Posted on 06/18/2014 4:03:28 AM PDT by markomalley
They don’t condone partners cursing in the presence of customers? Partners? That’s what clerks are called now? A partner is an owner.
If the manager did not document it in official discipline papers at the time, it did not happen. I know because I have had about a dozen-and-a-half EEOC complaints lodged against me. I have never lost.
what if all SB employees started acting this way?
Comical, yet a sad reflection of the "change" that has come to Amerika.
Businesses don't have idle people standing around with the time to do all this…..and they shouldn't have to.
yeah, in that way, like the Duke lacrosse case - liberal on liberal crime so to speak.
Maybe, if Starbucks sends him to college..........
Agreed but if you’re up against the NLRB and a politicized Dept. of Labor you have to take extraordinary measures.
Well yes, I guess I never look at a story like this as a “what to do about THIS situation” story - to me, this is just ironically karmic and fraught with schadenfreude in the macro - a far left lib company being bitten on the ass by other far left libs.
They reap what they have sewn. Glad they’re stuck with the guy,
And then the record is going to be checked for what was done for everybody else... and you get slammed for “a pattern of anti union hostility.”
Maybe bribing him to go would be the best thing.
Another reason to love and respect unions and the NLRB.
I used to wonder why so much of our annual evaluations were based on playing well with others, until we did contract work for a government agency.
it was the war of all against all. No one wanted to be the chump who did work, so everyone did what they had to do to avoid it. Petty grudges and vendettas made the place run.
Worst of all, the worst of the worst were promoted out. I saw that twice.
I was briefly in the belly of such a “beast.” A state Medicaid office.
I was too eager... they looked for excuses and ultimately canned me. And they might have terrorized the guy who recommended they hire me because I have not been able to get a peep out of him since, even privately. Poor fellow, he wanted excellence... I was offering it. Nope, does not fly!
If I ran that Starbucks, I would be cutting back employee hours. I wouldn’t fire the thug for union activity, for insubordination, for embarrassing the company in front of customers, or for any other reason. I’d simply cut back his hours to my peak hour each day - purely because I needed fewer workers. If he quit on his own, I’d be okay with that. If he did his job and scrubbed the restrooms to my satisfaction for his hour, I’d be okay with that too.
Why is it that Union members are more often than not a mirror image of State Penitentiary members?
They reap what they have sewn. Glad they’re stuck with the guy,
Excellent points.
The “partner” line struck me also. Who the heck is making up this new english vocabulary? My wife and my son are “partners” in our business. The other employees are employees. No more, no less. If they do a good job and we make money they get extra because they earned it.
You misspelled buck.
Union or not (and I’ll take not every day of the week) any employee that acts like that can expect to be fired.
I used to wonder why so much of our annual evaluations were based on playing well with others, until we did contract work for a government agency.
it was the war of all against all. No one wanted to be the chump who did work, so everyone did what they had to do to avoid it. Petty grudges and vendettas made the place run.
Worst of all, the worst of the worst were promoted out. I saw that twice.
Put him on the schedule—split shifts, low hours, only the rush, and let him quit.
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