on Hillsborough St.

- Old man that dresses like a lady in high heels
- Girl that shaves her head but leaves a patch of long hair which she usually styles ( i think ive seen this girl bartend at champions too )
- Old black guy who wears a beret
- Guy with long beard and always looks like he's on acid


I havent been in 8-9 months so these people might not frequent this establishment.

[Edited on January 23, 2011 at 2:58 PM. Reason : x]

1/23/2011 2:56:43 PM

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"CUP OF JOES"

1/23/2011 2:59:07 PM

Wouldn't it be weirder if you saw someone who looked normal at Cup of joes

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1/23/2011 3:30:19 PM

^

1/23/2011 4:25:49 PM

I think I know that black guy

1/23/2011 4:26:07 PM

i've been out of town for a while, but it sounds like Cup of Joes is the new Sadlacks

1/23/2011 4:27:05 PM

doesnt metricula work there?

1/23/2011 4:28:20 PM

i have never been to cup a joes, and i dont think i want to go there

1/23/2011 4:29:07 PM

In terms of interesting people, Cup a Joe in Mission Valley is not remotely equal to Cup a Joe on Hillsborough.

1/23/2011 7:59:38 PM

There's nothing interesting about anyone who goes to Cup a Joe.

1/23/2011 8:08:52 PM

I worked at Cup A Joe (not Cup of Joes--read the cups) Mission Valley for almost three years.

I wasn't surly enough to work at the Hillsborough St. one. I covered shifts there sometimes and I would smile and wave at the customers and they would glare at me suspiciously.

But I'm friendly with most of the weird MV regulars. I still go in there and recognize a lot of people.

I'm in a WoW guild with the guys that would go in and play WoW on their laptops.

[Edited on January 23, 2011 at 8:14 PM. Reason : WoW is the great unifier]

1/23/2011 8:13:55 PM

^ I was one of those weird MV regulars Metricula was talking about

She was one of their best employees and I thank her for the awesome conversation we
had the few times we got to hang out

1/23/2011 8:32:13 PM

Thinking about going today.

1/25/2011 7:47:23 AM

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"- Guy with long beard and always looks like he's on acid"

gotta be more specific

I worked at the Hills. Cup A Joe for about 6 months and while I didn't like it (who wants to go home smelling like stale coffee and cigarette smoke), the tips were bangin.

like $30/day. Way more than I made working at Mission Valley. And the other employees treated people like dirt at the Hills. location. So now I know rudeness=tips.

1/25/2011 8:54:41 AM

Yeah, but at MV I didn't have to smell like cigarette smoke. Hills was way gross!

But all the cool people in Raleigh have either worked at Cup or dated someone who has

1/25/2011 10:09:04 AM

where are all the hipsters on tdub ?

[Edited on January 26, 2011 at 1:03 PM. Reason : x]

1/26/2011 1:03:25 PM

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"Old black guy who wears a beret"

talk to this guy. i can't remember his name at the moment but he's a very cool guy. he was leaving the effort to save the latta house before it burned down a couple years ago.

1/26/2011 1:08:12 PM

I know some pretty hot girls from the School of Design that go up there. never been myself.

1/26/2011 1:58:26 PM

^which onez? i know most of 'em.

one has a special place in my heart on my penis

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1/26/2011 2:02:32 PM

my advisor was (and I would imagine still is) a major coffee addict and would make several trips a day over to the MV CoJ.

she would often take me with her, and i have lots of pleasant memories from there

1/26/2011 2:07:38 PM

I've never seen an interesting person actually.

1/26/2011 2:18:30 PM

lots of random weirdos. Hillsborough St location is definitely weirder

1/26/2011 2:33:43 PM

I really liked the nice woman who would sit at MV at night and crochet coffee cup cozies while she was drinking her coffee.

1/26/2011 3:20:33 PM

Can you get her to crochet or knit me a cock and ball coozie? I've seen these before but they have to be custom made, especially for an individual with such a large member as mine son.

1/26/2011 3:22:48 PM

I interviewed some current and former Cup A Joe workers, as well as about 8-10 regulars, while researching language in coffee culture and again when I did an observational research paper about Cup A Joe. I was primarily based out of the MV one. I went there solid (once a day, sometimes more) and just sat, watched people, talked to people, and wrote.

My conclusions:

1) Cup A Joe workers can only be two things: "pretty cool" or "unstable psychopaths".

2) Cup A Joe customers can only be two things: "pretty cool" or "unstable psychopaths".

Seriously what is wrong with the world. Don't get me wrong, I had a great time, but jesus christ. For example:

Cup A Joe at the time had no kind of company history online or in the store, so I started asking workers and supervisors whenever I could. On three separate occasions, twitchy dudes behind the counter accused me of being a spook or a suit. They were convinced that I was either from the IRS or the FBI and that I was "trying to pin something" on the owners, even after I told them about my paper and my writing. One in particular, a guy named Jeff who looked and sounded like he was on heroin, thought I was part of a sting operation, and refused to even serve me for like three days in a row.

Mind you, I look and act nothing like a professional. I guess I'm deep undercover.

The workers that would talk to me (most of them) didn't know ANYTHING about the company, not even basic information I was able to gleam. Even long-time workers. Instead of telling me about their history, almost every worker told me about how they suspected other people that worked for the owners were drug-dealers that were on payroll for convenience, and that Cup A Joe's history included a lot of drug distribution on the side.

The customers were actually a lot more sane, especially the seedy looking regulars--almost all of them turned out to be incredibly interesting people, and I wish I'd gotten more about some of them written down.

All of this has just made me love Cup A Joe more. I guess you could say it has character. I might try and apply for a part-time position there later in the year, since I've done barista work before, and I'm great at ignoring customers.

1/26/2011 4:02:36 PM

I didn't fit in well with Cup A Joe because I'm so perky and customer-oriented. They don't educate their employees about the company history. I knew a lot about it because I worked there so long. When did you do your paper? I was there on and off between May 2007 and May 2010.

Your assessments appear accurate.

1/26/2011 7:45:17 PM

I would have been up in your grill girl.

1/26/2011 8:12:36 PM