Posted on 12/04/2019 11:02:02 AM PST by conservative98
“Not to discount the situation, and someone needs to be reprimanded for it but I feel like we could’ve handled this like adults, it created a very threatening situation for this store,” she said.
She spoke to her direct managers Thursday night about the incident and filed a report, but was notified the following day that she was being let go after nine months on the job.
“I was hysterical. I lost it, truly,” Rose said. “I was driving to get the money order to move into my first apartment. My whole world crashed in front of me. I begged them to let me speak to one of the higher-ups.”
Rose, who is a transgender college student, said that she had always wanted to work for Starbucks because of how they treat employees.
She applied more than five times to secure her dream job, which provided specialized healthcare for transgender people and offered college tuition assistance, she said.
Rose now fears how she will cover her hormone treatments and pay for her rent.
“It was supposed to be my guardian angel,” Rose said. “They were supposed to be there for me as much as I am there for them but it’s gone because a small-town officer was offended by something [and couldn’t think like an adult] and posted to Facebook.”
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As long as Starbucks fires the right person. That’s all. The right person should be fired. It shouldn’t have made national news in my opinion. But the person who knowingly affixed the labels should be fired. Doesn’t matter if it’s a cop or not. It’s a customer.
The “manager” worked there nine months. Anybody who stays at Starbucks for nine months is going to be called a “manager”. I’d be willing to bet, based on my having kids who worked there, that there was no “management training” or other formal thing for the so-called manager they fired. I can’t think of a job where after nine months you’re fully prepared to run operations. They call these kids “managers” to make them feel important. They don’t know the first thing about managing.
So my only gripe is that if the manager was fired I HOPE it’s because she played an active role in denegrating a customer and didn’t just miss a label that was passed her way by a different idiot barista.
On the other hand, with 3.5% unemployment, if she is any good at all, she should have no problems getting another job, although probably harder for her now that she whined all over social media about how people shouldn’t whine all over social media about things.
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