Starbucks..... WTF ?

[DirtyDan]

https://www.businessinsider.com/starbucks-needle-disposal-boxes-more-locations-2019-4

I’m showing this one to mom n dad

Dan

[Westernbiker]

You've got to be kidding!!!!!! 

[sandy]

I understand the outrage but diabetics need to take insulin and might need to dispose of needles too.

[The emperor has no clothes]

I understand the outrage but diabetics need to take insulin and might need to dispose of needles too.

I don't understand the outrage. Workers were getting stuck with needles. It's not like Starbucks is offering Venti heroin bags next to their Mocha Frappé. They could remove the bathrooms, they could put armed guards at the bathrooms and frisk people as they went in, neither of which makes sense for their business.

[RP#62]

I understand the outrage but diabetics need to take insulin and might need to dispose of needles too.

I don't understand the outrage. Workers were getting stuck with needles. It's not like Starbucks is offering Venti heroin bags next to their Mocha Frappé. They could remove the bathrooms, they could put armed guards at the bathrooms and frisk people as they went in, neither of which makes sense for their business.

I could be wrong, but I think the outrage is more about it being a sad state of affairs that they need to do this to protect their workers.  Could be worse - when I was in Amsterdam, the state used to provide heroin to the addicts so that they wouldn't rob the tourists.

-RP

[The emperor has no clothes]

I understand the outrage but diabetics need to take insulin and might need to dispose of needles too.

I don't understand the outrage. Workers were getting stuck with needles. It's not like Starbucks is offering Venti heroin bags next to their Mocha Frappé. They could remove the bathrooms, they could put armed guards at the bathrooms and frisk people as they went in, neither of which makes sense for their business.

I could be wrong, but I think the outrage is more about it being a sad state of affairs that they need to do this to protect their workers.  Could be worse - when I was in Amsterdam, the state used to provide heroin to the addicts so that they wouldn't rob the tourists.

-RP

It is a sad state of affairs. Even here in our relatively small town, it's an issue. Although, in our restrooms it's empty liquor bottles one is more apt to find. They'd have to pay me $4,000 an hour to clean our bathrooms.

[DirtyDan]

 

Dan

[Serk]

the state used to provide heroin to the addicts so that they wouldn't rob the tourists.

Although I'm not big on government doing much of anything, I'd actually be okay with this. Not only does it take away the incentive from junkies committing crime to purchase their fix, it also decreases the chances of overdoses since the dosage would be known and a constant instead of the highly variable strength and purity of street drugs.

It is a sad state of affairs. Even here in our relatively small town, it's an issue. Although, in our restrooms it's empty liquor bottles one is more apt to find. They'd have to pay me $4,000 an hour to clean our bathrooms.

Back when I started as a bag boy at Kroger our issue was whipped cream, they'd grab a few cans from the dairy cooler than go around the corner to the bathroom to huff the N2O out of the whipped can bottles...

I was getting a little less than $4k an hour to clean those bathrooms...

[MAD6Gun]

I understand the outrage but diabetics need to take insulin and might need to dispose of needles too.

I don't understand the outrage. Workers were getting stuck with needles. It's not like Starbucks is offering Venti heroin bags next to their Mocha Frappé. They could remove the bathrooms, they could put armed guards at the bathrooms and frisk people as they went in, neither of which makes sense for their business.

I could be wrong, but I think the outrage is more about it being a sad state of affairs that they need to do this to protect their workers.  Could be worse - when I was in Amsterdam, the state used to provide heroin to the addicts so that they wouldn't rob the tourists.

-RP

It is a sad state of affairs. Even here in our relatively small town, it's an issue. Although, in our restrooms it's empty liquor bottles one is more apt to find. They'd have to pay me $4,000 an hour to clean our bathrooms.

 Yes it is very sad. I personally have no use for habitual drug users. My parents instilled on me and my siblings that drugs were bad. I personally have NEVER used illegal drugs of any kind. Yep that includes pot. I don't even like using prescription  pain killers.  I don't like the way they make me feel. I can't for the life of me figure out why anyone would want to feel that way on purpose.

 This lowlife dude moved in with one of my neighbors two doors down. My wife and I have witnessed this POS doing drug deals right in front of my house. A strange car pulls up. Another lowlife gets out and the two guys do the double handshake. It happens so fast that neither my wife or i had time to get a pic of the car. I have contacted the NHPD. The other day I was talking to another neighbor that lives next door to the lowlife. He told me he found a needle in his driveway. He has young kids so he is concerned. It's bad enough we have a convicted sexual violent predator living on the block. We don't need or want this crap in our neighborhood. ...

[The emperor has no clothes]

the state used to provide heroin to the addicts so that they wouldn't rob the tourists.

Although I'm not big on government doing much of anything, I'd actually be okay with this. Not only does it take away the incentive from junkies committing crime to purchase their fix, it also decreases the chances of overdoses since the dosage would be known and a constant instead of the highly variable strength and purity of street drugs.

It is a sad state of affairs. Even here in our relatively small town, it's an issue. Although, in our restrooms it's empty liquor bottles one is more apt to find. They'd have to pay me $4,000 an hour to clean our bathrooms.

Back when I started as a bag boy at Kroger our issue was whipped cream, they'd grab a few cans from the dairy cooler than go around the corner to the bathroom to huff the N2O out of the whipped can bottles...

I was getting a little less than $4k an hour to clean those bathrooms...

I remember those cans of whipped cream making your voice like Micky Mouse. I didn't realize they got high on it also. As a meat cleanup kid I've done some pretty nasty jobs. Cleaning out grease traps with 4" of maggots on the top being one of the most memorable. I'm very glad I was never made to do the bathrooms. You have my undying admiration. (I was making $2.35 to scoop out 80 lbs. of stinking, rotten meat along with 20 lbs. of maggots)

[Serk]

$3.35 an hour cleaning the bathrooms (And even worse, saying the immortal words "Paper or plastic" to customer after customer)

Canned whipped cream uses nitrous oxide as a propellant. AKA Laughing Gas.

[The emperor has no clothes]

$3.35 an hour cleaning the bathrooms (And even worse, saying the immortal words "Paper or plastic" to customer after customer)

Canned whipped cream uses nitrous oxide as a propellant. AKA Laughing Gas.

( I'm so old, we didn't even have plastic)

[F6Dave]

$3.35 an hour cleaning the bathrooms (And even worse, saying the immortal words "Paper or plastic" to customer after customer)

Canned whipped cream uses nitrous oxide as a propellant. AKA Laughing Gas.

( I'm so old, we didn't even have plastic)

Me too.  My first job (not counting my paper route) also was bagging groceries, at the local Safeway.  They paid me a whopping $1.60 per hour.  Amazingly, that was enough to buy my first car, a well used 1963 VW.

All the bags were paper, and scanners were still a few decades away.  The checkers had to memorize the new produce prices every Wednesday, and take a written test so they could weigh and price the items without looking anything up.

[Sorcerer]

I didn’t think junkies gave up there bitts that easy. On all the cop shows they all seem to have used ones.

[Jess from VA]

I understand the outrage but diabetics need to take insulin and might need to dispose of needles too.

I don't understand the outrage. Workers were getting stuck with needles. It's not like Starbucks is offering Venti heroin bags next to their Mocha Frappé. They could remove the bathrooms, they could put armed guards at the bathrooms and frisk people as they went in, neither of which makes sense for their business.

I could be wrong, but I think the outrage is more about it being a sad state of affairs that they need to do this to protect their workers.  Could be worse - when I was in Amsterdam, the state used to provide heroin to the addicts so that they wouldn't rob the tourists.

-RP

It is a sad state of affairs. Even here in our relatively small town, it's an issue. Although, in our restrooms it's empty liquor bottles one is more apt to find. They'd have to pay me $4,000 an hour to clean our bathrooms.

 Yes it is very sad. I personally have no use for habitual drug users. My parents instilled on me and my siblings that drugs were bad. I personally have NEVER used illegal drugs of any kind. Yep that includes pot. I don't even like using prescription  pain killers.  I don't like the way they make me feel. I can't for the life of me figure out why anyone would want to feel that way on purpose.

 This lowlife dude moved in with one of my neighbors two doors down. My wife and I have witnessed this POS doing drug deals right in front of my house. A strange car pulls up. Another lowlife gets out and the two guys do the double handshake. It happens so fast that neither my wife or i had time to get a pic of the car. I have contacted the NHPD. The other day I was talking to another neighbor that lives next door to the lowlife. He told me he found a needle in his driveway. He has young kids so he is concerned. It's bad enough we have a convicted sexual violent predator living on the block. We don't need or want this crap in our neighborhood. ...

When I was transferred to Riverside (Moreno Valley) CA in the Air Force, I had to live off base for a year (waiting for base housing).  Nice home in a nice neighborhood in a cul-de-sac.  A few houses down, we began hearing loud music and goings on late at night.  Then he smacked his wife (or girlfriend) around a few times.  Then the (obvious short visit) customers began coming and going at all hours.  Then one night someone shot a number of bullets through the house, and they moved (right away).  No one was hit, and I suspect care was taken to aim high.  

I didn't know who did it, but I would have liked to thank him.

That kind of remedy is fraught with serious risk, and you know the first people the cops visit is close neighbors, and anyone who ever officially complained about them.

I've had other neighbors that did highly irritating things (not drug dealers).  I found copies of state and local laws they were violating (and the sentences for conviction), copied them, and put them in their mailbox signed concerned neighbor who would rather not call the police, but will.  No prints, not seen, and not next door.  

[Moonshot_1]

I understand the outrage but diabetics need to take insulin and might need to dispose of needles too.

I don't understand the outrage. Workers were getting stuck with needles. It's not like Starbucks is offering Venti heroin bags next to their Mocha Frappé. They could remove the bathrooms, they could put armed guards at the bathrooms and frisk people as they went in, neither of which makes sense for their business.

I don't understand the outrage either. I mean, criminy, just make the Starbucks a drug and needle free zone. Problem solved.