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Judge orders Starbucks to pay more than $100 million in back tips
MyNorthwest.com ^
| Two days ago
Posted on 03/22/2008 11:07:34 AM PDT by Clint Williams
A Superior Court judge....
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TOPICS: US: Washington
KEYWORDS: coffee; ruling; starbucks; workplace
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Excerpted just because everyone else is doing it.
To: Clint Williams
Is everyone else not using the article search function as well?
APf
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posted on
03/22/2008 11:11:05 AM PDT
by
APFel
(Regnum Nostrum Crescit)
To: Clint Williams
Well, that will teach them to be so...
(Excerpt)
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posted on
03/22/2008 11:12:02 AM PDT
by
decimon
To: Clint Williams
Thanks foor sharing. Excerpted
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posted on
03/22/2008 11:13:22 AM PDT
by
beltfed308
(Heller: The defining moment of our Republic)
To: Clint Williams
The managers were taking a cut of the employees’ tips?
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posted on
03/22/2008 11:13:45 AM PDT
by
mysterio
To: Clint Williams
I guess you are voting for Obama. Hell, everyone else is doing it. LOL
(anything that breaks Starbucks is just fine with me)
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posted on
03/22/2008 11:13:48 AM PDT
by
fish hawk
(The religion of Darwinism = Monkey Intellect)
To: Clint Williams
In the date area you wrote “two days ago.” LOL.
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posted on
03/22/2008 11:14:50 AM PDT
by
jdm
To: APFel
Is everyone else not using the article search function as well? Who cares -- other than me?
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posted on
03/22/2008 11:15:16 AM PDT
by
Clint Williams
(Read Roto-Reuters -- we're the spinmeisters!)
To: Clint Williams
Excerpted just because everyone else is doing it. LOL. You should have just posted the first word ("A...").
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posted on
03/22/2008 11:15:52 AM PDT
by
SIDENET
(Hubba Hubba...)
To: fish hawk
Fine them $100 million for roasting and pressing some very bad coffee. Try Storyville instead.
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posted on
03/22/2008 11:16:38 AM PDT
by
blackdog
To: jdm
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posted on
03/22/2008 11:20:39 AM PDT
by
Clint Williams
(Read Roto-Reuters -- we're the spinmeisters!)
To: SIDENET
LOL. You should have just posted the first word ("A..."). I'll note that for the future.
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posted on
03/22/2008 11:21:48 AM PDT
by
Clint Williams
(Read Roto-Reuters -- we're the spinmeisters!)
To: blackdog
The last time I bought a coffee out, I took one sip and poured the stuff into the gutter. When one makes coffee at home to his exact taste, you can't be happy with anyone else's. At least, this is my case. Even when I go out to breakfast I have my coffee at home and then have orange juice with my breakfast. (I'm just old enough to be “eccentric”. LOL)
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posted on
03/22/2008 11:23:04 AM PDT
by
fish hawk
(The religion of Darwinism = Monkey Intellect)
To: Clint Williams
Like Rabbi tuckman said on “Robin Hood Men in Tights”, “Just snip the tip”
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posted on
03/22/2008 11:24:50 AM PDT
by
Siberian-psycho
(An oppressed class which did not try to possess arms, would deserve to be treated as slaves." Lenin)
To: mysterio
NO. The managers are prohibited from taking tips or even counting them.
It is about shift supervisors getting tips. Shift supervisors are hourly employees, just like baristas, but they run the shift they are on: ie cash handling, product prep, assigning registers - they can not hire, fire or even discipline - it is unbelievable that the judge made a ruling when they did not understand who the shifts are and what they do.
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posted on
03/22/2008 11:27:45 AM PDT
by
svcw
(The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.)
To: fish hawk; blackdog
Instead of stealing tips, they could save loads of money by not making their coffee so
STRONG.
My husband makes our coffee, or I make it to his EXACT specifications, with HIS brand, nothing else will do. The only thing he's OCD about is his coffee.
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posted on
03/22/2008 11:29:30 AM PDT
by
Tuscaloosa Goldfinch
(If MY people who are called by MY name -- the ball's in our court, folks.)
To: Tuscaloosa Goldfinch
I used to work at a rather nice restaurant and the ‘house’ took a cut of the tips. It was pretty normal back then.
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posted on
03/22/2008 11:32:17 AM PDT
by
Glenmore
To: svcw
Thank you for explaining. In that case, it sounds like this will be overturned.
I'm pretty sensitive about the tip issue. I've never worked as a waiter, but when I see policies that steal tips from waitresses, it makes me a bit mad. Such as the tips being taxed.
Cue Reservoir Dogs pictures, lol.
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posted on
03/22/2008 11:35:30 AM PDT
by
mysterio
To: Tuscaloosa Goldfinch
they could save loads of money by not making their coffee so STRONG.
Yep. Even when mixed normal strength, it tastes excessively strong. I even prefer nescafe instant to that stuff. But I still try Starbucks about once yearly.
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posted on
03/22/2008 11:36:37 AM PDT
by
mysterio
To: Tuscaloosa Goldfinch
Instead of stealing tips, they could save loads of money by not making their coffee so STRONG. They can also save money by leaving the coffee heated since 5 AM and selling it the next morning as well, and never throwing it away. That is what it tastes like to me.
I love coffee; It's not even about the prices, because I buy Jamaica Blue Mountain from time to time for home.
Their coffee just tastes horrid and foul to me.
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