Don't know if this goes here, but I figured it's as good a place as any.Gorilla Coffee, a Park Slope, Brooklyn, favorite, remained closed for a second day Sunday after almost the entire staff resigned. The owners say it isn’t going to reopen soon.
According to an e-mail message sent by the former staff, the baristas quit because of what they call a “perpetually malicious, hostile, and demeaning work environment” under Carol McLaughlin, one of the two owners, and demanded that she withdraw from daily operations at the coffee bar.
When both owners refused, seven baristas quit. (Another barista resigned, but the owners say that person wasn’t an employee.)
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The owners say the confrontation was unexpected. “It’s a complete surprise,” Darleen Scherer, one of the owners, said over the phone. “They made an unreasonable request, and then they didn’t have any way to go but out.”
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When are business owners going to realize that you can't have a business if you push ALL of your employees to quit? Furthermore with the employees quitting the way they did in the current economy I don't know if I believe the spin from the shop owners....
Your thoughts?
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