Starbucks barista sparks fury after \u2018accidentally gaslighting\u2019 elderly customer FlickrA Starbucks employee went viral after they accidentally gaslighted an older woman who came into the store, asking for her coffee in a mug. In a Reddit post that\u2019s gone viral on the platform, a Starbucks barista shared an interaction she\u2019d had with an elderly customer of late. \u201cToday an older woman and her husband came into my store and asked for their lattes in mugs. I apologized and explained we didn\u2019t serve drinks in mugs here simply because we don\u2019t have any,\u201d she begins. She goes on to explain in the thread that she\u2019s worked at that particular Starbucks for two years, and they\u2019ve never stocked mugs. \u201cThe woman was so distraught, she swore she had gotten a latte in a mug last week at my store. She even called her friend that she got coffee with. Her husband tried to defend her and asked if I was the manager, if I could check in the back, etc\u2026\u201d Eventually, the couple speculated that they might have been wrong, and had gotten the coffee in another store. She relayed the story later to her coworkers, who found the whole thing hilarious. \u201cMy shift gave me a look across the room like \u201cHey guess what\u201d and just opened a cabinet to reveal the mugs. I had been off the previous two days and apparently, we got a shipment of them in.\u201d \u201cI just feel so bad that I unintentionally gaslit that woman,\u201d she finishes. Reddit furious over elderly customer being \u2018gaslit\u2019 After the woman posted the story on Reddit, people were torn over the situation, with many fellow baristas annoyed at the poster\u2019s behavior. \u201cMy question is when they asked if you were the manager or if you could check in the back\u2026 did you not do any of that? Because wouldn\u2019t that have solved the problem since after the fact you actually found out that your store has it?\u201d \u201cI second this. And I don\u2019t see the humor your co-workers saw, really what was funny? it sounds like the lady was very disappointed and as you said, distraught. I love old ladies and hate to hear of them being ignored or disappointed,\u201d another weighed in. \u201cYeah, I almost feel this is worse than gaslighting. Willful ignorance and 100% confidence. Plus the post seems to be intentionally manipulating,\u201d a store manager wrote. One user, however, thought everyone was making a big deal out of nothing, writing sarcastically: \u201cBut instead (the elderly couple) were forced to drink out of disposable cups. The horror.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Starbucks barista sparks fury after \u2018accidentally gaslighting\u2019 elderly customer FlickrA Starbucks employee went viral after they accidentally gaslighted an older woman who came into the store, asking for her coffee in a mug. In a Reddit post that\u2019s gone viral on the platform, a Starbucks barista shared an interaction she\u2019d had with an elderly customer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}