Alec Baldwin Slams Rude Barista on Twitter

Alec Baldwin may take a bit of flack for his temper- perhaps deservedly so, considering his high-profile rant at his daughter with Kim Basinger a few years back where he shouted abuse at the child on an answering machine- but is it that unthinkable he’d go off on a barista?

While many coffee jockeys are pleasant and polite, it seems at least one out of four times you encounter the barista who takes slinging lattes all day way too seriously. There’s the type that tries to tell you what you want or advise you on your every-day-like-clockwork order, the vacant counter dude or the hostile critic that takes you to task for coffee sins. So it’s no surprise that when Baldwin encountered what sounds like the latter, he got his schweddy balls all in a twist.

What went down in the Manhattan Starbucks has been described differently by both parties, but it got real when the star took to his Twitter to mobilize irritated latte-drinkers against the errant barista. Baldwin got on his tweetable Huffy-bike, naming names and posting:

Starbucks on 93 and B’way. Uptight Queen barrista named JAY has an attitude problem.

He went there! But not wanting to appear to hate on the little guy, Baldwin followed up with:

Clyde, on the other hand, outside DINOSAUR BARBECUE @ W 125 n H River is MY MAN. Keeping the hickory ovens going, he is 2dayz Coolest NYer

Not surprisingly, the other baristas have their fellow employee’s back- one fumed to the New York Post after the tale went viral:

“I was here when it happened — it was really just him being an [expletive]. He was very rude and disrespectful and arrogant. He’s probably the rudest guy I’ve ever met… And [the employee] didn’t do anything wrong; it was all that dude just being psycho,. I saw a thing on ‘E’ a little while ago, and it was talking about how crazy he was. They were right.”

Who do you think likely had the attitude problem, Alec or the Starbucks barista?