Starbucks insensitivity, round two? Seems that way after a Starbucks customer in West Philadelphia says a barista mocked his stutter last week by mimicking him, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. “OK, S-S-Sam,” the barista apparently told the 28-year-old University of Pennsylvania graduate student, who identified himself only as Sam. “It’s rare, as an adult, that that kind of disrespect happens,” he says. He was also shocked to see his name written as “SSSam” on the cup, saying “it’s really rare” to see disrespect for stuttering in print.
He confirmed that a Starbucks rep called him to apologize.
If customer was white…there is no problem.
Look, it’s KKKKKKENNY and he’s CCCCCCCOMING to KKKKKKKILL me!
Is that not the greatest movie ever?
Some people are too sensitive kinda like a snowflake
While they’re at it, they could also learn to make some decent coffee.
I’m calling b.s. Where is the pic of the cup with’Sssam’on it? Wouldn’t you have taken a pic?
I don’t care if it is a fake story. I hope bricks are thrown through the window and the store is burned to the ground.
blacks, homos, trans, lesbos, women, Muzz: protected minorities by an act of Congress.
white men? Discrimination, scorn, hostility, required.
If the barista is a member of a protected minority then the stuttering white boy has to pay a fine for harassment.
I can’t decipher ghetto speak, much less combined with a stutter. Most likely Sam is white. So it’s ok.
These things always seem to happen at a Philly SB.
“Disrespect?”
It’s ridicule, you fukkin moron.
“Disrespect” is meaningless niggah-shit.
Respect is, sometimes, based on a lack of a speech infirmity – though, usually, on the more positive aspects of oration – in other words: on a propensity for bullshit.
Whereas to simply “not respect” someone is a nullity – a lack of something intangible – a “feeling,” as it were.
You were ridiculed, dude. Your speech infirmity was emphasized to provide some sordid amusement. You should be proud to make your fellows smile – Mel Tillis made a career of it.
izlamo delenda est …
Next month: Hairlip day…
Looks like it’d be easy to bring the corporation to its knees.
Was tempted to go to Starbucks. No lines and only customers were two ICE agents.
100 sensitivity classes wouldn’t convince me to drink their swill.
Just noticed a spanking new Dunkin’ Donuts just down the highway – empty starbuck’s in 3..2..1….