70.5% of Starbucks baristas are women. Starbucks now requires them to perform additional emotion labor by writing a personal message on customers' cups. If not sufficiently nice, they are disciplined. They must perform friendliness but make it look spontaneous. https://qz.com/emotional-labor-starbucks-baristas-green-apron-service-051926
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No surprise that "performing friendliness," made to look spontaneous, is neither a requirement for nor practiced by Starbucks CEO.
@amydiehl as someone who worked at Starbucks aeons ago…good fucking luck mandating that during the morning/lunch rush when everyone is cranking out drinks as fast as they can
@amydiehl @quixoticgeek I feel like these companies are run by men who do not understand genuine human interactions.
@michaelgemar @amydiehl @quixoticgeek
Yea that's how modern capitalism works, a bunch of autistic mf running the world, just see all the tech industry leaders
@RedKoba @michaelgemar @amydiehl @quixoticgeek
You could have picked white men, a much more accurate demographic, but chose neurodivergent people.
I'm not sure how deep your experience of Autistic people is, because in my experience they are often far more empathetic than normies, and I have a lot of experience in this area.
Case in point, more likely to be interested in animal welfare, less interested in racism and far right ideology.
@TwoClownsEating @michaelgemar @amydiehl @quixoticgeek
White men wouldn't be precise either. There are some women, negroes, arabs, indians, jews, etc. In that world, probably the only thing every one of them has in common is that all are pro-capitalism and have money as the highest value in life even over other peoples life
@RedKoba @michaelgemar @amydiehl @quixoticgeek well that's pretty goddamned offensive. Not to mention patently false.
@ianto_jones @michaelgemar @amydiehl @quixoticgeek
My intention was not to be offensive to people with autism; that would be self-offensive. The people I'm talking about identify themselves as autistic. And, of course, my intention wasn't to be precise; there is a difference between using correct terms and terms everyone understands.
I hate to be on that side, but I don't believe in all that woke stuff. I don't care about words or definitions but about material reality.
@RedKoba I think using ”autistic” as a general-purpose slur involving toxic behavior is way out of bounds. Please don't.
@RedKoba @amydiehl @quixoticgeek The problem isn’t autism — I know plenty of neurodivergent folks who are lovely.
The problem is psychopathy and narcissism.
@RedKoba @michaelgemar @amydiehl I'm pretty sure it's not the autistic ones who are the problem. It's the sociopathic ones we have problems with.
@quixoticgeek @michaelgemar @amydiehl
I was thinking about Altman or Musk, who are diagnosed autistics
Probably sociopaths too but there is no diagnosis yet
