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
WHY DON’T THEY JUST ALL GROW UP???
If Carol comes in, the employess should just grow a set and tell her to f*&ck off.
This is one of the most asinine situations I’ve ever heard of. Only in NYC.
This just gets better and better.
..and all new people are hired.
jessi, I haven’t heard anyone call themselves a secretary in 15 years! I thought that word left with typewriters!
So this is what went down: Gorilla Coffee is owned by a Lesbian lady named Darlene. Her girlfriend Carol who has no ownership position in the store loves to verbally abuse and demoralize the staff. She has been doing this for years. When the staff would complained to Darlene about the abuse, Darlene would brush it aside and say Carol is a “drill Sargent” or something to that effect. Anyway the abuse got worse and worse, the staff got together and said Carol the Drill Sargent goes or we go, Darlene said no the staff ALL QUIT IN MASS.
I bet there’s a union organizer behind the staff quitting en masse.
too bad Cafe Grumpy isn’t closer – their coffee/espresso is better anyways.
We can’t call it a tempest in a teapot, maybe (coffee) grinder guerilla at the Gorilla?
This story is just too wee for the New York Post, since it’s about leftists drinking Lattes.
Ringo, my secretary calls herself a secretary.