Abstract. We give a geometric realization, the tagged rotation, of the AR-translation on the generalized cluster category associated to a surface S with marked points and non-empty boundary, which generalizes Brüstle-Zhang's result for the puncture free case.As an application, we show that the intersection of the shifts in the 3-Calabi-Yau derived category D(ΓS) associated to the surface and the corresponding Seidel-Thomas braid group of D(ΓS) is empty, unless S is a polygon with at most one puncture (i.e. of type A or D).