Dear Guests.
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(First things first: I'm famous. As you can tell, j'aime Cajun beaucoup!)
Now, moving on to what I really, really want to talk about.
Target/Starbucks customers guests.
Number one:
How hard is it to walk ten yards, at the most to put your cart in a cart corral? Really? Are you that lazy? Do you know the damage those things can cost others? Ridiculous, be ashamed, world, be ashamed.
Secondly:
If you're going to stare at my menu for five minutes, please also take a brief moment to look at prices and sizes. That way when you finally come to the counter and tell me the things you would like to order, you can confidently tell me what size you want your beverage, and you won't be outraged at the ridiculously high price you're paying for said legendary-quality specialty beverage.
Next, we have trash cans located all over the store, and you are never more than ten yards from one (hmm, sounds an awful lot like the cart corrals...) Please use them. They are not for your benefit, they are for ours. Don't be lazy and stash your cup on a shelf, or leave it on your table. We aren't your parents, clean up after yourself, bums.
If you spill something, I cannot emphasize this enough, tell someone! Wet floors are a hazard and a health issue. Spills can cause slips, injuries, or if not taken care of, lead to harmful bacterias and other irritants, such as flies, gnats, and roaches.
Also, use your head. Can't find the bathroom? There's a ridiculously large sign up front that says RESTROOMS. Follow that sing like you're Dorothy following the Yellow Brick Road. It'll get you to the Palace.
I'm not your slave, don't you dare look down on me. I am making your beverage. I am not there for your verbal abuse. I am not there for you to mock, condescend to, or in other ways ridicule. I'm serving you because I'm paid to. Not because I'm beneath you. I'm performing a service for your benefit. I don't go to your place of employment when I need your services and look down on you. And once you ridicule and condescend to me, how do you think your beverage is going to taste? (Hint: It'll be amazing because I refuse to stoop to your low levels, sirs and madams)
On a related note: Working at Starbucks is my job, not yours. Don't you presume to tell me how to do my job. That's why it's my job, and not yours. This is why they pay me the big bucks. I know what I'm doing. You don't. I have the recipe in front of me- you don't. You don't like how your Venti Decaf Iced Americano tastes, because the other Starbucks does it differently? I'm sorry you've gotten used to a lower-than-legendary service and beverage made incorrectly. Ours is made by the book, in ways that don't spoil the full flavor of the espresso. You say they poor your shots directly over the ice? SHAME on them for ruining the espresso, shame on you for accepting sub-par standards as your default.
In other news, my job is awesome and I love it. No sarcasm. But seriously, whoever it was that told customers they were always right, I hate you. Because they're not, and no one should walk into someone else's workplace with such a disgusting sense of entitlement.
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