One worker was fired for “sexual harassment” for sending a coworker a picture of a Lana Del Ray album (warning, it is a picture of human female breasts, which are far more offensive than human male breasts even though they are the same body part).
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Okay, while I can see why you'd be dismissive of this, especially absent any context of the previous interactions between the coworkers, but I'm not sure I agree with the scare quotes. Would you still be putting scare quotes around those words if they'd been emailing them a screen capture of their favorite OnlyFans performer posing topless? Is this one of those "art vs. pornography, and I'll know the difference when I see it" things? I guess to me the context really matters. And yes, the context is primarily "Starbucks wanted to fire a pro-union employee and found a reason", but that's not necessarily *all* of it. I dunno, maybe I've just been made to be overly sensitive to examples of dismissing sexual harassment as being either not really sexual or not really harassment. I guess also part of what's nagging me is "how did Starbucks know?" I mean, either she sent the email through company servers or the coworker ratted her out, and if it's the latter, I would assume it was part of a complaint, unless they're just hard right-wing anti-union themselves.
This is trivial, but one of the things I'm grateful for regarding the Starbucks unionization efforts is that they showed Howard Schultz for who he really is.
Up until then, he had posed as this liberal-leaning-but-really-nonpartisan figure who was ready to swoop in and save us all from divisiveness and rancor. He even ran for president for five minutes or so.
He was annoying as shit, IOW.
And then unionization came along and he revealed himself as a miserly, spiteful, short-tempered, thin-skinned, arrogant little asshole who believes no rules apply to him, and who never got over his indignation at the peasants daring to express themselves with such impertinence.
Good coffee salesman. Bad public figure. Worse CEO.
Remember Howard ("Sergeant") Schultz's brief flirtations with running for President? You can be excused if you don't, you might have needed a nap or to wash your hair.
In Seattle, we remember that he sold the Sonics (I, personally, don't care for sportsball but the locals were, did not forget and were still really pissed)
I think I can safely predict that Starbucks will not simply "do the right thing" on their own here ... and we will be talking about them being all whiny and shit in front of a judge next summer.
"I'm just a soul(less corporation) who's intentions are good"
The Starbucks closest to my office in downtown Portland closed this year and the Sinclair-owned local news stations made a big deal about it being further evidence of what a flaming shithole downtown Portland has become. And in fairness, those poor baristas had to put up with a lot of abusive and disruptive behavior from homeless people and vandalism from protestors (or Proud Boy assholes from Vancouver joining in the fun of trashing Portland while pretending to be protestors). But, I am not at all surprised to hear that perhaps there were other factors involved.
Similar stuff is San Francisco, except the reports were in the fkn SF Chronical, which is not normally a right-leaning paper. Lots of "shoplifting is killing our stores" bullshit as well.
I've long ago given up Starbucks except when it's the only option, as occasionally happens on travel.
But I was pissed when the one at 10th and Chestnut in Philly closed for bogus "safety" reasons. That was a great location and a nice layout, one of the nicer ones to hang out in and meet people.
It was really stupid to close a location there as that neighborhood is booming due to a lot of development by the Thomas Jefferson hospitals. In fact they had the regional rail station there, formerly "Market East", renamed to "Jefferson Station".
So watched a young's Tik Tok video, all about how she's done with voting for the lesser of two evils. She's voting for Claudia and Karin (who TF?) in 2024. (Insert Seinfeld "Yeah, this is gonna work out just fine" gif here).
So it's one of those deals where the commentator states this and then gives the "liberal" side on the opposite of the screen.
Her "liberal" incarnation brings up LGBTQ+ rights. She responds that violence against LGBTQ+ is at an all-time high this year under Biden.
OK, at this point we just refuse to consider *why* this could be the case, I suppose. It couldn't be that the nutters have been passing laws and calling drag queens groomers for years that has influenced violent right-wingers to, well, do violence; it's all Biden's doing, right? He could just snap his fingers and overturn laws in Florida and Texas and all the other states and silence people who say transgenderism should "be erased from public life," right?
Oh, and the overturning of Roe was Biden's fault, as well. That man is pure evil, I tells ya.
I'd describe all of this as we're on defense on fourth and goal with the ball inside the one yard line. And half of the defensive team wants to walk off the field because they don't like the middle linebacker.
I have no reason to doubt this particular creator's sincerity, but you can bet your ass there's going to be a lot of fake posts like this coming down the pike, I'd wager.
The Starbucks at the corner of Hollywood and Vine closed a year ago. It's the most famous intersection in the universe, and it was always busy with tourists and locals.
So many of the great things that the Biden Administration has done are under the radar. Labor, the environment, infrastructure, etc.
I misread that as “Starbucks Wonkers United” and got excited.
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One worker was fired for “sexual harassment” for sending a coworker a picture of a Lana Del Ray album (warning, it is a picture of human female breasts, which are far more offensive than human male breasts even though they are the same body part).
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Okay, while I can see why you'd be dismissive of this, especially absent any context of the previous interactions between the coworkers, but I'm not sure I agree with the scare quotes. Would you still be putting scare quotes around those words if they'd been emailing them a screen capture of their favorite OnlyFans performer posing topless? Is this one of those "art vs. pornography, and I'll know the difference when I see it" things? I guess to me the context really matters. And yes, the context is primarily "Starbucks wanted to fire a pro-union employee and found a reason", but that's not necessarily *all* of it. I dunno, maybe I've just been made to be overly sensitive to examples of dismissing sexual harassment as being either not really sexual or not really harassment. I guess also part of what's nagging me is "how did Starbucks know?" I mean, either she sent the email through company servers or the coworker ratted her out, and if it's the latter, I would assume it was part of a complaint, unless they're just hard right-wing anti-union themselves.
Go labor 💪
I’m still getting used to this idea of a Labor Relations Board that takes the side of labor.
Thanks, Biden.
This is trivial, but one of the things I'm grateful for regarding the Starbucks unionization efforts is that they showed Howard Schultz for who he really is.
Up until then, he had posed as this liberal-leaning-but-really-nonpartisan figure who was ready to swoop in and save us all from divisiveness and rancor. He even ran for president for five minutes or so.
He was annoying as shit, IOW.
And then unionization came along and he revealed himself as a miserly, spiteful, short-tempered, thin-skinned, arrogant little asshole who believes no rules apply to him, and who never got over his indignation at the peasants daring to express themselves with such impertinence.
Good coffee salesman. Bad public figure. Worse CEO.
Good riddance.
Remember Howard ("Sergeant") Schultz's brief flirtations with running for President? You can be excused if you don't, you might have needed a nap or to wash your hair.
In Seattle, we remember that he sold the Sonics (I, personally, don't care for sportsball but the locals were, did not forget and were still really pissed)
I make it a point to patronize the unionized Starbucks where possible.
My little cousin has been a Starbucks partner for years and has been involved in the unionization efforts in St. Louis. I’m super proud of them.
I think I can safely predict that Starbucks will not simply "do the right thing" on their own here ... and we will be talking about them being all whiny and shit in front of a judge next summer.
"I'm just a soul(less corporation) who's intentions are good"
"Oh Lord - please don't make us pay them what they're worth!"
The Starbucks closest to my office in downtown Portland closed this year and the Sinclair-owned local news stations made a big deal about it being further evidence of what a flaming shithole downtown Portland has become. And in fairness, those poor baristas had to put up with a lot of abusive and disruptive behavior from homeless people and vandalism from protestors (or Proud Boy assholes from Vancouver joining in the fun of trashing Portland while pretending to be protestors). But, I am not at all surprised to hear that perhaps there were other factors involved.
Similar stuff is San Francisco, except the reports were in the fkn SF Chronical, which is not normally a right-leaning paper. Lots of "shoplifting is killing our stores" bullshit as well.
Sure Starbuck employees are making some progress, but what are they going to do in the "right to pour coffee" states?
Just make them pay their "fired" labor as if they were working.
I've long ago given up Starbucks except when it's the only option, as occasionally happens on travel.
But I was pissed when the one at 10th and Chestnut in Philly closed for bogus "safety" reasons. That was a great location and a nice layout, one of the nicer ones to hang out in and meet people.
It was really stupid to close a location there as that neighborhood is booming due to a lot of development by the Thomas Jefferson hospitals. In fact they had the regional rail station there, formerly "Market East", renamed to "Jefferson Station".
Is there a list of where these 23 locations are?
Groupmind.
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So watched a young's Tik Tok video, all about how she's done with voting for the lesser of two evils. She's voting for Claudia and Karin (who TF?) in 2024. (Insert Seinfeld "Yeah, this is gonna work out just fine" gif here).
So it's one of those deals where the commentator states this and then gives the "liberal" side on the opposite of the screen.
Her "liberal" incarnation brings up LGBTQ+ rights. She responds that violence against LGBTQ+ is at an all-time high this year under Biden.
OK, at this point we just refuse to consider *why* this could be the case, I suppose. It couldn't be that the nutters have been passing laws and calling drag queens groomers for years that has influenced violent right-wingers to, well, do violence; it's all Biden's doing, right? He could just snap his fingers and overturn laws in Florida and Texas and all the other states and silence people who say transgenderism should "be erased from public life," right?
Oh, and the overturning of Roe was Biden's fault, as well. That man is pure evil, I tells ya.
I'd describe all of this as we're on defense on fourth and goal with the ball inside the one yard line. And half of the defensive team wants to walk off the field because they don't like the middle linebacker.
I have no reason to doubt this particular creator's sincerity, but you can bet your ass there's going to be a lot of fake posts like this coming down the pike, I'd wager.
Hail Trump, y'all!
People who refuse to oppose fascism are fascists. That is all.
Also, the coral reefs are dying off under Biden. IMPEACH!!! Fucking Tik Tok and their bullshit vertical video format is ruining everything.
Donny has a troll army, even without Russia. We’re gonna need a bigger troll busting operation.
The Starbucks at the corner of Hollywood and Vine closed a year ago. It's the most famous intersection in the universe, and it was always busy with tourists and locals.