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

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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/13/nyregion/starbucks-pay-manager-rittenhouse-square.html

 

Amid the image-burnishing campaign, Ms. Phillips said one of her superiors, a Black woman, told her to suspend a white manager who oversaw stores in Philadelphia, though not the one in Rittenhouse Square, because of allegations that he had engaged in discriminatory conduct — allegations that Ms. Phillips said she knew to be untrue.

In contrast, Ms. Phillips said, no action was taken against the manager who oversaw the Rittenhouse Square store, a Black man who Ms. Phillips said had promoted the employee who called the police.

Ms. Phillips said she was fired not long after balking at the order to suspend the white manager. She said that she had not been previously told that she was doing a bad job and that the only explanation she was given for the firing was that “the situation is not recoverable.”

Starbucks denied in court filings that Ms. Phillips had been fired because she was white and said she was let go because she performed poorly in response to the episode that led to the arrests.

“During this time of crisis,” a lawyer for Starbucks wrote in a court filing, the company’s “Philadelphia market needed a leader who could perform,” adding that “Ms. Phillips failed in every aspect of that role.”

Starbucks ultimately chose not to press charges against the men at the center of the episode, Donte Robinson and Rashon Nelson, both 23 at the time. Before suing over the ordeal, they reached a confidential financial settlement with the company and got a commitment from the City of Philadelphia to invest $200,000 to help young entrepreneurs.

 

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Generally I have issues about Punitive Damages but in this sort of case they are obviously justified. The more interesting question is whether Starbucks take notice or consider it a cost of doing business.

 

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Any white employee who wins anything in damages should pay it all back in reparations.

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Corporate Diversity Officer Reminds Employees That Race Inspections Are Next Thursday

 

SAN JOSE, CA — In a memo reported to have been sent company-wide recently, the Corporate Diversity Officer for tech giant GooBooplezon reminded all employees that race inspections are scheduled for next Thursday and are mandatory.  [...]

 

https://babylonbee.com/news/corporate-diversity-officer-reminds-employees-that-race-inspections-are-next-thursday