Coffee Shop Stereotypes
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- Point5
OK, so I was at Starbucks getting coffee this morning and the guy at the register was a white dude with dreds. Then the lady working the window had like 10 earrings and a sexy punk look. And I started to think about how you don't see these types of employeess at too many other commercial places. You most likely won't find people with these styles working at Dillard's or the local blockbuster; at least not out here in Vegas. Starbucks is not that "Beatnik" corner coffee store that has poetry readings and open mic sessions. so I'm wondering why it is that their employees reflect that? Am I wrong to assume that Strbucks is a fast food stop with the Frappuccinos and muffins and stuff? I guess I just want to know what the allure is to working there; because it doesn't smell like grease and doesn't have a dollar menu?
And how come there isn't a Starbucks in the 'hood?
- jdcomba0
weirdos like coffe. sometimes more than beer.
- SteveJobs0
because starbucks, for some reason, attract these types, plucking away at their mac n' toshes with white earbuds poking out their ears:
- sherman0
As much as im not really into Starbucks coffee or their other publicized "ethical" coffee, I do believe they are a great employer. Their extremely flexible for employees who can submit a sheet saying when they want to work. Its a great place for students to work for this reason. They also really give their employees the feeling that they are really part of the company, not to mention fair pay, benefits and stock sharing.
- jdcomba0
my local coffee shop, although attracted these types, has just changed owners and is called some hippy name, everything is all floral, and only lesbian hippies hang out there. so i don't know which is better.
*and not hot lesbians!!
- Point50
I think I just need to break down and get an espresso machine for my house and stop going to coffee shops. I guess it's all about assigning "class specifications" to coffee. It's got to be an acquied taste, right? Kinda like alcohol. I mean, if you opened a soda store where you served different types of soda and chips and stuff for snacks, you would not get the same coffee shop crowd, even though it's most likely that a glass of your cola product would have the same amount of caffeine as a cup of coffee. It's driving me crazy now when I start to think of coffee and it's associations with that streotypical "cofee person". When you hear "Breakfast Blend" you don't imagin 50 Cent asking for room for cream in that; when you sip a 40oz. of Mickey's, you don't imagine that very moment Martha Stewart could be enjoying a Malt Liquor favorite herself. I guess in the end, coffee is just another option in how you can ingest caffeine.
- jdcomba0
pick your poison? i guess.
witha soda shop you would have like little kids all the time. ooooh designer soda maybe.
- rabattski0
obvious. on one side they can go work at mcdonalds or picking up trash or on the other side they can go work at starbucks, make a decent wage in a clean environment and meet people they like. i think that's the soul reason. or they're are just fucking lazy (tend to happen to hippies, some sort of disease i heard). :)
- kungfukid0
Starbucks give these nobody's styling make-overs. the nobods go to Starbucks for style in return for pimping their coffee. I believe that you can walk into any Starbucks anywhere in the world and find that there is an aesthetic being applied.
- jdcomba0
whats with hippies anyway. that whole thing is over.. all they have left is coffee. it's so funny...
hippies + starbucks = hilarious
- rabattski0
starbucks ain't pimping your coffee, they're gayifying your coffee. try to buy a coffeeflavoured coffee at starbucks for a change.
- jdcomba0
the starbucks near my job has all those dready, pierced, "artfags" working there, and soccor moms with their kids as customers
- sherman0
go easy on the hippies hey...
im from BC
- rabattski0
and why do they yell your order at starbucks? even when you're the only customer?
- jdcomba0
i mean they're not all that bad, but i mean like the 60's was real hippies. then greatful dead died out. phish is gone. and now it's just dirty college kids being lazy smoking pot basing their whole life around weed.
- kungfukid0
i love it when they yell your order, they should do it at all the fast-food places!
- sherman0
i now what you mean. :)
we have them here too.
- SteveJobs0
hippies are hippies so they find other hippies who they can identify with easily. the dreads are just more subtle than wearing a "kiss me, i'm a hippy" shirt...
or not...
- SteveJobs0
other shirt ideas for hippies:
"will work for bath"
"will work for haircut"
"i brake for soy"
- sherman0
All I know is I hated working there, but they gave me the hours i wanted while i was in school and no im done school i dont go there.
there are better local coffee shops that sell more sustainable farmer friendly coffee which i prefer.
starbucks is another corporation marketing a product through being modern.
Their business model is extremely well done and thats why they are so successful.
- jdcomba0
the hippy thing is just a little redundant, kind of like hippies working at starbucks