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
“First it was steel, then the airlines, then the autos. Now it’s the coffee shops. Unions are the downfall of society.”
oh please – if these same ‘baristas’ were blogging and complaining about this bad treatment you’d say “well if you don’t like it, quit” – which they did.
Hurting the owners where it hurts most – their wallet and the media. Bravo.
Some bosses can be complete pills; this is my favorite bad boss story:
the owner of three retail stores would make a point to ask someone to clean the restroom, then go in as the employee was about to mop, and take his sweet time to have a bowel movement first.
“I’d like to have more insight into the dynamic of the Darlene/Carol relationship. I’m betting Carol is a bully to Darlene, too!”
Darlene probably likes it. They should check their fetishes at the door though.
First it was steel, then the airlines, then the autos. Now it’s the coffee shops. Unions are the downfall of society.
“Dibs, it’s far from “only in New York.” It’s actually quite a common small business issue, the girlfriend-boyfriend-wife running roughshod over employees. ”
Yep, it is. I worked in a store where the wife was a bully, and disliked. But her husband/owner figured it out, and took her off ‘managing’ the staff eventually.
In my experience once a harridan always a harridan. Lets hope the brave ones can find work easily.
How about leading by example? Instead of closing the place down and losing a ton of money why didn’t the owners open for limited hours and apologize for the slow service but explain that they lost their staff and are looking for replacemnets? Sounds like the ‘drill sargeant’ is all talk and no action.
“I want to meet this Carol woman.”
I’d like to have more insight into the dynamic of the Darlene/Carol relationship. I’m betting Carol is a bully to Darlene, too!
“i just heard that a sympathy strike is in process of organization and that all coffee purveyors in park slope will be staffless for tomorrow.”
Wow, really! That’s awesome! I’ll be surprised if it happens though — no doubt other employers will threaten to cut anyone that participates.