Pretentious Central Update

Kim du Toit
March 25, 2008
12:00 PM CDT

Yeah, another dig at Satan’s Coffee Bar:

A San Diego Superior Court judge ruled yesterday that Starbucks has to pay nearly $106 million in restitution to an estimated 120,000 current and former baristas in California because the coffee company illegally allowed supervisors to share in tip pools over the past eight years.

The four-paragraph ruling by Superior Court Judge Patricia Cowett capped a class-action lawsuit filed four years ago against the coffee giant.
Cowett also said she would slap an injunction on the company ordering it to halt the practice of allowing shift supervisors to share in money from the ubiquitous tip jars at the more than 2,000 Starbucks stores in the state.

“It’s a huge victory for the baristas,” said David Lowe, an attorney for the plaintiffs, using the term for the counter workers who make the lattes and cappuccinos.

Good grief: even Starbucks’s attorneys are pretentious dickweeds.

”Baristas”? What the hell happened to “counter workers” or, heaven forbid, “servers”?

It’s bad enough that Starbucks changed the simple “Small, Medium, and Large” to the incomprehensible “Tall, Grande, and Super Magnificoso” or whatever.

Now their coffee jockeys have to sound like Guatemalan freedom fighters.

Bah.