Starbucks should appeal this ridiculous decision to the courts; the problem with the NLRB is that it is stacked with pro-union types and “professors” who never did a real day’s work in their life, nor had to deal with anyone working for them.
> So now an employer cannot fire an employee for disrespect, insubordination, or laziness. Gotta love it. /sarc
You know the patients run the asylum in Obamaland. Common sense, justice, honor, integrity....they don’t exist there.
It's a kangaroo court for any employer.
The day that the government or some damn union tells me that I can’t fire an employee is the day that I shut the business down completely.
Wyatt’s Torch. It glows so lovely in the night.
Fantasy thought: Maybe the customers should fire this idiot and refuse to be “served” by him. In the real world, Starbucks customers probably would applaud his actions.
I’m an employer. I’d tell the NLRB to go pound sand. I determine who works in my business, not them. I’ve fired employees for insubordination. The NLRB does not write the paycheck...the employer does.
I bet someone in every work place in the country has said those words at some point. Big deal!!
Can we respond to law enforcement like this now?
Ayn Rand....
Star*ucks?
Write him up for every chicken sh—, non-union related misstep. Fill his file with dozens of infractions, none of which remotely relate to union activity. Then fire him.
Buck the NLRB and fire him..
Or if you want cut his hours back to 1 hour a week. at 4AM on a sunday. he can clean the bathrooms and scrub the dumpster.
They don’t condone partners cursing in the presence of customers? Partners? That’s what clerks are called now? A partner is an owner.
If the manager did not document it in official discipline papers at the time, it did not happen. I know because I have had about a dozen-and-a-half EEOC complaints lodged against me. I have never lost.
what if all SB employees started acting this way?
Comical, yet a sad reflection of the "change" that has come to Amerika.
Maybe, if Starbucks sends him to college..........
Another reason to love and respect unions and the NLRB.
I used to wonder why so much of our annual evaluations were based on playing well with others, until we did contract work for a government agency.
it was the war of all against all. No one wanted to be the chump who did work, so everyone did what they had to do to avoid it. Petty grudges and vendettas made the place run.
Worst of all, the worst of the worst were promoted out. I saw that twice.
If I ran that Starbucks, I would be cutting back employee hours. I wouldn’t fire the thug for union activity, for insubordination, for embarrassing the company in front of customers, or for any other reason. I’d simply cut back his hours to my peak hour each day - purely because I needed fewer workers. If he quit on his own, I’d be okay with that. If he did his job and scrubbed the restrooms to my satisfaction for his hour, I’d be okay with that too.
Why is it that Union members are more often than not a mirror image of State Penitentiary members?