Well, this is a little rude.
I’m not one to really care about Starbucks cup controversies like the red cups this past holiday season. Instead, I prefer when Starbucks baristas make hilarious jokes about Beyonce. But I digress.
Whether or not the Starbucks employee was simply making an innocent joke is being investigated, but according to Action News Jax, the Florida customer definitely didn’t think it was funny.
Here’s what was on the cup:
A @Starbucks customer tells me he’s hurt by the message he received on his coffee cup. Details on @ActionNewsJax pic.twitter.com/hNMeC6ysRJ
— Kaitlyn Chana (@KaitlynANjax) April 8, 2016
“DIABETES HERE I COME.”
That’s the message the customer at the Palencia Starbucks received on his grande cup of white mocha. Sure, this may just be a joke referring to the high amount of sugar and calories in the drink, but the problem is that the customer’s two sisters both suffer from type 1 diabetes.
“That first word just automatically brought the picture of both sisters in my head, and I was taken aback,” said the Starbucks customer.
Starbucks baristas are instructed to only write customers’ names or the type of drink on the cups. An email from Starbucks said they are working directly with the employee who did this to ensure it doesn’t happen again. And, for what it’s worth, that is all the customer is asking for as well.
