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I Guess Starbucks Will Shut Down for Training Again
« on: July 06, 2019, 09:51:47 AM »
Looks like Starbucks will be shutting down for training again.  :laugh:

One single little snowflake decides that five cops sitting down to coffee was a threat to their safety, so a Starbucks employee kicked out the cops. This snowflake should have received the same treatment that the DNC snowflake did in that DC BBQ joint. It's getting tiresome watching the world revolve around every little perceived micro-regression.

https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/starbucks-shop-boots-police-officers-because-customer-did-not-feel-safe-reports

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Re: I Guess Starbucks Will Shut Down for Training Again
« Reply #1 on: July 06, 2019, 12:43:49 PM »
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Re: I Guess Starbucks Will Shut Down for Training Again
« Reply #2 on: July 06, 2019, 12:55:20 PM »
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Re: I Guess Starbucks Will Shut Down for Training Again
« Reply #3 on: July 06, 2019, 01:05:55 PM »
I'm not ready to blame the whole corporation yet.  This is on the snowflake and the barista, and *maybe* the person running the joint.  I don't like cops either; I don't trust them.  So I leave them alone, and perhaps because I'm older and white they mostly leave me alone.  

Nobody really fears 4 or 5 men (I assume they were all men, I don't think it said) minding their own business drinking coffee.  Even a poorly trained barista should see thru that one.
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Re: I Guess Starbucks Will Shut Down for Training Again
« Reply #4 on: July 06, 2019, 01:09:24 PM »
Funny . . . when I'm in a restaurant, I feel safer if there's a group of police dining there. (Which of course isn't in conflict with my opinion of things like no-knock raids.) 

I've said it before, and I'll say it again - as a society, we spend FAR too much time, effort, and money trying to cater to the feelings of the perpetually offended lunatic fringe.
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Re: I Guess Starbucks Will Shut Down for Training Again
« Reply #5 on: July 06, 2019, 01:32:18 PM »
I'm not ready to blame the whole corporation yet.  

I wasn't blaming the corporation either. This is clearly similar to that last event with the two black guys, just in this case with overreacting employees catering to a nutjob. However, the corporation seems to also overreact in their response, with stuff like shutting every Starbucks in America down for "sensitivity training".
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Re: I Guess Starbucks Will Shut Down for Training Again
« Reply #6 on: July 08, 2019, 05:22:20 PM »
I wasn't blaming the corporation either. This is clearly similar to that last event with the two black guys, just in this case with overreacting employees catering to a nutjob. However, the corporation seems to also overreact in their response, with stuff like shutting every Starbucks in America down for "sensitivity training".

This situation seems to be much, much different.

In the trespassing incident, the store manager called police on two loiterers. She seems to have been fired, more or less, by a "woke" corporate office, that doubled down with further attempts to abase themselves for being too white, or whatever it is Leftists do.

Here, we have police, presumably paying customers, and probably not black (or not all of them); kicked out by the local store. In this case, Starbucks seems to be apologizing. We'll see if cops kicked out for no reason results in the same, corporate-wide panic session as we saw with the loiterer-booting.
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Re: I Guess Starbucks Will Shut Down for Training Again
« Reply #7 on: July 08, 2019, 06:47:21 PM »
We'll see if cops kicked out for no reason results in the same, corporate-wide panic session as we saw with the loiterer-booting.

Sorry if unclear, but that is what I meant by similar - the corporate-wide panic and over-reaction versus just handling it as a single issue and maybe sending out a memo.
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Re: I Guess Starbucks Will Shut Down for Training Again
« Reply #8 on: July 08, 2019, 08:00:58 PM »
Sorry if unclear, but that is what I meant by similar - the corporate-wide panic and over-reaction versus just handling it as a single issue and maybe sending out a memo.


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Re: I Guess Starbucks Will Shut Down for Training Again
« Reply #9 on: July 11, 2019, 12:11:07 AM »
Starbucks does seem to have an awfully hard time peddling pretentious refreshments, without either being Klan Koffee (calling 5-O on black "customers") or too woke to function (Race Together initiative and booting cops from a store).
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Re: I Guess Starbucks Will Shut Down for Training Again
« Reply #10 on: July 11, 2019, 12:58:31 AM »
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Re: I Guess Starbucks Will Shut Down for Training Again
« Reply #11 on: June 14, 2023, 10:21:34 AM »
In other Starbucks news

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A white Starbucks manager who was fired when her staff refused to let two black men use the bathroom at a Philadelphia store has been awarded $25.6million.

Shannon Phillips on Monday won her lawsuit against the coffee giant and was handed $25million in punitive damages and $600,000 in compensatory damages.

A federal jury in New Jersey found the company had given her the boot because she was white, which violated her civil rights.

The lawsuit finally came to an end this week five years after the arrests of the two black men at the Starbucks in Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia.

Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson had been waiting for a meeting when they were refused access to the toilet and were asked to leave before cops were called.

Their arrests prompted widespread outrage and protests after footage of the incident emerged - and Starbucks was accused of racism and boycott threats.

White Starbucks manager who ran Philly store where two black men were refused access to bathroom - sparking protests - is awarded $25M as jury finds she was fired because of her race
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12193961/Starbucks-manager-ran-Philly-store-two-black-men-refused-access-bathroom-gets-25M.html
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Re: I Guess Starbucks Will Shut Down for Training Again
« Reply #12 on: June 14, 2023, 10:50:07 AM »
People get less money when companies kill their family.  Why is it that there are so many lawsuits these days that award such absurd amounts of money for relatively minor things?

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Re: I Guess Starbucks Will Shut Down for Training Again
« Reply #13 on: June 14, 2023, 10:53:26 AM »
Unpossible! You can't violate Whitey McWhiterson's civil rights! They don't have any because they're so fraught with white privilege.

What a travesty of justice!
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Re: I Guess Starbucks Will Shut Down for Training Again
« Reply #14 on: June 14, 2023, 11:16:52 AM »
Well, the cost of SB swill will be rising again.

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Re: I Guess Starbucks Will Shut Down for Training Again
« Reply #15 on: June 14, 2023, 02:18:06 PM »
What do you expect from coffee shops where the baristas are such pussies that they unionize
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Re: I Guess Starbucks Will Shut Down for Training Again
« Reply #16 on: June 14, 2023, 02:45:01 PM »
What do you expect from coffee shops where the baristas are such pussies that they unionize

W encourage it. The future of those sad little unions is the wonderful automated thing at sheetz that makes my coffee for me.
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Re: I Guess Starbucks Will Shut Down for Training Again
« Reply #17 on: June 14, 2023, 05:32:09 PM »
People get less money when companies kill their family.  Why is it that there are so many lawsuits these days that award such absurd amounts of money for relatively minor things?

A good lawyer and really sympathetic jury?

Be curious how the appeal turns out, you never hear those results in the national news much.
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Re: I Guess Starbucks Will Shut Down for Training Again
« Reply #18 on: June 15, 2023, 06:55:48 PM »
In other Starbucks news

White Starbucks manager who ran Philly store where two black men were refused access to bathroom - sparking protests - is awarded $25M as jury finds she was fired because of her race
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12193961/Starbucks-manager-ran-Philly-store-two-black-men-refused-access-bathroom-gets-25M.html

She didn't manage that store. She was a regional manager and the store in question was within her territory. Starbucks basically threw her under the bus for not taking the matter seriously enough, and not "getting in front of" the damage control effort. I have no idea whether or not the actual manager of the store was penalized in any way.
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