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The 2012 Whiner of the Year Award has been claimed!

You can stop whining. Or start. Either way, the 2012 Whiner of the Year Award has been claimed by Brooklyn-based Jason Diamond.

Diamond has a piece on the New York Times Opinionator page about how annoying it is when he is recognized by the former customers who don't or won't acknowledge that he is no longer a barista and has even had his writing published in the "Paris Review."

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Diamond getting a lot of response from readers, most of it negative, but a few have stepped in to admonish the former customers for undermining Diamond's self-esteem.

Here's Diamond's piece.

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Are you recognized from your former livelihood in a way that annoys you?

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