White Starbucks Manager Fired Amid Furor Over Racism Wins $25 Million

[havoc00]

The episode plunged one of America’s most ubiquitous brands into crisis.

In April 2018, two Black men entered a Starbucks shop in the Rittenhouse Square neighborhood of Philadelphia for a business meeting with a white man who had not yet arrived. While they waited, and before ordering, one of the two asked to use the bathroom. He was refused. Eventually, they were asked to leave. When they did not, an employee called the police.

The subsequent arrests, captured in videos viewed millions of times online, prompted accusations of racism, protests and boycott threats. The company’s chief executive apologized publicly, describing the way the men had been treated as “reprehensible.” Starbucks took the extraordinary step of temporarily closing 8,000 stores to teach workers about racial bias.

On Monday, in a surprising twist, a federal jury in New Jersey ordered Starbucks to pay $25.6 million to a former regional manager after determining that the company had fired her amid the fallout from the Rittenhouse Square episode because she was white.

The jury found that Starbucks had violated the federal civil rights of the former manager, Shannon Phillips, as well as a New Jersey law that prohibits discrimination based on race, awarding her $600,000 in compensatory damages and $25 million in punitive damages.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/13/n...se-square.html

[rollerball]

Lol at Starbucks going through all that effort and losing all that money just to appease the woke mob, as if Starbucks was actually going to lose meaningful business over the incident.

They should have just apologized to the two AAs and given them 1 million each.

[HarryfromCali]

First this and then Starbucks taking down pride decorations... Starbuckscels when will they ever learn, mom and pop coffee places and homemade coffee is miles better

[sfgiants13]

Good. Fuk Starbucks

[Hartley110]

How the fk does an employer get sued for wrongful dismissal now?

They either fire you with 0 reasons specified on paper. Or it's a long drawn-out paper trail of little bs reasons.

[GermanSloot]

Determining that the company had fired her amid the fallout from the RITTENHOUSE Square episode because she was white.

[Retoaded]

Starbucks: Banning plastic straws to save the earth while paying their bean pickers in Central America $2/day wages.


Tells you all you need to know.

[jimbone21]

It's almost like they should just sell coffee and stfu.....

[bsmit107]

What happened to the 2 black dudes that were arrested?

[Procta]

racists finally paying up some reparations

[Babayagawick85]

What happened to the 2 black dudes that were arrested?

Probably went to the barber to trim the pubes off their head.

[Voidgaze]

Seems pretty fair imo.

I remember having my store closed and attending that sensitivity training srs lol. Even made an AMA thread.

[guest89]

Lol at Starbucks going through all that effort and losing all that money just to appease the woke mob, as if Starbucks was actually going to lose meaningful business over the incident.

They should have just apologized to the two AAs and given them 1 million each.

Or maybe they should have just stated Starbucks is a business for paying customers. And individuals that want to loiter & hang out without making a purchase are not welcome.

Woke mob tried to pretend it was a simple case of racism. But the truth is those guys were just hanging out. And they became belligerent about not being allowed to hang out indefinitely in a coffee shop without even buying a cup of coffee.

They were supposedly there for a business meeting. But what, refused to spend $2.00 on a cup of coffee while waiting? And became argumentative and belligerent when confronted over it?




Either way Starbucks is a completely woke company filled with liberal employees. Fukk emm.

[havoc00]

Seems pretty fair imo.

I remember having my store closed and attending that sensitivity training srs lol. Even made an AMA thread.

What made you leave that job? Seems like if you get a decent not crazy store it could be chill

[Cleveland33]

I am pretty sure that particular store is no longer open either

[Voidgaze]

What made you leave that job? Seems like if you get a decent not crazy store it could be chill

Burnout, and some lady from my drive thru recruited me to work for her HOA company.

I was already working two jobs at the time with FedEx package handler being the side gig.

[x-trainer ben]

Well they have or had 3 stores in that area so -1 isnt a big deal.

As for her, if she proved her case and liability laws allow her up to 25 million, so be it.

"federal jury in New Jersey"

[Polaris]

Well they have or had 3 stores in that area so -1 isnt a big deal.

As for her, if she proved her case and liability laws allow her up to 25 million, so be it.

"federal jury in New Jersey"

How furious does that ruling make you, Benny?