If I’m asking if you want your coffee “for here” or “to go” I don’t care if you stay, I simply want to know if you want paper or ceramic. If it’s not Tim Hortons, I could care less if you want anything but black. If it’s not Starbucks, please speak english? I don’t know what tall means, and it’s nowhere on my menu.
This article appears in Aug 7-13, 2008.
I agree…I work in the coffee industry also and I hate how everyone assumes we are tim hortons or starbucks…GET YOUR OWN GOD DAMN CREAM!!! and what the hell is a size regular?! I don’t know what a regular size is to you…
Are you guys for real? If you mean paper or ceramic, then say “paper or ceramic”. If someone asks for a regular or a tall, then hold up the cup size you think is most appropriate and ask the customer is that is what they want. Every coffee shop has its own stupid or pretentious system of serving cofee and not every customer through your door will have been in your particular shop before, especially during tourist season when they may not have even been in your country before. They just want a coffee, your job as a coffee jockey or barista or whatever other trumped up name you want to call it is to facilitate the coffee-selling process.. If you are nice and helpful about it you might just make a return customer out of them and educate them enough so they don’t irritate you with their lack of knowledge about your oh-so-unique coffee ordering system the next time.
I’ve never worked in the “coffee industry”, so I’m the furthest thing from an expert, but I’m gonna take a wild guess that “regular” means medium-sized. Why such pretense and holier than thou outrage emanating from the coffee shop employees? Need I remind you, you’re cashiers? Get over yourselves!
Anyway, what’s a finatic? Is it someone who’s fanatic for fins?
Maybe someone who’s wild about Finland? (All those fjords makes me tingle in ma dirty places….)Me, I’m more concerned about Cornography.
Ok…well first off I know at my job I am NOT just a cashier. I do alot of work. Probably more work than I have ever done in my life and make shit doing so. Secondly, when the sizes are clearly displayed right in front of you, and you cannot look at them and tell me what size you want then you are clearly an idiot. We put the cups out so that people will know what the sizes are and they are right there in front of the cash.Thirdly, walk a mile in someones shoes before you tell people to get over themselves…Halifax is not the easiest place to find full time employment..and I work pretty damn hard at what I do, and am probably the hardest working employee in the whole company, and I dont think I need to get over myself, I think that more ignorant customers like maybe yourself need to be more educated on what you are consuming before you come in demanding things that I dont even know exist. Dont assume because I work in a coffee shop, that I drink coffee and know what sizes from other shops are called, READ THE GOD DAMN SIGN!!!!
Well, instead of educating myself on things like memorizing the appropriate lingo for coffee cup sizes to please the inflated ego-driven CASHIERS in the various cafes in Halifax, I focused on other things… like getting a job at which the most significant thing that happens to me during the day is NOT someone saying “regular” instead of “medium”.And a great big “get the flying fuck over yourself” to you, m’lady.
Opehelia, may ye drowne under a broken willowe, ye unholy cunt.
OK…well at least if you are going to spell my name, spell it right. It is right in front if you, you ignorant fuck…ANDthe sizes at my work are huge compared to other coffee shops. So when someone says regular and I ASSUME it is medium, they get upset because the cup size is too big, and they dont want that much. So assuming a regular is a medium is not always the case…again, that is why we have the sizes placed in front of you morons so you can decide which cup is too big or too small for you.Oh and Jammie…go fuck yourself.
ophelia, sweetie, you seem a little, ummm… TENSEhave you tried drinking decaf instead?please don’t hurt me! ;~}
Opie, maybe the stupid people aren’t the people buying coffee from you. Maybe the stupid people are the career cashiers, who go to sleep grinding their teeth to the quick because someone used the wrong lingo when ordering a REGULAR sized coffee.PS You could always ASK what size they’re referring to. It would take all of about .4 seconds.PPS Jammie’s not ignorant. He’s smart and funny. You’re dumb and weird. And inappropriately intense.