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How rude -
Starbucks' coffee sucks anyway. I would not go back there if I were you. Pretty much any place else is way better anyway.
ETA: The employee even KNOWS she was in the wrong here, by changing it to "Erin". She knows full well that Karen is a pretty bad slur at the moment. She had the gall to use it on you, right to your face. Had she written "Karen" on the cup, you probably could have taken a photo of that and made some kind of a stink out of it somehow. She even KNOWS she was being an ass. She KNOWS it, and will totally continue that kind of behavior again and again.
Oh yeah, she was definitely worried after the fact.
What gets me is that she was just so quick to pull that out. Like either she was itching for a chance to call some woman Karen or the kids are just using it left and right these days.
I don't care which one it was. Either way, I have a really low opinion of anyone who uses that slur.
This would be sort of like . . . . . . if you had an encounter with a customer service professional and they stuck their finger down their throat and made themself throw up all over you, then I would have a really low opinion of that person and would also know that they have zero skills in customer service.