Posts Tagged ‘coffee’

Starbucks Spies at work?

Monday, April 4th, 2011

We use a kanban board at work. Somewhen between friday and monday, someone put a card up in my section, as a highest-priority-customer-affecting-issue, “Get Coffee”, with a number that doesn’t appear in our bug tracking system. No one in our department admits to putting it up there, and I don’t drink actual coffee at all, haven’t for years. I did use to go with my morning breakfast buddy to the nearest Starbucks so he could drink his water down coffee (aka Americano), and I used to be able to get a half-decent hot chocolate, until they dropped the Signature line. Maybe someone from Starbucks corporate broke into the office over the weekend to encourage me to start going again?

I don’t recall doing anything stunningly sleepy last week that would provide a cognitive neighborhood in which to place such a card, as a joke, so I’m really at a loss as to why it’s there.

UPDATE: d’oh, I dunno how I spaced on Friday being april fools, or that 040111 parses into 04-01-11, not 040-111. I have marked the issue as blocked due to Starbucks no longer carrying the Signature hot chocolate.

Extra Chocolate

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Whenever I go thru starbucks, and this one lady is working, she always gives me a little cup with the extra hot chocolate she has leftover.  She never gives Brian an extra cup of hot water when she makes his americano.  =p

Serious About Coffee

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

Bryan and I are walking over to Starbucks for our morning ritual, and notice a bunch of people standing around outside the building.

“A line all the way outside?  That’s not good”

<rattle>

The door is locked, and now that we pay attention, we notice the flashing light inside, and the tinny buzz of a fire alarm inside.

Oh well.

But here’s the rub.

The drive-thru was still open.

Everyone in the building had to evacuate, but continuing to serve coffee was more important than the lives of mere baristas.

That’s dedication.

In all fairness, there probably wasn’t an actual fire in the building.