<![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> Who was wearing the dishwashing gloves on their dick?

freeoverunders

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> As much as I agree, I respect the big boss to put in efforts to try changing the place. On the other hand, this guy complains about the whole training makes me think twice of how good of a judgment the management hiring has. To make the story short, can I get a tip of who the guy is so we can fire him yet? pretty please?

Vicocola

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> Oooh, can I order a four-pump double-tall vanilla hazelnut herpes macchiato?

swagv

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> as one of the owners of said cake shop, i can assure you that iron & wine is never played here. i cannot stress that enough... you're more likely to hear RUSH. anyways... and i'm biased of course in saying this but i think our coffee is pretty good, (most) of our staff is sweet and our wifi is free.

p.s. thanks for the kind words heather fink!

noiseycat

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> @marvel girl: I sat at home for like 12 hours last night and I didn't have to buy anything. Well if you don't consider my cable bill, phone bill or my mortgage. Now that I think about it maybe I should just move into Starbucks.

BullfightsOnAcid

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> @Itsjustcatnip: My(!) barista will be so pleased.

@iplaudius: Servicey indeed!

mathnet

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> @marvel girl:

The tea sucks too. The water is never hot enough to brew the tea properly, and even the black teas taste suspiciously Lipton-y.

Any branch of the public library will let you sit for three hours without buying anything, and they won't torture you with Norah Jones while you're doing it.

City_Dater

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> For real. If ther is a place where I can sit for three hours without buying ANYTHING, that place rocks. Okay? Plus, when was the last crap job that gave YOU decent health insurance? Yeah, their coffee sucks. Get a cup of tea and stop bitching.

marvel girl

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> @Artful Slinger: like Britney?

gladys_kravitz

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> @BK_KT: "You're soaking in it."

YourGoldKeith

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> indier-than-thou haircut

oh man

if_i_only_had_a_heart

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> the milk, it talks to me, shhhh.......
I believe I just lactasmed at the thought


BalknChain

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> @soulpilgrim: I believe that's a direct quote from a cutting-room floor scene from Taxi Driver.

bugupit

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> I'll have the Herpes Latte with an extra shot of Syphilis. But put a lot of whip cream on top because it makes it more syphilis-ier.

BullfightsOnAcid

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> Did he just talk smack about Cake Shop?! I am so angry. It is my home. It fosters explosions and jumping style type fun.

Does Starbucks have a downstairs bar where maybe a man will dress in drag and scream with a guitar and you can drink sparx?

I dunno, maybe they do at one of their million locations - but not at most of them.

Heather Fink

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> @IndianSlipper: I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Spag's closed.

acroro

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> Hey, barrista, what's a cold sore doing in my latte?
The backstroke.

bigspike

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> @sexbot: Isn't "Scabies" the game you can play on the starbucks website?

IndianSlipper

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> Do they still do flashmobs? Someone should organize a mass visit to like 20 Starbucks and at the appointed hour start screaming at the baristas about "frothy pus in my Chock Full of Nuts" and see how they handle it.

In Other News...

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> Yeah, that's no herpes. It's called scabies and that's why it won't go away.

sexbot

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> "Sure, they're totally lax about my health and safety, but they're going to have to pay for it eventually!"

So casual about contracting Herp in the dish room! I'd be asking for a Hazmat suit--all my own--before I would wash another mug.

City_Dater

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> someone is wearing that glove wrong

ragepotato

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> @In Other News...: you made my stomach turn and I just tossed my over-priced coffee int he trash. *urp

BGGA

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> @In Other News...: So traumatized by this.

I literally have a giant frowny/grossed out face going.

BK_KT

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> Seriously, folks. We hear a lot about Starbucks' health plan and (un)happy employees. Can we do a Viacom-style outing of just what the hell is up there? I wonder if Starbucks really offers the same benefits all over the country, or has different management/organization in different areas of the country. (I know that, here in Spain, for example, Starbucks stores are managed by a Spanish company that specializes in restaurants, but I have no idea if the employees are shareholders or get profit sharing, etc.) Come on Starbottoms, share!

SarahHeartburn

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> @WideStanceRomancer: Your welcome. For what I'm not sure, but you are always welcome.

IndianSlipper

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> Starbucks employees in Austin, TX were waaaaaay too friendly, always trying to start conversations and asking about whatever book I was holding. It makes for an awkward minute while I wait for my cappuccino to be made.

BenderingTime

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> @mathnet: I caught some of that on the food network this weekend.

Oh-god, I've wasted my life. (goes and shoots self).

Itsjustcatnip

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> @mathnet: Servicey: Italian words ending in -ista can be either masculine or feminine (artista, altruista, socialista). Although the roots of -ista words may be Latinate, the suffix goes back to the Greek -istes. In Romance languages, the suffix -istes becomes -ista or -iste (or whatever) and does not indicate gender.

iplaudius

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> My Coffee Stand Man's thoughts on the matter:
"Eh? You went to Starbucks? What? Fuck you. Black, no sugar, here."

mitchel_stevens

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> "Sssh! I can't hear the milk."

This made my day.

soulpilgrim

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> @the cajun boy: I worked at Satrbucks WAAAAY back in the day and we received stock options after 1 year (if I remember right) of working there. Ah, those were the good old days. And a dime bag only cost a dime and a nickel bag only a nickel ...

PomPom

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> @IndianSlipper: Thank you.

WideStanceRomancer

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> Maybe it was a coincidence, but my least favorite Starbucks in my town had undergone a marked improvement yesterday. The barista was polite, friendly and efficient (not the norm at this one), and for the first time in my entire starbucks-going life someone asked if I wanted room for milk in my tea. Also the pastry and refrigerator cases were fully stocked even late in the evening. So maybe something is working?

flackette is frustrated

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> @the cajun boy: ...and coffee growers in Africa, I hear.

In Other News...

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> @Sally Tomato: Sure. PWSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH... "Ouch, herpes scab!" PLOP! "Oh my, I picked at it, and now it's fallen into this Venti White Mocha! Lemme put in some chocolate shavings... and some whipped cream... Venti White Mocha, order up!"

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]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> @the cajun boy: I was working for a very nice entertainment marketing agency awhile back and my friend went to Starbucks for a part time gig during Grad School. She worked 25 hours a week and had 100% better benefits then I did and was getting reimbursed for going to school.

Another friend, who started as a Barista while in undergrad, is now an executive in their marketing department. Everyone I know seems excited about working there, mostly its the annoying repeat customers that drive them nuts.

ArtfulSlinger

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> Um, the people at Cake Shop and Bowery Poetry Club -- although wan, insufferable and glutted with iPod-full-of-Iron-and-Wine coy hipsterness -- at least do not all dress alike in ugly green aprons like an upper-class Burger King employee with some misdirected sense of attitude.

Gregoire

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> @CodePink: As in MA? I haven't been to Spags in a long time but hear it sucks now.

IndianSlipper

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> @Michael Jahn: If you watch those Valtrex ads - or work at Starbucks - apparently there's not much worry at all.

In Other News...

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> @Sally Tomato: just snorted more coffee....

fritosforlunch

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> @IndianSlipper: I prefer Dugan Dunguts, a cop I met at a Dunkin Donuts one lonely night in Worcester.

CodePink

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> @BK_KT: Not only that, but you can get gonorrhea on your ear. You just put a little dishwashing soap on it, and it clears it right up.

Ha Ha Sound

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> i've frequented many starbucks in my day and have gotten to know some of their employees and the sentiment expressed here seems to be universal. say what you want about them, as for a global corporations go, they do treat their employees fairly well.

the cajun boy

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> I can't hear the milk either. Can you turn it up?

Sally Tomato

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> Wait, you can get the herp from a pair of gloves? On your hand? Where the hell is the PSA about that!? Damn.

nowimpissed

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> You can get herpes on your hand?!?!?!

BK_KT

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> @Michael Jahn: I prefer dunkin' dognuts actually.

IndianSlipper

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> @In Other News...: Does the fact that we're beginning to worry about herpes again mean that the AIDs epidemic is over? Herpes became quaint for a couple decades there.

Michael Jahn

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> Baristas (i Baristos?):

Any of you attend the big Barist_ competition a week or two ago? BIG TALK at my local coffee place. I'm interested!

mathnet

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> it's hard to get chicks with hair piece.

IndianSlipper

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> Anything is an improvement over Dunkiin' Donuts.

Michael Jahn

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> Hamilton: can you please provide the exact address of where this guy works so I know to avoid it completely and just go to the one directly across the street from it?

In Other News...

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> So casual about herpes! I will stop questioning those Valtrex ads now.

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]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> wups caps

nikaoh

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> EXACTLY.

nikaoh

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> coffee

fritosforlunch

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away]]> just snorted cheap free office coffe out my nose

fritosforlunch

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