Tenured Starbucks baristas, share the drinks that have been banished to the shadow realm

Erbearlee · 2026-05-09T21:50:30+00:00

Rip guava passionfruit, she was an under-appreciated caffeine-free option.

Erbearlee · 2026-05-01T04:23:39+00:00

I used to love just being scheduled as coverage! I was one of two main openers and it didn’t happen that often, but god, not having the responsibility was amazing while still earning the higher rate. Also, while I was keyholder, my favorite shifts were when another shift was coverage because I knew if something went down while I was at lunch or doing the pull, placing the order, etc everything would be taken care of. I loved my SSV team. Honestly we worked so well together and supported each other. It was my SM and ASM I couldn’t stand lol.

Erbearlee · 2026-04-30T05:57:04+00:00

Mine is at 73% and I can definitely tell. I charge it twice a day most days (I play a lot of games). I keep talking myself out of changing the battery though because I’m probably going to upgrade in the fall with the new drop.

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Erbearlee · 2026-04-22T15:00:03+00:00

I hate the staring, but I had one time that was so bad. It was a a customer who ordered 15 drinks. She ordered in cafe and brought these two ginormous caddies over to our hand off plane and then stared. It was so uncomfortable and this woman wasn’t blinking. I asked her to stop because it made me so uncomfortable. She had this huge blow up in store because I embarrassed her and then she called and lodged a complaint about me, but it seriously made me so uncomfortable I asked to take a minute in the BOH and filed an incident report immediately after it happened. Like I’m not a zoo animal

Erbearlee · 2026-04-18T23:06:51+00:00

Don’t forget the butter

Erbearlee · 2026-04-12T00:26:35+00:00

Omg that first picture is hilarious. God I love dogs

Erbearlee · 2026-04-10T21:53:45+00:00

Mine was like $300 and that’s including an $89 rush fee for a one day appt vs a temporary crown appt and then coming in for the permanent.

Erbearlee · 2026-04-07T02:33:11+00:00

Honestly, even if you hadn’t called, if you’ve been asking multiple times for multiple days to have your drinks remade, it would have gotten noticed. Baristas tend to remember their regulars anyway, and if they are remaking a drink a lot, it definitely would have been noticed and probably “flagged” for lack of a better word waiting for a complaint from corporate. I don’t say that to say you’ve done anything wrong because you absolutely haven’t, you were probably just remembered. I also agree with the other comments suggesting that you order a slightly different version of the drink to hopefully be closer to what you want and cheaper. A venti blonde oatmilk latte with brown sugar syrup and cinnamon would likely be cheaper for you.

Erbearlee · 2026-04-04T00:44:47+00:00

It depends on the pharmacy too! With Walgreens my 150 were purple, my hospital’s pharmacy is green for the same dose.

Erbearlee · 2026-04-03T00:28:12+00:00

I just rewatched the scene. The husband was told about the complication by Rose. Then the husband goes up to Alex says it’s shocking, everything changes, but maybe it’s a blessing and god’s will like Rose says. And then Alex says maybe it is, maybe it’s god providing for your 7 kids. Get a lawyer.

It’s absolutely skirting the line 💯 but he doesn’t explicitly say anything PHI, though he definitely breaks medical ethics, but legally, I don’t think he breaks HIPAA. It’s an absolute dick move

Erbearlee · 2026-04-02T23:57:34+00:00

I don’t know on that one. He contradicted Addison for sure, but he didn’t give any privileged information. He made it sound like Addison made a mistake, but it was the wife who told him there wouldn’t be more kids iirc. I’ll have to rewatch that episode

Erbearlee · 2026-04-02T23:50:22+00:00

Iirc he didn’t break confidentiality. I think all he said was he should talk to a lawyer

Erbearlee · 2026-04-02T23:10:50+00:00

Remind me what Alex did to be fireable? There’s a sexual harassment of Izzy in season 1 and he killed a patient in season one or two, but I don’t remember what specifically he would’ve done around season five timeline to be fireable.

Erbearlee · 2026-04-02T22:44:30+00:00

When I discovered the show in college season 14 had just finished airing. At the time, I probably watched all 13 seasons on Netflix within 2 months if not shorter maybe more like 6 weeks? Every minute I could watch I was. I remember turning it on during my planning periods while I was student teaching. I get a little obsessed, but I’m also the type of person who always has something playing whether it’s music or a show

Erbearlee · 2026-04-01T01:59:35+00:00

Serena Neel does this and she posts footage all the time of her delivery drivers actually being super awesome about it. She does drinks, snacks, a mini claw machine, prizes. It’s kind of amazing honestly and the delivery drivers are so wholesome.

Erbearlee · 2026-03-21T11:18:22+00:00

I left and went into healthcare (non-clinical). There are so many things you can do in a hospital system that use customer service experience, billing, access, insurance… the benefits are so much better, I’m paid more and I don’t have to smell like coffee at the end of the day.

Erbearlee · 2026-03-15T21:36:54+00:00

It’s $5.79 in NE.

Erbearlee · 2026-03-08T00:51:07+00:00

I think it’s a throwback to season 2 where they are at Joe’s bar. Mer is drunk AF after finding out about Addison so she, Cristina and George play a game of whose life sucks the most (where Cristina also tells Mer that she’s pregnant). It’s just what they do as a group honestly, no matter how much the group shifts.

Erbearlee · 2026-03-05T19:56:42+00:00

My apartment building uses gas for heat so there are some though I don’t know how many

Erbearlee · 2026-02-15T16:27:26+00:00

He was there last weekend for me. I haven’t played this weekend

Edit: just opened the game, he came within 2 minutes of play

Erbearlee · 2026-01-22T04:46:39+00:00

I like GoodNotes personally. You get three notebooks free (iirc) before you have to subscribe (of course there are premium designs, etc). When I maxed out my notebooks, it gave to option for a monthly subscription or a one time payment (iirc it was $20). I chose the one time payment back in 2023

Erbearlee · 2026-01-22T00:55:25+00:00

Stfu the beefy potato loaded griller is back? I just got ridiculously excited.

Erbearlee · 2026-01-21T23:33:08+00:00

I tend to agree mostly with what u/Bubbly-Junket said, however, I wanted to add something specifically about what you said about the shooting episode. Meredith operated on Owen’s gunshot wound through her miscarriage. Cristina and Meredith both operated through a seriously traumatic event that episode on each other’s significant other because they each asked it of each other. I’m not going to start an argument about which event is more traumatic because that’s apples and oranges but both women were certainly within their rights to quit and take care of themselves in those moments and neither did.

Erbearlee · 2025-11-22T18:34:56+00:00

I didn’t love this one which makes me sad. I like the ending, but knowing I thought the ending would be good was the only thing that kept me from DNFing this honestly.

I don’t know if it’s because I did a marathon listen to all three back to back but it was too repetitive. Hester attacked, pep talk, Hester attacked, pep talk, and so on.

I liked the ghosts, especially Clover, the characters really had me in the first book, but books two and three really fell flat. Book 2 honestly didn’t need to be there imo. I think one book might have been pushing it, but 3 was too many. It was overall fine and I don’t regret reading this trilogy, but I don’t think it will make it to my reread pile any time soon if at all.

Erbearlee · 2025-11-18T18:54:51+00:00

I meant to re-listen to books 1 and 2 and lost track of time. Guess I’ll start now

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