You just can't make this stuff up -- just a snippet image from everyday Jєω S.A.

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I stopped at the Starbucks in Winnetka (@ Sherman Way, San Fernando Valley) on Tuesday afternoon to find the drive-thru was open but the lobby was closed, sign on the door saying employee development day. There didn't seem to be anyone inside but for a couple baristas serving the drive thru. There are no back rooms at that location. But the parking lot had 32 cars parked, only 3 empty spaces. A friend told me perhaps the employees parked their cars and took a bus to some other location. It was funny to see several people in turn park their cars, and walk all the way up to the lobby doors and pull on the handle only to find the door was locked. Only then did they read the sign on the door, then in every case, the cell phone came out and they walked away staring at the phone and jabbing a finger at the screen. They had no idea how ridiculous they looked. ("My phone has all the answers for every question in life!")
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It would be fun to find out what was so important to take a whole day off. We'll have to ask baristas that we know and see what they have to say about it. Someone at Corporate dreamed up a scheme, probably a lawyer, and they might have made the attendees promise they wouldn't report the content of the presentation/training session.
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But according to the "news" it was a dedicated meeting to teach Starbucks employees how to cope with transients who loiter in the seating area of their stores. This has been a problem, since their policy has been to be welcoming to everyone, and not to discourage anyone from sitting down for a while or using the free WiFi. But in the past few months, they have been known to ask certain customers to either BUY something or else move along. In one case I heard about the customer was asked to produce a receipt to prove her drink was purchased at THAT LOCATION, because "You can't buy a beverage at another Starbucks and then come here to drink it. We have a problem providing seating for our own customers here." I haven't seen them physically remove anyone nor have they resorted to calling law enforcement or security guards in. Starbucks seems to be very worried about their image. They know a large share of their loyal customers are political liberals so giving the image of being openly friendly to all without discrimination is an appealing aspect of that image, but at the same time keeping the seating area free of objectionable characters is also desirable, so this is a challenge.
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Bottom line is, this business of closing all the stores on the same day must have been a deliberate move to get into the news and to start rumors going around the grapevine. Some kind of marketing scheme. If they wanted to train their employees, they could do it in phases, one region at a time. But they took one day for ALL THE STORES on the same day. So they must have been looking for media coverage for whatever reason. Free advertising?
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AND the day they chose was the day AFTER Memorial Day. What's up with that? Certainly a lot of their regular customers would be looking forward to a coffee to get free of the "holiday fog" from yesterday. So the drive-thru was open. All right then. I heard one rumor going around said this was "Try Dunkin Donuts Instead Day, and have better coffee for less money for a change. HAHAHA"

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Don't forget to check The Washington Examiner
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Starbucks to close 8,000 US stores May 29 for racial bias education
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Protesters gather outside of a Starbucks in Philadelphia, Sunday, April 15, 2018, where two black men were arrested Thursday after employees called police to say the men were trespassing. The arrest prompted accusations of racism on social media. Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson posted a lengthy statement Saturday night, calling the situation "disheartening" and that it led to a "reprehensible" outcome.
(Michael Bryant/AP)
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(What this has to do with the Bureau of Land Management is anyone's guess!)
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Starbucks has announced it will close 8,000 U.S. stores for one day to conduct racial-bias education.
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The nationwide closing of the stores will be on May 29, and is the result of an incident at a Philadelphia store involving the arrest of two black men.
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"The training will be provided to nearly 175,000 partners (employees) across the country, and will become part of the onboarding process for new partners," Starbucks said in a statement. "The training will cover topics such as implicit bias and 'conscious inclusion.'"
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According to the coffee giant, the education will be “geared toward preventing discrimination in our stores.”
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Closing our stores for racial bias training is just one step in a journey that requires dedication from every level of our company and partnerships in our local communities,” said Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson in a statement.
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Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson met privately with the two black men on Monday. They were arrested at a store in Philadelphia’s City Center district on April 12 after they asked to use the restroom.
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The incident has caused a string of protests, and some have even called for a boycott.
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Cellphone videos show the two men seated and being asked to leave by six Philadelphia police officers. They were arrested for trespassing, but no charges were filed.
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In a video message, Johnson said, “I will fix this.”
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Shutting down the stores will be costly, but Starbucks does make quite a bit of money. Starbucks-owned stores made roughly $4.7 billion in revenue in the most recent quarter, according to the company’s latest earnings report.
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I have a question:

If these had been two white men asking to use the restroom, do you suppose if the manager had called police to accuse them of trespassing it would have become a national "incident?"
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And I have an observation:
My friend who experienced a Starbucks employee telling her she had to produce a receipt to prove her Starbucks coffee had been purchased there instead of at another Starbucks, thinks the employee had been given an order from Corporate in Seattle to demand the receipt! Corporate is believed to spot-check security monitors all over the country, and if they see a customer sitting at the same chair for a long time they might intervene (from 2,000 miles away) out of concern for their image. The employees don't mind telling customers who ask about the thermostat control, that Corporate in Seattle controls ALL the store temperatures by remote thermostat control, and the employees cannot change the temperature of their own stores, such as when the customers all say, "It's too cold in here." Maybe being cold is a Seattle thing. 



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(Answer:  Only if the two white men had been ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖs.)

Actual video of a Starbucks training session:

https://youtu.be/WuHmFkbuihc

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Many thanks, TKGS, for the comic relief. So true. So true.
Comments from Starbucks employees say this is just what they did Tuesday.
Two things to spot: No Starbucks logos on their Starbucks-green aprons, and an American flag on the wall! (NO NOT THAT!)
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Apologia Studios
Published on May 16, 2018

Starbucks plans to close the stores and offer sensitivity training on May 29th of this year as a result of a Starbucks employee calling the police on two black men who were denied access to the bathroom for not being a paying customer. What will those classes look like? Here's a video of what employees of Starbucks might expect to see.... For more, watch Next Week with Jeff Durbin at on YouTube Live every Tuesday night at 7pm. Hit the bell to be alerted to every episode.
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An african-americano. nice
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Are you insinuating that Starbucks is overthinking this whole issue?  LOL
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mark jones , they should instead be overCARING
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This is hilarious. It really reflects the lunacy of the left taking over
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"This is 2018, people, you all need to get WOKE!"
Starbucks employee here, they used the word woke during the training. That was fun.

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“It shouldn’t have taken me so long to serve you.”
“He’s only been here a minute though”
“No, it’s been hundreds of years”
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"Sometimes you have to treat some people special to treat everybody equal."

[Proper English version has adverbs: specially and equally!]
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“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
George Orwell, Animal Farm -- [garnered 523 up-thumbs]
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[color=var(--ytd-comment-text-color)]"Because some people are more equal than others." Starbucks has become Animal Farm.[/color]
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Lisa is beautiful
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It's all about destroying the West, whites, Christians, etc. Preparing us for their coming NWO Muslim invasion.
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I'm black and this is hilarious. great comic relief with a message
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Glad the real training video leaked
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The CEO of Starbucks is a fool.
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That's a good thing. We want the enemies of humanity and God to be fools.
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He's also a Jєω.
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He has no backbone and threw that manager under the bus.
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how about liberal PUSSY millennial training!
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This is so damn hilarious !!!! Thank you for showing just how stupid this is.
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Liberals and SJW s ruin everything -- [477 up-thumbs and 99 replies]
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I'm curious how many people quit. If my job tried sensitivity training I would quit immediatly.
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What if you just treat everyone with bad behavior, period? You know....like the French do in Paris.
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Liberalism is a disease. I can't say that I'm sad to see Starbucks getting it.
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I am black woman and I find this hilarious!!!!
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The funny thing is that the sensitivity trainer is like any SJW ever they think everything that a white person says or any person who disagrees with them is racist or sexist they are destroying our society because they are little crybabies who want something that won’t work (socialism) or something they already have like equal rights.
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"That's the problem, Lisa. You don't think; you need to CARE."

Gold.
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This was hilarious! The sad part is this is exactly what the world has come to. I’m black and it’s painful to see white folks apologizing for being white! No one knows what to say anymore without potentially offending someone or possibly everyone! We are who we are and no one person is responsible for the sins of their people, no matter what race! Thanks for posting this humorous take on the madness that has befallen our culture!
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Two of those guys are way to good at pretending to be sjw's.
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Customer service all over is lacking.  Most are rude , liberal, ignorant and lazy.  

Star bucks is liberal hangout with over priced coffee.   Order ice tea and it is mostly ice.   Worse is Dirty Duncan donuts where the coffee is watered down and who knows what the foreigners are adding to the beverages.  

Best to make your own coffee and ice tee.   

Why would anyone visit Starbucks or buy any of their products when the CEO said that he did not want the business of Catholics or pro-lifers?

IT IS TIME TO BOYCOTT Starbucks.

 

I am not spending a single dollar in Starbucks anymore.