Insurrection at Gorilla Coffee
We’d originally relegated this story to the Daily Links post, but it’s too good not to have its own post…Apparently one of the owners of the popular coffee spot Gorilla Coffee at 97 Fifth Avenue in Park Slope rubbed the employees the wrong way so they all banded together and quit en masse, throwing the…
We’d originally relegated this story to the Daily Links post, but it’s too good not to have its own post…Apparently one of the owners of the popular coffee spot Gorilla Coffee at 97 Fifth Avenue in Park Slope rubbed the employees the wrong way so they all banded together and quit en masse, throwing the Park Slope ecosystem into disequilibrium. Evidently there are all sorts of signs posted out front with a running he-said-she-said account of the problem. From a reader: “My husband said there was line outside the door of people just freaking out and totally in crisis over the lack of coffee. I have a feeling he was one of them because I was on the other line when he called to tell me this, and he told my secretary that it was an emergency.” We also hear that Gorilla addicts have been depleting supplies at neighboring stores to ride out the current crisis. We’d be mighty appreciative if someone could send in some photos of the storefront and posted screeds…
Entire Staff Quits Gorilla Coffee in Slope [Brooklyn Paper]
Photo by bean_weaver
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Point, Champion.
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traditionalmod, I agree with you in theory, but it seems the employees are ultimately hurting themselves more than anyone else in the long run. Ok, so they got some publicity, but, given it’s still not so easy to find a job these days, wouldn’t it have been more prudent to approach the owners initially and threaten to quit en masse if things didn’t change immediately?
If any of you have actually been there you’d know the staff is nasty. They hate their jobs. They hate the customers. And my ears bleed from the music. I can’t say how happy I am that new employees will be working there.
Yes traditionalmod, I hear there’s been a spike in twittering. Or is it tweeting.
There’s a brewing conspiracy theory that Starbucks fixed Darlene up with Carol knowing full well that this would happen.
I know this has become a jokey thread between a few people but I just had to jump in and say yay, good for these baristas. Toxic bosses are a scourge. I hate how permissive and lenient our society is towards abusive management styles. As for wondering why they had to quite en masse — uh, would it be the news of the day on Gothamist and Brownstoner were it not for that? Kinda brilliant.
By Quentin Tarantino:
Inglorious Baristas
From the photo, although PS may be the best place to live, it also seems to be a magnet for really bad fashion sense.
Another movie remake:
12 Angry Baristas