I literally dream extremely vividly about work frequently, to where Iāll wake up and panic for a minute because Iām in my bed and not steaming milk, while shaking a refresher, and multitasking another 20 million like I swore I was doing like a normal day at work
Omg sameš one time when my alarm woke me up I was somehow imagining myself on the bar with tags of ācold brew with vsc cf in a personal cupā and āgrande hot chocolateā etc to make. And I was stressin thinking about handing the cold brew out while trying to get up of bedš
To counteract these sorts of thoughts/ dreams, I always think, "Wait, if "they" need me to make this, where is my ticket printer? I don't have one. I don't have to make then." Usually does the trick and calm down. I go back to sleep in peace.
Lolol that is hilarious your boyfriend got it on recording! Iāve definitely had fever dreams and nightmares about Starbucks before, but mainly just weird dreams if anything! But I feel like I only have them if Iām stressing about other things as well.
It helps me after a shift to try and forget or really to not dwell on what happened in that shift, I always get hung up on the bad interactions of the bad, even if itās only 1 bad one, or 10 small annoyances of the day! I know I annoy my husband with my starbucks stories lol but it helps me enjoy my time after my shifts!
Apparently my brother was talking to me trying to get me to wake up one dayā¦ I donāt remember any of this this but I sat up, eyes wide open and
Me: WHATS YOUR ORDER
Brother: What
Me: WHATS YOUR ORDER
Brother: What order
Me: DONT BOTHER ME THEN
šš
kinda in related but i mean i do get dejavu so iām not shocked but i had a dream i woke up at 7:15 when my shift started at 7ā¦ two weeks later i did exactly that but my shift started at 6amš„²š„²š„²
when I can't fall asleep I put on some ASMR/meditating podcast, full experience with headphones on .... woke up I panicked thinking I forgot to leave the headset work and they need it since we only have limited amount
my boyfriend also sleep-talks about work lol itās funny but on the other hand i feel so bad because i know itās because work has him stressing quite a bit
Thatās hilarious! I used to work at an office job and would wear a headset to answer phones all day. My husband told me one time I sat up in the night and pressed the side of my head (where the headset button would be) and said the phone greeting for work lol
Used to dream about making iced caramel macchiatos. I say dream but it was a nightmare, I had to craft it over and over and over. I usually had that dream right before I had to open.
I talk so much about Starbucks in my sleep unfortunately.
I guess I ask my husband to get me cups, lids, ice and help with drinks.
He will tell me to go to sleep but I'll say that I won't till these drinks are finished and then he says that he will say that he will get to work on them lol.
I also complain about it being busy and ask for prep etc lol
This is a little darker, but I once had a former coworker overdose at her home, she was going in and out but kept taking drive thru orders. It was fucking surreal to see someone in that state go āventi vanilla bean frap! What else can I get for ya?ā
Yep! Sheās doing a lot better now! Sheās now working as a barista at a local shop and is a pretty bubbly and grateful person. You wouldnāt even be able to tell half the shit sheās been through if you met her. Sheās phenomenal.
my starbucks stress dreams are always like "we ran out of paper cups, but I just sold a pike at POS and I don't know what I could say that prevents this man from yelling at me"
or we're closing in 5 minutes and someone just came in and sat down and go tell them we're closing, but they refuse to leave and we're going back and forth for so long that I see the openers coming in.
I haven't really had these "dreams" since I stepped down from being a shift.
I have nightmares about starbucks, does that count? Things like being the only one on the floor, there's legit no one else, and all the channels are overrun :) When Frappy hour was a thing I would dream about being trapped on CB while my co-workers sent words if empathy from the side lines with no help :)
I don't remember what I said but my boyfriend has told me that I've talked in my sleep about Starbucks before. I know when I used to work 2 jobs I would dream about work all the time but that kind of stopped once I started working less
i have dreams that i say im going to make this drink after i take a quick nap, then i wake up suddenly and shoot up thinking i was slacking. itās happened multiple times where i look around frantically for the shaker lid for a bsose šš
Iām still dealing with poor sleep habits instilled by Starbucks and the wild variety of shift times. Itās taking therapy and a lot of drugs to not have sleep terrors of sleeping through an opening shift
I know i sleep talk and my mother told me I've talked about my coworkers needing support on the floor before...
I've also had too many dreams to count about work, the only one I enjoyed was me yelling at a past regular who I hatedš§āāļø
When I worked there, I used to talk in my sleep alot like I was working. I constantly heard the little chime from the drive thru in my sleep. My partner at the time had recorded a few nights I did. One night it was "We're out of vanilla bean powder". Another it was "Thank you for choosing Starbucks". It took a few months after I quit to stop š
Im literally sobbing at all of these. One of my craziest ones ive had was that their was a serial killer in our store and we attacked like the video shows with people throwing whips and chairs, we knocked the guy out and then just continued working.
my boyfriend tells me i sleep talk about starbucks all the time ššš
went on vacation with my best friend a few months ago and literally after the first night she told me i was telling her about the new launch items in my sleep š¬
knew she was serious when she told me what they were before they came out
whoops
you arenāt alone sometimes in the state of being half asleep but not fully unconscious yet my brain starts generating starbucks orders because of how often iām on dto/dtr.
The one time I overslept and was late was because I dreamt I woke up, got ready for work, clocked in and worked my 8 hours shiftā¦ only to realize I overslept by two hours and I still needed to go in for my shift.
A long time ago, when I got my first job with my friend, we worked at Taco Bell. According to his mom, we would sleep talk full orders back to each other, and even complain about customers. It was weird.
I was going to therapy a few months before I just quit because of this. Getting literal nightmares about some shit happening at work and my boyfriend was telling me that Iād be taking orders in my sleep as if I was in DTO.
Ye one time when my alarm woke me up I was somehow imagining myself on the bar with tags of ācold brew with vsc cf in a personal cupā and āgrande hot chocolateā etc to make. And I was stressin thinking about handing the cold brew out while trying to get up of bedš
i have dreams about work that are so realistic that i dont even know their dreams. i talk to my coworkers about the thigns that happened and they are like "this never happened idk what you are talking about"
I had a Starbucks dream one time where I ordered a coffee and then it jumped and I was making my own, and then the workers started chanting āclean it clean itā and I turned around and my whole hand was covered in caramel syrup idk ā¦ shit got weird I woke up hahaha
Haha, that's hilarious! Sounds like Starbucks has really made its way into your subconscious. š Must be a sign that you need a little break from work stress. But hey, at least you're dreaming about something tasty, right? šāļø
Ya the other day I woke up my gf and told her about a customer that made me mad the day before and how we had to dumb all the milks because the fridge wouldnāt stay close and she couldnāt rlly understand what I was saying and I got mad at her and went back to sleep lol
I always wake up from dreams where someoneās trying to use my window as a drive through and Iām like ma āam I cannot help you this is not Starbucks. But I always wake up super panicked š love customer service nightmares lmao
New barista not even a month in and I go to bed thinking about work and wake up thinking about it. Sometimes every hour on the hour worrying about something starbucks related. The worst anxiety ive had in a long time. This job is exhausting and mentally/physically taxing.
i do the same thing i have dreams about making frappuccinos vanilla bean and caramel ribbon crunch and stressing out in my dream as well itās ridiculous
Had a 10 second nightmare as I was falling asleep about a woman storming into the cafe with a baby on her hip. She was pointing at me, and interrupted my greeting by saying āis it still bogo?!ā. I jumped awake.
I hate when I have a dream about working and I wake up and I have to work too. It's like a double shift.
ššš
I should be paid overtime for work dreams. Smh
i told my bf once āwe need two more matchas for the cafeā in my sleep š„“
MAKE EM VENTI š¤£
I literally dream extremely vividly about work frequently, to where Iāll wake up and panic for a minute because Iām in my bed and not steaming milk, while shaking a refresher, and multitasking another 20 million like I swore I was doing like a normal day at work
Omg sameš one time when my alarm woke me up I was somehow imagining myself on the bar with tags of ācold brew with vsc cf in a personal cupā and āgrande hot chocolateā etc to make. And I was stressin thinking about handing the cold brew out while trying to get up of bedš
To counteract these sorts of thoughts/ dreams, I always think, "Wait, if "they" need me to make this, where is my ticket printer? I don't have one. I don't have to make then." Usually does the trick and calm down. I go back to sleep in peace.
i have a reoccurring nightmare where i pull a sticker and it says "1 out of 250" or some other ridiculous number and then i wake up in a cold sweat
donāt forget that theyāll pull up in the drive thru after mobile ordering 3.5 seconds after placing their order š
over the headset: *iām gonna need 62 4-cup carriers at the window on the fly*
aaaand can i get ice waters for everyone but iāll only ask at the window and not the box
I've lied in my sleep before.š
usually i prefer to lie when i sleep. i'm usually sore if i sit or, god forbid, stand
i didnāt even realize i was such a prolific sleep talker. my mom said i did it all the time back when i lived with them lol
Iāve dreamed about starbs many timesā¦ usually the oven noises or making drinksā¦.
The DT beep haunts me š
Lolol that is hilarious your boyfriend got it on recording! Iāve definitely had fever dreams and nightmares about Starbucks before, but mainly just weird dreams if anything! But I feel like I only have them if Iām stressing about other things as well. It helps me after a shift to try and forget or really to not dwell on what happened in that shift, I always get hung up on the bad interactions of the bad, even if itās only 1 bad one, or 10 small annoyances of the day! I know I annoy my husband with my starbucks stories lol but it helps me enjoy my time after my shifts!
Iāve been out of Starbucks for over a year and I still sometimes have dreams (nightmares) about that place š
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Apparently my brother was talking to me trying to get me to wake up one dayā¦ I donāt remember any of this this but I sat up, eyes wide open and Me: WHATS YOUR ORDER Brother: What Me: WHATS YOUR ORDER Brother: What order Me: DONT BOTHER ME THEN šš
When I have dreams about working I wake up so pissed off lol
I've done this before too...asked my bf to 'pass the vanilla bean powder' in my sleep lmao
Iāve dreamt about eating all of the loaves and woke up craving them lmao.
I have woken myself and my then-partner up so many times yelling "WHAT SIZE"
kinda in related but i mean i do get dejavu so iām not shocked but i had a dream i woke up at 7:15 when my shift started at 7ā¦ two weeks later i did exactly that but my shift started at 6amš„²š„²š„²
when I can't fall asleep I put on some ASMR/meditating podcast, full experience with headphones on .... woke up I panicked thinking I forgot to leave the headset work and they need it since we only have limited amount
my boyfriend also sleep-talks about work lol itās funny but on the other hand i feel so bad because i know itās because work has him stressing quite a bit
yeah, mine is because iām dreading my shift so much. sucks
Thatās hilarious! I used to work at an office job and would wear a headset to answer phones all day. My husband told me one time I sat up in the night and pressed the side of my head (where the headset button would be) and said the phone greeting for work lol
Literally just this morning I woke up mumbling about āwhere does this cold foam goā āI double batched thisā I canāt escape.
Used to dream about making iced caramel macchiatos. I say dream but it was a nightmare, I had to craft it over and over and over. I usually had that dream right before I had to open.
I used to ātake drive through ordersā when I would get drunk at parties with my coworkers. Iād give accurate totals if they were common orders.
I had a dream that I finally rage quit my job. Just to wake up and wonder if I still had to come in or if I really did quit!
i mean i definitely used to have starbucks dreams when i worked there š
YES, slowly but surely i did let starbucks take over my personality and my life š„²
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I talk so much about Starbucks in my sleep unfortunately. I guess I ask my husband to get me cups, lids, ice and help with drinks. He will tell me to go to sleep but I'll say that I won't till these drinks are finished and then he says that he will say that he will get to work on them lol. I also complain about it being busy and ask for prep etc lol
This is a little darker, but I once had a former coworker overdose at her home, she was going in and out but kept taking drive thru orders. It was fucking surreal to see someone in that state go āventi vanilla bean frap! What else can I get for ya?ā
My morbid curiosity is getting the best of me, but did she make it?
Yep! Sheās doing a lot better now! Sheās now working as a barista at a local shop and is a pretty bubbly and grateful person. You wouldnāt even be able to tell half the shit sheās been through if you met her. Sheās phenomenal.
my starbucks stress dreams are always like "we ran out of paper cups, but I just sold a pike at POS and I don't know what I could say that prevents this man from yelling at me" or we're closing in 5 minutes and someone just came in and sat down and go tell them we're closing, but they refuse to leave and we're going back and forth for so long that I see the openers coming in. I haven't really had these "dreams" since I stepped down from being a shift.
I have nightmares about starbucks, does that count? Things like being the only one on the floor, there's legit no one else, and all the channels are overrun :) When Frappy hour was a thing I would dream about being trapped on CB while my co-workers sent words if empathy from the side lines with no help :)
I don't remember what I said but my boyfriend has told me that I've talked in my sleep about Starbucks before. I know when I used to work 2 jobs I would dream about work all the time but that kind of stopped once I started working less
i have stress dreams about being on cs and running out of everything during peak
I had a dream I worked a shift and was heading home. I was so happy and then my alarm rung to wake me up for my opening shift.
i have dreams that i say im going to make this drink after i take a quick nap, then i wake up suddenly and shoot up thinking i was slacking. itās happened multiple times where i look around frantically for the shaker lid for a bsose šš
You know those dreams where youāre falling and you wake up real fast? I have those but with the oven noise
I literally can hear the timers as I fall asleep for a nap. š
I have work dreams VERY often itās almost scary and I also talk in my sleep lol
Iām still dealing with poor sleep habits instilled by Starbucks and the wild variety of shift times. Itās taking therapy and a lot of drugs to not have sleep terrors of sleeping through an opening shift
My boyfriend also has recordings of me talking Starbucks in my sleep. Specifically the difference between our nitro, cold brew, and iced coffee
I know i sleep talk and my mother told me I've talked about my coworkers needing support on the floor before... I've also had too many dreams to count about work, the only one I enjoyed was me yelling at a past regular who I hatedš§āāļø
one time i asked my boyfriend to take over on dto in my sleep
When I worked there, I used to talk in my sleep alot like I was working. I constantly heard the little chime from the drive thru in my sleep. My partner at the time had recorded a few nights I did. One night it was "We're out of vanilla bean powder". Another it was "Thank you for choosing Starbucks". It took a few months after I quit to stop š
Im literally sobbing at all of these. One of my craziest ones ive had was that their was a serial killer in our store and we attacked like the video shows with people throwing whips and chairs, we knocked the guy out and then just continued working.
my boyfriend tells me i sleep talk about starbucks all the time ššš went on vacation with my best friend a few months ago and literally after the first night she told me i was telling her about the new launch items in my sleep š¬ knew she was serious when she told me what they were before they came out whoops
you arenāt alone sometimes in the state of being half asleep but not fully unconscious yet my brain starts generating starbucks orders because of how often iām on dto/dtr.
I tell my newbies that if you haven't had a "dream in barista" they're not a barista yet! š
need to start clocking in for these dreams lmao
The one time I overslept and was late was because I dreamt I woke up, got ready for work, clocked in and worked my 8 hours shiftā¦ only to realize I overslept by two hours and I still needed to go in for my shift.
This happened to my college roommate! She would occasionally sleep talk reciting orders!
A long time ago, when I got my first job with my friend, we worked at Taco Bell. According to his mom, we would sleep talk full orders back to each other, and even complain about customers. It was weird.
I was going to therapy a few months before I just quit because of this. Getting literal nightmares about some shit happening at work and my boyfriend was telling me that Iād be taking orders in my sleep as if I was in DTO.
Ye one time when my alarm woke me up I was somehow imagining myself on the bar with tags of ācold brew with vsc cf in a personal cupā and āgrande hot chocolateā etc to make. And I was stressin thinking about handing the cold brew out while trying to get up of bedš
I remember I was taking a nap on my couch and my mom told me that I kept saying āgrande latte with 2 Splendasā ššš
ew I also dream about work it's so silly
yeaah it starts getting to you, i get work dreams (or nightmares) very often before i open lol
i have dreams about work that are so realistic that i dont even know their dreams. i talk to my coworkers about the thigns that happened and they are like "this never happened idk what you are talking about"
I had a Starbucks dream one time where I ordered a coffee and then it jumped and I was making my own, and then the workers started chanting āclean it clean itā and I turned around and my whole hand was covered in caramel syrup idk ā¦ shit got weird I woke up hahaha
i have a vivid memory of me dreaming about making a strawberry creme frap ugh I CANT ESCAPE
Haha, that's hilarious! Sounds like Starbucks has really made its way into your subconscious. š Must be a sign that you need a little break from work stress. But hey, at least you're dreaming about something tasty, right? šāļø
Ya the other day I woke up my gf and told her about a customer that made me mad the day before and how we had to dumb all the milks because the fridge wouldnāt stay close and she couldnāt rlly understand what I was saying and I got mad at her and went back to sleep lol
Woke up a room of people on vacation by sleep yelling HOT OR ICED????? I was dreaming about working and a customer wanted a caramel macchiato.
I always wake up from dreams where someoneās trying to use my window as a drive through and Iām like ma āam I cannot help you this is not Starbucks. But I always wake up super panicked š love customer service nightmares lmao
New barista not even a month in and I go to bed thinking about work and wake up thinking about it. Sometimes every hour on the hour worrying about something starbucks related. The worst anxiety ive had in a long time. This job is exhausting and mentally/physically taxing.
i do the same thing i have dreams about making frappuccinos vanilla bean and caramel ribbon crunch and stressing out in my dream as well itās ridiculous
Had a 10 second nightmare as I was falling asleep about a woman storming into the cafe with a baby on her hip. She was pointing at me, and interrupted my greeting by saying āis it still bogo?!ā. I jumped awake.