Posted on 05/09/2023 7:40:17 AM PDT by Morgana
Videos showing former Starbucks employees claiming they were misgendered while working for the coffee company have emerged on TikTok - following the sacking this week of a transgender employee following a furious confrontation with a customer.
The clash between the transgender woman and the woman buying coffee broke out at a Starbucks branch near the ferry terminal of Southampton, Hampshire, on Sunday, April 30th.
A 56-second clip, filmed by a man outside the branch, shows the employee on the same side of the counter as the customer, arguing with her.
The person recording the incident said the woman had apparently said something 'transphobic' to upset the employee, who angrily refuse to serve her.
Now, other videos by employees of the high street coffee chain - filmed before this week's incident - have emerged showing baristas also claiming to be misgendered by customers buying coffee.
While it's not clear whether those in the videos still work for Starbucks, they all appear wearing the distinctive green barista apron bearing the Seattle company's distinctive logo.
Posted in April last year, barista @Meghannesium, thought to be from the US, and identifying as a transgender woman, shared a clip claiming she was misgendered while working at a branch of Starbucks.
In it, she dances to the song 'You just got slayed' as a caption reading 'getting misgendered at work' flashes across the screen.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Being misgendered by someone doesn’t give you the right to violently assault the guy filming your meltdown, outside the store.
Nobody can justify this guy keeping his job, even the wokest of the woke.
They aren’t being misgendered. They are misgendering themselves.
Maybe its a new slur they are using
Like “Cis”?
ALL of their pronouns should be:
Take the customer order
and
Cash out the customer
that really is all there is to it.
Right, but I did finally read the last line of the definition you provided. “Customer, patron.” That must be it, but I’ve never before heard it used in that way.
But the “slur” is what I was thinking too. Some new made-up pejorative synonym for “normal.”
Hold on a minute.
If truth is now whatever a person wants it to be, isn’t the perception of gender just the perspective of the one looking? One could look at an othersexual and call him an iguana, and he would be right.
Sounds like they are self identifying for the next round of firing.
Too much logic. Flagged.
In this context ‘Punter’ = ‘Customer’.
Using this word for Customers is not really even British usage, except for ‘customers for sports bettting, horse racing, dog racing etc’.
It’s a niche meaning really only used by British newspapers to make headlines punchier.
“Geez! How many of these perverts can there be?”
A lot working at Starbucks dreaming one day to have their face on a beer can.
That POS come after my phone/camera like he did there and he would’ve picked himself off the floor when he regained consciousness....
...and if you wish to address an employee, a name tag would be helpful. Even if it’s something a bit out of the box, like maybe a boy named ‘Sue’?
It’s a pathological obsession, in fact. :-P
Well...he seems like a nice guy.
However, if I were one of those people waiting to be served, I would have just hightailed it out of there.
Being around unstable people with low impulse control is not worth the price of a candy bar or lottery ticket.
I vaguely recall hearing “punter” used in a derogatory way.
I looked on Urban Dictionary and the closest I could find was:
Someone who is ill-informed and liable to be taken advantage of. A sucker who lacks inside knowledge or savvy.
How long before “Misgendering” becomes a crime?
wait - it already is!
When does a customer pronouns with the server?
“Grande, please”
Maybe second person. “Could you bring out more napkins please.”
Maybe first. “Could I have a napkin please?”
Maybe impersonal. “There aren’t any napkins.”
Third? “That barista with the green hair, could he bring out more napkins?”
Someone needs to come up with a description of mentally ill people the trans crowd would find acceptable to being called.
“Misgendering” can occur by using terms such a miss or sir directly towards sex-confused individuals, or by referring to them to another within their hearing, as in: “That guy/gal is already helping me.”
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