More than 2,000 Starbucks baristas go on strike to protest new dress code
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More than 2,000 Starbucks baristas at 120 U.S. stores have gone on strike since Sunday to protest a new company dress code.

Starbucks put new limits starting Monday on what its baristas can wear under their green aprons. The dress code requires employees at company-operated and licensed stores in the U.S. and Canada to wear a solid black shirt and khaki, black or blue denim bottoms.

Under the previous dress code, baristas could wear a broader range of dark colors and patterned shirts. Starbucks said the new rules would make its green aprons stand out and create a sense of familiarity for customers as it tries to establish a warmer, more welcoming feeling in its stores.

  • SCmSTREnglish
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    2 days ago

    I think people just don’t get the subtlety to stop trauma comparing. Anytime employees strike because of bullshit is good. I just have a problem with the marginalization of a strike, regardless of tone of the person. Which, above, does a fairly good job at it, which is shitty. I still think it’s a shitty conservative opinion. Thus, my sarcasm to point that out, which apparently either wasn’t understood or was outright disagreed with. So that’s neat.

    • southsamurai@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Yeah, it didn’t really read as sarcasm, sorry. If it was just me that didn’t read it that way, I’d say it was my thick head and feel like a twat for missing it.

      But, hey, they can’t all be winners. Plenty of my attempts fall flat too, so you aren’t alone :)
      I’ve caught bans for the wrong joke at the wrong time, or missed sarcasm lol. Sometimes, it doesn’t even matter if it is super clear, it might end up with the wrong audience.

      • SCmSTREnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        I think people are still super used to everyone on the internet being gargantuan assholes and are quick to be defensive. I honestly don’t fit in in most places because I’ve done my time being an asshole when I was a teenager and don’t want to be that way anymore. It’s too much energy and entirely pointless and toxic. I don’t blame people for reading me that way, the world sucks too much right now and the amount and level of rhetoric everywhere is insane, but I do have to try to not let it be disheartening. Honestly, if the majority of people read it negatively, then that’s still likely on me.