Bitter Barista Fired Over Satirical Blog
Matt Watson was fired from his job at a Seattle coffee house after a coffee gossip site (which is a thing that exists) exposed his identity.
1. This is The Bitter Barista, a satirical blog where, up until recently, Matt “Spek” Watson wrote anonymously about annoying patrons of the coffee shop he worked at.
2. The blog was where he’d put posts like this…
3. …or this.
4. Last week, the coffee news and gossip site Sprudge.com exposed Watson as the author of the blog.
5. Sprudge.com writer Llewellyn Sinclair apparently thought that the Bitter Barista’s tone was too harsh:
There’s a lot of anger in this blog, and while we love the well-worn barista cliche, it should be the stuff of mild parody, not an all-out assault on whomever walks through the door of your cafe. Blog work like this probably shouldn’t be encouraged, which is why blogs like Bitter Barista (and that recent XO Jane article, and all that Village Voice tripe) need to be shown the cold light of day. Workplace frustrations are fine, but they should be vented over margaritas after work, not on your Twitter account mid-shift.
7. According to a Seattle Times piece, Watson was then fired from his job at All City Coffee, once his employers learned of the blog. He had worked there for two and a half years.
9. From his blog:
10. Judging by the majority of the coffee shop’s Yelp comments, it doesn’t look like Watson’s snark invaded reality too often.
11. But it’s not all bad for Watson. He’s working on a Bitter Barista coffee table book, and has gotten job offers from other coffee houses since being let go.
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boweryboy 3 months agoThe more research I did on this (I live in the Bitter Barista’s hometown as well) the more I realized this entire thing is a publicity stunt for his book. He actually tweeted at least twice from his personal account for people to check out his blog - the Bitter Barista. So the math was already done. Sprudge.com didn’t expose him. They just made it more public. As someone who worked as a barista my first 5 years of living in the Emerald City I can say for every 10 awesome customers you get at least 2 shitty ones. Some of the things Watson posted on his blog are things baristas say to each other. But in private. In the backroom. He did deserve to get fired because now that his identity and place of employment are public it’s the coffeehouse that will suffer. A true case of guilt by association. One thing I will say: Do treat your baristas kindly. I could tell you horror stories of things baristas have done to rude customer’s drinks.
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CameronHodge 4 months agoI’m just kind of disappointed at how meh his blog is. I was ready to laugh at some incisive dumb customer observations, which I have plenty of experience dealing with. “Want Splenda? I hate you.” “Extra foam? You’re basically Hitler” Not really witty at all or anything. Meh.
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GlitteryKittens 4 months agoThis whole situation almost sounds like it could be a Portlandia skit.
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Djurcinovska 4 months agoNo. Customers are assholes. They just don’t realize they are being assholes.
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Ana De Freitas 4 months agoso what if he had the blog? who’s the idiot who exposed him? he probably got curious and when found out who he was, noticed he was his barista once. Really, let other people be! it’s not his fault sometimes costumers are idiots.. I work in a place where I have to do everything I can to smile at complete idiots! that doesnt give them the right to be an ass so yeah! people like him or I dont know like me want to complain publicly! maybe they’ll read and think “gee, I’ve done that. maybe I shouldnt do it anymore” and if they dont like well they are still idiots
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esperanzarubiot 4 months agoGuess what kids? MOST CUSTOMER SERVICE JOBS COME WITH A HOT HEAPING HELPING OF ASSY CUSTOMERS!!! Really guy? Hitler’ 2nd coming for you is an Americano with steamed soy? GTFO. First world customer service problems.
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