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Starbucks CEO Says Coffee Managers Will Have 'Unconscious Bias' Training
Newsweek ^ | On 4/16/18 at 10:06 AM | Tracy Lee

Posted on 04/16/2018 11:32:21 AM PDT by ethom

Starbucks coffee shop managers will have trainings for combating "unconscious bias," its CEO said Monday, after police arrested two black men at a Philadelphia branch of the chain.

"I'll say the circumstances surrounding the incident and the outcome at our store on Thursday were reprehensible," Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson told ABC News on Monday.

Johnson added that the incident called for "more training that we're going to do with our store managers, not only around the guidelines but training around unconscious bias."

Witnesses posted a video to Twitter on Thursday of two black men escorted out of a Philadelphia Starbucks in handcuffs.

“The police were called because these men hadn’t ordered anything. They were waiting for a friend to show up, who did as they were taken out in handcuffs for doing nothing," according to Melissa DePino, who posted the video.

Controversy quickly arose as people accused Starbucks of racial discrimination and #BoycottStarbucks started trending on Twitter.

Starbucks declined to press trespassing charges, and its CEO issued an apology on Saturday. "Starbucks stands firmly against discrimination or racial profiling," the CEO said in a statement. "I hope to meet personally with the two men who were arrested to offer a face-to-face apology."

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: bluezones; ceo; coffee; philadelphia; starbucks; urban; workplace
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To: outofsalt

Don’t have a problem with that. Has a better taste to me. Better price point. Tully’s isn’t bad either.


41 posted on 04/16/2018 12:29:09 PM PDT by BBQToadRibs
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To: ethom; Gamecock; SaveFerris; FredZarguna; PROCON
I know how to settle this.

Oh, right. They didn't want coffee.

Don't think the lawyers want free coffee either.

42 posted on 04/16/2018 12:30:26 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: ethom

The number one coffee for snowflakes.


43 posted on 04/16/2018 12:32:13 PM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Build Kate's Wall)
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To: ethom

My employees enforced the policy. See how biased they are? ——Starbucks management.


44 posted on 04/16/2018 12:33:23 PM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Build Kate's Wall)
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To: BBQToadRibs

Sadly, “Seattle’s Best” is actually owned by Starbucks. Just a marketing division that operates out of $tarbux HQ....


45 posted on 04/16/2018 12:49:51 PM PDT by salpiner
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To: WP Lonestar

If you look up “metrosexual” in the dictionary, you see a photo of the pathetic Starbuck’s CEO. He was pleading for forgiveness from these vagrants. Disgusting.


46 posted on 04/16/2018 12:52:25 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Jewbacca
Sometimes I wish I was black so I could break law with impunity and then scream discrimination.

I'm not sure you've picked the best grievance group for benefit, although black is a worthy choice. For example, illegal immigrant gets you out of traffic violations including driving while uninsured or unlicensed, and gives your kids in-state tuition, while black does not. It also seems to confer the ability to shift identities freely, because the authorities choose not to check. Transgender gives you a wider range of bathrooms to choose from, and if you are biologically (i.e., XY) male, the ability to enter female only sports contests with a huge advantage.

You have to decide what type of civil benefits upgrade mean the most to you in upgrading from the white citizen classification.

47 posted on 04/16/2018 12:56:51 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine ("Married with children.")
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To: ethom

Starbucks coffee shop managers will have...

dozens of homeless people hanging out at their shops all day


48 posted on 04/16/2018 1:13:14 PM PDT by Jolla
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To: Jolla

bathing in the sink of the bathroom and peeing on the floor and stealing packets of sugar etc.


49 posted on 04/16/2018 1:14:25 PM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Build Kate's Wall)
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To: ethom

“unconscious bias” - and when that doesn’t stop the random accidental misjudgment of all too human workers, we’ll go to “subterranean bias”.....


50 posted on 04/16/2018 1:40:50 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: ethom

Training:
Whites don’t sue or demonstrate in the streets. Jesse Jackson won’t picket for Whites. No one cares if you kick Whites out.
There will be no headlines about two Whites kicked out of Starbucks.

Any questions?


51 posted on 04/16/2018 2:04:27 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Leftism is an elaborate system for hiding shame behind a cheap mash of virtue. -Klavan.)
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To: ethom

The truth will come out and the CEO a## will be applauded anyway for his white privilege


52 posted on 04/16/2018 2:15:40 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (Trump plays chess the rest are still playing checkers)
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To: ethom

I am not commenting on this case but will say anybody who lives in these city cesspools knows the loser loiterers, panhandlers and homeless constantly frequent establishments. They buy nothing, foul the bathrooms and many are mentally ill. It’s a quality of life issue when one spends money and those around are doing nothing but lurking, stinking and are just plain creepy.


53 posted on 04/16/2018 2:27:45 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: ethom

As if it were not already America’s worst dead-end job.


54 posted on 04/16/2018 2:37:09 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: MikePipper
How about training to make coffee that doesn’t taste like asphalt driveway sealant?

Amen. Dunkin Donuts' coffee is WAY better, and you can actually have a conversation there because they don't play crappy music cranked-up to 11.


55 posted on 04/16/2018 2:38:51 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: ethom

Starbux locations will be more dangerous because of this training.


56 posted on 04/16/2018 2:42:53 PM PDT by savedbygrace
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To: ethom

Who amongst us even goes to starbucks? I find their coffee acidic and distasteful.

JoMa


57 posted on 04/16/2018 3:59:57 PM PDT by joma89
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To: ethom

Blacks ‘outraged’ over the arrest of coffee blacks,
fully support the breakin of covfefe Trump’s lawyer’s home.

Liberal tribal hypocrites.


58 posted on 04/16/2018 4:44:37 PM PDT by TheNext
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To: ethom
'Unconscious Bias' Training

And anyone silly enough to remain deserves every bit of it.

59 posted on 04/17/2018 5:34:23 AM PDT by tomkat
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To: PGR88
.. which is how many people today connect with their world ..

Next time you're in a public venue of any size, note how many in the crowd are practically oblivious to anything except their damned gadget.

Literally (i)Pod People.

60 posted on 04/17/2018 5:45:45 AM PDT by tomkat
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