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Originally posted by Voshterkoff:
The real problem will be the precedent being set for every tweaker to be able to use a businesses bathroom. After listening to Seattle/SeaTac Leo/aid scanner for the past week, it's already enough of a problem.

Yeah, the ship is sinking pretty quickly. I travel there for work 2-5 times a year and the change is shocking.

Tweakers at every service station, homeless camping out everywhere.

Can't say it makes me sad, idiots out there have been voting policies that allow it to happen. Fuck em, let the idiots run the asylum.

Friday after first of the month had a new tweaker call every 10-15 minutes, increadible drain on resources. Not to mention the burden of police breaking down bathroom doors to haul out dead tweakers.

By falling on their sword over this, Starbucks is admitting that it was "racist" to ask a couple of free-loading black men to leave the store. This implies that white people doing the exact same thing would have been ignored. So Starbucks is basically saying it's OK to loiter in their stores using their bathrooms, wifi, etc. without paying for any product or service. I hope a lot more people start taking them up on the offer.

I guess I'm confused. Isn't Starbucks a pretty leftest place? I'm assuming most if not all of their employees lean this way.

And aren't the leftest the ones that are accusing others of being racists? The ones preaching tolerance and acceptance to everybody else?

So why do they need a day of training? How can they have committed an act of racism so egregious that so many people need to attend reeducation camp? From the way they act they are already experts on the subject. So which is it? Do they know so much they can tell the rest of us how we need to act, or do they know so little they need to shut up and get trained?

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Originally posted by PASig:
"Panera should offer free coffee that day to all who are shut out by this 'training'"

I'm very curious if there could be a giant spike in Panera's revenue that day.

I'd be tempted to buy my coffee at Panera that morning.

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Originally posted by PASig:
I heard a good one toady:

"Panera should offer free coffee that day to all who are shut out by this 'training'"

Panera coffee

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Originally posted by Voshterkoff:
Friday after first of the month had a new tweaker call every 10-15 minutes, increadible drain on resources. Not to mention the burden of police breaking down bathroom doors to haul out dead tweakers.

Tweakers do not normally die, they just get spun up and come out of the bathroom 100% certain they can hear...some noise that causes a massive overly emotional response and run out of the store.

Dopers are the ones you find on the floor with a scorching case of livor mortis.

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Originally posted by PASig:
And, I shit you not, it is Eric Holder who will be running the Starbucks Reeducation Camps that day.

You just know it's going to be an entire day of beating up on Whitey.

Physicists teach physics, so I guess racists teach racism, at least in Starbucks' world.



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Originally posted by Keystoner:
As long as that worker wasn't discriminated against for protected class reasons, they can fire her for any reason they want.

Oh for god sake. She's a woman, and with the #metoo movement in full swing, how much effort do you think it would take to convince some folks the horrible management at Starbucks canned her because 1) she's a woman, and 2) they needed a scapegoat. Starbuck's legal defense team would never let that challenge anywhere near a courtroom.

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Originally posted by TigerDore:

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Originally posted by PASig:
And, I shit you not, it is Eric Holder who will be running the Starbucks Reeducation Camps that day.

You just know it's going to be an entire day of beating up on Whitey.

Physicists teach physics, so I guess racists teach racism, at least in Starbucks' world.
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Sidenote, math was invented by white males, and is therefore both sexist and racist.

May 29th- Does that mean they'll be talking about this travesty for the next 6 weeks or we'll forget about it by then to only be reminded on the 29th starbucks is a racist store.

Howard Schulz, the Starbucks Executive Director is an NMU Alumni and occasionally he graces us with his magnificence. Watching people fall all over him is nauseating. Marquette Co. was the only county in the UP to vote Clinton. People like Schulz is the reason why.

I hope Barnes and Noble never institutes this loitering business. They couldn't care less if you come in every day and read entire novels without paying.

They are going to be browbeating these Starbucks workers with this BULLSHIT and trendy "Unconscious Bias" crap.

Unconscious Bias = all you Whitey are raycis and don't even know it yet.

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Starbucks to Close 8,000 Stores for Racial Bias Training

I hope the 8,000 Stores Close, and never re-open.

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Originally posted by ChicagoSigMan:
My guess is that these were two guys looking to advance an agenda. They had every opportunity to defuse the situation. All they had to do was spend $1 and buy a cookie or shot of espresso and the store would have been happy to have them sit and enjoy it. Or they could have left when the manager asked them to. Or they could have left when the cops asked them to. Instead they chose to get arrested so that they could be national news. And now they are.

OR...They copped an attitude with the SB employee right off the start.

Employee call the cops, they arrive.

Two guys now have an attitude with the cops; fail/refuse to produce ID, refuse to leave premises.

Police have no alternative but to arrest them for Trespass.

OR...this was a BLM staged deal, or staged to get some money from Starbucks? They immediately had an attorney.

We occasionally stop at a Starbucks. There seem to be regulars that meet up and grab extra chairs. Then there are those sitting as couples and singletons. Point being, getting a seat, much less a table, can be difficult.
In this case, the two men had to have sat there a while. Enough to be noticed, spoken too and for the police to arrive. Looking a police response times and priority, I'd guess it was more then 10 minutes. You have to also wonder about the toilet. I don't remember a Starbucks where you need a code or key to get in. Last, the two men said they were meeting a real estate agent. In fact, they called the agent when this started. Did they arrive early? Was the agent just outside or did he have to rush there?
Could this be a higher crime area that has problems with homeless? A busy time of day? Does the police response suggest prior problems?

It's coming out locally here that these guys had gone to this Starbucks repeatedly in the past couple days and had camped out for hours at a table without buying a thing.

Starbucks is a business, not a f*cking public library! I still have to laugh that it's liberal, woke Starbucks and not CFA (whom the Left constantly claims are the "haters") that really stepped in it!

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Originally posted by TigerDore:
I cannot imagine taking up space, using a table, chairs, etc. that belong to a restaurant or coffee shop without being a paying customer. This would be even more true if the place was busy and I might be taking up space that rightly belongs to a paying customer.

I guess I was raised differently; not in a cave by wolves.



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heck, when I'm traveling, if I use a gas stations restroom, 99 times out of 100 I'll buy something, whether I need it or not - I appreciate the fact they have a pisser I can use

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Originally posted by Rightwire:
I would like to see the whole story of exactly what happened.

The "whole story" never came out. Were the guys lounging with their legs in the aisle? Loudly talking crap? Or sitting quietly?

Last week, after a 12-hour fast (fairly normal regardless) then an a.m. blood-letting for my yearly physical (all clipper-nippy, thanks) I stopped at a StarBlucks coming back from Labcorp. Easily the first visit this lustrum. Guy in front of me order five specialty drinks and a bunch of eats. The line was at a standstill until staff noticed my eyes spinning in my head. As soon as they realized all four of them were waiting on one guy, they got me my medium coffee, black.

Sitting there drinking it, I came to a realization about their clientele.