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To find this Starbucks member of staff downright rude???

234 replies

RachelHRD · 09/12/2011 13:29

Just went to a toddler music and softplay session with DD and afterwards went for lunch at the on-site Starbucks. The 2 female members of staff in there are pretty miserable so and so's anyway - for example I bought a sausage bap, croque monsieur panini and cinnamon swirl and asked for a knife and was told 'wait a moment' ??!

Anyhoo I cut up the bap and panini for DD and I to share with the rather pathetic plastic knife and then when I went to cut up the cinnamon swirl noticed several of the plastic teeth of the knife had come off and were attached to the bottom of the cake!!

Took said cake back and despite there being only 1 customer practically had to do a star jump to get their attention Hmm and told them what had happened and could I have a new cake. They reluctantly got one and then told me that 'you have to be careful using the knives' WTF 'I used it to cut a sandwich and a bun not saw through a table!!' and that that's why they don't really give them out and they are only really meant for the pasta salads!! Cos obv you need a knife for a pasta salad!!

I was somewhat taken aback at these comments but coming home am really peeved at the rudeness and the fact that they supply something that isn't fit for purpose and lets face it - if that's what happens when you cut something those knives shouldn't be used as chances are you might end up eating some of the plastic teeth as they are so small!!

Am going to write to Starbucks I think and suggest that maybe they should provide 'real' cutlery in their stores and teach their staff some customer service skills.........

Grrr Angry rant over!!!!!

OP posts:
Hullygully · 09/12/2011 14:57

I work in Starbucks and you wouldn't believe the amount of people that pull the old detached-serrations-give-me-a-new-cake-for-free trick. I'm not surprised they didn't believe you.

OrmIrian · 09/12/2011 14:58

And I am not Ormiron. Neither am I Ormoron as I have been previously described (deliberately or not, I can't say) Grin

Hullygully · 09/12/2011 14:59

ok sue and shirl. i want to play.

Hullygully · 09/12/2011 15:00

cunts.

RachelHRD · 09/12/2011 15:02

Hully we hadn't even touched the original cake - I took it back whole because I didn't want DD eating bits of plastic....perhaps you can enlighten me as to why SB don't provide proper cutlery??

Soz OrmIrian......skip reading...

OP posts:
ScatterChasse · 09/12/2011 15:02

What would they give you if you ordered a scone (genuinely curious, I don't go in Starbucks).

Perhaps you should ask for a cake fork? Apparently I did that in a tea shop when I was about five Blush

Hullygully · 09/12/2011 15:04

We don't provide proper cutlery for two reasons:

  1. People use it as weapons
  2. People steal it.
DoesNotGiveAFig · 09/12/2011 15:04

One of the best words ever is "craw". I once had a tropical fish I named "craw"

SuePurblybiltbyElves · 09/12/2011 15:05

Hully, do you wear a uniform? And who chooses the flavour shot of the week?

KateFrothers · 09/12/2011 15:05

hahahahahahahahahahaha

KateFrothers · 09/12/2011 15:06

I bet Hully runs a strict ship. Any messing from the customers elicits a pithy "Killy him".

Hullygully · 09/12/2011 15:10

I think you'll find a killy-him is a fancy rug, acksherly.

Why are you making with the jokes about my career?

We play rock paper scissors for flavour-choosing. Bastard Finella has won four weeks in a row.

SuePurblybiltbyElves · 09/12/2011 15:13

I hear you Hully. One time, when I worked at Pret, Charlotte said she had had first tea break so she needed first lunch break but she totes hadn't, she just wanted to be on break with Ben. And that was so unfair because I didn't even get my tea break and I had to do the nozzle cleaning when it wasn't even my turn because Lucy was in Gstaad. Fucks sakes.

ShirleyKnot · 09/12/2011 15:13

Finella?

Hullygully · 09/12/2011 15:14

My colleague. She is large of breast and has continental teeth. They keep making her Barista of the Month. Bastards.

KateFrothers · 09/12/2011 15:15

Do you get to make up your own flavours? Bollox to Gingerbread Lattes. Marmite and cheese espressos, Ham frappacinios and salty lattes are where it's at.

entropyglitter · 09/12/2011 15:15

hully are you implying that you are in any way connected with the global giant that is starbucks?

I think I may be about to suffer clinical shock...

Hullygully · 09/12/2011 15:15

How could Lucy afford Gstaad on those wages?

Hullygully · 09/12/2011 15:16

I am very lowly. They block my advancement because I failed the Froth Test twice.

SuePurblybiltbyElves · 09/12/2011 15:16

Fucking Lucy gets everything. Snot fair. I don't even know why she has a job cs her parents like pay for everything.

VivaLeBeaver · 09/12/2011 15:16

I luuuurve Starbucks and really want to be a Barista there. Though I've been seduced into Costa this week by their lush Black Forest Hot Chocolate. But then I read they're 540 calories a cup!

OP, I don't think the staff were being rude as such. They're obviously right and you do have to be careful with the cutlery. Maybe a pressing down cut rather than a sawing cut might work better in future. I do think its fair enough to write to their head office and point out that the cutlery is useless and potentially unsafe.

You should have ingested a plastic crumb and then faked a choking fit. You'd have got thousands in compensation

ShirleyKnot · 09/12/2011 15:17

Fancy a salty latte?

entropyglitter · 09/12/2011 15:17

..heart...failing....

my dying wish is for a frappanini....all that hammy cheesy goodness blitzed and iced for your straw sucking convenience...

KateFrothers · 09/12/2011 15:20

No danger of getting burnt or ingesting bits of plastic that way entropygirl and a Frappanini would be much quicker than eating and drinking.

KateFrothers · 09/12/2011 15:20

Quick, let's patent Frappanini and then sell it back to Starbucks. Or maybe Costa. A bidding war!

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