See What a 'Bitter' Coffee Shop Worker Wrote on His Blog that Got Him Fired

(TheBlaze/AP) -- A Seattle barista says it was all satire, but his popular anonymous blog that made snarky comments about his boss and the customers he didn't like has gotten him fired.

Matt Watson was exposed as the author of the blog "Bitter Barista" this week by another coffee site called Sprudge.com, which led his boss at All City Coffee in Seattle's Georgetown neighborhood to fire him, The Seattle Times reported Tuesday.

In the blog, the 30-year-old wrote that his vocabulary is too complex for his boss to understand. He also wrote about not serving customers what they ordered.

(Photo: Bitter Barista)

For example:

- "If you remind me four times that you've ordered decaf, guess what you won't be getting ... "

- "What a coincidence! You have a gluten allergy, and I don't care that you have a gluten allergy!"

- "'Oh my G0d, I don't care' - me, during every conversation with every customer ever."

-"Anyone that can't put coffee in their own sugar should be publicly euthanized."

- "I like to use a lot of big words when I tweet, that way if my boss ever finds my Twitter account, he won't understand any of it."

Watson claims his blog was satire and that he was just accentuating the "5 percent who I guess make our job more difficult and don't treat us as human beings."

"I had a good personal relationship with 95 percent of customers," he said, adding that he thought very highly of his boss, Seth Levy.

Matt Watson describes why he wrote the blog. (Photo: KIRO 7)

But it might've also been that Watson's condescension was too much to handle.  He wrote that the average barista is, "probably an artist, overqualified, people with pretty much college education across the board."

The New Jersey native has a bachelor's degree in philosophy and moved to Seattle "following a girl."

He has worked at All City Coffee for the past 2.5 years to make ends meet while pursuing a career as a hip hop artist under the moniker "Spekulation." On his site, Watson has released several songs in which he raps.

Watson only started his Bitter Barista blog about two weeks ago, but it was getting a couple of thousand hits a day. He made no mention of All City Coffee or his real name on the site. But the operators of Sprudge.com put it together after Watson said what he was doing in his Spekulation tweets, The Seattle Times reported.

KIRO 7 has more on the story, including an interview with the "bitter" blogger:

Sprudge.com ousted Watson on Thursday: "There's a lot of anger in this blog, and while we love the well-worn barista cliché, it should be the stuff of mild parody, not an all-out assault on whomever walks through the door of your cafe."

According to the Times, Watson tried to convince Levy in an email: "This isn't bad press, it's actually really good press ... especially given your customer base and the type of neighborhood that Georgetown has become ... I'm just saying ... it could turn out to be a fun something that gives the place a little spike in publicity."

But Levy didn't quite see it that way.

"He was writing about his boss during business hours," Levy told the newspaper. "I represent the business, the customers and the staff. I can't endorse what he was saying, whether humorous or not. It puts me in a difficult position, where if I don't respond that means I endorse what he's saying."

But Watson's already on to his next task, it seems.  He hopes to put together a Bitter Barista coffee-table book.

"My ex-boss thinks the website's gonna stop because I don't work there anymore," he wrote on his blog.  "Man, I didn't even work there when I worked there!"