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Starbucks employee in US fired for mocking customer with stutter

https://www.thestar.com.my/news/wor...n-us-fired-for-mocking-customer-with-stutter/

A Starbucks employee has been fired after the barista mocked a customer who stuttered while ordering a drink in Philadelphia.

A Facebook post recounting the June 27 incident went viral on social media, prompting the coffeehouse chain to respond.

According to the post, the customer identified only as Sam had stuttered while giving his name after ordering a drink at a Starbucks outlet.

He was then mocked by the barista, who responded: "Okay, S-s-s-sam."

"When he received his coffee, he was shocked to see that his name on the cup was written as "SSSAM", which was disrespectful," said the Facebook post by Sam's friend Tan Lekwijit. The post also included a picture of the name on the cup.

 

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https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/new...utter-Controversy-Speaking-Out-487722931.html

The former employee claims he never made fun of Sam. He also told NBC10 he has a minor facial deformity and a lisp and has gone through his own emotional struggles because of it.

"I contemplated on my life," the man said. "What's my purpose here now? Just to be someone's Guinea pig. Just to be someone's laughing stock."

The man said he feels "terribly" about the incident and called it a "big misunderstanding." He claims broken keys on the computer were to blame for the multiple "S' letters on the cup and that he wasn't mocking Sam.

"I'm sorry you felt that way," the man said. "But let it be known I'm not that guy. I'm sorry."

 

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Damn s-s-s-snowflakes

 

[mercurial]

Wow. That is very inappropriate.

 

[Compton_effect]

And no-one complains about Samuel L Jackson saying 'mother****er' to hide his stutter.

 

[xrapidx]

What a coincidence... of all the letters on the keyboard, the one broken was the first letter of the customers name...

 

[saor]

What a coincidence... of all the letters on the keyboard, the one broken was the first letter of the customers name...

Or the barista has Parkinsons?

 

[xrapidx]

Or the barista has Parkinsons?

*ppparkinsons

 

[Dan C]

Sssstarbucks

 

[Thor]

I would've fired that employee as well.
After he made a public apology.

 

[SkippyRamirez]

Damn s-s-s-snowflakes

I agree. This is a perfect example of how violence solves problems. If the ssstutterer responded with a fist to the teeth, justice would've been served and he would've probably been hailed a hero of the down-trodden and offered a book deal. But no.

 

[mercurial]

Poor Timmeh

 

[saor]

Sssstarbucks

Where snakes get their coffee?

 

[Knyro]

What an a-hole.

Ay but Starbucks has been catching a lot of bad PR these days.

 

[mercurial]

Where [-]snakes[/-] flakes get their coffee?

.

 

[The_Librarian]

Not good form...

 

[konfab]

According to the post, the customer identified only as Sam had stuttered while giving his name after ordering a drink at a Starbucks outlet.

He was then mocked by the barista, who responded: "Okay, S-s-s-sam."

Je suis Sam...

/certifies one way ticket to hell.

 

[Nuro]

Stuttering sucks. Luckily mine went away with speech therapy and it doesn't look like my kids inherited it.