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Two sickened by noxious fumes at Starbucks

Original post made on Dec 14, 2016

Three employees at a Mountain View Starbucks reported feeling sick and short of breath early Tuesday after noxious fumes built up inside the restroom of the coffee shop, according to the Mountain View Fire Department.

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Posted by Brian
a resident of Blossom Valley
on Dec 15, 2016 at 5:18 am

I find it interesting that Starbucks forces their minimum wage employees to clean the bathrooms. Notice three employees were cleaning an overflowing toilet during business hours, then presumably went back to making drinks and serving food. This is actually extremely frowned upon in retail, especially food service.

In fact some managers would be fired on the spot if their supervisor found out they forced their employees to clean the bathroom, and during business hours at that. Oftentimes it isn't part of a worker's job description, and the company rules will specifically require the manager to be the designated toilet scrubber.

I've worked dozens of food service jobs and only heard horror stories about managers forcing employees to do disgusting things like this that they're not trained to do when they only signed up to make drinks. Gross. But please, keep making lame puns at the expense of the three victims!


Posted by Brian
a resident of Blossom Valley
on Dec 15, 2016 at 5:21 am

I got one part wrong in my previous comment, this happened at 12:41 AM so not actually during business hours. Oops.


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