{'byline': '', 'hosts': '', 'byline_sources': 'TALK 980am', 'hide_author': True, 'audience_id': '', 'original_station': [{'station': 'talk980am', 'path': 'talk980am/articles/starbucks-baristas-claim-tiktok-trend-will-get-them-fired'}], 'syndicated_items': '', 'original_item': {'_index': 'published-content_v44', '_type': '_doc', '_score': None, '_source': {'date': '2020-08-25T15:13:00.000+00:00', 'lead': [{'data': {'alt': 'Cover Image', 'url': 'https://images.radio.com/aiu-media/usatsi-10790190-0-3388c3ca-61c4-458b-9f48-31c3775f7d3a.jpg', 'width': 775, 'credit': '', 'height': 517, 'caption': '', '_version': 1, 'rendition': '', 'sizeInBytes': '40809'}, 'original_ref': 'www.audacy.com/_components/image/instances/migrate-talk980am-196238@published'}], 'slug': 'starbucks-baristas-claim-tiktok-trend-will-get-them-fired', 'tags': ['Latest News'], 'feeds': {'rss': True, 'newsfeed': True, 'sitemaps': True, 'apple-news': False, 'most-popular': True, 'smartNews': True, 'msn': True, 'frequency': True, 'google-news-feed': True, 'postup': True, 'reversechron': True, 'smart-news': True}, 'hosts': [], 'byline': [{'names': [], 'sources': [{'text': 'TALK 980am'}], 'hosts': [], 'prefix': 'by'}], 'teaser': 'Starbucks Baristas Claim TikTok Trend Will Get Them Fired', 'authors': [], 'content': [{'data': {'text': 'Starbucks employees are being encouraged to stay away from the popular TikTok app because a new trend on the app could lead to them being fired from the company.'}, 'original_ref': 'www.audacy.com/_components/paragraph/instances/migrate-talk980am-196238-0@published'}, {'data': {'text': 'This trend came to light in a Reddit, thread where employees warned Starbucks patrons NOT to post images or videos of their receipts on TikTok.\xa0Apparently, on every receipt, an employee ID number, also known as a Starbucks partner number, is printed at the top.\xa0When these receipts are posted online, people take these Starbucks partner numbers, and use them at various Starbucks locations to score discounted drinks and other "employee-only perks," <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/now/starbucks-baristas-claim-tiktok-trend-151451675.html" rel="nofollow">per Yahoo. </a><p></p> <blockquote><p>Hey Starbucks partners! It’s a tiktok trend for customers to ask for a receipt and you’ll end up printing and giving your partner number away to customers and they’ll use your discount!! Start asking for ID (which we are suppose to already)</p>— anna ✰ ✼ ♡ (@bowmanannabelle) <a href="https://twitter.com/bowmanannabelle/status/1293609924027486208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="nofollow">August 12, 2020</a></blockquote><script async charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"><p>This can potentially lead to huge problems for the employees whose numbers are used to score discounts.\xa0A Starbucks employee who wished to remain anonymous told In the Know, "I definitely noticed some people who claimed to be partners but didn’t seem to work a day in their lives.\xa0Corporate has a whole group that monitors partner numbers and if you use them too much or they’re in different locations every time … they will fire you."</p> <blockquote><p>There’s a tiktok trend going on that people are asking for receipts at Starbucks and stealing partner numbers off the receipt to get our discounts and I think that’s disgusting</p>— Madisen Hatten (@madisench) <a 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