Starbucks must pay $100m in tips

[Sweetpea]

A US judge has ordered Starbucks to repay its California coffee-makers more than $100m (£50m) in tips that were paid to shift supervisors.

San Diego Superior Court Judge Patricia Cowett said the coffee-makers - "baristas" - were entitled to $86m in back tips, plus interest.
She issued an injunction banning supervisors from sharing future tips.
She said the practice broke a state law barring managers and supervisors from obtaining a share of employee tips. A Starbucks spokeswoman, Valerie O'Neil, said the company planned to appeal against the ruling, which she described as "fundamentally unfair and beyond all common sense and reason".

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Dosen't seem very fair does it?

The boss bastards atren't on €5 per hour like the coffee grinders on the front desk.

So0 fuck 'em. Wouldn't let the bastards have a single cent.

[poppy]

I have worked as a waitress they deserve to keep all their tips, paid minimum wage as tips are supposed to make it up, then have them nicked it isn't on.
Good on you judge, nice one.

Hmmm. Waitresses. The ones that are too thick to tell the K.P when the rubbish bag is full until they start slipping on the shit that is now a meter deep where it has spilled onto the floor, you mean?

[poppy]

not where i worked, we dashed around like mad arses, getting grub and booze to hungry slightly inebriated tourists on holiday. Most of them were happy and nice to us, the others well. Best not to go there. Only did it one season, while out of work, but have to admit I really enjoyed it