Maybe anwyay - I shouldn't jinx it just yet.

For those that didn't see the other thread, today I sat down and made out a budget for myself and decided I needed a part-time job. I'm definitely "making it" on the one, but I've started putting into savings and I don't want to stop that. And with Xmas and New Years and such coming up, well, I'm kinda broke without dipping into the savings I've started.

SO - I called a friend of mine who works for a coffee shop. She got the job cause the owner is good friends with a good friend of ours. (She took it for extra money a while ago and is actually working there full time at the moment as she was laid off a while ago.)

ANYWAY - I called her this morning and they're hiring and she called the owner and he called me back and I'm going in to meet with him tomorrow night!

Wish me luck!! This could be the PERFECT part-time job. I'll learn to be a master barista and get to socialize with the cuties in the neighborhood to boot.

Congrats!


Good luck with the cuties too

Sounds really cool!

I need a job but i'm sooo shy that I don't want to have to do an interview!

Good Luck!!!

That does sound great. If you only had the coffee shop job then I think you'd feel understimulated, but since it's just an extra thing then I think you'll enjoy it, especially considering the socializing that you mentioned. Hell, you might even meet your future husband there.

I do wonder how you managed to get broke despite being single and having a full-time salary though, lol. When I was in that situation I could usually save heaps.

Hang on, you said you'd started saving so I guess that's where your money went. I should read more carefully.
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retina said:

That and my rent went up considerably since I moved. Just enough that I can't be frivolous anymore and, well, I like being frivolous. I like being able to buy a new outift cause I saw something cute. Or got out to lunch on a whim. As it stands now, I have to save up for an outfit. Or new shoes. Or whatever. And that simply won't do.

good luck!

Please, you dont need any luck.
Im certain you are a shoo-in.

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horatio said:

All things considered, after our phone conversation today I think meeting him tomorrow is mainly a formality and to work out details and such.

But I don't like to count my chickens before they're hatched either.

Still...

CarrieMpls said:

My fingers are crossed for ya!

That's awesome!! Yay, Carrie!



Now then...

Let's get down to business...

Please, send a monthly cache of white mocha syrup to:

T. Reed Baer
123 Main St.
Nashville, TN 37204





Good for you!!!

yay!!!

Is it right near the house too? What a fun way to meet people and what a nice thing to be around on cold days!

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

It's not near where I am. But it's in a cute little neighborhood (Bryn Mawr) on the other side of Minneapolis.

Plus - after having a sedentary job for years, it'll be nice to actually be up and active for work once in a while.

Great news! I really hope this works out for you!

ThreadBare said:

Thanks for all the well wishes, guys!

CarrieMpls said:

Might want to read this first:

(I think it comes from a craigslist post)

*****

From Your Starbucks Barista


To all of you silly, sad caffeine addicts who line up like lemmings for your overpriced lattes every morning: there are some things you should know.

1. We are not your friends. We are usually not your neighbors. In most cases, we absolutely loathe you, but we are outwardly friendly -- because we are paid to do so. You are not getting special treatment, and we really don't give a shit about your last vacation or your new baby or your real estate problems. We ask how you're doing because it's a way of making conversation, and we are pressured to make conversation in this line of work. Now, there are some customers who are genuinely liked, but they're few and far between. If you have to think about it, you're probably not one of them.

2. Oh, you work from home? We are not your water-cooler break. We may be the only humans you have interacted with for days, but do not expect us to be interested in your stupid home business or your racist, sexist, totally unfunny commentary. Get your drink and get out.

3. Enough with repeating the George Carlin Starbucks order joke! It was funny the first time we heard it. Maybe. You are probably the four hundredth person to say it to me, expecting me to laugh, and I guarantee that you're going to be disappointed.

4. Tipping is greatly appreciated. While Starbucks does provide great insurance and other benefits for its employees, and sometimes even a decent hourly wage, baristas are not guaranteed a certain amount of hours per week and NEVER get full-time hours. So: we have great health coverage but can barely buy groceries. Our tips help augment our meager paychecks. If you don't want to tip, don't - but quit bitching about it. I've noticed that the complexity of your drink order is quite often inversely proportionate to the size of your tip. The rudest and most difficult customers NEVER tip - usually the stay-at-home-moms wearing fifty grand worth of diamonds, yammering into their trendy pink KRAZRs and paying absolutely no attention to their horrible offspring (who are wreaking havoc in every way possible.) Bitches.

5. SKIM MILK is the same as NONFAT MILK. Do not order a "skim nonfat latte" – it's redundant. Similarly, don't say that you want a "grande skim latte" and then correct me when I call out "grande nonfat latte." You bitch. Which brings me to:

6. We are trained to call out drink orders in a particular way. This helps to ensure that we get all of your stupid, nitpicky details correct. DO NOT
• Correct me (see above)
• Tell me as snottily as possible that you "don't speak Starbucks." That is quite possibly one of the dumbest statements I've ever heard.
• Keep asking me, "Is it decaf? Did you get that? I ordered decaf. Are you sure it's decaf?" F+CK YOU. Yes, I got it.
• Tell me how to make a drink. I know what goes into a mocha. You probably couldn't make one if someone had a gun to your head.

I may as well continue! DON'T:
• Lean on the hand-off counter, effectively blocking any of the people who ordered BEFORE you from getting their coffee.
• Take your drink, rip the top off, gulp down one-third to one-half of it, and then ask me to "top it off."
• Snatch the first drink to come up, because of course it's yours! You're the only f+cking customer in the place! You ordered a grande latte and this is a Frappuccino, what does it matter! You got there first!
• Scream at me because you don't want whipped cream, when you never specified that.
• Get all pissy when I ask if you want whipped cream on a nonfat mocha. Because some people do, the drink usually comes with it, and we are here to serve your demanding ass.
• Come in wearing a floor-length fur coat and, when asked if you need a bag for your purchase, say no because you want to "save some trees." Please save me the forehead bruise.
• Hold your two-year-old up to the pastry case and ask him to choose something. Grown men (well, stupid grown men) are struck dumb by the variety at times; no toddler will be able to work out what he wants in under three days. Select something for him and move on.

7. If you are yapping away on your cell phone when you get up to the counter, TELL THE PERSON ON THE OTHER END TO HOLD ON. Do not try to communicate what you want by hand gestures. Do not stare at me blankly – YOU approached ME. Especially, do not roll your eyes at me and heave a sigh before bitchily telling me what you want while still babbling into the phone.

8. If we're out of the sippy-cup lids and have to give you a regular old flat lid with a tear tab (this occasionally happens) – do not freak out and scream at the manager that it will spill and ruin your "very expensive car." Buddy, I've seen that car (you double-park it outside the front door almost every f+cking day) and it's not all that, so get off your f+cking high horse. And if you have enough money for that pricey auto, either buy a decent travel mug with a locking lid, or get the f+cking car detailed if something spills. And maybe lay off the caffeine. Asshole.

9. If you order a Frappuccino, I will hate you even more.

10. Quit bitching about the names of everything. Yes, there is a "tall" size. No, it's not the smallest size – that would be the "short." Somewhere along the line, it got dropped from the menu, but can still be ordered. It doesn't make much sense to me either, but I didn't come up with the nomenclature for this shit. Order by the names on the menu, because I've had people ask for a "medium coffee" and get inexplicably pissed off when I give them a grande. Which is a medium coffee. If you eat at McDonald's, you put a "Mc" in front of just about everything – get the f+ck over yourself and get used to it.

11. Keep your f+cking $1200, four-foot-wide Bugaboo stroller out. Of. The. Store.

12. If you are one of the seriously annoying, mind-bogglingly stupid Change People, it's very likely that I'm restraining the urge to beat you senseless. Especially if you say something like, "I have twenty-four cents, if it helps…" – you are not helping anyone. F+ck you and your exact change. Don't giggle and tell me how heavy it's making your bag and that you need to get rid of it. How about this: remove your spare change from your bag or pockets daily. Throw it in a change jar. When the jar fills up, cash it in. So simple, anyone can do it!

13. When you order "three shots of espresso, over ice, in a venti cup, extra ice" – WE KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING. You're stealing, because you pay a lot less for that than you would for a latte, and then you fill it to the brim with milk from the condiment bar pitchers. You probably eat at buffets all the time and surreptitiously stuff your shoulder bag full of food, too. It's a hard lesson to learn, but you really should learn it: if you can't afford something, don't f+cking buy it. Asshole.

14. Just because I work at Starbucks doesn't mean I'm stupid. If I had a penny for everyone who treated me like a complete idiot because I work in the service industry, I'd be a retired billionaire by now. I probably scored higher than you did on standardized tests, am better-read, better-educated, a better writer, more articulate, more interesting, more observant, and better-traveled. However, because I am an artist (as are many of my co-workers) I don't make the kind of money that the lawyers, doctors, and CEOs of the world do; this does not, however, make me a second-class citizen. So stop f+cking treating me (and everyone else who works at Starbucks) like one.

15. Have a nice f+cking day, you bastards!

Yeah, I'm not working in a Starbucks. It's a little independently owned coffee shop suppoerted solely by the people who live in the neighborhood. They also serve wine and beer and a bit more food than your typical coffee place. I know dealing with the public isn't always fun, but I know it's not gonna be that bad.

Starbucks

Do people still go there? Fair play to its longevity consider the fickle nature of such things. Surely people have found the new cool and started going somewhere else by now for whatever reason they've been told, by the people that decide these things.

Lots of coffee drinkers are silly.

Congrats!


I'm actually thinking about getting a second job as well


I figure , if I work on the weekends, I won't spend money on the weekends.


I would like to be a barback at a gay bar though. Great music, great pay, and great hours.

Starbucks food sucks.

I hate it when people are standing over and breathing mine and other peoples drinks at the counter.

I rarely go there unless Im driving out of town or standing in line hours early for an estate sale. But I do find it amusing when I go that people sit in there with no drink or anything but thier laptop like its a place to hang out.

That sounds so cool!! Congrats Carrie..

Imago said:

That would be perfect for you. Maybe we'll both meet our future husbands.



And yeah, it'll help save money by keeping me busy from spending it.

I'm thinking about getting a first job.

I figure, if I work, I won't lose my wife, my family, my friends, my entire future amd my sanity.

Congratulations!

Good luck!!

If Tom Brokaw comes in and orders a Venti one-Equal latte, don't spit in his drink because it's probably me and not Tom Brokaw.

sounds cool..and it came at the right time

Good luck !!!