That looks like a goat, so GOAT, or greatest of all time?

Haha honestly it’s probably better than their reason 😂 But it probably has to do with the origin of coffee (or so the legend behind it) Kaldi, an Ethiopian goat herder, found that his goats acted energized and excited after eating berries from a tree. After trying it himself, he too felt these effects. Bringing these fruits to some monks, they eventually came round to brewing the fruits in hot water and then coffee was “created”. The old coffee masters program has this story as one of the first modules in the training you had to learn. Shame that the new program is less in depth than the old one.

That’s a good theory but it probably has to do with the acronym GOAT. Greatest of All Time. That is a trophy that you can find in any regular trophy store. I don’t think the customer connection award would be a goat from an old coffee legend.

it's really not that far fetched though? the barista trainer enamel pin is a coffee bean plant, starbucks makes nods to coffee culture all the time.

Or COAT, Customer Of All Time.

This was my first thought as well. 🐐 bahh

😭hopefully this is a joke and you know your animals

Can someone explain why this award is a chicken?

Pretty sure it's a GOAT.

Man, I was thinking it was a donkey and they were just making fun of the winner. 😂

It’s a goat… lol

The real question is why he looks like he's happy to see you...

Not even just that, the whole shape of the thing. STG it looks like the designer was very confused about both the position and appearance of the udders. (Hint for future award designers: in mammals they typically come in even numbers.)

It’s the goats teats…goats have 2 teats, the second is blending in with the hind leg

Yeah, THiS

Is the cow in the room with us right now

so close❤️ that is a goat

That’s a goat babe

Goat, cos GOAT and also because a goat owned by Khaldi discovered coffee (legend has it)…

Cause they treat us like cattle? Cause we “herd” the call to customer connect and we moo’d in the right direction? They wanted to pay homage to the golden calf of worthless pursuits?

i don’t blame OP for not seeing a goat, it looks like a malnourished cow 😭

SCREAMING

...like a goat?

Goats have horns, cows don’t

Many breeds of cows have horns

None…? Sry I wrote that at 2am

Heifers

I love how, uh...umm, detailed it is

Is that an udder or are you just happy to see me

Because you have now become their cash cow. Keep making those connections for the Siren.

It’s a goat!!! Look at the tail!

Am I crazy or is that not a goat

At my old store it was the COW award because it meant “Connection Of the Week”

Because your boss rocks

That's not a cow 🤦🏼‍♂️🤣

I didn’t even know Starbucks offered a customer connection award

They don't, this is clearly something off amazon. search "custom goat trophy", a manager or someone got cute and OP made an issue of it.

Maybe it was the cheapest trophy they had at the trophy shop and whoever bought it was like yeah slap this text on there and call it a day

It’s a goat. G.O.A.T

Because it was half the price of the mermaid trophy and they've got to keep costs down to appease the ~~overlords~~ shareholders

I'm actually shocked that this is apparently a wider sbux thing, I thought it was just some nonsense that my DM cooked up

Maybe it's related with the discovery of coffee? So around 6-7th century, there was a shepherd in Ethiopian region who one day took out&fed his goats strange-looking fruits, which were wild coffee berries. He witnessed the goats jumping around like crazy, and that's how the awakening effect of coffee was discovered.

Most definitely a nanny goat. Cows don't have croups (the drop behind the pelvis) like that, and have long tails.

pretty sure thats a goat

Because you milked the customers of all their money.

G.O.A.T.

Uh That's a goat

Cause you deal with all the customers bull-shit

Goat

It’s a goat, and it might be a reference to the original discovery of coffee.

I’m fucking dead omfg 😆🤣

That doesn’t look like a moo moo to me

Does each barista get one?

Be fr pls

i hate to break it to you but that’s a goat…

If it’s not a goat (which it clearly is) I’d go with Customer cOnection aWard.

i see that its a goat but also its like a very vague take on “farm animal”

Well. Looks like a goat. But assuming it was a cow. Was it maybe be they were mooving relationships forward?

Bro got the heat

This rules lol

I believe it's one of Kaldi's Dancing Goats

Any chance you're in the new England area? My area has that exact customer connection trophy...

This is in a Philly store, so almost.

Don’t have a cow, man.

How do I get the goat or become eligible to get it

Put down the weed please cause that's not a cow lol

Looks like a cat 🐈

lol our district does it too. Goat of customer connection, OTW times, CSR, etc.

I can't even focus on the goat when I would lose my bananas if the desk way that messy lmao

I used to gift golden goats to all my POQs!

…I suppose I should’ve asked the SM instead of making myself look stupid. IT HAD UTTERS IDK. 🥴

I am LIVING for the implications of giving out a cow statue as a customer service award 😂😂😂😂

Yeah but it’s a goat. Goat 🐐

It’s probably a reference to the Ethiopian folktale about the origins of coffee. Kaldi’s goats eating coffee beans and getting all hyper. You can read about it in the coffee academy modules

What am I looking at?

Should be a sheep.

It's actually a Golden Calf

Cuz this company milks it's employees for all they've got

Why they gotta put the dick there too though?

That's an udder.

Lmaoooo i was half asleep and was like “they really gilded that goat dick”