November 16th, 2024
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Barista wasn’t comfortable using my name so shouted “Customer in black hat” to alert me to my order
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November 16th, 2024
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Casiteal
What is the name you put?
We get people all of the time who put joke names on their orders all of the time. We absolutely can and do refuse to say certain names. If they get a lot of troll names I can understand why they would be like that and thought you were trolling if what you put sounds like it.
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spooky-starbuck
Yeah, I heard a guy tell my SM (who was working register) to put his name as “Daddy”. I thought I heard wrong, but when I saw the sticker, I told her over the headset that would not be calling him that, and I did not. I just read out the drink. He even said to me, “Is this the one for Daddy?” And I told him to read the sticker. Not playing your nasty games, sir. 🙅🏻♀️
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OldboyVicious
A few years back I worked at a store next to a middle school. All the middle school boys thought it was hilarious to tell the women working at register to put their name as "daddy" or try to get a woman at handoff to call them it & it was really gross. Every now and then a guy ringing up wouldn't care and put it on the sticker, but any of the women working would refuse (rightfully so, in my opinion).
So once when one of them was waiting for their drink and the sticker said daddy I looked at it & asked if that was his real name. He said yes, giggling with his friends.
I acted like I had no idea what the joke was and just said "that's a weird name. Why would your mom want to call you daddy all the time?"
At least that particular group stopped using it for their name lol.
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TheBigTimeBecks
Should have called him Gramps or grandpa instead if he looked older. Would have deflated his ego and his wiener
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Ambitious-Hunter-741
We have a regular we call grandpa he loves it. He loves us so much and we have great friendly banter with him.
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Slowpoke4206985
God, why do people do that shit….. They think they’re the life of the party, but they’re really that guy I avoid crossing paths in the street.
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Loud-You-5737
My dad for some reason puts Harold/Gerald/Frank as a joke. His name is Kyle 😝. I don’t know why he does it but it makes us smile when we are with him.
When we are in Disney he slips a Mr. Tom Morrow in there at some point, and he ordered my Starbucks in Animal Kingdom so he can put “Asia” on my cup. My name is Cia and whenever we see the signs for Asia in AK he goes “looks it’s A Cia!” 🤣. If my parents are in Disney without us he always sends me a picture of the sign.
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MX5MONROE
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StreetofChimes
My husband does this. His name is only 3 letters long, and still gets butchered. So he goes by Peter.
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Yalsas
My boyfriend uses my name because his is 3 letters long and also gets butchered
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MX5MONROE
Perfect example.
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EzriDaxCat
Me too. Even the short version of my name gets butchered so I had to rename myself and became Beth Christine.
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LuciusDickusMaximus
Don’t you feel dishonest?
TheOnesLeftBehind
It’s not tax documents, you could call yourself twilight sparkle and we won’t care that much
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MX5MONROE
Nope.
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LuciusDickusMaximus
You roll in a respectable way, friend.
AlmostxAngel
Dishonest for using a nickname to help make others lives easier? Are you for real right now?
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EzriDaxCat
Absolutely not. My name causes a hassle daily and It takes longer to get my drink and I hold up the pickup line when I have to sit there every time they call a mangled name and guess if that's mine. As long as I don't choose something offensive, it fine.
Instead of : "mocha for #$%@*!" And me going "........?" And then finding out I guessed wrong and this is someone else's mocha.
We get: "Mocha for Beth Christine?" And me: "That's me, thank you".
So. MUCH. Easier.
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Odd_Light_8188
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CleverCarrot999
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pervy_roomba
Holy shit, I checked the post history and this checks out.
How could you tell from this post?
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CleverCarrot999
not sure, my troll spidey senses immediately tingled while reading it. checked the post history and... yeah
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GarlicFar7420
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schmidt_face
At one of my starbucks we had a regular, “John.” John was an incredibly attractive, tall (over 6’1) black man. We loved him (he ended up marrying on of our baristas and they lived happily ever after but that’s a different story.) Anyways John’s regular drink was a tall black eye. Almost every single time we called out “tall black eye” and John would come grab it, other patrons would give the barista on bar a funny look. Sometimes a side eye.
Idk why this post just made me think of that.
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BitchyNordicBarista
Hahahahaha
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Fenig
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Frodo_Of_The_Shire1
Heavy vibes of "Hi ma'am, I'm Gibby." "She doesn't speak English." "I'm still Gibby."
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Fake_Gamer_Cat
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sleepybarista
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Any_Huckleberry_6520
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Str8_Circle
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MulletofLegend
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Visible-Variation-74
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CleverCarrot999
it's a troll bb
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neko808
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gottriplets
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dancingchupacabra_dc
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katsmeoow333
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Enoch_Root19
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epsileth
Dolores?
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huxiaos
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ethereal_soliloquy
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mikewasowskismommy
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1AggravatingProfit
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hollywood22
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CirqueNoirBlu
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wingedcoyote
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Proof_Cheesecake_441
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Top-Holiday2062
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ElectricalMoney1522
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TheycallmeMangoBango
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the-bees-niece
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ratchetcoutoure
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jahmariposa
I met someone who's name was vulva pronounced bulba. Yes it was awkward l dunno if it was her birth given name or if she was just trying to be different....
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Mechanical_Monk
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Ambitious-Hunter-741
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amesann
I'm thinking maybe Malaria? I've also heard of someone named Ebola.
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allijandrooo
i have a friend named zieka
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MeandtheManatee
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seattle-random
Maybe their name is Dick? I could see that being an issue for a partner to feel uncomfortable.
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Odd_Light_8188
I guess a dick could be a disease lol
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LuciusDickusMaximus
After the 2024 election, I think it might be. But no, my names not dick.
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Odd_Light_8188
The election shone a light on the disease but it’s been a issue
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JackDilsenberg
What ever happened to that guy you interviewed that pulled a switcheroo
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SmartWonderWoman
This 👆🏽😆
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iqueefkief
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lusacat
He’s making a fake story, his entire post history is random wild stories. There’s even a top comment in one of his recent posts calling him out for constantly lying
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Cynicbats
He's only missing being beaten by his father with a pair of jumper cables.
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iqueefkief
the purple heart story cracked me up
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Allohowareyou
I just need to let yall know, he’s still up to his shenanigans. And I’m over here dying going through this post history. 💀
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iqueefkief
fuck yeah i’m bout to read up
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pandam00n
Once Upon a Time
I had the misfortune of knowing someone whose name was Candida. Had they not been a terrible person, some may have felt bad for them BUUUUUT... in their case?
Terrible person named after fungus... and not the cute little aesthetic kind 🍄that's become popular...
Not cute: fungal infection! Specifically, they shared a name with yeast infections!
I'm sure their name was intended to be derived from Latin for "pure"...but with how awful of a person they were, yeast infection seemed much more appropriate🤢
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jadeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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solairette
All while being named Smallpox. What a feat.
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flowerrsonmygrave
LMAOOO it was really an entertaining read tho. The several partners, trying to piece it all together etc. conclusion: none of it is true; and this person dedicated ALOT of time to make up stories & try and pisd people off on Reddit 😭
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Allohowareyou
….. calling from the future…. Was on a wild trip through this users history and found other sentient beings out there. They are very much still up to these shenanigans. What a wild read this evening. 💀
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flowerrsonmygrave
how very strange and unusual, yet harmless entertainment I suppose 🤣
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dredged_gnome
We're specifically told not to use names that could be offensive. If I remember right this kind of unfortunately started with Donald Trump and then expanded as people kept trying to get us to say ridiculous things. Mike Hawk, Daddy, that kind of thing but worse.
The correct way to handle it is to call out the drink without the name, try to make eye contact and wave.
The POS used to, not sure if it still does, block "offensive" names. Was really unpleasant when I had to explain to Gay, our very sweet regular, why her name was never on her cup. It literally would get blocked by the POS.
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Chewbacca_The_Wookie
There are, or were, ways to get around the offensive names on the mobile app. We used to get high school kids coming in and buying a drink with the N word or F slur as the name somehow, and they would always ask us to refund the drink when we refused to call the name out but we never would.
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Jeffuk88
I just pronounce the names differently
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pandam00n
You have me picturing Bart Simpson pranking Moe with names that sound like other things🤣
phone rings
M: Hello?
B: Hi! I'm looking for a Mister Ron, first name Moe?
M: Moe...Ron?..............ugh... moron .... It's you! You little puke!
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Educational-Ad2043
I’m looking for a Homer… A Homer Sexual…
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LowDownSkankyDude
Amanda Huggenkis. I'm looking for Amanda Huggenkis
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Chewbacca_The_Wookie
That's actually a really good one!
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Bad-Moon-Rising
I've never worked for Starbucks, just retail. I had a regular customer years ago named Gay. I'm not going to doxx her, but her last name was a phallic food item. Not her name, but it would be something like Gay Carrot. She took it all in stride, it was her name and she loved it. She was a sweet lady, I haven't thought about her in a long time.
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Hardlymd
Gay Cucumber
Gay Eggplant
Gay Aubergine
Gay Banana
Gay Plantain
Gay Zucchini
Gay Squash
Gay Asparagus
Gay Pickles
Gay Frank
Gay Frankfurter
Gay Wiener
I think I’ve found it! 😂
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Bad-Moon-Rising
You got awfully close!
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marshedmallo
We have a regular named Gypsy and we can never put her name on her cup. I've found a workaround by spelling it "Gypsie" but it still must suck to have your name always either not on the cup or misspelled because it's "offensive". Don't get me wrong, I know the word itself is offensive, but when it's someone's name, then it's just a name.
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quil_jpg
yeah idk why they wouldn't just call out the drink sticker, they definitely made this whole thing harder than it needed to be.
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Hardlymd
Put Gae instead
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Pure_Effective9805
Can you call out super hero names like Batman?
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Life-Video6672
Yes you can i actually have a customer that mobile orders under the name Batman!!
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ThanosSnapsSlimJims
That may have affected me. All of my friends got served and I was the last person for almost an hour after the lunch rush died down. It wasn’t my name on the only cup on the counter, so I refused to take it. I told them numerous times, and after a little over an hour of staying out of spite after paying, I finally got my cup. I felt disrespected because everyone but me got equal treatment
Chilz23
I used to have a light skinned black customer who would mobile order his order, and occasionally order in store and either time he would put his name as “the brown guy”. He was trying to be funny, but if people didn’t know he put that as his name intentionally it could’ve came off like one of our barista’s being potentially prejudice so we never said it out loud. It was just annoying.
At a cafe in college I used to have this customer always give me dumb ones like “Batman” and then the SOB would never come pick his drink up because his brain isn’t used to registering “Batman” as a way of identifying himself. We always ended up having to remake his drink cause it would sit there for so long. I finally told him we wouldn’t do it anymore.
My favorite story revolving around this though was when I had a small group of high schoolers come in, and a really shy kid asked to put “Voldemort” as his name. So naturally when I called out his drink I yelled “latte for He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named!” And it absolutely made his day. He came over and thanked me very quietly and also said “ I love you” and walked away. That one was fun 😂
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yisthismylife
Why is it always Batman bc that’s what immediately came to mind for me and I haven’t worked at sbux since 2009.
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Chilz23
I tend to find that anyone that says “batman” in these circumstances is that one friend who thinks they’re just absolutely hilarious, and they’re just absolutely not. As though they’re the very first person to think of doing something like that.
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Comfortable-Plane944
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CleverCarrot999
because it's from a troll account
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BlueMuffins92
I think it’s an AI account learning. There’s entire subreddits of AI talking to itself and the profiles look eerily similar to this one.
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lightcolorsfly
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CleverCarrot999
it's a troll account bb
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StreetofChimes
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TarzanKitty
Chlamydia?
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StreetofChimes
Are people named that? Spelled just like the disease? What about Clytemnestra?
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lewabwee
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Ambitious-Hunter-741
We had a regular who had a name of an allergy medication and I would be so confused on why someone was like yes. Let’s name my baby a medication.
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gottriplets
Allegra?
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Ksgirlriley
I’m going to delete this it could be offensive to some people. I don’t want to be kicked off.
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