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Listen, I’ve started every morning for the past ten years with a venti strawberry refresher made with water. I haven’t missed a day in 10 years, INCLUDING holidays (I get one without ice the day before). When I heard they were changing the recipe I thought “there’s no way it can be as bad as people are saying!” In fact, I thought it might even be a good thing! I can’t handle a lot of caffeine so I thought yay! I can drink it at night now. I have now tried it all 3 ways. Horrible. It’s ruined. It’s got a weird sweet muted taste, and then a horribly chemically bitter aftertaste. I dumped mine out of the window today. I’m pretty sad, but I’ve discovered Dutch bros recently and that’s just as good lol. Rip the og strawberry açaí, I will MOURNNNN you

In Greek mythology, Sirens are dangerous, hybrid creatures who lured sailors to destruction with their irresistibly sweet songs.

Starbucks lured us all here, one way or another, only just to drain the life out of us and lead us to destruction.

Idk, maybe I’ve been watching too much Percy Jackson, but this was just my thought as I lay in bed half asleep.

It's absolutely back and tastes just like it did before.

Venti Iced Black Tea Lemonade with 4 pumps of mango syrup. So good.

What the title says ONLY BECAUSE it’ll make me spend less money at Starbucks LOL. I used to go everyday but now that I think the new SAL tastes different & watered down I’ll go less so my bank acc will be happier.

Because I highkey need to break my $6 daily Mango Dragonfruit habit.

But also I have so few joys in this life as it is.

😔

Okay I’m probably in the minority here but I just have to ask where y’all’s heads are at cause I can’t relate lol

When there is training for new drinks, I do the training. If it follows the same process as other drinks, I might skim the training, but that’s because I’m confident in my ability to execute the new beverages. If the training is covering something entirely new, ie protein drinks, the new refresher bases, new chai, etc.. I am going to read the training in its entirety. Im going to go back if I don’t understand something. I’m going to make sure I physically make the drinks so I know how to make them and my muscle memory can start getting used to making it differently.

A lot of my coworkers don’t do this. They skim through the training, don’t read all the new things, and then act like a fish on dry land the second it all launches. The amount of my coworkers who had no clue that our regular refreshers now have the green coffee extract and it’s not just in the energy ones was concerning. Like did y’all even read the training?? I’m not saying it isn’t a lot of information or that it isn’t confusing, because it is, but that’s why I keep double and triple checking number of pumps on recipe cards and ensuring I’m making the drinks correctly. Most of my coworkers are just flying by the seat of their pants and doing whatever tf they feel like, and not even checking their resources after they know they did it incorrectly!!

I just want to know why yall do this 😭 I know more than anyone that we are paid dirt wages and it’s easy to not care.. but isn’t it more of a headache to not know what you’re doing and have to remake drinks constantly? To have customers annoyed and confused because you don’t know what you’re talking about?

I was on drive bar yesterday and it got to the point that I was moved to cold bar simply because I was “the only person who knew how to make the new drinks”…. Like ?!?!?!?

When I sent two of my baristas to do this training a couple weeks ago, they both came back after *10 mins* and said they were done, but also said they had no idea what they’d just read and were gonna for sure make the drinks wrong. Why didn’t they just take a bit more time to read the training then 🫠

I think I’m just slightly crashing out about this because I’m a shift and I have to deal with the upset customers not getting what they asked for and baristas just usually don’t care. I don’t know how to make them care but this is frustrating for me lol

I’ve been drinking the Strawberry Acai nearly every morning for years and years. If I’m going on vacation far from a Starbucks I’ll buy it and take it with me in a pitcher. This is my go-to drink.

This morning I tried the new recipe. Initial flavor was nearly the same, but there was an unpleasant lingering aftertaste that stays for about a minute. What the heck? I am so disappointed right now. I don’t think I’ll even finish this one. Aauugghh. Who approved this?

Anyone else have an issue with the new drink?

Had my first week at Starbucks after working for a year at Tim Hortons, I am being trained to do closing and OMG it is so different from Tim Hortons, we have more people meaning it's easier to do the closing tasks and everyone is so chill, it's giving me OCD. I used to close with a strict supervisor that wanted me to make every surface spotless and we had to partially -deepclean every coffee-tea brewer and server, move the machines to also deep clean the counters, make every cup and lid dispenser full, plus, restock the drawers for the restock of the restock, wiping down every syrup, topping and screen. And on top of all thatmake complete clean the floors right before leaving to avoid making them dirty again besides cleaning them at 7-8. And we had an order and deadline to do all those things.

With my new partners everyone just kinda so whatever they want to a reasonably decent degree, everything is kinda stained, they just rinse all dishes or throw soap water into them and then washing machine, they don't even bother dusting off the carpets before swiping the floors and I feel so frustrated lol.

Is this the regular routine and attitude for Partners? should I chill out a bit more?

I’m in my car just ruminating about everything that I just said. I’m a former Starbucks partner and this was my second interview with the same Dm. I had an interview a couple of weeks back and I got rejected. This time I applied to a higher volume store but I’m not sure how I did. The guy had the same look in his face the whole time, my interview was maybe 20 or 25 minutes? I feel like my answers were fine but my wording was weird, I was talking labor and I said “labors” bro I feel so embarrassed. I think my store manager interview was almost perfect but this one was not my best work. He basically wanted to have a normal conversation which is fine but I don’t know why I was off :(((. I asked for feedback at the end and he said that this job is really competitive and that I pretty much how it works. I talked a lot of following Starbucks standards at my current job, and how I was implementing that. I also told him that I that had a situation where I felt like a shift . My answers were good but my wording was so off.

ugh. what a day. but it just isn't today. every day since I've been hired, a year ago, it's either someone or something that has a thing against me. I just moved to this area from across the country. everything about the area is great, I'm not religious but I would say I'm slightly into politics?

so i moved to a very Christian area and I am covered in tattoos... I bring this up because one of my coworkers said the reason they didn't like me (pretty sure they still don't like me) is because of the tattoos I have. they were bullying me when I started, so I talked to my manager after a week of said bullying and now it's all fake kindness if you know what I mean. the reason why I even started working there is because this person who was super sweet, kind of befriended me when I was just a customer. since I started, she now gives me mean looks, attitude through the wazoo over the simple things... and I swear everyone else does too. for example I try making conversations and a few of them completely ignore me or just talk about anything else which I hate because I have never felt included here before, unless it was training and I was with this girl for a week just having conversations. then she left right after lol

since then we had one other person join our team and legit the first day we hit it off, talked about life stuff and I got emotional because I never thought becoming someone's friend was in my cards at Starbucks. it was a great few days. but unfortunately to me, they became friends with everyone else and now doesn't talk to me. we used to text outside of work, make plans to hang and now everything fell through and they don't talk to me at all anymore. I just feel so left out. i have only hung out with one person outside of work and to my surprise it wasn't for the kindness of their heart. we went to brunch and for the first part was normal conversation, but the second half was just about how they wanted me to attend their church and how I could be a better person by going. how am I a bad person?? I don't get it and that frustrated me because I thought that was going to be a cool friendship without religion being involved. I just feel like I'm at my wits end. I respect everyone I work with, I follow standards, and in the year I've been there, I only have called out twice, never been late or anything. I just wish I could have some friends tbh. ugh why is life so hard as an adult when I'm just trying to be nice 🙃 thx for letting me rant internet. sorry I don't have anyone else to talk to lmfao

Recently got the new Mango Dream and Pink Drink. Both of them tasted like ass. Whatever they have done to the formula for the refreshers is straight garbage. Recently came back after not getting Starbucks for awhile. Won’t be returning any time soon.