Isn't "Barista" just the new politically incorrect term for waitress or bartender?

Barista is the linguistically correct term for the person who operates an espresso machine.

I thought it was gender-neutral. I also thought it wasn’t for restaurants, nor bars, but rather coffee shops.
It’s not a word I use, regardless.

Waitress= food server
Stewardess=flight attendant

I kinda miss the old terminology.

No. Barista is a term for male or female workers at a coffeehouse. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barista I don’t think it’s offensive or anything. I also don’t think waiter or waitress is offensive or non-PC.
what did firefighter and police office used to be?

I liked being known as a barista, because I was an “expert” at operating an espresso machine (probably still could, matter of fact), and it was a way to broadcast that.

(The guys I worked with did seem to have an issue with being called a “barista”, though. :P)

@casheroo probably just fireMAN and policeMAN.
Interesting that the wikipedia page for Barista has a male for a picture.

@Sarcasm Oh duh! Thanks

@casheroo FIREMAN AND POLICEMAN.

I really hate the whole “pc” thing. It isn’t changing who people are by telling them what is politically incorrect to say outloud, it just makes people look over their shoulders more.

Let’s start calling ‘em all Baristaman… wait, now that sounds like a super hero. That’d be even cooler.

Is it a latte? Is it a scone? No, it’s Baaaaaristaaamaaannn!

@MrBr00ks as they should..because if they’re incapable of understanding ‘complex’ concepts like gender neutrality, then at they very least they don’t tire my ears out with their old-fashioned, in correct terminoloty

Well its still a free country, and people are still free to be jerks one way or the other.