Posted on 02/22/2012 2:15:30 PM PST by matt1234
A man who was born with half a left arm is suing Starbucks for failing to hire him as a barista.
Eli Pierre sued the company in San Diego two weeks ago for unspecified damages.
Pierre says that during a Feb. 1 interview for a San Diego job, the store manager told him that the coffee flavoring syrups were placed high up and a one-armed man couldn't work there.
The discrimination suit claims that the former bartender was capable of doing the job but was never given a chance to fully explain his capabilities or possible accommodation as required under state law.
Starbucks says it employs many disabled persons and Pierre's disability wouldn't disqualify him. The company says his application was thoughtfully considered and disputes his version of the interview.
It’s the one-armed man’s son.
LLOLOLOLOLOL
I wuz on my so called smart phone and it wouldn’t type anything I wanted.
This may give birth to a new cliche: “Busier than a one armed barista.”
“But what if you have a stack of applications? Aren’t you allowed to pick the “best” candidate?”
I have had a little experience with AWD. In general, if you have a disabled person that can do the job with reasonable accommodations, he’s put in the pool with the other applicants who can do the job, too. The Powers That Be look at the process like Affirmative Action, you better have a good reason for NOT hiring this person instead of an Able Bodied Person, if he can do the job.
The training I took was very strange. You must treat a merely short person differently than a dwarf or midget. A normal person who is 4 feet tall, you can say, sorry, I was looking for someone 5 feet tall because of the shelves here. But! If the 4 foot tall person is a dwarf, you MUST consider reasonable accommodations when hiring (lifts, ladders, the like) , but you don’t with the normal short person.
If the Starbucks manager thought that hiring a one-armed barrista would be bad for sales, or was unaesthetic, or was wierded out, AWD could slap him.
Anything the progressives push does not give you more freedom, and in the case of AWD, you can get in trouble hiring the “best person” from your point of view when you have “disabled” applicants.
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