I hate you, asshole Starbucks dude.
So my usual order at Starbucks is a “venti shaken black iced tea with 10 pumps of Classic sweetener and half & half instead of water.”
Their shaken iced tea costs $2.30 and consists of a condensed tea concentrate mixed with water. Sometimes bitches wanna charge me $0.50 extra for the half & half, but I usually just suck it up.
Today, I ordered my usual (see above) at the drive-thru and the guy says, “Okay, then that’s an Awake Tea Latte?” and “$3.95” shows up on the screen.
A tense silence followed.
“That isn’t what I ordered.”
“You ordered a shaken black tea with half & half-” he began.
“Yeah, exactly. I never said anything about a latte,” I shot back.
“That’s essentially a latte.”
What the fuck? NO IT’S NOT. It’s iced tea with a shit ton of sweetener and half & half. Last time I checked, you can charge me $0.50 extra for adding half & half and maybe even $0.40 for sweetener if you’re in an extra shitty mood.
It’s not my fault if it just so happens to be the same recipe for a $4 latte. Don’t change my damn order.
“No it’s not,” I said sternly.
“Well if you want, I’ll just add the water and you can come inside and get the half & half yourself.”
FINE, I WILL. HMPH.
How dare you foil my plan to circumvent your system to my advantage? The nerve.
My tea was watered down and sucked balls.
I think from now on I’m just going to ask for “shaken black tea with 10 pumps of sweetener and NO WATER,” take half a cup of tea concentrate, pay $2.30, and add the damn half & half myself.
You guys suck ass.
Side note: I work in customer service and always go out of my way to ensure customers get the best possible deal, sometimes ringing up multiple transactions and calculating equations in my head. This isn’t because I take my job too seriously (in fact I’m hurting my sales performance by selling merchandise for less). It’s because I know as customers, people don’t always have extra money to spare and want to save money whenever they can.
Another side note: All facetiousness aside, I honestly do think it was pretty shitty of him to change my order when Starbucks already has a system of charging extra for add-ins.
So boo on you, asshole Starbucks dude.