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Starbucks fires barista working through paramedic school who heroically subdued robbers after getting pistol-whipped
NY Post ^ | 01/26/2024 | Selim Algar

Posted on 01/26/2024 10:56:22 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

He got iced.

Starbucks fired a barista who was toiling to pay for paramedic school after he helped subdue two robbers who pistol-whipped him.

Michael Harrison, 20, told The Post he was manning the drive-thru last month when two masked men entered his downtown St. Louis location around noon and told everyone to get on the ground.

With one of the invaders waving what appeared to be a gun, the roughly ten employees and one customer present got on their stomachs in terror.

Many of them, the aspiring EMT said, were crying in fear.

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fires; robbers; starbucks; working
What a frigging joke. The dude is black on top of it.
1 posted on 01/26/2024 10:56:22 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Reason #374 why I have not entered into or consumed a Starbucks product in 10+ years

Reason #1 is SUGAR, the rest are corporate wokeness.


2 posted on 01/26/2024 10:58:50 AM PST by PGR88
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To: ChicagoConservative27

There never were and never will be morals in a “woke” company. Oh well, their burnt coffee isn’t too awfully bad.


3 posted on 01/26/2024 10:59:43 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Sue them for unsafe workplace and finish your school with the money


4 posted on 01/26/2024 11:01:08 AM PST by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Many of them, the aspiring EMT said, were crying in fear.”

Sounds about right for your typical Starbucks customer.


5 posted on 01/26/2024 11:03:41 AM PST by traderrob6
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To: ChicagoConservative27
He learned 2 huge life lessons in all this:

- Liberal Corporations aren't worth working for or dying for......

6 posted on 01/26/2024 11:12:37 AM PST by G Larry (It's RACIST to impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL immigrants and minorities by importing ILLEGAL Laborers)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hey, I guess if the employees just stand there during a robbery, don’t oppose them in any way and gets wounded the company must be liable for $10 mega millions .


7 posted on 01/26/2024 11:16:22 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Corporations employ workers, and from what I have seen, the first instinct of any corporation is to throw their employees to the wolves. No loyalty. You are disposable. They don’t care about you. Why should they? One slip and they just can’t wait to screw you over.

But they do demand a whole lot of loyalty from the worker. Hey, they sign the paycheck don’t they, you stupid little peasant!


8 posted on 01/26/2024 11:38:22 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The employee is too macho to work at Starbucks. Another reason I never darken Starbucks’ door.


9 posted on 01/26/2024 11:40:29 AM PST by yldstrk
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To: NWFree

“Sue them for unsafe workplace and finish your school with the money”

👍


10 posted on 01/26/2024 11:40:51 AM PST by READINABLUESTATE (Make orwell fiction again)
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To: PGR88

I hear ya!


11 posted on 01/26/2024 11:59:30 AM PST by Maudeen (https://www.ThereIsHopeinJesus.com & https://www.patburt.com/)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Never had their overpriced coffee and certainly never will.


12 posted on 01/26/2024 12:02:31 PM PST by ArcadeQuarters (You can't remove RINOs by voting for them!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Everytime I see a Jordan Peterson youtube video and his link pops up “Buy me a coffee”, I’m so put off I won’t give him a dime even though I love what he represents.


13 posted on 01/26/2024 12:46:47 PM PST by Jumper
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I avoid Starbucks like the plague.

Starbucks is great at selling everything else, except great coffee or giving you good value.

They sell convenience (located everywhere), brand loyalty and recognition, a coffee shop style atmosphere, and since they chase the fad of the day they are always on board with whatever social or environmental cause there is (some people actually believe in these “causes”).

Starbucks has obviously been paying Google lately (many of the negative reports have been pushed away), and they have flooded the search engines with what is basically advertising. But if you look at actual “real” independent taste tests (average people and coffee experts), Starbucks actually scores amazing low.

I just go to an old school diner where the coffee is good. Cheaper, better, free refills, no standing in lines and they bring the coffee to you.


14 posted on 01/26/2024 1:51:54 PM PST by Red6
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To: ChicagoConservative27
All I can say is "F__K Starbuck's"

Hope the future Paramedic SUES the LIVIN' $HIT out of StarClucks! They'll NEVER get a DIME of my money!


15 posted on 01/26/2024 2:01:43 PM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: Red6
Starbucks actually scores amazing low.

TRUTH is...They use very ordinary coffee to brew what they sell. and because of BULL$HIT marketing make gullible people BELIEVE they're purchasing a superior product!

16 posted on 01/26/2024 2:06:40 PM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: PGR88

The idea of Starbucks disgusted me when i first read about Starbucks. I have never entered and will never enter a Starbucks for any reason.


17 posted on 01/26/2024 8:58:05 PM PST by arthurus ( covfefe )
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To: antidemoncrat

Is protecting yourself against co. policy.
Well, it’s against the law. Defend yourself and you will get arrested.
Help someone who is getting beat to death by cops will also get you arrested.


18 posted on 01/26/2024 9:33:22 PM PST by midwest_hiker
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