Who is one?

7/29/2010 7:55:15 PM

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7/29/2010 7:56:12 PM

?

7/29/2010 7:57:02 PM

i like how they photoshopped the veins in his arms. it looks like he has worms.

7/29/2010 8:02:30 PM

"
Look at this body, man. God.
Hmmm, you should see me have sex with myself.
Hmmmm. I'd like to rock man.
Yeah, man.
Get myself in front of a mirror.
And watch myself cum all over me.
God damn.
Hmmmm.
Oh, to be my own fantasy, man.
uhhhh yes sir.
"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATyVZXyBsLI&feature=related

7/29/2010 8:31:35 PM

those aren't photoshopped

dave batista's just a talentless hack roided within an inch of his life

7/29/2010 8:40:20 PM

I used to be one

7/29/2010 9:49:31 PM

i remember filling out a starbucks application in high school and just being completely stumped as to what to list under the "special skills" section.

7/29/2010 9:49:51 PM

i used to bang one

7/29/2010 9:49:56 PM

Barista = Coffee Pourer
Cart Retrieval Technician = Cart Pusher
Pharmaceutical Transit Specialist = Drug Dealer

This is how we compensate for our failures in life. Let us conceal no longer our inabilities to procure middle-class status. The proletariat will crush the bourgeoisie!

7/29/2010 11:19:22 PM

maybe at a shitty coffee shop

but at a place where nothing is automated, measured, or timed, a good barista is much more than a coffee pourer

and i don't drink or make coffee, so this isn't some stretch on behalf of myself or my barista

7/29/2010 11:25:47 PM

I used to be a barista.

Soul-crushing shit.

And by soul-crushing I mean the people you work with are stupid and the people you serve are stupid.

But that was kind of the whole fast food industry in general.

And yea I consider chain coffee stores Fast Food, and so is Panera Bread, fast casual my ass.

7/29/2010 11:26:31 PM

^
I would think that coffee shops might have a slightly more intelligent clientele

however, slightly intelligent people can be just as annoying as stupid people

7/29/2010 11:32:06 PM

<-- three coffee shops, including Starbucks, for five years.

7/29/2010 11:36:01 PM

Quote :

"Barista = Coffee Pourer Cart Retrieval Technician = Cart Pusher Pharmaceutical Transit Specialist = Drug Dealer This is how we compensate for our failures in life. Let us conceal no longer our inabilities to procure middle-class status. The proletariat will crush the bourgeoisie!"

7/29/2010 11:40:09 PM

I've worked at an indie shop and a Counter Culture shop but I've been doing it three and a half years.

I bet fast-food or chain baristas do get pretty soul-crushed. It's great to work in a place where I can actually craft something and not just churn out burnt drip coffee and caramel frappes. I'm not ragging on chain stores but I'll take lower volume and more freedom if I can.

7/30/2010 11:44:14 AM

I worked at PCJ on centennial campus for a semester!

7/30/2010 11:46:06 AM

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"I used to be one"

At CupAJoe, Percolator Lounge (which used to be a CupAJoe in Quail Corners in N. Raleigh), Royal Bean (across from Meredith College) and Hammocks Coffee (near Brier Creek)

7/30/2010 11:48:34 AM

Barnes & Noble Cafe in high school

7/30/2010 11:49:08 AM

Cup a Joe and now Busy Bee!

7/30/2010 11:51:41 AM

I believe in between my jobs at Percolator Lounge & Royal Bean, I applied at Starbucks b/c of the benefits package they give their employees that work 20 hours a week or more.

I nailed the interview. But I never got a callback. I found out later from a friend of mine that worked at Starbucks that they don't look too kindly on hiring people that worked at independent coffee houses.

7/30/2010 11:54:53 AM

Sip n suck in the red light district, downtown raleigh for 2 years

7/30/2010 11:56:40 AM

Where is Busy Bee?

7/30/2010 11:57:42 AM

I worked at a bar that had a big ass espresso machine. After that, my respect for baristas went WAY up...and I held them in a pretty favorable light to begin with.

7/30/2010 11:59:13 AM

I'm curious as to which former baristas have a coffeebar set up in their house?

I've got an espresso machine, Ghiradelli chocolate sauces, Monin & Torani syrups, jiggers, plastic cups, lids and straws

7/30/2010 12:06:29 PM

Downtown on Fayetteville Street is Busy Bee. It's a bar, too. Good beer and coffee in one place.

I really want to get a machine for the house but I'm spoiled after using the LM GB5 at work and big Dosatrons at Cup.

Your house sounds like a coffeeshop I want to go to!

7/30/2010 12:24:39 PM

no but i used to bang one

7/30/2010 12:30:01 PM

Fhqwhgads makes excellent coffee

7/30/2010 12:56:24 PM

I think there is already an English major thread.

7/30/2010 1:32:46 PM

I used to be one... if I have enough time in AL, I think I might apply for that job again

7/30/2010 1:36:02 PM

^As much as I hate admitting it that's kind of fighting right now, I know Metricula had an English major (though to be fair she had a science major too), and yea, me.




I still hate foaming milk.

7/30/2010 1:37:59 PM

foaming milk was one of my favorite parts

7/30/2010 1:41:48 PM

Making cappuccinos was my fave

7/30/2010 1:45:20 PM

no but i used to bang one

7/30/2010 2:32:20 PM

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"i used to bang one"

7/31/2010 3:10:07 AM

There used to be one called "Bikini Baristas" in my town. They only hired some sketch girls, it closed pretty quickly.

7/31/2010 4:46:14 AM

coffee tastes evil

7/31/2010 11:49:52 AM

Busy Bee is on Wilmington Street

7/31/2010 12:06:08 PM

Oh, shoot. I know where I work, promise. My boyfriend works on Fayetteville, I work on Wilmington.

7/31/2010 11:01:54 PM