News Starbucks at Walt Disney World to close tonight

[Bacon]

Tonight all WDW Starbucks locations will close from 3pm to 7pm for the company’s racial bias training

 

[Tori]

Tonight all WDW Starbucks locations will close from 3pm to 7pm for the company’s racial bias training

Even in the parks?

 

[bhg469]

Starbucks is pretty brilliant. They aren't doing this to be better, they are getting LOADS of free advertisement for this! Bravo!!

 

[EricsBiscuit]

Starbucks is pretty brilliant. They aren't doing this to be better, they are getting LOADS of free advertisement for this! Bravo!!

Actually I find it a terrible move where they're losing out on tons of money over an isolated incident. This isn't 1945 where people don't know how to talk to someone who's different. Thus, it makes it maybe a little insulting to the Starbucks employees who are great people that they have to be treated as if they were racist. It's sad.

 

[s8film40]

Starbucks is pretty brilliant. They aren't doing this to be better, they are getting LOADS of free advertisement for this! Bravo!!

Yeah, it's totally a publicity stunt. You don't implement new training by shutting down and having a one time only session. There's probably a huge number of Starbucks employees who can't work Tuesdays and simply won't be there. If they truly wanted this to be effective they would roll it out like every other kind of training program in every other company and have sessions over a week or two and ensure everyone goes.

 

[peter11435]

Actually I find it a terrible move where they're losing out on tons of money over an isolated incident. This isn't 1945 where people don't know how to talk to someone who's different. Thus, it makes it maybe a little insulting to the Starbucks employees who are great people that they have to be treated as if they were racist. It's sad.

Well there’s obviously at least one Starbucks employee who needed this training.

 

[tissandtully]

Joffreys, now's your chance!

 

[castlecake2.0]

Odd that the Starbucks IN the parks are closing as well, arent they all staffed by Disney cast members? I thought that was the agreement for the in park locations.

 

[bhg469]

Actually I find it a terrible move where they're losing out on tons of money over an isolated incident. This isn't 1945 where people don't know how to talk to someone who's different. Thus, it makes it maybe a little insulting to the Starbucks employees who are great people that they have to be treated as if they were racist. It's sad.

I have mixed emotions. On one hand I find it despicable that people would think that the training is necessary. It is disgusting to me that people assume the worst in everyone and want to regulate everything to death. On the other hand, if starbucks loses money out of this I would be shocked. I guarantee, they just earned a ton of SJW money by doing this little tactic, after all, those are the only people gullible enough to think this is working. If that is the case, I applaud them, but not for the actual sensitivity training.

 

[CaptainAmerica]

Well there’s obviously at least one Starbucks employee who needed this training.

No there isn't.

 

[HauntedPirate]

Why is this worthy of its own thread?

 

[Prince-1]

Why is this worthy of its own thread?

Don’t worry it will most likely be moved to the political forum shortly.

 

[Bacon]

Why is this worthy of its own thread?

Just to tell people who are going to the parks today

 

[peter11435]

No there isn't.

Not one?

Out of a quarter million employees?

This wouldn’t even being happening if not for that “at least one.”

 

[CaptainAmerica]

Not one?

Out of a quarter million employees?

This wouldn’t even being happening if not for that “at least one.”

Literally zero. A racist employee is going to still be racist (probably more racist) after mandated sensitivity training, and a non-racist employee doesn't need it in the first place.

 

[peter11435]

Literally zero. A racist employee is going to still be racist (probably more racist) after mandated sensitivity training, and a non-racist employee doesn't need it in the first place.

I’m not saying the training will accomplish anything. Or that everyone needs it, clearly not everyone needs it. The training is pointless because those who need it won’t change, but there are those who need it.

 

[geekza]

Visible and public training, however, does let current employees know that the company takes it seriously enough to lose some income over the couple of hours that the stores are closed and that, although you're welcome to whatever opinions you hold, racism isn't going to be tolerated at Starbucks. It also protects the company should anyone try and sue over being fired because of racist behavior and lawsuits from anyone who wants to sue the company over racist treatment by a Starbucks employee. They can now say in court that they did their due diligence and that any employee who chooses to go down that path does so of their own volition, knowing the consequences of their actions.

Sadly, racism is far from dead in this country or in many other countries.

 

[mikejs78]

Well there’s obviously at least one Starbucks employee who needed this training.

I highly doubt that corporate training will stop anyone from being or acting racist who already is, like that one employee.

 

[beertiki]

This isn't 1945 where people don't know how to talk to someone who's different.

Only someone who is not "different" would make this statement. "Different" people deal with every day, there are millions of people in this country that do not like "different" people.

 

[Liberty6]

I’m pretty sure that the WDW locations are considered franchise locations and shouldn’t close because they are staffed by WDW cast members. Locations in grocery stores are not closing like at Target because they aren’t “corporate locations”.