Size matters
Well, I was pointed in the direction of BusyMom’s 5 Most Worn Out Blog Topics, and was sort of struck by #2 – partially because this seems weird to me, but mostly because it strikes at an issue close to my heart (you know, me working at Coffee Disneyland and such).
Why would you intentionally try make life harder on someone who had nothing to do with your gripe? Don’t like calling a small “tall”? OK, fine… call it a small. It won’t bother the barista. But you’re not “stickin’ it to the man” by doing so, and you’re not effecting any change of policy whatsoever by refusing to not name the drink correctly. You could even, like one spiteful commenter, really throw an innocent wage slave “for a loop” by asking for a drink in ounces and, odds are, the barista won’t think anything bad of you (and, if they’ve been working there for more than 2 months, they probably won’t really be thrown for a loop). Again, it won’t further your cause to buck against the Starbucks naming conventions because the barista will still call a 16 ounce/medium drink a grande.
My question is, why take out the naming standards on an employee who had no say in what Starbucks names their drinks? Chances are, they are just college students working to make enough to eat, pay a few bills, and take advantage of the fact that Starbucks continues to be one of the few companies in this country that provides medical benefits to part-time employees AND pays more than minimum wage (not much, but some).
You want to stick it to the man? You want to REALLY hurt Starbucks for naming their sizes stupidly? It’s really very simple.
Stop going there.
That’s it right there. Just stop going. I’d say write a letter to corporate, but I don’t expect someone who doesn’t have the capacity to understand that “tall/grande/venti” = “small/medium/large” to understand why corporate headquarters is the proper place to gripe about a corporate policy.
2 comments theFrog | Senseless Babblings
Yeah, this drives me nuts as well. You don’t make a point. You don’t sound impressive. At best you sound like a pompous asshat, at worst you sound like dumbass. Not exactly the best of choices.
[...] Last week, I mentioned the The 5 Most Worn Out Blog Topics, well in response to one of those topics, that TheFrog over at Froggies-Lillypad responded to quite nicely to those that have blogged about how you refuse to order a drink by the “proper name” and she tells all that Size Matters. [...]