<![CDATA[Starbucks Has Ways Of Making You Talk - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Has Ways Of Making You Talk - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Has Ways Of Making You Talk]]> I'm a barista at Starbucks; I'm always quite 'chatty' to our customers, especially with the good looking lads and the kind old ladies. We have regulars that come in everyday, that tell us their entire life stories; it makes the day go a lot quicker and makes me enjoy my job. Customer connection is ideal but sometimes inappropriate.

amxeh

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Has Ways Of Making You Talk]]> Coming soon from Judith Regan Books: "How I Killed the Barista at Wawa (If I Really Did)."

famousauthor

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Has Ways Of Making You Talk]]> As long as we can talk about how terrible that new Pike Place brew is, I'm all for conversating.

MartyPants

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Has Ways Of Making You Talk]]> even though i've been going to my local starbucks for eight years -- and order the same drink every day -- from the same crew -- they still ask my name every time to marker onto the side of the cup.

i like it that way.

meechybee

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Has Ways Of Making You Talk]]> @stew: If I did frequent *f's may have to cut anyone who speaks to me with a shiv fashioned out of stirrers.

StabbyFerosh

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Has Ways Of Making You Talk]]> My idea is simple - Starbucks does a lot of things well - good coffee, interesting locations. One of its challenges though I believe is to create a sense of conversation and community within its locations.

Clearly this loser has never been to one in New York or any of the drivethrus in American suburbia.

missbheave (is not convinced)

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Has Ways Of Making You Talk]]> I don't want to talk or be talked at Starbucks, or any other merchant.

I'm not interested in an immersive experience.
I don't want to learn or be charmed.
I'm not looking for conversation.
The voices in my head are more than adequate for such needs.

I just want to eat and drink my purchases in peace. and then -- hopefully -- poop and peep in the clean restrooms.

McCheeburger

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Has Ways Of Making You Talk]]> I heart you, To Laiko, for saving me from the hell that is Starbucks.

And I heart you, surly Greek men who loiter there, for refraining from initiating a conversation while learing at me.

AuntPeniston

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Has Ways Of Making You Talk]]> @adminslave: Amen for Peets! Sadly, I live on the wrong coast to get it now, but I can't tell you how many times I've stared into my cup of dunkin' donuts/starbucks coffee and hoped it would somehow turn into a cup of Peets.

JudgeFudge

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Has Ways Of Making You Talk]]> I laughed I cried it was better than 'Cats'

CopyofBlueboy

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Has Ways Of Making You Talk]]> The people who think this is a good idea are the same people as those assholes in that article complaining about the massage girls who rushed them out after their handjobs. They're ruining the world for those of us who want the transaction to end when we pay for a service received.

Basically, what I think I'm trying to say, is that unless Starbucks employees are going to start giving handjobs, this is a bad idea. Wait...what?

Kona

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Has Ways Of Making You Talk]]> What a retard! Moron...jackass!

EDogII

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Has Ways Of Making You Talk]]> I'm OK with this as long as all the conversation is in faux-Italian.

antisocialite

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Has Ways Of Making You Talk]]> What ever happened to going to coffee shops to study/read/relax/not have to converse with shitheads when your voices are being drowned out by that incessant Juno soundtrack?

Gregoire

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Has Ways Of Making You Talk]]> The main positive about being on the west coast: Peets. I haven't set foot in a Starbucks in at least a year.

adminslave

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Has Ways Of Making You Talk]]> This idea is a solution in desperate need of a problem. People aren't coming to Starbucks less because they are lonely while drinking their beverage... they are coming less because people are scared shitless about the economy and the first thing financial self-help dispensers tell people is "cut down on the lattes." Correct or not, it's difficult advice to ignore.

I'd be glad to continue this conversation at the midtown SBUX of your choosing.

Lewis

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Has Ways Of Making You Talk]]> Nothing says genuine, authentic coffee house like forced conversation as a bullet point on a job description.

busyness

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Has Ways Of Making You Talk]]> Incessant talking plus Starbucks? That's as close an approximation to Hell as I can think of. ("Hey, SketchPad Guy, what do you think of climate change?" *BANG*)

NeverEnough

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Has Ways Of Making You Talk]]> At the Starbucks in Penn Station, the homeless guys have figured out that for the price of a small coffee they can sleep for six hours.

Mike_Jahn

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Has Ways Of Making You Talk]]> "And what brings you into Starbucks today, Sir"
"I am the Angel of Death and the Day of Retribution is upon us"

BullfightsOnAcid

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Has Ways Of Making You Talk]]> Fake-ass cafe society affectations is what I already think of when I see Starbuck customers seated in plastic resin chairs adjacent to parking lots (so they can still see their SUVs) in suburbia.

WideStanceRomancer

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Has Ways Of Making You Talk]]> @EleanorRigby: I used to buy Birch Beer at Wawa. That's something I've never found at Starbucks.

famousauthor

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Has Ways Of Making You Talk]]> @KimGordonsPanties: Yes!

MyCubeHas3Sides

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Has Ways Of Making You Talk]]> ugggh, talking to people. it makes me all stabby.

stew

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Has Ways Of Making You Talk]]> Add this to the reasons to avoid Starbucks

MyMuffinTop

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Has Ways Of Making You Talk]]> I have friends. Don't want to join the Starbucks Sorority/Fraternity.

kathotdog

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Has Ways Of Making You Talk]]> Cool. First topic of conversation in the cafe society multimediasocialnetworking jamobree:

How not to burn cofee.

JudgeFudge

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Has Ways Of Making You Talk]]> No worries-- they are just going to foster "a sense of conversation".

ShinyMcShine

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Has Ways Of Making You Talk]]> I miss Wawa. I could stand there and down 3 24-oz cups worth of fat free french vanilla cappuccino deliciousness before helping myself to roughly 50 complimentary packets of equal/splenda, paying (not that they would have noticed if i hadn't), and leaving. And no one cared, because at least i wasn't dealing drugs like the guy outside.

EleanorRigby

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Has Ways Of Making You Talk]]> I am okay with this as long as the talking barista is a Paris Review intern and American Apparel model.

Mr. Kim Gordons Panties

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Has Ways Of Making You Talk]]> I was reading about "MyStarbucksIdea" in BusinessWeek, and was shocked by the willingness of people to provide genuinely GOOD and PRACTICAL business advice to retailers which they patronize.

I hate to give credit where it's due, but this is genius on Starbucks' part.

TheHonJudgeSmails

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Has Ways Of Making You Talk]]> This would go over really well in the South. I'm serious. People here LOVE talking to strangers, especially about their religion and/or politics. Good times!

Botswana Meat Commission FC

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Has Ways Of Making You Talk]]> Now, finally, we are presented with an appropriate use for those stupid OMFG posters.

StabbyFerosh

]]> <![CDATA[Starbucks Has Ways Of Making You Talk]]> So Starbucks will soon become the Rainforest Cafe. Lovely.

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