Transferred like to a bad neighborhood or someplace that’s a headache to get to? Crap.

We already knew this was what they were doing, and I said why don’t they just ask for ID, and then you stopped by to they just don’t.

Now that is an interesting thought.

And they aren’t doing that because...why?

No, the whole point is to offer to give a customer something in the hopes that he’ll buy something else, in this case a free drink on the customer’s birthday. Showing your ID is no more difficult than getting out a gift card. And while most people maybe be honest enough not to do what this guy is doing, since those…

It’s okay, we’re all talking about the same thing in general.

Sure, we’ve done that. But this guy is up to something else, we just can’t figure out what if there isn’t a limit to his free order.

Yikes! That’s more than a gallon of coffee.

Hey, my husband took pictures like that. Seriously, some people just took their kids to the store, had them try on something, hid the tags, brought them over to the store studio and if he didn’t see the tags (and there wasn’t another employee chasing them) he’d take the pictures. And then they’d go back to the…

I haven’t gone to the pancake place three times a day, but if I did, no it would not be the same. Pancake place does not lose money when I’m there (except for last year maybe, when I went by myself, but probably not even then). They sell more stuff, the waitress gets a few extra bucks, and so forth.

We’ve gotten several coupons on our anniversary as well, and unlike the birthday coupons they pretty much have to take your word for it that your anniversary is whenever you say it is, cause that info isn’t on your ID. So I suppose I could sign up twelve different accounts with different anniversaries, but I don’t…

I don’t know either, cause I don’t go to Starbucks often enough to bother with any of it. But that’s the story, in addition to everything else he’s getting them to ring it up as a cheaper drink, so there must be a limit.

I briefly had a job at the library. And while I knew I wasn’t in trouble because of whatever customer complaint if I had followed all the rules, there’s always this headache of what if I forgot something and did another employee see me do everything correctly and all that. But NOBODY cares if a library patron makes a…

Remember that was just with the customers if I was following the rules. Management sometimes still did stupid shit with schedules and such.

Totally. Everything was always “I can’t do that, would you like me to get the manager” and then usually the manager told the customer the same thing I already said.

Well, I guess I was mostly lucky with the managers backing me up in front of customers during that time. But of course, there were still customers, so it wasn’t perfect or anything.

Surely it must, or why would the guy care how they ring it up?

Generally, my managers have always had rules, and to break them you had to get permission, even if it was for a good reason. And we also had corporate rules made everybody’s life difficult, but we’d have to follow them anyway, even if the store manager agreed that they did not make much sense. Very rarely did a…

It would still not happen if they asked for ID, as they do anywhere else they want to limit this sort of thing.

I totally have, and people are a headache sometimes, but the rules don’t go away because a customer says so.