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发帖数: 3093 | 1 Starbucks Employee Accuses Customer of Spying for China
Race Together... or not
In a one-star Yelp review, Californian Daniel Lui reported that he was
visiting Starbucks's new Reserve Roastery on Capitol Hill on March 11 when
an employee accused him and a friend of trying to steal company secrets to
pass to China.
Daniel Lui (courtesy of Daniel Lui)
Lui recounted the bizarre exchange on Yelp this way, posted March 26:
"...the man stopped and looked at us [Lui and his friend]. "You're part of
the business, right? The coffee business, right?"
My friend and I looked at each other confused. Before we could answer him,
he cut us short and said, "Look- you are completely free to copy all of the
stuff we have here and the equipment we have in China. We're an open book.
If you want to steal our stuff for your store in China, go ahead, we're fine
with that."
He smiled, hoping to get a laugh from us... not that funny (me and my friend
are both Asian... but definitely not in the coffee business).
We decided to let it slide, so gave him a short chuckle and ignored him.
That was bad enough. We could have just shrugged it off- i've met tons of
ignorant people before. BUT THEN, 15 minutes later, he creeps up behind both
of us and put his hands on our shoulders (hella creepy). He then proceeded
to paternalistically lecture us (who he thought were chinese spies trying to
steal secrets... I guess we just smack of yellow peril), "Look. You can
take all of our equipment. You can copy everything we have. You can even
steal our beans and our suppliers. But let me tell you what you CAN'T get if
you copy us in China- our training. Just remember that, you won't get our
training in China, and that's something we'll never give to you."
Once the review was picked up by the blog Angry Asian Man, the story blew up
, Lui told The Stranger. He said he’d felt degraded at first, though
eventually, "the [Starbucks] customer service rep apologized. I felt honored
that they followed up on it. They wanted to get more of a description of
the guy who did it and said they’d be fully investigating who that person
is. They also said that they’d be putting some sort of gift in my Starbucks
Gold account."
But particularly in light of the recently failed #RaceTogether campaign, Liu
would like more than latte points: "I'd like to see them follow through in
terms of the integrity of their corporate leadership," he told The Stranger.
"That's the difficult part—not just changing your image, but the way you
practice and think."
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http://seattle.eater.com/2015/4/2/8329571/starbucks-roastery-em | n*****8
发帖数: 19630 | 2 poor guy.
totally brainwashed by the media.
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