This is just outrageous. The plaintiff gamed Starbucks and they knuckled under. When are companies going to start standing up to this crap?
What a dick.
>..”alleges in the July 2008 lawsuit that a white co-worker made racist comments..”
WHOA! That’s racist. Where’s my affirmative action lawyer? If you call him African-American in the piece, why don’t you call the other party Caucasian-American?
Victor Washington of Shoreline, who is African-American .
Automatic in this day,since he ain’t just a regular American.
That dude would have gotten his umbrella back with a huge, ragged hole cut in it with a pair of rusty shears. Ditto for his shoelaces. Of course, that probably isn’t as satisfying as $120k in large bills.
Its not unusual, it would cost Starbucks more than that to go to court. Sleazeballs have been doing this for years.
It probably wasn’t racial to begin with. Just more con jobs.
It’s probably not so outrageous. Companies the size and shape of Starbucks face hundreds, sometimes thousands, of race and gender discrimination complaints from customers and employees year. They ONLY settle those complaints when there is good evidence of bad facts. A (stupid) manager telling a black employee to tie his shoes, and a (careless) HR rep failing to follow up on per the manual are just the thing that prices out to low six figures.
(Starbucks’ “written statement” absolving itself of responsibility and proclaiming certain victory was one of the things it paid for in the settlement agreement...)
whoa, things like this just infuriate me. That damn race card, used again and again. The problem is, it still works in our overtly nauseatingly politically correct society. Race cards are thrown when people want something for nothing; they don’t want to work for it, they know they don’t deserve it, so instead of walking away, they just cry “racism”, and there is this sense of entitlement. it is the ultimate symbol of laziness. Not only that, but crying false race cards all the time minimize situations where true racism occurs. and that is the saddest part of all, that we can’t fight racism because of all these false accusations.
You know how Holder accused Americans of being “cowards” in discussion of race? What a bunch of crap. It’s almost as if you can’t say “hello” to a minority without being accused of racism.
that’s the world we live in. This is the world brought to you by Sharpton, the NAACP.
Oh, and this is how we elected a president sole based on his race.
When their lawyers quit telling them, "You can't afford me to go to court. Gotta go--it's my tee time".
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Somebody should've mediated in a gag provision.
Frequently they are wrong, particularly when there's a chance that copy-cats might pop-up.
At the moment I think I recall standing in line behind a minority gentleman and in front of a minority lady and the "boy" behind the counter said "fetch me a cup".
It was quite distressing. And the manager stood there and did nothing ~
There's not enough information in the story to tell what's going on between Washington and his attorneys, but I will make an educated guess: Starbucks probably made the first check payable to Washington and the lawyers jointly, and Washington intercepted it and tried to cash it in order to keep from paying his attorney fees.
A few years ago, I thwarted just such an attempt by a guy who sued and later settled with a bank client of mine. Plaintiff showed up at my office unexpectly and demanded his check. I was suspicious, and called opposing counsel, who informed me that he hadn't paid his bill.
I once worked with a Hispanic from the Dominican Republic who threatened to file a discrimination lawsuit against my company. Instead of paying, the company unleased their lawyers on him and discovered that several members of his family had discrimination suits in the courts and that this was the third discrimation suit he had filed in 3 years. When confronted by these facts he agreed to sign a waiver clearing the company of any wrongdoing and in return the company would let him keep his job and not sue him.
This happened to me in the 80s. I ran a company that videotaped weddings. I booked a black wedding and used a black guy to tape it. He fit in better than I would. She didn’t like his work and sued me for her money back. I brought the finished video to show to the court that we complied and fulfilled the contract. The white court magistrate wouldn’t look at the video and just gave her, appearing with her little son born before the wedding, her money back.
Victor Washington of Shoreline, who is African-American and worked for Starbucks from September 2006 until May 2008, alleges in the July 2008 lawsuit that a white co-worker made racist comments to him such as repeatedly telling him to “fetch” the co-worker’s umbrella and tie his shoes for him. In the lawsuit,
What ever happen to telling the co-worker to “f-off”? The coworker was not the boss and should have picked up their own unbrella and tie his shoes. Oh if it was me, I would have tied the shoes alright and he/she would never would have had blood flow again.
Good thing nobody asked him for Black Coffee.