Starbucks kicks out 2 black men for nothing

[oidreez]

All articles I read said she mutually parted ways with the company

 

[doublemesh96]

Someone please catch her slippin in traffic

 

[Mark Antony]

2 minutes. Damn.

 

[hand2handking]

Blacks in Downtown Philly More Likely to Be Stopped by Police

Police monitor activity as protestors demonstrate outside a Center City Starbucks on April 15, 2018 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Police arrested two black men who were waiting inside the Center City Starbucks which prompted an apology from the company’s CEO.
Photo: Mark Makela (Getty Images)

https://journalisms.theroot.com/blacks-in-downtown-philly-more-likely-to-be-stopped-by-1825483593

Analysis Shows African Americans Comprise Two-Thirds of Stops Indoors

“The controversial arrest of two black men at a Center City Starbucks last Thursday has reignited the debate about racial profiling by police and businesses in Philadelphia and around the country,” William Bender andMichele Tranquilli reported Friday for philly.com.

“An Inquirer and Daily News analysis of police data in the districts that cover Center City shows that while police stops have fallen sharply since 2014, blacks are still significantly more likely to be stopped than whites.

“When the police stops are listed as occurring indoors, such as in stores, the racial disparity is starker: Blacks account for more than two-thirds of those stops. . . .”

Jamelle Bouie, Gene Demby, Aisha Harris and Tressie McMillan Cottom, Slate: Being Black in Public

Evelyn Carter, the Undefeated: Starbucks’ diversity training won’t help unless it makes white people uncomfortable

Jarvis DeBerry, NOLA.com | Times-Picayune: Simply sitting in Starbucks or asking for directions can be risky if you’re black

Leonard Greene, Daily News, New York: White people must recognize their privilege and stop calling the cops on harmless black men

Calvin K. Lai, the Conversation: What’s unconscious bias training, and does it work?

Ashley Velez, The Root: Calling the Police Could Have Been Deadly at Starbucks. It Was for This Unarmed Black Man

 

[sonoftony]

notice how EVERY person b*tched in that facebook post was white

 

[Arthur Shelby]

 

[MalcolmNewton]

 

[picasso swerve]

Fools wylin.


Take that money and invest it. Unless dudes are both rich af, but hey who coudnt use $100 grand nowadays?

 

[alchemist iq]

Fools wylin.


Take that money and invest it. Unless dudes are both rich af, but hey who coudnt use $100 grand nowadays?

A few strippers and some bottle service >*

 

[calibeebee]

My white conservative acquaintances on Facebook.

:You can't just walk into a restaurant and not order anything and sit there for 5 hours then refuse to leave and expect not to get arrested.

Me: there are literally 10 white college students writing research papers in this Starbucks I'm at. They have lunch boxes and haven't ordered anything.

Conservatives: yeah but

Me: the cops were called after 2 minutes on those dudes.

Conservatives: that just means it's obvious those guys were trying to sue Starbucks for lots of money. They saw a paycheck and already talked to a lawyer. It's sad that people do this kind of stuff.

Me: they agreed to get $1 each on principle. The rest gets donated to a program to help prevent this sort of thing from happening to minorities.

Conservatives: if as much time and money that's spent on these "black lives matter issues" was spent on the troops, this country would be better off.

 

[myselfonline]

Fools wylin.


Take that money and invest it. Unless dudes are both rich af, but hey who coudnt use $100 grand nowadays?

They did the right thing. This is a settlement with the city. Think about what would be said if they took a huge payout from the city.

That being said, I hope there is still a lawsuit with Starbucks and they get a bag from them.

 

[grnd7]

My white conservative acquaintances on Facebook.

:You can't just walk into a restaurant and not order anything and sit there for 5 hours then refuse to leave and expect not to get arrested.

Me: there are literally 10 white college students writing research papers in this Starbucks I'm at. They have lunch boxes and haven't ordered anything.

Conservatives: yeah but

Me: the cops were called after 2 minutes on those dudes.

Conservatives: that just means it's obvious those guys were trying to sue Starbucks for lots of money. They saw a paycheck and already talked to a lawyer. It's sad that people do this kind of stuff.

Me: they agreed to get $1 each on principle. The rest gets donated to a program to help prevent this sort of thing from happening to minorities.

Conservatives: if as much time and money that's spent on these "black lives matter issues" was spent on the troops, this country would be better off.

He sounds like a few dudes on this forum. Their backs should be tired from moving that goalpost.

 

[hand2handking]

 

[sooperhooper]

Had to have been the baristas last day to pull a stunt like that.

 

[blastercombo]

Gotta flip that place upside down. Racists need to go back into hiding

 

[hand2handking]

 

[green rhino123]

bum alert

 

[beacon ave south]

bum alert

Bingo. Gonna start using syringes to stir folks grande mochachinos

 

[MalcolmNewton]

They mean black ppl can sit and not buy anything. White folks been sitting in Starbucks/Barnes and Noble reading magazines (they didn't buy) and using up the wifi all day long for the last decade.

 

[hand2handking]

Was Starbucks' Racial Bias Training Effective? Here's What These Employees Thought
“I was angry we had to educate people on how to not be racist" - Starbucks Employee

https://amp-timeinc-net.cdn.ampproject.org/v/amp.timeinc.net/time/5294343/starbucks-employees-racial-bias-training?usqp=mq331AQCCAE=&amp_js_v=0.1#amp_tf=From %1$s

One Northern California-based Starbucks barista said she contemplated leaving her job after the controversial arrest last month of two black men sitting at a Philadelphia location of the coffee chain for several minutes without having purchased anything.

That employee, an African-American woman who asked TIME to remain anonymous due to concerns of losing her job, was angry. And when Starbucks later announced more than 8,000 stores across the country would participate in racial bias education training, she didn’t understand why.

“I was angry we had to educate people on how to not be racist,” she recalled in an interview with TIME Tuesday night shortly after attending the hours-long training that shuttered nearly all of Starbucks’ U.S. locations.

But, after completing Starbucks’ racial bias training program Tuesday afternoon with her coworkers, the California-based barista felt her perspective had changed. “I’m a black woman; I’ve already known all of this,” she said, referring to one section of the program that detailed living day-to-day in public spaces as a person of color. “But the fact that it was a video all employees had to watch, it really warmed me.”

More than 175,000 Starbucks employees participated in the mandatory racial bias education program Tuesday afternoon at thousands of U.S.-based locations as part of an initiative spurred by the high-profile incident in Philadelphia last month. Gathered around a few iPads at locations around the nation, Starbucks employees watched nearly two dozen videos featuring the rapper Common, documentary filmmaker Stanley Nelson, Starbucks executives and other prominent figures, while participating in wide-ranging discussions about race and identity with their colleagues. The curriculum, released in full by Starbucks online Tuesday night, placed an emphasis on encouraging some employees to become “color brave” instead of “color blind” and meditated on the Starbucks’ responsibility as the “third place” for some members of the community, akin to a home and workplace.


TIME spoke with five Starbucks employees on what it was like to attend Tuesday’s training sessions. These employees shared differing perspectives on the impact of the curriculum and detailed how effective they each thought it truly was.

Jason, the only African-American employee at his Hollywood-based Starbucks location who asked TIME to identify him by his first name out of concerns over job security, said the program reiterated common conversations surrounding race like inclusion, acceptance and understanding. But he said the training failed to address how to end instances like what happened in Philadelphia from occurring in the future. While a number of the videos featured the perspectives of people of color — and particularly African-Americans — Jason wrote in a message to TIME that “there were times where I felt they missed the mark.”

“It seems like a lot of talking from the videos,” he added, “and not enough discussion from us.”

Employees said they were also given workbooks that included prompts for them to discuss their first experiences with racial identity and discuss in pairs questions like, “What makes me, me? And you, you?” The company also gave employees personal journals to write in and keep for the months ahead. The curriculum as a whole, Jason said, could have used some improvement.

“Helpful? [I don’t know],” Jason wrote. “It kinda reaffirms things that I know already.”

Jason was not alone. Mohamed Abdi, an employee at a Starbucks location in Alexandria, Virginia, told TIME he wished the program featured more discussions between coworkers as well. “Honestly I think they should have more hands-on courses speaking to different people and customers to figure out where they’re coming from,” he said. “It’s easy sitting through something and saying you learned something than actually learning something from the course,” he added.

His reception of the course, however, was generally positive. He particularly enjoyed the documentary produced by Stanley Nelson that displayed “the different things people of color go through just by leaving the house day by day.” That video featured an array of people of color who discussed how they access and experience public spaces than their white peers. (“When I go into stores, sometimes I get followed,” one woman said in the video. “Especially being a teen of color, they assume that you’re doing something bad.”)



The California-based, female employee told TIME that same video strongly resonated with her and — at one point — almost drove her to tears. “I often find myself even at other Starbucks locations where I don’t work at, and when I say I’m a partner, they look at me a certain kind of way,” she said in a phone interview after her store’s training session Tuesday night. “Just the fact that they really touched on that, it definitely made a lot of people in my job who work with me understand better.”

Ryan Curran, a white employee at a Sewell, New Jersey, location, said he and his coworkers learned a lot from the Starbucks training and wouldn’t change anything about the curriculum. “It would be helpful to continue the program when needed, for example, if a problem occurs in a certain store,” he said.

Alicia, a Starbucks employee at a location in San Jose, Calif., who asked to keep her last name confidential, said the training felt less genuine. As a Mexican woman, Alicia had hoped the session would be more inclusive for employees from all background and said it instead focused on the “white barista-young black male customer interaction.”

“They told us we need to be ‘color brave’ instead of color blind and it was the whitest thing I’ve ever heard,” she said, describing a journal and discussion portion held mid-way through the session. “Me and my coworkers of color felt uncomfortable the entire time.”

An Arkansas-based Starbucks employee who asked to remain anonymous out of concern over her employment, said she couldn’t imagine the curriculum would have much of an impact. “While this may be the most cost efficient way to handle the situation, I don’t feel like it will change much of anything,” the employee told TIME over text message before the training started. She added that the store she works at initially didn’t plan on closing for Tuesday’s training, but eventually did once Starbucks’ higher ups stepped in. “Just driving an hour down the road takes you to towns where racism is alive and well,” she added.

According to estimates detailed by USA Today, Starbucks likely lost around $12 million by closing its U.S.-based stores on Tuesday afternoon. Since announcing it would close down the afternoon of May 29 for the training, Starbucks has emphasized the session was just the beginning of a long-term commitment to diversity and combating racial bias. Researchers and social scientists recently told TIME that a one-time education program isn’t enough to combat racism and eradicate the use of racial biases. Hours before the programs began on Tuesday, Starbucks Executive Chairman Howard Schultz said the company plans to globalize these efforts and make similar initiatives part of the on-boarding process for new employees.

Indeed, in the weeks after Donte Robinson and Rashon Nelson were arrested at the Philadelphia location, Starbucks implemented new policies that allow people to sit in stores or use their bathrooms without purchasing anything. Hakeem Jefferson, a political science doctorate student at the University of Michigan who will join Stanford University’s faculty in the summer, told TIME ahead of Starbucks’ training day that structural and systematic changes like these policies could help prevent “negative outcomes” of unconscious biases manifest themselves.

Starbucks’ curriculum, the company has said, is a launching pad for further initiatives as well as a tool for other companies to refer to and a program that may be used in the on-boarding of new employees in the future. But while movements within a company like Starbucks come as the result of a high-profile, racially charged incident, “I think we should worry that that doesn’t lead to the kind of change that we might want,” Jefferson, the social scientist, said.

“This has to be a core component of every company’s mission, particularly in an increasingly diverse world.”

 

[Bert.]

just saw this

 

[blakep267]

Fools wylin.


Take that money and invest it. Unless dudes are both rich af, but hey who coudnt use $100 grand nowadays?

Kinda late but that was just with the city. The starbucks check was likely cut a lot earlier than this and probably comes with an NDA

 

[gry60]

McMillan Cottom: So a few months ago I try to go to a yoga class. I pull up and park in the lot attached to the building. I am early, so I sit and eat my snack and read a book for a while. First, a white woman did that aggressive “Hello” thing at me through the window. Five minutes later, the front-desk employee came outside to tell me they don’t allow trespassing. Automobiles are supposed to be a space with a boundary. We’re socially invisible in them. We purchase them so, in a way, we’re in our own property when in them. Not even then could I be visible as a paying customer (which I was—I had paid online). But also I was hypervisible as a security threat.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics...cks-white-fear-and-being-black-in-public.html

 

[hand2handking]

Starbucks Barista In Philadelphia Accused Of Mocking Stuttering Customer
“Clearly, Starbucks missed the point. It was about how you treat people with speech impairments, not how you write names,” the man’s friend said.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/starbucks-stutter-philly_us_5b3aafbae4b05127cceb73af

Philadelphia is a tough place to be a Starbucks customer.

Earlier this year, two black men were arrested for trespassing at one of the coffee chain’s sites in Philadelphia, leading the chain to close 8,000 Starbucks for four hours on May 29 for racial bias training.

Apparently, the training didn’t deal with people who have disabilities because one Philadelphia barista is now accused of teasing a customer with a stutter.

The customer, who is only giving his name as “Sam,” is a 28-year-old University of Pennsylvania graduate student who said he recently ordered an iced coffee, according to Philly.com.

When he gave his name to the barista, he said, she made fun of him by saying, “OK, S-S-Sam.”

To make matters worse, when he got back to his office, he noticed the name on his cup read “SSSam.”

“It’s rare, as an adult, that that kind of disrespect happens,” Sam told the paper. “It happens, but it’s really rare to see it in print.”

Sam’s situation bothered his friend Tanner Lekwijit, who posted a photo of the plastic cup on Facebook, first on Starbucks’ page and later on his own page after the company repeatedly deleted the complaint.



In the post, Lekwijit said Sam sent an email to Starbucks’ customer service griping about the rude treatment his friend received.

Lekwijit said Sam received a generic email from the company saying it was sorry that he “felt disrespectful” for the way they wrote his name and offered him $5.

Lekwijit added:

“Clearly, Starbucks missed the point. It was about how you treat people with speech impairments, not how you write names.”

A Starbucks spokesman told HuffPost the company reached out to Sam on Monday and offered an apology. The spokesman said Starbucks is investigating the incident.

Sam confirmed to Philly.com that a Starbucks executive called him Monday afternoon and apologized.

“As someone who studies these kind of things [corporate decisions and operations], I believe she was sincere in her apology.”

 

[sooperhooper]

This is the era of social media lulz. If they got triple digit approval points and lost their job, they feel like it's a good trade.