ABCTyler, the Creator used to make Frappuccinos. Until one day, he was fired. And he still holds a grudge.
The 24-year-old rapper and producer recently appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and talked about some of the worst jobs he's ever had, including one at Starbucks, where he had a boss he just hated. He hated her so much that he still talks about how much he hated her.
"I worked at Starbuck and FedEx and oh my God," he told host Jimmy Kimmel. "Horrible."
"FedEx was so depressing," he said. "There were just older dudes, like, just pushing boxes but OK with it and it scared the living hell out of me. So I quit after a week and four days."
The rapper said he worked as a Starbucks barista for two and a half years. Working there was cool, he said, because he "stole cheese Danishes every day."
"This lady named Cindy, she was a new manager, she hated on me and she fired me and I hope she's watching 'cause I still hate her," he said. "I hate you so much! I hate you, Cindy!"
A photo that appears to show Tyler, the Creator grinning behind the counter at a Starbucks has circulated online in recent years. In 2013, in a thank-you tweet to fans, he wrote, "THANKS. EVERYONE. TO CINDY THAT FIRED ME FROM STARBUCKS, THANK YOU."
"Her firing me was the greatest moment of our life," he told Kimmel. "Ugh, my chains [were] free!"
The rapper said one of his co-workers had warned him he was about to be fired less than 10 minutes before it happened. He said he called his mom to ask her what he should do and then finally accepted his fate.
"I manned up and said, 'All right, I'll get fired,'" he said. "And I ate like three cheese Danishes."
"Were you a good employee there?" Kimmel asked.
"I mean, I w-...look, hey, I was nice, I was cool with people, man, I liked talking to people, I didn't kiss ass to the people who worked there and the manager and I think she found that intimidating," Tyler, the Creator said. Also, I was the youngest there, so I had that attitude, like, 'Worse comes to worse, I can find another job' and I think she didn't like that."
What about another key element of a Starbucks barista job—spelling people's names correctly on a cup, amid the noise?
"Well, that's not even difficult," he said. "Just like, what's your name? If they say it and you can't hear it, you ask them again. It's not that complicated."