Posted on 07/05/2018 2:33:13 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
'His name on the cup was written as 'SSSAM,' which was disrespectful.'
For the second time this year, a Philadelphia Starbucks is at the center of controversy after a worker was accused of mocking a man with a stutter.
Tan Lekwijit said the incident began when his friend Sam visited the Starbucks on 34th and Walnut streets in University City back on June 27.
According to Lekwijit, Sam, a 28-year-old University of Pennsylvania graduate student who has a stutter, stuttered when he told the barista his name after he ordered a coffee. The barista allegedly replied by saying, “Okay, S-S-S-Sam.” Lekwijit said the mockery continued when Sam received his coffee and saw the name the barista wrote on the cup.
According to Lekwijit, Sam wrote an email to Starbucks Customer Service after the incident. Lekwijit said Starbucks responded via email, apologizing that he “felt disrespected” for the way they wrote his name. He also said they offered Sam $5.
“Clearly, Starbucks missed the point. It was about how you treat people with speech impairments, not how you write names,” Lekwijit said.
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WWWWat’s the problem?
So will Starbucks shut down for an afternoon and do sensitivity training towards the stutterers or others with any other impairment?
What is wrong these days, the barista was joking with him. Is everyone so sensitive? Really?
Yes everything is sensitive nowadays. We all need to walk on eggshells around everyone.
Lekwijit versus dimwijit?
see there you go making fun of S-s-Sam and calling him a freak!
Walked into Starbucks
To use the porcelain throne
Ordered me a venti latte
I was b b b bad to the bone.
Maybe next time SSSam will do what I did when my daughter treated me to a coffee at Starbucks on Father’s day.
I used the name Donald Trump.
Heh, Starbucks continues its unbroken record of showing the TRUE nature of progressives.
Keep it up, buttwipes.
>>What is wrong these days, the barista was joking with him. Is everyone so sensitive? Really?
Stuttering is a sensitive subject because people see most handicaps and behave appropriately. No one ever tells a blind person to just try to hear better or a guy with one leg to just hop faster on the good one. But stutterers get to live with everyone either making fun of them, assuming that they are idiots, or offering all sorts of cures like “just talk slower” or “you could stop doing that if you wanted to”.
I’m sure Sam would prefer that he not stutter. It’s immature and cruel to make fun of people’s handicaps.
see there you go making fun of S-s-Sam and calling him a freak!
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For this, and a million other reasons, I could so NOT work at Starbucks.
I didn’t say she wasn’t rude.
I am saying we used to walk away from this behavior and not take it to heart.
They would if Leckwijit was black.
The guy is obviously not a privileged minority. So the ceo doesn’t care. He will not go on national tv to do an act of contrition. No groveling. A White guy is $hit and doesn’t matter. No closing. No forced indoctrination.
I’m 59 and I haven’t heard anyone stutter since I was a kid. It’s like in the 80s it just disappeared.
I’ve had people see me and ask “How did you lose your leg?”
I answer “I had a doctor cut it off so I could park up next to the door...”
You know I haven’t either
This will be much lesser news than offending - gasp - black customers, by not wanting them loitering.
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