Posted on 05/21/2018 5:30:23 PM PDT by Hojczyk
The Third Place Policy maintains that employees should consider anyone who enters Starbucks space, including restrooms, cafes and patios, a customer regardless of whether they make a purchase, the company said in a statement.
In a Starbucks subreddit, people are voicing concerns that the new policy will lead to stores being filled with homeless people and drug users. One user who claims they work at a Chicago Starbucks wrote that a homeless person using the bathroom got into a fight with a customer and police requested to see the store policy before taking action.
FRONTIER AIRLINES PASSENGER ARRESTED AFTER PEEING ON SEAT IN FRONT OF HIM DURING FLIGHT
This is exactly the kind of behavior that I fear will drive all the regular customers away, at least from urban locations. Opposing racism is nice and all, but it is not the responsibility of Starbucks to resolve all urban problems at one location let alone turn its stores into homeless drop-in centers, another user wrote in response.
On another thread debating the new policy, a Starbucks customer expressed similar concerns. I can't see how this will work in urban areas with large homeless/mentally ill populations... I just worry about how many employees will be put in danger (or get fired) until this happens, the user wrote.
Someone claiming to be an employee who works at a store in the loop in Chicago said they hate the new policy because the store bathrooms have turned into a hub for drug activity. We havent been allowed to change our bathroom codes since April. So almost all the junkies and homeless people know the code now. About once a week we find needles, drug baggies, blood all over the toilet or walls, the user wrote.
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“Starbucks employees, customers express concern over new policy: ‘I can’t see how this will work’ “
Sure it will, think positive. I mean really...you haven’t even given it a chance.
They will probably go all takeout eventually.
They made a nice thing and then they ruined it.
This s gonna be awesome.
Hey, did they ever actually hire the 10,000 “undocumented” immigrants?
FWIW, the toilet theme was carried through to the salt/pepper shakers, plates and bowls, etc, too.
231 S. LaSalle St. Chicago. That's where it occurred.
Just make a commode-dations for all tables at Starbucks.
Everyone can sit and sh!t together.
Let it all hang out.
Celebrate diversity.
“What should Starbucks employees do in preparation for May 29?”
Look for a job in the degree field they majored in.
“What should Starbucks employees do in preparation for May 29?”
Look for a job in the degree field they majored in.
They did the same thing to my Coffee Bean and its off the transit line, located in a hip neighborhood.
ONE comfort room for customers AND employees, plus the damn homeless aholes use it too. How they got to that location is beyond me.
We havent been allowed to change our bathroom codes since April. So almost all the junkies and homeless people know the code now. About once a week we find needles, drug baggies, blood all over the toilet or walls,
What a bigot, all cultures are equal.
I just make Dunkin’ Donuts coffee and drink it at home so I don’t have to worry about all the problems.
Several years ago I was driving on a college campus when I suddenly had to pee really bad. I stopped at the first fast food restaurant I came to and ran in. The mens room door was locked. I waited and waited - dancing and in pain. I went around to the counter to ask someone about it, but nobody was there. So I went back around and, miraculously, the mens room door was open. I went in and there was a chair with a pile of clothes - looks like a homeless person was living in there. The restaurant closed a few weeks later and has now been torn down.
We used to have people come into our office (staffing agency) just to use the restroom. Drunks and druggies would leave filth. Now I tell them the bathroom us ONLY for drug screens. Problem solved.
It sickens me when educated adults say/write, “I had to pee.” If “urinate” should be too clinical, how about, “I had to use the bathroom”?
I used to say, “I need to micturate” but was met with blank looks!
I agree; it really pisses me off.
I really feel sorry for people who live in areas where that kind of thing goes on. Our little one horse town is kinda dumpy, but you can use the bathroom in any business that has a public restroom, without having to run into a mess like that. Even if we go to the big city, I’ve never seen anything like that, though I don’t usually go to the areas where homeless people hang out. There don’t seem to be many, anyway, and there are a lot of ministries where they can stay.
I like this new policy. 5 more places to pee in the French quarter. I predict a line at starbucks during Mardi Gras.
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