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
I am certain that this is George Bush’s fault.
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.
stock up now on your provisions.
wow unite.
Place was totally overrated and coffee was shit. The staff was annoying and obviously disgruntled by self-hating lesbo.
Go down the street and buy a pound of much better coffee for HALF THE PRICE at the ANNOYING UNION MARKET.
Umm… actually I’m not “card carrying” — it’s at home somewhere, maybe in a desk drawer.
OMG. Lefties: circular firing squad.
Ringo… there are A LOT of secretaries. There are 2 in my office. Actually, the term secretary is used to differentiate themselves from *lower* assistants. There’s nothing wrong with the word — unless you say it with disdain and a sneer.
Oh, and as a card carrying union member, I say, Viva La Revolución!!
Why didn’t they form a union? If They’re organized enough to write letters and quit together, they should have struck for better working conditions. Quitting is certainly a big F-U to the store and it’s owners but it’s hardly a death blow to the operation. Certainly a new staff will be found, trained and abused.
Ringo, she uses a typewriter, too (for certain documents).
lol hope, thanks for the low down on what went down. this drill sergeant lesbian sounds like a hoot! it’s possible the people who quit were just overly sensitive types.
*rob*