Starbucks’s new bathroom policy will likely increase the issues of drug abuse in the coffee company’s bathrooms, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The Seattle-based company’s employees fear Starbucks’s new policy that permits anyone to use its restrooms, regardless of if they bought anything, believing that it will increase drug use in the newly public bathrooms,according to The WSJ. One former barista Darrion Sjoquist, 21, from Seattle, told The WSJ that employees already deal with people doing drugs in the Starbucks restrooms. Sjoquist even once found a hypodermic needle while taking out the trash, causing the employees to install a bin for drug users to safely dispose their needles in the future.
“Drug use wasn’t happening in the bathroom every day, but it was definitely something that was happening once a week,” Sjoquist added. “The cops were called a lot.”
Starbucks employees are not required to clean out dangerous materials and can instead call a hotline to take care of the matter.
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That is a sad commentary on society. If someone cleans the bathroom with heavy orange gloves they could still get a needle stick through the gloves and pick up a whole host of nasty if not fatal problems. Now I know why the doors were locked. How did other places handle this issue? OR is it just that drug users love their coffee?
ReplyDeleteWow, so ALL drug users only use starbucks bathrooms?
ReplyDeleteDumb article. Have the WSJ interview me so I can say that I believe all drug users will come to my house and do drugs in my bathroom when I go out on my daily stroll. Since when does all reporting now include what people think and believe? What happened to the facts in reporting?
Move along, absolutely nothing to see here in this story EXCEPT free pub for starbucks - again!
Drug abuse happening daily in Wawa rest rooms in Dabury
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