Does anyone here work in a playbook store? I've been at a 40k/week drive thru playbook store for the past six months and it's been hell. We are just supposed to deal with all the problems of playbook not being properly modeled for drive thru, since we're the test market. At a store this busy though, and with split bars, it's pretty terrible. I'm ( Read more... )

I quit Starbucks!!!!!

I have a DESK JOB! It is the most strange/exciting/bizarre/terrifying feeling ever. I'll feel a lot better once I get a paycheck.

But I painted my nails tonight for the first time in four years. That part is amazing.
I'm going to stick around but seriously. Uh, I am so not sad I'm missing holiday.

How have you guys been?

After Blizzard laid me off, and enduring seven months of unemployment, and many fruitless attempts at finding work, I was hired by a nice manager in Sumner who seems to have her shit straight.

Here's to hoping for the best. <3

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Anyone here in Houston going to the conference??
Im going, yay!!
Even if it is to just help with a coffee tasting, it will be cool to say I got to go :)

Hi all. For those of you who don't know me, I'm Winter, and for 15 years I've been trying to visit every company-operated Starbucks in the world. I'm now at around 10,980, and trying to verify my database so I can correctly identify my 11,000th store ( Read more... )

I've always wanted my own espresso machine for home ( Read more... )

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I've never seen a place more tense. It's all my immature, gossip-mongering manager's fault. We used to be a family, now everyone is at each others' throats ( Read more... )