A Starbucks barista went viral on Twitter with over 11.5 million views for complaining about 8 hours of work . Former Deputy assistant to President Donald Trump, Sebastian Gorka , highlighted his video, captioning it,
The video had almost eight thousand comments, with over 20,000 quoted tweets from fellow tweeps on the situation the barista highlighted.
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Keep scrolling to hear his plight and read people’s reactions.
Working Hours Are Too Long
The barista said Starbucks workers need a union before suggesting he might quit his job. According to his story, he cried about being overworked in an understaffed outlet, including weekends.
He said only four workers were on the floor, and the outlet had heavy traffic. Added to the other floor, the Starbucks outlet had only 13 workers, and the barista said the management didn’t care about the health or lives of the workers.
Reasons For A Starbucks Workers Union
He continued saying that the manager took time off instead of attending to his duties and giving moral support. The barista said,
“[They] don’t have fair scheduling and managers don’t care about [them]… He took himself off the schedule so he won’t be held accountable…”
The barista went on to explain why they needed a union including the need for fair scheduling, and the ability to turn off mobile orders when it gets overwhelming.
Things Got Personal When Some Customers Misgendered Him
Things got personal when the barista mentioned his gender, saying some customers misgendered him. He’s a transgender man with the pronouns “his/he/him,” but when he faltered on the orders, some customers allegedly said, “She’s incompetent,” despite seeing him with a full mustache and beard.
That triggered the barista into a bout of tears as he asked the company to give him accommodation for being neuro-divergent. He also didn’t get his sick day off, so making the video resulted from his breaking point.
Twitter Users Weigh In On The Situation
The comment section had diverse opinions, with many people highlighting the difference in working ethics and the environment today. They said Gen Zs are too lazy to work and eight hours daily wasn’t enough for a mental breakdown.
Others were empathetic as they accounted for his schooling time, noting that the barista barely had free time for leisure. Some people said his emotional meltdown resulted from his transgender medication, saying it made him hungry and angry – hangry.
Check out some of the top commentaries.
