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Ten shakes per tea vs. nine may be anal to the nth degree, (it is)
but that's Starbuck's rule and when he signed up, that was the deal.
The strict adherence is for consistency and when it's a chain, that's
important. I work in a field that's super-duper anal where common sense is tossed out more often than not and where government regulatory rules are incredibly stupid and petty. It drives me insane, so I empathize, but if you want to change the system, then you've got to work with it and rise to the top where real change occurs. That's life son. Get over it.

btw, Starbucks burns their beans. I rarely patronize them.

10 shakes = torture

No doubt encouraged by George Bush's disrespect for the human rights of coffee shop employees.

Gosh, those baristas sure have it tough. Ten shakes...no wonder he's up in arms! Like fellowes said above, chains like Starbucks have those "silly" rules for a reason -- consistency, which is why people patronize them. McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King, etc., all follow the exact same formula no matter where they are located.

Last time hubby was in a Starbucks, the guy in front of him ordered something like a "triple soy vente latte." He was wearing the usual grubby jeans and t-shirt, and had one of those horrible scraggly goatees. Hubby snickered as he placed his order, and was glared at by the girl behind the counter. Needless to say, hubby usually gets his coffee at the deli down the street...better quality at a lower price.

Say it aint so! Rules at a job which PAYS you? How dare they have the audacity to expect their employees to WORK and follow their requirements! How dare they mess around with his schedule? Retail should never be allowed to do this, I have never heard of a company that schedules weekly to so blatantly expect someone who when hired and filled-out the days and hours they were available to work to change the schedule weekly! Oh the inhumanity of Starbucks!

This kid should be happy that Starbucks has not figured out a way around the system to hire illegals to do his 10 shakes and thus bump him out of his higher-than-minimum wage paying job!

I've recommended that Danny Boy save his nickels and dimes and open his own coffee shop if he chafes under the rules of someone who did that very thing and then had the nerve to offer Danny a job when he went begging for one. I really don't think that there's anything in this world more annoying than a law student who thinks he's been wronged, and I say this as a former law student myself. (with apologies to everyone that I bothered back in my day.)

PS--I love you site. Come visit mine when you find the time.

I hate starbucks but this guy is a tool. Minimum wage jobs suck. What's next a union at mcdonalds, give me a break these jobs are disposable what will workers have to yearn for if we get rid of the crappy jobs.

there goes the price of a cuppa joe!

Remember the speech/essay from the Whole Foods CEO?

http://www.wholefoods.com/blogs/jm/archives/2006/02/winning_the_bat.html

It's a classic case of a leftard getting pwned by reality. The difference is that Mr. Mackey learned how to function as a valuable cog on the gear of capitalism, and other "progressives" act like monkey wrenches in the works.

I love this phrase in Van Helsing's article:

"Rather than take advantage of low unemployment to find another job more to his liking ..."

Um, what low unemployment, Van???

I can only assume that anonymous is joking about the unemployment rate. If he/she is not, how about 4.4%. Low by any calculation.

Ken, liberals live in an alternate reality that apparently includes alternate employment statistics.

Fortunately, this disgruntled employee (are there ever any "gruntled" employees?) will have his head handed to him one day early in his career practicing law by someone who knows his or her business and has a "take no prisoners" attitude. Kind of makes the whole Starbucks trauma of his younger days fade into insignificance.

I can't tell you how many jobs I held at this guy's age, and before, that had the dumbest rules (at least according to my young self), but you either do the work, following the rules, or you quit the job and find something else -- it ain't that hard to figure out, kid. Jeez, I thought you were actually smart enough to get into law school somewhere.

I've heard Conservative lawyers (which are so rare that they could sell on Ebay as collectibles) remark that the average Liberal law student- and law professor, for that matter- tends to be a wimp/girlie man who is out to prove his machismo by changing the world to his liking, accomplishing this from the safe haven of threatening litigation against anyone who would get in the way. Sounds like this kid is well on his way to becoming a typical Moonbat attorney/politician. I wonder if he was encouraged to take these actions against Starbucks by his mentors at school...

According to "Move On" unemployment could possibly rise up to 99.9% within the next couple of months and if anyone will believe it, that is the actual unemployment rate right now.

(Please no Global Warming jokes about this. I am absolutely serious.)

So let me get this right: Employees who want to start a union are crazy moonbats. People who are boycotting Ford Motors because they advertised in gay magazines are normal, well-adjusted, exemplary citizens. Um, ok.

Marti, I don't recall this site ever advocating a boycott of Ford.

Marti, it's not about starting a union; it's about spoiled kids expecting their employers to march by their tune, to their convenience.

The oddest part is some joker "implying" that we have high unemployement right now. I remember when Bush got re-elected, libs in my office were giving the usual complaints about four more years of high-unemployment, jobs going overseas, etc... I don't bother to argue with them, I could quote stats all day long that show we have low unemployment but they believe what they want to believe. Sad.

And I wouldn't worry about this kid becoming a lawyer and suing Starbucks. If 10 shakes is a little much for him, I'm thinking law school takes a little more fortitude than he can muster.

And then Marti Moonbat wants to change the subject altogether. Does Marti think this kid has a legitimate complaint about the 10 shakes? A complaint worthy of unionization?