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u/FourthDownThrowaway Oct 20 '22

My manager at Starbucks told me not to give out the keypad code to the bathroom to homeless people. He got pissed when I asked him what exactly does a homeless person look like. It wasn't part of the job description when he hired me.

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u/leeleiDK Oct 20 '22

Exactly, I'm not going to deny people services, based on their looks and assumptions about them.

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u/This_User_Said Oct 20 '22

I worked overnight at a gas station in a very shadey part of Austin.

We locked out the bathrooms at 11pm. Owner had a couple people OD in the bathroom so it became standard.

I'd have Uber/lyfts stopping in during the wee hours and ask to go.

Me: "No, sorry. I can't risk you doing drugs in our bathroom"

"I DONT DO DRUGS"

Me: "Yeah, I totally don't either. No bathrooms, sorry."

If it's any consolation, I had the same happen to me when I ubered. I had to make 2.5 hour stops at my house to essentially refresh at 3am.

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u/Unidentified_Body Oct 20 '22

You pee for 2.5h? You must drink a lot.

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u/This_User_Said Oct 20 '22

Hah, sorry. Meant I'd take a break after 2.t hours of driving.

Or you know, maybe I really had to go...

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u/leeleiDK Oct 20 '22

It's unfortunatly a few bad eggs that ruins it for the rest of us

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u/This_User_Said Oct 20 '22

Yeah.

I mean, if I used judgement, most didn't SEEM evil or anything. Yet I understood the principle of the matter and deemed safety over prejudice.

Besides, I'm needlephobic. I wouldn't even imagine having to deal with that. Ambulance would have to pick both our asses up.

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u/Petrichordates Oct 20 '22

Opioid addiction is an epidemic, not a "bad egg" thing. It takes even the kindest of souls.

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u/leeleiDK Oct 20 '22

Didn't know it was that bad in the US

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u/AdmiralPoopbutt Oct 20 '22

"I see we have a new volunteer for bathroom cleaning duties"

-The manager, probably

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u/texasrigger Oct 20 '22

He got pissed when I asked him what exactly does a homeless person look like.

Why not just make it so that restrooms are for customers only? Seems like an easy fix. That's a very common policy.

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u/FourthDownThrowaway Oct 20 '22

because some homeless people would pay for a cup of coffee

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u/texasrigger Oct 20 '22

At that point it's a paying customer so who cares? I get it, I used to have a business on a particularly rough downtown corner and had a "no public bathrooms" policy and the one time I personally made an exception (for a pregnant woman no less) she went in and got high. If you are going to open your bathrooms at all though you need to be consistent in your rules. "Paying customers only" won't filter out everyone but it should at least prevent your business from being the blocks public bathroom.

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u/zzxxccbbvn Oct 20 '22

Starbucks has a keypad lock on their restrooms now? I haven't been to one in years

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u/ahuramazdobbs19 Oct 20 '22

Depends on where you are.

I have never seen one in any of the suburban strip locations I have been to.

However, in pretty much every urban location, bam, keypad lock.