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
Fight the power Biff!
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. And I know of at least retail store in CT where most of the floor staff quit over the abusive daughter-in-law of the owner. It happens, because when you make below a certain level, you can find an equivalent job fairly easily.
DeLepp – And maybe the harridan will have calmed down in the wake of the revolution so conditions won’t be so intolerable.
I want to meet this Carol woman.
Oh dear. Now where are all the faux hipster trust fund douchebags with their Macs supposed to hang out all day?
next is the bagel shops…
then french restaurants.
hilarious, well at least they had the balls to quit in a recession, maybe they should have realized that there would have been people lining up willing to put up with a lunatic to have a job.
alright, I give in on the secretary thing. but in my business, if I called someone a secretary, I’d be handed my ass.
I respect people who quit jobs bcs of awful bosses. I’ve done it myself. But if I were the owner, there is no way in hell I’d hire these people back.
antidope, you’re kidding right?