70.5% of Starbucks baristas are women.

[ericjames@booping.synth.download]

@amydiehl@mstdn.social this sounds so dystopian

[quixoticgeek@social.v.st]

@RedKoba @michaelgemar @amydiehl I'm pretty sure it's not the autistic ones who are the problem. It's the sociopathic ones we have problems with.

[kierkegaanks@beige.party]

@amydiehl i’m fine with “get bent for choosing sbux”

[angiebaby@mas.to]

@amydiehl

I remember when Starbucks didn't have to force kindness out of their employees.

[redkoba@mastodon.social]

@quixoticgeek @michaelgemar @amydiehl

I was thinking about Altman or Musk, who are diagnosed autistics

Probably sociopaths too but there is no diagnosis yet

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

@amydiehl@mstdn.social this “deep acting” demand/job requirement is especially disgusting while Starbucks continues to engage in union busting. According to the company, a barista must realign their internal feelings so they can “authentically express” a positive feeling (and be fired if not), but they’re not allowed to unionize? They’re not allowed to feel their own feelings about working conditions? They must manipulate themselves psychologically but cannot ask for better pay?

Forced to care about random customers, but not allowed to care for themselves or their coworkers?

Starbucks is disgusting.

[theriac@plasmatrap.com]

@amydiehl@mstdn.social
So they have to be J/Kpop idol-like giving out fan service with the company products they sell.

What's next - pitting them against each other in fake challenges while the pumpkin spice venti is being assembled and having the customers vote for who they think won before paying?

Or were they going more for the art student/between roles actor creative? Cos that just stinks of "have a nice day?" in a kooky font.

[voxofgod@beige.party]

@amydiehl for sure, every lonely guy is going to take all of these with a grain of salt

And not fixate

/J

[petterofcats@mastodon.world]

@amydiehl unacceptable.

[caffinepwrd@infosec.exchange]

@aud @amydiehl that's some Maoist shit from $tarbucks

[michaelgemar@cosocial.ca]

@RedKoba @amydiehl @quixoticgeek The problem isn’t autism — I know plenty of neurodivergent folks who are lovely.

The problem is psychopathy and narcissism.

[ariadne@social.treehouse.systems]

@amydiehl i just want coffee. i don't need a pep talk.

[quixoticgeek@social.v.st]

@michaelgemar @RedKoba @amydiehl exactly.

[epic_null@infosec.exchange]

@RedKoba @quixoticgeek @michaelgemar @amydiehl Do not blame their behavior on autism. We are capable of having fucking morals.

[heafnerj@mstdn.social]

@amydiehl Do the suits not understand that forced smarminess is easily detectable and that customers like me actively avoid it?

[hashraydamon@me.dm]

@amydiehl do the costumers even want that?

[maccruiskeen@social.linux.pizza]

@amydiehl I've been boycotting Starbucks since they destroyed the Coffee Connection, and that was 30 years ago. In all that time, I've never seen one single story about them to make me change my mind. That run continues uninterrupted.

[timbray@cosocial.ca]

@RedKoba I think using ”autistic” as a general-purpose slur involving toxic behavior is way out of bounds. Please don't.

@michaelgemar @amydiehl @quixoticgeek

[redkoba@mastodon.social]

@Epic_Null @quixoticgeek @michaelgemar @amydiehl

Don't get me wrong, the autistic part was of the stereotype about being unable to understand other humans. We all know Sheldon Cooper is not real but that's how is portrayed in the collective imagination

[quixoticgeek@social.v.st]

@timbray @RedKoba @michaelgemar @amydiehl agreed.