I am sick and tired of college kid baristas

Get a Keurig.

Off the meds are we?

coffee drinker wrote:

The ones who think they are only doing it to pay their way through college before they put their great intellect to use in a more meaningful career. Well the joke's on them because they'll probably never actually get a better job than this. F**k you patronizing barista brat and pour me another coffee

You sound unhinged. Why is that?

Best Stbx barista ever: just graduated with a degree in film and now writes scripts, directs and acts. One can have a lucid convo with young guys like that.

What I've noticed about Stbx, and everywhere, is the sheer number of fat patrons. This is bankrupting health care. I was showing my students a grainy video about Snell/Lydiard in NZ and we noticed that everyone is thin, and not only the athletes.

runner who professes wrote:

I was showing my students a grainy video about Snell/Lydiard in NZ and we noticed that everyone is thin, and not only the athletes.

Just watch some movies from as recently as early 1980s and almost every "person in the crowd" is rail thin.

Then brew your own coffee

What do you care?

One of my favorite things about college towns is the fact that most people working in service jobs smart and educated (or at least in the process of becoming educated). I lived in State College, PA and Ithaca, NY for the first 26 years of my life. After moving to a somewhat economically disadvantaged town, I miss the competence of everyday service people that I experienced in those two towns as a result of the college labor force.

Example: When I bought coffee and a pastry a few weeks ago, I pulled out a five to pay my $3.05 bill. A moment after handing the cashier the five, I realized that I had a nickel in my pocket. Assuming that it would be easier for her to just give me two dollars back instead of counting out $.95 in change, I said "oh, I have a nickel," and handed her the coin. I don't think I've ever seen a more confused expression in my life. The girl had already entered $5 as the amount tendered, and she had no earthly clue how to deal with the additional nickel without the screen telling her how much change she now owed me. I ended up taking back the nickel and simply accepting my $.95 in change in lieu of waiting for this girl to cancel the transaction and start all over again. Can't say I ever had such an experience at a coffee shop in Ithaca or State College.

Good thing that rojo wasn't working at that Ithaca SB (not that he would ever have a job). You would have seen a meltdown with him trying to count to 95.

This board over-thinks everything. Just get your coffee. If there's a nice co-ed brewing it, that's even better. You don't deserve much in life.

What happened to the other dollar?

Get a French Press.

The best is when you get an order that is $5.82 (or something similar) and pay with $11. The 'extra' dollar bill really confuses people.

162430 wrote:

The best is when you get an order that is $5.82 (or something similar) and pay with $11. The 'extra' dollar bill really confuses people.

Can I just say something as a graduate of UVA with an MBA from Wake Forest? Sometimes you have to remember that if someone's mind is on something else - not necessarily something bad, per se, but maybe on the next task at hand - this kind of thing can be confusing.

I think of it like someone asking for your friend's cell phone number. Now that we have a little machine that remembers numbers for us, we no longer rely on our memory for it. When I was a kid, I had like 45 phone numbers stored in my brain. Now I have like 3. Registers do not require that people pay attention to change, so they aren't even thinking about it. I doubt these people would have trouble if it were simply a cash transaction out of a shoebox.

Just something to think about when you get all judgey on someone.

Mitt wrote:

runner who professes wrote:

I was showing my students a grainy video about Snell/Lydiard in NZ and we noticed that everyone is thin, and not only the athletes.

Just watch some movies from as recently as early 1980s and almost every "person in the crowd" is rail thin.

I was going to say the same thing. I watched a few movies from the 80s several years ago, and the thing that struck me was how thin everyone was. As someone born in the late 80s and who is used to seeing everyone as what they look like today, it was amazing to me to think just 25 years ago everyone was 50lbs skinnier for no obvious reason (other than terrible diets and lifestyle of the modern American). Incredible.

Um… the point that you are making does not make sense. If they are just mindlessly punching numbers into the register, then there would be absolutely no confusion. They would enter "11" and the register would immediately tell them that the change was "5.18". In fact, I think that the opposite is true. They get confused when they fail to rely on the register. The register then clears up their confusion. Your point about the phone numbers is undoubtedly true, but is irrelevant.

State College Brother!

Wondering in the West wrote:

This board over-thinks everything.

If by "over-thinks" you mean "exaggerates ", then I agree.