Story form the interwebs: Entire coffes shop staff quit because of the management
dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/11/gorilla-coffee-workers-arent-coming-back/

According to an e-mail message sent by the former staff, the baristas quit because of what they call a “perpetually malicious, hostile, and demeaning work environment” under Carol McLaughlin, one of the two owners, and demanded that she withdraw from daily operations at the coffee bar.
( Crap Little Monkey Deathstar, so good they built it twice, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 12:55, 10 replies)

baristas glorified fucking waiters
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 13:09, closed)

The plural of barista is baristi

( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 13:15, closed)

and the plural of Annoying Pedant is?
??
( TheFinch is getting to grips with the complex plane on, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 13:16, closed)

Annoying Pedants
duh
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 13:17, closed)

ha ha!

( finnbar has officially retired, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 13:21, closed)

Pedantry fail
The plural of barista is bariste.
(Crayola Oblongata Is it Monday?, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 14:52, closed)

baristae surely
For that roman vibe
( Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Thu 10 Jun 2010, 14:55, closed)

Well...
in Italian it's just 'bariste', but I'd have thought 'baristas' is OK in English. Not least because you might get a smack in the gob for being a pretentious twat if you started calling people bariste.

Besides all of which, bollocks to barista. Nothing wrong with coffee monkey.
(Crayola Oblongata Is it Monday?, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 15:03, closed)

well said
good username too
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 15:34, closed)

What do you call a male barista?




a gay
( Digeridude Lord Wellington's Beef Trapeze, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 19:34, closed)