conditions by putting pressure on the plantation and factory owners. I hope this is true.
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quote: On the other hand, I have heard whispers that Starbucks is actually taking steps to improve said working and living conditions by putting pressure on the plantation and factory owners. I hope this is true.
It actually is true. Starbucks commits to "fair trade" and has actually provided some medical clinics and schools to it's suppliers. If you permanently consume the very resource that makes you your money, which includes the land and the laborers, how will your company survive?
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quote: I don't know what to think about Starbucks. After seeing firsthand the working and living conditions of the Guatemalan coffee plantation workers and the Honduran coffee processing plant workers, I can't think very highly of any coffee company that does business there.
Also, Starbucks processes everything themselves. The only buy the harvested beans from growers, that's all. They have processing plants across the mainland United States, and they give benefits and fair wages to all who work in those as well.
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