Posted on 05/15/2018 8:28:20 AM PDT by Leaning Right
For the year I worked at Starbucks, my manager made it very clear to all the partners at our location that the store’s two bathrooms were for paying customers only.
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The issue was more than just cleanliness or comfort for paying customers; the main reason we weren’t allowed to let the homeless use our bathrooms was because my manager had seen multiple instances in which homeless people had gone into the bathrooms...
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...and then locked themselves inside for so long that we had to call the fire department.
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Perhaps Starbucks should include a brief lesson on how to breach a door. That skill will come in handy.
The only reason I enter a Starbucks is for the bathroom (and yes, I would pay for something if I had to), mostly for a child. Now I will just choose a fast food place.
I always see people sitting with laptops and tablets working at Starbucks, just sitting outside at tables getting some work done, having their coffee. These people do not look like they want to be sitting next to a urine soaked homeless guy. I’m thinking they would choose the park or even their car over Starbucks once the homeless are allowed to hang out there.
They could offer a coffee drink for those who will be staying all day called the “Door Breacher” ;-)
Don’t they have public libraries? That’s where homeless people usually live, and bathe.
I used to work downtown. There was a Starbucks on the first floor of our building.
We routinely had the public wandering on to our floors and using the restrooms. Sometimes they smoked, sometimes they shot up, one guy left his bag of marijuana in the last stall (guess he didn’t want to take it with him upstairs to court.)
Those people and all their wacky friends will be camped in the Starbucks now, talking to the furniture and yelling at the bags of coffee.
Starbucks will deeply regret this policy.
In the Starbuck’s board room, this is known as “OPERATION: Get to know Hep A”
My oldest daughter worked at a Starbucks and they constantly had problems with junkies going into their bathrooms and shooting up. This new policy is going to make it worse.
One of my granddaughters went to Starbuck’s the other day ———to study.
I don’t get it——a new world. :-)
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> Starbucks will deeply regret this policy. <
Eventually the complaints from the managers will become deafening. Then Starbucks will quietly - very quietly - walk the policy back.
I am enjoying the “fail”. I don’t go to Starbucks any more anyway. I love it when leftists shoot themselves in the foot.
I don’t get it either. I go to a local coffee place, not a Starbucks, but it’s similar in that, it’s full of people on laptops, tapping into wifi.
It’s funny how things go. These young people know all about wifi, but don’t know what VHF and UHF refers to. And they never listen to an AM radio station. They barely understand what AM and FM refers to, because they listen to radio stations such as Pandora instead.
I would not make a scene if I had been refused, but it has never come up.
I can still remember the gas stations where they kept the key to the bathroom on a big stick and if you asked for it you had to buy something before they’d give it to you.
> I can still remember the gas stations where they kept the key to the bathroom on a big stick and if you asked for it you had to buy something before they’d give it to you. <
A friend of mine is a high school teacher. He got tired of students who would ask for a hall pass to go to the bathroom, then never return to class. So he made them leave one of their shoes behind. And it worked!
My friend is retired now. But if he tried that today, he’d probably be suspended for “lack of respect towards students” or something like that.
The caring ought to pass out flyers to the scruffies in the vivinity of a Starbucks letting them know that they are as welcome as any paying guest. Come one come all. Even escort them.
I'm wondering if these two who were arrested are very clever and entrepreneurial young men. They saw a double standard and exploited it.
I was in the main library in San Diego and it was disconcerting and intrusive to see a homeless man, stripped to the waist, bathing in the men’s room.
The only reason I plan on entering a Starbucks will be to use the bathroom. Nice of them to supply free public rest rooms.
But from my observation, this CEO Schultz guy is a bed-wetting, pearl-clutching liberal, less concerned about serving their customers and more concerned about not looking bad to his liberal friends.
He's the same guy that announced Starbucks was going to hire 10,000 illegals until the backlash uproar became so loud, he had to rescind that statement by declaring they would hire 10,000 military veterans instead.
These are the same people who favor illegal aliens coming into this country to get all the freebies, over US citizens who live, work and pay taxes here.
This will come back to bite this guy in the ass big time when there is a serious incident with a violent, mentally ill, drugged-up, homeless person where the police have to be called in to clean it up.
I live in a small town and go to a place called Uncle Buck’s every morning. There ain’t a computer in the place and we still talk to each other. I love it.
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