I kinda felt for the shift supervisors. The ones I’ve seen always seem to be working really hard. It’s not like when you go to a fast food place and there’s one guy who is obviously “supervising.”

I never have a problem tipping for good service. My problem is when I get lousy or mediocre service. I still feel obligated to tip, because tipping is equated with being-a-good-person.

I was reading the comments and someone wrote, “My sis used to give decaf to people who were especially obnoxious and pissed her off. Especially the people she called the “AA nazis” who like to buy one coffee (no tip, of course) and camp out at starbucks, act entitled, and talk to their sobriety sponsors reeealllly loud on their cells while shooting dirty looks at others.” Which cracked me up because I have actually see such people. I didn’t know it was common. Although I don’t like nazi being used so casually, I still thought it was funny.

Starbucks has a problem though - they want you to use their prepaid cards, but there’s no tipping option there. I always tip when I pay cash but when I’m using a card I typically don’t bring in my wallet.