Oops, Starbucks barista writes ‘Vagina’ on customer’s cup
Honest mistake, or passive-aggressive barista? (Photo via Veronica Goh/Facebook, Huffington Post)
It’s tough being a Starbucks barista who has to write customer names on cups.
Is it “John” with an “h”? “Thanh Ha” with three “hs?” It’s all part of Starbucks’ effort to personalize things.
But one barista got a little too personal, when a customer named Virginia ordered a drink from a Starbucks in Hong Kong. According to the woman’s sister, the drink came with Virginia’s name scrawled as “Vagina.”
“This is my sister’s cuppa from your HKU branch,” the woman, Veronica Goh, posted on the Starbucks Hong Kong Facebook page, according to various news sites. Goh included a photo of the offending coffee drink.
“Fancy your staff not being able to spell an American name like Virginia. Forgiving she has been with every misspelled cup,” Goh continued.
“Her cup was once ‘Virgin.’ Every Starbucks experience for her has been coupled with fear and anticipation. But THIS is just UNACCEPTABLE.”
You Say "Vagina", I Say "Virginia"....
You Say "Vagina", I Say "Virginia"....
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato
Re: You Say "Vagina", I Say "Virginia"....
Could've been worse... could've been Clint's coffee...
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?
Re: You Say "Vagina", I Say "Virginia"....
Or Emma Freud's.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Re: You Say "Vagina", I Say "Virginia"....
Never been in a Starbucks.
Never had their coffee.
7-11 or the local gas station coffee works for me.
Black, no sugar, no milk, no half and half, plain old black coffee.
Never had their coffee.
7-11 or the local gas station coffee works for me.
Black, no sugar, no milk, no half and half, plain old black coffee.
Re: You Say "Vagina", I Say "Virginia"....
You ever seen how much joe they swill down at AA meetings?
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato
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Re: You Say "Vagina", I Say "Virginia"....
Oh yes.dales wrote:You ever seen how much joe they swill down at AA meetings?
I have the coffee commitment at my group on mondays and fridays. Mondays are two meetings simultaneously (8-9:15pm), a closed discussion and a Step meeting. Fridays we have three meetings, two simultaneously, A beginners and a Big Book from 7-8:00pm then an open discussion from 8:15-9:30pm.
Mondays we usually go through about 40 cups of regular and a 20 cup urn of de-caf. Fridays it's about 30 cups of decaf and 50 regular. We would most likely go through more if the urn was larger than 50 cups.
And we do about 20 bags of tea each night also.
We also go through more than a few boxes of cookies. Sometimes I wonder if people eat the cookies in place of dinner.