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    dothedewJordan Sargent
    3/19/15 5:32pm

    "Ummmm" [raises hand]

    "Mr. Starbucks manager? Will we be paid for this extra homework?"

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      cheerful_exgirlfrienddothedew
      3/19/15 5:35pm

      I used to looooove when Target would have some homework, like when they wanted all the Team Leads to read "Who Moved My Cheese?" I reminded them about California labor laws and I read it in the breakroom. I usually read quickly but that book took me a couple hours ;)

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      lena dunhams boobscheerful_exgirlfriend
      3/19/15 5:39pm

      It never changes as you move up the chain either... do you know how much work I do after hours / weekend from my salaried job because of stupid initiatives like this.

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    Emerald D.V.Jordan Sargent
    3/19/15 5:31pm

    Even $15/hour isn't nearly enough for being told to push your CEO's ridiculous initiatives on people on top of making them coffee.

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      StenchofaburnerEmerald D.V.
      3/19/15 5:48pm

      I shudder to think the poor person of color working at Starbucks forced to do this shit and eventually "pitching" this race together nonsense to some asshat who turned to be a member of Aryan Nation or the KKK. We cannot always identify the racists at first sight (some have outer markers like tattoos but most don't, at least not visibly). This initiative could potentially put employees in danger.

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      ArchetypeStenchofaburner
      3/19/15 5:55pm

      I was thinking the same thing. It's such a crap idea in so many ways, this being the worst. I mean, there's a Starbucks EVERYWHERE, even the town of 7000 hillbillies where I grew up.

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    AntisocialpublicistJordan Sargent
    3/19/15 5:35pm

    They should work on getting names right before moving beyond their core purpose

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      WinterisComingToAnEndAntisocialpublicist
      3/19/15 5:38pm

      Dear god. If I spell my name for you it can't be that hard. God knows some of their names look like unpronounceable gibberish.

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      MinaWinterisComingToAnEnd
      3/19/15 5:46pm

      my name is on my gold card but they still insist on hearing it from me. And still manage to spell it wrong.

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    JackOfDiamondsJordan Sargent
    3/19/15 5:30pm

    If they wanted to have a discussion about race, why didn't they just link all cups to gawker.com?

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      GutbloomJackOfDiamonds
      3/19/15 5:41pm

      What an excellent idea. Send them over our bridge.

      — Gutbloom, President of the Gawker Association of Summer Trolls

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      Joey MichaelsGutbloom
      3/19/15 5:48pm

      How does one become a member of GAST? Asking for friend.

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    ThisCharmlessManJordan Sargent
    3/19/15 5:32pm

    Coming soon at TGI Friday's: Your server will foster a discussion about circumcision when they serve you your loaded potato (4)skins.

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      HALThisCharmlessMan
      3/19/15 5:41pm

      that's the 10th best reason to avoid TGIFriday's

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      Deadly the EternalThisCharmlessMan
      3/19/15 5:48pm

      "No, sir, that really is sour cream, not semen."

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    OMG!PONIES!Jordan Sargent
    3/19/15 5:47pm

    Here's my question for Starbucks' conversation about race:

    A black coffee costs $1.85 but a flat white is $3.75. What's up with that, Starbucks? Why is the black coffee worth only half as much as the white? Not even worth three-fifths. HALF!

    Starbucks - why do you sell racist coffee?!

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      Cam/ronOMG!PONIES!
      3/19/15 5:50pm

      I suspect we may soon see Starbucks serving Turkish and Vietnamese coffee so they won't look like Italian supremacists.

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    zombiepandaJordan Sargent
    3/19/15 5:49pm

    A corporation forcing its staff to engage the caffiene-seeking public into talking race-relations, without any specific guidelines or training? What could possibly go wrong?

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      99Telep☺dpr☹blemszombiepanda
      3/19/15 7:59pm

      I can't help but to think that there should be some kind of legal precedent somewhere where you could successfully challenge this whole thing in court. How is it that a corporation can force its employees, who are there to make fucking coffee, to engage in conversation with customers, who are mostly strangers, on an extremely divisive, highly charged, possibly incendiary sociopolitical issue?

      What if an employer at a fast food joint made their employees talk with customers about religion, abortion, the conflict in the Middle East, evolution, etc.?

      I can' help but to think employee rights are being violated here. It is absurd that they are being asked to do this.

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      zombiepanda99Telep☺dpr☹blems
      3/19/15 8:43pm

      Yeah, I wonder if you could argue that it's an undue burden — or maybe even that it creates an unsafe work environment.

      It's just a clusterfuck of terrible ideas. I sent this to a friend who's an organizer and designs/gives anti-discrimination training, and training on how to identify workplace discrimination, and she was livid. There's been a lot of work and research about how best to engage people and talk about this shit in a constructive ways, and this campaign is absolutely not one of them.

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    dothedewJordan Sargent
    3/19/15 5:33pm

    Why is Starbucks so cheap? Requiring their employees to hand write on all those cups? Just order new cups for the week with the words you want printed on it.

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      OMG!PONIES!dothedew
      3/19/15 6:00pm

      Having the baristas write on the cups only ensures that the hashtag will get misspelled.

      Which is why #RakeTogether is trending on Twitter.

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      dgstanOMG!PONIES!
      3/19/15 6:32pm

      #RapeTogether

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    Paul DimitrovJordan Sargent
    3/19/15 6:17pm

    I go to the same Starbucks Howard Schultz goes to, near his home (and mine) in the Madison Park neighborhood of Seattle.

    There are no black people in Madison Park. The closest one gets to diversity is the Chinese family who lives down the street who, in addition to being fresh off the boat, are also doubtless filthy rich with ill gotten booty.

    Seeing Mr Schultz and his cronies at this Starbucks having early morning meetings, as I often do, I COMPLETELY understand how this was viewed as a "good idea."

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      BrrrrPaul Dimitrov
      3/20/15 4:36am

      Seattle is full of people like Schultz who talk all "liberal and progressive" but go back the their little insular neighborhoods at the end of the day.

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      Paul DimitrovBrrrr
      3/20/15 10:06am

      Yes, yes it is.

      In fact, there's s whole other side of the lake called "the Eastside" where these people live.

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    txboy65Jordan Sargent
    3/19/15 5:43pm

    Next up: Starbucks will launch a version of the "Blue eyes-Brown eyes" exercise, in which the barista will hand the customers color-coded cups and instruct them to sit in an area of the restaurant based on the cup they were randomly assigned. Customers will then write essays regarding their experiences, and their perspectives will be filmed in short segments, to be used in an upcoming ad campaign.

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      WinterisComingToAnEndtxboy65
      3/19/15 5:46pm

      *slow clap*

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      Monkey Grinder's Organtxboy65
      3/19/15 5:59pm
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