Call me cynical, but is a day really enough to teach this? Will this help, or is it just damage control?
Starbucks will close 8,000 US stores for racial-bias training
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A day is damage control
A full week or 2 weeks with a competency test at the end is teaching.......
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I'm sorry if this sounds insensitive but I simply can't understand why white people would protest this.
I'm not saying white people shouldn't care at all, but give me a fucking break. It doesn't affect you, can you really care that much?
I think the incident is fucked up, but I'm not going to take time out of my day to protest anything.
And yes I use my white privilege whenever necessary.
I'm not saying white people shouldn't care at all, but give me a fucking break. It doesn't affect you, can you really care that much?
I think the incident is fucked up, but I'm not going to take time out of my day to protest anything.
And yes I use my white privilege whenever necessary.
"The two men entered the Starbucks on Thursday and asked to use to the bathroom. An employee told them it was only for paying customers. When they then sat in the store without ordering anything, the manager called police, and the men were arrested for trespassing. No charges were filed.
"Johnson met with the two men on Monday and apologized for how they were treated, a company spokesperson said.
"The company says the manager who called the police is no longer working at that store. Starbucks would not comment on other reports that she has left the company by mutual agreement.
"Separately, a Facebook video taken in January at a Starbucks in California shows a black customer saying that he was not allowed to use the bathroom when a white customer was."
I feel like I'm missing some unwritten detail here about the altercation with the manager, if there was one.
*Based on how other Starbucks I've been to are managed, it is not unusual for managers to ask non-paying customers to leave and not take up seats regardless of race.
"Johnson met with the two men on Monday and apologized for how they were treated, a company spokesperson said.
"The company says the manager who called the police is no longer working at that store. Starbucks would not comment on other reports that she has left the company by mutual agreement.
"Separately, a Facebook video taken in January at a Starbucks in California shows a black customer saying that he was not allowed to use the bathroom when a white customer was."
I feel like I'm missing some unwritten detail here about the altercation with the manager, if there was one.
*Based on how other Starbucks I've been to are managed, it is not unusual for managers to ask non-paying customers to leave and not take up seats regardless of race.
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The missing detail is that they were waiting for a friend, who showed up as they were getting arrested, to order.
Whether that's true or not, let's be honest. The odds of this happening to two white kids the same age are significantly lower.
Oh I didn't realize they were waiting to order.
Editing my own post. After rereading it, it sounds kinda racist, which was not the intent.
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Well I don't know how Starbucks are in the States, but here people sit in there all fucking day without issue.
Maybe if these two black gentleman had hipster moustaches and MacBooks, they would have been allowed to wait unmolested.
Maybe if these two black gentleman had hipster moustaches and MacBooks, they would have been allowed to wait unmolested.
It probably depends on how busy they are or something. If you try to take a seat at Starbucks in Penn Station without buying, you're going to be asked to leave when management does one of their regular sweeps to see if everyone has a cup or some starbucks food in front of them.
I bet this happens on the day I’m craving a caramel macchiato.
Fire the people responsible, make a press statement saying it won’t be tolerated, send a memo to all staff and get it over with.
I have decaf because I bounce off the walls with caffeine but some people actually depend on caffeine in the morning. I can see more carnage happening if they don’t get one on the way to work.
Fire the people responsible, make a press statement saying it won’t be tolerated, send a memo to all staff and get it over with.
I have decaf because I bounce off the walls with caffeine but some people actually depend on caffeine in the morning. I can see more carnage happening if they don’t get one on the way to work.
Coffee is an addiction. For real. And it offers no positives at all.
Fucken mongaloid drink
I even have to have decaf green tea. I know full caffeine drinks taste so much better so I'm missing out but I just can't handle it.
People get headaches quitting caffeine so I understand it's addictive.
All it does is dehydrate you. Doesn't even get you shitfaced.
If I ever have a coffee it's because I'm more tired than I should be. And if I do I'll get a cold one to help wake me up a bit
If I ever have a coffee it's because I'm more tired than I should be. And if I do I'll get a cold one to help wake me up a bit
I buy loads of their bottled vanilla frapucinos, but they have pretty much zero caffeine in them and don't make me talk like a blithering idiot.
Hmmm. So what is it that makes you talk like a blithering idiot?
You, normally.
The owner is black
they should close them all
haven't had a starbucks product in 6 years
that chain is mostly marketing and sugar
haven't had a starbucks product in 6 years
that chain is mostly marketing and sugar
one per day for me...I can go without though and be fine
get on a 2-3 per day and go without and you got a serious fuckng headache...shit has hooks
