The "Flos"
Posted on 08/18/2011 3:28:07 PM PDT by RetroSexual
EL PASO, Texas — Starbucks Coffee Company has agreed to pay $75,000 and provide other significant relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC had charged Starbucks Coffee Company with unlawfully denying a reasonable accommodation to a barista with dwarfism at one of its El Paso stores and firing her because of her disability.
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Barista is an irritating pretentious word intended to make a waitress feel better.
I'd like mine with extra foam.
We have this one jackhole in a wheelchair whose sole purpose in L.A. is to literally find businesses that do NOT have a wheelchair ramp and sue them. He wins MOST of them.
I love that movie. I’m surprised H’wood made it. They must not have understood it.
I try to never walk into a store that has anyone with that job title. At those prices it pays to make your own coffee.
Maybe she can get a job as a short order cook?
Next thing, I will be told I have to breed horses that have legs only 1/2 as long as mine so dwarves & little people can mount & dismount them comfortably.
The PC world has totally run amuck.
Why was this woman hired in the first place????
No good deed goes unpunished.
Lol!
We don’t have “baristas” in Pittsburgh. I used to frequent a restaurant with nothing but middle age ladies who sat at a table and smoked when they weren’t waitng a particular table. They were veterans and were very good old school waitresses.
I referred to them as “Huns” because every one of them would ask “what you havin, hon”
In my world a company would be given the chance to rectify any complaint first.
Starbucks—only the venti need apply.
It might not have anything to do with your statement but it seems as good a place as any to tell my short waitress story.
Two of my cousins and their husbands were traveling recently and stopped at my house to visit, I asked them to spend the night and they accepted. The next morning, I invited them out to breakfast, which they also accepted. We had two grand children staying with us so the 8 of us went to breakfast.
We sat down appropriately at a table for 8 and a waitress, about 25 years old or so came over and took our drink order, while we were deciding on the menu, she didn't have a pad and didn't write it down, some ordering juice, some coffee etc. She brought our drinks back and served everyone without mixing up anything.
Impressive in itself but she took the food order the same way, nothing written down and the 8 of us had entirely different meals, eggs fried or scrambled, dry toast for one biscuits for another, it was very varied. When she served our food she got everyone's order exactly right, with no hints from any of us.
I couldn't let it go, I told her, "with a memory like yours, why work in a restaurant". She told me that she made great tips and that's what I left her, a great tip.
Kiss my grits!
While they’re at it why not require the NFL to accomodate visually impared referees? I wonder if that reg was already met with the bad calls made last season, but that’s another story. Or force Rush Limabaugh, Sean Hannitty, Michael Savage, etc. to accomodate deaf sound engineers to run their shows, HEY that’ll get them off the air, who needs the Fairness Doctrine?
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